Banyon (1972)
Banyon (1972)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Robert Forster
Miles C. Banyon
Joan Blondell
Peggy Revere
Richard Jaeckel
Lt. Pete McNeil
Julie Gregg
Abby Graham
Quinn Martin
Producer
Jason Wingreen
Dr. Greenbaum
Darren McGavin
Lieutenant Pete Cordova
José Ferrer
Lee Jennings
Daniel Petrie
Director
Lawrence Dobkin
Director
Marvin J. Chomsky
Director
Ralph Senensky
Director
Arthur H. Nadel
Director
Reza Badiyi
Director
Richard Donner
Director
Ed Adamson
Writer
James D. Buchanan
Writer
William P. McGivern
Writer
Jack Cassidy
Grey Gloves
Sharon Farrell
Wanda
Fritz Weaver
Whitney Pemberton
Dabney Coleman
Ralph Hubbard
John Fiedler
Trumbull
Jenifer Shaw
Dolly James
Gabriel Dell
Sam Whitney
Char Fontane
Helena Baxter
Frank Aletter
John Garvey
Marlyn Mason
Maggie Starr
Joseph V. Perry
Sgt. Sonny Krantz
Peter White
Ross Vincent
Phillip Pine
Alex Maters
John Sylvester White
Carruthers
Florence Lake
Taffy
Donna Mills
Trina King
Anne Seymour
Consuelo
Estelle Winwood
Birdie Hope
Don Knight
Rick Madden
Louis Quinn
Ozzie Howard
John Saxon
Johnny Clay
George Murdock
Wayne Douglas
Virginia Ann Lee
Lottie
Arch Johnson
Boyle
Marian McCargo
Mrs. Sinclair
James B. Sikking
Andrews
Paul Sorensen
Big Al
E.J. Peaker
Tim O'Connor
Pat O’Brien
Allen Garfield
Diana Muldaur
Billy Green Bush
Charles McGraw
Karen Carlson
William Traylor
James McCallion
Robert Webber
Tom Bosley
John Williams
Jessica Walter
Gerald Hiken
Larry Gates
Shelly Novack
Joaquín Martínez
Director
Ed Flanders
Details.
This TV Show Is About.
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).