During the early years of TV, big-time film stars were often wary of working on the small screen. Lee Marvin had been making films for several years but wasn't a star when he was offered the lead in a ...

At the beginning of the first episode of M Squad, the hardboiled cop show filmed here from 1957 to 1960, we see the marquee of the Chicago Theater, lit up in glorious, gloomy black and white. Then we ...

Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The Squad's task is to root out organised crime and corruption in America's Second City, Chicago.

2 innocent men are iced by a currency exchange bookkeeper, to disguise her embezzlement. The sultry femme fatale's yarn that it was a heist gone bad makes sense at first, because of a wave of such ...

Host Steve Beverly looks at two classic shows Man with a Camera and M Squad. Host Steve Beverly looks at two classic shows Man with a Camera and M Squad.

Chicago Magazine contributor Edward McClelland returns to the John Landecker Show to talk about ‘M Squad’, a police procedural that aired from 1957-1960 that drew the ire of Mayor Richard J. Daley and ...