BOURBON STREET BEAT

'''Bourbon Street Beat''' was a private detective series which ran on the American Broadcasting Company from 1959 through 1960 and featured Andrew Duggan as Cal Calhoun, Richard Long as Rex Randolph, Van Williams as Kenny Madison, and Arlene Howell as Melody Lee Mercer (the secretary at the New Orleans detective agency in which they all worked).

Contents

Characters

Legacy

Cast

Episode list

External links

Characters

The series was one of several Warner Bros. detective shows which aired on ABC during this era, but ''Bourbon Street Beat'' was not as successful as the others (except as a title which sticks in everyone's mind). When the series ended, the character of Rex Randolph moved to ''77 Sunset Strip'', and the character of Kenny Madison moved to the spinoff ''Surfside 6'', which aired in the ''Bourbon Street Beat'' time slot the following season. Only Andrew Duggan's character, Cal Calhoun, immediately disappeared from the screen upon the show's cancellation, although viewers probably barely noticed, since the then-ubiquitous Duggan was constantly appearing on so many different TV series in other roles.

Legacy

Arlene Howell had appeared several times on 1957's western series ''Maverick'' and was a former Miss USA; she appears to have retired from the screen after a last appearance as an understandably astonished Sergeant Carter's blind date on ''Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.''. Richard Long went on to play the lead in the western series ''The Big Valley'' (1965-69) and the sitcom ''Nanny and the Professor'' (1970-71). Van Williams eventually played ''The Green Hornet'' (1966-67) opposite Bruce Lee. Andrew Duggan continued to portray an amazing number of character roles in films and television, including two other stints as series lead, taking over Cary Grant's movie role in the short-lived television version of ''Room for One More'' (1962), and as the sullen patriarch in ''Lancer'' (1968-70), a western in the vein of ''Bonanza'', albeit darker and more complex.

Cast

Andrew Duggan ... Cal Calhoun

Richard Long ... Rex Randolph

Van Williams ... Kenny Madison

Arlene Howell ... Melody Lee Mercer

Episode list

See List of Bourbon Street Beat episodes

External links

★ ''Bourbon Street Beat'' at Thrilling Detectives website

★ ''Bourbon Street Beat'' at the Internet Movie Database

★ Bourbon Street Beat at TV.com