Nightwatch
Detective Section

Catalog #

Detcd 42a

Episodes in Collection

49

 

Episodes

Reality based police stories; Actual rides with Culver City policemen

           April 5, 1954-April 21, 1955, CBS. 30m, Mondays 
           at 10 until June; Fridays at 9:30 until July 10; Saturdays at 8:30
           until Oct.; then Thursdays at 8:30. CAST: Donn Reid, reporter, who
           rode in a prowl car with Sgt. Ron Perkins of the Culver City Police
           Department

9/7/05-Added several files to complete collection

reel077/27/08- Replaced some shows from Open Reel. Noteworthy to mention that the episode 3/3/55 does not exist and is inaccurate. Otter database shows this to be a Outake episode of censored unaired clips from other shows. One of these clips is from the 3/31/55 episode. No other database found includes this broadcast. The censored clips were just never aired but I have included them here. David Goldin does a good job of making this series easy to validate by naming each "First Call" and these were used for the reel versions. Someday I hope to convert all the episodes in this manner as the other descriptions are a bit confusing.

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