Tue 5 Jun 2012
A TV Series Review by Michael Shonk: THE HUNTER (1952-1954).
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“The Ghost Goes East.†CBS. An episode of The Hunter, 24 September 1952, Wednesday 9:30 – 10:00 pm. Cast: Barry Nelson, Nita Talbot, Iggi Wolfington, Tiger Andrews, Henry Lascoe, Hy Anzel, Helen Penwell. Written by Phil Reisman, Jr. Produced by Edward J. Montagne. Directed by Oscar Rudolph.
The Hunter is another series with a wacky backstory. It is a history that features two networks, two stars, and two different court cases. But before we get to the history, let’s examine the episode.
And let’s not bury the lead. This episode was awful. The Hunter was a Commie-bashing spy series. Nita Talbot was the single highlight of this episode, while the rest of the cast, including lead Barry Nelson, did a poor job with Phil Reisman’s terrible script that was burdened with weak dialog and a plot full of holes.
“The Ghost Goes East†opens in the middle of a stakeout by the FBI. Being outdoors, and in a 1950’s TV-Film show, there was no dialog, just the camera to show what was happening. Director Oscar Rudolph told the story well with some dramatically effective camera angles. We watched as the FBI closed in on the Commie spies only to have one of them escape.
The setting changes to inside some airport, aka typical 50s cheap generic set. Rudolph was never able to overcome the limitations of the cheap interiors sets to come close to the drama of the opening. He also failed to play fair with the two, granted lame, visual clues.
Our hero’s (Barry Nelson) contact, Jane (Helen Penwell) arrives at the airport. He is watching a mysterious man watch him. He whistles his code sign “Frere Jacques.†While Jane updates our hero, the man disappeared. She tells him the Red spy is still on the loose and has passed his information to a Commie courier named William. While they don’t know what William looks like, they somehow know what plane he will be on as he heads east to pass the information to the Commies in East Berlin.
The thirty-minute episode lacked the time for any characterization of our unlikable hero. On “The Ghost Goes East†no name was revealed for our Hero until he checked his passport, one for Jack Hunter, and when asked Hunter claimed his job was “exterminator.â€
He boards the plane and meets his fellow passengers, aka suspects. They include the man who had been watching him and a traveling showbiz troupe headed overseas. The troupe is made up of people who barely know each other, but the man-hungry half of a sister act (Nita Talbot) and the troupe’s leader and comic (Iggi Wolfington) happily gossip and do the exposition.
Of course there is a murder during the flight. The twist at the end might have worked in 1952, but not today. In the final scene, after Hunter has saved America, the group notices Hunter has disappeared. As the dumbfounded characters wonder out loud where Hunter went, we hear him whistling his signature tune “Frere Jacques.â€
This episode is very easy to find on DVD. It appears on Lost Detective Classics from the Vault (Alpha Home Entertainment).
The series’ backstory began when sponsor R. J. Reynolds wanted a summer replacement series for their CBS series Man Against Crime, a PI series starring Ralph Bellamy. The William Esty Agency handled the creative side of Man Against Crime and had producer Edward J. Montagne and writer Phil Reisman, Jr. do the same for the summer replacement series, The Hunter.
The series began July 3, 1952, Thursday at 9pm. But Lucky Strike was able to push R. J. Reynolds off that time slot. CBS moved The Hunter to Wednesday at 9:30pm, a time slot held by Embassy’s series The Web. Embassy tried to stop the move and sued CBS for damages. The court refused to stop CBS.
The Hunter on CBS starred Barry Nelson and 13 episodes were filmed. It was filmed in New York at the financially troubled Pathescope Studios. Ratings were not bad with the show ranked 22nd nationally by American Research Bureau during the week of August 1-7 and seen in 3,480 homes and 50 cities.
Nielsen, for the two weeks ending 7/26/52, had The Hunter ranked 7th in number of homes reached (3,746), and 6th in percent of TV Homes reached in program station areas. At that time there were 65 markets, 110 stations, and 18,317,528 estimated TV sets in use in the entire United States.
CBS’s The Hunter was opposite NBC’s Kraft Television Theatre and ABC’s Wrestling from the Marigold in Chicago (a series that also aired Saturday on the DuMont network). At the end of the summer of 1952, CBS let the series go. But that was not the end of the series, and in the summer of 1954 The Hunter returned to the air.
But before that, in the summer of 1953 R. J. Reynolds decided to film 13 more episodes of The Hunter. Barry Nelson was now starring on My Favorite Husband, so Keith Larsen took over the lead. These episodes were kept “under wraps†with hopes there might be a demand for them in the future.
Then R. J. Reynolds sold the CBS episodes with Barry Nelson to NBC as a summer replacement series that aired Sunday at 10:30 starting July 11, 1954. NBC then bought the never-shown episodes with Keith Larsen and aired them in the fall starting October 3, 1954. The Keith Larsen episodes would run once and then NBC replaced The Hunter on January 2, 1955, with The Bob Cummings Show (aka Love That Bob).
In July 1955, Official Films sold the syndication rights for the 26 episode series to sponsor Tafon Distributors, and The Hunter made its syndication debut in 1955. Tafon, a maker of a “miracle†diet tablet, claimed the series would soon be in 250 markets (of the current 285 in the entire country).
It is doubtful The Hunter ever came close to that number of markets. The series rarely found itself in the top rated programs in any market, and with just 26 episodes to air the series faded away.
Official Films sued Tafon in September 1957 claiming Tafon owed them $97,169.37. They also claimed that no payments had been made since November 1956, and $100,000 remained to be paid from the original sale price of $234,000.
SOURCES: (the usual suspects)
Billboard: Accessible at http://books.google.com
Broadcasting: http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Broadcasting_Individual_Issues_Guide.htm
Editorial Comment: “Rendezvous in Prague,” a second episode of The Hunter is currently available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F67VJF74itw
The opening four minutes of a third (no title provided):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doLXwU14_Tw
June 5th, 2012 at 10:42 pm
TV series of this period often have a confusing history. Remember my multi-part series of THE CASES OF EDDIE DRAKE and the confusion over its air date and the mystery behind the final four episodes? I recently updated the comments with some new (old) information that gives a date when CBS had 9 episodes and when they started selling the 13 episode series. It can be found here:
https://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=12204#comments
Things were wild in the early TV business, ABC and DuMont sharing a series, NBC airing CBS reruns, and stations running whatever they want, whenever they wanted.
In “Billboard” (August 6, 1955), the results to “Billboard’s Third Annual TV-Film & Program Awards were announced. In Best Adventure Series, THE HUNTER finished fourth to LASSIE, RIN TIN TIN, and CAPTAIN GALLANT. Barry Nelson finished third in Best Actor to Tommy Rettig (LASSIE) and Buster Crabbe (CAPTAIN GALLANT). THE HUNTER was credited as an NBC series since it appeared as an NBC summer series and despite the fact it was a rerun of the CBS 1952 series. Meanwhile the NBC original in the fall of 54 with Keith Larsen was not mentioned. No wonder today’s databases are confused.
June 5th, 2012 at 11:31 pm
Thanks for untangling some of the history of this series, Michael.
I confess that it’s one I never heard of. Considering that I was only 10 or 12 when it was on, that’s not very surprising. We probably did not even have a TV set yet. Those were dark days, indeed.
June 6th, 2012 at 12:20 pm
A small sidenote:
The ABC wrestling show on Wednesday was not the same show that ran Saturdays on DuMont.
DuMont’s Saturday show originated from Marigold Gardens, with Jack Brickhouse calling the falls.
ABC’s Wednesday show was from Rainbo Arena, with Wayne Griffin announcing from “the foxhole” – a spot under the ring where he watched the matches on a monitor (so the wrestlers who flew out of the ring wouldn’t hit him on the way out).
Two different shows – and you’d better believe that the networks involved maintained strict autonomy over which wrestlers worked which shows. That’s how important wrestling was in early TV. TV Forecast even had a weekly wrestling column back then, covering the grapplers as if it was all real.
Oh, yeah – this is supposed to be about The Hunter.
When I get home tonight, I’ll check my “files” and see if I can find anything to add.
(Or ADD – Attention Deficit Disorder) 😉
June 6th, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Thanks for the correction, Mike.
Wrestling remains a important ratings draw today for cable networks such as USA and SyFy.
June 6th, 2012 at 4:50 pm
Time changes everything, especially in the televisual arts(?).
I’m well aware of the modern TV wrestling world, with its elaborate superproduction values and overheated storylines and personalities.
But in the early ’50s, TV wrestling was about as bare-bones as you could get. All you needed was the ring and the wrestlers, and a crowd big enough to cheer and boo, and an announcer who could keep a straight face while “interviewing” the winners/losers.
With four stations in town, Chicago could put on more lavish shows than many other one-or-two-channel towns, but that was by the standards of the time.
Side note:
I recently picked up a c2c-DVD of Alias The Champ, a Republic epic from this period that marked the feature film debut of Gorgeous George, who for a time was the biggest national draw in wrestling. I haven’t taken the time to watch it all the way through this time, but I remember seeing it on local TV a few times when I was a lad, and I recall that it took the whole rasslin’ game straight, sort of (I do remamber GG’s immortal line: “Get your filthy hands off my hair!”).
Yeah, yeah, The Hunter. When I get home …
June 6th, 2012 at 5:17 pm
Strangely enough — and also being fully aware that we should be talking about THE HUNTER — it was Gorgeous George who came to mind as soon as I read in Michael’s review that THE HUNTER was on opposite Wrestling.
I looked him up on Wikipedia just now. He has a long entry, and this line caught my eye in particular: “[I]t is said that George was probably responsible for selling as many TV sets as Milton Berle.” At one time, he was “the highest paid athlete in the world.” He was a showman through and through, and the inspiration for many performers who followed him, including Bob Dylan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wagner
But speaking of THE HUNTER, Michael, have you any idea which episode that second YouTube video came from?
June 6th, 2012 at 6:00 pm
No way to tell for sure what the episode title for the second clip is, Steve. But the IMDb story synopsis have him sneaking behind the Iron Curtain in two episodes, “Bucharest Express” and “Operation Ashes.”
The episode I reviewed was last of the thirteen episodes to air. It had no opening narration explaining who our hero was. So my guess for the second clip would be the second episode to air “Bucharest Express.” “Operation Ashes” was the eighth episode to air in the series and by then the intro of Bart Adams was probably no longer necessary.
June 7th, 2012 at 11:27 am
OK, i get home last night and I go to my chest-o’-drawers full of old mags, and there are the TV Forecasts for the summer of ’52.
Here’s what I found:
– The ABC Wednesday wrestling show didn’t start until 9 PM (all times Central). Hunter‘s competition,at least on ch7 here in Chicago, was a string of documentary films airing under the title In Our Time (might have been network, can’t find confirmation). Also, some weeks there was political programming, relating to the ’52 Presidential campaign.
– Here’s a review of The Hunter from columnist Jack Mabley, who also did a daily TV column (reportedly the first such in the nation) for the Chicago Daily News from the late ’40s.
From TV Forecast, August 23, 1952; column titled “What A Miserable Summer”:
The Hunter – This is a mystery, the mystery being how an actor with the talents of Barry Nelson can go through this 30 minutes of tripe without busting out laughing. It is difficult to describe the amateurish script and the ham acting. They can best be compared with a third-rate 1923 Hollywood melodrama. In one of their Keystone Kop chases through a land supposedly in Europe, I’m certain I recognized the Bear Mountain Bridge, in territory inhabited by some of my kinfolk in New York.
Mabley goes on to review eight other programs; early raves for Mister Peepers and Groucho Marx, everything else falls short.
– But wait! There’s more!
While going through the rest of the summer ’52 issues, what should I stumble across in the September 20 issue but –
– a feature titled “The Perfect Hollywood Murder”, all about –
*drumroll, please*
– The Files Of Jeffrey Jones, then in first-run on Channel 4 (the CBS station), Friday nights at 9:30!
I don’t have scanning capability here, so I’ll have to just tell you that the feature has pix of Don Haggerty and Gloria Henry, plus an action shot from an episode, accompanying a slightly snide writeup of the series itself.
From the closing paragraph:
“As a TV series, “Jeff Jones”
is a standard Hollywood package with glossy wrappings and schlock contents. It’s a typical Hollywood murder, but in this case the program is the victim.”
This is unsigned, as most TV Forecast pieces are, so it probably wasn’t Jack Mabley who wrote it.
– Oh, and another thing:
The Back cover of that September 20 issue carries a full-page ad announcing the premiere that Friday night of The Adventures Of Superman, sponsored by Kellogg’s Sugar Frosted Flakes.
Channel 7, the ABC station, was the first station in the USA to carry Superman (it didn’t get on in New York until after New Year’s 1953).
– I also gave a quick look to Alias The Champ; with a 59-minute running time, little else was possible.
Briefly, there’s this honest cop (Robert Rockwell, aka Our Miss Brooks‘s dense boyfriend Mr. Boynton), who’s out to stop The Mob from taking over honest professional wrestling –
*brief pause while those of you who’ve fallen out of your chairs laughing can get back in*
-with the aid of Gorgeous George’s beautiful female manager. After clearing it with the police commissioner (John Hamilton, pre-Superman), Rockwell becomes de facto wrestling czar in order to battle the Mob Guy, who suborns a rival wrestler (Slammin’ Sammy Menacker, using his own name – bear this in mind as we proceed) in order to provoke and then discredit Gorgeous George.
We first see GG in the ring with Bomber Kulkavich (aka Henry Kulky) in a match as close to “the real thing” as a movie can get. After winning this match, GG meets Rockwell, to whom he takes an immediate dislike, especially since he seems to be attracted to the pretty female manager (You may all feel free to make whatever inferences you wish, but this is a 1949 Republic programmer, so I’ll just stay on the surface).
Anyway, there are some more confrontations between GG and Menacker, including one at a gym that turns into a free-for-all with the added participation of other wrestlers (including the Super Swedish Angel – Tor Johnson), resulting in the Big Match – which ends up with Menacker dead, and GG accused of his murder.
Yes, Slammin’ Sammy Menacker was an actual pro wrestler (you might remember him as one of the strongmen who did the tug-o-war with Mighty Joe Young {along with Henry Kulky, op cit.}), and he gets “killed off” in this movie.
… So anyway, Menacker is “dead”, GG is in jail, and it’s up to Rockwell to clear him and restore honest wrestling’s reputation.
Rockwell does this with the aid of “new technology” – the film of the televised match that was made for the East! (The word kinescope wasn’t used.)
I’ve condensed the daylights out of this plot,so as not to spoil it for so many of you who might want to track it down.
As to the acting …
… no, it’s too easy.
I do want to quote another of Gorgeous George’s classic lines, just after one of the face-offs with Menacker, delivered to his concerned lady manager:
“Come, little one. It’s time for my marcelle.”
I make no judgement. This one you gotta see for yourself.
So, any questions?
Any answers?
“Any rags, any bones, any bottles today?”
June 7th, 2012 at 12:47 pm
What do you think, Steve, should you clip Mike review of ALIAS THE CHAMP and post where everyone can enjoy it? I vote yes, since not everyone to visit here checks out the comments.
Mike, your comments are always enlightening and fun to read.
“Broadcasting” had a “film” opposite of THE HUNTER but it looked temporary. TVTango.com has a feature with old schedules that I used, but if it was wrong I would not be surprised. I would pick the local TV logs such as “TV Forecast” as best source.
As I mentioned in #1, local stations carried what they wanted and when. Many markets had only one or two stations. I lived in an area in the early 1960s with one CBS station and another as a NBC/ABC station. Coverage and reach in each market was the most important aspect of any TV show for the advertisers who were running the shows at the time. What they were opposite of made a difference but not to the extent it did in the 70s to today.
I think I am much easier on past series now than I would have been at the time. But the TV-Film series of the 50s are all starting to look alike to me. It is getting harder and harder to find something different and interesting enough about a show to do a review.
Thanks, for the bit about FILES OF JEFFREY JONES. I recently found in “Billboard” a list of TV-Film series between 1952 and 1955 and when they went into syndication. JEFFREY was on it for 1952, THE HUNTER was 1955, and CASES OF EDDIE DRAKE was not on it (probably because EDDIE went into syndication in 1951). But your SUPERMAN proves how hard it is to pin down an exact premiere date to series pre-1955.
June 7th, 2012 at 12:54 pm
Mike, what does your research library say about THE HUNTER in summer of 1954 (CBS reruns) and October 1954-January 1955 THE HUNTER (NBC originals)?
Or the syndicated version starting in August 1955, after con artist drug company got sole rights as THE HUNTER’s sponsor?
And you thought your job here was done. You will not escape so easily (unless you want to).
June 7th, 2012 at 1:45 pm
Don’t know anything about THE HUNTER, but the chat about TV wrestling takes me back to the days of my youth, when ITV used to show various ‘absolutely NOT staged fights, honestly’ from Cleethorpes. Leon Arras-the Man from Paris (actor Brian Glover), Mick McMannus, Big Daddy, Jackie ‘Mr TV’ Pallo, Kendo Nagasaki-the mysterious masked samurai warrior with supernatural hypnotic powers (actually Peter Thornley from Stoke-on-Trent), Kung Fu, Billy Two-Rivers, Giant Haystacks, Les Kellet, and the announcer Kent Walton. The audience was predominantly little old ladies. During the week they were kindly and genial, but on Saturday they would sit in the audience and scream for blood “Kill him, kill him, rip his ***** face off!” Great days, great days….
June 7th, 2012 at 4:26 pm
Obviously, my job here is never done.
The 1954 TV Guides are at home, so that’s for tonight.
It was in the late ’50s that I started reading TV Guide, as a child of about 9 or 10 (give or take). The Chicago edition carried listings for Rockford IL, approximately 90 miles north/northwest of Chicago, halfway to Milwaukee. Rockford had two stations:
Channel 13, jointly affiliated with CBS and ABC;
Channel 39, an NBC station.
Around 1960, ch13 was mostly CBS, with the more popular ABC shows turning up in “fringe time” (early and late evening). Additionally, any ABC or CBS shows that didn’t get on the 13 schedule, were sometimes picked up by ch39 (Ed Sullivan, Twilight Zone, and Naked City are examples I can think of off the bat). As the ’60s progressed, ch13 moved more to ABC; they even switched from CBS to ABC news not long before the 1960 election.
Finally, in 1965, Rockford got a third station, Channel 23, which started off by taking the CBS and ABC shows that ch13 wasn’t; Sometime mid-year, the stations regrouped and 13 became fully ABC and 23 fully CBS. I don’t know when exactly this happened, because TV Guide regrouped that same year, and the Chicago edition became strictly Chicago.
But much of my current collection comes from those days, and those crazy-quilt Rockford schedules stir many a fond memory when I look at them now.
I dreamed of having a super-powered antenna that would pull in the Rockford channels, so I could eliminate any number of scheduling conflicts between favorite shows that were in direct competition in Chicago.
Ahead of my time, no?
– For BRADSTREET:
So you had “Hatpin Mary” in England?
We had more than a few just here in Chicago (for a long time I thought they were a franchise), who were devoted to harassing such evildoers as Baron von Raschke, Dick the Bruiser (and his cousin the Crusher), Angelo Poffo (the father of Macho Man Randy Savage), and many other “heels”.
“Long ago, and oh so far away …”
June 8th, 2012 at 9:15 am
Variety didn’t care much more for The Hunter than TV Forecast did. Reviewing the episode “Bucharest Express” in 1952, a reviewer who went by the signature Bril. wrote that “judging from the preem vehicle Thursday (3), this combination Dick Merriwell-Rover Boy is on the juvenile rather than the adult level.” For those who, like me, find these pop-culture references impossibly dated, Merriwell was a juvenile sports hero who appeared in dime novels by Burt L. Standish (a pseudonym for Gilbert Patten), and the Rover Boys appeared in a series of juvenile books by Arthur M. Winfield (also a pseudonym, for Edward Stratemeyer).
According to the Variety review, Nelson was appearing on Broadway in “Moon Is Blue” at the time that The Hunter originally aired. The review noted that the episode’s commercials for Cavalier, “king-size cigaret, stress the extra length and mildness theme.”
Two years later, when the show moved to NBC (as Michael references above), Variety re-reviewed it, even though these were repeats of the Nelson episodes. For those interested in advertising and sponsors of the time, the review notes that RJ Reynolds picked up the rerun package “as its first program for Winston, its filter brand, which hitherto used only spots [spot ads, rather than full sponsorship).”
June 8th, 2012 at 9:46 am
“Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should” is one of the most famous slogans in advertising history.
It even has its own entry on Wikipedia!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_tastes_good_like_a_cigarette_should
June 8th, 2012 at 11:09 am
#13. R.J. Reynolds owned THE HUNTER from the beginning (it was created for them as a summer show), so Cavalier must have been one of their brands.
Did Variety review the NBC originals with Keith Larsen that started on the day I was born, October 3, 1954?
What is hard to understand is why R.J. Reynolds produce the second batch of episodes with Larsen in 1953 with just the hope someone would air the first 13 again and create a demand for more. Someone liked this show, as unbelievable as that sounds.
The creative staff of producer Edward J. Montagne and writer Phil Reisman, Jr. would leave the William Esty Agency that supplied the creative talent for R.J. Reynolds after NBC dropped THE HUNTER. They went on to do I SPY, a spy TV anthology starring Raymond Massey and produced by Guild Films. So someone for some reason liked their work (MAN AGAINST CRIME, THE HUNTER).
THE HUNTER is a great example of how TV was done in the early 50s. The networks sold time slots to sponsors who bought shows to fill the time slot. Sponsors such as R.J. Reynolds would hire an agency (I believe it was a advertising agency, not a talent agency, but both were used) to actually create and produce the show.
The series is a great example of how bad nearly all of 50’s TV-Film series were. Considering most “quality” programs during the 50s were done live, it is amazing that TV-Film was able to replace live as the basic method of broadcasting television. Not surprisingly, the reasons it did were business not creative.
June 8th, 2012 at 2:03 pm
Off Topic question for those with TV GUIDES or access to the TV schedule for the night of September 12, 1974.
What did CBS air opposite of ABC’s HARRY O and NBC’s MOVIN’ ON?
CBS usually showed THE WALTONS followed by the CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE. But TVTango.com has a two hour THE WALTONS and nothing in the 10pm slot.
Yes, next week (I hope) I will review “Gertrude” the premiere episode of HARRY O.
June 8th, 2012 at 4:51 pm
In looking at the other comments, the name of Edward J. Montagne rang several bells.
Montagne is mainly associated with TV comedy: he was producer of The Phil Silvers Show (aka Sgt. Bilko) and later on, McHale’s Navy.
After these shows ran their respective courses, Montagne continued on in TV and subsequently features, nearly always in comedy: he was producer of Don Knotts’s string of features for Universal, which were big boxoffice in the ’60s.
Even when Montagne produced something in another genre, it usually developed a strong comic tilt (an unsuccessful pilot based on I Love A Mystery and the failed Peter Lawford Ellery Queen pilot come to mind; others can be found at IMDb).
From what I’ve read of the man, Montagne was basically a “nuts-and-bolts” producer, more concerned with the physical aspects of production than the creative ones.
My main source is a biography of Nat Hiken, the creator of Bilko, who regarded Montagne as someone to handle the gruntwork while Hiken handled the comedy.
But Bilko, and subsequently McHale, were hits, and so Montagne got the rep as a comedy specialist, which he carried through a lengthy career.
I believe this is what they call “typecasting”.
Oh, by the way, Steve –
– my E-Mail is a bit wonky, so in case you didn’t get the one I sent you this AM –
– if you think there’s a full-fledged post in my little critique (?) of Alias The Champ –
– go for it.
June 8th, 2012 at 5:06 pm
Oh, and one more for the weekend:
The reason that Superman got on in Chicago first:
The Leo Burnett ad agency was in charge of placing the series on local stations, on behalf of Kellogg, its client. They had a mandate, from both Kellogg and National Periodical (as DC Comics was known back then) to get Superman on in prime time wherever possible.
The Burnett agency was based in Chicago, so that was the territory they knew best. Channel 7, the ABC station was one of the stronger affiliates, and the network had more open spots than the others, ans so Burnett was able to put Superman in a prime Friday slot right at the start of the season.
So much for History.
Have a nice weekend.
June 8th, 2012 at 5:31 pm
Michael: 10 pm September 12 slot on CBS: Perry’s Como’s Summer of 74, a special with Como, Michele Lee, Paul Lynde, Jimmie “JJ” Walker.
June 8th, 2012 at 5:51 pm
#17. Mike, Montagne sure had better luck with his comedy series than his dramas.
#19. Thanks, David, I suspected there was some sort of special in that time slot. Both MOVIN’ ON and HARRY O got 34 shares, so Perry finished last (doing my math 34+34 left 32 share for Perry). No major hit but all successful numbers for the time.
June 7th, 2022 at 7:37 pm
An episode is available, regrettably dubbed in Spanish and in deplorable condition, at youTube under the heading “DiFilm -TV Serie The Hunter “El Cazador” (1952)