In 1963, NBC, Four Star and the producers wanted that an opinion to ask permission from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare to made
The Robert Taylor Show onto the air (see
What if Temple Houston was delayed until the 1964-65 season? for more details).
Then in the August of 1963, he approached that Bruce Geller, while working on
The Robert Taylor Show is commit to write a script for a half-hour police drama series entitled
The Street Logs, in which Bernard L. Kowalski, while also working on
The Robert Taylor Show to direct the pilot.
Shortly afterwards, Bruce Geller and Four Star however pitched it to Procter & Gamble. P&G was however interested in making
The Street Logs a midseason replacement for
Grindl. In the October of 1963, the cast was revealed. It consists of Chad Everett and former
Dragnet co-star Ben Alexander as patrol officers.
In the November, P&G however wanted to made
The Street Logs onto air as of late January 1964, in between
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color and
Bonanza. Four Star's staff composer Herschel Burke Gilbert is the music composer of the show. In the March of 1964, NBC was interested in cancelling the show after 16 episodes.
The show was in some kind by critics as "a spiritual successor to
Highway Patrol". It was also a precursor to police dramas like
Adam-12,
The Rookies and
S.W.A.T.
Fully ITTL, IOTL,
The Street Logs was not made, Grindl picked up for a full season, and
The Robert Taylor Show was cancelled on July 17, 1963, Geller moved on to Desilu, Kowalski stayed busy with other projects and four episodes of
The Robert Taylor Show remain unaired as Everett go on to other projects, and Alexander go on to other projects including its final TV show
The Felony Squad.