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8.0/10   117 votes
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Writer:
Philip Wylie (writer) (episode)
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Release Date:
20 September 1968 (USA) more
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Plot:
This odd series had three rotating stars, who were featured in independent episodes tied together by a loose common theme... more
Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 9 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(9 articles)
TV star Gene Barry passes away at 90
 (From AOL - TVSquad. 11 December 2009, 11:29 AM, PST)

Gene Barry Dead At Age 90; Played Bat Masterson On T.V.
 (From CinemaRetro. 11 December 2009, 2:19 AM, PST)

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One of the best TV Drama's more (11 total)

Cast

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Gene Barry ... Glenn Howard (44 episodes, 1968-1971)

Robert Stack ... Dan Farrell (24 episodes, 1968-1971)
Susan Saint James ... Peggy Maxwell (21 episodes, 1968-1971)

Anthony Franciosa ... Jeff Dillon (17 episodes, 1968-1970)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
90 min (76 episodes)
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

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'Anthony Franciosa' was fired during the show's third season. Instead of being replaced by one actor, he was replaced by a series of actors filling in on his rotation, including Robert Culp, Peter Falk, Darren McGavin and Robert Wagner. more
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7 out of 7 people found the following review useful.
One of the best TV Drama's, 7 March 2002
Author: doctardis from New York, New York

I used to love this show. I have not seen it recently, and I do not know how it would play today. However, my younger self remembers this as one of the best tv dramas ever. I remember one episode when Tony Franciosa returns to New York City to visit his mother and astranged older brother played by Martin Balsem. Franciosa throughout is trip is reading Thomas Wolf's "You can Never Go Home Again." He reunites with is brother, but later find that his grocery store owner brother is also a local drug dealer. It ends with Franciosa turning his brother into the police. His mother forgiving him, but she leaves to live in her home country of Italy. Susan Saint James played one of the magazine's researchers, and stared in one episode opposite Joseph Cotton. This was a 90 minute show that had three rotating stars. Tony Franciosa played the star reporter for a fictional magazine called "People," his millionare publisher was Glenn Howard played by Gene Barry, and Robert Stack played Dan Farrell, a former FBI agent turned crime reporter.

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