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The Detectives (1959)/Adopted

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Adopted
Season 2, Episode 9
Airdate November 25, 1960
Written by teleplay
Harry Kronman
Erna Lazarus
story
Erna Lazarus
Directed by Ted Post
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The Detectives (1959)Season Two
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Adopted is the ninth episode of the second season of The Detectives (1959), and the forty-second episode overall.

Guest Stars: Anne Seymour (Mrs. Martin), Eddie Ryder (Ray Graham), Jena Engstrom (Ann Martin), Ursula Thiess (Lisa Bonay), Patricia Breslin (Jean Graham)

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Plot Overview

The illegal adoption of a baby by his friends Ray (Eddie Ryder) and Jean Graham (Patricia Breslin) places Captain Matt Holbrook (Robert Taylor) in the role of a seeming villain when he intervenes in a baby extortion case.

Jean is Captain Holbrook’s former secretary. The real mother is demanding money from the Grahams, threatening to reclaim the child who the Grahams have raised since infancy. Also involved are a crooked lawyer and a wealthy grandmother.

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