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Hollywood Off Beat:
Steve Randall
Episode Guide - April 2007
(General Update)
compiled by
The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by:
John King, New York, Rina Fox
references:
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Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (http://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive
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HOLLYWOOD OFFBEAT - aka - Steve Randall
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Marion Parsonnet production
for
First Run Syndication (early 1952) (season 1) ?
DuMont network (07Nov52-30Jan53) (season 2)
CBS network (16Jun53 - 11Aug53) (season 3
Produced by Marion Parsonnet & Lester Lewis
US detective series 1952-53 14 episodes x 30 min bw
starring
Melvyn Douglas as Steve Randell
Premise:
Smooth disbarred lawyer Steve Randall takes up private detective work so that
he may be permitted to practice law again. He is finally reinstated as a
lawyer after 13 weeks of solving blackmail and murder.
Background:
Marion Parsonnet also produced the medical drama series "The Doctor"
(1952-53) starring Warner Anderson.
##### Hollywood Off Beat/ Steve Randall ######
################### 1952-53 ##################
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1.1 [--] Hollywood Offbeat: THE INHERITANCE (aka The Inheritors)
12Jun52 [JK]
Starring: Melvyn Douglas (as Steve Randall)
Synopsis:
A will written on a piece of a woman’s slip and a fortune in cash
lead to murder. [RF]
1.2 [--] Hollywood Offbeat: THE PERFECT ALIBI
19Jun52 [JK]
Starring: Melvyn Douglas (as Steve Randall)
Synopsis:
Randall investigates a jewel theft at a movie studio and suspects a
studio guards alibi doesn't check out. [RF]
1.3 [--] Hollywood Offbeat: OUT OF THE SHADOWS 6-26-52 [JK]
1.4 [--] Hollywood Offbeat: LOOPHOLE
03Jul52 [JK] (reaired 09Apr55)
Starring: Melvyn Douglas (as Steve Randall)
Synopsis:
Steve Randall finds a way to come to grips with a blackmailer whom no one
has ever seen. [RF]
1.5 [--] Hollywood Offbeat: CAT ON THE ROOF 7-10-52 [JK]
1.6 [--] Hollywood Offbeat: THE DUMMY 7-17-52 [JK]
1.7 [--] Hollywood Offbeat: THE QUESTION OF GUILT [PT. 1] 7-24-52 [JK]
1.8 [--] Hollywood Offbeat: THE QUESTION OF GUILT [PT. 2] 7-31-52 [JK]
1.9 [--] Hollywood Offbeat: THE QUIET LIONS
07Aug52 [JK]
Starring: Melvyn Douglas (as Steve Randall)
Guest cast:
Stephen Courtleigh
Muriel Hutchinson
Synopsis:
Randall helps a filmmaker out of a jam. [RF]
1.10 [--] Hollywood Offbeat: ANNIVERSARY GIFT
14Aug52 [JK] (reaired 16Sep54, 23Apr55)
Starring: Melvyn Douglas (as Steve Randall)
Synopsis 1:
A fourteen year old girl with trusting eyes shatters Steve Randall's
cynicism. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
Steve Randall doesn't trust anything or anybody, but a fourteen-year-old girl
with innocent, trusting eyes proves that he is wrong. [RF]
1.11 [--] Hollywood Offbeat: WALK A LONELY STREET
21Aug52 [JK]
Starring:
Melvyn Douglas (as Steve Randall)
Guest cast:
Anna Karen
Synopsis:
After a prostitute is found murdered, Randall suspects a rival. [RF]
1.12 [--] Hollywood Offbeat: UNLUCKY THREE
8-28-52 [JK]
1.13 [--] Hollywood Offbeat: THE TRIAL [UCLA]
[RF]
11-Sep-1952 Broadcast on DuMont [UCLA]
Executive Producer, Marion Parsonnet
Producer, Theodore Lewis
Directors, M. Milton Schwarz, Frederick Stephanie
writer, James P. Cavanaugh.
Editors, Frank W. Madden, Morrie Roisman; photography, J. Burgi Contner.
Starring:
Melvyn Douglas (as Steve Randall)
Guest Cast:
Olive Deering
Neil Fitzgerald
Steven Gethers
Melville Ruick
Harry Sheppard
Ed Peck.
***************** no synopsis available ******************
1.14 [--] Hollywood Offbeat: THE WITNESS
1952
starring Melvyn Douglas (as Steve Randall)
Synopsis:
Randall finds the man he is looking for dead, he searches the night club
underworld to find the killer. [RF]
##### Hollywood Off Beat/ Steve Randall ######
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