Markham (TV series)

Markham
Milland as Markham.
Format	Crime Drama
Starring	Ray Milland
Composer(s)	Juan Esquivel
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	59
Production
Producer(s)	Warren Duff Joseph Sistrom
Running time	30 minutes per episode
Production company(s)	Markham Production Company, in association with Revue Studios
Distributor	MCA Television
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	May 2, 1959 – September 15, 1960

Markham is a CBS drama television series starring Ray Milland, which aired during the 1958-1959 and 1959-1960 seasons following Gunsmoke on Saturday nights (later appearing on Thursday nights at 9:30 P.M. Eastern, after January 1960), under the sponsorship of the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company.

Milland played private investigator and attorney Roy Markham (previously introduced in a June 1958 Suspicion episode, "Eye For An Eye"). In that Markham had been a successful lawyer, he had the leisure to take detective cases based on his own interest. His fees could vary from the very considerable to his wealthier and corporate clients to nothing for those who desperately needed his services but had few financial means. Markham's cases could take him almost anywhere in the world, although he was based in New York City. In the early episodes of this program, Markham had an assistant, John Riggs (Simon Scott), but the Riggs character was written out after only a few programs had aired, leaving Markham to solve crimes solo.

Dayton Lummis appeared as Howard Fulton in the 1959 episode entitled "The Father".

Prior to Markham, Milland played the lead role from 1953-1954 in a CBS sitcom, Meet Mr. McNutley, the story of a college professor at fictitious Lynnhaven College, an all girls' institution. For the second season, 1954–1955, the program was renamed The Ray Milland Show.

References

• Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows

External links

• IMDb entry for Markham