M Squad Starring Lee Marvin 1959 "Murder in C Sharp Minor" Guest Star Mayberry's Floyd the Barber!

[@CassStevens]

We need more Saxophone related content in crime dramas. For too long has the violin case dominated the genre 🎷🎻

[@steveharrison9901]

Thank you for finding and posting this, TooleMan! I love how tight the stories are on M Squad. But I discovered two other things I’m going to watch for in future episodes! 1. Cutting to matching action. Wow does that add momentum to the show! Someone pushed a button smashcut to ringing a cash register. You don’t see that kind of cutting anymore. 2. Showing off high tech. Look at we saw! Computer! Speaker phone! I think something else that slipped my mind but seeing that card sorter at work, very strong science for the time! And I’m puzzling what Lee Marvin was drinking water out of near the end. It didn’t look like the typical ‘cone’ water cup that a water cooler has, it looked a lot like he was drinking from an empty cigarette pack! Now that can’t be right but that’s how it looked to me. Of course Lee Marvin is so tough he could squeeze clean drinking water out of a pack of smokes… 😁

[@TooleManTV]

The cutting to match action (smash cut) is a new feature of M Squad as of this episode, and it is used very effectively here. And Ballinger is drinking from a folding paper cup. I remember seeing and using those ages ago. I think they weren't very popular. Dixie Cups were seen more often.

[@steveharrison9901]

@@TooleManTV excellent! And it always makes me happy when someone knows what I’m blathering about! The show Honey West used smash cuts a whole lot. Sometimes the match to action was a tad…suspect. 😁

[@goldgeologist5320]

Lee Marvin, you can tell he was a no nonsense Marine!

[@DarrellLancaster-l5q]

Great back up actors. Lawrence Dobkins, Howard McNear, Herb Vigrin, Peter Leeds. All great Radio stars.

[@goldgeologist5320]

This was a good series!

[@tomklenk9573]

Great series! Thanks for posting!

[@Rodneygd]

My mom was a big fan of this show and Lee Marvin. As we lived in the metropolitan area it was fun to point out shooting locations we recognized. Oddly enough I still do this but in a quirky way. I do contract work for Universal TV Chicago PD on certain remote shoots. It’s fun to see the locations that I’ve contributed to.

[@kathleenschreiber76]

I love this show wish it was on tv.

[@goldgeologist5320]

Floyd the barber!

[@thomassnider6691]

He was a hepcat in this episode.

[@ricardocerrillo3472]

... and he's also on a very cool Pink Floyd teeshirt... pink, of course 😉

[@thomassnider6691]

@@ricardocerrillo3472 He was Doc Stone on the radio version of Gunsmoke too.

[@rapsnik]

Thank you TooleMan.

[@petervance6777]

Murder by sax…very common in 59😇

[@jimfritz2087]

I've heard a few players murder a song with a sax . People , not so many . 🎷 ☠️

[@freemarketjoe9869]

Never a good a idea to leave the murder weapon behind, especially if you were fighting over it.

[@Craig2760]

Hard to watch a nice vintage sax abused like that.

[@edmondedwards6729]

saxually abused by a big horn

[@steveprestegard5151]

A tenor sax as a murder weapon?

[@markg7030]

Thanks again I like this show. I think the bald guy played a con man in a Western series "Trackdown" his name was Trump lol.

[@rdunn6371]

Good show !

[@asullivan4047]

Enjoy viewing 👀 the cars/police interrogation room/Floyd's eye glasses/cash register of that era🤗. Probably viewed 👀 (12) enjoyable episodes since discovering these glorious ( B&W) reruns on You-Tube😉.

[@freemarketjoe9869]

Good guy...bad guy, Lee Marvin still has the same gravity to his demeanor. "Don't screw with me...dude!"

[@brooke8567]

Floyd the barber!!!

[@jameswiese7725]

Murder by saxophone?

[@brooke8567]

Murder by Death 1976