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Front Page Detective is an American crime drama series which aired on the DuMont Television Network on Fridays at 9:30 p.m. ET from July 6, 1951, to September 19, 1952, and in October and November 1953. The program was then in broadcast syndication for several years thereafter.
Original Release
03/16/1951
US Release
03/16/1951
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Edmund Lowe | David Chase / Edmund Lowe (dual role) |
| Paula Drew | Sharon Richards |
| George Pembroke | Inspector Andrews / Lt. Andrews / Lt. George Andrews / Police Lt. Andrews / Police Lt. George Andrews |
| Norman Budd | Peal / Willie Canto |
| Virginia Christine | Beatrice Hillmane / Shelly |
| Lyle Talbot | Big Dutch Oliver / Reilly Jarbo |
| Frank Jenks | Lt. Rodney |
| Al Eben | George Barry / Maxie |
| John Harmon | Danny Trumpet |
| John Phillips | Ralph Tollman |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Honey for Your Tea | Friday, 16 March 1951 |
| 2 | The TV Murder Mystery | |
| 3 | Alibi for Suicide | |
| 4 | The Other Face | |
| 5 | Man with the Lisp | |
| 6 | The Triangle | |
| 7 | A Friend of the Corpse | |
| 8 | The Devil's Bible | |
| 9 | Death of a Hero | |
| 10 | Gold Venom | |
| 11 | Frame for Murder | |
| 12 | Seven Seas to Danger | |
| 13 | Echo from the Dead | |
| 14 | Murder Rides the Night Train | |
| 15 | Ringside Seat for Murder | |
| 16 | Little Miss Fortune | |
| 17 | Napoleon's Obituary | |
| 18 | The Intruder | |
| 19 | The Deadly Curio | |
| 20 | Recipe for Murder | |
| 21 | Shadow Over Hollywood | |
| 22 | Murder Can't Win | |
| 23 | Dead Wrong | |
| 24 | Clean Sweep | |
| 25 | The Murderer Is Anonymous | |
| 26 | The Invisible Hand | |
| 28 | The Deadly Root | |
| 29 | The Lonely One | |
| 30 | The Little Black Book | Saturday, 01 September 1951 |
| 31 | The Case of the Perfect Secretary | |
| 33 | Worth a Plugged Nickel | |
| 34 | Galahad | Friday, 08 August 1952 |
| 35 | You Kill Me | |
| 36 | Toying with Murder | |
| 37 | Penthouse Jungle | |
| 38 | Troubles with Doubles |
Directors
Arnold Wester, Derwin Abrahams, Phil Rosen
Writers
Robert Leslie Bellem, Herbert Moulton, Bob Mitchell, Gene Levitt, Irvin Ashkenazy, Curt Siodmak, Lou Lilly, John Kohn, Richard Carr, Jackson Gillis, Monroe Manning, Bill Danch, David Victor, Charles E. Israel, Lawrence Roman, Theodore St. John, Herbert Purdom, Bill Wolff, Kalman Phillips, Leroy H. Zehren, Edmund Joseph, Edward W. Snyder, William Woolf
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Edmund Lowe | David Chase / Edmund Lowe (dual role) |
| Paula Drew | Sharon Richards |
| George Pembroke | Inspector Andrews / Lt. Andrews / Lt. George Andrews / Police Lt. Andrews / Police Lt. George Andrews |
| Norman Budd | Peal / Willie Canto |
| Virginia Christine | Beatrice Hillmane / Shelly |
| Lyle Talbot | Big Dutch Oliver / Reilly Jarbo |
| Frank Jenks | Lt. Rodney |
| Al Eben | George Barry / Maxie |
| John Harmon | Danny Trumpet |
| John Phillips | Ralph Tollman |
| Pat Gleason | Conductor |
| Emory Parnell | MacDonald |
| Peter Mamakos | Lefty |
| Betty Ball | Eve Brooks |
| Bettie Best | Donna Borucki / Beth |
| Barbra Fuller | Joyce Sinclair / Fran Bishop |
| John Davidson | Fritz Muller |
| Gail Davis | Connie Treadway |
| Jack Daly | Don Lawton / Travis Booker |
| Ralph Sanford | Inspector Edwards |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Jerry Fairbanks | Executive Producer |
| Riley Jackson | Producer |
| Raoul Pagel | Producer |
