Man with a Camera
Man with a Camera is an American television crime drama starring Charles Bronson.
Man with a Camera | |
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Genre | Crime / Drama |
Written by | James Edmiston Paul David Wilton Schiller |
Directed by | Paul Landres Gerald Mayer |
Starring | Charles Bronson |
Theme music composer | Herschel Burke Gilbert |
Composer | Leon Klatzin |
Country of origin | USA |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 29 |
Production | |
Producers | Don W. Sharpe Warren Lewis For MWC Productions, Inc. |
Production locations | Hollywood, California at Desilu Studios, doubling for New York City |
Cinematography | Paul Ivano Robert B. Hauser Black-and-White |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | ABC |
Original release | October 10, 1958 – February 8, 1960 |
Throughout the 1950s, Bronson spent most of his early acting career performing in TV shows as well as small parts in films, until he landed the lead in this ABC series. This is the only series in which he played the lead role. After this show was cancelled he was usually cast either in supporting roles or as a guest star or recurring character in dozens of TV shows.
Plot
Bronson portrayed Mike Kovac, a former Korean war combat photographer freelancing in New York City who specialized in getting the photographs that other lensmen could not. He usually assists newspapers, insurance companies, the police and private individuals, all of whom want a filmed record of an event.
By often acting as a private eye, Kovac gets himself into plenty of trouble involving criminals of every kind, helping with cases the police could not handle.
Besides an array of cameras for normal use, for surreptitious work Kovac employs cameras hidden in a radio, cigarette lighter and even his necktie. He also has a phone in his car, and a portable darkroom in the trunk where he could develop his negatives on the spot.
Kovac's police liaison is Lieutenant Donovan (James Flavin), though he frequently seeks advice from Anton Kovac (Ludwig Stössel), his immigrant father.
Main cast
- Charles Bronson as Mike Kovac
- James Flavin as Lieutenant Donovan
- Ludwig Stössel as Anton Kovac
Selected guest stars
- Rachel Ames
- Roscoe Ates
- Phyllis Avery
- Arthur Batanides
- Steve Brodie
- Sebastian Cabot
- Anthony Caruso
- Booth Colman
- Russ Conway
- Yvonne Craig
- Norma Crane
- Audrey Dalton
- Angie Dickinson
- Dolores Donlon
- Don Durant
- Robert Ellenstein
- Bill Erwin
- Frank Faylen
- Virginia Field
- Don Gordon
- Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr.
- I. Stanford Jolley
- Berry Kroeger
- Tom Laughlin
- Ruta Lee
- Gavin MacLeod
- Howard McNear
- Jimmy Lydon
- Theodore Marcuse
- Walter Maslow
- Dennis Patrick
- John M. Pickard
- Phillip Pine
- Bert Remsen
- Lee Roberts
- Johnny Seven
- Doris Singleton
- Harry Dean Stanton
- Ludwig Stössel
- Lawrence Tierney
- Casey Walters
- Dick Wessel
- Jesse White
- Grant Williams
List of episodes
# | Title | Original Airdate |
01 | Second Avenue Assassin | October 10, 1958 [1] |
02 | The Warning | October 17, 1958 [2] |
03 | Profile of a Killer | October 17, 1958 |
04 | Turntable | November 7, 1958 |
05 | Closeup on Violence | November 14, 1958 [3] |
06 | Double Negative | November 21, 1958 [4] |
07 | Another Barrier | November 28, 1958 [5] |
08 | Blind Spot | December 5, 1958 [6] |
09 | Two Strings of Pearls | December 12, 1958 [7] |
10 | Six Faces of Satan | December 19, 1958 [8] |
11 | Lady on the Loose | December 26, 1958 [9] |
12 | The Last Portrait | January 2, 1959 [10] |
13 | The Face of Murder | January 9, 1959 |
14 | Mute Evidence | January 16, 1959 |
15 | The Big Squeeze | January 23, 1959 |
# | Title | Original Airdate |
16 | The Killer | October 19, 1959 |
17 | Eye Witness | October 26, 1959 |
18 | The Man Below | November 2, 1959 |
19 | Black Light | November 9, 1959 |
20 | The Positive Negative | November 16, 1959 |
21 | Missing | November 23, 1959 [11] |
22 | Live Target | December 7, 1959 |
23 | Girl on the Dark | December 14, 1959 |
24 | The Bride | December 21, 1959 |
25 | The Picture War | January 4, 1960 |
26 | Touch-Off | January 11, 1960 |
27 | Hot Ice Cream | January 25, 1960 |
28 | Fragment of a Murder | February 1, 1960 |
29 | Kangaroo Court | February 8, 1960 |
![]() Bronson as Mike Kovac. |
Production
Man with a Camera was filmed on locations in Hollywood (doubling for New York City) at Desilu Studios. The series had two abbreviated seasons in 1958-59 and 1959–60 and was aired on the ABC-TV network, Friday nights at 9:00 pm.
Home media
The entire run of the series' 29 episodes was released in 2007 by the Infinity Entertainment Group, in collaboration with the Falcon Picture Group and the UCLA Film & Television Archive, from which the source prints were obtained.
Alpha Video has released three individual volumes on DVD, each containing four episodes from the series.[12][13][14] A fourth volume was released on February 25, 2014.[15] On October 17, 2017, Mill Creek Entertainment released the complete series on DVD + Digital. [16]
Sources
References
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- "YouTube". Youtube.com. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- "Alpha Video - Man With a Camera, Volume 1". Retrieved 2014-01-30.
- "Alpha Video - Man With a Camera, Volume 2". Retrieved 2014-01-30.
- "Alpha Video - Man With a Camera, Volume 3". Retrieved 2014-01-30.
- "Alpha Video - Lawless Years, Volume 4". Retrieved 2014-01-30.
- "Mill Creek Entertainment: Man With A Camera - The Complete Series + Digital". Millcreekent.com. Retrieved 16 March 2019.