City Detective

{{Short description|American television series}}

{{more citations needed|date=September 2011}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox television

| runtime = 30 minutes

| company = Revue Studios

| starring = Rod Cameron

| country = United States

| director = Robert S. Finkel
Leslie H. Martinson
Robert G. Walker

| network = Syndication

| first_aired = {{start date|1953|9}}

| last_aired = {{end date|1955|5|10}}

| num_seasons = 2

| num_episodes = 64

}}

City Detective is a half-hour syndicated television crime drama starring Rod Cameron as Bart Grant, a tough 1950s New York City police lieutenant.{{cite book |last1=Andreychuk |first1=Ed |title=Louis L'Amour on Film and Television |date=2010 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-5717-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ICrqx0NOLjoC&dq=%22Coronado+9%22+Cameron&pg=PA44 |page=44 |access-date=November 6, 2021 |language=en}}

The show's title was a bit of a misnomer, as Grant fought crime "from Mexico to the Mojave Desert to New York City".{{cite book|last1=Brooks|first1=Tim|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC&dq=%22Coronado+9%22+Cameron&pg=PA257|title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present|last2=Marsh|first2=Earle F.|date=2009|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-307-48320-1|page=257|language=en|access-date=November 6, 2021}}

Herschel Daugherty directed the series, and Lawrence Kimble wrote for it. Blake Edwards was a writer and an associate producer.{{cite book |last1=Erickson |first1=Hal |title=Syndicated Television: The First Forty Years, 1947-1987' |date=1989 |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |isbn=0-7864-1198-8 |pages= 22–23}}

Sixty-five episodes were produced from 1953 to 1955. Revue Productions rented space from Republic Studios for filming the series.{{cite news |last1=Cullison |first1=Art |title=Rod Competes With Himself |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88464597/rod-cameron/ |access-date=November 6, 2021 |work=The Akron Beacon Journal |date=April 11, 1954 |page=14 D|via = Newspapers.com}}