Dan Raven

At the age of thirty, former child star Skip Homeier was cast as the television detective in Dan Raven.

Dan Raven is an American crime drama starring Skip Homeier (1930-2017) which aired on NBC between January 23, 1960, and January 6, 1961. The setting of the television series is the Sunset Strip of West Hollywood, California. The series focuses on activities of the sheriff's department, including the fictitious Lieutenant Dan Raven and his assistant, Sergeant Burke, played by Dan Barton (1921-2009). Quinn K. Redeker (born 1936) appeared as photographer Perry Levitt. The program aired for a half-hour from January to September 1960, when it expanded for thirteen hour-long segments.​

Dan Raven featured contemporary celebrities appearing as themselves, including Buddy Hackett (1924-2003), Paul Anka, Marty Ingels (1936-2015), Bob Crewe, and Bobby Darin (1936-1973), who appeared in the first of the hour-long episodes, "The High Cost of Fame."^[1]​

The Warner Brothers series, 77 Sunset Strip, ran on ABC at 9 p.m. Eastern on the same Friday evenings as Dan Raven, which started at 7:30. Dan Raven, in the hour format, faced difficult opposition from the second season of CBS' Rawhide, starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood. Its competition on ABC was the sitcom Harrigan and Son, starring Pat O'Brien and Roger Perry.^[2]​

Other selected episodes[edit]

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• "The Mechanic" with Buddy Hackett on September 30.​
• "The Trade" with Paul Anka on October 7.​
• "Penny" with Paul Richards (1924–1974) on October 21.​
• "The Empty Frame" with Suzanne Storrs on October 28​.
• "The Night Is Numbered" with Paul Crewe on November 4.​
• "The Satchel Man" with Paul Anka and Parley Baer on November 11.​
• "The Junket" with Don Dubbins (1928–1991) and Mel Torme (1925–1999) on November 18​.
• "The Man on the Ledge" with Marty Ingels on November 25.​
• "Amateur Night" with Marty Ingels and Claude Akins (1926–1994) on December 2.​
• "Tinge of Red" with Julie London (1926–2000), Judson Pratt, and Gavin MacLeod (born 1930) on December 16​
• "Buy a Nightmare" with Don Haggerty (1914–1988), Harvey Lembeck (1923–1982), and [[[[Adrienne Ellis, the series finale.^[3]​

​ Dan Raven was replaced on January 13, 1961, by the return of Ronnie Burns' Happy comedy series about a talking baby.​ ​

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