Name your 5 favorite Quinn Martin shows (1 Viewer)

[Neil Brock]

1. The Fugitive
2. The Streets of San Francisco
3. The Invaders
4. The New Breed
5. Most Wanted

 

[JohnHopper]

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TOP 5 QM SERIES

1. The Invaders
2. The Streets of San Francisco
3. The Fugitive
4. 12 O’Clock High
5. Dan August

 

[Jeff Flugel]

There are a few that I haven't seen, like The New Breed or The Manhunter, but here's my list as it stands now:

The Fugitive
The Invaders
Barnaby Jones
The Streets of San Francisco
Cannon

 

[JohnHopper]

There are a few that I haven't seen, like The New Breed or The Manhunter, but here's my list as it stands now:

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Agreed! I wish I could watch the entire run of The New Breed: QM's first series!​

 

[GMBurns]

Cannon
Fugitive
Invaders
12 o'clock High
The F.B.I.

And my favorite QM "send-up": Police Squad!

 

[JamesSmith]

Manhunter. I really want to see Manhunter.

--james

 

[BobO'Link]

The Invaders
The Untouchables
Barnaby Jones
The Fugitive
Streets of San Francisco

 

[JohnHopper]

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From five voters, two series come back:
The Fugitive
The Invaders​

 

[Dave Lawrence]

The Streets of San Francisco
Barnaby Jones
Dan August
The F.B.I.
Most Wanted

I really wish I could see The New Breed. From what I've read about it, I'm sure I'd enjoy it.

 

[ChrisALM]

The Fugitive
Cannon
The Invaders
Barnaby Jones
The Streets of San Fransisco

 

[Peter M Fitzgerald]

The Fugitive
The Invaders
12 O'Clock High
The Untouchables
The F.B.I.

 

[Ron Lee Green]

I can't name 5 but I do like Barnaby Jones, and The Fugitive enough to own them on DVD. I've seen some of the others, but they're not my "cup of tea."

 

[Wvtvguy]

Fugitive
Streets of San Francisco
The F.B.I.

I haven’t seen Cannon or Barnaby Jones since I was a child. Might have to pick them up.

 

[Purple Wig]

Invaders
Fugitive
Streets of San Francisco
Cannon
12 O’Clock High

New Breed and Manhunter might edge out 1 or 2 of the above if I’d managed to see more than a single episode of each.

 

[Neil Brock]

I really wish I could see The New Breed. From what I've read about it, I'm sure I'd enjoy it.

I've been watching some over the past few days. I'm sure you would enjoy it.

 

[Doug Wallen]

The Fugitive
The Invaders
Cannon
Dan August
Barnaby Jones/Banyon-I remember really enjoying this short series.

 

[Jeff Flugel]

Banyon's another one I'd love to see.

 

[Flashgear]

The Fugitive - for me, an easy top pick.
The Invaders - a natural for the top 5.
12 O'clock High - first season with Robert Lansing very good, select great episodes in 2nd and 3rd seasons also. But too often absurd depending on how much you know about the actual air war in the -50 degree stratosphere over North-West Europe.
The New Breed - watched it first run, but I have only seen 11 episodes in recent years, of the 36 in the series by way of collector 16 mm film prints. Quinn Martin got everything right with this LA cop show starring Leslie Nielsen and John Baradino, as every episode I have seen is first rate. Typical great guest stars as usual.
Cannon / Barnaby Jones - a tie, just call me a cheat, ha, ha.

The FBI and Streets of San Francisco gets honorable mention, too much fast company in the QM stable!

The New Breed (1961-62), a QM /Selmur co-production. Who owns it now? (perhaps 'Neil Brock' knows?) Some other Selmur shows like the immortal Combat! are now owned by CBS/Paramount via the Worldvision acquisition. But according to IMDB, this show was also distributed at one time by Buena Vista (Disney), although it hasn't aired since the mid '60s at the latest, the last time I saw it in Canada paired in an international syndication package with some other show(s) that I can't remember.

Also in the M.I.A. category of QM shows, I'd like: Banyon and Manhunter. I've only seen terrible quality multi-generational video dupes of both series' pilot telefilms...

I've asked Warner Archive on FB about Robert Forster's wonderful 1930's Hollywood set P.I. series Banyon (1972-73), with the usual pro-forma non-committal reply. Seeing as WAC owns it, there's a chance it might see the light of day on DVD. But just a slim chance.

The stylish gumshoe in his P.I.'s office in the splendiferous Bradbury building...

Ken Howard's adventure series Manhunter (1974-75), also set in the '30s as part of a nostalgia wave that included big theatrical hits like Chinatown and the Godfather films, would be welcomed as well. Owned by CBS? Stephanie Powers and Garry Lockwood guest starred in the pilot telefilm...

 

[JohnHopper]

The New Breed (1961-62), a QM /Selmur co-production. Who owns it now? Some other Selmur shows like the immortal Combat! are now owned by CBS/Paramount. But according to IMDB, this show was also distributed at one time by Buena Vista (Disney), although it hasn't aired since the mid '60s at the latest, the last time I saw it in Canada paired in international syndication with some other show(s) that I can't remember.

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I read that QM was so disappointed by the lack of success of his first series that might explain why it was not on re-run and it is difficult to see a commercial release.
Anyway, the series had some fine scores by Dominic Frontiere (see Stoney Burke, The Outer Limits, 12 O’Clock High, The Invaders).​

 

[Harry-N]

1. THE FUGITIVE

2. THE INVADERS

3. 12 O'CLOCK HIGH

4, BARNABY JONES

5. CANNON

Fifth place is hard as I don't really own any other Quinn Martin series beyond my top 4. I picked CANNON since I have a title screen in the BARNABY JONES set. But it could easily have been THE FBI or THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO. With CANNON, they both are series I fondly remember watching, but have never felt the need to own.