I'm the Law

1953

I'm the Law

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I'm the Law is the title of a 30-minute syndicated American television police drama series which aired in 1953 starring George Raft as Lt. George Kirby, a NYPD detective involved in solving a variety of crimes in New York City. The series first aired on February 13, 1953 and ended on July 31, 1953.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP25 The Button Story

Jan. 01,0001

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EP24 Falling Star

Jan. 01,0001

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EP23 Sob Sister

Jan. 01,0001

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EP22 Sleep with Terror

Jan. 01,0001

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EP21 The Killer

Jul. 03,1953

Kirby searches for evidence in which to convict a man whom the police know is the brains behind many rackets.

EP20 The Bust of Plato

Jan. 01,0001

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EP19 The Husband and Wife Murder Story

Jan. 01,0001

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EP18 The Countess Bobo Story

Jan. 01,0001

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EP17 The Suspect

Jan. 01,0001

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EP16 The Impossible Death

Jan. 01,0001

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EP15 The Trucking Story

May. 22,1953

Lt. Kirby goes undercover on the waterfront to investigate the death of a dockworker. He discovers that the owner of a trucking company is engaged in some shady business, involving evading customs and shipping illegal cargo to China.

EP14 O Sole Mio

May. 15,1953

When a man is murdered in Central Park, the only witness to the crime is his young son.

EP13 The Moon Man

Jan. 01,0001

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EP12 The Wish and the Shoplifter

Jan. 01,0001

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EP11 The Mad Cartoonist

Jan. 01,0001

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EP10 The Juvenile Murder Story

Jan. 01,0001

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EP9 The Stool PIgeon Story

Jan. 01,0001

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EP8 Who Killed Evelyn?

Jan. 01,0001

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EP7 The South American Money and the General's Coffin

Jan. 01,0001

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EP6 The Firebug Story

Jan. 01,0001

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EP5 The McClury Brothers Story

Jan. 01,0001

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EP4 The Powder Box Smuggling Story

Mar. 06,1953

The only clue to the identity of the assailants of a badly beaten sailor is a powder box given to the swabbie's galpal.

EP3 The Model Agency Story

Feb. 27,1953

As a secretary, you are paid to know everyone's business, keep track of it, organize it and help them remember it. But sometimes you hear too much for your own good, which is what happened to a gorgeous woman working as a secretary in a modeling agency.

EP2 The Cowboy and the Blind Man Story

Feb. 20,1953

Kirby thought he had seen it all until he started investigating a blackmail scheme involving a bad guy, his ex-wife and a blind man.

EP1 The Fight Fix Story

Feb. 23,1953

Kirby starts investigating a case of fight fixing, only to end up uncovering a murder.

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Released: 1953-02-13 | Released Producted By: , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Reviews

bkoganbing George Raft who had pretty much descended to B films decided to give television a try as did so many other stars who were finding work scarce on the big screen. Raft was always best in the gangster/noir type film so he did this syndicated television series which only lasted a season in the early Fifties. He plays a police lieutenant in I Am The Law.As a rule the half hour format in my opinion is never good for any kind of mystery drama, you need at least an hour to develop characters and a few good alternative suspects. I Am The Law was no exception to the rule.The show was produced by of all people Lou Costello, note on the credits his brother Pat as the executive producer. Raft at the time was starting to have his tax troubles as was Costello. Maybe they thought this could help both of them out.In any event Raft returned to the big screen and did give some good noteworthy performances subsequent to I Am The Law as in Rogue Cop and Some Like It Hot. And I Am The Law which was an average TV series passed on to history.

Paularoc Based on the five episodes I saw (and reviewed each of the episodes under their individual titles), this was an entertaining cop drama. The story lines were sufficiently intriguing with the occasional snappy lines and the guest actors were uniformly very good. Raft's performance was also good but did often lack spark - but then he always was a fairly wooden performer. The series does suffer somewhat from being very studio bound - even the one lengthy scene set in a park looks like a studio set. But I quibble. Three episodes are available on Matinée Classics and two different episodes are available on Uncle Earl's Classic T.V. Channel site. These are definitely worth watching and it's fun trying to identify the many familiar character actors such as Rochelle Hudson, Lyle Tabot, Percy Helton, and Gordon Jones.

Ninian Reid Our family didn't have TV in 1953/54 but the next door neighbours did. I was 8 or 9 at the time and I can still remember the closing scenes of "I Am The Law"on Friday afternoons.If my (pretty ancient) memory serves me correctly, George Raft's programme was aired immediately before "The Cisco Kid" on BBC Television (the only player in town !). I would love to think someone somewhere would issue the series on DVD, but I'm not holding my breath. Here in the United Kingdom, very little early television survives, America, on the other hand - due to its enormously large land mass - carefully filmed popular shows for syndicated distribution. Many programmes survive in excellent condition including "Criminologist" with Canadian actor Donald Woods at the helm.

malcolm-webb Three episodes were strung together and released theatrically as a second feature in the UK in late 1954 under the title " Crime Squad " with a running time of 71 minutes. The film was granted a British Board of Film Censors certificate " A " ( children admitted if in the company of an adult ) I believe two of the episodes were " The Model Agency " and " The McClury Brothers ". The third involved the murder of a police officer, the principal clue being that of the imprint of a tennis shoe. Unfavourable review quotes ... three undistinguished melodramatic crime stories, in which the detection is mainly a matter of intuition and guesswork...unquote. I recall the TV series on early BBC programming, and in particular the story of the shoplifter who justifies the stealing with the line .. "God helps those who help themselves !"