Shaft
All-new Shaft thrills!
Shaft is a series of TV movies that aired along with Hawkins during 1973-74 television season on The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies. The series was based on three films beginning with Shaft, and starring Richard Roundtree as private detective John Shaft. Because it was aired on over-the-air television, CBS felt that the character needed to be toned down. Now instead of working against the police, he worked with them. The series rotated with Hawkins starring James Stewart as a country lawyer who investigates his cases, similarly to his earlier film Anatomy of a Murder. Contemporary analysts suggested that since the two shows appealed to vastly different audience bases, alternating them only served to confuse fans of both series, giving neither one the time to build up a large viewership.
Created by Ernest Tidyman
Seasons
Cast
Richard Roundtree
Eddie Barth
Clu Gulager
Sid HaigCrew
Lawrence Dobkin (Director), Allen Reisner (Director), Nicholas Colasanto (Director), Lee Philips (Director), Alexander Singer (Director), Harry Harris (Director)
Known as
Data: TMDB (this product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB), Wikidata.