Mack & Myer for Hire

Starring: Mickey Deems, Joey Faye
First Aired: 1963
Number of Seasons: 1
Estimated Production Cost: $1,000 per episode (unable to hire guest actors)*

It is likely that sci-fi aficionados will know this one because it was produced by sci-fi creator Irwin Allen, who had previously made four other programs that centred around science fiction notions prior to Land of the Giants. Land of the Giants even developed its own media property in the form of novels, which is still in production. Three of the books based on the series were written by Murray Leinster, a well-known science-fiction author, and the other two were written by other authors. It starred Kurt Kasznar as a special guest and Gary Conway as the main protagonist in Land of the Giants. Several characters were trapped on a planet where everything is twelve times the size of Earth after being caught in the magnetic field of an interplanetary space storm.

Mack & Myer For Hire

Miami Undercover

Starring: Lee Bowman, Rocky Graziano
First Aired: January 23, 1961
Number of Seasons: 1
Estimated Production Cost: $10,000 per episode*

You’ve probably heard of Miami Vice and CSI: Miami, but you might not have heard of Miami Undercover, which was a one-season television series that aired in 1961 and served as a sort of prequel to those shows (and thirty-eight episodes). Miami Undercover was a crime drama in which Lee Bowman played as Jeff Thompson, a private investigator who works in Miami. In the film, Thompson and his partner (played by retired boxer Rocky Graziano) are paid by local business owners to keep the area surrounding their establishment clean and free of criminal activity. Despite the fact that the show was broadcast in black and white and shot with a single camera, it appeared to be shot in the 1950s.

Miami Undercover