Wednesday, September 20, 2017

9/20/1963 Burke's Law is in force

September 20, 1963.  There have been some TV shows with bizarre concepts.  My Mother the Car leaps to mind for some reason.

This day saw the premiere of Burke's Law, a show about Amos Burke, the chief of detectives of Los Angeles, who happens to be insanely rich and arrives at murder scenes in a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce.

Two years later when The Man From Uncle became hugely popular the show changed concepts and became Amos Burke, Secret Agent.  Why not?

2 comments:

  1. Loved Burke's Law...didn't watch the Secret Agent.

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  2. Oh, yes! A precursor to "Murder She Wrote," with its roster of guest suspects. When "Burke's Law" is on we watch and delight in it!

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