Actor Ed Fury is not even credited as the "star" of this episode. Ed's name isn't mentioned in the opening credits nor the end credits. Ed Fury plays the role of an Olympic Champion who is the honorary star of a ticker-tape parade. In fact Ed Fury's character is the only reason the parade is being held. Ed Fury gets the most screen time and has all the best lines but doesn't even get mentioned. Ed Fury did go on to star in many Sword & Sandal style movies in Europe during the 1960s. I wrote to Ed for many years and gained a great deal of insight into moviemaking in Italy during that magical time. Larry Anderson
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kapelusznik188 November 2013
***SPOILERS**** Eerily similar to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing some 54 years later this "Naked City" episode has to do with a disgruntled NYC Park's employee Alton Marshak who felt he was given a raw dead, canned from his job of some 20 years, and now was going to get even with those who screwed him by blowing up City Hall. And do it at the end of a ticker tape parade for Olympic hero Mason "Mace" Conway at the end of the biggest ticker tape parade since VJ Day.
It's never fully explained just why Marshak had it in for the city and why he was fired, he did a few bad things is what he said, but his reasons were enough for him to end up possibly killing dozens of people including the mayor and members of the city consul as well as "Mace" and his blind, from a car accident, and lovely wife Arline.
As you would have expected, unlike in the 2013 Boston Maraton bombing, the local police got the drop on Marshak and prevent his dream of revenge from coming true. Not due to any excellent police work on their part but because of Marshak's big mouth that he just couldn't keep shut and blabbed out his intentions more or less to anyone close to him in the parade march.
It was detective James "Jimmy" Hallaron who save the day as well as dozens of lives by putting his life on the line by disposing the make shift bomb that Marshak planned to cause death and destruction at the end of the parade route at City Hall. And for all that all Jimmy got was a pat on the back, not a ticker tape parade in his honor, and a "keep up the good work" from his superiors who in fact owed their lives as well as limbs, if they survived the explosion, to him.
It's never fully explained just why Marshak had it in for the city and why he was fired, he did a few bad things is what he said, but his reasons were enough for him to end up possibly killing dozens of people including the mayor and members of the city consul as well as "Mace" and his blind, from a car accident, and lovely wife Arline.
As you would have expected, unlike in the 2013 Boston Maraton bombing, the local police got the drop on Marshak and prevent his dream of revenge from coming true. Not due to any excellent police work on their part but because of Marshak's big mouth that he just couldn't keep shut and blabbed out his intentions more or less to anyone close to him in the parade march.
It was detective James "Jimmy" Hallaron who save the day as well as dozens of lives by putting his life on the line by disposing the make shift bomb that Marshak planned to cause death and destruction at the end of the parade route at City Hall. And for all that all Jimmy got was a pat on the back, not a ticker tape parade in his honor, and a "keep up the good work" from his superiors who in fact owed their lives as well as limbs, if they survived the explosion, to him.
Why didn't actor Ed Fury get any credit for his appearance?
FloridaFred6 November 2022
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Tense story of a depressed maniac planning to bomb New York City Hall at the climax of a Ticker Tape parade honoring an Olympics champion. This show includes great historic footage of parades in New York City, during its glory days.
As another commenter stated in detail, the star of this show, body-builder weight-lifter Ed Fury (birth name Rupert Edmund Holovchik) is not credited. Not sure why; he was very popular in the 1950's in 60's, appearing in a number of "swords and sandals" movies. Those movies were historic fiction, based in ancient Greece and ancient Rome. Ed Fury played a bronzed muscular hero in many of those films.
It's very touching that the wife "Beverly" (actress Arline Conway) of Olympics champion "Mace Conway" is blind. Apparently from a car accident, which is mentioned briefly as they talk in their suite at the Waldorf Astoria hotel. Mace is loyal and devoted to his wife, and tells her, "All the times I tried so hard during The Games, the real reason, was for you!"
The only drawback here, other than no credit to the great Ed Fury, is the sloppy security and lousy police presence that would allow a terrorist bomber to get in the front row of the parade. Exactly how could that happen, even in better times in the 1950's?
Still a good show, and of course Detective Halloran (actor James Franciscus) will jump in to save the day.
I rate "Ticker Tape" 8 stars.
Tense story of a depressed maniac planning to bomb New York City Hall at the climax of a Ticker Tape parade honoring an Olympics champion. This show includes great historic footage of parades in New York City, during its glory days.
As another commenter stated in detail, the star of this show, body-builder weight-lifter Ed Fury (birth name Rupert Edmund Holovchik) is not credited. Not sure why; he was very popular in the 1950's in 60's, appearing in a number of "swords and sandals" movies. Those movies were historic fiction, based in ancient Greece and ancient Rome. Ed Fury played a bronzed muscular hero in many of those films.
It's very touching that the wife "Beverly" (actress Arline Conway) of Olympics champion "Mace Conway" is blind. Apparently from a car accident, which is mentioned briefly as they talk in their suite at the Waldorf Astoria hotel. Mace is loyal and devoted to his wife, and tells her, "All the times I tried so hard during The Games, the real reason, was for you!"
The only drawback here, other than no credit to the great Ed Fury, is the sloppy security and lousy police presence that would allow a terrorist bomber to get in the front row of the parade. Exactly how could that happen, even in better times in the 1950's?
Still a good show, and of course Detective Halloran (actor James Franciscus) will jump in to save the day.
I rate "Ticker Tape" 8 stars.
This episode is a bomb, literally
lor_16 December 2023
Basically filled with local color as our heroes guard a ticker tape parade for an Olympic hero, this "ticking time bomb" episode is a weak one for Stirling Silliphant, generating a modicum of suspense leading to a big-nothing bomb disposal climax.
Subplot offers a brief spotlight for a very attractive girl-next-store blind heroine played by Beverly Bentley, who was Norman Mailer's wife and appeared in several of his "underground" movies he directed in the '60s. She is a captivating presence on screen here -a dead ringer for Patty McCormack as an adult (she was born 15 years earlier than the child star). She plays the wife of the nominal handsome "hero", body-builder Ed Fury, who oddly enough gets no screen credit at all. That's show biz.
With newsreel-type footage of an actual ticker-tape parade edited in, we're definitely in Manhattan, but the story doesn't build. Silliphant's portrait of your average lone-wolf terrorist is something of a Pollyannaish portrait, a disgruntled creep with a grievance, whose defeat at the hands of the police merely demonstrates way back in 1959 the more recent motto of "if you see something, say something".
Subplot offers a brief spotlight for a very attractive girl-next-store blind heroine played by Beverly Bentley, who was Norman Mailer's wife and appeared in several of his "underground" movies he directed in the '60s. She is a captivating presence on screen here -a dead ringer for Patty McCormack as an adult (she was born 15 years earlier than the child star). She plays the wife of the nominal handsome "hero", body-builder Ed Fury, who oddly enough gets no screen credit at all. That's show biz.
With newsreel-type footage of an actual ticker-tape parade edited in, we're definitely in Manhattan, but the story doesn't build. Silliphant's portrait of your average lone-wolf terrorist is something of a Pollyannaish portrait, a disgruntled creep with a grievance, whose defeat at the hands of the police merely demonstrates way back in 1959 the more recent motto of "if you see something, say something".
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