Longstreet (TV series)
Longstreet is an American crime drama series that was broadcast on the ABC in the 1971-1972 season. A 90-minute pilot movie of the same name aired prior to the debut of the series as an ABC Movie of the Week.Synopsis
The series starred James Franciscus as insurance investigator Mike Longstreet. After a bomb kills his wife, Ingrid, and leaves him blind, the title character pursues and captures the killers. He then continues his career as an insurance investigator despite his blindness. Longstreet's seeing eye dog was a white German Shepherd called Pax. The series was set in New Orleans, but was actually filmed in Los Angeles.
Mystery novelist Baynard Kendrick was credited in each episode as the creator of the source material for the series, although his character, Captain Duncan Maclain, had little in common with Longstreet aside from their both being blind private detectives.
Bruce Lee appeared in four episodes as Li Tsung, an antiques dealer and Jeet Kune Do expert who becomes Longstreet's martial arts instructor. Wikiquote has.
Twenty-three episodes of the show were aired before it was canceled in 1972.Pilot (1971)
Syndication
The series has rarely been re-aired, but appeared on Canadian TV channel Mystery TV in 2005-2006.Home media
The series was released on a Region 2 DVD in Japan in late 2007.
On December 1, 2017, Visual Entertainment released Longstreet- The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1.
