The New Breed (TV series)

The New Breed is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from October 3, 1961, to June 5, 1962, with thirty-six episodes. The series was a QM Production in association with Selmur Productions, Inc.

Synopsis
The series stars Leslie Nielsen as the serious Lieutenant Price Adams who worked on "The Hot Shot Detail" of the LAPD's Metro Squad and former Major League Baseball player John Beradino as Sergeant Vince Cavelli. The script for the first episode, "No Fat Cops," was written by Hank Searls, credited as the creator of the series. Searls also wrote an original novel based on the series under the pseudonym "Lee Costigan."

The New Breed was the first independent production of Quinn Martin under his newly established company, QM Productions. Prior to starting his own production company, Martin had produced The Untouchables for Desilu Productions, and Nielsen was cast for the role of Adams because of a guest appearance he had made on that program in the episode titled "Three Thousand Suspects." The show was scheduled against The Red Skelton Show and Ichabod and Me on CBS and The Dick Powell Show on NBC, and was canceled after one season.

Cast

 * Leslie Nielsen as Lieutenant Price Adams
 * John Beradino as Sergeant Vince Cavelli
 * John Clarke as Patrolman Joe Huddleston (27 episodes)
 * Byron Morrow as Captain Keith Gregory (2 episodes)
 * Greg Roman as Patrolman Pete Garcia (2 episodes)
 * Art Gilmore as Narrator

Notable guest stars

 * Stanley Adams
 * Eddie Albert
 * Martin Balsam
 * Ed Begley
 * Bea Benaderet
 * Robert Blake
 * Charles Bronson
 * Victor Buono
 * Yvonne Craig
 * Ivan Dixon
 * Jena Engstrom
 * Peter Falk
 * Peter Fonda
 * Anne Francis
 * Gloria Grahame
 * James Gregory
 * Joan Hackett
 * Eileen Heckart
 * Ron Howard
 * Sherry Jackson
 * Vivi Janiss
 * Victor Jory
 * Jack Klugman
 * Cloris Leachman
 * John Larch
 * Tina Louise
 * Strother Martin
 * Patty McCormack
 * Dina Merrill
 * Vic Morrow
 * Barry Morse
 * Jack Oakie
 * Simon Oakland
 * Arthur O'Connell
 * Nehemiah Persoff
 * Barney Phillips
 * Sydney Pollack
 * Robert Redford
 * Chris Robinson
 * Telly Savalas
 * William Schallert
 * Joan Tompkins
 * Fritz Weaver
 * William Windom
 * Keenan Wynn