This Man Dawson

This Man Dawson
Genre	Crime drama
Written by	Gene Levitt
Directed by	Leon Benson
Starring	Keith Andes William Conrad (narrator)
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	33
Production
Producer(s)	William Conrad Elliott Lewis
Running time	30 mins. (approx)
Release
Original network	Syndicated
Picture format	Black-and-white
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	1959 – 1960
External links
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This Man Dawson is a syndicated drama television series starring Keith Andes as a former United States Marine Corps colonel hired to clean up police corruption in an undisclosed American city. The thirty-three episodes, in which Andes portrayed Chief Frank Dawson, aired during the 1959-1960 television season. The series was partly inspired by Andes’ Universal Studios film Damn Citizen (1958), in which he played crusading Louisiana State Police Superintendent Francis C. Grevemberg.

The program narrator is the late William Conrad, formerly the voice on the radio version of Gunsmoke and later the star of CBS' Cannon detective series. The black and white half-hour series was filmed by Ziv, later part of MGM Television.

Notable guest stars

• John Archer in the episode "The Assassin"
• Walter Burke as "Jumpy" Higgins in "Plague"
• Paul Fix as Al Daniels and Joi Lansing as Carol Dawn in "Accessory to Murder"
• Clegg Hoyt in "Fight Game"
• Tyler MacDuff as Ira Burns in "Get Dawson"
• Judson Pratt in "The Hard Way"
• Michael Raffetto appeared in "Three X" and "The Deadly Young Man"