Banyon (1972)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This TV Show Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Robert Forster
Miles C. Banyon
Joan Blondell
Peggy Revere
Richard Jaeckel
Lt. Pete McNeil
Julie Gregg
Abby Graham
Quinn Martin
Producer
Ed Adamson
Writer
Joseph V. Perry
Sgt. Sonny Krantz / Sonny Kranz
Ted Hartley
Sonny Arnheim / Tim Egan
Jason Wingreen
Dr. Greenbaum
Florence Lake
Elderly Waitress / Taffy
Darren McGavin
Lieutenant Pete Cordova
Ralph Senensky
Director
Daniel Petrie
Director
Lawrence Dobkin
Director
Marvin J. Chomsky
Director
Arthur H. Nadel
Director
Richard Donner
Director
Reza Badiyi
Director
William P. McGivern
Writer
James D. Buchanan
Writer
Jack Cassidy
Grey Gloves
Sharon Farrell
Wanda
Fritz Weaver
Whitney Pemberton
John Fiedler
Trumbull
Jenifer Shaw
Dolly James
Gabriel Dell
Sam Whitney
Char Fontane
Helena Baxter
Frank Aletter
John Garvey
Marlyn Mason
Maggie Starr
Peter White
Ross Vincent
Phillip Pine
Alex Maters
John Sylvester White
Carruthers
Donna Mills
Trina King
Anne Seymour
Consuelo
Estelle Winwood
Birdie Hope
Don Knight
Rick Madden
Louis Quinn
Ozzie Howard
John Saxon
Johnny Clay
Ed Flanders
Gerald Hiken
Shelly Novack
Larry Gates
Don Chastain
Tom Bosley
John Williams
Jessica Walter
Joaquín Martínez
Director
Barbara Babcock
Norma Crane
Jack Klugman
Marian McCargo
Robert Webber
Allen Garfield
Billy Green Bush
Fred Sadoff
Rosemary Murphy
Darrell Larson
Michael Delano
Eileen Heckart
John Carter
E.J. Peaker
Meg Wyllie
Collin Wilcox Paxton
Janice Rule
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Wiki.
Banyon is a detective series broadcast in the United States by NBC as part of its 1972–73 television schedule, though a standalone two-hour television movie was broadcast first in March 1971. The series was a Quinn Martin Production (in association with Warner Bros. Television), the first-ever show Martin made for the NBC network, though he did not produce the pilot.
Banyon was a period drama set in the late 1930s in Los Angeles. It concerned the life of private investigator Miles C. Banyon (Robert Forster), a tough-but-honest detective who would accept essentially any case for US$20/day. Located in the same complex (the famed Bradbury Building) as Banyon's office was the secretarial school operated by Peggy Revere (Joan Blondell). By an agreement between Banyon and Revere, part of the training provided to these young women was a period serving as Banyon's secretary; this gave him the advantage of not having to provide a salary for a secretary but meant that he never had the same one long enough for her to become a truly knowledgeable or reliable assistant. Besides Revere, the other ongoing female character was Banyon's girlfriend, Abby Graham (Julie Gregg), a nightclub singer who was constantly trying to encourage him to "settle down" and marry her, but to no avail during the brief run of this series. Banyon's police acquaintance with the Los Angeles Police Department was the cynical Lieutenant Pete McNeil (Richard Jaeckel).
Banyon was unable to find an adequate audience and lost in the Nielsen ratings to ABC's Love, American Style and movies on CBS and was canceled midseason. Despite the show's short life, Quentin Tarantino liked Forster's performance as the title character so much that he hired him for the feature film Jackie Brown many years later.It is one of the few Quinn Martin shows not owned currently by Paramount Global; the series rights remain with Warner Bros. Discovery. It is also one of only two QM shows to bill a cast member above the title (the other is A Man Called Sloane, featuring Robert Conrad).