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Hollywood Beat

television series

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ3786326 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hollywood Beat is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from September 21 until November 23, 1985. starring Jack Scalia, Jay Acovone, Edward Winter and John Matuszak. The series aired on Saturday nights at 8:00 p.m Eastern time.

Cast

Jack Scalia as Det. Nick McCarren

Jay Acovone as Det. Jack Rado

John Matuszak as George Grinsky

Edward Winter as Capt.

Editorial summary

“Hollywood Beat” enters the record as television series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hollywood, Beat and television can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hollywood, Beat and television.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Hollywood Beat” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hollywood, Beat and television provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3786326. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1985.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Hollywood Beat”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Hollywood Beat primary sources, Hollywood Beat archive and Hollywood research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Hollywood Beat” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.