Tallahassee 7000

Tallahassee 7000 is a 1961 American syndicated^[1] TV series starring Walter Matthau as Special Agent Lex Rogers of the Florida Sheriffs Bureau.^[2] It consists of 26 episodes^[3] in 30-minute time slots.^{[citation needed]}

The Bureau (the only one of its kind in the United States) helped sheriffs in Florida's 67 counties.^[4] The show's title is the alpha-numeric phone number of the Bureau, for example: TA 7000. Rogers's headquarters are in Miami Beach, and episodes focus on his investigations.^[1]

The program was filmed on location in Florida,^[3] and was produced for syndication by Screen Gems. Herbert B. Leonard was executive producer. Matthau disliked television and says he took the job "only for the minor inconvenience of making a living".^[5]

Matthau's biographers called it "another Matthau career nadir".^[6]