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Man with a Camera is an American television crime drama starring Charles Bronson as a war veteran turned photographer and investigator.

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Man with a Camera
Original title card
Genre	Crime / Drama
Written by	James Edmiston Paul David Wilton Schiller
Directed by	Paul Landres Gerald Mayer
Starring	Charles Bronson
Theme music composer	Herschel Burke Gilbert
Composer	Leon Klatzin
Country of origin	USA
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	29
Production
Producers	Don W. Sharpe Warren Lewis For MWC Productions, Inc.
Production locations	Hollywood, California at Desilu Studios, doubling for New York City
Cinematography	Paul Ivano Robert B. Hauser Black-and-White
Running time	30 minutes
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	October 10, 1958 (1958-10-10) – February 8, 1960 (1960-02-08)

Throughout the 1950s, Bronson spent most of his early acting career performing in TV shows as well as small parts in films, until he landed the lead in this ABC series. This is the only TV series in which he played the lead role.

Plot

Bronson portrayed Mike Kovac, a former Korean War combat photographer, freelancing in New York City, who specialized in getting the photographs that other lensmen could not. He usually assists newspapers, insurance companies, the police and private individuals, all of whom want a filmed record of an event.

By often acting as a private eye, Kovac gets himself into plenty of trouble involving criminals of every kind, helping with cases the police could not handle.

Besides an array of cameras for normal use, for surreptitious work Kovac employs cameras hidden in a radio, cigarette lighter and even his necktie. He also has a phone in his car, and a portable darkroom in the trunk where he could develop his negatives on the spot.

Kovac's police liaison is Lieutenant Donovan (James Flavin), though he frequently seeks advice from Anton Kovac (Ludwig Stössel), his immigrant father.

Main cast

• Charles Bronson as Mike Kovac
• James Flavin as Lieutenant Donovan
• Ludwig Stössel as Anton Kovac

Selected guest stars

Episodes

Season 1: 1958–59

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	1	"Second Avenue Assassin"	Gerald Mayer	William Fay	October 10, 1958 (1958-10-10)
2	2	"The Warning"	Gerald Mayer	Richard M. Bluel	October 17, 1958 (1958-10-17)
3	3	"Profile of a Killer"	Gerald Mayer	Teleplay by: James Edmiston Story by: Richard M. Bluel	October 24, 1958 (1958-10-24)
4	4	"Turntable"	Gerald Mayer	Lowell Barrington	November 7, 1958 (1958-11-07)
5	5	"Closeup on Violence"	William Castle	Jack Laird & Wilton Schiller	November 14, 1958 (1958-11-14)
6	6	"Double Negative"	Gerald Mayer	Teleplay by: James Edmiston Story by: Ken Pettus	November 21, 1958 (1958-11-21)
7	7	"Another Barrier"	Gerald Mayer	Stanley Niss	November 28, 1958 (1958-11-28)
8	8	"Blind Spot"	Gerald Mayer	Donn Mullally	December 5, 1958 (1958-12-05)
9	9	"Two Strings of Pearls"	Gerald Mayer	Robert J. Shaw	December 12, 1958 (1958-12-12)
10	10	"Six Faces of Satan"	Boris Sagal	David P. Harmon	December 19, 1958 (1958-12-19)
11	11	"Lady on the Loose"	Gerald Mayer	Oliver Crawford	December 26, 1958 (1958-12-26)
12	12	"The Last Portrait"	Gerald Mayer	Wilton Schiller & Jack Laird	January 2, 1959 (1959-01-02)
13	13	"The Face of Murder"	Gerald Mayer	Berne Giler	January 9, 1959 (1959-01-09)
14	14	"Mute Evidence"	Paul Landres	Dallas Gaultois & James Edmiston	January 16, 1959 (1959-01-16)
15	15	"The Big Squeeze"	Harold Schuster	David P. Harmon	January 23, 1959 (1959-01-23)

Season 2: 1959–60

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
16	1	"The Killer"	Paul Landres	E. Jack Neuman	October 19, 1959 (1959-10-19)
17	2	"Eyewitness"	Gene Fowler Jr.	Paul David	October 26, 1959 (1959-10-26)
18	3	"The Man Below"	Gene Fowler Jr.	David P. Harmon	November 2, 1959 (1959-11-02)
19	4	"Black Light"	Paul Landres	Wilton Schiller	November 9, 1959 (1959-11-09)
20	5	"The Positive Negative"	Paul Landres	Oliver Crawford	November 16, 1959 (1959-11-16)
21	6	"Missing"	Gene Fowler, Jr.	Teleplay by: Robert E. Thompson & Lee Loeb Story by: Hal Evarts	November 23, 1959 (1959-11-23)
22	7	"Live Target"	Paul Landres	Barry Trivers	December 7, 1959 (1959-12-07)
23	8	"Girl in the Dark"	Gilbert Kay	Barry Trivers	December 14, 1959 (1959-12-14)
24	9	"The Bride"	Paul Landres	Paul David	December 21, 1959 (1959-12-21)
25	10	"The Picture War"	Paul Landres	David P. Harmon	January 4, 1960 (1960-01-04)
26	11	"Touch Off"	Paul Landres	Oliver Crawford	January 11, 1960 (1960-01-11)
27	12	"Hot Ice Cream"	Paul Landres	Teleplay by: Howard Koppelman & Paul David Story by: Howard Koppelman	January 25, 1960 (1960-01-25)
28	13	"Fragment of a Murder"	Wilton Schiller	Gilbert Kay	February 1, 1960 (1960-02-01)
29	14	"Kangaroo Court"	Gilbert Kay	Wilton Schiller	February 8, 1960 (1960-02-08)

Production

Man with a Camera was filmed on locations in Hollywood (doubling for New York City) at Desilu Studios. The series had two abbreviated seasons in 1958-59 and 1959–60 and was aired on the ABC-TV network, Friday nights at 9:00 pm.

Home media

The entire run of the series' 29 episodes was released in 2007 by the Infinity Entertainment Group, in collaboration with the Falcon Picture Group and the UCLA Film & Television Archive, from which the source prints were obtained.

Alpha Video has released three individual volumes on DVD, each containing four episodes from the series.[1][2][3] A fourth volume was released on February 25, 2014.[4] On October 17, 2017, Mill Creek Entertainment released the complete series on DVD + Digital. [5]

Sources

• Charles Bronson at IMDb
• Man with a Camera at IMDb

References

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