Arthur O'Connell

Serie intorno alle vicende di una famiglia di Cowboy nel ranch 'La Ponderosa'.

Quando il proiettile di un assassino lo costringe su una sedia a rotelle per tutta la vita, mettendo fine alla sua carriera di capo dei detective, Robert T. Ironside diventa consulente del dipartimento di polizia. Il sergente Ed Brown e la poliziotta Eve Whitfield si uniscono a lui per risolvere casi vari e affascinanti. L'ex detenuto Mark Sanger viene assunto dal capo come assistente domiciliare, ma alla fine diventa un membro a tutti gli effetti della squadra. L'agente Whitfield lascia dopo 4 anni di servizio e viene sostituita dall'agente Fran Belding.

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.

Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.

The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.

The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.

Gli episodi trattano di casi presi in esame dall'FBI riguardanti crimini in massima parte realmente accaduti. Su questi indaga l'ispettore Lewis Erskine, personaggio integerrimo e ligio al dovere, che si imbatte in truffatori, assassini, latitanti, serial killer, ladri, falsari, sabotatori e altri criminali assortiti. In questo compito è supportato da una serie di agenti speciali, supervisori e tecnici. Nella prima stagione Erskine perde la moglie che resta uccisa nel corso di una sparatoria. Barbara Erskine, figlia dell'ispettore, si innamora dell'agente Jim Rhodes, collega del padre e la relazione non è da questo ben vista. Dalla seconda stagione in poi il personaggio di Barbara non è più presente. Al termine di alcuni episodi, l'attore Efrem Zimbalist Jr. mostra al pubblico foto di veri ricercati per facilitarne la cattura