Quinn Martin

Trivia

• The success of QM and of Martin continued well into the 1970s.
• Preeminent and longest running among the QM shows of this era were The Streets of San Francisco, Cannon, and Barnaby Jones, itself a spin-off of Cannon. Martin had at least a half dozen other series in prime time during the 1970s.
• During this period virtually every QM show dealt with law enforcement and crime.
• Since the first days of The Untouchables Martin had been criticized for using excessive violence in his productions.
• A new criticism was now mounted against Martin's work because of the subject matter.
• Critics claimed that Martin's shows enforced the dominant ideology of the inherent value of law and order. They suggested that the bulk of Martin's work legitimized a right-wing, conservative agenda.
• As Newcomb and Alley indicated in The Producer's Medium, Martin openly acknowledged his fondness for authority and his positive presentation of institutions of police powers--individual, state, and federal.
• Martin sold QM Productions to Taft Broadcasting around 1978.
• Part of the agreement was for Martin to leave television production for five years and not to compete with Taft.
• Martin became an adjunct professor at Warren College of the University of California, San Diego.