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S1 E4 Close-up on Violence

Drama

TV-PG

26m

Oct 30, 1958

Kovac takes a crowd shot at a fire scene, inadvertently recording the daughter of an aged mobster, hiding out in a tough neighborhood. The old man is being protected by a gang of young hoods, or so he thinks.

Season 1, 15 Episodes

Man With a Camera - Second Avenue Assassin

Second Avenue Assassin,

Mike learns that a young boxer's recent fights have been fixed by a mobster and that he is expected to throw the next fight. The boxer asks Mike to help him by photographing the men involved.

Man With a Camera - The Warning

Mike is forced by two masked men to take a photo of a man just as he is being killed. The police ask Mike to let them spread the word that he can identify the killers. His father convinces him to do this, but this puts both father and son in danger.

Profile of a Killer,

Mike is taken hostage after a bank holdup in which the owner is killed. The egotistical young robber and killer fall for Mike's suggestion that he take photos of him and send them to the newspapers to build up his image while revealing his plans.

Man With a Camera - Close-up on Violence

Close-up on Violence,

Kovac takes a crowd shot at a fire scene, inadvertently recording the daughter of an aged mobster, hiding out in a tough neighborhood. The old man is being protected by a gang of young hoods, or so he thinks.

Man With a Camera - Turntable

Mike takes pictures of a crooked gambler. Later he also takes pictures of the gubernatorial candidate who vows to put the gambler out of business if elected. But then his negatives are stolen and used against the candidate.

Man With a Camera - Double Negative

Double Negative,

On a tip from a free-lance reporter, Mike takes a picture of a woman, and finds that she very strongly resembles a woman whose murder a man has been arrested for. But a boxer friend of Mike's says the woman is his girlfriend and not the murdered woman.

Man With a Camera - Another Barrier

Another Barrier,

Mike takes an assignment doing a story on a U.S. Air Force jet pilot. When the pilot doesn't return on schedule from a test flight, his fiancé is convinced he's died, and that it's her fault, so she attempts suicide.

Man With a Camera - Blind Spot

Mike travels to Lisbon, Portugal in Europe to investigate the murder of an old war buddy photographer.

Man With a Camera - Two Strings of Pearls

Two Strings of Pearls,

Mike covers a garden party in Rome and meets a woman, who is using a different name than when they encountered each other on a trans-Atlantic flight 4 years earlier. She is assisting an American con artist planning to steal a string of yellow pearls.

Man With a Camera - Six Faces of Satan

Six Faces of Satan,

During a heatwave, a mob forms to go after a local hoodlum when a girl claims that a man attacked her. But Mike, who was in the vicinity just before it happened, saw the girl go into the alley with a woman, not a man.

Man With a Camera - Lady on the Loose

Lady on the Loose,

The overprotected daughter of a European millionaire feels stifled by her chaperones and asks Mike for help in eluding them so she can see the town.

Man With a Camera - The Last Portrait

The Last Portrait,

Mike sneaks into the guarded apartment of a visiting Arab dignitary, only to find him dead, after which he is hit over the head and accused of his murder. He escapes to clear his name, with the help of the former film star who lives next door.

Man With a Camera - Face of Murder

Face of Murder,

Curious about what made a ruthless killer who's been convicted of five murders, Mike enters the state prison to photograph and interview the man before his execution. But during the interview, the killer tries to escape with Mike and a priest hostage.

Man With a Camera - Mute Evidence

Mike is invited out to a retired doctor's farm, but when he gets there he discovers that the doctor is missing, and the only person who knows anything about it is the doctor's deaf-mute ward.

Man With a Camera - The Big Squeeze

The Big Squeeze,

After a mobster, and old schoolmate of Mike's, is gunned down in front of Anton's shop, Mike finds out about a secret meeting of the heads of various organized-crime outfits and sets out to get some photos of it.

Details

Man With a Camera

Drama

TV-PG

2 Seasons

26m

Former combat cameraman Mike Kovac is now a freelance photographer in New York City, specializing in difficult and dangerous assignments where he can get the kinds of pictures that other photographers can't, or won't take.

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