Because of his outspokenness Charles Bickford never became the big star MGM hoped they could make him. Very early on in his contract (his third film) he had a huge fight with L.B. Mayer and watched as his career was sidelined. During the fifties, with the big influx of police show realism, his gruff and forthright personality seemed perfect to host "The Man Behind the Badge" - which takes a look at the State's Attorney, the most feared man in the justice system. These few shows I found on "Best of TV Detectives". "The Case of the Dying Past" - deals with an elderly citizen of Vermont who is accused by some unknown letter writer of being a loan shark. The S.A visits and finds a bitter, angry man who despises the new fangled world he is forced to live in. When he is found bludgeoned to death the whole town is suspected. Former child star Gene Reynolds stars as the man in the red cap. "The Case of the Capital Crime" - about the apprehension of the murderer of two night watchmen. The search ends with Jay Patterson, a moody dreamer, an insomniac who frequents all night movies and gives himself up because the police treated his mother kindly.