Jericho is the show Levinson & Link were doing shortly before Peter Falk debuted as Columbo: sneaky operatives doing their thing behind enemy lines during WWII, which (a) could’ve worked, but (b) was up against Adam West as Batman.
So, yeah: never had a chance, really.
Anyhow, decades later we got Jericho: the story of folks in a small town in Kansas trying to get by after, y’know, some nuking.
The Invisible Man (1958)
The Invisible Man (1975)
The Invisible Man (1984) (A miniseries based on the novel. The others only used the title.)
The Invisible Man (2000)
I haven’t seen any of these, though.
Hunter was, of course, a long-running cop show with Fred Dryer as the guy who is pretty good at detective work and ridiculously good at pistol marksmanship.
But before that, Hunter was the show with James Franciscus as a counterspy who maintains a cover identity as a rare-book dealer, opposite Linda Evans.
Just stumbled across The Americans from 1961 thanks to IMDb auto-suggest.
Had Dobie Gillis’s brother in it and some appearances by John McIntire. Clicking on the full cast link leads to a pretty amazing list of people who appeared in just one episode. Don’t see anyone obvious that appeared on the other The Americans.
Don’t recall this one at all.
was a favorite of mine when it aired: it was set in the Civil War, about two brothers fighting on opposite sides. Favorite episode was called “The War between the states,” one of the few where both brothers appeared together.
Thank you. I kept hearing about that new show and I was thinking “didn’t that already come out?”
Police Surgeon, starring Ian Hendry, was a 1960 precursor to The Avengers with Patrick MacNee.
Police Surgeon (AKA*** Dr Simon Locke***) was a Canadian police/medical drama that ran from 1971 through 1974. It starred Sam Groom, who played Jerry the technician in The Time Tunnel (1966–67).
In September of 1975, ABC premiered a variety show hosted by, of all people, Howard Cosell. It was called “Saturday Night Live.”
3 weeks later, “NBC’s Saturday Night” went on the air, and kept that name for two seasons before appropriating the title of Cosell’s short-lived effort.
Considering how quickly Batman went downhill in the 1966-67 season, CBS would have been smart to give Jericho more of a chance.
Walter Koening had a role in the series as a Resistance fighter.