Dick Tracy TV series open

[GOOSEYGOOSE9]

I Would Be Police Informer Detective.

[GOOSEYGOOSE9]

I Would Wear My Yellow Fedora And Yellow Trenchcoat. Like Dick Tracy.

[GOOSEYGOOSE9]

I Would Go After DD Criminals who commit crimes in the group home and who kill supervisors in sheltered Workshops and group homes. i put the handcuffs on Them.

[GOOSEYGOOSE9]

I would imitate the singer of the Dick Tracy Theme Song. I Would go after the developmentally disabled bad guys who hit the neighbors window at other DD Group Homes as well as hitting staff in the hand and Face at DD Group Homes,And Sheltered Workshops DD Criminals Blow Up Institutions And Sheltered Workshops For The Developmentally Disabled And Get DD people out of sheltered workshops and right into the Enclave Then.

[JKSpiero]

Pity this one never took off. It might've have been a good series. This one also featured Victor Buono (King Tut from BATMAN) as the heavy.

Dozier's BATMAN was such a hit, it sparked ideas for more superhero shows.

GREEN HORNET was another Dozier series, but was played straight instead of campy. WONDER WOMAN was almost a Dozier series too, but like this one, it tanked as well. Took a few more changes before WW finally took off in the 70's.

[OzzyMandez]

I'm not sure guys, but I get the slight hint that maybe this Dick Tracy fellow is good cop. I could be wrong though.

[RayNDeere]

Ray MacDonnell (Dick Tracy) stayed busy. He played Dr. Joe Martin on All My Children from the start of the show until about a year ago.

[felixjazzage]

This was immediately followed by Chester Gould (cartoonist who created Tracy) beating William Dozier within an inch of his life.

[Laceykat66]

William Dozier ? Didn't he do "Batman"?

Eve Plumb? If she had done this show she would never had done the Brady Bunch.

Where have I seen Jan Shutan before? She looks very familiar.

[rhinocortaqua]

@Laceykat66

Jan Shutan.....played in 1969 Star Trek tv episode "The lights of Zetar" as Lt. Mira Romaine........also did a great episode on the Andy Griffith Show, Outer limits, Charlies Angel's episode........ I had a crush on her.....can't believe she wasn't featured more.....

[evrbody]

You can almost detect a hint of annoyance in the guy's voice the second time he says it. Like he's thinking "Come on guys, is 'he's a good cop' all we can come up with?"

[texasghost]

I don't recognize any of the stars of this show with the exception of Eve Plumb. This show must have been one of those re-treads of Batman and Green Hornet and just never took off.

[CallumJStewart]

I learned something from this video: Dick Tracy is a good cop.

[matrags]

They thought long and hard about the lyrics. Couldn't think of anything to rhyme with cop.

[CVTom]

Wow! Eve Plumb from the Brady Bunch and William Dozier, the guy who produced the old Batman and Green Hornet TV series, were involved in this.

[Dragonrider1227]

@CVTom it shows XD

[dxearlmarc]

OMG! Eve Plumb got her start here before the Brady Bunch! No need for her to worry about being type casted! Who would have func it!

[GOOSEYGOOSE9]

I was mimmicking the theme song. i am an autistic amateur detective. going after developmentally disabled bad guys who commit crimes at group homes as well as other group homes. i sing dick tracy he's a good cop. i would wear a yellow fedora and yellow trenchcoat. i go after the bad guys with developmental disabilities. who commit violence against staff in group homes as well as criminals with disabilities who commit murder to staff in the group home as well as the other group homes.

[prodigyofpeace1983]

I don't think that is The Ventures performance of the song, even though they wrote it. Their version that was released on an LP in the 1960s, can't remember the exact one, is a bit more livelier than the one heard here.

[copifo]

Unfortunately, this TV series was never broadcast in Italy.

However, have always been a big fan of Dick Tracy.

I have seen all the movies.

[RapSince99Sucx]

Diiiiiiiick Tracy.....he's a good cop?

simple, but true.

[supineny]

I thought the idea was he was a detective.

[RapSince99Sucx]

I was mimicking the theme song.

[fromthesidelines]

Probably because NBC got "burned" on "THE GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E." and "CAPTAIN NICE" in the 1966-'67 season was a factor in rejecting this pilot , as well as another chance at considering Al Capp's "LI'L ABNER" after passing on it in 1966 [the network's attitude: no more "cartoonish" series for us!]. Desperate ratings forced them to consider picking up "BATMAN" for '68-'69, but, as you've mentioned, 'acholl', dismantling the sets ended all ideas for THAT.

[Laffington]

So the prints to the pilot was destroyed? I would love to see it.

[thedrknghtno1]

the pilot is here on youtube...its pretty good...

[paulnkiki]

It it me or was one of the "Brady Bunch" kids in the cast of this pilot? Jan I think

[acholl980]

Yes she was. Unfortunetly she and Davey Davison was only in the opening credits.

[ysbaddaden2003]

The Green Hornet took a nose dive too, and it did it without humor.

[Shawnster65]

The seriousness and darkness of The Green Hornet was a bit much for the Batman crowd, as they expected to see more corny, campy exploits.

But at least we got to see Bruce Lee do his thing alongside The Green Hornet as they drove thru the night in their Black Beauty, laying waste to criminals in back alleys and run down waterfront warehouses.

And all without a "POW!" or a "BAM!" to be seen anywhere. It's too bad The Green Hornet didn't last longer : (

[Schweinhundt]

The Green Hornet was played straight, and had much of the flavor of a movie or radio serial. When the producers tried to combine Batman and the Green Hornet for a couple of episodes, it flopped badly. The two were incompatible. You couldn't tell what was meant to be funny and what was supposed to be serious.

I wonder how closely this Dick Tracy series would have followed, the dark, violent, often moralistic tone of Chester Gould's comic strip. It's a shame we never got to find out.

[Shawnster65]

You make some very good points about Tracy's character.

And yes I've seen the Batman\Green Hornet crossover and agreww with you that there was a totally incompatible mix there..Batman was, well, BATMAN, and The Green Hornet was all business.

As to Tracy's dark, violent moral code, I don't think Hollywood would have allowed it (you know how they feel about guns) and we all know Hollywood has no morals, so I think the morality\gunplay thing might not have washed. Perhaps anyhow.

[cooperfarm]

eve plumb was Jane brady

[StukInBuf]

Jan... not Jane.

[Deathpunkscumfuck]

LMFAO the theme song is just....beautiful. Long live the Tracy!

[ibhotsauce]

LOL, luks and sounds borin as shit.

[Buneboy]

dumb dick

[SeasideDetective2]

The music, hairstyles, etc. remind me a lot more of 1960s Hollywood than 1930s Chicago. (Duh, that's when this pilot was made.) But seriously - couldn't they have at least tried to be a little more authentic and come up with a halfway good theme song? Thank God this never became a series, or Warren Beatty probably could have never gotten his movie made.

[Watcher3223]

Seriously.

Hearing the theme, I can only imagine what Dick Tracy would be called for on his watch...

"Dick, there are a couple of longhairs smoking cannabis out the back of a Volkswagen!"

[SeasideDetective2]

Oddly enough, in the latter days of the strip Dick Tracy took on a weird, deformed hippie as a partner. His name was "Groovy Grove," and he was literally "groovy" because he had a body shaped like a corkscrew!

I wish I were making this up, but I'm not.

[Watcher3223]

No, actually, I'm not terribly surprised for some reason.

I've heard of getting with the times and, despite how ridiculous it is, it does occur in an effort to make something appealing to a generation that may otherwise eschew it because of cultural differences from one generation to the next.

[StukInBuf]

Would that have been the springboard to the "Mod Squad"? Counterculture influences likely brought in "Groovy Groove," so you'd have to infer that this likely led to the creation of the long-running Aaron Spelling/Danny Thomas series.

[Iori400]

pfft hahah the most dumbest intro i ever heard

[oofoe]

dang. that's one good cop.

[chompychomps]

Cool, Jan from The Brady Bunch when she was so young and cute.

[armitagenlowell]

I find the opening simular to the opening of Wonderwoman '77 (not that that '67 sales film horse doo doo).

[sexymama1966]

lmao!!

[wolfgar45]

na,na,na,na,na,na,na,na,na,na TRACY tracy.

[Clanmemberkalvin]

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Brilliant!!!

[SeanLaw]

This theme is even better than the Batman Theme - ha ha ha!

[IDLERACER]

I notice that like "Batman," this series (or rather this "potential" series) would have also featured Victor Buono as a villain (1:01).

[heine71]

Why is Dick Tracy a good cop?

[AarHan3]

Because he is. :)

[westeightyone]

And Dick Tracy will shoot anyone who says he isn't a good cop.

[heine71]

The Ventures Dick Tracy theme song could have been a Top 40 hit! But instead the Ventures hit the Top 40 a year later in 1968 with the theme to Hawaii Five-O.

[heine71]

What was the plot of the unsold Dick Tracy pilot like?

[heine71]

"Dick Tracy, he's a good cop!"

[diddymuck]

If only they had made it more sincere it would have been a phenomenon!

[vampyrikus]

Let's see the episode

[Shawnster65]

All the earmarks of the closing credits of a William Dozier show, from the comic-book look to the "Tracy Symbol" that reminds you of the ending credits of a certain other hero ;)

Ken Spears-later became part of the Ruby-Spears cartoon company, and Jack Sonntag and William Self did duty on Lost In Space.

I bet this would have been a great series!

[acholl980]

Spears was working at Hanna-Barbara at the time

[RapSince99Sucx]

william and joseph were legends.

[catfan]

A very interesting curio! It's too bad it never made it past the pilot stage, since I think it would have been interesting.

[oilerblueline]

Eve Plumb!!

[heine71]

Eve Plumb's character of Bonnie Braids didn't appear in the pilot except the opening credits.

[emerpus01]

Great song, terrible version.  Listen to the Ventures original.

[westeightyone]

Can't you just picture the guy who wrote the words to that song bragging "Hey! I wrote the lyrics to a tv show theme song in less time than it takes to play the song itself.

Dick Tracy.He's a good cop."

[Deathpunkscumfuck]

I am PISSING myself reading your comment. I can only imagine that!

[mrceleb2006]

The "20th Television Fox" logo is missing from this clip.

[crescentmooncomics]

Too bad it was never picked up for a season! Do we blame Batman? I don't, I love the show and Green Hornet, Doc Savage was to be made by... Goodman & Toddman (Price Is Right)but never went through, mentioned in Newsweek. And that Wonder Woman show where it was focused on a teenager?!?! Oh well, would of been cool!

[fromthesidelines]

This was produced as a potential series for NBC's 1967-'68 fall schedule from the same production company who brought you "BATMAN". The network ultimately rejected the pilot, and it never aired.

[heine71]

The Batman production company - Greenway Productions - also produced ABC's axed after 4 episodes in 1966 Tammy Grimes Show.

[westeightyone]

Tammy Grimes? Sounds like a Batman villainess.

Debbie Reynolds could play the part.

By day she's a scrub woman but by night, skating along with her feet in wheeled mop buckets, she dirties up the city of Gotham,

office tower by office tower, thereby ensuring that she'll have a job to return to in the morning.

[Actionguy1]

That is so funny that you bring that up! "Dick Tracy" was an unsold pilot produced by "Batman" producer William Dozier. And that "Dick Tracy" theme song is priceless!

[acholl980]

In other words the peacock network had a good chance to cash in on the Batman bandwagon and threw it out the window. They were never enthusiastic over Star Trek for that matter. The big irony is that they wanted to get Batman from ABC after they canceled it but didn't want to put up the money to create new sets. (ABC bulldozed the original)

[Shawnster65]

It's ironic that some of these shows that the networks pulled the plug on (or decided not to pick up and continue, like Batman) have become huge cult hits now.

The money to create the new sets would have surely been worth the returns if Batman had continued with the winning formula intact.

Some actors too-after Bruce Lee was turned down for the role of Cain in Kung Fu, (because of his intense Eastern philosophical overtones) he goes and wows the world with "Enter The Dragon."