Mystery Theater. Mark Saber of the Homicide Squad. The Case of the Invisible Death. 1953
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- Tom Conway stars as Inspector Mark Saber, with his sidekick Sergeant Tim Maloney played by James Burke. In this case, people are just dropping dead, with no apparent reason. The Inspector and Sergeant must find the cause. Willie Best plays the inspectors butler. Look for a young Virginia Christine in this episode, who later was "Mrs. Olson" in the popular Folgers coffee commercials in the 1960's and 1970's. ABC Network. Transferred from 16mm b-w film. Don't miss Mystery Theater. Mark Saber of the Homicide Squad. The Case of the Locked Room. • Mystery Theater. Mark ...
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It was good to see Willie Best,who I considered a fine,comedic actor.James Burke was likewise,and reminded me of Lyndon Johnson. Thank you,for posting this on TH-cam.
Burke is also looks likes Walter Matthau.
@@robg9236 🤣🤣
@@robg9236 Indeed ! As I do when I take off my hat, you make a good point !
That WAS Lyndon Baines Johnson!!
@@robg9236 That's what I was thinking too.
Originally telecast on December 14, 1951 (and repeated on March 9, 1953), for Sterling Drug {makers of Bayer aspirin, Phillips Milk of Magnesia, Molle Brushless shave cream, Double Danderine shampoo, and other fine products}. Verne Smith is the announcer.
Mr.tom conway detective series I love it keep on coming thanks somuch ❤🎉😅
Will do!
@@MoviecraftIncThank you!
Willie Best was one of producer Roland Reed's favorite actors. He was also featured on Stu Erwin's "TROUBLE WITH FATHER" and "MY LITTLE MARGIE" (essentially portraying the same character).
Always a pleasure to run into you. Your precise dope on these shows is informative and revealing. TY v
You're VERY welcome, Robert!
Liar liar and masks singing at the hate crime on a Fatter her mother. ,he and she did the lies
wasn't Best also in the Charlie Chan series?
He did appear in a few of them, in small roles.
The suave & debonaire Tom Conway reminds me of George Sanders who also played the suave & debonaire role.
They were brothers! I forget why they don't have the same last name.
@@hiramfibonik4907 You are right; I had forgotten that. That is why they were so similar...LOL...!! I will have to claim "Senior Moment" for that mind slip...!!
Indeed ! Though they were real life brothers, they didn't look much alike. But they certainly had similar voices & the same debonair, urbane & suave manner.
@@hiramfibonik4907they did have the same name. However when brother Tom came to Hollywood from England not to confuse people they decided that one had to change their name. They flipped s coin and Tom became Tom Conway
I hope to see more of these shows. They have all things unnecessary, out. All packed into less than 30 minutes.
Love this story. Thank you.👍
There are other TV episodes to be found on TH-cam. However, the issue with finding them is in how the person who shares these writes the Title?
The way the Title appears for the episodes looks like this:
MYSTER THEATER
Starring TOM CONWAY
as Inspector Mark Saber
HOMICIDE SQUAD
It was how I found more than one episode after this.
Also; George Sanders and Tom Conway are brothers. Hollywood studio flipped a coin to see which one would change their name.
Thank you for that tidbit; I can def. see the resemblance in both appearance and vocal mannerism....
According to IMDb, it was they who flipped the coin. Picky, I know.
Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it...
Indubidubly 🙂
J. Donald Wilson had previously produced {and directed} "THE NEW ADVENTURES OF NERO WOLFE" for NBC Radio in the 1950-'51 season.
Love Virginia! So talented - a true pro!
Truly A Raving Beauty!
Indeed ! A wonderfully talented actress who had a long life & prolific career. Off screen she had a long happy marriage to comedic actor Fritz Feld.
@@lamonthamilton667 She was no Hope Emerson, but the late great Virginia was indeed one fetching lass !
She was a really good actress
thanks
Love Tom Conway.
George Sanders' brother
Thank you!
Welcome!
Very enjoyable episode! Thanks for sharing.
I recognized the butler, Willie Best who plays the butler in other movies. I always wondered if he was bothered by being type cast as the bumbling butler?
Where's the folgers coffee Virginia? Who knew she was going to later be Mrs. Olson? She is so pretty. What a great popular cast. And enjoyable to watch.
Do you have more episodes of this Series?
Virginia was very pretty.
If you didn't mention it, I would have never made the connection to the Folgers coffee lady. She was attractive in the early years.
Willie Best was black. To work as an actor he had to play stereotypical roles. Mr. Best was villified by the black community in the 1960s for being an "Uncle Tom"
She was married to Fritz Feld. He udually played the comic head waiter who popped his mouth
@@arneldobumatay3702 I was wondering who she was.
Lester Dorr, the coroner, had a very long career, starting in 1930, until 1975. I've seen him in 8 movies on TH-cam: (I Wanted Wings (1941), Roar of the Press (1941), Stranger in Town (1943), Destroyer (1943), Roses Are Red(1947), Without Honor (1949), Quicksand (1950), Take the High Ground (1953), and now this TV show (1951). He was one of the original members of SAG, 1933.
Thanks Mr Mark Saber - many thanks!
Thank you Mr. Best for paving the way 🙏🏾
I preferred Paul Roberson.
Always interesting n ths 4 uploading this type of movie! USA
Thank you for this! I just discovered it.
You are so welcome!
I agree 100 per cent !
Thanks. Do you have anymore Mark Saber?
We are working on it. We have a couple more 16mm Saber's in storage. All we have to do is find them. 😎
@@MoviecraftInc Can't wait!
Thank you.
When he took Ilga out for coffee, I hope it was Folgers.
Ha ! That's rich !
I believe the actor that played detective Mark Saber played The Saint, he is the brother of the actor whom played The Saint first,George Sanders. George Sanders was also married to ZaZa Gabor.
HE ALSO PLAYED THE FALCON....
@@michaelmatthewkomaromigabr9588 Yes ! He took over the role of The Falcon from his brother George Sanders at RKO in the 40s when George tired of the role. Though George did portray The Saint, Tom never did on the screen. But in 1951 Mr, Conway did play The Saint on radio, taking over the role from Vincent Price.
Great channel, subscribed, looking forward to seeing more great videos.
Awesome, thank you!
Excellent !!!
Tom Conway was George Saunders brother.
Indubitably. It's amazing how similar their voices were. But they didn't look alike. I love how they both had that same charming & suave on-screen charisma.
*Sanders 😉
@@EYE_GOTCHA right my mistake.
And Tim Conway isn't related to either of them.
@@FlipDahlenburg Really?
I just ❤ LOVE this series! I think he's GORGEOUS...my "Type" as my mother and I would say....the looks I would fall for in movie stars 🌟 from childhood; the "British officer ", "French Foreign Legion officer", and of course.....David Niven! Don't even get me started on his rumbling upper class voice which makes my toes curl! .....you guessed it.....I'm single by choice because the poor guys who proposed just didn't match up.🤷♀️
Ya, ya.....I'm "shallow", but....we can't control who/what we're attracted to, nor should we feel obligated to settle for anything else.
Did you that IRL he's the brother of George Sanders?
@@davidhull7115 Didn't know that....
@@leilal8053 I only found out by reading his IMDb bio yesterday. He had a fascinating life.
No coffee Ilsa?
Ha !
Love Mark Saber🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
"Good to the last drop"?
Of course it is. Folger’s is mountain grown. That’s the Best kind of coffee.
Actually that's the slogan of Maxwell House coffee. The company originally claimed the slogan goes back to Theodore Roosevelt, who had breakfast at the original Maxwell House hotel/restaurant in Nashville & raved about the coffee there. But later they admitted the slogan was written by a company employee.
love all
There will be a few more people getting ill as he forgot the one that fell to the floor at 22:25! Just saying, lol.
Shout out to YTer Neil Sean for introducing me to Mark Saber.
Thanks for posting.
The cop at the beginning was just going to leave a supposed drunk lying on the street. The sidekick himself looks like a drunk. BTW, Conway played Sherlock Holmes on the radio. Quite well.
Indeed ! Tom Conway also played The Saint on radio, taking over the role from Vincent Price in 1951. I too noticed that Tom's sidekick at the start wanted to leave the victim alone, thinking he was a drunk. Not a very caring cop....thank goodness the inspector was more dedicated to his profession !
23:00 Cripes, did someone forget to put the breakaway prop chair on the set or something? That looked like it hurt, and conway looks a little startled after he connects himself. Hope the actor on the receiving end got a bonus for that one.
That does look like a big "Ouch"!
Supposedly, it is the job of the one who gets hit to "sell" the impact.
IMDb has this as series 1, episode 11, December 1951.
I remember Tom Conway when I was a child. I thought this series was British. I guess some were.
Ouch!
Strange that the opening indicates 1931 in Roman numerals xxxi as the production year as does the listing of the film.The mention or atomic piles was a giveaway that something had to be wrong..
This is much better than the ridiculous Saber in London series.
The London series was scripted and filmed several years later, I believe by a different writer for a different producer.
I enjoy the Mark Saber in London which was by the Danziger brothers.
I thought the ones from London were a bit funny.I especially like the policeman on a bike.
It's hard to accept Tom Conway died penniless. Zsa Zsa Gabor paid for the costs of his final hospitalisation but Conway decided to up and go and return to his girlfriend's place where he became gravely sick in her bed and eventually died. Similar story happened to his brother, George Sanders.
Interesting history on Tom Conway!
@@MoviecraftInc wikipedia!!
He drank it all away. And George committed suicide unfortunately. Unhappy people for life apparently.
Always like Virginia Christine - Judgement At Nuremburg - The Killers - first rate actress.
I agree 100 per cent ! Quite a talented actress & classy lady.
3:46. That's funny. We had purpura in our family & as far as I know none of us had burns from atomic poisoning exposure. 😂 Good grief!
So bad … but so addictive!!
This series in indeed no classic. But I too found it enjoyable. Low budget & generic but fun. Always enjoyed the performances of the late great Tom Conway. And he's supported by a very talented cast.
Sergeant Tim Malony seems a little reluctant to do his job. He moans whenever Inspector Saber asks him to do research or chase down leads. Perhaps the Inspector should consider having another sergeant assigned😀.
Isn't that Walter Mathau?
@@vampgirl92496 An Irish version
VERY likely this movie gave excellent idea Russian assessin killed Putin's crtitique in England, UK.
A hot gdlking guy!
He was no Huntz Hall, but he was indeed one handsome chap !
Mumjo - jumble with a black man as a slave butler who should have been the ⭐️ of the show.
Too many ads
Good cast: Tom Conway, James Burke. Virginia Christine, & Willie Best gone to waste due to a poor script & wooden direction by the usually reliable Eugene Forde.
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How thick is that detective????
Tom Conway looks as though he's trying to be George Sanders.
George Sanders was his brother: no ____!
Think of him as Albert King's opposite number.
I disagree. When younger both had almost the same voice but Tom Conway was unique in his own personality ... and much better looking than Sanders.
Saber talks like an Englishman. Is he?
Boy did they know about the Russian involvement in killing by radiation these writers did they know or?
70 years ago. Damn good. Sometimes science fiction is science fact.
Scriptwriting is terrible!! "Better take a look at him, just another drunk, why bother, I really want to get home". Most people would have raced to the fallen guy to see if he was ok especially a detective of the homicide squad.
I’m not crazy about this show and yes Tom Conway is an alcoholic don’t be so hard on him, it is a disease.
K
It was a half an hour show from the nineteen fifties. Then don't watch it.
@@user-tn1er9mj1p i guess you're happy to watch any cr@p!!
This series predated the Civil Rights movement. The portrayal of the butler as both ignorant and obsequious enraged African Americans and both amused white racists and reinforced their racism.
True. It was so natural to diminish and make fun of Afro-Americans . Now things are changing ... for the best.
Gosh. I guess they shouldn't have worked at acting at ALL then, as 10s of 1000s of OTHER out if work actors did not because they NEVER GOT THE CHANCE OR WERE ABOVE "ACTING".
Give me a break!! And STOP TREATING BLACKS LIKE DUMB CHILDREN WHO DONT CHOSE THEIR OWN PATH AND NEED YOU TO HOLD THEIR HAND BECAUSE THEY'RE TOO DUMB TO DO IT THEMSELVES!! Apparently you think this was the ONLY type of role they played. That's Well, that's BECAUSE YOU ARE INDEED THE PREJUDICED ONES. THE VIRTUE SIGNALLERS. Just go away. Oh, and by the way - EVERY RACE has stereotypes for a REASON & every race has characters portrayed in show business as those people. EVERY SINGLE ONE.
Yes, I'm black, and I still think, gangsta rap is similar to ignorant butler....our best time, was before GANGSTA RAP
However Bryson Gray, is GREAT
a decent RAP artist
Now that you have grandstanded about how utterly brilliant and perfect you are, are you happy?
Thumbs down for the stereotypical bumbling Butler.
Thumbs up because it's Willie Best. He's just doing a Gracie Allen routine.
Most Bugs Bunny cartoons have a better plot.
Saber in London , is better
With one armed Daniel Gray
He drives his car..
It may have been adjusted
This is America which Trump would return.
Looking much worse for wear
In the rear view mirror, this show is like a satire of the 1950's... it'd be hilarious on Saturday night live...
I spy Mrs. Folgers 👀🦻🏻🍮.
*Mrs. Olson 😊