Second generation producer Hal Roach, Jr. was pretty active in the 50's. While we must assume he had something to do with his father's Our Gang & Laurel & Hardy shorts going into syndication, the younger Roach did pretty well for himself in television.
One of young Roach's most famous series was Racket Squad, which started as a syndicated series in 1950, then was picked up by CBS the next year, and would remain on the network until 1953. Reed Hadley starred as San Francisco detective John Braddock, head of the title division of the city's police department, which dealt with con artists of various stripes.
Let's take a look at the 1952 episode, "Check & Double Check".
After the series ended, Hadley would do another series for Roach & CBS, The Public Defender, in 1954. Racket Squad is available on DVD through any number of public domain distributors.
Rating: A.
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