Coronet Blue: was a summer replacement series. I think the show was a premise for a regular TV series and it didn't fly as such.
Coronet Blue is the surprise DVD release of 2017, 50 years after its CBS summer airing. A real cult oddity, its reputation is greater than the reality.
I sat immersed in each and every episode.I felt personally cheated when the all to short series ended without clearing up what Coronet Blue was .
Hi all, As a seven year old my recollections are vague however I always thought that the main character remembers Coronet Blue as the name on the stern of a yacht (that he is thrown overboard from in the initial murder attempt) Yacht sails off and he washes up on shore to try and put the pieces together The show is born ! It's funny that the theme song stuck in my head, it was really haunting and I never found anyone who had actually seen the show (apart from my mother who let me stay up to watch it) until I met this one girl Debbie.
This was, to me, my first exposure to the possibility of "good television." This show was SOOOO special because it was a 30-year precursor of the ALIAS/LOST/PRISON BREAK intricate continuing series.
Haven't thought of this fine series in ages. Then, suddenly that phrase that so haunted Frank Converse jumped into my head and I did a search.
I see this on SuperChannel, which is a Japanese cable channel that's basically a graveyard for short-lived American TV shows. (Shaft, Serpico, Funny Face,...
It was a shame the show wasn't picked up, because it would have gone on for years and been a classic. Sure it was one of many shows inspired by "The Fugitive" back in the 1960s, but there were so many original touches, it didn't matter.
I have read various accounts of the premise of Coronet Blue and how the pilot episode opens. There are two details I vividly remember differently and was wondering if anyone else noted them as I did.