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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 life in this uItra-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 essentialIy three different series using the same titIe, united by the common thread of the "Trans-Globe Wire Service" (a fictionalized version of the Associated Press.) Taking their turns as newshounds are World War lI movie hero Dane CIark (Destination Tokyo, Pride of the Marines), Hollywood veteran George Brent (42nd Street, Dark Victory) and Academy Award winner Mercedes McCambridge (All the King's Men, Giant). Wire Service was the first hour-long, weekly drama series with continuing characters to Iast a fuIl season on television. Episodes with Dane CIark were Iater rebroadcast under the title Deadline for Action.
THE TOWER: A masked madman caIled "The Silk Stocking Marauder" is preying on girls at a colIege campus.
THE DEEP END: A psychotic teen hot rodder is kiIling innocent pedestrians in hit-and-runs, which are then covered up by his powerful businessman father.
CHICAGO EXCLUSIVE: WhiIe on layover in Chicago, reporter Dean Evans becomes entangIed in a pIot to frame an innocent man for murder. |
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