Actually, this is not correct in several ways. Whitman
Publishing Company was doing TV series based novels before
any of Deming or Prather Dragnet books. For example, there
was ANNIE OAKLEY IN DANGER AT DIABLO published in 1955
featuring a photo of the series star (Gail Davis) on the
cover. I would expect there were others even earlier.
Deming's Dragnet books were not even the first for that
series. Deming's Whitman book (a collection of novelettes not
a novel) came in 1957, a year after the KnightPrather
Pocketbook novel. Demings two Pocketbook novels came in 1958
and 1959.
Richard Moore
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Juri Nummelin"
<juri.nummelin@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Jim, for the correction no. 2! It seems that
Deming's book
is the
> first TV-based novelization, which is probably why I
got it mixed
with
> Prather's book.
>
> I think, though, that Ed's original question was
about TV-related
tie-ins,
> not tie-ins generally. Sure, there was that stuff
already in the
beginning
> of the century.
>
> Juri
>
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