The New Adventures of Charlie Chan Television Show 1957 - 58

This series was based upon a character developed in over 40 motion
pictures of the 1930s and 1940s starring Warner Oland and Sidney Toler
and Roland Winters. It was also a sequel to several radio series.

The films and radio series were based upon a character created in
novels of Earl Derr Biggers, but were said to have been loosely
based on the life of Honolulu police detective named Chang Apana.
The lead character was an oriental detective sleuth who, with his
more modern "Number One Son", solved difficult cases, and who often 
taught his son lessons during the process by quoting 
pseudo-oriental aphorisms in the manner of Confucius...

The movies, radio and TV series incorporated some of the oriental
racial clichés of the day which seem a bit politically incorrect
now but an irony was the fact that despite the lead role being oriental, 

no oriental actors ever played him in movies or on radio or television.
J. Carroll Naish was actually of Irish heritage. 




DVD Disc 1: 

YOUR MONEY OR YOUR WIFE
SECRET OF THE SEA
THE LOST FACE
BLIND MAN'S BLUFF

DVD Disc 2: 

THE GREAT SALVOS
THE COUNTERFEITERS
DEATH OF A DON
THE FINAL CURTAIN 



DVD Disc 3: 

DEATH AT HIGH TIDE
EXHIBIT IN WAX
BACKFIRE
PATRON OF THE ARTS


DVD Disc 4: 

HAMLET IN FLAMES
DATELINE: EXECUTION
THE SWEATER
NOBLE ART OF MURDER



DVD Disc 5: 

THREE MEN ON A RAFT
NO HOLIDAY FOR MURDER
NO FUTURE FOR FREDERICK
THE SAFE DEPOSIT 


DVD Disc 6:

VOODOO DEATH
EX-PATRIOT
THE AIRPORT MURDER CASE
THE HAND OF HEDA PASS

DVD Disc 7: 

THE CHIPPENDALE RACKET
THE INVALID
MAN IN THE WALL
SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW
MAN WITH A HUNDRED FACES 

DVD Disc 8: 

THE POINT OF NO RETURN
A BOWL FOR CELLINI
WITHOUT FEAR
KIDNAP
RHYME OR REASON
 

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