Kaz & Co

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Television series
German title Kaz & Co
Original title Kaz
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 1978-1979
Production
company		 Lorimar
length 60 minutes
Episodes 22 in 1 season
genre Drama , crime , lawyer series
First broadcast September 10, 1978 (USA) on CBS
German-language
first broadcast		 April 3, 1979 on German television
occupation

Kaz & Co (original title: Kaz ) is an American television series from the genre lawyer series , which was produced in 1978 and 1979 by the production company Lorimar (including The Waltons , Dallas ) for the US broadcaster CBS . The main character Martin "Kaz" Kazinsky was portrayed by the American actor Ron Leibman .

action

Petty criminal Martin "Kaz" Kazinsky is sentenced to six years in prison for stealing a car. He graduated from prison as a lawyer. After his release he starts working as a junior partner in the law firm of Samuel Bennett. One of the reasons he can work so successfully with his partner Peter Colcourt is because he knows what goes on in the mind of criminals.

Newspaper reporter Katie McKenna is Kaz's girlfriend. He lives in a small apartment above his friend Mary Parnell's nightclub, where he spends a lot of time and occasionally plays the drums.

background

Ron Leibman played in 1978 in the film Circled ( A Question of Guilt ) the role of the policeman Louis Kazinsky. He found the last name so good that he simply adopted it for the series. The series was shot in the Warner Brothers Burbank Studios in California , where Lorimar produced his series at the time.

Although Ron Leibman won an Emmy for Best Actor in a Drama Series for this role in 1979 , the series did not go down with audiences and was canceled after only 23 episodes due to the low audience rating . 18 episodes were shown in Germany.

In the opening credits of the individual episodes, the background of Martin Kazinsky is shown in short shots. Starting with the arrest in an attempted car theft to studying books in prison to obtaining the bar diploma. In the last pictures, Kaz puts on an unfamiliar tie on the way to the courtroom.

Broadcasts

  • First broadcast in Germany: April 3, 1979 on German television , the following episodes every fortnight on Tuesdays at 9.45 p.m. (until December 1979).
  • Repetitions were broadcast on ARD in 1982 and on RTL in 1986 and 1989.

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