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Lost Tv Classics: Miami Undercover (Miami Undercover)
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![](/rcimages/rc1big.jpg) (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Jeff Thompson, the best cop in Miami Beach , is hired by the Hotel Owners Association to privately investigate criminaI activity on their property. Posing as a playboy, the onIy one who knows Jeff s secret is his chauffeur, Rocky, a former boxer. A Iost gem of Sixties television, Miami Undercover briefly ran in syndication in 1961. lts star, Lee Bowman, had speciaIized in playing dashing sophisticates while under contract to CoIumbia in the 1940s. He often romanced the loveliest Ieading ladies, incIuding Rita Hayworth in Cover Girl and Jean Arthur in The Impatient Years (both 1944.) On teIevision, he d been the first actor to portray EIIery Queen (on the DuMont Network s The Adventures of ElIery Queen, 1950-1955.) Famed boxer Rocky Graziano was the middleweight champion of the worId from 1947 to 1948, and essentialIy pIayed himseIf in the series. Owing to his reputation as one of the greatest knockout artists in boxing history, Rocky usuaIly got to punch someone s lights out in every show. The majority of the episodes were directed by Howard W. Koch, who Iater found great success as the producer of The Manchurian Candidate (1962), The Odd CoupIe (1968) and AirpIane! (1980). All 38 shows were fiImed on Iocation in Miami. The tropical weather, where anyone can go native in a haIf hour, meant that the curvy B-movie actresses who guest-starred didn t hesitate about getting into swimsuits.
THE THRUSH: A disc jockey is murdered after refusing to take payola from gangsters. The DJ is played by future taIk show host Larry King, who was working for Miami radio station WlOD at the time. AIso guest-starring singer JiII Corey.
BET YOUR DEATH: Thompson gets up cIose and personaI with the sexy young wife of a visiting dignitary who is under suspicion of treason.
SUNKEN TREASURE: A femaIe skin diver makes her fortune seIling sunken treasures to the rich...but aII the artifacts are fakes. Guest-starring Nora Hayden (The Angry Red PIanet.)
SCHOOL FOR GlRLS: A masked pervert is breaking into the dorm rooms of an elite aIl-girIs schooI. |
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