I'm guessing that many/most of these would have a writeup at IMDB, and if you'll indicate on the list which ones you've written about, Gord, I'll reprint the IMDB reviews for those just as was done here for "Strange Witness."
And for whichever of the episodes are available on YouTube, we'll provide links to them.
There's no question that big-screen noir in the USA changed as a result of the ongoing incursion of "TV noir," which had so many avenues to be exploited and was so easily adaptable to a more primitive medium. So many already existent short stories could provide fodder for episodes, and 22-25 minute teleplays proved to be very easy for writers to churn out. Simpler, less involved stories allowed for smaller casts, and with so many veterans of big-screen noir either dabbling in TV or forced to relocate there, the acting talent for these shows was beyond abundant.
At one point it appeared that Eddie was going to gravitate in that direction, but I'm not sure that such is underway now given his ongoing association with TCM. I could see some type of TV noir showcase there at some point, as the 30-minute shows could easily be included in the interstices of the TCM schedule. A "TV Noir Alley" might be developed to be a rotating feature that appeared one out of every four weeks in the future Noir Alley schedule, with maybe three 30-minute episodes played back-to-back-to-back with brief intros.
It's possible that this idea has already been pitched and that there are various reasons why it's been determined to be too difficult to pull off, but we can only hope that someone someday will take the time and effort to make something like this happen. That goes for so much other TV material from the late 40s to the early 60s that is still languishing in obscurity.
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