The odds are rarely in the favor of the little guy, but in few cases was the deck so stacked against someone as it was for a young man barely out of high school, Philo Farnsworth, when he went up ...

Google tells us that television was first demonstrated by an American inventor named Philo Farnsworth in 1927 ... Other crime-related shows were "Perry Mason" (1957-1966), "77 Sunset Strip ...