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Inspector Mark Saber -- Homicide Squad
GenreDrama
Created byH
StarringTom Conway,
Donald Gray
Country of originUSA
No. of seasonsTen
No. of episodes100+ episodes
Production
Executive producerABC
Running time30 minutes
Original release
NetworkABC USA
ReleaseSeptember 1, 2020 (2020-09-01) –
May, 1960

This American television show featured the character Mark Saber, an English police detective. It aired in the 1950s on both the ABC and NBC networks under several different titles and starred two different actors, Tom Conway and Donald Gray, as the main character.

Premise

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This television series about an English police detective was a US primetime TV show that ran for seven seasons on the ABC network from 1951 through 1960, overlapping in its final years with three seasons of repeats on the NBC network. The first few seasons concerned cases investigated by the detective while on loan to a US police department while the last few seasons put the detective back in England and Europe.

Series Names

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The series was known by several different names[1]

  • Mystery Theater (ABC, October 1951 thru April 1952) starring Tom Conway as Mark Saber
  • Inspector Mark Saber -- Homicide Squard (ABC, April 1952 thru June 1954) starring Tom Conway as Mark Saber
  • The Vise (ABC, December 1955 thru June 1957) starring Donald Gray as Mark Saber
  • Saber of London (ABC, September 1957 thru May 1960) starring Donald Gray as Mark Saber
  • Detective's Diary (NBC, March 1957 thru May 1960) starring Donald Gray as Mark Saber

Starring

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The two seasons that starred Tom Conway took place in the police department of a large American city where Saber was a police officer on loan from London. The five seasons that followed starring Donald Gray took place in Great Britain and in Europe.

References

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  1. ^ Brooks, Tim and March, Earl (2007) "The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows: 1946–Present", Random House, ISBN 0345455428, page 702