Mobile One

Mobile One
Mark Wheeler and Jackie Cooper
Genre	Drama
Created by	James M. Miller
Starring	Jackie Cooper, Julie Gregg, Mark Wheeler
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	11
Production
Executive producer(s)	Jack Webb
Producer(s)	William Bowers
Running time	50 minutes
Production company(s)	Mark VII Limited
Distributor	Universal Television
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	September 12, 1975 (1975-09-12) – December 29, 1975 (1975-12-29)

Mobile One was an American television series that aired on the ABC network from September 12 to December 29, 1975. The show was a production of Jack Webb's Mark VII Limited for Universal Television.

Unlike most of Mark VII's other productions, Mobile One was not based on the real-life exploits of a police force or governmental agency. The show was set instead in a local television station's electronic news gathering operation, which at the time was a very new technology. Jackie Cooper starred as on-screen reporter Peter Campbell, Julie Gregg played Maggie Spencer, Campbell's producer, and Mark Wheeler played camera operator Doug McKnight. Much of the show was spent covering Campbell and McKnight's travels to the scenes of crimes, accidents, and other newsworthy events in a mobile unit van, thereby resembling Mark VII's Emergency! (which concurrently aired on NBC) in an emphasis upon action and adventure.

The show was produced by William Bowers and created by James M. Miller; Cooper directed at least one episode himself. ABC initially scheduled the show on Friday nights against three highly popular shows, NBC's Sanford and Son and Chico and the Man and CBS' M*A*S*H; it moved to Monday nights starting on October 27, 1975. The ratings were so poor that the network cancelled Mobile One after only 11 episodes.

The 90 minute pilot film for the series, Mobile Two, aired on ABC on September 2, 1975.

References

• Total Television: A Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present, Alex McNeil, New York: Penguin, revised ed., 1984.

External links

• Mobile One (TV series) at the Internet Movie Database
• InBaseline