(USA, 1959)

 

The filming of The D.A.'s Man (D.A. standing for District Attorney, so prosecutor, making the series’ name something like The Man of the Prosecution in German-speaking regions) was already completed at the end of the 50’s.

 

The series was based on the homonymous book by James B. Horan and Harold Danforth. In this series, Shannon, played by John Compton, is a private investigator who was the district attorney of New Yorker A1 Bonacorsi, played by Ralph Manza, who helped him in the fight against crime.

 

He worked as an undercover agent and provided valuable information to the prosecutor from the mafia. Shannon was a man who does not avoid fighting with his gloves off during his undercover work.

 

In order to give the series a slightly different twist from the other detective series this time, the authors designed exciting courtroom scenes, full of fights and shootings.

 

There were 26 thirty-minute episodes, all directed by Joseph E. Parker. The producer of this series was Fank Latourette.