Inspired and based on the real-life exploits of New York journalist Nicholas Gage, Jerome Coopersmith's The Andros Targets hit the airwaves on CBS in the spring of 1977. Unfortunately, the series lasted just the one season.
Why? Seems one episode struck too close to the ministry of Rev. Sun Yung Moon and his Unification Church, which filed a lawsuit, claiming defamation.
Neither Coopersmith nor series star James Sutorious hit it big again after Targets signed off, but CBS didn't give up on the idea of a drama set at a newspaper. That fall, the final spin-off from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant, was plugged into Targets' time slot on Mondays, and, with a built-in audience, managed to last longer.
Here's an intro, courtesy of The Rap Sheet:
The above apparently was taken from a Spanish language channel.
There's also a promo clip on YouTube, with announcer Bill Woodson (ex-The Invaders, The Odd Couple), who'd soon move into cartoons.
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