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The cast of The Silent Force. Clockwise from top left: Ed Nelson as Ward Fuller, Lynda Day as Amelia Cole, and Percy Rodriguez as Jason Hart.
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Genre | Police drama |
Created by | Luther Davis |
Starring |
Ed Nelson Percy Rodriguez Lynda Day |
Composer(s) | Dominic Frontiere |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 15 |
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Executive producer(s) | Walter Grauman |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company(s) | Aaron Spelling Productions |
Distributor | CBS Television Distribution (current) |
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Original network | ABC |
Audio format | Monaural |
Original release | September 21, 1970 | – January 11, 1971
The Silent Force is a 1970–1971 United States police drama television series about three United States Government undercover agents who fight organized crime starring Ed Nelson, Percy Rodriguez, and Lynda Day. It aired from September 21, 1970, to January 11, 1971.
Ward Fuller, Jason Hart, and Amelia Cole make up the Silent Force, a team of U.S. government agents assigned to work undercover to infiltrate organized crime in Southern California. Their various operations involve them with companies and individuals victimized by or taking part in organized crime.
Each episode of The Silent Force opens with this narrative: "'If you do not, on a national scale, attack organized criminals with weapons and techniques as effective as their own, they will destroy us'...Robert F. Kennedy. An attack has been mounted from Washington; an undercover team of federal agents is the spearhead of that attack: The Silent Force."
Luther Davis created The Silent Force, and Walter Grauman was its executive producer. Grauman and Philip Barry, Jr. produced the show. Episode directors included Arnold Laven, George McCowan, and Gene Nelson. Writers included Davis, John Meredyth Lucas, Mark Rodgers, Donald S. Sanford, Jack Turley and the team of James D. Buchanan and Ronald Austin.Aaron Spelling Productions produced the show and Dominic Frontiere composed its music.