Coronet Blue

5.5

1967•1h

Coronet Blue is an American TV series that ran on CBS from May 29, 1967, to September 4, 1967. It starred Frank Converse as Michael Alden, an amnesiac in search of his identity, with Brian Bedford his co-star. The show's 13 episodes were filmed in 1965 and were originally intended to be shown during the 1965-66 television season, but CBS put the show on hiatus when they reversed an earlier decision to cancel the drama Slattery's People. The network had plans to show Coronet Blue the following year, with CBS head of programming Michael Dann saying that, "there still is enormous enthusiasm" for it, but it would take another full year until the network aired it as a summer replacement. It proved moderately popular and developed a cult following. According to Converse, CBS wanted to renew it but by then Converse had signed to do another series for ABC, N.Y.P.D., which premiered the day after the last airing of Coronet Blue. Due to a number of pre-emptions, only 11 of the 13 episodes were shown during the initial run. The theme song was performed by R&B singer Lenny Welch.

Seasons

13 Episodes • Premiered 1967

1. A Time to Be Born

Very nearly a time to die, but that could happen.

2. The Assassins

""The mask with which you have favored us.""

3. The Rebels

Another perspective on the round-dance of obliquity.

4. A Dozen Demons

After being shot, Alden finds himself at a monastery, where a monk befriends him. Noticing a stained glass window of St. Anthony resembles him closely, they set out to find the artist who did it.

5. Faces

How they evanesce and plunge into memory.

6. Man Running

Game... after gameâ€”in the games... Alden gets between a revolutionary and the reaction.

7. A Charade for Murder

Anthony is lured to a strange apartment by a naval officer, where he finds a girl in a harem costume. Later he's accused of murdering the officer by the police when his body is found in a room where his finger prints are found.

8. Saturday

""from midnight to midnight no weeping""

9. Presence of Evil

A reluctant girl is used as a medium in a magic act, and a blue coronet is part of her costume. This intrigues Mike and Tony, who find the magician a strange and probably psychotic devil worshiper who won't let the girl go.

10. Six Months to Mars

Feds want to exploit Alden's amnesia for simulating a mission to Mars. Brainwashed, he and a partner are placed into a drug-induced simulator. His partner's breakdown aborts the mission, just as Michael begins to remember parts of his past.

11. The Flip Side of Timmy Devon

Alden hears a pop tune on the radio, supposedly from a dead singer, yet never released until that moment-but he somehow knows the lyrics already, and surmises that he had to have been present at the recording session. Tony joins him as they pressure the dead star's producer for information.