Official Detective is an American anthology television series which aired in syndication from 1957 to March 19, 1958.
[7] Desilu employed professional detectives as technical advisers to ensure that procedures depicted in the program accurately represented real-life police work.
[8] Critic Jack Gould, writing in The New York Times, described the program as "another routine crime series", adding, "The major horror of the first episode was the senseless slaughter of half-hour by a very ancient blunt instrument.
"[9] A review in the trade publication Billboard called the program "another of this year's more solid entries into the syndication field".
[10] Although it said that some dialog was corny, it added that the show "has enough muscle to have planted a firm foot on the ground."