''O'Hara, U.S. Treasury'' (on-screen title is ''O'Hara, United States Treasury'') was an American television
crime drama
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combin ...
starring
David Janssen
David Janssen (born David Harold Meyer) (March 27, 1931February 13, 1980) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Richard Kimble in the television series '' The Fugitive'' (1963–1967). Janssen also ...
and broadcast by
CBS
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during the
1971-72 television season.
Jack Webb's
Mark VII Limited
Mark VII Limited was the production company of actor and filmmaker Jack Webb, and was active from 1951 to his death in 1982. Many of its series were produced in association with Universal Television; most of them aired on the NBC television netwo ...
packaged the program for
Universal Television
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. Webb and longtime colleague James E. Moser created the show; Leonard B. Kaufman was the producer. The series was produced with the full approval and cooperation of the
United States Department of the Treasury
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.
Synopsis
''O'Hara, U.S. Treasury'' starred Janssen (whose company co-produced the show with Mark VII) as the title character, Treasury Agent Jim O'Hara. A county sheriff from
Nebraska
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whose wife and child died in a fire, O'Hara cut all ties with his past life. He put in an application with the United States Department of the Treasury, which accepted him.
As a "T-Man," O'Hara was available to any of the various
law enforcement
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Rule or ruling may refer to:
Education ...
agencies then part of the Department, all of which cooperated in this positive portrayal of their various organizations, much in the manner of the
Los Angeles Police Department
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with Webb's ''
Dragnet'' and ''
Adam-12.'' These included the
Secret Service
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, the
Intelligence Unit of the
Internal Revenue Service, the then-
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of IRS, and the then-
Customs Bureau.
O'Hara sometimes worked undercover. Janssen was the series' only regular, as he was given a different assignment at the start of each weekly
episode
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The noun ''episode'' is derived from the Greek term ''epeisodion'' (), meaning th ...
.
Guest stars in the series' brief run included:
Bruce Bennett
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,
Godfrey Cambridge
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,
Paul Comi
Paul Domingo Comi (February 11, 1932 – August 26, 2016) was an American film and television actor.
Biography
Paul Comi was born 1932 in Brookline, Massachusetts. Comi grew up in North Quincy, Massachusetts and joined the United States Army a ...
,
William Conrad,
Yvonne Craig
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,
Gary Crosby,
Will Geer
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,
Frank Gorshin,
Alan Hale, Jr.,
Martha Hyer
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,
Marilyn Maxwell
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,
Ricardo Montalban
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*Ricardo de Araújo Pereira, Portugu ...
,
Judy Pace
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,
Leslie Parrish,
Larry Pennell
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,
Brock Peters
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,
Charles Knox Robinson
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,
Marion Ross
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,
Don Stroud
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,
George Takei
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,
Jessica Tandy
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,
Angel Tompkins,
Lindsay Wagner
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,
Betty White
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,
Joseph Wiseman
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,
Lana Wood
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, and
Dana Wynter
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.
''O'Hara'' marked the first Mark VII show to run a full hour in length; all of Webb's previous efforts (excepting the TV-movie pilot for ''Dragnet 1967'') ran in half-hour episodes. It was also one of the few he did not package for
NBC
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. The show failed to compete in the
Nielsen ratings against
ABC
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's ''
The Partridge Family
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'' and ''
Room 222
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'' and ended after one season, ranking 48th out of 78 shows with an average 17.1 rating. Reruns were later shown on the
A&E Network in the 1990s and on
Retro Television Network
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in the 2000s.
[http://www. myretrotv.com/shows.html]
Episodes
Award nomination
References
* Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, ''
''
External links
*
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