Lime Street (TV series)
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Lime Street cast photograph. Clockwise from center: Maia Brewton, Samantha Smith, Robert Wagner and Lew Ayres
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| Genre | Action/Drama |
| Created by | Linda Bloodworth-Thomason |
| Written by | Linda Bloodworth-Thomason Ron Friedman E. Jack Kaplan Mark Redmond |
| Directed by |
Ray Austin Earl Bellamy |
| Starring |
Robert Wagner Lew Ayres Maia Brewton Samantha Smith |
| Theme music composer | Lee Holdridge |
| Composer(s) |
Alf Clausen Lee Holdridge Arthur Kempel |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Linda Bloodworth-Thomason Harry Thomason Robert Wagner |
| Producer(s) | E. Jack Kaplan |
| Cinematography | Charles R. Young |
| Editor(s) | Michael F. Anderson Roger Bondelli Jack Harnish |
| Running time | 45–48 min |
| Production company(s) | R.J. Productions Bloodworth/Thomason Mozark Productions Columbia Pictures Television |
| Distributor | Sony Pictures Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | September 21 – October 26, 1985 |
Lime Street is an American action/drama series that aired on the ABC television network during the 1985 television season. The series was created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who also served as executive producer alongside husband Harry Thomason and series star Robert Wagner.
James Culver (Wagner), a widower, raises his two daughters, Elizabeth (Smith) and Margaret Ann (Brewton) with his own father (Ayres) and investigates insurance cases with the British Edward Wingate (John Standing).
The cast of Lime Street included veteran Hollywood star Robert Wagner and Samantha Smith. Smith, a schoolgirl in Manchester, Maine, had written then-Soviet premier Yuri Andropov a letter asking him whether he was truly desirous of a nuclear war with the United States, as she had heard suggested by some. He wrote her a reply stating that he was not, and then invited her to visit the Soviet Union; the event, which was followed by media in both countries and elsewhere around the world, gained her fame.
Two versions exist of how Smith was cast into the show: one story states that she had caught the attention of Bloodworth-Thomason in early 1985 when the latter's brother-in-law spotted her on a talk show and suggested that she might fit the role of the elder daughter in the series, at that time known as J.G. Culver. Another suggests that Wagner, who had first seen her on The Tonight Show, called her up, asking her to audition for the role.
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