Tuning In.... (For Warren Wolfe)
by Stanley Meisler
Commentary by Stanley Meisler
May 8, 1953
May 1953
Middletown, Ohio
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Melvyn Douglas, who has a knack for wasting his talents wherever he goes, now appears in a filmed hard-boiled, watered-down Mickey Spillane-type series entitled "Hollywood Off-Beat” on Channel 12 Wednesdays at 8 p.m. "Trouble is my business," or something to that effect, Steve Randall (who is really Melvyn Douglas) says somewhere in his lengthy introduction to the show, and unless he has signed for a many-yeared contract it looks like he is going to have plenty of his business. For "Hollywood Off-Beat" ranks with the loosest of all television drama, and Douglas ranks with the bleariest of all private eyes...
Melvyn Douglas, who has a knack for wasting his talents wherever he goes, now appears in a filmed hard-boiled, watered-down Mickey Spillane-type series entitled "Hollywood Off-Beat” on Channel 12 Wednesdays at 8 p.m. "Trouble is my business," or something to that effect, Steve Randall (who is really Melvyn Douglas) says somewhere in his lengthy introduction to the show, and unless he has signed for a many-yeared contract it looks like he is going to have plenty of his business. For "Hollywood Off-Beat" ranks with the loosest of all television drama, and Douglas ranks with the bleariest of all private eyes...
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