The New Adventures of Charlie Chan | |
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Genre | Crime drama |
Directed by |
Leslie Arliss Charles Bennett Don Chaffey Charles F. Haas Alvin Rakoff |
Starring |
J. Carrol Naish James Hong |
Composer(s) | Emil Newman |
Country of origin | United States United Kingdom |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 39 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Leon Fromkess |
Producer(s) |
Rudolph C. Flothow Sidney Marshall |
Camera setup | Single-camera |
Running time | 25 mins. |
Production company(s) | Vision Productions (episodes 1-5) ITC Entertainment Television Programs of America |
Distributor | ITC Entertainment |
Release | |
Original network | Syndication |
Picture format | Black-and-white |
Audio format | Monaural |
Original release | June 1957 – 1958 |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | The Sky Dragon |
Followed by |
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan The Return of Charlie Chan |
The New Adventures of Charlie Chan is a British-American crime drama series that aired in the United States in syndicated television from June 1957, to 1958. The first five episodes were made by Vision Productions in the United States, before production switched to the United Kingdom under ITC Entertainment and Television Programs of America.
The series, consisting of 39 half-hour monochrome episodes, follows the investigations of the fictional detective Charlie Chan, created by Earl Derr Biggers in 1925. The series follows the convention, established in the Charlie Chan movies, of having the Asian character Chan played by a Western actor while his son(s) were played by actual Asians.
Guest stars, most notably under ITC, include:
This list appears to be in production order. The first five episodes were filmed in the US by Vision, the remaining episodes in the UK by ITC.