Season 2 • Episode 8
LatestWhitney Coleman is charged for murder when her estranged husband is found dead. Maris comes to her aid and investigates.
Lock-Up is an American legal drama series that premiered in syndication in September 1959 and concluded in June 1961. The half-hour episodes had little time for character development or subplots and presented a compact story without embellishment.
Acting
Macdonald Carey delivers gravitas in 22-minute sprints.
Production
Lean, mean syndicated machine—zero fat, all verdict.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The show was syndicated directly to local stations, skipping network control entirely—a rarity that let producers pack in grittier cases than prime-time rivals.
Lock-Up arrived at the tail end of radio-era television, when half-hour dramas were dying—it's essentially a fossil of a format that couldn't compete with hour-long prestige.
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