Men of Annapolis is a 41-episode half-hour syndicated

Television syndication

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 drama

Drama

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 television series in anthology format which aired from 1957–1958 and was hosted by the voice of Art Gilmore

Art Gilmore

Arthur Wells "Art" Gilmore was an American voice actor and announcer whose voice has been heard in radio and television programs, movies, trailers, advertising promotions and documentary films.-Biography:...

. Darryl Hickman

Darryl Hickman

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 appeared four times on the program as Dusty Rhodes, a fictitious midshipman at the United States Naval Academy

United States Naval Academy

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 in Annapolis

Annapolis, Maryland

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, Maryland

Maryland

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.

Guy Williams appeared twice as Steve Clay. Jack Mullaney

Jack Mullaney

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 appeared twice as Styron. Harry Harvey, Jr. appeared twice as Wally Mason. Judson Pratt

Judson Pratt

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 appeared twice in separate roles in the episodes "Miss Fire" and "All-American". Jud Taylor

Jud Taylor

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 appeared twice as Red Magruder. Alan Dinehart, III appeared twice as Joe Marrison in episodes entitled "Seawall" and "Boxing Lesson".

Richard Eastham

Richard Eastham

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  starred in the series premiere "Counter Flood". In the episode "Blue & Gray", Dwayne Hickman

Dwayne Hickman

Dwayne Bernard Hickman is a former American actor and television executive at CBS.He is known primarily for his "teenage" actor roles on television sitcoms. The naturally brown-headed Hickman is best known for playing Chuck MacDonald, Bob Collins's crazy teenaged nephew, on the popular 1950s...

 appeared with his brother, Darryl Hickman, as well as Jack Mullaney and Jud Taylor. Robert Blake

Robert Blake

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 appeared in the episode "The White Hat".

Paul Burke

Paul Burke (actor)

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 appeared as Wesley Edmont in the episode "Seawall". L.Q. Jones appeared in "Mister Fireball". Adam Kennedy

Adam Kennedy (actor)

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 appeared in the episode "Mister Number Five". Leo Carrillo

Leo Carrillo

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 appeared once, with Harry Harvey, Jr., in "Rescue at Sea". Former child actor

Child actor

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 Bobby Driscoll

Bobby Driscoll

Robert Cletus "Bobby" Driscoll was an American child actor known for a large body of cinema and TV performances from 1943 to 1960. He starred in some of The Walt Disney Company's most popular live-action pictures of that period, such as Song of the South , So Dear to My Heart , and Treasure Island...

 had the title role in "The Irwin Brown Story".

Men of Annapolis, a Ziv production

Ziv Television Programs

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 (part of MGM

MGM Television

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), was filmed at the Naval Academy. Leonard Freeman

Leonard Freeman

Leonard Freeman was an American television writer and producer whose most famous achievement was the creation of the CBS television network series Hawaii Five-O in 1968. The show ran for twelve seasons. At the time that was a record for a crime drama. In 1960, he wrote for the series Route 66; in...

, later with CBS's Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for twelve seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. The show featured a fictional state police unit run by Detective Steve McGarrett,...

crime drama, was one of the writers of the series.

See also

A similar syndicated series, The Silent Service

The Silent Service (TV series)

The Silent Service was a 1957–1958 syndicated anthology television series based on actual events in the submarine section of the United States Navy. The Silent Service was narrated by Rear Admiral Thomas M. Dykers, who retired from the Navy in 1949 after twenty-two years of service...

, hosted by Rear Admiral

Rear Admiral

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 Thomas M. Dykers, aired during the same season. It focused on actual events surrounding the submarine

Submarine

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section of the U.S. Navy.