Hunter
Naked Justice (Part 2)
Tuesday 9 February 1988 on NBC

A homeless man offers information about the murder of a film star (part 2 of 2).

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  external: Stephen J. Cannell's Obituary... Oct 26, 2007 (Score: 36)
  

Roy Huggins' novel The Double Take may be one of the most oft-filmed detective novels of all time. There was a 1948 film adaptation (I Love Trouble); the story appeared twice on The Rockford Files; once on City of Angels; once on Maverick; and on many other Huggins series. Author Max Allan Collins guessed that this was "probably just so Huggins could double dip: get paid for the screen story and for the script." (edit) Roy Huggins originally intended for the villain of The Fugitive to have red hair, but he felt that it was such a common characteristic that he chose to have a one-armed man instead. (edit) Roy Huggins deliberately wrote the character of Bret Maverick to not have any of what Huggins considered to be the "irritating perfection" of TV's western heroes. (edit) Stephen J. Cannell said that "[Roy Huggins] taught me everything that I used through my career on how to create and write and produce a television show." (edit) Producer Jo Swerling, Jr. remembered Huggins: "Roy was a giant in the television industry, He was brilliant. He had a very fertile mind and was a great storyteller. I think he had a sort of natural sense of popular art of the time." (edit)

Roy Huggins: Everyone I consulted about The Fugitive hated the idea - they found it offensive and distasteful. One man called it "a slap in the face of American justice." But the American people never saw a thing wrong with it. (edit) Roy Huggins: The public arts are created for a mass audience and for a profit; that is their essential nature. But they can at times achieve truth and beauty, and given freedom they will achieve it more and more often. (edit) Roy Huggins: (describing his trendsetting arrangement with studios, known as the "Huggins Contract") I was getting paid my royalty and my fee whether I did the show or not. If I conceived the show, and got it on the air, anyone could produce it and I would still get paid just as if I was doing it. That became known as "the Huggins Contract". Every producer in television would say "I want the Huggins contract," and some of them got it. (edit) Roy Huggins: I don't care whether people say The Fugitive was based on the Sheppard case. The only reason I deny it is that it happens to be the truth. (edit) Roy Huggins: (describing his testimony before HUAC) I ended up agreeing that people who had already been mentioned many times were indeed known to me as Communists. (edit)

Writer
Cheyenne (1955) Star in the Dust	Maverick Shady Deal at Sunny Acres n/a
Maverick Passage to Fort Doom	Maverick Point Blank
Maverick The Jeweled Gun

Other
Bus Stop Creator	Hunter Naked Justice (Part 2) Executive in Charge of Production
Maverick The Quick and the Dead Producer	Maverick War of the Silver Kings Producer
Maverick Shady Deal at Sunny Acres Producer	Maverick The Jail at Junction Flats Producer