After legendary producer Quinn Martin left Desilu and The Untouchables, he spent a year patiently waiting for something to come along.
Unfortunately, The New Breed, the first series for Martin's own production company, lasted one season on ABC (1961-2).
So why are we talking about it in the Archives? Because for a brief period in the 70's, WRGB acquired the series as filler on Saturday afternoons, which is how I first became acquainted with the series. I have previously discussed this show over at The Land of Whatever.
Leslie Nielsen landed his first lead role as Lt. Price Adams, but the cancellation would begin a pattern of primetime failure for Nielsen over the course of 20+ years, ending with the little seen Shaping Up, also for ABC, which was a replacement series in the early 80's, post-Police Squad!.
Future soap stars John Beradino and John Clarke co-starred. Selig Seligman's Selmur Productions co-produced Breed, and Seligman brought Beradino back for General Hospital in 1963.
In "The Compulsion to Confess", future Kojak Telly Savalas plays a psychologist who helps Adams solve a series of murders. Future director Sydney Pollack also guests, and look quick for cameos by Stafford Repp (later of General Hospital & Batman) and Olan Soule, who was running the risk of being typecast, since he was brought in to play a lab technician, his primary role on Dragnet.
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