@Arltratlo my granddaughter is 6 years old her brother is 8, for them to respond in that way is understandable. It's the ignorant adults who chafe me. Prof. Richard Hoffstetter of Columbia University wrote a book called Anti-intellectualism in America in which he pointed out that Americans take perverse pride in their ignorance.
I know the feeling James, when my daughter was in grade school and learning about our former Presidents, (back in the late 80's), she came home and asked me "Mom, when you were young and Lincoln was President ...." I didn't even hear the rest! 😆😂😂 btw ... born 1955.
If any of you youngsters have watched several of these episodes, you may wonder why the usual film noir ambience (sleazy bars and nightclubs, femme fatales, etc. is missing. That's because this was one of the first "hip" detective shows to appear on TV. The background (outside the police offices) is "hip" coffee shops with folk guitarists, beatniks, and well tailored suits with slim lapels and neatly-cut hair. It was the era of Peter Gunn. I was in high school in 1959, and my dad and I used to watch this show together. He could do a pretty good Lee Marvin; he even looked like Lee Marvin. Now I'm thirty years older than my dad was then. I sure do miss him. He was fun.
I wonder if you understood the words of the first song 2 beatnik folk guitarists were singing, maybe they didn't even know themselves, the words of the song are so laughable, it was a lullaby with that groovy twist!
Have you ever checked out the YT videos THEY ARE MARINES? They give a run down of all the famous actors, pro athletes and celebrities who served in the USMC! Example: Tyrone Power, Robert Ryan, Steve McQueen, Sterling Haden, Ed McMahon, Ted Williams, Jerry Coleman to name a few.
Last 10 years or so, hasn't it been a kick to see what we missed back then! I am waiting for T.H.E. Cat, that maybe I was the only one watching Robert Loggia back then, think it was a one-season non-wonder I didn't miss!
Spock goes berserk. And the voices of Lee and James are deep and enjoyable to listen to. I could see why those two were movie material. Thank you for this enjoyable show.
@@threetreasures7698Daddy-o,😆the 50's good times; & you're right all 3 were totally cool; especially James Coburn as super spy Derek Flint have a blessed day👍
And Georgine Darcy (Julie ; she made her screen debut as Miss Torso in Alfred Hitchcock's, "Rear Window" in 1954, at the age of 20) was 26. She also appeared in a single episode each of "Peter Gunn," "Mike Hammer, "Pete Kelly's Blues," and "Special Agent 7" in 1959.
Neither did i! Lol... idk why i always get Lee Marvin & James Coburn mixed up? This episode had them both & boy....was i confused the first 10 minutes! Lol. 😂
And they could play comedy also convincingly. There is a favorite lie from Cat Balloue. Once had a bad,very bad cold and the Dr. Upon seeing me said your eyes, they're so blood shot and I gave him Lee Marvis line. You should see them from my side. While I don't condone violence Robert Wilkes character got from Colberns character. Colberns portrayal made me believe he was GOOD with a knife. Really enjoyed this episode.
@@kathyraygoza3299Lee Marvin was a Marine Scout Sniper in WWII. He was in quite a few major assaults and was severely wounded in combat. I'm pretty sure Marvin knew how to stick a man with a knife.
Spock is way too emotional here. He needs to have his emotion chip removed. No wait, that was Data! Never mind... 😅 Well, as Spock would say, this footage is fascinating! Thanks for this upload!
I was born in 1956 on the Southside of Chicago. I love seeing the street scenes of the city I grew up in. Too bad it is not the same. Those lions in front of the Art Institute on Michigan Ave bring back memories of visiting with my mom, dad and aunts.
If that's the Chicago Art Institute (or "Institute of Art"?), one of its graduates became a Film professor at CU Boulder in the late Seventies. He was my professor for Spring semester 1979, for "Super-8 Film Production" (I took an A), and we watched him at the Oscars for his Short Subject Documentary: "Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey" 🎉🎉 he lost, to the excellent film documentary "The Gossamer Condor"... That Aranson film began in Chicago, at a Great Lakes Naval Station protest by Native American people who had been scammed off their Wisconsin lake land, by friends of real estate developers. 😮
My father worked for Courtesy Ford in Chicago. In an episode with Ross Martin, they used a 1958 Ford from the dealership with the dealer license plate DL 29.
Thanks for this. I never knew of this and I'm a big fan of the genre/mini-genre, 1950s/60s Chicago Major Crime Unit gritty police drama. I can see the influences from M Squad going into Michael Mann's work on later shows & films, Starsky & Hutch, Miami Vice, **Crime Story**, and Heat. I am so very much looking forward to the 'Heat' prequel/sequel in the works.
First up, good to see you posting again, TooleMan! And thanks for another M Squad. Man these are written so tight. Not an ounce of fat on them. This was really fun to watch. Coburn is just wound tight and controlled. He’s a mature actor, he’s already got the chops that make him so enjoyable in the Flint movies. Nimoy, wow, he seems so young, trying too hard to play the psycho. He’ll settle down in soon, his guest role on Roddenberry’s ‘The Lieutenant’ and later on MGM’s ‘Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ will show a more restrained, more ‘internal’ style leading to Star Trek. What a difference a ‘coffee shop’ is from ‘59 to ‘66! 🖖
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During the summer of 2010, MeTV ran back to back episodes of Dragnet, Highway Patrol, and M Squad every night. Because they were all cop shows, it was advertised as "Hardboiled Heat". As far as I know, this was the last time M Squad was shown on broadcast TV.
Chicago in winter in black and white. Tall, skinny guys with gravelly voices who never smile. Suits with narrow ties. Late 1950s American automobiles. No Miranda. No search warrants necessary. Folk guitars in a coffee shop. What more could anyone ask?
All classic actors that can do no wrong. Wow, the world as it was when I came into it; amazing I'm still alive. These actors/actresses had a lot of work in those days. Love the fast-paced storytelling that's necessary.
Wow! I thought I knew everything about my Chicago. I never heard about this AMAZING Chicago TV show. M Squad ! With Lee Marvin and Leonard Nimoy no less!
Was Nimoy in a western? I can't think of any. DeForrest Kelly was in at least one episode of Bonanza and also The Silent Service. Shatner played Alexander The Great in a made for tv movie but I can't think of any westerns he was in, though my knowledge is not extensive in that area. I guess I'll go look it up.
I took my own advice. Yes Nimoy was in a bunch of westerns. Doohan was in several. The only one that I saw Shatner listed in was The Big Valley. So you are correct.
Thank you for posting the entire episode! I'd seen a clip of Ballinger confronting the brothers. I wish there'd been more scenes of these three future legends together.
This episode of "M Squad" was relatively early in James Coburn's on-screen acting career. For the first several years, beginning in 1957, he made the rounds of the TV drama shows of all sorts (cop shows, Westerns, drama anthologies), with occasional appearances on the big screen in supporting roles, such as "Ride Lonesome" and "Face of a Fugitive" in 1959. Even after he played Britt in "The Magnificent Seven" in 1960, he continued to do a lot of television roles, including 10 episodes as Jeff Durain in "Klondike" in 1960-1961 (co-starring with Ralph Taeger, Mari Blanchard, and Joi Lansing) and 8 episodes as Gregg Miles in "Acapulco" in 1961 (co-starring with Ralph Taeger and Telly Savalas). Near the end of 1962, James Coburn played Corporal Frank Henshaw in the Paramount Pictures World War II film "Hell Is For Heroes," in good company with Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Harry Guardino, Fess Parker, Nick Adams, Bob Newhart, and Mike Kellin (directed by Don Siegel; screenplay by Robert Pirosh and Richard Carr) - and then, in 1963 and 1964, the focus of his acting career turned VERY primarily to movies (with the occasional foray into TV), as he appeared in leading roles in the ensemble movies "The Great Escape" and "Charade" and "The Americanization of Emily" and narrated "Kings of the Sun." (In 1963, he also played Boyd Palmer "The Man from Galveston," which was a made-for-TV pilot film for what would become the series "Temple Houston.")
Crazy fact: When Paramount was going to bring Star Trek to the big screen after Star Wars, the studio heads thought they needed "big names" for the leads Kirk & Spock. Coburn was considered to play Mr. Spock. And I believe Paramount wanted Redford for Kirk. Can you imagine how clueless the studio suits were? Not that they're expected to be fans back in the 70's. But honestly. The studio suits said after "Star Wars" - don't we have one of those "star" things we own?
TooleMan Tv, this was really cool to see. Thank you!. Lee Marvin with James Coburn and Leonard Nimoy together. Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner also guest starred in series "Man called U.N.C.L.E" with Robert Vaugn and David McCallum.
Great seeing Chi Town in the late 50s. I loved this show and when I moved from NY to West Chicago in the early sixties men were still suiting up and wearing hats. Things started changing fast after 1963.
Never saw this before until I came up with a few episodes on DVD. Lee Marvin as a Good Guy for a change. And Leonard Nemoy as a Baddie. This has an outstanding cast‼️
Gangster moll is what was termed “a dish” in hard-boiled detective plots. And covers the part nicely…thespian talents only too obvious. Kudos to casting director. And that soundtrack,…best of era.
This came out a year before I was born - and I'd never heard of M Squad before until now. This episode is really good!!! It's hard to connect Leonard Nimoy to his later character Spock on Star Trek. He projects a completely different person. I give this a double thumbs up.
Muchas gracias por compartir tan interesante episodio de una buena serie del recuerdo 😊. No conocía este episodio, juntos tres extraordinarios actores Marvin, Coburn y Nimoy.😊❤😊.
Lee Marvin was not in any episodes of "Perry Mason." James Coburn was in two episodes of "Perry Mason": as Donald Fletcher in "The Case of the Envious Editor" in early 1961 (Season 4, Episode 13) and as General Addison Brand in "The Case of the Angry Astronaut" in 1962 (Season 5, Episode 25). Leonard Nimoy was in only one episode of "Perry Mason": as Pete Chennery "The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe" in 1963 (Season 6, Episode 13; this was an adaptation of a 1938 Erle Stanley Gardner Perry Mason novel).
This truly is NIRVANA. My god some of the guest stars on this baby.....Wow -I was running out of Highway Patrol.....I cant believe this mate, I really cannot !!
Not exactly. Dragnet came first. Dragnet was on radio from 1949 to 1957. The television version ran from 1951 to 1959 and again from 1967 to 1970. Jack Webb starred in all of them. M Squad ran from 1957 to 1960 on television.
"Don't get cagey with me, honey, or I'll run you downtown and pull out your record." LOVE the Crime Jazz in this series, Stanley Wilson. Count Basie composed the knock out main theme.
I was 10 when this show was on. I remember though! Hy- Way Patrol, another oldie , had an episode showing Broderick Crawford ," smoking 'reefer' but really to bust the seller ! Long time ago but stuck with me!!😂😂
At 20:26, the address on the envelope (1121 South State Street) was the actual address of CPD headquarters at the time. A new headquarters opened at 3510 South Michigan Avenue in 2000. At 21:13, Ballinger's car passes clothier Maurice L. Rothschild & Company, whose store at 333 South State Street was not far from the fictional warehouse being torched. At 23:36, the fire department passes that same location.
Lee Marvin, James Coburn, AND Leonard NIMOY?
Fantastic!
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Yes it's like the holy trinity, but less frivolous :)
Never heard of M Squad. Came out before I was born. Good entertainment. Excellent cast !
YOU SAID IT!
LOL! So who was John Chisum? It could have been Lee or James LOL! Both baddasses!
I was born 1951,showed this to my grandkids heard one of them tell her brother, "I didn't know grandpa lived in such ancient times!" ANCIENT!
i got ask, why i didnt fought Hitler, because i am European....
i am born in the late 60s and German
@Arltratlo Will they ever understand?
I was born in '67, and trust me, kids would say the same for me!
@Arltratlo my granddaughter is 6 years old her brother is 8, for them to respond in that way is understandable. It's the ignorant adults who chafe me. Prof. Richard Hoffstetter of Columbia University wrote a book called Anti-intellectualism in America in which he pointed out that Americans take perverse pride in their ignorance.
I know the feeling James, when my daughter was in grade school and learning about our former Presidents, (back in the late 80's), she came home and asked me "Mom, when you were young and Lincoln was President ...." I didn't even hear the rest! 😆😂😂 btw ... born 1955.
If any of you youngsters have watched several of these episodes, you may wonder why the usual film noir ambience (sleazy bars and nightclubs, femme fatales, etc. is missing. That's because this was one of the first "hip" detective shows to appear on TV. The background (outside the police offices) is "hip" coffee shops with folk guitarists, beatniks, and well tailored suits with slim lapels and neatly-cut hair. It was the era of Peter Gunn. I was in high school in 1959, and my dad and I used to watch this show together. He could do a pretty good Lee Marvin; he even looked like Lee Marvin. Now I'm thirty years older than my dad was then. I sure do miss him. He was fun.
I wonder if you understood the words of the first song 2 beatnik folk guitarists were singing, maybe they didn't even know themselves, the words of the song are so laughable, it was a lullaby with that groovy twist!
@@luciollelsa I missed that. Gotta give it another look!
lol ok
Ahh the golden years of classic black and white television! I wouldn't trade those years for anything! Thank you Sir!
I was impressed by Bud and Travis, stars at the start of the folk music movement. And then the mellow jazz soundtrack. What a class production.
What . Not even for the ability to watch them any time any where and never miss an episode and never see it again ?
Wanted: Dead or Alive starring Steve McQueen.
Rawhide with Clint Eastwood.
That's were they started when they were young.
Me either
Lee Marvin. US Marine. Combat veteran. Real life tough guy and the best voice ever.
He was from Woodstock NY, right up the road from where I live.
Have you ever checked out the YT videos THEY ARE MARINES? They give a run down of all the famous actors, pro athletes and celebrities who served in the USMC! Example: Tyrone Power, Robert Ryan, Steve McQueen, Sterling Haden, Ed McMahon, Ted Williams, Jerry Coleman to name a few.
Lee was a tough guy on the outside and gruff... only to those that didn't know him. The "inside" was a warmer human being.
I'll remember Lee for ever because of Cat Ballou. He was also one of the best military actors❤️👏🏻👏🏻🙃
@@JROrg2009true! I'd heard that also!
I never saw or heard of this series before.I am over 70 years now.Great.
I'm only 64 but me neither.
Last 10 years or so, hasn't it been a kick to see what we missed back then! I am waiting for T.H.E. Cat, that maybe I was the only one watching Robert Loggia back then, think it was a one-season non-wonder I didn't miss!
@@Ddax-td7qy T.H.E. Cat! Mr. Loggia and those episodes were well-worth watching.
Thanks for the upload. Couldn't keep from smiling when the familiarity came in with Police Squad. I couldn't help but hear Leslie Nielsen's voice!
and the music
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You nailed the reference - even the opening music -
Donut Run!
Looks like Ben Blacker will have to be lighting fires up at Statesville Prison!
Lee Marvin! James Coburn! Leonard Nimoy! That's more star power than most feature films!
Spock goes berserk. And the voices of Lee and James are deep and enjoyable to listen to. I could see why those two were movie material. Thank you for this enjoyable show.
It wasn't Spock. Spock was just one of many roles Nimoy played. Plus, other actors have played that character.
@@andrewvelonis5940I thought I saw pointy ears
@@andrewvelonis5940Not as good as Nimoy. To quote The Highlander "there can be only 1."
I was 7 years old when this came out. James Coburn had that voice and charisma back then (Our Man Flint)! And Spock? WOW!!!!!
Loved Our Man Flint! What a stellar cast here!!!
Dang, Lee Marvin, James Coburn; & Leonard Nimoy now how cool is that!
The coolest, daddy-o! 😂. Seriously, though, I miss them all!
@@threetreasures7698Daddy-o,😆the 50's good times; & you're right all 3 were totally cool; especially James Coburn as super spy Derek Flint have a blessed day👍
Never cared much for them. Especially that Nimoy guy. But this was a pretty good show. I guess
Another good example of those high-quality half-hour TV dramas from the 50s-60s: a good story, good direction and not a minute wasted.
Young Leonard Nimoy playing a murderously evil heavy is strange - and fascinating.
Fascinating. Indeed. And highly illogical.
😮🎉Be sure to Watch Mr. Nimoy/Spock in Highway Patrol in the late 50's😊🚨📛💸🥇🐍🎥
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Nimoy played another bad guy on early wagon train.
Actually Leonard Nimoy almost always played the heavy before ending up on Star Trek.
JAMES COBURN AND LEE MARVIN?! Both powerful actors with baritone voices! Could pass as relatives! GREAT EPISODE
Yes. When I was a kid ( in the 60s ) I got the two of tjhem confused.
Leonard Nimoy was 28, James Coburn was 31, and Lee Marvin ws 35 here...
I am convinced that Lee Marvin looked like a scowling 55 year old man even as a baby!
So young.
booze and alcohol make you look older more quickly.
And Georgine Darcy (Julie ; she made her screen debut as Miss Torso in Alfred Hitchcock's, "Rear Window" in 1954, at the age of 20) was 26.
She also appeared in a single episode each of "Peter Gunn," "Mike Hammer, "Pete Kelly's Blues," and "Special Agent 7" in 1959.
There were never reruns of this when I was a kid...I had no idea that Police Squad was based on this!
Yeah, but they added some 70's Kojak vibe to it.
Even the same theme music.
same!!!
Neither did i! Lol...
idk why i always get Lee Marvin & James Coburn mixed up?
This episode had them both
& boy....was i confused the first 10 minutes! Lol. 😂
Never heard of this show before.
Three acting titans all in one place for one brief period of time. Pretty cool.
It’s great to get the chance to see this. What a cast! Thanks, ToolemanTV! ✌🏼
Timetravelling back to the 50’s, what a good trip. Thank you.
Lee Marvin and James Coburn achieving deep voice levels unheard of in this day and age of squeaky actors.
And they could play comedy also convincingly. There is a favorite lie from Cat Balloue. Once had a bad,very bad cold and the Dr. Upon seeing me said your eyes, they're so blood shot and I gave him Lee Marvis line. You should see them from my side. While I don't condone violence Robert Wilkes character got from Colberns character. Colberns portrayal made me believe he was GOOD with a knife. Really enjoyed this episode.
One of my favorite roles ever was Ben rumson in paint your wagon . I just love Lee Marvin's version of wandering star. @@kathyraygoza3299
Cigarettes likely. Everyone smoked back then.
@@kathyraygoza3299Lee Marvin was a Marine Scout Sniper in WWII. He was in quite a few major assaults and was severely wounded in combat. I'm pretty sure Marvin knew how to stick a man with a knife.
@@kathyraygoza3299Jamess Cobern was an Army Truck Driver in WWII. A good fellow but not likely to best Marvin in a knife fight.
Spock is way too emotional here. He needs to have his emotion chip removed.
No wait, that was Data! Never mind... 😅
Well, as Spock would say, this footage is fascinating! Thanks for this upload!
Three superstars in one M Squad episode!😮
Haven't smiled this much in a while!
Wow! What an ACTION packed episode staring 3 A-list actors. Well done and thanks for the memories...
I've been listening to old time radio detective shows and the algorithm brought me here.
Talent heavy cast and smooth jazz from Count Basie and his orchestra...ah, the good old days.
"Smooth jazz" is a contradiction in terms.
Hey! Spock and Derek Flint! What a combo!
Along with Vince Stone ("The Big Heat") and Miss Torso ("Rear Window"). GREAT combo!
This show is full of star power and it's very jazzy too, my father was a big fan of this and Lee Marvin.
This was excellent. Lee Marvin and James Coburn instinctively knew how to incorporate their body language into their performances.
twins
No wonder he was so good in the episode, “A Piece of the Action” I am digging the music
Music by the great Benny Carter (look him up)!
Spocko!
I was born in 1956 on the Southside of Chicago. I love seeing the street scenes of the city I grew up in. Too bad it is not the same.
Those lions in front of the Art Institute on Michigan Ave bring back memories of visiting with my mom, dad and aunts.
Nothing here has anything in common with modern Southside for sure. Two vastly different worlds.....
If that's the Chicago Art Institute (or "Institute of Art"?), one of its graduates became a Film professor at CU Boulder in the late Seventies. He was my professor for Spring semester 1979, for "Super-8 Film Production" (I took an A), and we watched him at the Oscars for his Short Subject Documentary:
"Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey" 🎉🎉 he lost, to the excellent film documentary "The Gossamer Condor"...
That Aranson film began in Chicago, at a Great Lakes Naval Station protest by Native American people who had been scammed off their Wisconsin lake land, by friends of real estate developers. 😮
@@XCambodianBuddha Cry
@@flutebasket4294 Not really.
Yes, so sad to see how Chicago has changed since then. A great part of America is gone forever.
It takes a really deep voice to make Leonard Nimoy sound like a soprano. Yet there are not one but two deeper baritones here than Mr. Spock.
My father worked for Courtesy Ford in Chicago. In an episode with Ross Martin, they used a 1958 Ford from the dealership with the dealer license plate DL 29.
That's really cool! Thanks for sharing.
Alright!
Jim Moran, your courtesy man. Do you remember that?
Stars that shone so bright that they can never be replaced.
This discovery is too joyfull 😍😍😁😁!
And Mr Spock is soo joyfull too !
Vote M - for M Squad !
Thanks for this. I never knew of this and I'm a big fan of the genre/mini-genre, 1950s/60s Chicago Major Crime Unit gritty police drama. I can see the influences from M Squad going into Michael Mann's work on later shows & films, Starsky & Hutch, Miami Vice, **Crime Story**, and Heat. I am so very much looking forward to the 'Heat' prequel/sequel in the works.
First up, good to see you posting again, TooleMan! And thanks for another M Squad. Man these are written so tight. Not an ounce of fat on them.
This was really fun to watch. Coburn is just wound tight and controlled. He’s a mature actor, he’s already got the chops that make him so enjoyable in the Flint movies. Nimoy, wow, he seems so young, trying too hard to play the psycho. He’ll settle down in soon, his guest role on Roddenberry’s ‘The Lieutenant’ and later on MGM’s ‘Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ will show a more restrained, more ‘internal’ style leading to Star Trek.
What a difference a ‘coffee shop’ is from ‘59 to ‘66!
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Great comment. Even brought in the Man from U.N.C.L.E. And the coffee shop! You know your stuff.
@@TooleManTVis that Voyage to the bottom of the sea?
During the summer of 2010, MeTV ran back to back episodes of Dragnet, Highway Patrol, and M Squad every night. Because they were all cop shows, it was advertised as "Hardboiled Heat". As far as I know, this was the last time M Squad was shown on broadcast TV.
Chicago in winter in black and white. Tall, skinny guys with gravelly voices who never smile. Suits with narrow ties. Late 1950s American automobiles. No Miranda. No search warrants necessary. Folk guitars in a coffee shop. What more could anyone ask?
How 'bout a great jazz soundtrack? Got that, too.
Everyone knows the Beats were a bunch of mugs and thugs...
Beatniks, the cool hippies.
All classic actors that can do no wrong. Wow, the world as it was when I came into it; amazing I'm still alive. These actors/actresses had a lot of work in those days. Love the fast-paced storytelling that's necessary.
Wow! I thought I knew everything about my Chicago. I never heard about this AMAZING Chicago TV show. M Squad ! With Lee Marvin and Leonard Nimoy no less!
Surly, this must be the inspiration for the 1982 "Police Squad" television series, starring Leslie Nielsen.
"Police Squad" was a great parody for early cop shows.
Same theme music at the very least.
Of course. Almost exact similarity in narrations, but you don't find a basket of laundry in the back seat of the car.
I thought the same, and don't call me Shirley ! 😂
So it took 23 years to parody n another 42 years to immortalize.
It is always cool to see stars before they were stars. So much ahead for the 3 men. Great careers.
Fascinating
Most of the Star Trek cast "cut their teeth" in westerns, the TV staple of the 50's.
Was Nimoy in a western? I can't think of any. DeForrest Kelly was in at least one episode of Bonanza and also The Silent Service. Shatner played Alexander The Great in a made for tv movie but I can't think of any westerns he was in, though my knowledge is not extensive in that area. I guess I'll go look it up.
I took my own advice. Yes Nimoy was in a bunch of westerns. Doohan was in several. The only one that I saw Shatner listed in was The Big Valley. So you are correct.
@@andrewvelonis5940 Nimoy was in at least 2 Gunsmoke episodes. One of which he was portraying a native American, and another where he was Mexican.
Nimoy played indian roles a few times. Shatner used to do a lot of early TV theater that was done live so there isn't any video of it.
Star Trek is just a western in space.
WoW!! I was pretty dang young, but I remember the into & exit music from this show, plus Lee Marvin narrating ... I was 4. 👧
Thank you for posting the entire episode! I'd seen a clip of Ballinger confronting the brothers. I wish there'd been more scenes of these three future legends together.
This episode of "M Squad" was relatively early in James Coburn's on-screen acting career. For the first several years, beginning in 1957, he made the rounds of the TV drama shows of all sorts (cop shows, Westerns, drama anthologies), with occasional appearances on the big screen in supporting roles, such as "Ride Lonesome" and "Face of a Fugitive" in 1959. Even after he played Britt in "The Magnificent Seven" in 1960, he continued to do a lot of television roles, including 10 episodes as Jeff Durain in "Klondike" in 1960-1961 (co-starring with Ralph Taeger, Mari Blanchard, and Joi Lansing) and 8 episodes as Gregg Miles in "Acapulco" in 1961 (co-starring with Ralph Taeger and Telly Savalas).
Near the end of 1962, James Coburn played Corporal Frank Henshaw in the Paramount Pictures World War II film "Hell Is For Heroes," in good company with Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Harry Guardino, Fess Parker, Nick Adams, Bob Newhart, and Mike Kellin (directed by Don Siegel; screenplay by Robert Pirosh and Richard Carr) - and then, in 1963 and 1964, the focus of his acting career turned VERY primarily to movies (with the occasional foray into TV), as he appeared in leading roles in the ensemble movies "The Great Escape" and "Charade" and "The Americanization of Emily" and narrated "Kings of the Sun." (In 1963, he also played Boyd Palmer "The Man from Galveston," which was a made-for-TV pilot film for what would become the series "Temple Houston.")
Spock could've killed it as The Joker had Batman been a series in this era :) Leonard is amazing
I wasn't even a thought in my parents' minds when this came out. Never knew it existed. Great post
Crazy fact: When Paramount was going to bring Star Trek to the big screen after Star Wars, the studio heads thought they needed "big names" for the leads Kirk & Spock. Coburn was considered to play Mr. Spock. And I believe Paramount wanted Redford for Kirk. Can you imagine how clueless the studio suits were? Not that they're expected to be fans back in the 70's. But honestly. The studio suits said after "Star Wars" - don't we have one of those "star" things we own?
TooleMan Tv, this was really cool to see. Thank you!. Lee Marvin with James Coburn and Leonard Nimoy together. Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner also guest starred in series "Man called U.N.C.L.E" with Robert Vaugn and David McCallum.
Damn...a 1960s STAR STUDDED cast!
Lee Marvin had huge screen presence. My brother and I used to walk around the house imitating him 🤣
I love it lol!!!
I used to always confuse Lee Marvin with James Colburn both amazing actors and humans
You and me both.😆They look, and act too much a like.
Nah! They don't look or sound alike!
Great seeing Chi Town in the late 50s. I loved this show and when I moved from NY to West Chicago in the early sixties men were still suiting up and wearing hats. Things started changing fast after 1963.
Never saw this before until I came up with a few episodes on DVD.
Lee Marvin as a Good Guy for a change. And Leonard Nemoy as a Baddie.
This has an outstanding cast‼️
This was a good show, good writing and acting! The duo of Bud and Travis were also good! Nothing second rate about this show!
Thank God the National Bureau of Fire Underwriters is on the job so honest people like us can sleep well at night!
This was such a great television show! Everything about it was first rate!
Gangster moll is what was termed “a dish” in hard-boiled detective plots. And covers the part nicely…thespian talents only too obvious. Kudos to casting director. And that soundtrack,…best of era.
Soundtrack by the great Benny Carter (look him up).
lee marvin....that voice gives me goose bumps!
I don’t understand how the tiny TV speakers of that time could handle Lee Marvin AND James Coburn!
It's cool seeing all three together 😊
This came out a year before I was born - and I'd never heard of M Squad before until now. This episode is really good!!! It's hard to connect Leonard Nimoy to his later character Spock on Star Trek. He projects a completely different person. I give this a double thumbs up.
I was 2 years old when this debuted. Can’t believe this is 65 years old.
A complete story, from beginning to end, in 25 minutes. A little rough, yes. But still... good stuff. Thanks for sharing TooleManTV.
Wow Flint and Mr. Spock with their forces combined you would have thought they were unstoppable!
I enjoyed that. Thank you very much for uploading 😀
I was a Chicago kid when this show aired. It's great seeing the city as it was then.
And starring Mr. Spock? I'm there!
And Derek Flint!
Tight plot, dialog, direction, music! So tight it squeaks. See also 1950s Mike Hammer w/Darren McGavin and Dick Powell Theatre.
I just started watching these. Really good stuff.
Loaded with ⭐s.
Have not seen these since I was a kid. Really enjoyed it. Thank you. LLAP
What a badass cast 😂
Enjoy these episodes very much. Thank you for sharing!
Just discovered this right now , proper chuffed!
Seeing Bud and Travis perform was really cool. They were a folk duo out of San Francisco.
What a great line-up of stars!!!
Thanks TooleMan!
This show is the blueprint for the "Police Squad" comedy series. Even the music is the same.
Never seen these before ............. superb picture and sound quality
Bud and Travis were a folk singing duo. Popular from 1958 / 65 . From San Francisco .
Muchas gracias por compartir tan interesante episodio de una buena serie del recuerdo 😊. No conocía este episodio, juntos tres extraordinarios actores Marvin, Coburn y Nimoy.😊❤😊.
I had never heard of this show just looked it up and it had 117 episodes, I am going to have to give this show a watch or try to.
Lee Marvin, James Coburn, Leonard Nimoy AND Count Basie. Hard to match. Also the director was the "spooky" Don Medford.
And the score was fantastic
I think they were also on various Perry Mason episodes!!
Lee Marvin was not in any episodes of "Perry Mason."
James Coburn was in two episodes of "Perry Mason": as Donald Fletcher in "The Case of the Envious Editor" in early 1961 (Season 4, Episode 13) and as General Addison Brand in "The Case of the Angry Astronaut" in 1962 (Season 5, Episode 25).
Leonard Nimoy was in only one episode of "Perry Mason": as Pete Chennery "The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe" in 1963 (Season 6, Episode 13; this was an adaptation of a 1938 Erle Stanley Gardner Perry Mason novel).
Thank you.
This truly is NIRVANA. My god some of the guest stars on this baby.....Wow -I was running out of Highway Patrol.....I cant believe this mate, I really cannot !!
The writing style was the original for police procedurals like Dragnet, Highway Patrol, Racket Squad.
Not exactly. Dragnet came first. Dragnet was on radio from 1949 to 1957. The television version ran from 1951 to 1959 and again from 1967 to 1970. Jack Webb starred in all of them. M Squad ran from 1957 to 1960 on television.
@@Mister_Pedantic Your comparing apples/radio to oranges/pictures AND AUDIO. PLENTY of crossovers But two different mediums.
All three of which series preceded "M Squad." (In fact, "Dragnet" got its start on radio before moving to TV in the early 1950s.)
"Don't get cagey with me, honey, or I'll run you downtown and pull out your record."
LOVE the Crime Jazz in this series, Stanley Wilson. Count Basie composed the knock out main theme.
Was he a dj🤔🤨❤️🙃
Fascinating that M Squad predated Peter Gunn by a year or more. Both had similar characteristics and both started their runs on NBC.
And M Squad finished there, while Peter Gunn ended on ABC.
I was 10 when this show was on. I remember though! Hy- Way Patrol, another oldie , had an episode showing Broderick Crawford ," smoking 'reefer' but really to bust the seller ! Long time ago but stuck with me!!😂😂
Heard a story about how Broderick Crawford was such lush who often got pulled over for DUI that the LAPD nicknamed him 502!
At 20:26, the address on the envelope (1121 South State Street) was the actual address of CPD headquarters at the time. A new headquarters opened at 3510 South Michigan Avenue in 2000.
At 21:13, Ballinger's car passes clothier Maurice L. Rothschild & Company, whose store at 333 South State Street was not far from the fictional warehouse being torched. At 23:36, the fire department passes that same location.
Wow, that's a sharp eye you have there!
Thanks!
Talk about an all star cast. Most movies never had it this good in the 50s.
good one -- they all were so young
And alive
Blast to see Nimoy pre-Trek. Nice acting.
Never thought I'd see Leonard Nimoy play a heel on a TV series. 😮