Reply #40: This incident served as a plot for "City of Angels" (1976)...

[KansDem]

The TeeVee series Wayne Rogers starred in after leaving M*A*S*H. There was one program consisting of 3 parts where Rogers discovered a neo-Fascist plot to overthrow the US Government.

Occasionally interesting private eye thriller, set in '30s LA, with Rogers investigating the murder of a starlet's lover and uncovering a plot to overthrow Roosevelt's government. With the film cobbled out of three episodes of a TV series called City of Angels, the weakly wisecracking, sub-Chandleresque script poses problems, as does Rogers' bland performance. But the political insights are intriguing in their tentative equation of the more conservative elements in American society with similar tendencies in Fascist Italy. GA

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:Y5Ege2blPccJ:www.timeout.com/film/63597.html+%22city+of+angels%22+%22wayne+rogers%22+lloyd+nolan&hl=en

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"LITTLE DID I REALIZE THE TWO HOURS I spent inventing 'The Fugitive' would be like inventing -- the wheel!" It's Roy Huggins (86) recalling to me that he'd retained the movie rights when giving Quinn Martin the TV rights to the show that debuted in '63, winding in '67 with its final show getting a 72 share. Of course, then came the Arnold and Anne Kopelson blockbuster featurefeature, and they're now shooting their new TV series version (currently in Savannah ) with star Tim Daly. And now, Huggins reveals to me, "The reason I sold them the movie rights was to retain a huge percentage of the TV rights." He says he's been invited to work on the series for which 10 scripts have been completed -- he's read 'em and says they're quite good. Huggins said he was interested to note Oliver StoneOliver Stone's plans to feature film the plot to destroy FDR. Back in 1976, Huggins and Steve Cannell filmed "The November Plan" as the pilot for their "City of Angels""City Of Angels" series staring Wayne Rogers. It was about a conspiracy of Brownshirts in 1933, during the FDR administration, that tried to get Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler to take over the country. The general KO'd their plan ... The real JAG (Judge Advocate General) Adm. D.J. Guter dined with "JAG's" creator-exec producer Don Bellasario at Spago taking a special guest appearance on the show this season. During the series' five seasons, Bellasario has endeavored to show a positive image of the U.S. Armed Forces personnel.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117784496

Turns out this plot served as the pilot for Rogers' short-lived series (only 11 shows, including "The November Plan," were produced).

I believe this series was inspired by the movie "Chinatown."