Graham,
Re your comments below:
> I can't wait until they do a "CSI:
Deadwood"
> episode.
Actually there have been at least three different westerns on
TV built around the then-new science of crime
detection.
The first was WHISPERING SMITH (little or nothing to do with
the Alan Ladd movie), a summer replacement series from the
early '60's with Audie Murphy as a detective on the police
force of frontier-era Denver, Colorado, who used new-fangled
criminalistics to solve his cases.
The second, HEC RAMSEY, was a Jack Webb show set in the late
1890's/early 1900's with Richard Boone as an old-time
frontier lawman who's simultaneously the most dangerous
gunfighter in the Oklahoma Territory and a self-taught
forensics expert. It ran for ten episodes over two seasons in
the early '70's as a spoke on the N.B.C. MYSTERY MOVIE
wheel.
Just last year, one of the cable networks (USA?) ran a
Colorado-set show called PEACEMAKERS about an old-time lawman
partnered with a former Scotland
Yarder-turned-Pinkerton-Agent-turned-Deputy-US-Marshal who
knows all the new forensics techniques. There's also a pretty
undertaker who acts as an unofficial forensics
pathologist.
JIM DOHERTY
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