MEET McGRAW had a season and a half as a standalone series for Four Star...it didn't get as many chances as RICHARD DIAMOND. Too bad those two gumshoes never hooked up...

(In fact, Lovejoy and Janssen never worked together.)





Here Frank has encounters with Perry Lopez and Joe DiSantis...

Frank was grateful for the steady work on MEET McGRAW and was clearly hoping for a longer run. "I kind of like this guy McGraw. He's not a superman. He's just a guy who tries to do the best he can, and is interested in saving his own neck quite frequently....I don't win all the fights I get into....I don't always knock out the villain. Sometimes he knocks me out."





Note that a snippet of "One For My Baby" was lifted as the show's opening theme song. In this ep we have Hans Conried in a rare serious role; the ballerina is played by Dutch import Joyce Vanderveen, who actually did start out as a ballerina in real life...