Miami Undercover a Fun Watch on TVS Crimetime.Com

There are so many classic crime shows on TVS Crimetime.Com.... Richard Diamond, Highway Patrol, Peter Gunn, Dragnet, and so forth. While watching the classic detective shows, be sure to take a look at Miami Undercover...you'll get a kick out of it. Long forgotten Lee Bowman is the star, with Rocky Graziano mugging his way as his partner. Great shots of Miami 50 years ago...its a blast!

Touch/Michael/Mike Connors a Hit on TVS Crimetime.Com

Poor Mike Connors. He had the matinee idol looks and he wasn't the worst actor on the lot, but he just never caught fire. He had an early career as Touch Connors in many forgettable drive in type movies such as Swamp Woman and Voodoo Woman. He made the rounds as a guest star on the TV series of the era such as Wagon Train (on TVS Western.Com), Maverick, M Squad, and Wyatt Earp(also on TVS Western.Com). Finally, he got a break. Ziv was doing big business with Broderick Crawford in Highway Patrol (also on TVS Crimetime.Com). Naturally, the copycats started churning out look alikes and one of them was Roadblock with the newly christened Michael Connors. It didn't sell. It was back to guest stints until his break finally came in a terrific 'lost' series called Tightrope in 1959. It was all that he ever hoped foor, a dashing, daring leading man, but it only lasted one season. Of course, he made up for all of that with his stellar Mannix series almost a decade later, SHOWING YOU SHOULD NEVER QUIT! You can also watch episodes of Mannix on TVS Crimetime.Com. In the meantime, enjoy Roadblack and decide for yourself if it should have gone to series.

The Curious Case of Eddie Drake

In the 1949, the CBS Television Network ordered up a series entitled The Cases of Eddie Drake for it's prime time schedule. It looked like a no brainer, using long time B movie star Charles McGraw in his typical hard guy cop/Private Eye role. But for some reason, the show just didn't work out and CBS shelved the few shows that were made. After sitting on the shelf for a year or two, Dumont Network TV executive Dick Dreyfuss, who had been the original CBS TV Network film buyer in 1948, licensed the use of the shows for Dumont. In the Dumont universe, this show was a gem....one they could never produce on their own on their limited budgets.

In any event, the TV audience liked Eddie Drake, leaving CBS in a conundrum. The answer could only come from the world of television. They took the same scripts, the same star, and the same studios and, in 1952, remade the show for their syndication department. Goodbye Cases of Eddie Drake, Hello Files of Jeffrey Jones! Really! Both versions can be seen on TVS Crimetime.Com and the Drake version also lives on at the Dumont TV Network.Com. Both are on the TV4U.Com video portal.

Beverly Garland Remembered via Police Woman -Decoy

The first Police Woman was not Angie Dickenson. In fact you have to go back more than a decade to find the erstwhile Beverly Garland breaking the mold of male crime solvers as 'Casey Jones'. So politically incorrect, yet so much fun to watch. Beverly Garland was a journeyman Hollywood character actress when she made the switch to TV to make this show. It only lasted a little more than a year and it probably hurt her career more than it helped it. After the Police Woman stint Beverly ended up a Roger Corman star in some really legendary American International movies. History would honor her work in this era, but at the time she was left to guest spots on TV until she broke through with starring roles in My Three Sons and then Scarecrow and Mrs. King.

Cops and Robbers Live on the TVS Television Network!

The new home for the classic cop shows from TV history is TVSCrimetime.Com.

You'll see a lot of great crime shows that you remember and a few that you've never seen before.
All are available on a 'video on demand' basis, so you can watch what you want to when you want to.

Perhaps the most obscure of these shows is a series called Lawless Years. It debuted on NBC not only in the same year but on the same night and time as the legendary Untouchables on ABC. While the Untouchables covered Chicago crime and Elliot Ness, Lawless Years had a solemn James Gregory depicting New York crime. Oh, yes....Untouchables had the disntinctive Walter Winchell narration while NBC gave Gregory that duty as well. The result? Everybody knows the Untouchables, but no one remembers Lawless Years. Well.. go ahead and treat yourself to some good TV as these shows are downright entertaining! So what if you're almost 50 years late in catching them, they maintain their historical perspective.