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Michael Shayne
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Michael Shayne

1960
Michael Shayne
Michael Shayne

Michael Shayne

7.6 | en | Drama

Michael Shayne is an American detective television series starring Richard Denning that aired on NBC from September 30, 1960 to May 19, 1961.

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP32  Dead Air
May. 19,1961
Dead Air

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EP31  It Takes a Heap O'Dyin'
May. 12,1961
It Takes a Heap O'Dyin'

Fred and Nan Palmer have bought an old house which is fine by day but a fright at night. When unexplainable lights and noises continue to emanate from their basement, they hire Shayne to find the source of the disturbance.

EP30  No Shroud for Shayne
May. 05,1961
No Shroud for Shayne

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EP29  The Trouble with Ernie
Apr. 21,1961
The Trouble with Ernie

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EP28  Date with Death
Apr. 14,1961
Date with Death

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EP27  The Boat Caper
Apr. 07,1961
The Boat Caper

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EP26  Marriage Can Be Fatal
Mar. 31,1961
Marriage Can Be Fatal

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EP25  The Body Beautiful
Mar. 24,1961
The Body Beautiful

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EP24  Murder is a Fine Art
Mar. 17,1961
Murder is a Fine Art

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EP23  Strike Out
Mar. 10,1961
Strike Out

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EP22  Murder at the Convention
Mar. 03,1961
Murder at the Convention

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EP21  The Ancient Art of Murder
Feb. 24,1961
The Ancient Art of Murder

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EP20  Four Lethal Ladies
Feb. 17,1961
Four Lethal Ladies

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EP19  Final Settlement
Feb. 10,1961
Final Settlement

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EP18  The Heiress
Feb. 03,1961
The Heiress

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EP17  The Badge
Jan. 27,1961
The Badge

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EP16  Murder Round My Wrist
Jan. 20,1961
Murder Round My Wrist

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EP15  Spotlight on a Corpse
Jan. 13,1961
Spotlight on a Corpse

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EP14  Man with a Cane
Jan. 06,1961
Man with a Cane

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EP13  Murder in Wonderland
Dec. 30,1960
Murder in Wonderland

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EP12  Death Selects the Winner
Dec. 23,1960
Death Selects the Winner

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EP11  Murder and the Wanton Bride
Dec. 16,1960
Murder and the Wanton Bride

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EP10  Murder Plays Charades
Dec. 09,1960
Murder Plays Charades

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EP9  Blood on Biscayne Bay
Dec. 02,1960
Blood on Biscayne Bay

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EP8  The Poison Pen Club
Nov. 25,1960
The Poison Pen Club

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EP7  This is It, Michael Shayne
Nov. 18,1960
This is It, Michael Shayne

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EP6  Shoot the Works
Nov. 11,1960
Shoot the Works

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EP5  Call for Michael Shayne
Nov. 04,1960
Call for Michael Shayne

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EP4  Framed in Blood
Oct. 28,1960
Framed in Blood

Reporter Ned Brooks has been murdered, and the evidence points to Tim Rourke—at least politician Jim Gardena is doing his best to pin the rap on him.

EP3  Die Like a Dog
Oct. 14,1960
Die Like a Dog

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EP2  A Night with Nora
Oct. 07,1960
A Night with Nora

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EP1  Dolls Are Deadly
Sep. 30,1960
Dolls Are Deadly

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7.6 | en | Drama , Crime | More Info
Released: 1960-09-30 | Released Producted By: Four Stars Productions , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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Michael Shayne is an American detective television series starring Richard Denning that aired on NBC from September 30, 1960 to May 19, 1961.

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Richard Denning
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Herbert Rudley
Herbert Rudley

as Police Lt. Gentry

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kidboots ...that's how writer Brett Halliday (who wrote under many pseudonyms) described his creation who he conjured up from a craggy featured loner he saw at a bar when he was a young seaman. Michael Shayne was a fictional detective based in Miami and bought to life by the under rated Lloyd Nolan in a series by 20th Century Fox in the 1940s, later Hugh Beaumont took over the role when the series was resurrected by PRC. In the 1960s the character was again given life on a TV show by Four Star Films who went on to produce "Burke's Law" and "The Big Valley". Shayne was played by a craggy Richard Denning, an actor who had made a splash as the weakling son in "Adam Had Four Sons" but just really drifted along until the early 1950s when he hit TV big time in "Mr. and Mrs North".The first two shows in the DVD compendium "Best of TV Detectives", were taken from original novels by Halliday and some were scripted by Link and Levinson who went on to such success with "Columbo". All three were directed by Paul Stewart, a terrific character actor who was the sinister neighbour after little Bobby Driscoll in "The Window".1. "Shoot the Works" - One of Lucy's friends, Helen Wheeler gets home to find her husband has been murdered and the scene has been made to look as though he was running away with another woman but Helen doesn't believe it. Kent Smith guest starred as the concerned partner who vows to clear Wheeler's name.2. "Murder and the Wanton Bride" - has the beautiful Beverly Garland as a guest star. The victim is a part owner of a health farm where the "wealthy get healthy" according to Shayne. Garland is Elaine who is desperate to keep her low life husband. Somehow tough Beverly doesn't convince as the wide eyed wife - but that's the whole point!! Probably the best episode.3. "Murder in Wonderland" - concerns a murdered man, Allerton, who was to have delivered a list of vice king pins to the police all concealed in a battered copy of "Alice in Wonderland". Secretary Lucy is kidnapped and it is all tied in with the murder in the phone booth.Enjoyable viewing.
jwthomte I would like to offer one correction to what Cheyenne-Bodie has written about Michael Shayne, and some additions to his list of the "luscious women" who appeared on the show. Margie Regan did replace Patricia Donahue as Lucy Hamilton at some point in the 2nd half of the show's only season. But Richard Banke did not replace Herbert Rudley as LT. Will Gentry, and Meade Martin did not replace Jerry Paris as reporter Tim Rourke. Instead, Banke played a new policeman and Martin played a new reporter. If the new actors were cheaper, then every scene with them was cheaper than a scene with Rudley or Paris. But there were scenes with both policemen and scenes with both reporters. To see what I mean, please buy the DVD Michael Shayne Detective V.01 at Critics' Choice Video, or amazon.com (which calls it vol.1). There are 2 episodes on this DVD: "Shoot the Works" with the original cast, and "Marriage Can Be Fatal" with Ms. Regan, and both of the policemen and both of the reporters.I have an ulterior motive in asking you to buy this DVD: the more people who buy vol. 1, the better the chance of vols. 2,3, etc. appearing. I bought the DVD myself for this reason, even though I already had both episodes on VHS.Gary Clarke as Lucy's brother Dick Hamilton was apparently fired and not replaced at all. I think Lucy's brother was added to the Patricia Donahue episodes as a chaperon, similar to Aunt Harriet in the '60's TV version of Batman. When Ms. Donahue played Lucy, it was sometimes obvious that Lucy and Mike were a couple as well as private eye and secretary, but they couldn't actually be sleeping together with her brother hanging around. When Ms. Regan played Lucy, the relationship was friendly but strictly professional, and the chaperon was no longer needed. Two of Roger Corman's leading ladies, Beverly Garland and Betsy Jones-Moreland, were in one episode each. Ellen Burstyn (using the name Ellen McRae) was also in one episode. Donna Douglas, with Ross Martin as her husband, was in "Murder is a Fine Art," one of the 2 episodes with Carol Ohmart (Vincent Price's wife in the original House on Haunted Hill). Grace Lee Whitney (Capt. Kirk's Yeoman in the 1st season of Star Trek) was in 2 episodes, including "No Shroud for Shayne" with Rita Moreno.Joan Marshall was in the episode "Murder 'Round My Wrist." She was also the leading lady in William Castle's Homicidal, she prosecuted Capt. Kirk in the Star Trek episode "Court Martial," and she played Phoebe (not Lily) in the first pilot for The Munsters.Yvonne Craig was in the next to last episode, "It Takes a Heap O'Dyin'." Her many other credits include Batgirl in the 1968 season of Batman, and Star Trek's 2nd green-Orion-slave-girl (Marta in the episode "Whom Gods Destroy").Sue Randall (Miss Landers, the school teacher, in Leave It to Beaver) was in 2 episodes. Nancy Rennick, who looks and sounds a lot like Ms. Randall, was in the episode "Marriage Can Be Fatal," which is on the Critics' Choice DVD. The mansion in "Marriage Can Be Fatal" is the same one that played the Clampett mansion in The Beverly Hillbillies. Audrey Dalton (the leading lady in William Castle's Mr. Sardonicus) and Merry Anders were in "Dead Air," the last first-run episode of the series. Five years later, Ms. Anders played the woman who drowned in a phone booth in Get Smart. A year after that, she put on a black wig for the recurring role of Officer Dorothy Miller in the revival of Dragnet.And in 1958, Merry Anders played Lucy Hamilton in an unsold Michael Shayne pilot, made by a different company, with a different cast, and even a different format. Mark Stevens played Michael Shayne and directed this pilot. The Mark-Stevens-pilot and the Richard-Denning-series-episode "The Heiress" are available on a single tape from emoviez at ebay. The guest stars in "The Heiress" include 2 future Star Trek women: Susan Oliver (Vina in "The Cage/The Menagerie") and Celia Lovsky (T'Pau in "Amok Time").These comments are based on the Michael Shayne episode list available at the Classic TV Archive, and on the episodes that I have acquired through on-line purchases from Hollywood's Attic and from various ebay sellers, including emoviez. I've enjoyed these old shows very much, and hope to find more of them, especially the Patricia Donahue episodes.
Cheyenne-Bodie Richard Denning ("Mr. and Mrs. North") was perfect casting for the red headed, Irish private detective, who had a taste for cognac, brawls and broads.Michael Shayne had a voluptuous blond secretary named Lucy Hamilton (Patricia Donahue). Lucy's younger brother Dick Hamilton (Gary Clarke) was a college student who sometimes got involved in Shayne's cases. Tim Rourke (Jerry Paris) was a reporter friend. Shayne was also friends with police Lt. Will Gentry (Herbert Rudley).In one scene Shayne returns to his office. He is in the outer office used by Lucy. He overhears Tim and Lucy in his inner office. Tim Rourke is moaning in pleasure. Lucy says that feels good doesn't it. Tim says "Oh yes. Don't stop". Shayne closes his eyes and walks into his office. Lucy is massaging Tim's neck because he has a headache.All these characters except Dick Hamilton came out of a series of novels by Brett Halliday, who was a consultant for the series. Each of the roles was extremely well cast, but the series chose to focus pretty much entirely on Shayne. Richard Denning was a terrific B-movie actor and easily carried the show. (The great Lloyd Nolan played Michael Shayne in a series of 1940's movies that ignored the other characters in the novels and the Miami setting. Hugh Beaumont played Shayne in a later, cheaper movie series. Jeff Chandler and Robert Sterling, among others, played Shayne on radio.)The hour long "Michael Shayne" was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Productions ("Richard Diamond", "Dante"). Young writers Richard Levinson and William Link ("Columbo", "Mannix") were under contract to Four Star at the time (rather unhappily), and they wrote many of the episodes.Actor Mark Goddard had a role in Four Star's "Johnny Ringo" the previous season. Four Star offered Goddard the choice of playing Dick Hamilton or being on "The Detectives" with Robert Taylor. Goddard chose the latter.The "Shayne" episodes had great pulpy titles that were taken from the novels: "No Shroud for Shayne", "Dolls are Deadly", "Die Like a Dog", "Framed in Blood", "Marriage Can be Fatal", "The Body Beautiful", "Murder and the Wanton Bride" and "Blood on Biscayne Bay".Some of the luscious women Shayne encountered: Julie Adams, Lola Albright, Julie London, Carol Ohmart, Susan Oliver, Carol Rossen, Patricia Crowley, Mona Freeman, Alexis Smith and Rita Moreno. One episode even had Helen Hayes.The producers should have spent a few extra dollars to get Lloyd Nolan to guest star as Shayne's father.All the series regulars except Denning were fired during the second half of the season and replaced by much younger actors. This could have been a cost containment move, or maybe they were trying to compete with the glamorous "Surfide Six", a series about much younger Miami Beach private eyes. "Surfside Six" premiered the same year and drew a larger audience.The new Lucy was explained by saying the old Lucy ran off and got married (to Tim Rorke?) and Shayne's replacement secretary just happened to be named Lucy too. I seriously missed sexy Paticia Donahue.Shane Black's movie "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" (2005), where Val Kilmer plays a gay private detective, was based on a Michael Shayne novel by Brett Halliday. The novel was called "Bodies Are Where You Find Them" (1941). That novel was turned into a Dell comic book at the time of the TV series.

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