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The Garlund Touch
(early episodes aired as "Mr. Garlund" )
Episode Guide - July 2005
compiled by
The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by:
Rina Fox
references:
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Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
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UCLA Film and Television Archive
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THE GARLUND TOUCH
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Girard-Lewis Productions, Inc.
Paramount Pictures Corporation
for
CBS (Fridays 9:30pm ET)
Produced by Bernard Girard
US light-hearted Mystery/ Adventure series 1960-61 ? episodes x 30 min bw
(07Oct60-13Jan61)

Starring
Charles Quinlivan as Frank Garlund
Philip Ahn as Po Chang
Kam Tong as Kam Chang

Premise:
An apparently orphaned boy is taken in and raised by a Chinese
gentleman named Po Chang. The boy, named Frank Garlund, and whose
ancestry remains a mystery, becomes, by age thirty, a financial
wizard, a youthful tycoon, who is also a key figure in worldwide
business affairs
In flashback sequences, events in the lives of the people who
had come into contact with Garlund in his struggle to reach the
top are dramatized.

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CBS (Fridays 9:30pm ET)
Originally titled "Mr. Garlund" -
From Nov 1960 the title was changed to "The Garlund Touch"

[01] Mr. Garlund: IMPERIAL JADE (pilot episode)
7Oct60

[02] Mr. Garlund: The Towers
14Oct60

[03] The Assassin
21Oct60

[04] The Garlund Touch: The Hunted
11Nov60

[05] The Garlund Touch: The Awakening
18Nov60

[06] The Garlund Touch: Survival in the desert
2Dec60

[07] The Garlund Touch: Imperial Jade (same title as pilot ?)
9Dec60

[08] The Garlund Touch: Unexpected Father
16Dec60

1.09 The Garlund Touch: DOUBLE, DOUBLE
23Dec60 CBS Fri
Guest cast:
William Campbell .......... Rick Mason
John Kellogg .......... Tanner
Mark Tapscott ......... Conrad
Jeanne Vaughn .......... Linda Rogers
Synopsis:
Garlund starts another day in San Francisco. His routine's shattered when he starts
getting phone calls and cables which imply he's busily at work in Honolulu. [RF]

[10] The Garlund Touch: Death of a thousand cuts
30Dec60

[11] The Garlund Touch: Rachel
6Jan61

[12] The Garlund Touch: The Wayward House
13Jan61

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