KING OF DIAMONDS - 1960 -1961 

John King was the chief investigator for the Continental Diamond Industries. 
With Casey, his young handsome assistant, King led the fight against the evil IDB, 
the Illicit Diamond Buyers. Or as King explained, “… from the minute the diamonds 
come out of the clay until they go on somebody’s finger we protect them. 
The we is me.”

The episodes began with the narrator (probably Highway Patrol narrator Art Gilmore) 
setting up the story such as in “The Wizard of Ice”:

“… A world of diamonds. The world of Johnny King. Margie Howard wanted a share 
of that world, a two million dollar share, enough to play three men like a guitar. Men 
who heard the words but not the music. To Johnny King the melody was loud and clear.”



The only 3 known episodes to exist, each with incomplete credits. Quality 6.5/7 of 10


“The Wizard of Ice.” 
GUEST CAST: Lola Albright, Telly Savalas, John Anderson, John Marley, and Richard Kiel. 
A hijacking of two million in diamonds gets complicated by a woman.


“Commando Tactics.” 
GUEST CAST: Gerald Mohr 
King’s fun loving WWII commando buddy has decided to try the adventurous fun life 
of a diamond thief.


“Backlash.” 

GUEST CAST: James Coburn and Nancy Kulp. 
War hero and respected citizen in a small town in Maine has his past come back to 
haunt him as a former army buddy arrives wanting to sell the diamonds they had 
stolen from the Nazis during the War.

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