This Man Dawson | |
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Genre | Crime drama |
Written by | Gene Levitt |
Directed by | Leon Benson |
Starring |
Keith Andes William Conrad (narrator) |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 33 |
Production | |
Producer(s) | Elliott Lewis |
Running time | 30 mins. (approx) |
Release | |
Original network | Syndicated |
Picture format | Black-and-white |
Audio format | Monaural |
Original release | 1959 – 1960 |
This Man Dawson is a syndicated drama television series starring Keith Andes as a former United States Marine Corps colonel hired to clean up police corruption in an undisclosed American city. The thirty-three episodes, in which Andes portrayed Chief Frank Dawson, aired during the 1959-1960 television season. The series was partly inspired by Andes’ Universal Studios film Damn Citizen (1958), in which he played crusading Louisiana State Police Superintendent Francis C. Grevemberg. It was a production of Ziv Television.
The program narrator is the late William Conrad, formerly the voice on the radio version of Gunsmoke and later the star of CBS' Cannon detective series. The black and white half-hour series was filmed by Ziv, later part of MGM Television.