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Lock-Up (1959)

Lock-Up poster
Directed by
Otto Lang
Genre
drama television series
Country
United States
Length
2 seasons, 78 episodes
Rated
NR
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A series about a lawyer handling criminal cases. Each episode tells a quick story with no extra plot or character depth.

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What happens

Lock-Up is an American crime drama series that premiered in syndication in September 1959 and concluded in June 1961. The half-hour episodes had little time for character development or subplots. It instead presented a compact story without embellishment. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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