Shaft

📊 Series Specifications

Network CBS
Episode Runtime ~75 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 7
Original Language EN
Creator Ernest Tidyman

Shaft (1973)

Created by Ernest Tidyman
⭐ 3.6 / 5 (6 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 7 Episodes 🏷️ Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime 📡 Ended
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Series Status:

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Synopsis

Shaft is a series of TV movies that aired along with Hawkins during 1973-74 television season on The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies. The series was based on three films beginning with Shaft, and starring Richard Roundtree as private detective John Shaft. Because it was aired on over-the-air television, CBS felt that the character needed to be toned down. Now instead of working against the police, he worked with them. The series rotated with Hawkins starring James Stewart as a country lawyer who investigates his cases, similarly to his earlier film Anatomy of a Murder. Contemporary analysts suggested that since the two shows appealed to vastly different audience bases, alternating them only served to confuse fans of both series, giving neither one the time to build up a large viewership.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 The Enforcers
E2 The Killing
E3 Hit-Run
E4 The Kidnapping
E5 Cop Killer
E6 The Capricorn Murders
E7 The Murder Machine