Coronado 9

Starring: Rod Cameron
First Aired: September 6, 1960
Number of Seasons: 1
Estimated Production Cost: $60,000* per episode with inflation

Considering Rod Cameron was a well-known figure in the 1950s and 1960s, it was hoped that his casting in Coronado 9 would help the series get off to a strong start in its early seasons. The series followed Dan Adams (Cameron), a private investigator who used his US Navy background to solve cases while working as a private detective. Several clips from the show, which was created by Revue Studios, are available for free viewing on YouTube. Despite the fact that the show only lasted one season and thirty-nine episodes, it featured guest appearances by celebrities such as Beverly Garland and Doug McClure. In December of 2010, Timeless Media released a DVD of the entire series. Despite a great deal of excitement around its premiere, the show was a failure, and production was suspended after 39 episodes.

Coronado 9

Diver Dan

Starring: Allen Swift, Frank D. Freda, Suzanne Turner
First Aired: January 4, 1960
Number of Seasons: N/A
Estimated Production Cost: Unknown

Children in the 1960s were a lot easier to please than today’s generation of teenagers. Smartphones did not exist at the time, and the only sources of entertainment were the imagination and non-computerized toy collections. Diver Dan, as well as cartoons in general, were enormously popular. Diver Dan was not produced by a major television network such as Disney or CBS. Instead, Brian Cartoons produced the show, which was then released by ITC Entertainment. Later, it would be syndicated to NBC affiliates, and local stations would re-edit the segments into half-hour blocks for broadcast. It was created by John Ferlaine, who also served as executive producer. He is a cartoonist himself, and he got the concept for this from a comic strip he did called Fish Tales.

Diver Dan