The Plainclothesman was cancelled in 1954, with the last program airing on September 12.
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The Plainclothesman is an American crime drama series which was broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network.
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POV shots were used extensively by Alfred Hitchcock for various narrative effects. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), director Rouben Mamoulian uses a beginning point in view shot. The long running British sitcom Peep Show, is filmed entirely in point of view shots. The Plainclothesman, an early US television series, assumed the title character's POV.
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Everet A. West joined the Los Angeles Police Department as a patrolman in 1912. For seven years, he served as a traffic officer, plainclothesman and detective. After resigning and going into business, he returned to police work in 1924, joining the Compton, California, force. He became chief of the Compton Police Department and served that post until 1932.
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When the stout plainclothesman chases Vijay (in Narada costume), he rides someone's motorbike and escapes. Meanwhile, the villains, who have captured a scientist (KS Ashwath) in order to get the freezing camera invention from him, want ransom to free the scientist. Narada blesses Vijay and asks him to bring the culprits to justice and rescue the scientist. The film ends on a happy note.
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He is a plainclothesman, a homicide detective in the New York City Police Department 3,000 years in the future. He is a doleful character with a quick temper. Like Sherlock Holmes, he is a pipe-smoker – a habit he fights against in The Robots of Dawn. He has a strong sense of duty and loyalty and is very protective of his family and his status.
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The first meeting between Narada and Vijay occurs in a hotel room. Narada beats up Vijay, giving him a taste of his divine powers. They often interact after this incident, which leaves the stout plainclothesman even more confused. Vijay urges Narada to exchange their dresses and costumes; as a result of which Narada in Vijay's costume holds a briefcase and sunglasses like his tanpura and clickers; and Vijay has a cigarette in his mouth.
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Kenneth E. Lynch (July 15, 1910 – February 13, 1990) was an American radio, film, and television actor with more than 180 credits to his name. He was generally known for portraying law enforcement officers and detectives. He may have been best known for his starring role as "the Lieutenant" on Dumont detective series The Plainclothesman (49–1954), on which his face was never seen, and for his co-starring role as Sergeant Grover on McCloud.
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Elijah ("Lije") Baley is a plainclothesman, a homicide detective on the New York City police force. In The Caves of Steel, he is called upon to help solve the murder of a Spacer. The Spacers assign him a robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, with whom he becomes lifelong friends, appearing together in two more books (and a short story). Though like all other Earthlings strongly agoraphobic, he starts a "club" on Earth for people to go outside, preparing the way for a second wave of Earth's expansion, led by his son Bentley Baley.
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Sanford was born March 17, 1918. He served as a chief sonar soundman in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1945 during World War II. Sanford began his career, initially in radio and television, after leaving the U.S. Navy. He began writing for the radio series Martin Kane, Private Eye, during the early 1950s. Sanford segued to television in the 1950s, and his professional credits ultimately included episodes of The Plainclothesman, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Dr. Kildare, Letter to Loretta, Perry Mason, The Outer Limits, Blue Light, and The Silent Force, among others.
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When Narada walks through the exit gate of the airport, policemen, who think that he is Vijay (Anant Nag - a police officer in Narada's costumes) bring him to the police superintendent's office. The SP addresses him as Vijay, to which Narada politely says that he is not Vijay, but Narada, leaving all those present there, taken aback. Narada also gets to interact with an eccentric plainclothesman police officer (MP Shankar). The situation turns in such a way that the heroine (Vijay's love interest (Padmapriya)) also falls for Narada as he happens to walk past her house and she notices him.
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Later that year, Marriott reprised his role in The Respectful Prostitute at the Flatbush Theater in Brooklyn. Also in 1949, Marriott would appear on the new medium, television, when he appeared in an episode of The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse, titled "The Lonely", which originally aired on September 25. Over the next three years he would appear in several television productions, including the episode "The Twentieth Century" of The Ford Theatre Hour (1949), which starred Fredric March and Eli Wallach; a 1950 episode of The Web (1950), entitled "Stone Cold Dead", which starred John Carradine; and the episode titled "Key to the Death House" on the Dumont Network series, The Plainclothesman in January 1950.
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Lynch made his acting debut in 1940 on The Bishop and the Gargoyle radio series. He played the Gargoyle, replacing Milton Herman. From 1942 to 1946, he provided the voice of "Tank", the mechanic, who aides the title character in Hop Harrigan. In 1950, he starred in One Thousand Dollars Reward, a rare crime drama, where after the crime play had ended, the host would place a telephone call to a random listener, who would then try to solve the mystery. Lynch also appeared on the radio shows The Falcon, 21st Precinct, and Gunsmoke. Later, in 1952, he played both Christopher Gard and Steve Lacey in Cafe Istanbul on CBS radio. From 1949 to 1954, Lynch starred in The Plainclothesman on the DuMont Television Network.Terrace, Vincent (2011).
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Big Boy was still seeking revenge on the plainclothesman who sent him up the river, and he wanted to live just long enough to see Tracy's death. He put out an open contract on Tracy's head worth one million dollars, knowing that every small-time hood in the City would take a crack at the famous cop for that amount of money. One of the would-be collectors rigged Tracy's car to explode, but inadvertently killed Moon Maid instead of Tracy in the explosion. A funeral strip for Moon Maid explicitly stated that this officially severed all ties between Earth and the Moon in the strip,Dick Tracy, 13 August 1978. Strip reprinted in Dick Tracy – The Official Biography by Jay Maeder, 1990 (color plate #12).
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Him: A would-be playwright, referred to as "Mr. Anybody" and "Marquise de la Poussière" in 2.1; Him plays the Interlocutor in 2.9 Me: Him's lover; Me appears as the final 'freak' in the Freak Show of act 3, scene 6 simply as herself holding a baby The Doctor: A doctor; The Doctor plays the Third Middle-Aged Man (George) in 2.2, a Soap Box Orator in 2.3, an Intruder in 2.4, a Personage (John Rutter) in 2.5, a Plainclothesman in 2.6, the Questioning Passenger in 2.7, Mussolini in 2.8, the Gentleman in 2.9 and 3.3, and One Voice/Barker in 3.5 and 3.6. The Three Miss Weirds: Ms. Stop, Ms. Look, and Ms. Listen sit knitting in their rocking chairs with their backs facing the audience for most of the play. They are likely representative of the three fates.
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Ezzat Ebrahim-Nejad (also Ezzat Ebrahimnejad) was an Iranian student, poet and demonstrator who was shot and killed in the attack by security forces on Tehran University dormitory that preceded and provoked the July 1999 student riots in Iran. Several other students were beaten and injured in the attack and some police were later brought to trial, but no trial has been held for Ebrahim-Nejad's killer, who according to witnesses was a lebas-shakhsis, or plainclothesman, a "shorthand" term for "paramilitary forces in civilian clothes." Payvand's Iran News ...1/25/01 Majlis commission receives complaints on various cases Ebadi, Shirin, Iran Awakening, by Shirin Ebadi with Azadeh Moaveni, Random House New York, 2006, p.156, 158 According to Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi, it was Ebrahim-Nejad who was the owner of the blood-stained shirt held aloft by Ahmad Batebi in a celebrated photo which appeared on the cover of The Economist magazine in 1999.
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Notable debuts during the season included The Plainclothesman with its unusual camera work, the popular The Lone Ranger (which is one of the few 1940s television series to be given a DVD release), The Ed Wynn Show (a short-lived series featuring popular performers as guests and the first variety show from the West Coast), and the unsuccessful series The Life of Riley, one of the first sitcoms to be produced on film as opposed to live transmission. Continuing from the prior season were the highly popular variety series Toast of the Town, the critically well-received and popular anthology series Studio One, the critically panned but popular Captain Video and His Video Rangers which was one of the earliest sci-fi TV series, the well received by critics and viewers anthology series Kraft Television Theater, the popular Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and the popular in some regions drama/comedy The Goldbergs (which is also one of the few 1940s television series to be given a DVD release).
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