This Man Dawson Explained

Genre:Crime drama
Director:Leon Benson
Starring:Keith Andes
William Conrad (narrator)
Country:United States
Language:English
Num Seasons:1
Num Episodes:33
Producer:William Conrad
Elliott Lewis
Runtime:30 mins. (approx)
Company:Ziv Television Programs
Channel:Syndicated

This Man Dawson is a syndicated drama television series that was broadcast during 1959-60, starring Keith Andes as a former United States Marine Corps colonel hired to clean up police corruption in an undisclosed American city.[1] The series was partly inspired by Andes’ Universal Studios film Damn Citizen (1958), in which he played crusading Louisiana State Police Superintendent Francis C. Grevemberg. It was a production of Ziv Television.[2]

The program narrator is William Conrad, who was the voice on the radio version of Gunsmoke and later the narrator of The Fugitive, and who later starred in CBS' Cannon detective series. The black and white half-hour series was filmed by Ziv, later part of MGM Television.

Notable guest stars

Notes and References

  1. Alex McNeil, Total Television, New York: Penguin Books, 1996, p. 833
  2. Erickson, Hal (1989). Syndicated Television: The First Forty Years, 1947-1987. McFarland & Company, Inc. . Pp. 45-46.
  3. Web site: Episode List for This Man Dawson. Internet Movie Database. January 9, 2010.