New York Confidential (TV series)

Overview

Running for 39 half-hour monochrome episodes, the series chronicled the adventures of a New York City newspaper columnist Lee Cochran, played by Lee Tracy.

The series is often mis-remembered today as having flowed from a 1955 Broderick Crawford movie of the same name. However, neither Lee Cochran, nor any newspaper columnist, features in the film. In truth, the two works were unrelated attempts to adapt the same novel by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, with varying degrees of fidelity to that source. The film is frequently cited as being merely "suggested" by the book, whereas the television series is seen as being "based upon" it.

Episode list

1. Sudden Money
2. Covenant with Death
3. Come Home to Death
4. Semper Fidelis
5. Chinatown, My Chinatown
6. Child of Terror
7. Legacy
8. Garment District
9. Law is for Suckers
10. Massacre
11. Girl from Nowhere
12. Skid Row Mouthpiece
13. New Citizen
14. The Bullet
15. The Seeing Eye
16. Man on Parole
17. Broadway Sam
18. Crosseyed Camera
19. Death in Pursuit
20. The Skin Game
21. Medallion
22. Horse on the Loose
23. Incident at Fulton Market
24. Positive Identification
25. Custody
26. The Most Dangerous Animal
27. House of Strangers
28. Body on a Couch
29. The Lonely Man
30. The Assassin
31. Johnny Cordes
32. The Captain Kenesaw Story
33. In Retaliation
34. Miracle for Gisella
35. Face of Clay
36. Death is the Collateral
37. Ransom
38. Life Care
39. Airline Hostess