Paris

1 9 7 9 - 1 9 8 0 (USA)
13 x 60 minute episodes

Crime drama series from CBS featuring the cases of Woodrow 'Woody' Paris who headed the Los Angeles Police Department's elite Metro Squad. Paris also worked as a criminology professor at UCLA.

Paris was the first weekly US series to star a black actor (James Earl Jones). Jones' charisma and the likable thoughtful character should have made for a long run, but Paris lasted only 13 episodes.

It seemed that white America was not yet quite ready for an Afro-American in a leading weekly part.