Shannon (1961 TV series)

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Shannon
Genre	Crime drama
Written by	Todhunter Ballard; Gene Roddenberry
Directed by	Fred Jackman, Jr.
Starring	George Nader; Regis Toomey; Jan Arvan
Composers	Emil Cadkin; Arthur Morton
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	36
Production
Producers	Jerry Briskin; Robert Sparks
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	22–24 minutes
Production company	Screen Gems Television
Original release
Network	Syndication
Release	September 26, 1961 –; June 12, 1962

Shannon is an American crime drama series that aired in syndication from September 26, 1961 to June 12, 1962. The series stars George Nader as the title Joe Shannon, an insurance investigator for the Transport Bonding and Surety Company. Regis Toomey portrays Shannon's boss Bill Cochran. Shannon drove a modern 1961 Buick Special, equipped with cameras, a dictating machine, tape recorders, weapons, and notably, a mobile phone (decades before cell phones) when car phones were rare. The car required a long whip antenna for the phone.

Guest stars

Chris Alcaide as Jack O'Hare in "Duke of the Valley"
Francis De Sales as Ray Petri in "Cold Trail"
Robert Duvall as Joey Nolan in "The Big Fish"
DeForest Kelley as Carlyle in "The Pickup"^[1]
Ann McCrea as Phyllis Gray in "Never Help a Lady" (1962)
Lee Meriwether episode unknown

Production notes

Jerry Briskin produced the series for Screen Gems. Gene Roddenberry did some of the teleplay.^[2]

References

^ "Episode List of Shannon (1961)". Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved March 15, 2009.
^ Alex McNeil, Total Television, New York: Penguin Books, 1996, 4th ed., p. 747

External links

Shannon at IMDb

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[1] "Episode List of Shannon (1961)". Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved March 15, 2009.

[2] Alex McNeil, Total Television, New York: Penguin Books, 1996, 4th ed., p. 747

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