New Show Has Agent After Spies, Smugglers

Stacy Harris, who has portrayed villains in movie Westerns for the past six years while performing on radio shows originating in Hollywood, has returned to New York for an eight-week run as a hero, Agent Doug Carter, in Doorway To Danger on NBC-TV.  The series, taking the time spot of Big Story for the Summer, will be seen Fridays, July 3 through Aug. 21 at 8 p.m.

Agent Carter investigates corruption in spy or smuggling rings operating in apparently law-abiding organizations, and intrigue in international espionage.  Raymond Bramley, who also is on Broadway in The Crucible, will be seen as Carter's chief, John Randolph.

Writers for the series are Martha Wilkerson, who wrote some of the Doorway To Danger scripts last Summer; Bob Shaw, for many years scripter of Mr. District Attorney; and Harry Junkin, formerly producer-director and often scriptwriter of NBC's Radio City Playhouse.

-Charleston Daily Mail June 28, 1953


Doorway To Danger was a summer replacement series, airing on NBC from 1950-1953.  Called Door With No Name for its first season, it seems to have been broadcast live.  I don't know if there are any surviving episodes.

Dragnet fans will recognize that Chief John Randolph shares his name with the man himself, John Randolph Webb.

The photo of Stacy Harris as Agent Doug Carter comes from Wikimedia Commons.

The Column on the Square

By Ed Brooks

 

Stacy Harris, formerly associated with Jack Webb on Dragnet, got plenty of money for starring in the TV crime series filmed here, N.O.P.D.  But ads announcing the beginning of the series Monday on Around the Town via Channel 4 ran all day and misspelled star Stacy's first name.

It's an old Welsh name, he reminded us, and when spelled S-t-a-c-e-y is feminine.  He prefers it the correct masculine way: Stacy.

-New Orleans Daily Picayune April 26, 1955