TV Guide (September 25, 1954)

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Lone Wolf, Eddie Drake, Jeffrey Jones, Craig Kennedy. He is also known as the Man Against Crime (seen on sec¬ ond run as Follow That Man ) and the Front Page Detective. As Melvyn Douglas, he is seen in Hollywood Off¬ beat. And as Brian Donlevy, he has a weekly Dangerous Assignment. The hardy adventurer, of course, includes such intrepid souls as Biff Baker, China Smith and The Hunter, while the sanctity of the law is up¬ held by such shows as Dragnet (also seen as Badge 714), City Detective, Gangbusters (also seen as Captured), Racket Squad, Public Defender, Pub¬ lic Prosecutor, I Am the Law, They Stand Accused, Mark Saber, Mr. Dis¬ trict Attorney, Rocky King and Col¬ onel March of Scotland Yard, sir. The excitement—but never the painstaking detail work—of the big newspaper world is covered by both Big Town and Big Story. Death Valley Days explores true stories of the old West and Orient Express, untrue stories of the old East. Danger, Inner Sanctum and Counterpoint are mys¬ tery for sweet mystery’s sake, while only Joe Palooka and The Visitor tend to preach a moral with each adven¬ ture. I Led Three Lives, of course, points a moral all its own. The Westerns, of course, will be back. There were 12 last season. There will be 12 this season, none dropped, none added. They are as constant as the sun, regular as the tides, inevitable as the death they invariably trade on. When the day comes that the cow¬ boy may no longer shoot the cattle rustler, television itself will have been dealt a mortal wound. The rollcall up yonder the following day will include Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy, Kit Carson, the Cowboy G-Men, The Cisco Kid, Wild Bill Hickok, The Lone Ranger, Tim McCoy, Annie Oakley, The Range Rider and Roy Rogers —all cut off at Bluenose Pass. Richard Arlen portrays fire captain in Alarm, glorifying Nation's fire fighters. ever, was done on film and has been put into syndication. Also slated for film syndication is the once-live Man Behind the Badge. Others scratched—at least tempo¬ rarily—are The Plainclothesman, The Web and The Telltale Clue. All the rest of the blood-and-thun- der shows, from the award-winning Dragnet to the non-award-winning Dick Tracy, will be back on the air, the great majority of them on a syn¬ dicated basis. As always, the private eye leads the parade, his number being legion and never up. He has many names on as many shows— Boston Blackie, The 26