The Lineup (TV series)

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show_name = The Lineup


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genre = Police drama
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writer = E. Jack Neuman
Sidney Marshall
Joseph Petracca
director = William Asher
Earl Bellamy
Seymour Berns
Thomas Carr
Paul Henreid
Hollingsworth Morse
Don Siegel
Harold D. Schuster
starring = Warner Anderson
Tom Tully
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country = USA
language = English
num_seasons = 6
num_episodes = 190
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producer = Cecil Baker
Jaime Del Valle
Robert Sparks
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runtime = 30 mins. (1954-1959)
60 mins. (1960)
channel = CBS
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first_aired = October 1, 1954
last_aired = January 20, 1960

"The Lineup" is an American police drama which aired on CBS radio from 1950 to 1953 and on CBS television from 1954 to 1960, possibly in response to NBC's hit "Dragnet."

The radio version depicted the investigations of Lieutenant Ben Guthrie and Sergeant Matt Grebb, detectives in the police force of an unnamed "great American city." Bill Johnstone, one of several actors to play The Shadow on radio, portrayed Guthrie, while Grebb was played by Wally Maher.

The television version was set specifically in San Francisco and was produced with the cooperation of the San Francisco Police Department, which received a credit at the close of each episode. It starred Warner Anderson as Guthrie and Tom Tully as Grebb, who was now an inspector instead of a sergeant because, at the time the series was made, there was no such rank as sergeant in the Bureau of Inspectors, SFPD's investigative division, and a full inspector was the closest equivalent to the generic detective sergeant the character had been on radio. The TV version, a CBS Television Production, was filmed on location, using Desilu's production facilities. Syndicated reruns of the series were broadcast under the title "San Francisco Beat".

A film of the same name based on the series was released in 1958 by Columbia Pictures. It co-starred Eli Wallach and was directed by Don Siegel, who had also directed the "The Paisley Gang," the pilot episode of the TV series.

External links

*imdb title|id=0046618|title=The Lineup
*Tv.com show|id=4527|title=The Lineup