RICHARD DIAMOND, PRIVATE EYE: PICTURE OF FEAR/THE CHESS PLAYER [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1957
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
• Plot: David Janssen stars as the title character in Richard Diamond: Private Eye, the acclaimed mystery series from the 1950s that would set the standard for many of the TV detectives that were to follow. The series was created by movie star Dick Powell, the Hollywood song-and-dance man who turned to film noir, and who both produced and starred in the original radio drama. Decided he was too busy (and maybe too old) to play Diamond in the TV version, Powell cast an up-and-coming actor named David Meyer for the lead role. At Powell's suggestion, Meyer changed his name to Janssen. The ex-cop turned private detective Richard Diamond took on the tough cases, occasionally aided by his pal still on the , Lt. Dennis 'Mac' McGough (Regis Toomey).; ; Two seasons later, Diamond would move to Los Angeles and get a glamorous girlfriend and a leggy receptionist. But here for the first time on DVD are two episodes from the gritty first season with Diamond walking the mean streets of New York. In the 1960s, Janssen would star in the phenomenal television series The Fugitive and in the 1970s he would also return to the TV detective drama in the well-received Harry O.; ; Picture Of Fear (First Airdate 7-29-57); while vacationing in the mountains, Diamond helps a woman being chased by criminals who think that she took some incriminating photos.; ; The Chess Player (First Airdate 8-19-57); A woman hires Diamond to protect her husband, a businessman who doesn't take seriously threats made against his life. Diamond must act as bodyguard without the man knowing it.
• Cast: David Janssen; Roxane Brooks; Russ Conway; Regis Toomey; Mary Tyler Moore; Barbara Bain; Richard Devon; Peter Leeds; Bartlett Robinson; Lewis Charles; Bill Erwin; Patricia Donahue; Ross Elliott; Phyllis Avery; Michael Fox; Jonathan Hole; Peggy Maley; Robert Quarry; Richard Reeves; Joe Conley; William Schallert; Norman Alden; Christine White; Bethel Leslie; Jeanette Nolan; Christopher Dark; Grant Richards; Jack Elam; Ross Martin; Gordon Jones; Hillary Brooke; Charles Aidman; Lawrence Dobkin; Harry Harvey; Arthur Batanides; Stacy Harris; Nancy Valentine; DeForest Kelley; Nestor Paiva; Gail Kobe; Stephen Chase; John Hoyt; Chris Alcaide; Ellen Corby; Laurie Mitchell; Francis De Sales; Eleanor Audley; Adrienne Marden; Mario Siletti; Than Wyenn; Paul Bryar; Gloria Winters; Barbara Pepper; James Hong; Art Lewis; Jan Harrison; Leonard Bremen; Manning Ross; Sandy Kenyon; Peter Hansen; Herb Vigran; Frank Albertson; Ned Glass; Thomas Browne Henry; Sol Gorss; Alan Wells; John Eldredge; John Goddard; Troy Melton; Judith Braun; Vaughn Taylor; Julie Van Zandt; Barbara Baxley; Edward Binns; Jack Cassidy; Doris Dowling; Roscoe Karns; Nan Leslie; Keye Luke; Frances Mercer; Gloria Talbott; Luis Van Rooten; Fredd Wayne; Patricia Barry; Whitney Blake; Steve Brodie; Dick Foran; Barry Gordon; Roberta Haynes; Ruta Lee; Joyce Meadows; Geraldine Brooks; John Lupton; Edgar Barrier; James Best; Charles Bronson; Cheryl Callaway; Catherine McLeod; James Nolan; Claude Akins; Dan Barton; Don Beddoe; Chick Chandler; Marguerite Chapman; Barbara Eiler; Douglas Fowley; Harry Jackson; Lisa Lu; Jay Novello; Lee Van Cleef; Jean Willes; Harry Bellaver; Maxine Cooper; King Donovan; James Drury; Edmund Hashim; Nora Hayden; Marcia Henderson; Patricia Huston; Carole Mathews; Alan Reed; Jacqueline Scott; Abraham Sofaer; James Westerfield; Joanna Barnes; Judy Dan; Brad Dexter; Lili Kardell; Mary LaRoche; Marc Lawrence; Linda Lawson; Robert Lowery; Rita Moreno; Carol Ohmart; Narda Onyx; Virginia Vincent; Hugh Brooke; Tommy Cook; Nancy Marshall; Maura Murphy; George N. Neise; Addison Richards; Gloria Saunders; Jocelyn Brando; Robert Burton; Zachary Charles; Phyllis Coates; Ted de Corsia; Douglas Dick; James Flavin; Byron Foulger; Dorothy Green; Jack Lambert; Harry Lauter; Alexander Lockwood; Lester Matthews; Damian O'Flynn; Kasey Rogers; Merry Anders; Marian Collier; Lee Farr; Elisabeth Fraser; Dabbs Greer; Don Haggerty; Mary Alan Hokanson; Rodolfo Hoyos; Celia Lovsky; Jana Lund; Walter Sande; King Calder; Lilyan Chauvin; Jerome Cowan; Tommy Farrell; Howard McNear; Patricia Michon; June Vincent; John Beradino; Marga Ann Deighton; Nick Dennis; S. John Launer; Robert Nelson; Lugene Sanders; John Cliff; John Compton; Henry Corden; Craig Duncan; Tom Greenway; Jil Jarmyn; Weaver Levy; Joseph Mell; Marc Platt; Eddie Quillan; Robert Shayne; Steven Terrell; Mark Allen; John Anderson; Willis Bouchey; Jean Carson; Dolores Donlon; Chana Eden; Robert Ellenstein; Eric Feldary; Stacy Graham; Ed Kemmer; Berry Kroeger; Joi Lansing; Buddy Lewis; Phillip Pine; Carlos Romero; Hayden Rorke; Olan Soule; Joan Tabor; Philip Ahn; Joan Banks; James Coburn; Richard Crane; Allison Hayes; John Hubbard; Max Showalter; Jeffrey Stone; Lyle Talbot; Ivan Bonar; John Doucette; Bert Masters; Virginia Stefan; Kathleen Case; George Cisar; Robert Dix; Robert Foulk; Robert Gist; Milt Hamerman; Joe Haworth; Charles Horvath; Bobby Jordan; Bruce MacFarlane; Oliver McGowan; George Meader; Norma Moore; Hugh Sanders; Larry Thor; Victor Sen Yung; Jack Albertson; John Alvin; Harry Bartell; Russ Bender; Gregory Gaye; John Harmon; Irene Hervey; Bern Hoffman; Jonathan Kidd; Howard Ledig; Jon Lormer; Lou Nova; Arthur Peterson; Ruggero Romor; Jan Shepard; Sarita Vara; Dave Willock; Ben Wright; Rico Alaniz; Stephen Bekassy; Wally Brown; Rita Duncan; William Edmonson; Dusty Enders; Robert Karnes; Jack Kruschen; Guy Lee; Chris Warfield; Betty Harford; Eve Miller; Vic Perrin; Marvin Press; Dawn Richard; David Alpert; Al Avalon; Dan Blocker; Peter Chong; John Dennis; May Ediss; Kipp Hamilton; Lewis Martin; Vic Morrow; Zina Provendie; Mark Roberts; Sarah Selby; William Tannen; Garry Walberg; Katherine Warren; Peter Brocco; Corinne Calvet; Dennis Cross; Don Durant; Frank Ferguson; Billy Halop; Frances Morris; Robert Nichols; Janine Perreau; Mort Sahl; Sydney Smith; Janet Stewart; Barbara Stuart; Maureen Arthur; Robert Bice; Stafford Repp; Mickey Simpson; William F. Leicester; David McMahon; Anne Neyland; Bud Slater; Nick Adams; Jay Adler; Walter Barnes; Lane Bradford; Gail Ganley; Albie Gaye; Clegg Hoyt; Hugh Lawrence; Ken Mayer; Caroline Richter; Jack Shea; Chet Stratton; Lillian Adams; Joey Bishop; Patricia Blair; Gail Bonney; Paul Kent; Peter Mamakos; Joseph Ruskin; Jan Stine; Hal Baylor; Dennis Moore; George Barrows; Joyce Compton; Melinda Markey; Sean McClory; William Swan; Charles Victor; Richard Carlyle; Ingrid Goude; Virginia Gregg; Burt Nelson; Frank Gerstle; Charles Cirillo; Robert Brubaker; Robert Carson; Don Keefer; Osa Massen; Doris Singleton; Suzanne Alexander; Brook Byron; Joan Camden; Gordon Polk; Karen Sharpe; Michael Strong; Jesse White; Gil Perkins; John Mitchum; Louise Arthur; George Baxter; Giselle D'Arc; Madeleine Taylor Holmes; Claire Kelly; Junius Matthews; Benny Rubin; Mark Scott; Fred Sherman; Barbara Wilson; Laurie Anders; Baynes Barron; John Indrisano; Jess Kirkpatrick; Charles Lane; Harry Raven; Joan Sudlow; Bob Bass; John Craven; George Drake; Terry Frost; John Gallaudet; Renny McEvoy; Dallas Mitchell; Carol Morris; Burt Mustin; Jean Olsen; Ric Roman; Ronnie Rondell Jr.; Syd Saylor; Chuck Stanaker; Mark Tapscott; Jeanne Tatum; Cecil Weston; Thomas Carr; Don McDougall; Richard Whorf; Tom Gries; Leigh Jason; Oscar Rudolph; John Rich; John Peyser; Roy Del Ruth; Bernard L. Kowalski; Hollingsworth Morse; Ted Post; Joe Biroc; Stuart Rosenberg; James Sheldon; Lamont Johnson; Andrew McCullough; R.G. Springsteen; Arthur Hilton; Ed Adamson; Peter Barry; Charles Beaumont; Robert Blees; Don Brinkley; Richard Carr; David T. Chantler; Blake Edwards; Lee Erwin; Fred Freiberger; Ellis Kadison; Jack Kelsey; Nina Laemmle; Russ Leadabrand; Gene Lesser; Richard Levinson; Gene Levitt; William Link; Philip MacDonald; Ellis Marcus; Sidney Michaels; Edmund Morris; Donn Mullally; P.K. Palmer; John Robinson; Albert Ruben; Philip Saltzman; Herbert Abbott Spiro; William L. Stuart; John Tomerlin; Coles Trapnell; Barry Trivers; Daniel B. Ullman; Ed Waters; Elliot West; George Worthing Yates
• Director: Thomas Carr
• Runtime: 1:25
• Company: Passport Video
• Media Format: Series