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Produced by Quinn Martin and based in part on concepts from the 1959 Warner Bros. theatrical film '' The FBI Story '', the series was an authentic telling of or fictionalized accounts of actual FBI cases, with fictitious main characters carrying the stories. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. played agent Louis Erskine, while Philip Abbott played Arthur Ward, assistant director to FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover (although Hoover himself served as series consultant until his death in 1972, he was never seen in the series). Some episodes ended with a "most wanted" segment hosted by Zimbalist, noting the FBI's most wanted criminals of the day (this was decades before the Fox Network aired '' America's Most Wanted ''). The series was a co-production of Quinn Martin Productions and Warner Bros. Television (WB held the television and theatrical rights to any project based on the FBI). As it turned out, it was the longest running of all of Quinn Martin's television series, having aired nine seasons. Mark Felt , then an assistant director at the FBI and later to become famous as the " Deep Throat " source in the Watergate Scandal , is reported to have served as an unpaid technical adviser to the series, occasionally going onto the set with Zimbalist. Recent disclosures of memos by the FBI, under the and Robert Blake were banned from appearing. {Link without Title} EXTERNAL LINK |