There have been a series of phone booth bombings in the 87th, and one of the suspects does not take kindly to being accused so he starts in on his own bombing spree. While he's at it, he might as well use them to commit robbery as well.
Featuring regulars Robert Lansing as Steve Carella, Norman Fell as Meyer Meyer, Ron Harper as Bert Kling, and Gregory Walcott as Roger Havilland. Gilligan's Island star Dawn Wells makes an early career appearance.
Scripted by Jonathan Latimer (The Glass Key, The Big Clock, Whistling in Dixie, and 32 episodes of Perry Mason) and directed by Dick Moder (whose television work included 55 episodes of Lassie, 14 episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man, 10 episodes of Wagon Train, and two additional episodes of 87th Precinct. The 87th Precinct was the creation of writer Evan Hunter, under his "Ed McBain" pseudonym, in a series of more than fifty books published between 1956 and 2005. On television, it spawned the 1961-62 series and three television movies. and two of the novels were also adapted for episodes of Columbo. Nine of the books were made into theatrical films, including Akira Kutosawa's High and Low (Tengoku to Jikogu, 1963; based on King's Ransom). There has also been a comic book series, a Swedish graphic novel, an 87th Precinct Mystery Magazine, and an on-going (since 2016) podcast.
NOW IT'S APOLOGY TIME: The only copy of the show I could find online places the show against a very annoying background, as if the Youtuber who posted this was marking his or her territory. Sorry about that, but I think the show is worth the hassle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzDuj-T-S8g&t=49s
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