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  "Richard Diamond, Private Detective" (1957)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Plot Summary: Richard Diamond is a suave private eye who, at first, walks the mean streets of New York, then later packs up and moves to Los Angeles...
"Richard Diamond" was one of the all-time great private eye television shows from the late 1950's.
Sam is only shown in profile from the shoulders down seated in front of a switch board, in tight fitting dresses, legs crossed and usually dangling a stiletto-heeled shoe from her toe as she delivers Richard's messages in a breathy low husky voice.
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 RICHARD DIAMOND, PRIVATE DETECTIVE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
RICHARD DIAMOND, PRIVATE DETECTIVE came to NBC in 1949 with Dick Powell starring in the title role.
Diamond enjoyed the detective life, but not as much as entertaining his girl, Helen Asher.
RICHARD DIAMOND, PRIVATE DETECTIVE was last heard in 1953.
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 Richard Diamond
Richard’s inside work with the police department gave him an edge other private detectives didn’t have, helping him to solve many a stubborn case.
The Hollywood episodes gave Diamond a new friend on the Los Angeles Police Department in Lieutenant Pete Kile (Russ Conway); another cop named Sergeant Alden (Richard Devon) was always trying to get the gumshoe.
Richard Diamond, Private Detective left CBS for NBC in 1959, but the final episode aired in September 1960.
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Of all the screen incarnations of Raymond Chandler’s famous detective (with the exception of George Montgomery, whose The Brasher Doubloon [1947] I have not seen), I think Powell’s portrayal is the best.
Diamond saved most of his suffer-no-fools disdain for desk sergeant Otis Ludlum (Wilms Herbert), a dimwit who had to have a relative at City Hall protecting his job.
Powell brought Richard Diamond, Private Detective to the tube, in a 1957-60 series that bore no resemblance at all to its radio namesake (David Janssen played the title role).
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 sell.com classifieds : Richard Diamond, Private Detective: Complete Series! for sale in Schenectady (229BNF)
For the TV series, Diamond was changed from a former OSS operative to an ex-cop, which explained his easy access to information and help from his former boss, Lieutenant McGough.
For the first two seasons, Diamond remained in New York City, but then he moved to Los Angeles and acquired a girlfriend, played by Barbara Bain, and a car with a telephone in it.
This allowed him to converse regularly with a sexy answering-service operator known only as "Sam", whose legs were seen but never her face.
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 The David Janssen Archive
Producer-actor Dick Powell, who'd originated the RICHARD DIAMOND role on radio, had decided not to do the TV series ("I can't hold my stomach in for 39 weeks") and that it was a job for a new guy.
The RICHARD DIAMOND team was struggling to cast the role.
Soliciting opinions from others, including his mother, Janssen took the DIAMOND offer, which he felt would prevent him from being type-cast as a cowboy, and allowed him to dress in the sharp modern dress clothing he was partial to.
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 Richard Diamond: Private Detective | Pluggd - Discover, Listen to, and Share Podcasts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Diamond is a happy-go-lucky detective who answers his telephone with atrocious commercial jingles and is a master of the verbal put-down (especially with police).
His relationship with frustrated Lt. Walt Levinson is abrasive but rooted in honest affection, and his special delight is ribbing the stupid desk sergeant, Otis, a stock character inserted strictly for laughs.
The opening each week sets up the problem and propells the sarcasm with the cops; the ending usually found Diamond in the Park Avenue penthouse of his girlfriend, the rich redhead Helen Asher.
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 Richard Diamond, Private Detective merrygo round murder on Odeo
Richard Diamond, Private Detective merrygo round murder on Odeo
Richard Diamond, Private Detective was a detective drama which was on radio from 1949 to 1953 and on television from 1957 to 1960.
Dick Powell starred in the Richard Diamond, Private Detective radio series as a rather light-hearted detective who often ended the episodes singing to his girlfriend, Helen.
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 Richard Diamond, Private Detective TV Show - Richard Diamond, Private Detective Television Show - TV.com
Richard Diamond, Private Detective, was originally a radio program from 1949 to 1952, created by famed writer/director Blake Edwards and starring Dick Powell, who was also the producer.
For the TV series, Diamond was changed from a former OSS operative to an ex-cop, which explained his easy access to information...
A man is concerned about his daughter, whom he feels has been spending too much time brooding over her husband's death.
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 Richard Diamond, Private Detective - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Virginia Gregg and Dick Powell during a rehearsal for Richard Diamond, Private Detective.
His secretary Sam was shown only from the waist down to display her beautiful legs.
At one point during the three-year run, the show's setting was moved from New York City to Los Angeles.
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 Private Detective - Moviefone
Snoops: The Private Eye in American Cinema The private detective first appeared in fiction as Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste...
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 Premier Collections: Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Richard Diamond bore a not-unintentional resemblance to another wisecracking detective of the airwaves, namely Sam Spade (as in “The Adventures of”).
Both shamuses - Powell as Diamond, Howard Duff as Spade - demonstrated a breezy insouciance that added a much-needed touch of levity to the type of detective show that was often in danger of sinking under the weight of its own clichés.
Diamond reserved his suffer-no-fools disdain for Sergeant Otis Ludlum, a cop who had such a force field of stupidity surrounding him that you just know he had to have a relative at City Hall looking after his job.
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Richard Diamond Private Detective was originally written by Blake Edwards and starred Dick Powell as the cool private eye on a radio show.
Diamond was an ex OSS officer, who later decides to become a private eye.
She lies to Diamond, but as he admits, he's a sucker for a damsel in distress.
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 Richard Diamond Pvt. Detective - 2 Episodes From 1950 - Boxcars711 OTR Day74 - podcast
Detective - 2 Episodes From 1950 - Boxcars711 OTR Day74 - podcast
Richard Diamond, Private Detective proved to be the perfect radio vehicle for actor-singer Dick Powell, combining his tough-guy image, showcased in the 1944 film ÃïïMurder, My SweetÃïï and the 1945-46 radio series ÃïïRogueÃïïs Gallery,Ãïï with his tremendous talent for a song, as all those 1930s Warner Brothers/Fox musicals will bear out.
The detective series, created by an aspiring screenwriter named Blake Edwards, featured a hard-boiled detective who rarely took himself too seriously; Edwards, the future director of the ÃïïPink PantherÃïï film series, conceived the Diamond character as an ex-cop who had decided to hang out his own shingle in the investigation business.
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 Richard Diamond, Private Detective (a Titles and Air Dates Guide)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Richard Diamond, Private Detective (a Titles and Air Dates Guide)
Richard Devon as Sgt. Alden [ 3-4 ]
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 Richard Diamond, Private Detective - The TV IV
Richard Diamond, Private Detective - The TV IV Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Richard Diamond, Private Detective is a crime drama that aired on CBS for three seasons and NBC for one season.
This page was last modified 05:23, 26 December 2006.
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 Richard Diamond
He then appeared in a string of crime and detective flicks, and eventually parlayed it into a successful radio show.
Powell played RICHARD DIAMOND, "radio's singing gumshoe", an ex-OSS man turned New York City private detective who was tough when he needed to be, but tried to have a little fun while on the job.
Moore in sitcoms such as The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Janssen in Roy Huggin's The Fugitive and as a private eye once more in Harry O. "The Pete Rugolo-scored episodes of television's Richard Diamond, Private Detective are particularly memorable.
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 Item #: 102583-01 - RICHARD DIAMOND, PRIVATE DETECTIVE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Series Synopsis: David Janssen plays former New York City cop-turned-private eye, Richard Diamond.
Diamond has turned in his badge and uses his background in police work to solve tough cases.
He relies on an anonymous woman named Sam to dispatch his messages from an answering service.
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 TV Treasures - Richard Dianmond, Private Detective
It was unclear whether Diamond ever saw her--whenever he'd try to make a date, she'd beg off.
The first season was set in New York, while the remaining episodes were set in Los Angeles, where Diamond got a new police contact (Pete).
This was a 30-minute show, which validates Roy Huggins' claim that 77 Sunset Strip was the first hourlong private eye series.
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 Richard Diamond, Private Detective: The Hide-Out - TV.com
Richard Diamond, Private Detective: The Hide-Out - TV.com
A nun asks Diamond to locate a missing young boy who is a member of a Dixieland band she has organized.
David Janssen (Richard Diamond), Barbara Bain (Karen Wells (1959))
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 TV ACRES: Telephones > Car Phone (Richard Diamond, Private Detective)
- The detective drama RICHARD DIAMOND, PRIVATE DETECTIVE/CBS/NBC/1957-60 was one of the first shows to feature a telephone in a car.
Richard Diamond (David Janssen) took his messages from a Hollywood answering service girl called "Sam," a faceless receptionist with a sultry voice and great pair of legs.
While Richard cruised the streets of Los Angeles, Sam often called Mr.
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 GRW SCRIPT: Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Now about a week ago, I got mixed-up in a case and before it was over, I took so many salt tablets, I am now the best-seasoned private detective in New York.
You're gonna give your butler the evening off and the Diamond Detective Agency is gonna march through your front door, single file, and show you a short cut to spin the bottle.
Diamond and I was afraid of the scandal.
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 Richard Diamond, Private Investigator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Dick Powell played Richard Diamond, "radio's singing gumshoe", an ex-OSS man turned New York City private detective who was tough when he needed to be, but tried to have a little fun while on the job.
He remained in New York for two seasons, but the third season began with Diamond moving to Los Angles where he gets a girlfriend, Karen (Barbara Bain), a spiffy car with a phone in it, and an answering service, run by Sam (played by Mary Tyler Moore's legs).
Janssen went on to star in Roy Huggin's The Fugitive and as a private eye once more in Harry O..
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 Richard Diamond, Private Detective   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
[aka: "Richard Diamond Theme"] [verified as first season, 1957 theme ONLY, in Pattillo book and in Jon Burlingame's "TV's Greatest Hits"] Composer: Frank Denny De Vol (ASCAP) Original Publishers: [unknown] 1997 Publisher: Don-Michael Inc. (BMI) [also still listed in ASCAP with no publisher.] Copyright Date: Recordings:
[aka: "Richard Diamond's Blues"] Composer: Pete Rugolo (ASCAP) Original Publishers: Jimmy McHugh Music, Inc. (ASCAP) 1997 Publisher: Jimmy McHugh Music, Inc. (ASCAP), of Beverly Hills, CA Copyright Date: Recordings: LP: "The Music from Richard Diamond" Mercury MG-36162/SR-80045 (1959) Pete Rugolo and his orchestra
[aka: "Richard Diamond"] [This was the theme on NBC, from 1959 - 1960, as verified in correspondence with the composer 5/12/82.
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 Richard Diamond Private Detective - Free Shows - Listen Now!
Richard Diamond Private Detective - Free Shows - Listen Now!
Richard Diamond, Private Detective was aired first on NBC then ABC and finally on CBS until the end from 1949 to 1953 running a total of 139 episodes.
To listen to some episodes of Richard Diamond, Private Detective for free, click any of the links below.
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 Richard Diamond, Private Eye
Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Richard Diamond, Private Eye to receive a rating.
David Janssen--who later found fame in the classic 1960s TV show THE FUGITIVE--stars as Richard Diamond, Private Eye, in these two episodes from the '50s detective series of the same name.
Critics found the big-screen adaptation of Dan Brown's phenomenally successful page-turner mostly inert, but their opinions had no effect on the rest of the movie-going public.
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 Generic Radio Workshop Series Listing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In addition to the script(s) listed below, a large collection of scanned scripts from "Richard Diamond" broadcasts from the early 1950s can be found through a search the RJ Reynolds area of the tobaccodocuments.org website.
Over 100 scanned "Richard Diamond" episodes are available for download there.
You may need to create a free account to download the PDF files.
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 "Richard Diamond, Private Detective" A Cup of Black Coffee (1958)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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