Dave Barrett
Created by Sam H. Rolfe

DAVE BARRETT is an ex-WWI marine turned bounty hunter who goes up against a Bonnie-and-Clyde team of bankrobbers who murdered his former girlfriend in Manhunter, a 1974 TV movie. Dave was played by Ken Howard, later to star as television's The White Shadow.

The film served as a pilot for a series from 1974-75, which continued Barrett's adventures as he wandered around the country in his spiffy 1929 Cadillac, tracking down various Depression-era criminals for cold, hard cash, while working out of his Idaho farmhouse.

UNDER OATH

• "Ken Howard plays a rural private eye of the 1930s as if he were afraid that sudden mobilization of his facial muscles would crack his handsome lines. Luckily the scripts require him to do little more than slip behind the wheel of what bad old novels described as a "high-powered" car and set off on cross-country chases after the current episode's miscreants. For variety, there are many closeups of the car's head lamps and fenders, which are about as emotionally expressive as the leading man—and as beautiful in the same old-fashioned sort of way. Such suspense as the show works up derives from one's fear of seeing either one scratched."
  (Richard Schinkel, Time Magazine, Monday, Nov. 11, 1974)

TELEVISION

• MANHUNTER
  (1974, CBS)
  90 minutes made-for-TV movie
  Premiere: February 26, 1974
  Teleplay by Sam Rolfe
  Directed by Walter Grauman
  Produced by Adrian Samish
  A Quinn Martin Production
  Starring Ken Howard as DAVE BARRETT
  Also starring Gary Lockwood, Tim O'Connor, James Olson, Stefanie Powers, John Anderson, L.Q. Jones, Ford Rainey, Robert Hogan, R.G. Armstrong, Luke Askew, Marie Windsor, Ben Frank, Robert Patten, Mary Cross
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• THE MANHUNTER
  (1974-1975, CBS)
  60-minute episodes
  Premiere: September 11, 1974
  Created by Sam Rolfe
  Directors: Leslie H. Martinson
  Produced by Adrian Samish
  A Quinn Martin Production
  Starring Ken Howard as DAVE BARRETT
  with Robert Hogan as Sheriff Paul Tate
  Hilary Thompson as Lizabeth Barrett
  Claudia Bryar as Mary Barrett
  and Ford Rainey as James Barrett
  Guest stars: Lenore Kasdorf, Katherine Justice, Chris Robinson, Ramon Bieri, Marj Dusay, Monte Markham, Peter Haskell, Robert Pine, Laurie Prange, James Sloyan, John Fiedler, David Hedison
  

• (September 11, 1974)
• "Trackdown" (October 9, 1974)
• "The Doomsday Gang" (October 23, 1974)
• "The Deadly Brothers" (October 30, 1974)
• "The Wrong Man" (February 5, 1975)
• "Trial by Terror" (March 5, 1975)
• "The Man Who Thought He Was Dillinger"
• (April 9, 1975)

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.