- The Lineup (TV series)
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show_name = The Lineup
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genre = Police drama
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writer = E. Jack Neuman
Sidney Marshall
Joseph Petracca
director =William Asher
Earl Bellamy
Seymour Berns
Thomas CarrPaul Henreid
Hollingsworth MorseDon Siegel
Harold D. Schuster
starring = Warner AndersonTom Tully
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country = USA
language = English
num_seasons = 6
num_episodes = 190
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producer = Cecil Baker
Jaime Del Valle
Robert Sparks
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runtime = 30 mins. (1954-1959)
60 mins. (1960)
channel =CBS
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first_aired =October 1 , 1954
last_aired =January 20 , 1960"The Lineup" is an American police drama which aired on
CBS radio from1950 to1953 and on CBS television from1954 to1960 , possibly in response toNBC 's hit "Dragnet ."The radio version depicted the investigations of
Lieutenant Ben Guthrie andSergeant Matt Grebb, detectives in the police force of an unnamed "great American city." Bill Johnstone, one of several actors to playThe Shadow on radio, portrayed Guthrie, while Grebb was played by Wally Maher.The television version was set specifically in
San Francisco and was produced with the cooperation of theSan Francisco Police Department , which received a credit at the close of each episode. It starred Warner Anderson as Guthrie andTom Tully as Grebb, who was now aninspector instead of a sergeant because, at the time the series was made, there was no such rank as sergeant in the Bureau of Inspectors, SFPD's investigative division, and a full inspector was the closest equivalent to the generic detective sergeant the character had been on radio. The TV version, a CBS Television Production, was filmed on location, using Desilu's production facilities. Syndicatedreruns of the series were broadcast under the title "San Francisco Beat".A film of the same name based on the series was released in
1958 byColumbia Pictures . It co-starredEli Wallach and was directed byDon Siegel , who had also directed the "The Paisley Gang," the pilot episode of the TV series.External links
*imdb title|id=0046618|title=The Lineup
*Tv.com show|id=4527|title=The Lineup
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