The Walter Winchell File

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1957•30m

The Walter Winchell File is the title of a television crime drama series that initially aired from 1957 to 1958, dramatizing cases from the New York City Police Department that were covered in the New York Daily Mirror. The series featured columnist and announcer Walter Winchell, John Larch, George Cisar, Robert Anderson, Robert Brubaker, Dolores Donlon, and Gene Barry, a year before he was cast in the lead of NBC's Bat Masterson. Thirty-nine episodes were produced; the first twenty-six aired on ABC during the 1957-1958 season, and the final thirteen were seen in syndication in 1959. Among the guest stars was the child actor Dennis Holmes, who played 7-year-old Allie Marisch in the 1957 episode "Thou Shalt Not Kill."

Seasons

26 Episodes • Premiered 1957

1. Country Boy

2. Thou Shalt Not Kill

3. A Day in the Sun

4. Where is Louise Melk?

5. The Boy from Mason City

There's no place like home---sometimes. A young woman (Maureen Leeds) is held hostage in her apartment by a hunted killer. Tom: Manning Ross. Keeley: Alan Dexter. Jablonski: Barron Hall. Shaw: Brad Trumbull. Walter Winchell is host.