This is how sidekicks get treated, not the hero. Then Amos would use the door’s keypad (with comical beeps and boops) to open the door. Once it landed, Amos would pull out what looked like a sonic pen light and point it at the plane, the sound would lower the stairs and Amos would enter and cool his heels in the outer “office” until The Man gave him permission to enter. The Man’s office was the inside of a DC-9 and he conducted all meetings (but one) in the air.Īmos would wait on the landing strip in his Rolls (the only other surviving character from Burke’s Law) for The Man’s plane. While Amos could not contact The Man, The Man gave him a watch that when it buzzed, it meant Amos had to stop everything and get to the airport as fast as possible to meet The Man. Instead The Man was one of the most unlikable, heartless, mean characters ever to play a good guy on TV. The Man was supposed to be Amos Burke’s “M” (Bond) or Mr.
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So besides the audience having little interest in Amos Burke as a spy, and everyone involved hating it, the series also had a fatal creative flaw, The Man. Could the failure of Amos Burke have played a role in ABC picking up Blue Light and the rush to get it on the air? Interestingly, the final episode of the series, “Terror in Tiny Town, Part Two” aired at 10pm on Wednesday, January 12, 1966, the same night ABC premiered its new spy series Blue Light at 8:30pm. By November the series would be cancelled ( Broadcasting, 11/1/65).
The Arbitron ratings ( Broadcasting, 9/20/65) found NBC’s I Spy at 37.6 share (first half hour) and 40.9 (last half hour) compared to CBS’s Danny Kaye at 32.3 share and 30.3 share compared to Amos Burke at 24.8 share and 25.8 share. “Balance of Terror” (9/15/65) was the series first episode. The series was a ratings failure from the very beginning. I hated it, Gene hated it, we all hated it, and ABC was very wrong to change it…” He became a debonair, globe-trotting secret agent for a United States intelligence agency. detective, was forcibly changed to Amos Burke, Secret Agent. Suddenly secret agents were in… So in 1965 Burke’s Law, the story of a millionaire L.A. Produced by Aaron Spelling.įrom Aaron Spelling: A Prime Time Life, by Aaron Spelling with Jefferson Graham: “ Burke’s Law was one of my first great campy shows… Then ABC threw us a curveball with the ‘James Bond’ craze. Series based on characters created by Frank D. Cast: Gene Barry as Amos Burke, Carl Benton Reid as The Man. ABC / Four Star Productions / Barbety, 1965-66.
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