Police Series - The year 1949 introduced the police detective to television. The ABC network aired STAND BY FOR CRIME beginning January 22 through August 27th. This thirty-minute murder mystery used a guest detective to solve the crime. In May of 1949 Myron Wallace (aka 60 MINUTES newsman Mike Wallace) appeared as Lieutenant Kidd, Chief of Homicide who used a series of flashbacks to explain the killers dirty deeds. The ABC network also aired PHOTOCRIME (a.k.a. "LOOK PHOTOCRIME") from September 21st through December 14th of 1949. The Wednesday-night half-hour crime drama followed Chuck Webster as Inspector Hannibal Cobb as he sought to solve mysteries of the murderous kind. The DUMONT Network debuted THE CHICAGOLAND MYSTERY PLAYERS on September 11th 1949 through July 23 1950. Broadcast live from Chicago, this police drama featured Gordon Urguhart as criminologist Jeffrey Hall and Bob Smith as Sergeant Holland. This program actually started two years earlier as a local series (and technically could be called the first police drama). Viewers of the program had to find out "Who done it?" by reading the solution to the murder in the next day's edition of the Chicago Tribune newspaper. The DUMONT Network also produced the half-hour police drama THE PLAINCLOTHESMAN which ran from October 12th 1949 through September 12th 1954 (their longest running show). The half-hour program starred Ken Lynch as The Lieutenant and Jack Orrison as Sergeant Brady. The series used the subjective view camera technique and thus The Lieutenant was never seen. See also  FACELESS FAVORITES.