Adams of Eagle Lake

Adams of Eagle Lake
Genre	Drama
Created by	Lane Slate
Written by	Jonathan Daly John Michael Hayes Lane Slate Charles Stewart
Directed by	Lawrence Dobkin Walter Grauman Jud Taylor
Starring	Andy Griffith Abby Dalton Nick Nolte
Composer(s)	Jerry Goldsmith Harry V. Lojewski
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	2
Production
Executive producer(s)	Richard O. Linke
Producer(s)	Walter Grauman Burt Nodella Charles Stewart
Location(s)	Big Bear Lake, California Fawnskin, California
Cinematography	Robert B. Hauser
Running time	60 minutes
Production company(s)	Andy Griffith Enterprises
Distributor	MGM Television
Release
Original network	ABC
Picture format	Color
Audio format	Monoaural

Adams of Eagle Lake is an American hour-long police series that aired on ABC in 1975. Andy Griffith starred as Sheriff Sam Adams and the episodes presented his attempts to maintain the law in a small resort town. The show lasted for two episodes.

In 1974, Griffith starred in Winter Kill, a television movie that was intended as a series pilot. When it failed to sell, the main character of Sheriff Sam McNeill was renamed and used as the lead character in Adams of Eagle Lake.

DVD rights to Adams of Eagle Lake are owned by 20th Century Fox, but no DVD has been released.

Although supposedly set in northern California, the TV series location showed opening scenes and other outdoor shots actually taken from the southern California mountain resort communities of Big Bear Lake and Fawnskin, which were much closer to Los Angeles area television production studios.

In 1977, Griffith appeared in two additional television movies (The Girl in the Empty Grave and Deadly Game), both attempts to make use again of the same concept. Griffith's character was now Chief of Police Abel Marsh, but he was still a lawman in a small town near a lake. Both movies were filmed in Big Bear Lake, California.

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