This Man Dawson (1959)

Genre

detective fiction

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A former Marine Corps colonel is hired to root out corruption in a city police department. He takes on dishonest cops and criminals in his quest for justice.

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What happens

This Man Dawson is a syndicated drama television series that was broadcast during 1959–60, starring Keith Andes as a former United States Marine Corps colonel hired to clean up police corruption in an undisclosed American city. 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 William Conrad, who was the voice on the radio version of Gunsmoke and later the narrator of The Fugitive, and who later starred in CBS' Cannon detective series. The black and white half-hour series was filmed by Ziv, later part of MGM Television. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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