FRANK
GREGORSKY INK
Serving History and Communicators Since 2004
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1. Don't waste time and talent by writing the wrong book —
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2. An ORAL History of YOUR FAMILY saves
what Facebook can't — http://www.exactingeditor.com/Family-Recordings.html
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5. Three Decades of (Republican)
Congressional History
The Original Project Clinton and Gingrich The 2016 Book
6. Detective Drama History — 54 "Gem"
episodes scroll below,
and you can download the March 2025 issue of GEMS using
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It's
no-charge, and still arresting!
The Web publication DETECTIVE DRAMA GEMS zeroes in on
Episodes
with outstanding scripts, solid characters, and believable sequences. A wealth
of "evidence" is offered, sparking interest among media historians, restless
writers, and rigorous editors. To do what? Learn how to better carry their
audience through a complex set of events and choices.
To access each set of Gems — every issue doing a DEEP dive into THREE episodes — use www.ExactingEditor.com/the-Gems-Catalog.htm. Or, keep
scrolling, to skim all of the episodes covered during the publication's first
half-decade...
Detective Drama Gems
Each purple link opens
up the issue containing that episode and
the next two...
Gem #1 — "Fog Over Murder" — October 13, 1953
From BARRIE CRAIG, CONFIDENTIAL INVESTIGATOR
Gem #2 — "Percentage" — February 20, 1973
From the original HAWAII FIVE-O (CBS-TV, 1968 to '80)
Gem #3 — "Dead Or Alive" — October 21, 1976
From THE STREETS OF SAN
FRANCISCO (ABC-TV, 1972-77)
Gem #4 — "The Lorcoe Diamonds Matter" — from
YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR (CBS Radio,
November 1955)
Gem #5 — "Flight 307" — March 29, 1963
From 77 SUNSET STRIP (ABC-TV, 1958 to '64)
Gem #6 — "Blind Mirror" — January 24,
1970
From MANNIX
(CBS-TV, 1967 to '75)
Gem #7 — "The Case of the Calculated Risk" — from
THE
NEW ADVENTURES OF NERO WOLFE (January 19, 1951)
Gem #8 — "The Guru" — December 31, 1968
From THE MOD SQUAD (ABC-TV, 1968 to '73)
Gem #9 — "Snake Eyes" — February 4, 1977
From QUINCY, MEDICAL EXAMINER (NBC-TV, 1976 to '83)
Gem #10 — "Molly Keller" — July 17, 1950
From NIGHT BEAT
(NBC Radio, 1950 to '52)
Gem #11 — "With Intent to Kill" — January
23, 1971
From MANNIX
(CBS-TV, 1967 to '75)
Gem #12 — "Bought
and Paid For" — November 29, 1985
From MIAMI VICE (NBC-TV, 1984 to '90)
Gem #13 — "Let's Pretend We're Strangers" — May 19, 1977
From THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO (ABC-TV)
Gem #14 — "The Fifth Stair" — March 6, 1959
From 77 SUNSET STRIP (ABC-TV, 1958 to '64)
Gem #15 — "The One With the Gun" — January 28, 1970
From HAWAII FIVE-O (CBS-TV, 1968 to '80)
Gem #16 — A Pair of Episodes from Late 1983 and
Season #4 of HILL STREET BLUES (NBC-TV, 1981 to
'87)
Gem #17 — "Solomon" — February 11, 1960
From JOHNNY STACCATO (NBC, then ABC, 1959-60)
Gem #18 — "Girl in the Case" — April 30, 1962
From 87th PRECINCT
(NBC-TV, 1961-62)
Gem #19 — "The Perfect Image" — November 7, 1969
From THE NAME OF THE GAME (NBC-TV, 1968 to '71)
Gem #20 — "The Dion Hartley Murder Case"
From BROADWAY IS MY BEAT: February 17, 1950 (CBS
Radio)
Gem #21 — "The Violence of Summer" — February 5, 1991
From LAW & ORDER (NBC-TV, 1990 to 2010 and
Since 2022)
Gem #22 — "The Velvet Stakeout" — March 8, 1960
From M SQUAD (NBC-TV, 1957 to '60)
Gem #23 — "Blood and Honor" — December 5, 1985
From MAGNUM, P.I. (CBS-TV, 1980 to '88)
Gem #24 — “The Case of the Tell-Tale Ribbon” — from
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF NERO WOLFE (March 30, 1951)
Gem #25 — "How to Dial a Murder" — April 15, 1978
From COLUMBO (NBC-TV, 1971 to '78)
Gem #26 — "The Harold Clark Murder Case"
— from
BROADWAY IS MY BEAT: October 27, 1950 (CBS Radio)
Gem #27 — "Who Killed My Girl?" — April 17, 1964
From BURKE'S LAW (ABC-TV, 1963 to '65)
Gem #28 — "The Broken Badge" (video) — September 26, 1966
From THE
FELONY SQUAD (ABC-TV, 1966 to '69)
Gem #29 — "Escapade with Paula" — January 9, 1949
From ROCKY JORDAN (CBS Radio, 1948 to '51)
Gem #30 — "Shield of Honor" — November 15, 1973
From THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO (ABC, 1972 to '77)
Gem #31 — "The Cost of Doing Business" (video) — November 5, 1987
From NIGHT HEAT (CTV & CBS, 1985 to '89)
Gem #32 — "The Arnold Bennett Arson
Fraud" (audio)
February 20-24, 1956 (CBS Radio, 1949 to '62)
From YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR
Gem #33 — "The Greenhouse Jungle" — October 15, 1972
From COLUMBO (NBC-TV, 1971 to '78)
Gem #34 — "The Platinum Highway" — October 13, 1961
From TARGET: THE CORRUPTORS (ABC-TV, 1961-62)
Gem #35 — "Prescription: Murder" (the COLUMBO
Pilot)
February 20, 1968 — an NBC "Made for TV"
Movie
Gem #36 — "Honor is an Unmarked Grave"
November 21, 1975 — from the original HAWAII FIVE-O
(CBS)
Gem #37 — "The Serpent's Tooth" — March 19,
1991
From LAW & ORDER (NBC-TV, 1990 to 2010 and Since '22)
Gem #38 — "The Seaside Sabbatical"
(audio)
— July 7, 1951
From THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE (CBS Radio)
Gem #39 — "The
Friendly Gesture" — April 16, 1961
From THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (ABC-TV,
April-September 1961)
Gem #40 — "Point Of Law" — March 7, 1976
From McMILLAN & WIFE (NBC-TV, 1971 to '76)
Part One and Part Two (videos) ... Wow! Still
working as of June 2025
Gem #41 — "Meeting on Tenth Street" (audio) — February 25, 1948
From THE WHISTLER (CBS Radio: Pacific, 1942 to
‘55)
Gem #42 — "Target in
the Mirror" — October 3, 1973
From CANNON (CBS-TV, 1971 to '76)
Gem #43 — "My Love But Lightly" — January 31, 1962
From
HAWAIIAN
EYE (ABC-TV, 1959 to '63)
Gem #44 — "The Paul Thomas Murder Case" (audio) — July
28, 1949
From BROADWAY IS MY BEAT (CBS Radio, 1949 to
'55)
Gem #45 — "Beware of
the Watchdog" — March 5, 1971
From THE NAME OF THE GAME (NBC-TV, 1968 to '71)
Gem
#46 — "Ancient Madness" (video)
— May 9, 1985
From NIGHT HEAT (CBS and CTV, 1985 to '89)
Gem #47 — "The
Kidnapping" — June 11, 1961
From THE ASPHALT
JUNGLE (ABC-TV, April-September 1961)
Gem #48 — "Genesis
of Treason" — April 29, 1960
From 77 SUNSET STRIP (ABC-TV, 1958 to '64)
Gem #49 — "The Fingers
of Henri Tourelle" — October 18, 1961
From NAKED CITY
(ABC-TV, 1960 to '63)
Gem #50 — "Enter Tami
Okada" — November 17, 1974
From MANNIX (CBS-TV, 1967 to '75)
Gem #51 — "The
Beaumont Line" — January 15, 1987
From NIGHT
HEAT (CTV and CBS, 1985 to '89)
Gem #52 — "Deal With the Devil" — January 11, 1972
From THE MOD SQUAD (ABC-TV, 1968 to '73)
Gem #53 — "Round
and Round" (video) — October 24, 1985
From MAGNUM, P.I. (CBS-TV, 1980 to '88)
Gem #54 — "All Expenses Paid" — October 28, 1959
From
HAWAIIAN EYE (ABC-TV, 1959 to '63)
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analysis. Before that switch, his editorial clients
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