The Marshal
| The Marshal | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Daniel Pyne John Mankiewicz |
| Starring |
Jeff Fahey Patricia Harras Brion James Kristina Lewis Carly McKillip |
| Composer(s) | Tim Truman |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 25 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Don Johnson Aaron Lipstadt John Mankiewicz Daniel Pyne |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Buffalo Wallet Productions Western Sandblast Paramount Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | January 31 – December 25, 1995 |
The Marshal is an American action-drama television series that aired on ABC for two brief seasons in 1995. The show starred Jeff Fahey as the title character, a United States Marshal charged with pursuing fugitives across the nation. In 1995, the episode "Hitwoman" was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Editing for a Series.
The idea for the program came when producer Carole Myers and a former law enforcement officer obtained a formal letter from the U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, D.C. and Myers presented the idea for a series based on the Marshals to Paramount Television, the TV arm of Paramount Pictures. After gaining Paramount's interest, Myers, who was formerly a special projects producer and publicist for Miami Vice, presented the project to Don Johnson, the former star of Miami Vice who had a production company based at Paramount.
Originally, the production was to be a reality series in the same vein that Cops was for police. After the Waco siege, however, the plan was dropped and the concept reworked into a dramatic series after Johnson realized that no television series had specifically targeted the U.S. Marshals, the nation's oldest law enforcement agency, dating back more than 200 years. ABC, which had a somewhat long and successful relationship with Paramount since the late 1960s, picked up the series for its 1994-95 schedule.
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