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This Man Dawson is a syndicated drama television series starring Keith Andes as a former United States Marine Corps colonel hired to clean up police corruption in an undisclosed American city. The thirty-three episodes, in which Andes portrayed Chief Frank Dawson, aired during the 1959-1960 television season. The series was partly inspired by Andes’ Universal Studios film Damn Citizen (1958), in which he played crusading Louisiana State Police Superintendent Francis C. Grevemberg. It was a production of Ziv Television.
Original Release
10/15/1959
US Release
10/15/1959
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Keith Andes | Police Chief Col. Frank Dawson / Colonel Frank Dawson / Col. Frank Dawson |
| William Conrad | Narrator |
| William Woodson | Sgt. Ed Blankey |
| Tom McDonough | Detective / (as Tom McDonough) / Don |
| John Marley | Ryan |
| James Collier | Radio Operator |
| Jack Ging | Albert / Lennox |
| Larry J. Blake | (as Larry Blake) / Mack |
| Robert R. Stephenson | Police Sergeant |
| Leo Penn | Harmon |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Source | Thursday, 15 October 1959 |
| 2 | The Assassin | Thursday, 22 October 1959 |
| 3 | The End of Kalmine | Thursday, 29 October 1959 |
| 4 | The Hard Way | Thursday, 05 November 1959 |
| 5 | Intimidation | Thursday, 12 November 1959 |
| 6 | Anonymous Pursued | |
| 7 | The Silent Man | |
| 8 | Copkiller | |
| 9 | Omerta | |
| 10 | Fight Game | Thursday, 31 December 1959 |
| 11 | Master Plan | |
| 12 | The Deadly Young Man | |
| 13 | Human Predator | |
| 14 | Three X | Thursday, 21 January 1960 |
| 15 | Short Circuit | |
| 16 | The Big Shot | |
| 17 | Safe Haven | |
| 18 | One by One | Thursday, 04 February 1960 |
| 19 | The Informer | Thursday, 02 June 1960 |
| 20 | Get Dawson | Thursday, 10 March 1960 |
| 21 | Thief of the City | |
| 22 | Arson Ring | Thursday, 30 June 1960 |
| 23 | Hired to Kill a Cop | |
| 24 | Accessory to Murder | |
| 25 | Loose Cannon | |
| 26 | Doubt of Evidence | |
| 27 | Plague | |
| 28 | Juvenile Delinquent | |
| 29 | Out on a Ledge | |
| 30 | The Bomber | |
| 31 | Lucky Dawson | |
| 32 | A Matter of Justice | |
| 33 | The Bank Robbers | Thursday, 19 May 1960 |
| 34 | Badge and Gun | |
| 35 | Cold Civil War | |
| 36 | Deadly Young Man | Thursday, 14 January 1960 |
| 37 | Innocent Killer | |
| 38 | Shopsy's Tiger | |
| 39 | Sweet Charity |
Directors
William Conrad, Elliott Lewis, Herman Hoffman, James Goldstone, Richard Carlson, Franklin Adreon, Monroe P. Askins, Eddie Davis, Otto Lang, Walter Doniger, David Friedkin
Writers
Eustace Cockrell, Stephen Alexander, Samuel A. Peeples, Anthony Lawrence, Herbert Abbott Spiro, Robert J. Shaw, Carey Wilber, Laurence Heath, David Yoshal, Don Brinkley, Charles Larson, Richard De Roy, Paul Savage, William Driskill, William N. Robson, Richard Dorso, Von Stuart, Hobart Donavan, Sidney Marshall, Robert Turner
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Keith Andes | Police Chief Col. Frank Dawson / Colonel Frank Dawson / Col. Frank Dawson |
| William Conrad | Narrator |
| William Woodson | Sgt. Ed Blankey |
| Tom McDonough | Detective / (as Tom McDonough) / Don |
| John Marley | Ryan |
| James Collier | Radio Operator |
| Jack Ging | Albert / Lennox |
| Larry J. Blake | (as Larry Blake) / Mack |
| Robert R. Stephenson | Police Sergeant |
| Leo Penn | Harmon |
| Jean Allison | Dora |
| Emile Meyer | Max Creiger / Smiley |
| Stephen Roberts | Maryt / Vincent |
| Tom Middleton | Davis |
| Louis Merrill | Harvey Stone |
| Harold Goodwin | (as Herold Goodwin) |
| Maurice Wells | Verdugo |
| Charles Calvert | Man |
| Bob Ormsby | (as Robert Ormsby) / Cop |
| Fred Lerner | Police Officer |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Elliott Lewis | Producer |
| William Conrad | Producer |
