Acapulco (TV series)

Acapulco
Ralph Taeger and guest star Leslie Parrish in a scene from the series
Genre	Adventure
Written by	B.C. Schoenfeld Cy Chermak Gene L. Coon
Starring	Ralph Taeger James Coburn Telly Savalas
Theme music composer	Billy May
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	8
Production
Producer(s)	John Robinson
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Ziv Television Programs
Distributor	United Artists Television MGM Television (current)
Release
Original network	NBC
Picture format	Black-and-white
Original release	February 27 – April 24, 1961

Acapulco is an American half-hour adventure series that aired on NBC in 1961. It is notable for providing Telly Savalas (Kojak) with his first regularly recurring role in a television series.

Ralph Taeger and James Coburn starred as Korean War veterans who, tired of life in the States, take up residence in southern Mexico as beachcombers. Each episode relates their experiences helping people in distress. They often worked for Mr. Carver (Savalas), protecting him from enemies he made during his career as a criminal lawyer.

Taeger and Coburn were starring in Klondike, another Ziv Television/NBC series, when it was cancelled after 17 episodes. In order to fulfill Ziv's contract with the network, they were recast in Acapulco, which premiered two weeks later in the same time slot as Klondike (Mondays at 9:00 PM). The new show lasted for only eight episodes.

* Broadcast out of sequence.

DVD rights to Acapulco are owned by MGM Home Video, but no DVD has been released.