Synopsis: A powerful new drama about a newspaper columnist who uses his own investigations (helped by the students of his journalism class) to get to the bottom of a story. Wallace Benton, an irreverent investigative journalist, writes New York City's most popular column, 'Nothing But The Truth' in the New York Ledger. Helped by students in his graduate journalism class, Wallace tears open cases ranging from mayhem to murder, re-examining evidence and re-staging events to ensure the innocent are freed, the guilty are convicted and the corrupt are exposed. He's got friends in the D.A.'s office and on the force, but his exposés have also made him enemies. Add in three ex-wives and a bad attitude towards authority, and it's clear nothing is ever easy in Wallace's life.
Tagline: Writer. Professor. Crime Solver. A different kind of investigator.
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Air Date: October 2, 2000
Episode Name: Pilot
Description: Benton tries to prove the innocence of two men on death row.
Air Date: October 9, 2000
Episode Name: Lovers & Madmen
Episode Number: 1x01
Description: Benton is suspicious of a renowned classical pianist who is being profiled by Benton's estranged wife Brooke, and while she soon becomes romantically involved with her subject, the columnist doggedly investigates the piano man's relationship with a recently dead socialite. Benton's probe leads him into New York's cultural elite, where he discovers a broken trail littered with musical impostors, prescription drug abuse and secret relationships.
Air Date: October 16, 2000
Episode Name: Perception
Episode Number: 1x02
Description: Benton probes a perplexing case involving a suspicious tourist who accidentally shot an off-duty African-American cop who was trying to help him fend off two marauding youths, but the columnist believes a series of police beatings are linked to the curious way the deadly shooting is handled.
Air Date: October 23, 2000
Episode Name: Daniel in the Lion's Den
Episode Number: 1x03
Description: Publisher Beekman orders Benton to scope out a rising community activist who is running for city council, and the columnist learns that the candidate is a convicted fugitive living under an assumed name for tossing a rock at a cop while a student 30 years ago, and Benton's lovestruck editor, Nikki, is hiding him in her apartment. However, Benton suspects that the would-be councilman might have been framed by a secret anti-communist police unit known as the Red Squad, some of whom are still kicking.
Air Date: October 30, 2000
Episode Name: Red Herring
Episode Number: 1x04
Description: Columnist Benton might be number one, with a bullet, on the Russian Mafia's hit list when he delves into a byzantine stock scam and dares to name names in his story as bodies pile up, people disappear and threats are made against his own life. Along the way, Benton gets heat from his tycoon publisher to ease off his probe due to international implications and he encounters a drug-dealing South American beauty who could be the most deadly character of them all.
There are six more episodes which have been filmed, but they may never been seen.
The movie is of one of the promotional commercials for "Deadline." It is © by NBC.
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...A MYSTERY SOLVING GENIUS.
Platt: "Ah, ha."
TODAY'S LESSON: SEEING IS BELIEVING...OR IS IT?
Platt: "Ok, cop reporters, show me what you got."
Mam: "Here they come."
Platt: "And?"
Woman: "It's (can't understand the name) and Beth, obviously."
Platt: "That's Beth. You'd testify to it?"
Woman: "Absolutely."
Man: "That doesn't prove a thing."
Chang: "Yes, it does."
Platt: "Oh, hi Beth."
Man: "So much for the ID."
OLIVER PLATT. DEADLINE. NBC THIS FALL.
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