The New Breed is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from October 3, 1961, to June 5, 1962, with thirty-six episodes.

The series stars Leslie Nielsen as the serious Lieutenant Price Adams who worked on "The Hot Shot Detail" of the LAPD's Metro Squad and former Major League Baseball player John Beradino as Sergeant Vince Cavelli.

The script for the first episode, "No Fat Cops," was written by Hank Searls, credited as the creator of the series.

Searls also wrote an original novel based on the series under the pseudonym "Lee Costigan."

[1] Prior to starting his own production company, Martin had produced The Untouchables for Desilu Productions, and Nielsen was cast for the role of Adams because of a guest appearance he had made on that program in the episode titled "Three Thousand Suspects."