However, Sam Benedict, with Edmond O'Brien, met the same fate as Cain, cancelled after one season. Benedict, hewed closer to another CBS entry, The Defenders, however, given that Benedict (O'Brien) and his partner, Tobor (Richard Rust) were a team of lawyers.
Edit, 1/29/22: The video was deleted. In its place, we have a sampler clip:
WB released this series on DVD as a MOD (manufactured on demand) product, assuming this was not worthy of a mass market release. I have to disagree.
No rating. Just a public service.
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You left out one significant fact here:
Sam Benedict's Saturday night competition on CBS that season was Jackie Gleason's American Scene Magazine, which broke fast out of the gate and left not only Sam but Roy Rogers and Dale Evans on ABC well behind.
I have the DVD set, and learned something interesting: the pilot film was produced in color, while the rest of the series was in Black-&-White (why that happened, no one knows).
Had NBC run Sam Benedict in color full-time, it just might have made a slight difference in attracting viewers - after all, the previous season, NBC had Tales Of Wells Fargo which was in color ...
... but we'll never know, will we?
It's my understanding that, as part of some sort of experiment, NBC had one episode of Sam Benedict in color, likely the pilot you referenced, and did so with other series that season.
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