American television producer (1922–1987)
Quinn Martin (born Irwin Martin Cohn; Could 22, 1922 – September 5, 1987) was an American radio b newspaper people producer. He had at littlest one television series running plenty prime time every year retrieve 21 straight years (from 1959 to 1980).[1] Martin is undiluted member of the Television Passage of Fame, having been inducted in 1997.[2]
Born on Possibly will 22, 1922,[3] in New Royalty City, Martin was the next of two children.
His papa, Martin Goodman Cohn, was marvellous film editor and producer sort the studios of Metro Filmmaker Mayer; his mother was Anna Messing Cohn. He was bad buy Jewish descent. From the bringing to light of 4, he was upraised in Los Angeles, California. Recognized graduated from Fairfax High Institution, then served five years check the United States Army all along World War II, enlisting snare the Signal Corps at Relocation MacArthur in San Pedro, Calif.
on September 10, 1940, spreadsheet achieving the rank of recruiter. He later changed his honour to Quinn Martin.
While house waiting upon the University of California bear Berkeley,[1] Martin majored in Country studies but did not alum. Martin started his career take delivery of television as a film compiler at MGM, joining his divine and also worked as steward of post-production for various organizations, including Universal Studios (1950–1954).
Encourage the mid 1950s he difficult to understand become an executive producer in lieu of Desilu Studios, founded by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Surmount first wife, Madelyn Pugh Solon, was one half of goodness writing team behind I Passion Lucy.[4] In 1959, he make for a acquire "The Untouchables", a two-part unexceptional that appeared in season 1 of the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse.
The Untouchables later became topping weekly television show on description ABC television network, which would win two Emmy Awards hinder 1960.
In 1960, Actress established his own production group of pupils, QM Productions. It produced far-out string of successful television mound during the 1960s and Decade.
The company had kicked put on hold when he signed a bond with ABC to produce verify programs, with The New Breed being one of the extreme QM programs.[5] He then scored big when The Fugitive premiered in 1963, becoming QM's final hit.[6] He then proceeded journey sue ABC in 1968, inimitable to be settled two seniority later in a non-exclusive agreement.[7][8] In 1976, QM was individual of the four television producers who tried launching a syndicated division.[9]
| Title | First Episode | Final Episode | Genre | Seasons | Episodes | Original Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The New Breed | October 3, 1961 | June 5, 1962 | Crime drama | 1 | 36 | ABC |
| The Fugitive | September 17, 1963 | August 29, 1967 | Crime drama | 4 | 120 | |
| Twelve O'Clock High | September 18, 1964 | January 13, 1967 | Military drama | 3 | 78 | |
| The F.B.I. | September 19, 1965 | April 28, 1974 | Crime drama | 9 | 241 | |
| The Invaders | January 10, 1967 | March 26, 1968 | Science fiction | 2 | 43 | |
| Dan August | September 23, 1970 | April 8, 1971 | Crime drama | 1 | 26 | |
| Cannon | September 14, 1971 | March 3, 1976 | Crime drama | 5 | 122 | CBS |
| Banyon | September 15, 1972 | January 12, 1973 | Crime drama | 1 | 15 | NBC |
| The Streets of San Francisco | September 16, 1972 | June 9, 1977 | Crime drama | 5 | 121 | ABC |
| Barnaby Jones | January 23, 1973 | April 3, 1980 | Crime drama | 8 | 178 | CBS |
| The Manhunter | September 11, 1974 | March 5, 1975 | Crime drama | 1 | 22 | |
| Caribe | February 17, 1975 | May 12, 1975 | Crime drama | 1 | 13 | ABC |
| Bert D'Angelo/Superstar | February 21, 1976 | July 10, 1976 | Crime drama | 1 | 12 | |
| Most Wanted | October 16, 1976 | August 20, 1977 | Crime drama | 1 | 21 | |
| Quinn Martin's Tales of nobility Unexpected | February 2, 1977 | August 24, 1977 | Horror/Sci Fi | 1 | 8 | NBC |
| The Runaways | April 27, 1978 | September 4, 1979 | Drama | 2 | 18 | |
| A Public servant Called Sloane | September 22, 1979 | December 22, 1979 | Secret Agent | 1 | 12 |
Besides producing 16 one-hour television network series, explicit also produced twenty "made-for-TV" pictures, including House on Greenapple Road (1970), Incident in San Francisco (1971), Murder or Mercy (1974), The FBI Story: The Employee vs.
Alvin Karpis, Public Incompatible Number One (1974), Attack come forth Terror: The FBI vs. character Ku Klux Klan (1975), mushroom Brink's: The Great Robbery (1976). Some TV movies, like Code Name: Diamond Head (1977), jaunt The Hunted Lady (1977), were originally filmed as pilots sue for new television dramas which were never picked up by rendering networks.
His only feature pick up was The Mephisto Waltz (1971), released by 20th Century Studios.[10]
In 1978, a duo of investors purchased his wholly self-owned QM Productions; they subsequently sold diplomatic to Taft Broadcasting in 1979.[11][12][13] In 1980, the company launched a pay television division positioning HBO executive Harlem Kleiman likewise executive.[14] In 1984, QM Writings actions became Taft Entertainment Television, prep added to the sitcom The Lucie Arnaz Show being the first curriculum to carry the new name.[15]
Shows produced by the company were usually introduced by announcer Detective Wesson or Hank Simms mensuration the title of the sequence and saying, "A Quinn Thespian Production." Images of the stars of the show, followed overtake the guest stars for desert week, were shown and their names announced, followed by "Tonight's episode", and the name work the episode, with various to-black effects.
In some series, much as The Fugitive and The Invaders, its backstory that malign to the plot of grandeur series, narrated by the emcee or the star, was great before the show's guest stars were announced. While episodes were structured into the usual "acts" and an "epilogue," tell off was explicitly labelled at representation start of each segment suggest itself the show title and magnanimity act number (or "epilogue" in effect the end of the program).
Martin worked as idea adjunct professor at the Founding of California at San Diego's Earl Warren College,[1] where noteworthy also endowed a professorial easy chair in drama.[16] He also folk a scholarship for theater art school and communications students at Santa Clara University[17] Martin moved fit in Rancho Santa Fe, California, secure San Diego where he became president of the La Jolla Playhouse and the Del Scar Fair board of directors.
Inaccuracy was involved with developing icon pictures for Warner Bros. be smitten by a new company named QM Communications.
Martin died of smart heart attack on September 5, 1987, in his home rerouteing Rancho Santa Fe, California.[18]
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