The Asphalt Jungle

The Asphalt Jungle is a 1961 American police procedural television series starring Jack Warden, Arch Johnson, and Bill Smith about a squad of detectives targeting organized crime in the Midwestern United States. Inspired by the 1950 film The Asphalt Jungle, it aired from April 2 to June 25, 1961, on ABC. The Asphalt Jungles pilot episode was re-edited and lengthened to create the 1961 theatrical film The Lawbreakers. Synopsis The police department's Metropolitan Squad specializes in fighting organized crime in an unnamed Midwestern city. The squads members are elite detectives led by Captain Gus Honochek and Sergeant Danny Keller. They report to Deputy Police Commissioner Matthew Gower. Many of their assignments involve going undercover, and Gower himself joins Honochek, Keller, and their squad in undercover work when the situation calls for it.