The New Breed (TV series)

The New Breed
Jack Oakie and Tina Louise in The New Breed episode "I Remember Murder" (1961)
Genre	Crime drama
Created by	Hank Searls
Written by	Don Brinkley Peter B. Germano Jesse L. Lasky, Jr. Pat Lasky
Directed by	Walter Grauman Jerry Hopper Allen H. Miner Joseph Pevney Pat Silver-Lasky Hank Searls Sheldon Stark
Starring	Leslie Nielsen John Clarke John Beradino Byron Morrow Greg Roman
Theme music composer	Dominic Frontiere
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	36
Production
Executive producer(s)	Quinn Martin
Producer(s)	Walter Grauman (as Walter E. Grauman)
Running time	60 minutes (approx)
Release
Original network	ABC
Picture format	Black-and-white
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	October 3, 1961 – June 5, 1962

The New Breed is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from October 3, 1961 to June 5, 1962, with thirty-six episodes. The series was a QM Production in association with Selmur Productions, Inc.

The series starred Leslie Nielsen as the serious Lieutenant Price Adams who worked on "The Hot Shot Detail" of the LAPD's Metro Squad and former Major League Baseball player John Beradino as Sergeant Vince Cavelli. The script for the first episode, "No Fat Cops," was written by Hank Searls, credited as the creator of the series. Searls also wrote an original novel based on the series under the pseudonym "Lee Costigan."

The New Breed was the first independent production of Quinn Martin under his newly established company, QM Productions. Prior to starting his own production company, Martin had produced The Untouchables for Desilu Productions, and Nielsen was cast for the role of Adams because of a guest appearance he had made on that program in the episode entitled "Three Thousand Suspects."

The New Breed faced tough competition from The Red Skelton Show and Ichabod and Me on CBS and The Dick Powell Show on NBC, and was canceled after one season.