Deadline ... lost newspaper noir TV series

Posted by Carl on 12/13/2019, 3:39 pm
Edited by Carl on 12/13/2019, 3:40 pm

This got my attention. Paul Stewart! Anybody seen it? Gord?

http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2019/11/cult-tv-classic-reality-based-deadline-not-seen-since-1961-debuts-on-dvd-nov-19/

Well, it's an uneven show at best--as noted by several reviewers, sort of like DRAGNET for newspaper reporters. Stewart is mostly the off-screen narrator of these re-enactments of variable "ripped from the headlines" stories.

The only one that's available for viewing on YouTube features a teen-aged Christopher Walken ("features" is a stretch--he's on screen 3-4 times early in the show) and will give you the sense that you really aren't missing much if you passed up the opportunity to purchase the 3-DVD set back in those lazy, hazy days before the pandemic...

And a downright wholesome Christopher Walken seems like an ontological impossibility, don't it?