Season 1 • Episode 13
LatestA man believed dead asks an insurance company to change his beneficiary. “Investigators” locks the door with an appropriately titled yarn, “The Dead End Man.” Henry Jones plays a man who gives up his hum-drum life of commuting on the 7:10 train and becomes a Bowery bum. His wife hunts him down when she gets word that he has changed beneficiaries on his insurance. Pat Carroll as Blossom is one of his six new beneficiaries.
The Investigators is a short-lived American adventure/drama television series that aired on CBS from October 5, to December 28, 1961.
Production
Glorious early '60s Manhattan location shooting
Costume
Slim suits and cocktail dresses that scream period
Acting
James Franciscus's pre-Naked City intensity
Creator
Michael Garrison
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Creator Michael Garrison later produced The Wild Wild West, recycling his love of anachronistic cool here first.
This aired opposite Bonanza—literally NBC's biggest show ever—explaining why you've never heard of it.
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