Lock-Up (TV series)

Lock-Up
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Genre	Crime drama
Directed by	Walter Doniger Fred Hamilton Jack Herzberg Henry S. Kesler Otto Lang
Starring	Macdonald Carey John Doucette
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	78
Production
Executive producer(s)	Frederick W. Ziv
Producer(s)	Jack Herzberg Henry S. Kesler
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Ziv Television Programs United Artists Television
Distributor	MGM Television Peter Rodgers Organization
Release
Original network	Syndication
Picture format	Black-and-white
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	September 26, 1959 – June 17, 1961

Lock-Up is an American crime drama series that premiered in syndication in September 1959 and concluded in June 1961. The half-hour episodes had little time for character development or subplots and presented a compact story without embellishment.

Series overview

The program stars Macdonald Carey as real-life Philadelphia corporate attorney Herbert L. Maris and John Doucette as police detective Lieutenant Jim Weston.

Each episode began with the following introduction: "These stories are based on the files and case histories of Herbert L. Maris, prominent attorney, who has devoted his life to saving the innocent."

The foundation of each episode is the cornerstone of English and American jurisprudence: a person charged with a crime is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The series featured stories persons who were unjustly accused, usually due to circumstantial evidence. The program's primary theme is that when individuals are charged with a crime not all is as it first appears and a thorough investigation is duly warranted in order to uncover vital facts pertinent to the case.

Herbert L. Maris had an uncanny sense about the honest, innocent persons who had been falsely accused. He was an attorney who spent his spare time helping defendants unjustly charged by the State. The stories do not involve federal crimes.

Guest stars

Among the many guest stars on the show were:

Jack Cassidy Robert Conrad Dyan Cannon Paul Carr John Carradine Jean Carson Andy Clyde Ellen Corby Walter Coy Angie Dickinson James Drury Buddy Ebsen Ross Elliott Joe Flynn James Griffith

Neil Hamilton Wanda Hendrix Douglas Kennedy Brett King Robert Knapp Ted Knight Gavin MacLeod Tyler McVey Mary Tyler Moore Leonard Nimoy Harry Dean Stanton Lyle Talbot Carol Thurston Helen Walker

Production notes

Ziv Television Programs, Inc., of Cincinnati, Ohio, a producer and distributor of forty television shows during the 1950s including Highway Patrol, Sea Hunt, Science Fiction Theatre, and subsequently, ZIV-United Artists produced the television series. Later, Showcase Media of Studio City, CA distributed the series.

External links

• Lock-Up at the Internet Movie Database
• Lock-Up at TV.com
• Lock-Up sample episode ("Compulsion Killer") on YouTube (Original Air Date: December 24, 1960)