Mister District Attorney was a surprisingly successful multimedia franchise for years. This show didn't last very long, but between books, radio shows, comics and some magazine shorts the character was all over the place at one point. Have a very beat up copy of a 1950s comic in hand that I rescued from a Good Will bin. It's kind of adorably quaint.
Joe Besser! From Stinky to Stooge! Anybody who breaks big-time alongside Abbot & Costello, then joins the 3 Stooges is somebody worth watching - even if he only served as Third Stooge for 2 years! (And esp since he left the troupe to take care of his ailing wife.)
2:08--Joe Besser, just a few years before he replaced the departed Shemp Howard as the third of the "Three Stooges" at Columbia Pictures, alongside Larry and Moe.
You got that right ! These wonderful shows of the past are proof that a TV show didn't need to have profanity, vulgarity & sleazy sexual situations to be entertaining !
Dave Brian who played the DA had a co-starring role in an important and excellent 1950 film Intruder in the Dust based on William Faulkner's 1949 novel. See it for free on "ok.ru" complete 87 minute film, The witness Cogan was played by Joe Besser who played the child-like Stinky in Abbott and Costello's 1952 TV show and later played one of The Three Stooges from 1957-59
Yes indeed ! I always liked David Brian. Nice to see him play a good guy for a change ! He played a lot of villians & nogoodniks on TV & in films during his long career.
He looks like Stodge Joe , 54 just before shemp `s passing . The driver was Myron Heally driving a stock 54 Ford . Hopped up ? Human life wasn`t as cheap in 54 . Today the police wouldn't waste their time on this case .
I'm watching this right in the midst of a air-tight Presidential election an I couldn't help but notice the name of the apartment building at the 2:00 mark-"WITMER" The things you notice...