john22900
What a great show this truly was! And based on real FBI case files too! Couldn't ask for better than that! Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was perfect for the lead! Quinn Martin produced this show along with that other great TV show "The Fugitive"! Down through the years there have been many detective and cop shows and this one was one of the best! Along with 77 SUNSET STRIP, DRAGNET '67, IRONSIDE and BURKE'S LAW, these shows were great to watch and a lot of fun too! 77 SUNSET STRIP starred the aforementioned Efrem Zimbalist Jr.! DRAGNET '67 starred Jack Webb and Harry Morgan ("M.A.S.H."). IRONSIDE starred the great Raymond Burr ("Perry Mason")! BURKE'S LAW starred Gene Barry! I have but one question: why isn't this show on DVD yet!!!!!!!!! In fact, why aren't all the shows I mentioned in this comment on DVD yet!!!!!! Come on, guys! Get with it! Get a move on! These are all great shows! And they all deserve to be on DVD! Start getting these shows on DVD NOW puh-leeze!
JeffDeWitt
"The FBI" is one of those wonderful old shows I remember from when I was a kid, and it was great finding it being rerun on the "American Life" channel.There was no question who the good guys and bad guys were, and Inspector Lewis Erskine is as straitlaced as they come, he and Sargent Friday were two of a kind.The theme music is perfect, it has a serious solidity to it, and the writing is just what it should be. I also love seeing all the new, old cars, and seeing what high technology (like their computers) was in those days helps us to appreciate what we have today.Great show, well worth watching again.
David Kerr
The FBI With Efrem Zimbalist JR Can be seen if you have cable every Friday night on the American life TV network at 7 PM. central time. Check with your local cable company about getting American life TV the have 6 episodes every Friday the say a whole evening of crime busting action. Both Steven Brooks and William Reynolds have been on in different episodes and Phillip Abbott and Efrem Zimbalist JR are in all episodes I never miss it. They call it FBI Friday. American Life is good every night Monday is the private Eyes which include 77 Sunset Strip which also has Efrem Zimbalist JR. also Harry O with David Jansson and several others. Tuesday night is the American Soldier Wednesday night is the Secret agents Thursday night is the American west Friday is FBI Friday Saturday is good comedy and Sunday is the American family. It is a good channel all around but if you turn on American life TV at 7 PM central time you will get all the reruns of the FBI with Efrem Zimbalist JR. David Kerr Minnespolis Minnesota.
gcapp
Indeed, yes, I remember this series... and I don't believe I've seen it in reruns myself, although I'm aware of it being rerun on stations I could not receive. I think I tuned into this two to four years before it came to an end in 1974. I am old enough to remember that the show was produced with the cooperation of the director of the FBI, whats-his-name, um, J. Edgar Hoover. The last season or so had different names since Hoover had died.I really liked the way they set up the episodes, showed the crimes being initiated, the charges being shown on the screen. The oft-repeated scene of showing Erskine listening on the phone at the same time as a crime victim or victim's family. Erskine going under cover, like masquerading as a blind man. The high school boys trapping a friend in an old mine shaft or whatever and discovering, just after they were arrested, that the field had been leveled and buried with fill.This would be good to see on DVD, but I'd be happy if it was rerun on one of the cable specialty channels.