Decoy (TV series)

Decoy
Beverly Garland as Officer Casey Jones in Decoy (1958)
Also known asDecoy Police Woman
GenreCrime drama
Written byJerome Coopersmith
Don Ettlinger
Steven Gardner
Abram S. Ginnes
Leon Tokatyan
Directed byDavid Alexander
Michael Gordon
Donald Medford
Stuart Rosenberg
Teddy Sills
Arthur H. Singer
StarringBeverly Garland
Music byWladimir Selinsky
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes39
Production
Executive producerEverett Rosenthal
ProducersDavid Alexander
Stuart Rosenberg
Arthur H. Singer
CinematographyMaurice Hartzband
Original release
NetworkSyndication
ReleaseOctober 14, 1957 (1957-10-14) –
July 7, 1958 (1958-07-07)
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Decoy (also titled Policewoman Decoy)[1] is an American crime drama television series created for syndication and initially broadcast from October 14, 1957, to July 7, 1958, with 39 black-and-white 30-minute episodes. The series was the first American police series with a female protagonist.[2] Many Decoy episodes are in the public domain.[3]

  1. ^ Erickson, Hal (1989). Syndicated Television: The First Forty Years, 1947-1987'. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 39. ISBN 0-7864-1198-8.
  2. ^ "My Three Sons stepmom dies". CBC News. December 7, 2008.
  3. ^ "Decoy", Festival Films