The Thin Blue Line (American TV series)

This article is about the American panel show. For the 1995 British sitcom, see The Thin Blue Line (British TV series). For other uses, see The Thin Blue Line (disambiguation).
The Thin Blue Line
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
Production
ProducerWilliam H. Parker
Running time30 minutes
Original release
NetworkKNBH
Release1 April (1952-04-01) –
1 September 1952 (1952-09-01)
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The Thin Blue Line is an American panel show that briefly aired weekly on Los Angeles NBC station KNBH in 1952.[1][2] The show, contemporarily described as "unabashedly propagandistic", was produced by the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, William H. Parker. It featured discussion between a moderator and a panel of experts (often including Parker, who also answered audience questions). Parker intended for the show to "accurate[ly]" inform the public about "police affairs" and to "instill greater [public] confidence" in the LAPD.[3][4]

  1. ^ Buntin, John (2009). L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City. New York: Harmony Books. ISBN 9780307352071. OCLC 431334523. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  2. ^ "Monday TV Logs, August 4" (PDF). TV-Radio Life. 25 (23). August 1, 1952.
  3. ^ Escobar, Edward J. (May 2003). "Bloody Christmas and the Irony of Police Professionalism: The Los Angeles Police Department, Mexican Americans, and Police Reform in the 1950s". Pacific Historical Review. 72 (2): 171–199. doi:10.1525/phr.2003.72.2.171. ISSN 0030-8684.
  4. ^ Domanick, Joe (1994). To Protect and To Serve: The LAPD's Century of War in the City of Dreams. New York: Pocket Books. ISBN 0671751115. OCLC 622813089.