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==Quinn Martin television series==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Series produced by Quinn Martin
|-
! Title !! First Episode !! Final Episode  ||  Genre  ||  Seasons  ||  Episodes  ||  Original Network
|-
| ''[[The New Breed (TV series)|The New Breed]]'' || October 3, 1961 || June 5, 1962  ||  Crime drama  ||  1  ||  36  || rowspan="6" |  ABC
|-
| ''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]'' || September 17, 1963 || August 29, 1967  ||  Crime drama  ||  4  ||  120  
|-
| ''[[Twelve O'Clock High (TV series)|Twelve O'Clock High]]'' || September 18, 1964 || January 13, 1967  ||  Military drama  ||  3  ||  78  
|-
| ''[[The F.B.I. (TV series)|The F.B.I.]]'' || September 19, 1965 || April 28, 1974  ||  Crime drama  ||  9  ||  241  
|-
| ''[[The Invaders]]'' || January 10, 1967 || March 26, 1968  ||  Science fiction  ||  2  ||  43  
|-
| ''[[Dan August]]'' || September 23, 1970 || April 8, 1971  ||  Crime drama  ||  1  ||  26  
|-
| ''[[Cannon (TV series)|Cannon]]'' || September 14, 1971 || March 3, 1976  ||  Crime drama  ||  5  ||  122  ||  CBS
|-
| ''[[Banyon]]'' || September 15, 1972 || January 12, 1973  ||  Crime drama  || 1  || 15  ||  NBC
|-
| ''[[The Streets of San Francisco]]'' || September 16, 1972 || June 9, 1977  ||  Crime drama  || 5  || 121  ||  ABC
|-
| ''[[Barnaby Jones]]'' || January 23, 1973 || April 3, 1980  ||  Crime drama  ||  8  ||  178  || rowspan="2" |  CBS
|-
| ''[[The Manhunter]]'' || September 11, 1974 || March 5, 1975  ||  Crime drama  ||  1  ||  22  
|-
| ''[[Caribe (American TV series)|Caribe]]'' || February 17, 1975 || May 12, 1975  ||  Crime drama  ||  1  ||  13  || rowspan="3" |ABC
|-
| ''[[Bert D'Angelo/Superstar]]'' || February 21, 1976 || July 10, 1976  ||  Crime drama  ||  1  ||  12  
|-
| ''[[Most Wanted (1976 TV series)|Most Wanted]]'' || October 16, 1976 || August 20, 1977  ||  Crime drama  ||  1  ||  21  
|-
| ''[[Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected]]'' || February 2, 1977 || August 24, 1977  ||  Horror/Sci Fi  ||  1  ||  8  || rowspan="3" |  NBC
|-
| ''[[The Runaways (TV series)|The Runaways]]'' || April 27, 1978 || September 4, 1979  ||  Drama  ||  2  ||  18  
|-
| ''[[A Man Called Sloane]]'' || September 22, 1979 || December 22, 1979  ||  Secret Agent  ||  1  ||  12  
|}

Besides producing sixteen one-hour [[television network]] series, he also produced twenty "made-for-TV" movies, including ''[[Dan August#Relation to earlier works|House on Greenapple Road]]'' (1970), ''[[Incident in San Francisco]]'' (1971), ''Murder or Mercy'' (1974), ''The FBI Story: The FBI vs. [[Alvin Karpis]], Public Enemy Number One'' (1974), ''[[Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan]]'' (1975), and ''[[Brink's: The Great Robbery]]'' (1976). Some TV movies, like ''[[Code Name: Diamond Head]]'' (1977), and ''[[The Hunted Lady]]'' (1977), were originally filmed as pilots for new television dramas which were never picked up by the networks. His only feature film was ''[[The Mephisto Waltz]]'' (1971), released by [[20th Century Studios]].<ref>Jonathan Etter, p. 101-105, ''Quinn Martin, Producer: A Behind-the-Scenes History of QM Productions and Its Founder'', McFarland, {{ISBN|978-0-7864-3867-9}}.</ref>

In 1978, a duo of investors purchased his wholly self-owned QM Productions; they subsequently sold it to [[Taft Broadcasting]] in 1979.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.waldencapital.com/meetTheTeam.html |title=Martin B. Boorstein profile |access-date=January 18, 2007 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410060950/http://www.waldencapital.com/meetTheTeam.html |archive-date=April 10, 2009 }} at Walden Capital Partners.</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117475065/taft-broadcasting-acquires-qm-production/ | title=Taft Broadcasting acquires QM Productions (Page 1) | newspaper=The Los Angeles Times | date=February 1979 | page=55 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117475180/taft-broadcasting-acquires-qm-production/ | title=Taft Broadcasting acquires QM Productions (Page 2) | newspaper=The Los Angeles Times | date=February 1979 | page=56 }}</ref> In 1980, the company launched a pay television division hiring HBO executive Harlem Kleiman as executive.<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 12, 1980 |title=Monitor |pages=54 |work=[[Broadcasting & Cable|Broadcasting]] |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/80-OCR/1980-05-12-BC-OCR-Page-0054.pdf |access-date=October 22, 2023}}</ref> In 1984, QM Productions became Taft Entertainment Television, with the sitcom ''[[The Lucie Arnaz Show]]'' being the first program to carry the new name.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hastings |first=Julianne |date=April 15, 1984 |title=Here's Lucie's TV new comedy |pages=157 |work=[[New York Daily News]]}}</ref>

===Typical format of a QM program===
Shows produced by the company were usually introduced by announcer [[Dick Wesson (announcer)|Dick Wesson]] or [[Hank Simms]] reading the title of the series and saying, "A Quinn Martin Production." Images of the stars of the show, followed by the guest stars for that week, were shown and their names announced, followed by "Tonight's episode", and the name of the episode, with various to-black effects.  In some series, such as ''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]'' and ''[[The Invaders]]'', its backstory that led to the plot of the series, narrated by the announcer or the star, was told before the show's guest stars were announced. While episodes were structured into the usual four "acts" and an "epilogue," each was explicitly labelled at the start of each segment with the show title and the act number (or "epilogue" near the end of the program).