# Can You Identify This TV Show for Me?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-tv-show-for-me/624598
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 9, 2012, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-tv-show-for-me/624598 "2012-06-09T08:01:47Z")
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2012, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-tv-show-for-me/624598/1 "2012-06-09T08:01:47Z")
I saw this when I was 15 or 16. It was part of an anthology series (syndicated?), a gritty _film noir_-type production set in New York City. Since I saw it probably around 1970, I would guess it was made between 1959 and 1965.
It told the story of a hit man (I would swear he was played by George C. Scott) stalking his victim over the Christmas holidays, narrated in the second person (“You’re like your gun—a well-oiled machine!”). Said assassin encounters an old girlfriend (“Laurie”) and starts going soft and sentimental, to the point where he tells his Mafia handlers he wants out of the hit (“You’re in big trouble for even _thinkin’_ that!”). When he finds out she’s married, he reverts to his old cold-hearted self, whacking the target inside his own girlfriend’s apartment. Even though he carried out the contract, his handlers rub him out at the payoff, since they believe he can’t be trusted anymore.
I can’t find it in Scott’s filmography or in any Internet search. Does anyone out there recognize it?
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2012, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-tv-show-for-me/624598/2 "2012-06-09T08:51:32Z")
If it’s not George C Scott, try Jack Klugman. He was in [loads](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056768/combined) of [those](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056742/combined) kinds of [things](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051297/combined).
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2013, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-tv-show-for-me/624598/3 "2013-12-09T01:06:06Z")
FINALLY I found the answer to my question after 30-odd years, meriting this resurrection:
> **[Blast of Silence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_of_Silence)**
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> Blast of Silence is a 1961 American neo-noir written, directed by, and starring Allen Baron. The film also stars Molly McCarthy and Larry Tucker and features Peter H. Clune. It was produced by Merrill Brody, who was also the cinematographer.
> Frankie Bono, an Italian-American Mafia hitman working with the Mafia in Cleveland, returns to his hometown of New York City during Christmas week to kill Troiano, a middle-management mobster. The assassination will be risky, and Frankie is warned by the ...
Turns out it was a feature film, not part of a TV anthology. If you ever get the chance to see it, do. It’s a great movie!
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2013, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-tv-show-for-me/624598/4 "2013-12-09T01:10:01Z")
It’s available on-line. COOL! 🆒
> **[tvbox.ag - tvbox Resources and Information.](http://ww1.tvbox.ag/player/72839/Blast_of_Silence/)**
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2013, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-tv-show-for-me/624598/5 "2013-12-09T01:35:03Z")
Thirty-odd years, hell. More like forty-odd. Jesus, I feel OLD now! ☹
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### Author:  [@Cayuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cayuga)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2013, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-tv-show-for-me/624598/6 "2013-12-09T18:14:53Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> If you ever get the chance to see it, do. It’s a great movie!
Except now I know how it ends.
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-tv-show-for-me/624598/7 "2013-12-09T18:41:40Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> Thirty-odd years, hell. More like forty-odd. Jesus, I feel OLD now! ☹
_Jaws: 30 Year Anniversary Edition_ brought me to a shocked halt and a near public breakdown when I spotted it in the rack.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-tv-show-for-me/624598/8 "2013-12-09T19:06:52Z")
> [@Cayuga](#):
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> Except now I know how it ends.
Sorry about that. ☹ Still, it’s a great movie worth seeing. My description really doesn’t do it justice.
After all, how many times have you seen _ **Casablanca** _, _ **Goldfinger** _, _ **Pulp Fiction** _…?