On this day in television history - The Asphalt Jungle (1961):

The Asphalt Jungle

directed by Herman Hoffman, Gerald Mayer and Joseph M. Newman,

was released in the United States on April 2, 1961 and ran for one season until June 25, 1961.
Inspired by The Asphalt Jungle (1950), directed by John Huston, based on the novel by W. R. Burnett.
Music by Calvin Jackson.

Cast:

Jack Warden, Arch Johnson, William Smith, Dallas Mitchell, George Kennedy, Bernard Kates, Terry Becker, Milton Selzer, Adam Williams, Barnaby Hale, Frank Maxwell, Ted Knight, Norma Crane, Douglas Odney, Robert Vaughn, John Ireland, Skip Homeier, Fritz Weaver, Philip Carey, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Paul Stewart, Leo Penn, Edward Binns, Robert Douglas, Ellen Madison, Eric Berry, Vera Miles, Beverly Garland, Joyce Meadows, Virginia Christine, Linda Watkins, Ross Elliott, Paul Carr, Malcolm Atterbury, Robert F. Simon, Alexander Scourby, Leora Dana, Sydney Pollack, Lurene Tuttle, Ken Lynch, Eileen Ryan, Val Avery, Steve Brodie, Erin O'Brien, Paul Genge, Suzi Carnell, Carl Don, Gavin MacLeod, Morgan Woodward, Dabbs Greer, Robert H. Harris, Arthur Batanides, Jena Engstrom, Robert Sampson, Emile Meyer, Guy Raymond, Barry Russo, John Astin, Elizabeth MacRae, Josip Elic, Maxine Stuart, Nora Marlowe, Lew Gallo, James Bonnet, Robert Bailey, Jerry Wayne, Zolya Talma, Yvette Vickers, John Harmon, Than Wyenn, Jan Arvan, Hugh Sanders, Jack Reitzen, Mary Lawrence, Charles Cantor, Kay Doubleday, Pat Meikle, Michael Constantine, Ellen Corby, Robert Brubaker, Joan Tompkins, Will J. White, Jay Adler, Frank Behrens, Iphigenie Castiglioni, Ken Tilles, Frank Overton, Henry Beckman, James Seay, Warren J. Kemmerling, Gene Roth, Ollie O'Toole, Lou Krugman, Felix Deebank, Joan Staley, Everett Sloane, Frank Ferguson, Abraham Sofaer, Adrienne Marden, John Zaremba, Brad Morrow, Miriam Goldina, Marianne Stewart, Joseph Mell, Arny Freeman, Clegg Hoyt, David White, Joseph Ruskin, Natalie Trundy, William Keene, Dori Simmons, Michael Parks, Warren Parker, Joe Turkel, James Westerfield, Gene Coogan, Ken Berry, John Davis Chandler, Ian Wolfe, Robert Bice, Richard George.

On this day in movie history - The Super Cops (1974 movie & book):

The Super Cops

directed by Bob Rafelson,

written by Lorenzo Semple Jr.,

based on the book by L. H. Whittemore,

was released in the United States on March 20, 1974.
Music by Jerry Fielding.

Cast:

Ron Leibman, David Greenberg, David Selby, Robert Hantz, Sheila Frazier, Pat Hingle, Dan Frazer, Joseph Sirola, Arny Freeman, Bernard Kates, Alex Colon, Charles Turner, Ralph Wilcox, Al Fann, Albert Henderson.

Recommended reading:

The Super Cops:

The True Story of the Cops Called Batman and Robin

By L.H. Whittemore.

ASIN: B000GSLVF4

Published by Bantam Books.

Published 1973.

Description:

The year's smash bestseller about two kids from Brooklyn who teamed up to become the most outrageous most-wanted swashbucklers in the Wild East! They made a record number of arrests and got over 90% convictions, defying the hopelessly screwed-up bureaucracyall the way. If the police system drowned the best cops in the most paperwork, this cop combination learned how to swim against the tide. If the mob tried to hassle them, they hassled back with a vengence. A whole neighborhood turned out to watch them arrest a drug dealer who had sworn to kill them. Posing as addicts, they got caught inside a dealer's apartment and – with guns leveled at them – were ordered to mainline heroin on the spot. Stuck? You've got to be kidding! Much decorated, Greenberg and Hantz have been shot at not only by hoods but be the system which thinks they're too good to be true. Promoted to detective in their mid-twenties, they've survived more than thirty investigations by superiors, civil liberties groups, the FBI and the Knapp Commission on Police Corruption. They're no the New Centurions. They're not the Blue Knights. They are Greenberg and Hantz – two tough kids from Coney Island who have become a living legend. The Super Cops: The True Story of the Cops Called Batman and Robin.