Major Dell Conway of the Flying Tigers [SEP] original network
Major Dell Conway of the Flying Tigers
Major Dell Conway of the Flying Tigers was an early American television program broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network.
Broadcast history.
The series ran from April of 1951 to March of 1952. It was an action-adventure series originally starring B-movie actor Eric Fleming as Major Dell Conway. Fleming was replaced in July 1951 by Ed Peck. Other actors included Fran Lee (as Ma Wong), Luis Van Rooten, David Anderson, Joe Graham, Harry Kingston
, and Bern Hoffman as Caribou Jones. According to Brooks and Marsh (2007), the roles some of these actors portrayed has been lost to time.
"Major Dell Conway" was loosely based on a true story about a pilot who flew with the Flying Tigers in World War II China. The series has been called "an extremely low-budget production". The program was produced by J. Gen Genovese, who had served as a pilot during the war. The program aired on Saturday at 6:30 pm EST