Target: The Corruptors

Four Star Television
ABC (Fridays 10:00pm EST)
Co-Producers Lester Velie, John Burrows, Leonard Ackerman
Based on articles by Lester Velie

US Crime Reporter series 1961-62   35 episodes x 60 min Black & White
starring
Stephen McNally as Paul Marino (right)
with
Robert Harland as Jack Flood (left)

An investigative reporter reveals corruption in high places.

The show featured a newspaper reporter, Paul Marino, and his undercover agent, Jack Flood, as they infiltrated the mob and reported on a different type of crime every week. The results of their investigation were given to the police and appeared as a featured article in the newspaper.

The series was apparently based on real life writer/reporter Lester Velie, who was a co-producer. Velie had written articles about the slums of New York and organized crime's infiltration of the garment industry. He would go on to write stories about Jimmy Hoffa and Cuba.
 

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