- Colonel Humphrey Flack
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Colonel Humphrey Flack
(The Fabulous Fraud)Format Sitcom Starring Alan Mowbray
Frank JenksCountry of origin 
United StatesNo. of episodes 78 Production Running time 30 minutes Broadcast Original channel DuMont (1953-1954)
Syndication (1958-1959)Original run October 7, 1953 – 1959 Colonel Humphrey Flack was an early American television series which ran from October 7, 1953 to July 2, 1954 on the DuMont Television Network, then revived from 1958 to 1959 for first-run syndication.
The series was about a con man who conned other conmen, who gave some of the money to the needy. Colonel Humphrey Flack starred prolific British actor Alan Mowbray as the Colonel, and Frank Jenks as his sidekick, Uthas P. Garvey. The TV series was based on a popular series of short stories by Everett Rhodes Castle published in The Saturday Evening Post.
The pilot for the series aired in May 31, 1953 on an episode of the ABC Album/Plymouth Playhouse.[1]
When the series was revived in 1958, it was retitled Colonel Flack. The 39 episodes (all remakes of the original 39 episodes) aired from October 5, 1958 to July 5, 1959 in syndication.[2]
The series has also been known as The Fabulous Fraud and The Adventures of Colonel Flack.
Contents
Episode status
At least 12 episodes of this DuMont series are in the collection of the UCLA Film and Television Archive. [3]
See also
- List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
- List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
- ^ The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present. Ballantine Books. 2003. pp. 943. ISBN 0-3445-45542-8.
- ^ epguides.com: Colonel Flack
- ^ UCLA archive entry
Bibliography
- David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) ISBN 1-59213-245-6
- Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980) ISBN 0-14-024916-8
- Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964) ISBN 0-345-31864-1
External links
Categories:- DuMont Television Network shows
- Black-and-white television programs
- 1950s American television series
- 1953 television series debuts
- 1954 television series endings
- 1958 television series debuts
- 1959 television series endings
- American television sitcoms
- First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
- Television series revived after cancellation
- Television program stubs
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