The Rookies | |
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Genre | Police procedural |
Created by | Rita Lakin |
Developed by | William Blinn |
Starring | Georg Stanford Brown Sam Melville Michael Ontkean Kate Jackson Gerald S. O'Loughlin Bruce Fairbairn |
Theme music composer | Elmer Bernstein |
Composers | Elmer Bernstein Robert Drasnin Jack Elliott Allyn Ferguson Paul Glass Shorty Rogers George Romanis Laurence Rosenthal Mark Snow Pete Rugolo |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 93 (+ pilot movie) (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producers | Aaron Spelling Leonard Goldberg |
Producers | Paul Junger Witt Hal Sitowitz |
Cinematography | Archie R. Dalzell Dennis Dalzell |
Editors | James Baiotto Leon Carrere Richard Malek |
Camera setup | Single-camera |
Running time | 45–48 minutes |
Production company | Spelling-Goldberg Productions |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | March 7, 1972 March 30, 1976 | –
Related | |
S.W.A.T. | |
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The Rookies is an American police procedural series created by Rita Lakin that originally aired on ABC from September 11, 1972 to March 30, 1976.[1] It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department (SCPD).