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After kidnappers demand that Roy Bradley pay an enormous ransom for the return of his son Wayne, Gower searches for the boy, and Bradley is forced to borrow money from his friend, Alex Meriden. Gower and his men capture three of the four kidnappers and free the boy, but the ransom money is missing.
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officer – a self-styled colonel – who plans his crimes meticulously, times and drills his four hand-picked accomplices thoroughly, and makes their thefts look like inside jobs. As the case unfolds, Jensen proves to be dedicated, but incompetent, and Gower must decide whether to retire
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Gower learns that mobsters plan to kill gangland financier Victor Vanda, whom Gower hopes to bring to justice alive so that he can identify and incriminate his colleagues in organized crime. He offers to protect Vanda in exchange for his testimony. Gower's men go undercover at a
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After two men shoot reformed criminal and former gangster David McMasters to death, organized crime is assumed to be responsible, but Gower discovers that McMasters left a large inheritance to his daughter Norma and begins to suspect that she may be involved in his murder.
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s Keller character. ABC broadcast "The Lady and the Lawyer" on April 9, 1961, as the second episode of the series with the standard opening credits including Smith, although he does not appear in the episode, and Odney as Frank Orte credited in the closing credits.
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premiered on ABC on April 2, 1961. It had mediocre ratings and was cancelled after the broadcast of its 13th episode on June 25, 1961. It aired on Sunday at 9:30 pm throughout its run.
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City employee Sam Henry is murdered, and Allen Bardeman, an attorney who enjoys fast living with his secretary, Angela Walsh, becomes the prime suspect in the killing when Gower
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Matthew Gower. Many of their assignments involve going undercover, and Gower himself joins Honochek, Keller, and their squad in undercover work when the situation calls for it.
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After Detective Bill Dyer single-handedly wins a gun battle with four armed criminals and is cited for heroism, he suddenly goes berserk and shoots a fellow police officer.
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with Bardeman. Despite being credited (as "Bill Smith") in the title sequence, William Smith does not appear in this episode and is not listed in the closing credits.
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Crime boss Doc Stehlmeyer gets out of prison and plans a million-dollar jewelry theft, but his plans begin to fall apart almost immediately.
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guest-star. This episode was the pilot for the series, and later was edited and expanded to create the 79-minute 1961 theatrical film
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Keller works with Lieutenant Jim Jensen of the burglary squad to apprehend an efficient five-man burglary ring run by a former
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After a policeman is killed in a gun battle with small-time criminal Joey Minor, who is wounded in the exchange of fire, Gower
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syndicate whom the police previously have investigated without success – and who know a lot about his life.
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the episodes. Burnett received a writing credit for each of the 13 episodes, and the other writers credited were
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Gower and Honochek discover two women who are Richie Ashmond's former romantic partners – the head of a
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s search for Minor leads to a local hospital, where someone has stolen medical supplies and Minor
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The police department's Metropolitan Squad specializes in fighting organized crime in an unnamed
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and claiming to be the culprit, but they suspect that Peterson is lying about his involvement.
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has wounded six young girls, a man named Lonnie Peterson comes to Gower and Honochek bearing a
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does not include Smith or his Keller character, so he is not credited in the film.
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s pilot episode was re-edited and lengthened to create the 1961 theatrical film
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This article is about the 1961 television series. For the 1950 film, see
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s friend Lou Gordon is connected with a crime ring that steals
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episodes of the series, and Herman Hoffman, Gerald Mayer, and
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in its regular time slot from July 2 to September 24, 1961.
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Allie Jonay's debt if he will help them in a robbery.
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The Asphalt Jungle
W. R. Burnett
The Asphalt Jungle title card
Police procedural
Jack Warden
Arch Johnson
Bill Smith
Duke Ellington
Mel Epstein
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television
ABC
police procedural
Jack Warden
Arch Johnson
Bill Smith
organized crime
Midwestern United States
The Asphalt Jungle
ABC
The Lawbreakers
Midwestern
Captain
Sergeant
Police Commissioner
Jack Warden
Arch Johnson
Bill Smith

Arch Johnson
Jack Warden

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