[2] The series adapted the character of "pulp-novel sleuth" Craig Kennedy, a crime expert at Columbia University, to television.
Donald Woods portrayed Kennedy,[1] a character created by Arthur B. Reeve,[3] who solved crimes by means of scientific deductions.
[21] Ellis Walker, writing in the Daily Palo Alto Times, called the program "a class D mystery series".
[22] In 1953 Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors Ltd. of London bought four episodes of Craig Kennedy, Criminologist with plans to combine them to create two hour-long features.
The conversion also included having "a British personality" provide opening and closing narrations for the films, which were to be distributed to theaters in Great Britain.