IMDB has nothing on this-but I remember the series. Anybody recall seeing this series? Anyway, I would like to know if they are aailable on DVD.
Here’s the IMDB link. I didn’t find it by searching the title, but I remembered that Dorothy Provine was in the show, so voila!
Don’t know if there’s a DVD. Well, I did see one but I don’t trust the site. Looks like bootlegs.
I used to watch it. I liked it well enough (I was eight), but about all I remember now is one scene where one of the reporters was writing about Gertrude Ederle’s tickertape parade an talking about how it was in the pouring rain – only it was sunny and the reporter was writing it from the track.
It was probably an attempt to cash in on the success of The Untouchables.
BTW, the movie The Roaring Twenties was a first-class gangster film.
I was about 12 when it was on. I can still remember the theme song, but the only show I remember was about the establishment of Nathan’s Hot Dogs on Coney Island. And I remember it having a feel like The Untouchables also - but no Walter Winchell.
The only thing I recall was that the title was shown over a rotating mirror ball. In fact, until people started calling those “disco balls”. I used to think of them as “Roaring 20s balls”.
The show was one of a Warner Brothers formula that was popular at the time – two handsome male leads with a perky young female or hip young sidekick getting into various private-eye scrapes.
The format basically started with 77 Sunset Strip . See also Hawaiian Eye, Bourbon Street Beat and Surfside Six.
I remember it, and I got very into the era because of it and to a lesser extent the Untouchables. I enjoyed it a great deal. I think possibly part of my choice of a profession (a newspaperman) came for the roll wide-open newspapering played in the show. Really read up on it and did quite a bit of research on the era later on in my life and I really think it started there. Wasn’t Dorthy Provine a featured player on the show?
My favorite episode was when a reporter (Andrew Duggan?) who was supposed to be covering a parade or something was instead at the track losing a bundle. He ended up breaking a major story so his editor had to hire him back.
I don’t know if they are out on DVD or not.
Thanks for the info-I do so want to see this again! The theme song was neat: “Howja do, takin you to the roaring twenties… tall blond flappers, and bathtub gin…roaring twenties”
I think the “roaring 20’s” was a very interesting time to live in!
I once said something very similar (if a lot more snipey) to my father when I was trying to explain just how dull and unenlightened he was to him. He looked at me shook his head and walked out of the room. It was then I realized that my dad had been a late teen in the era and probably lived through all the things I was talking about.
I don’t know if you are into reading, but a really excellent book on the Roaring '20s is Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the '20s by F.L. Allen. Checking my library, other good books on the subject are Babbits and Bohemians: The American 1920s, and * Wits End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table*. I’ve got a handful of other books on the subject to recommend if you want. But I really think you’ll like the Allen book.
me too! 
i believe provine had a fairly large role in the show, but at best she’s a sketchy recall for me. wonder if anybody had enough time on their hands to upload an ep or two on youtube?