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| Cannon | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Action Crime Mystery Drama |
| Developed by | Edward Hume |
| Starring | William Conrad |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 122 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Quinn Martin |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | QM Productions CBS Productions |
| Distributor | Viacom Enterprises (1983-1985) CBS Television Distribution |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | September 14, 1971 – March 3, 1976 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Barnaby Jones |
Cannon is an American detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from 1971 to 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad.
Cannon is the first Quinn Martin series to be aired on a network other than ABC. A 'revival' television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1, 1980. In total, there were 122 episodes plus the series two-hour pilot and the television film, The Return of Frank Cannon. The plots in the episodes revolved around Cannon solving a crime. Cannon's clients in the series varied widely, and the variation in clients led to considerable variation in the formats of the episodes. In a number of early episodes Cannon is hired by an insurance company who wants him to investigate a loss. Other episodes involved Cannon being hired by a police detective, a former lover, by a parent concerned about a missing child, or by a child concerned about a parent. In some episodes Cannon is hired by someone being threatened. There are also episodes in which Cannon is forced to get involved in order to exonerate himself.[1]
- 1Cast
- 2Production
- 3Episodes
- 6In other media
Cast[edit]
Series star William Conrad was nominated for an Emmy Award in both 1973 and 1974 (Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series), but Richard Thomas won for The Waltons and in 1974 Telly Savalas won for Kojak.
Guest stars[edit]
In the first season, Martin Sheen appeared twice as ex-policeman Jerry Warton, but the character did not extend beyond the first year—in fact, in the third season, Sheen guest starred as a lawyer who murdered Cannon's client.
Other guest stars included: Willie Aames, Sharon Acker, Claude Akins, Lou Antonio, Anne Baxter, Alan Bergmann, Whitney Blake, Whit Bissell, Lloyd Bochner, Sorrell Booke, Antoinette Bower, Brooke Bundy, Ahna Capri, Cathy Lee Crosby, William Daniels, Burr DeBenning, Severn Darden, Micky Dolenz, Dennis Dugan, Andrew Duggan, Shelley Duvall, Dana Elcar, Jason Evers, Mike Farrell, Joan Fontaine, Bert Freed, Leif Garrett, Paul Michael Glaser, David Soul, Dabbs Greer, Clu Gulager, Peter Haskell, Mark Hamill, Robert Hays, David Hedison, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Kim Hunter, David Janssen, Claudia Jennings, L. Q. Jones, Kate Keenan, Dan Kemp, Tom Kennedy, Sondra Locke, Robert Loggia, Tina Louise, Barbara Luna, George Maharis, Robert Mandan, Nora Marlowe, Ralph Meeker, Vera Miles, Donna Mills, Leslie Nielsen, Nick Nolte, Sheree North, Lee Paul, Steve Pendleton, John M. Pickard, Stefanie Powers, Judson Pratt, Denver Pyle, Eldon Quick, Dack Rambo, Wayne Rogers, John Rubinstein, Roy Scheider, Tom Skerritt, Peter Strauss, Vic Tayback, Malachi Throne, Ronne Troup, Joan Van Ark, Vincent Van Patten, John Vernon, Jessica Walter, Jess Walton, Cindy Williams, William Windom, Dana Wynter, and Anthony Zerbe.
Production[edit]
Props[edit]
In an era before cell phone use, Cannon was using a 'mobile phone' in his car, which was very rare at the time. Cannon, would first ask the mobile operator to dial a call for him. Phones of this type were precursors to modern cell phones. The phone prop itself, in his car, was a Motorola brand MTS mobile phone.
Episodes[edit]
Episode list[edit]
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | Nielsen ratings[2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | Rank | Rating | Tied with | ||||
| Pilot | 1 | March 26, 1971 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| 1 | 24 | September 14, 1971 | March 14, 1972 | 28 | 19.8 | Room 222 | ||
| 2 | 24 | September 13, 1972 | March 21, 1973 | 14 | 22.4 | N/A | ||
| 3 | 25 | September 12, 1973 | March 20, 1974 | 9 | 23.1 | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | ||
| 4 | 24 | September 11, 1974 | April 2, 1975 | 20 | 21.6 | Mannix | ||
| 5 | 25 | September 10, 1975 | March 3, 1976 | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| TV-movie | 1 | November 1, 1980 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
Connections to Barnaby Jones[edit]
Frank Cannon met Barnaby Jones (Buddy Ebsen), an aging veteran private investigator who had retired and turned over his agency to his son, Hal, when Hal is killed. With the aid of Cannon and Hal's widow, Betty Jones (Lee Meriwether), he hunts down Hal's killer. Afterwards, Jones decides to come out of retirement. The premiere episode of Barnaby Jones, 'Requiem for a Son' was planned as a second-season Cannon episode, but when Barnaby Jones was sold as a separate series the script was reworked into the premiere of that series. William Conrad appeared as a special guest star.
There was a second 'crossover' between the series. The first part of the two-part episode, 'The Deadly Conspiracy', was aired as the second episode of the fifth season of Cannon on September 17, 1975; the second part aired two nights later as the fourth-season premiere of Barnaby Jones.
LGBT Characters[edit]
Notably, in its final season, Cannon featured LGBT characters in two episodes, 'Point after Death'[3] and 'Bloodlines'[4].
Home media[edit]
CBS DVD (distributed by Paramount) has released the first two seasons of Cannon on DVD in Region 1. Season 3 was released on January 10, 2013, via Amazon.com's CreateSpace program. This is a manufacture-on-demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Amazon.com.[5]
On May 4, 2015, it was announced that Visual Entertainment had acquired the rights to the series in Region 1.[6] They subsequently released Cannon - The Complete Collection on September 2, 2015.
On March 18, 2016, VEI re-released the first season on DVD and on April 1, 2016, they re-released the second season.[7]
In Region 4, Shock Entertainment has released the first two seasons on DVD in Australia.
| DVD name | Ep no. | Release date |
|---|---|---|
| Season 1, Volume 1 | 13 | July 8, 2008 |
| Season 1, Volume 2 | 13 | December 2, 2008 |
| Season 1 | 24 | March 18, 2016 |
| Season 2, Volume 1 | 12 | June 2, 2009 |
| Season 2, Volume 2 | 12 | February 16, 2010 |
| Season 2 | 24 | April 1, 2016 |
| Season 3 | 24 | January 10, 2013 |
| Season 4 | 24 | N/A |
| Season 5 | 25 | N/A |
| The Complete Series | 122 | September 2, 2015 |
Awards and nominations[edit]
Cannon received three Emmy Award nominations, for Outstanding Drama Series in 1973 and for William Conrad as Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1973 and 1974.[8]
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association nominated Cannon for three Golden Globe Awards, for Best Television Series - Drama in 1974 and for William Conrad in 1972 and 1973 as Best Actor in a Drama Television Series.[9]
In other media[edit]
Novels[edit]
A series of nine tie-in novels were published in the 1970s by Lancer/Magnum in the United States and Triphammer/Corgi in the United Kingdom.[10]
- Murder by Gemini by Richard Gallagher
- The Stewardess Strangler by Richard Gallagher
- The Golden Bullet by Paul Denver (pseudonym of Douglas Enefer)
- The Deadly Chance by Paul Denver
- I've Got You Covered by Paul Denver
- The Falling Blonde by Paul Denver
- It's Lonely on the Sidewalk by Paul Denver
- Farewell, Little Sister by Douglas Enefer
- Shoot-Out! by Douglas Enefer
Parodies[edit]
In an episode of his Thames Televisionseries, British comedian Benny Hill parodied 1970s American detective series. In the skit, Hill played several staple characters of the genre: Frank Cannon, Robert Ironside, Theo Kojak, Sam McCloud (ironically, all bar the latter were airing on BBC1 at the time rather than on Hill's home of ITV) and, although he was not a part of the genre, Agatha Christie's Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. Cast member Jenny Lee-Wright played the role of Pepper Anderson.
The comedian Franklyn Ajaye does a routine where he mentions that it takes Frank Cannon so long to get out of his car 2-3 times a show that there is hardly time for anything else.
In Mystery Science Theater 3000 Chinese movie 2018 youtube. , one of the more absurd inventions displayed by the Mad Scientists was a William Conrad Refrigerator Alert; it sounds off if William Conrad raids your refrigerator.
Impressionist Billy Howard included Cannon as one of the detectives parodied in his novelty hit record 'King of the Cops'.
References[edit]
- ^'Cannon (TV Series 1971-1976) - IMDb'. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
- ^Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle (2007). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present (Ninth Edition). Ballantine Books. p. 1686-1687. ISBN978-0-345-49773-4.
- ^https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0536015/?ref_=ttep_ep22
- ^https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0535969/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
- ^'Cannon DVD news: Street Date for Cannon - Season 3 - TVShowsOnDVD.com'. Archived from the original on March 31, 2016. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
- ^'Cannon DVD news: DVD Plans for Cannon - TVShowsOnDVD.com'. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
- ^'Cannon DVD news: Re-Release for Season 1 and Season 2 - TVShowsOnDVD.com'. Archived from the original on April 19, 2016. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
- ^'Nominations Search'. Television Academy. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
- ^'Cannon'. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
- ^'Cannon Novel Covers'. Not The Baseball Pitcher. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
External links[edit]
- Cannon on IMDb
- Cannon at TV.com