Agreed! I'm glad I found this series, it's well-written, nuanced and well-acted. The thought behind this one is very interesting: In defending a person's civil liberties, we defend the American ideal - so true!

Very sophisticated tv series. Too sophisticated for today 2021

A show like that would not be made today. An episode like that would not be made today.

It was right on it's time! I remember the turbulence of the early 60's and all the great music and drugs that came out of the late 60's and the Indy label sub cultures from 1975 until rock stopped being the music of a generation! Stopped watching commercial television in 2016! Got books, VHS, dvd's , you'd be surprised what the library has and a smart tv I CAN'T WAIT TILL THEY GET SANFORD AND SON COPIES IN SOON! funniest tv comedy ever! Librarian sez.. it's not in our system. I said WELL GET IT IN YOUR SYSTEM! WHY YOU THINK I COME IN THE LIBRARY EVERYDAY FOR? YOU KNOW I CAN'T READ!

Fritz appeared in two episodes of "THE DEFENDERS" (including one early in season one, "The Riot").

I know!!! Isn't it strange to see them after all these years.

And cigarettes.

Touché

I loved Coronet Blue. It was a Summer Replacement Series. Frank Converse was great in that.

Looks like all 13 episodes of "Coronet Blue" are available on KZfaq. I'm gonna check it out...

"CORONET BLUE" was originally produced for CBS' 1965-'66 season; James T. Aubrey, CBS' ruthless president (who ordered several series from Herb Brodkin), had an "iron-clad" contract for 13 episodes, and originally "pencilled it in" on Fridays at 10pm(et). After he finished his proposed schedule, he was fired from the network. His successor, John Schneider- and several CBS executives- altered that fall schedule, removing most of Aubrey's preferred choices- and managed to "postpone" the series until May 1967, when it was scheduled as a "summer series" on Mondays [10pm]. To the network's surprise, it started to build a following........but Frank Converse had already signed with ABC for "N.Y.P.D." that fall, and continuing the series was a moot point.

@@fromthesidelines Thanks for that inside scoop.

You're VERY welcome!

I love the specificity.

Exactly four months after the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I remember how the country was on tenterhooks back then. It was pretty courageous to have an episode about espionage that didn't paint the accused in an entirely black light.

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Viceroy and Kool were both products of Brown & Williamson.

Why? No worse than any commercials. They are all designed to encourage us to buy things, but we don’t have to, not now and not then. I guess I understand you to a certain extent, I feel similar when I see ads for alcoholic drinks.

We wouldn't have any TV shows to watch on "network" TV. Take out a loan to watch cable. Now, a message from our sponsors.

The commercial breaks then were exactly one minute long, unlike today, when the breaks today run as long as 6 minutes.

Oh, I don't know. I could use a Viceroy, a cup of Lipton and an Excedrin right about now.

@@stephendeluca4479 😄