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- City Detective is a half-hour syndicated crime drama starring Rod Cameron as 43-year-old Bart Grant, a tough 1950s New York City police lieutenant. The first of three consecutive Rod Cameron series, City Detective aired between January 1, 1953 and May 10, 1955. Late in 1953, the publication Variety noted that the series had been sold to 1,971 television stations, a then syndication record. Numerous actors who appeared on City Detective later landed roles on established network series, including Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont, who appeared in separate episodes some three years before they were cast as the concerned parents in the sitcom Leave It to Beaver. Madge Blake, a peripheral figure on both Leave It to Beaver as well as the Walter Brennan series The Real McCoys, also guest starred on City Detective. Andy Clyde, who played Madge Blake's brother on The Real McCoys, appeared as Pop in the 1953 episode "Desert Ice". Doris Packer of Leave It to Beaver and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis appeared as Florence in the 1954 episode "Sixteen Vertical". Frances Bavier, later "Aunt Bee" on CBS's The Andy Griffith Show, appeared three times on City Detective. Lloyd Corrigan, a co-star of the future NBC sitcom Happy, appeared as Shoreham in the 1954 episode "A Safe Combination". Jean Byron, the mother on ABC's The Patty Duke Show appeared twice on City Detective. Mike Connors, before CBS's Tightrope and Mannix, guest starred as Massey in the 1955 episode "Baby in the Basket". Chuck Connors, later Lucas McCain on ABC's The Rifleman, appeared as Sam in the 1955 episode "Trouble in Toyland". Fess Parker, starring that same year as Davy Crockett on Walt Disney Presents appeared as Tony in the 1955 episode "Hearts and Flowers". DeForest Kelley, later on NBC's Star Trek, appeared twice on City Detective, as Benjamin in "An Old Man's Gold" Kelley and in "Crazy Like a Fox", later the title of a Jack Warden CBS detective series of the same name, Crazy Like a Fox. Carolyn Jones, later of The Addams Family, appeared twice in the episodes "A Girl's Best Friend" and "On the Record". The 1955 episode "Man Down, Woman Screaming" featured Beverly Garland, Jack Kelly, western film star Lee Van Cleef, and Frank Ferguson of My Friend Flicka. Other episodes and guest stars include: "The Lady in the Beautiful Frame", "Too Many Grooms", "The Horn That Blew Too Long", "Why Should the Beautiful Die?", "The Glass Thumb" (Barbara Billingsley, Frank Ferguson, and Douglas Fowley), "Cargo of the Midnight", "The Lion Behind You", "On the Record", "The Blonde Orchid" (Hugh Beaumont as Philip Merriam and Douglas Fowley as Detective Wes Harris), "Private Mouthpiece", "The Perfect Disguise", "Goodbye Old Paint", "Come Back, Little Witness", "Found in a Pawnshop", and, the series finale, "The Beautiful Miss X". After City Detective, a Revue Studios Production, Cameron launched State Trooper (1956-1959), set in and about Las Vegas, Nevada, and COronado 9, a detective series set in San Diego, California.
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