O'Hara, U.S. Treasury

O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
Genre	Crime drama
Written by	Fletcher Beaumont Richard Carlson James Doherty Jackson Gillis Herman Groves Robert I. Holt William P. McGivern Dick Morgan James E. Moser Tony Patino Herb Purdum Gilbert Ralston Bill Rega Hank Searls Jack Turley Dan Ullman David H. Vowell
Directed by	Alan Crosland, Jr. Lawrence Dobkin Sam Freedle Daniel Haller Paul Krasny Paul Landres Gerald Mayer Dick Moder James Neilson Allen Reisner Ron Winston
Starring	David Janssen
Theme music composer	Ray Heindorf William Lava
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	22
Production
Producer(s)	Leonard B. Kaufman
Cinematography	Fred Mandl
Running time	60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	September 17, 1971 – March 10, 1972

O'Hara, U.S. Treasury is an American television crime drama broadcast by CBS during the 1971-72 television season. Jack Webb's Mark VII Limited packaged the program for Universal Television. Webb and longtime colleague James E. Moser created the show; Leonard B. Kaufman was the producer.

Synopsis

O'Hara, U.S. Treasury starred David Janssen (whose company co-produced the show with Mark VII) as the title character, Treasury Agent Jim O'Hara. Jim O'Hara was a county sheriff from Nebraska whose wife and child died in a fire, and to cut all ties with his past life, he put an application in with the United States Department of the Treasury; the Department accepted him. As a "T-Man," O'Hara was available for assignment to any of the various law enforcement agencies which were then part of the Department, all of which cooperated in this positive portrayal of their various organizations, much in the manner of the Los Angeles Police Department with Webb's Dragnet and Adam-12. These included the Secret Service, the Intelligence Unit of the Internal Revenue Service, the then-Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of IRS, and the then-Customs Bureau. O'Hara sometimes worked undercover and sometimes overtly. Janssen was the series' only regular, as he was given a different assignment at the start of each weekly episode.

O'Hara marked the first Mark VII show to run a full hour in length; all of Webb's previous efforts (excepting the TV-movie pilot for Dragnet 1967) ran in half-hour episodes. It was also one of the few he did not package for NBC. The show failed in the Nielsen ratings against ABC's Partridge Family and Room 222 and ended after a one-season run. Reruns were later shown on the A&E Network in the 1990s and on Retro Television Network in the 2000s.^[1]

Episode list

Episode #	Production Code	Episode Title	Airdate
Pilot	???	"Operation: Cobra"	April 2, 1971
1	101	"Operation: Big Store"	September 17, 1971
2	102	"Operation: Bandera"	September 24, 1971
3	103	"Operation: Stolen Bonds"	October 1, 1971
4	104	"Operation: Bribery"	October 8, 1971
5	105	"Operation: Time-Fuse"	October 15, 1971
6	106	"Operation: Offset"	October 22, 1971
7	107	"Operation: Heroin"	October 29, 1971
8	108	"Operation: Spread"	November 5, 1971
9	109	"Operation: Deadhead"	November 12, 1971
10	110	"Operation: Hijack"	November 26, 1971
11	111	"Operation: Crystal Springs"	December 3, 1971
12	112	"Operation: Payoff"	December 10, 1971
13	113	"Operation: Moonshine" (with Sherry Boucher)	December 17, 1971
14	114	"Operation: XW-1"	January 7, 1972
15	115	"Operation: Lady Luck"	January 14, 1972
16	116	"Operation: Deathwatch"	January 21, 1972
17	117	"Operation: White Fire"	January 28, 1972
18	118	"Operation: Dorias"	February 4, 1972
19	119	"Operation: Rake-Off"	February 11, 1972
20	120	"Operation: Mr. Felix"	February 18, 1972
21	121	"Operation: Good Citizen"	March 3, 1972
22	122	"Operation: Smoke Screen"	March 10, 1972

Award nomination

Year	Award	Result	Category
1972	Golden Globe Award	Nominated	Best TV Show - Drama

References

• Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows

1. ^ http://www. myretrotv.com/shows.html

External links

• O'Hara, U.S. Treasury at the Internet Movie Database
• O'Hara, U.S. Treasury at TV.com