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5.9/10 TV Theme music composer E.C. Norton Original language(s) English Final episode date 3 August 1959 Presented by Walter Winchell | 7.8/10 IMDb Developed by Desilu Productions Country of origin USA First episode date 2 October 1957 Number of seasons 1 Cast Walter Winchell | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre Crime drama
Police drama
Anthology Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Jerry Thorpe Network American Broadcasting Company Similar Sheriff of Cochise, Cain's Hundred, Jefferson Drum, The Man from Blackhawk, Treasury Men in Action | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Walter Winchell File is the title of a television crime drama series that initially aired from 1957 to 1958, dramatizing cases from the New York City Police Department that were covered in the New York Daily Mirror. The series featured columnist and announcer Walter Winchell, John Larch, George Cisar, Robert Anderson, Robert Brubaker, Dolores Donlon, and Gene Barry, a year before he was cast in the lead of NBC's Bat Masterson.
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Thirty-nine episodes were produced; the first twenty-six aired on ABC during the 1957-1958 season (sponsored by Revlon), and the final thirteen were seen in syndication in 1959.
Among the guest stars was the child actor Dennis Holmes, who played 7-year-old Allie Marisch in the 1957 episode "Thou Shalt Not Kill." Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr., was cast as "El Jefe" in the 1958 episode "The Stop-over".