Steve Randall (also known as Hollywood Off-Beat[1]) is an American detective television series starring Melvyn Douglas.
The series' 13 episodes were initially seen in syndication during the summer of 1952, before being picked up and rerun by the DuMont Television Network from November 7, 1952, to January 30, 1953.
The initial TV adaptation was A Hollywood Affair, starring Lee J. Cobb and Adele Jergens.
Critic Jack Gould wrote in The New York Times in 1953 that a repeat of an episode was "just as familiar and just as tired" as it had been previously, with "the usual quota of murders, an oomphy siren and tough guys talking out of the side of the mouth.
"[7] A capsule review in the trade publication Billboard said that Douglas "is adept at lending importance where little or none is due.