Monty Nash

{{short description|American television series}}

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

{{Infobox television

| image =

| caption =

| based_on = {{Based on|Spy series|Richard Telfair}}

| developer = Richard Jessup

| starring = Harry Guardino

| executive_producer = Everett Chambers

| country = United States

| num_seasons =

| num_episodes = 14

| language = English

| runtime = 30 minutes

| theme_music_composer = Michael Lloyd

| opentheme = "Theme From Monty Nash"

| company = Almada Productions, Inc.
Four Star International

| channel = Syndication

| first_aired = {{start date|1971|9|14}}

| last_aired = {{end date|1971|12|14}}

}}

Monty Nash is an American drama series that aired in syndication from September 14 until December 14, 1971.{{cite book|title=TV Guide Guide to TV|year=2004|publisher=Barnes and Noble|isbn=0-7607-5634-1|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780760756348}} It was based on a series of spy novels by Richard Telfair that were published from 1959 to 1961.

Synopsis

The series centered on Monty Nash, a government investigator who went undercover to catch criminals, including counterfeiters and smugglers.

Cast

Episodes

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| EpisodeNumber = 1

| Title = The Long Ride

| DirectedBy = Nicholas Colasanto

| WrittenBy = Shirl Hendryx

| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|1971|9|17}}

| ProdCode = A007

| ShortSummary = The life of the main witness (Don Gordon) preparing to testify in the investigation against a crime syndicate is now in danger.

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| EpisodeNumber = 2

| Title = The Hunting License

| DirectedBy = Nicholas Colasanto

| WrittenBy = Lee Erwin

| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|1971|9|24}}

| ProdCode = A017

| ShortSummary = A former spy (Leslie Nielsen) who has fallen into mental illness draws Nash into a deadly game of cat and mouse.

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| EpisodeNumber = 3

| Title = Death Squad

| DirectedBy = John Peyser

| WrittenBy = Leigh Vance

| OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1971|10|1}}

| ProdCode = A016

| ShortSummary = Nash has to bridge the generation gap to protect the leader of a hippie group who is in danger.

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| EpisodeNumber = 4

| Title = The Man in the Embassy

| DirectedBy = John Peyser

| WrittenBy = Fred Freiberger

| OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1971|10|8}}

| ProdCode = A006

| ShortSummary = Nash is given a mission of freeing an American held behind enemy lines and must formulate an elaborate escape.

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| EpisodeNumber = 5

| Title = Tension in a Troubled Town

| DirectedBy = John Peyser

| WrittenBy = Martin Roth

| OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1971|10|14}}

| ProdCode = A019

| ShortSummary = Extreme emotions and hate along racial lines may have something to do with the theft of explosives.

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| EpisodeNumber = 6

| Title = Code Name: Diana

| DirectedBy = Ted Post

| WrittenBy = Harold Stone

| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|1971|10|22}}

| ProdCode = A001

| ShortSummary = A major corporation is in danger of getting caught in tax fraud and dangles a half a million dollars in front of Nash to keep him quiet about it.

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| EpisodeNumber = 7

| Title = The Ambassador's Daughter

| DirectedBy = Ted Post

| WrittenBy = Ed Adamson

| OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1971|10|29}}

| ProdCode = A014

| ShortSummary = A mixed race love affair is somehow tied to the kidnapping of an official.

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| EpisodeNumber = 8

| Title = The Visitor

| DirectedBy = Richard Chambers

| WrittenBy = Norman Katkov & Joyce Perry

| OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1971|11|2}}

| ProdCode = A003

| ShortSummary = Homosexuality, blackmail and suicide intertwine dramatically and on many levels.

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| EpisodeNumber = 9

| Title = The Friendliest Town in the South

| DirectedBy = John Peyser

| WrittenBy = Harold Stone

| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|1971|11|5}}

| ProdCode = A002

| ShortSummary = A small town in the American South has long memories and short tempers when a local black leader attempts to put together a protest march.

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| EpisodeNumber = 10

| Title = The Time of the Eagle

| DirectedBy = James Hogan

| WrittenBy = Edward J. Lakso

| OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1971|11|9}}

| ProdCode = A020

| ShortSummary = The lives of two American Indian brothers revolve around heated politics and brutal murder.

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| EpisodeNumber = 11

| Title = Where Have All The Children Gone?

| DirectedBy = Ivan Dixon

| WrittenBy = John Bloch

| OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1971|11|16}}

| ProdCode = A018

| ShortSummary = The government's nerve gas agent experiment and the disappearance of two dozen teenagers are somehow connected.

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| EpisodeNumber = 12

| Title = The Dead We Left Behind

| DirectedBy = Ivan Dixon

| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= Shirl Hendryx|t= Shirl Hendryx & Raymond Sinclair}}

| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|1971|11|23}}

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| ShortSummary = After coming home from Vietnam, a U.S. Marine is accused of murdering innocent Vietnamese women and children.

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| EpisodeNumber = 13

| Title = Brother Zachary

| DirectedBy = Richard Chambers

| WrittenBy = George Armitage & Raymond Sinclair

| OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1971|12|7}}

| ProdCode = A028

| ShortSummary = An outreach ministry that lends help to drug addicts, helping them get straight, becomes the target of a biker gang who doesn't like the group doing away with their dope buying customers.

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| EpisodeNumber = 14

| Title = A Killer Among Us

| DirectedBy = James Hogan

| WrittenBy = Norman Katkov & Joyce Perry

| OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1971|12|14}}

| ProdCode = A004

| ShortSummary = A Latin labor representative is murdered which ignites protests of racial hatred in the series finale.

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Music

"Theme from 'Monty Nash'" was written and produced by Michael Lloyd, and released as a single in 1971 on Quad Records (a division of

Four Star International, the studio that syndicated and co-produced the series), credited as by The Good Stuff, a group of session players.

References

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