Cannon: Summary
SUMMARY
- Airs Next:CBS at Tuesday 9:30 PM (60 min.)
- Status:Ended
- Premiered:September 14, 1971
- Last Aired:March 3, 1976
- Show Categories:Drama
George McCowan's work on this series sets a new standard by treating television as simply a more mobile cinema. He registers the descendance of television from film, not merely radio.
After creating Marshal Dillon in Gunsmoke on radio, and a great deal of film work, Cannon is the great achievement of William Conrad's career as an actor: genial, witty and acute. Frank Cannon lives in a penthouse on the Sunset Strip, where his passion is gourmet cuisine prepared by himself. In between meals he hires out as a private investigator to select clients in need of top-drawer work from a professional trained in the ways of the world.
George McCowan's work on this series sets a new standard by treating television as simply a more mobile...
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The Return of Frank Cannon
An old Intelligence comrade-in-arms kills himself, apparently.
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- The Bottom Line: "Underappreciated"09/24/08 06:00am | report abuse
Proof positive that the right casting can make or break a show. ...Continue »
- The Bottom Line: "Personal favorite"02/25/07 12:50pm | report abuse
Another series from QM(Quinn Martin) Productions. William Conrad was the voice of Marshal Matt Dillon in the radio version of "Gunsmoke" and another Quinn Martin show "The Fugitive". He plays a rotund detective with a penchant for expensive things. ...Continue »
- The Bottom Line: "A decent show"12/15/06 05:22am | report abuse
Ahhhh the 70s, the decade where detectives and cops drove around in cars the size of aircraft carriers. ...Continue »
- The Bottom Line: "A decent show"05/09/06 03:23am | report abuse
Still Worth the Watching ...Continue »
- The Bottom Line: "Personal favorite"04/13/06 09:44am | report abuse
You could tell right from the start that tonight’s episode was going to be a good one. In the previous cliff-hanger we were left with a fatal car crash, not knowing anything else about the accident besides the fact that it happened. ...Continue »
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