Stretching the Law
KITMAN, MARVIN
On Television STRETCHING THE LAW BY MARVIN KITMAN nesdays, 10 p.m.) is the first law-and-order show in the history of television to star Telly Sevalas. In the series, noteworthy also because it...
...Hong Kong...
...Seaway" (a Canadian series with Stephen Young...
...Surfside 6...
...Burke's Law...
...Miami Undercover...
...On Trial...
...Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons...
...Ripcord...
...Tales of Wells Fargo...
...Sir Lancelot...
...Longstreet...
...filmed in New Orleans...
...Official Detective...
...I Spy" (with Robert Culp and Bill Cosby...
...Mod Squad...
...Northwest Passage...
...Four Just Men...
...Batman...
...Madigan...
...Or Melvin Douglas' "Hollywood Off-Beat...
...Five Fingers...
...Griff" (ABC, Saturdays, 10 p.m...
...And "City Detective...
...Bat Master-son...
...Cain's Hundred...
...Behind Closed Doors...
...Jason King...
...Colonel March of Scotland Yard...
...Edgar Wallace's Mystery Hour...
...Foreign Intrigue...
...Highway Patrol...
...The Lone Wolf...
...North...
...Slattery's People...
...Sherlock Holmes...
...Crusader...
...Colt .45...
...Naked City" (half-hour version...
...Jones...
...Hawaiian Eye...
...Tallahassee 7000...
...Big Town...
...Rat Catchers...
...But then I remembered that "Kojak" was more like "87th Precinct...
...Green Hornet...
...As well as "The Hunter...
...Cool Million...
...Not for Hire...
...Hennessey...
...Dangerous Assignment...
...Wanted...
...DA's Man...
...Gideon, C.I.D...
...Captain David Grief...
...Harbormaster...
...Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (one-hour version...
...In the series, noteworthy also because it continues the trend toward bald men as heroes (dating back to 1972 with David Carradine in "Kung Fu," and Yul Brynner in "Anna and the King"), Sevalas plays a tough but compassionate New York City police detective lieutenant named Theo Kojak...
...Capsule Mysteries" (10-minute version with Glen Langen...
...The opening episode (October 22) reminded me a little of such new crime shows as "Toma" (ABC, Thursdays, 8 p.m...
...Martin Kane, Private Eye...
...The Line Up...
...And how could I have forgotten "The Rogues...
...Barnaby Jones...
...Trackdown...
...District Attorney...
...Blue Light...
...The Alaskans...
...Harrigan & Son...
...Johnny Ringo": "Gunsmoke...
...Laredo...
...Paris Precinct...
...Lawbreakers...
...Ramar of the Jungle...
...77 Sunset Strip" (half-hour version...
...Assignment: Vienna...
...Special Branch": "Strange Report...
...Lawbreaker" (a different show...
...Plainclothesman...
...Soldiers of Fortune...
...Crime Photographer...
...Tightrope...
...The New Breed...
...Outsider...
...West Point...
...Lawless Years...
...Racket Squad...
...Lawman...
...Hawkins" (CBS, Tuesdays, 9:30 p.m...
...The Lone Ranger...
...Main Chance...
...I Led Three Lives...
...Kraft Mystery Theatre...
...Inner Sanctum...
...yet...
...Faraday & Company" (NBC, Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m...
...Mike Hammer...
...Code 3...
...Navy Log...
...Sarge...
...the old "Perry Mason" (with Raymond Burr...
...Convoy...
...Girl from U.N.C.L.E...
...Hawk...
...Crunch and Des...
...The Islanders...
...The Magician" (NBC, Tuesdays, 9 p.m...
...Richard Diamond...
...Robin Hood...
...Yancey Derringer...
...Blue Light...
...It Takes a Thief...
...Dragnet" (original version, now known as "Badge 714...
...Harbor Command...
...Adam-12...
...Adventures of Sherlock Holmes...
...San Francisco Beat" (a.k.a...
...Witness...
...Steve Canyon...
...The D.A...
...Doorway to Danger...
...Jungle Jim...
...21 Beacon Street...
...Streets of San Francisco"-"The Rookies...
...Mannix...
...Boston Blackie...
...Meet McGraw...
...Ironside...
...Man with a Camera...
...Troubleshooters...
...The Verdict Is Yours...
...Riverboat...
...Tall Man": "Thin Man...
...Emergency...
...Secret Agent" (half-hour version...
...Straightaway...
...McMillan & Wife...
...N.O.P.D...
...Informer...
...Michael Shayne...
...Superman...
...O.S.S...
...Dan Raven...
...Coronado 9...
...Most Deadly Crime...
...The Bold Ones" (police segment...
...Treasury Men in Action...
...The Bold Ones" (lawyer segment...
...The Expert...
...This Man Dawson...
...Target: The Corrupters...
...Name of the Game...
...Department S...
...Man Behind the Badge...
...Checkmate...
...The Man in a Suitcase...
...Telltale Clue...
...Paris 7000...
...Law Man...
...Pentagon Confidential...
...Whistler...
...Follow That Man" (with Ralph Bellamy...
...Mrs...
...Delphi Bureau": "Hec Ramsey...
...Rivals of Sherlock Holmes": "Police Surgeon...
...Big Story...
...Brenner...
...Or was "Kojak" more reminiscent of Don Haggerty's two fine series of the early '50s: "The Files of Jeffrey Jones" and "The Cases of Eddie Drake...
...While "Kojak" is undoubtedly the same thing as all of these shows enshrined in The Annals of TV Police Science (1947-1973), it is actually like "21st Precinct," a CBS radio network show of the late '50s...
...Wire Service...
...Dundee & The Culhane...
...Famous Jury Trials...
...Danger in Paris...
...Craig Kennedy, Criminologist...
...Dragnet" (post-1968 version...
...Rocky King, Defender...
...Man-Against Crime...
...Chase" (NBC, Tuesdays, 8 p.m...
...International Detective" (a.k.a...
...Divorce Court...
...Dummy, I finally said to myself...
...Dial 999...
...Not to mention "Car 54, Where Are You...
...The New Perry Mason" (CBS, Sundays, 7:30 p.m...
...Suspicion...
...Cade's County...
...Hopalong Cassidy...
...Brothers Brannagan...
...Camion...
...It is thought by the network to be a very original idea...
...And "Case of the Dangerous Robin...
...The Saint...
...McCloud...
...Public Defender...
...and "Dan August," which is having a successful revival this season, it is said, because Burt Reynolds looks like Diana Rigg (of "The Avengers") in drag...
...They Stand Accused...
...Waterfront...
...Kojak" also reminded me of "Hawaii Five-0...
...Invisible Man...
...The Police Story" (NBC, Tuesdays, 10 p.m...
...Cat...
...Buccaneers...
...Silent Force": "Smith Family...
...26 Men...
...Bourbon Street Beat...
...I Spy" (with Raymond Massey...
...O'Hara, United States Treasury...
...Tales of the Texas Rangers": "Johnny Midnight...
...Whispering Smith...
...I haven't seen "The Snoop Sisters" (NBC, Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m...
...Felony Squad...
...Danger Man...
...Johnny Staccato...
...Mark Saber...
...Secret Agent" (one-hour version...
...Owen Marshall...
...Men at Law" (a.k.a "Storefront Lawyers...
...Manhunt...
...But why go on . . . It's no crime for a law-and-order show to steal an idea...
...Lock Up...
...Asphalt Jungle...
...The FBI...
...Young Lawyers...
...Interpol Calling...
...Philip Marlowe...
...Gangbusters...
...Justice...
...Jimmy Hughes, Rookie Cop...
...Run for Your Life...
...Markham...
...Sam Benedict...
...Trials of O'Brien...
...Tombstone Territory...
...Naked City" (one-hour version...
...The Hardy Boys...
...King of Diamonds...
...Stryker of Scotland Yard...
...The Avengers...
...Honey West...
...I Love a Mystery...
...Tenafly" (NBC...
...Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m...
...The Detectives" (half-hour version...
...Shaft" (CBS, Tuesdays, 9:30 p.m...
...Sheriff of Cochise...
...Court of Last Resort...
...The Protectors...
...On further reflection, "Kojak" reminded me of radio's "The FBI in Peace and War...
...Preston of the Yukon...
...Pursuers...
...T.H.E...
...N.Y.P.D...
...My Friend Tony...
...Espionage...
...Amos Burke...
...The Detectives" (one-hour version...
...Shannon...
...Follow the Sun...
...Court Martial...
...Banyon...
...Wyatt Earp...
...Captured...
...A Day in Court...
...The Law and Mr...
...China Smith...
...Roaring Twenties...
...Bana-cek...
...Man and the Challenge...
...Man from U.N.C.L.E...
...Front Page...
...Temple Houston...
...Passport to Danger...
...Judd for the Defense...
...Man Called X...
...Walter Winchell File...
...Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (half-hour version...
...U.S...
...M-Squad...
...I Cover Times Square...
...Gallant Men...
...New York Confidential...
...Arrest and Trial...
...Police Station...
...Marshall...
...Charlie Chan...
...Traffic Court...
...77 Sunset Strip" (one-hour version...
...The Lieutenant...
...I'm the Law...
...Decoy...
...S.A...
...The Third Man...
...Peter Gunn...
...Adventures of Judge Roy Bean...
...Sgt...
...Branded": "Combat...
...Line Up...
...Zorro...
Vol. 56 • November 1973 • No. 22
