Man with a Camera
| Man with a Camera | |
|---|---|
| Original title card | |
| Genre | Crime / Drama |
| Written by | James Edmiston Paul David Wilton Schiller |
| Directed by | Paul Landres Gerald Mayer |
| Starring | Charles Bronson James Flavin Ludwig Stössel |
| Theme music composer | Herschel Burke Gilbert |
| Composer | Leon Klatzin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 29 |
| Production | |
| Producers | Don W. Sharpe Warren Lewis For MWC Productions, Inc. |
| Production locations | Hollywood, California at Desilu Studios, doubling for New York City |
| Cinematography | Paul Ivano Robert B. Hauser Black-and-White |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | October 10, 1958 (1958年10月10日) – February 8, 1960 (1960年02月08日) |
Man with a Camera is an American television crime drama starring Charles Bronson as a war veteran turned photographer and investigator.[1] It was broadcast on ABC from October 10, 1958, to February 29, 1960.[2]
This is the only TV series in which Bronson played the lead role.
Plot
[edit ]Bronson portrayed Mike Kovac, a former World War II combat photographer. He usually assists "newspapers, insurance companies, the police, private individuals, and anyone else who wanted a filmed record of an event.[1]
By often acting as a private eye, Kovac gets himself into plenty of trouble involving criminals of every kind, helping with cases the police could not handle.
Besides an array of cameras for normal use, for surreptitious work Kovac employs cameras hidden in a radio, cigarette lighter and even his necktie. He also has a phone in his car, and a portable darkroom in the trunk where he could develop his negatives on the spot.
Kovac's police liaison is Lieutenant Donovan (James Flavin),[1] though he frequently seeks advice from and is aided by Anton Kovac (Ludwig Stössel), his father.[1] They are of ambiguous Eastern European ancestry, in one episode Mike and his father serve kapusta to another character.
Main cast
[edit ]- Charles Bronson as Mike Kovac
- James Flavin as Lieutenant Donovan
- Ludwig Stössel as Anton Kovac
Selected guest stars
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- Mario Alcalde
- Rachel Ames
- Roscoe Ates
- Phyllis Avery
- Baynes Barron
- Arthur Batanides
- Nesdon Booth
- Steve Brodie
- Sebastian Cabot
- King Calder
- Anthony Caruso
- James Chandler
- John Cliff
- Marian Collier
- Booth Colman
- Russ Conway
- Yvonne Craig
- Norma Crane
- Audrey Dalton
- Alan Dexter
- Angie Dickinson
- Dolores Donlon
- Don Durant
- Robert Ellenstein
- Bill Erwin
- Frank Faylen
- Virginia Field
- John Goddard
- Don Gordon
- Rodolfo Hoyos Jr.
- I. Stanford Jolley
- William Kendis
- Don Kennedy
- Jess Kirkpatrick
- Berry Kroeger
- Fred Krone
- Ethan Laidlaw
- Tom Laughlin
- Nolan Leary
- Norman Leavitt
- Ruta Lee
- Karl Lukas
- Gavin MacLeod
- Howard McNear
- Eve McVeagh
- Theodore Marcuse
- Walter Maslow
- Gregory Morton
- Dennis Patrick
- John M. Pickard
- Phillip Pine
- Joe Ploski
- Bert Remsen
- Lee Roberts
- Penny Santon
- Cosmo Sardo
- Simon Scott
- Johnny Seven
- Doris Singleton
- Harry Dean Stanton
- Ludwig Stössel
- Lawrence Tierney
- Peter Walker
- Casey Walters
- Dick Wessel
- Jesse White
- Grant Williams
Episodes
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Season 1: 1958–59
[edit ]| No. overall |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Second Avenue Assassin" | Gerald Mayer | William Fay | October 10, 1958 (1958年10月10日) |
| 2 | 2 | "The Warning" | Gerald Mayer | Richard M. Bluel | October 17, 1958 (1958年10月17日) |
| 3 | 3 | "Profile of a Killer" | Gerald Mayer | Story by : Richard M. Bluel Teleplay by : James Edmiston | October 24, 1958 (1958年10月24日) |
| 4 | 4 | "Turntable" | Gerald Mayer | Lowell Barrington | November 7, 1958 (1958年11月07日) |
| 5 | 5 | "Closeup on Violence" | William Castle | Jack Laird & Wilton Schiller | November 14, 1958 (1958年11月14日) |
| 6 | 6 | "Double Negative" | Gerald Mayer | Story by : Ken Pettus Teleplay by : James Edmiston | November 21, 1958 (1958年11月21日) |
| 7 | 7 | "Another Barrier" | Gerald Mayer | Stanley Niss | November 28, 1958 (1958年11月28日) |
| 8 | 8 | "Blind Spot" | Gerald Mayer | Donn Mullally | December 5, 1958 (1958年12月05日) |
| 9 | 9 | "Two Strings of Pearls" | Gerald Mayer | Robert J. Shaw | December 12, 1958 (1958年12月12日) |
| 10 | 10 | "Six Faces of Satan" | Boris Sagal | David P. Harmon | December 19, 1958 (1958年12月19日) |
| 11 | 11 | "Lady on the Loose" | Gerald Mayer | Oliver Crawford | December 26, 1958 (1958年12月26日) |
| 12 | 12 | "The Last Portrait" | Gerald Mayer | Wilton Schiller & Jack Laird | January 2, 1959 (1959年01月02日) |
| 13 | 13 | "The Face of Murder" | Gerald Mayer | Berne Giler | January 9, 1959 (1959年01月09日) |
| 14 | 14 | "Mute Evidence" | Paul Landres | Dallas Gaultois & James Edmiston | January 16, 1959 (1959年01月16日) |
| 15 | 15 | "The Big Squeeze" | Harold Schuster | David P. Harmon | January 23, 1959 (1959年01月23日) |
Season 2: 1959–60
[edit ]| No. overall |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 1 | "The Killer" | Paul Landres | E. Jack Neuman | October 19, 1959 (1959年10月19日) |
| 17 | 2 | "Eyewitness" | Gene Fowler Jr. | Paul David | October 26, 1959 (1959年10月26日) |
| 18 | 3 | "The Man Below" | Gene Fowler Jr. | David P. Harmon | November 2, 1959 (1959年11月02日) |
| 19 | 4 | "Black Light" | Paul Landres | Wilton Schiller | November 9, 1959 (1959年11月09日) |
| 20 | 5 | "The Positive Negative" | Paul Landres | Oliver Crawford | November 16, 1959 (1959年11月16日) |
| 21 | 6 | "Missing" | Gene Fowler, Jr. | Story by : Hal Evarts Teleplay by : Robert E. Thompson & Lee Loeb | November 23, 1959 (1959年11月23日) |
| 22 | 7 | "Live Target" | Paul Landres | Barry Trivers | December 7, 1959 (1959年12月07日) |
| 23 | 8 | "Girl in the Dark" | Gilbert Kay | Barry Trivers | December 14, 1959 (1959年12月14日) |
| 24 | 9 | "The Bride" | Paul Landres | Paul David | December 21, 1959 (1959年12月21日) |
| 25 | 10 | "The Picture War" | Paul Landres | David P. Harmon | January 4, 1960 (1960年01月04日) |
| 26 | 11 | "Touch Off" | Paul Landres | Oliver Crawford | January 11, 1960 (1960年01月11日) |
| 27 | 12 | "Hot Ice Cream" | Paul Landres | Story by : Howard Koppelman Teleplay by : Howard Koppelman & Paul David | January 25, 1960 (1960年01月25日) |
| 28 | 13 | "Fragment of a Murder" | Wilton Schiller | Gilbert Kay | February 1, 1960 (1960年02月01日) |
| 29 | 14 | "Kangaroo Court" | Gilbert Kay | Wilton Schiller | February 8, 1960 (1960年02月08日) |
Production
[edit ]Man with a Camera was filmed in Culver City, California, at Desilu Studios.[3] From October 1958 to March 1959 it was broadcast on Fridays from 9 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time. From October 1959 to February 1960 it was broadcast on Mondays from 10:30 to 11 p.m. E.T.[1] General Electric's Lamp Division sponsored the 1959-1960 episodes.[4] Warren Lewis was the executive producer for Sharpe & Lewis Productions. A. E Houghton was the producer, and Gerald Mayer was a director.[3]
Home media
[edit ]The entire run of the series' 29 episodes was released in 2007 by the Infinity Entertainment Group, in collaboration with the Falcon Picture Group and the UCLA Film & Television Archive, from which the source prints were obtained.
Alpha Video has released three individual volumes on DVD, each containing four episodes from the series. A fourth volume was released on February 25, 2014. On October 17, 2017, Mill Creek Entertainment released the complete series on DVD + Digital. Entire Series can be seen on Tubi streaming.
References
[edit ]- ^ a b c d e Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle (1999). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present (7th ed.). New York: The Ballentine Publishing Group. p. 623. ISBN 0-345-42923-0.
- ^ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television: the Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 515. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
- ^ a b "This Week (Cont'd)". Ross Reports. October 6, 1958. p. 93. Retrieved July 16, 2023.
- ^ Adams, Val (August 10, 1959). "Bellamy to Play Jefferson on TV" . The New York Times. p. 47. Retrieved July 16, 2023.
External links
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- 1950s American crime drama television series
- 1960s American crime drama television series
- 1958 American television series debuts
- 1960 American television series endings
- Black-and-white American television shows
- Television series by CBS Studios
- Works about photography
- Television shows set in New York City
- Television shows filmed in Los Angeles
- American Broadcasting Company crime dramas