This Date in THE FBI History: Pete Duel, Lee Meriwether, and Dabney Coleman star in “Slow March Up a Steep Hill,” the pilot episode of THE FBI, airing Oct. 10, 1965. THE FBI DOSSIER is now available through Black Pawn Press |

SLOW MARCH UP A STEEP HILL
Original Air Date: Oct. 10, 1965
Synopsis. In Baltimore, Maryland, Erskine investigates a series of bank robberies that appear to follow the same M.O. of a spree of crimes committed twenty-seven years earlier by notorious bandit Wayne Powell. At the same deal, he must also deal with his daughter’s pending nuptials to his field partner, Jim Rhodes—a marriage that Erskine vehemently opposes.LEARN MORE about this episode in THE FBI DOSSIER, everything you wanted to know—and more— about the long-running ABC-TV series produced by Quinn Martin and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. THE FBI DOSSIER is available through Black Pawn Press, Amazon.com, and wherever books are sold online.

This Date in THE FBI History: Pete Duel, Lee Meriwether, and Dabney Coleman star in “Slow March Up a Steep Hill,” the pilot episode of THE FBI, airing Oct. 10, 1965. THE FBI DOSSIER is now available through Black Pawn Press