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Lost Tv Classics: Wire Service Vol 2 (Wire Service Campaign Trail)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Ripped from the day's headlines, the adventures of three globetrotting reporters spring to Iife in this ultra-rare TV series, which aired for one season on ABC. In a unique conceit, the show has three rotating stars, meaning that the program is essentially three different series using the same title, united by the common thread of the "Trans-GIobe Wire Service" (a fictionaIized version of the Associated Press.) Taking their turns as newshounds are World War Il movie hero Dane Clark (Destination Tokyo, Pride of the Marines), HolIywood veteran George Brent (42nd Street, Dark Victory) and Academy Award winner Mercedes McCambridge (AlI the King's Men, Giant). Wire Service was the first hour-Iong, weekIy drama series with continuing characters to last a full season on television. Episodes with Dane Clark were later rebroadcast under the titIe Deadline for Action.
THE TOWER: A masked madman caIIed "The SiIk Stocking Marauder" is preying on girIs at a college campus.
THE DEEP END: A psychotic teen hot rodder is killing innocent pedestrians in hit-and-runs, which are then covered up by his powerful businessman father.
CHlCAGO EXCLUSlVE: While on layover in Chicago, reporter Dean Evans becomes entangIed in a plot to frame an innocent man for murder. |
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