Tightrope (TV series)

Tightrope (TV series)
Tightrope
Genre Crime drama
Created by Clarence Greene
Russell Rouse
Written by Frederick Brady
Berne Giler
Clarence Greene
Steven Ritch
Russell Rouse
Al C. Ward
Directed by Abner Biberman
Irving J. Moore
Russell Rouse
Oscar Rudolph
Starring Mike Connors
Theme music composer George Duning
Country of origin United States
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 37
Production
Producer(s) Clarence Greene
Russell Rouse
Cinematography Scotty Welbourne
Camera setup Single-camera
Running time 22–24 minutes
Production company(s) Greene-Rouse Productions
Screen Gems
Distributor Columbia TriStar Domestic Television (2001)
Sony Pictures Television
Broadcast
Original channel CBS
Picture format Black-and-white
Audio format Monaural
Original run September 8, 1959 (1959-09-08) – September 13, 1960 (1960-09-13)

Tightrope is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 1959 to September 1960. Produced by Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene in association with Screen Gems, the series stars Mike Connors as an undercover agent named "Nick" who was assigned to infiltrate criminal gangs. The show was to have originally been titled Undercover Man but it was changed before going to air.[1]

Contents

Synopsis

Mike Connors' character would narrate the episode, echoing film noir technique. Police often did not know that Nick was working for the law, thus he was in danger from both the good guys and the bad guys. A special gimmick was that in addition to a gun in a shoulder holster, he carried a second gun snubnosed revolver in a holster behind his back; he was often searched by both cops and bad guys, but they stopped searching after finding the first gun.

Guest stars included Jack Albertson, Raymond Bailey, Barbara Bain, Whit Bissell, Madge Blake, Whitney Blake, Neville Brand, Paul Burke, Jean Byron, Anthony Caruso, Mary Castle, Russ Conway, Ellen Corby, Jerome Cowan, Walter Coy, Dennis Cross, Donna Douglas, Jack Elam, Ross Elliott, Douglas Fowley, Bruce Gordon, Dabbs Greer, Ron Hagerthy, Myron Healey, Connie Hines, Richard Jaeckel, L.Q. Jones, John Larch, Ruta Lee, Barton MacLane, John Marley, Ed Nelson, Simon Oakland, John M. Pickard, Mike Road, Madlyn Rhue, Doris Singleton, Olan Soule, Karl Swenson, George Tobias, and Jesse White.

Cancellation

Despite the show's popularity, it was canceled after one season. Mike Connors stated in an interview that the show's sponsor refused the network's request to move it to a later time slot on a different day. When CBS head Jim Audrey stated the show was going to move; take it or leave it, the sponsor dropped Tightrope, and underwrote another program on another network. Connors also did not want suggested changes to the show to turn into an hour format with a sidekick. He thought such an alteration would eliminate the suspense element of the program.[2]

References

External links


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Tightrope (disambiguation) — Tightrope may refer to: Tightrope walking, the art of walking along a thin wire or rope Tightrope (TV series), a 1959 60 American television series starring Mike Connors Tightrope (Gladiators), an event from the television series Gladiators… …   Wikipedia

  • Tightrope Books — Founded 2005 Founder Halli Villegas Country of origin Canada Headquarters location Toronto …   Wikipedia

  • Tightrope (Gladiators) — Tightrope tightrope1.jpg A contender races down the zip line part of Tightrope Year Introduced 1997 Country of Origin  United Kingdom …   Wikipedia

  • Tightrope — Título Tightrope Género Detectives Creado por Clarence Greene Russell Rouse Reparto Mike Connors País de origen …   Wikipedia Español

  • Fort Boyard (TV series) — Fort Boyard is a French game show created by Jacques Antoine, that was first broadcast in 1990 (as Les Clés de Fort Boyard , shortened for the second series in 1991) and is popular to this day. It has been remade across the globe, most… …   Wikipedia

  • List of Railway Series books — A list of the Railway Series books by both the Rev. W. Awdry and his son Christopher. Contents 1 The Rev. W. Awdry Era: 1945 1972 1.1 The Three Railway Engines 1.2 Thomas the Tank Engine …   Wikipedia

  • Cold Feet (series 1) — Country of origin United Kingdom No. of episodes 6 Broadcast Original channel ITV …   Wikipedia

  • List of QI episodes (E series) — infobox tvseason season name = QI Series E caption = dvd release date = country = UK network = BBC first aired = 21 September 2007 last aired = 14 December 2007 num episodes = 13 prev series = Series D next series = Series F|This is a list of… …   Wikipedia

  • The Executioner (book series) — Infobox Book name = The Executioner title orig = translator = image caption = Cover sample of The Executioner #1: War Against The Mafia author = Don Pendleton illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series =… …   Wikipedia

  • Coach Trip (series 7) — Coach Trip  ◄ ►  Seventh Series (2011) Name Entry Exit    …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”