87th Precinct is an hour-long grim and gritty police drama series starring Robert Lansing, Gena Rowlands, and Ron Harper, which aired on NBC on Monday evenings during the 1961–1962 television season.
The program was based on a number of detective novels by Ed McBain that featured Lansing as Detective Steve Carella, who worked in the fictional city of Isola, patterned on Manhattan, New York City. Rowlands played Carella’s deaf-mute wife, Teddy. In...
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87th Precinct is an hour-long grim and gritty police drama series starring Robert Lansing, Gena Rowlands, and Ron Harper, which aired on NBC on Monday evenings during the 1961–1962 television season.
The program was based on a number of detective novels by Ed McBain that featured Lansing as Detective Steve Carella, who worked in the fictional city of Isola, patterned on Manhattan, New York City. Rowlands played Carella’s deaf-mute wife, Teddy. In real life, she was married to actor and director John Cassavetes. Ron Harper, who three years later costarred with George Burns and Connie Stevens in ABC’s Wendy and Me, played rookie detective Bert Kling. Other detective roles were portrayed by Gregory Walcott as seasoned veteran Roger Havilland and Norman Fell as the eccentric Meyer Meyer, who subsequently gained fame on ABC’s Three's Company with John Ritter.
87th Precinct premiered on September 25, 1961, and concluded its first-run episodes on April 30, 1962. Repeats continued until...
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