The Roaring 20s is an American drama television series starring Rex Reason, Donald May and Dorothy Provine that was broadcast by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) from October 15, 1960, until January 20, 1962.

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The Roaring 20's
Donald May (Pat Garrison, left), Dorothy Provine (Pinky Pinkham, center), and Rex Reason (Scott Norris, right).
Genre	Drama
Directed by	Robert Altman Richard Benedict Edward Dein Robert Douglas Charles F. Haas Stuart Heisler Marc Lawrence Leslie H. Martinson Irving J. Moore Charles R. Rondeau Sidney Salkow Richard C. Sarafian Robert B. Sinclair Robert Sparr George Waggner
Starring	Rex Reason Donald May Dorothy Provine John Dehner Gary Vinson Mike Road
Theme music composer	Mack David Jerry Livingston
Composers	Michael Heindorf Howard Jackson Frank Perkins
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	45
Production
Executive producer	William T. Orr
Producers	Jerry Davis Boris Ingster Tom McKnight Gordon Bau (make-up)
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	50 mins.
Production company	Warner Bros. Television
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	October 15, 1960 (1960-10-15) – January 20, 1962 (1962-01-20)

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Each episode of the series is an hour long. It concerns newspaper reporters reporting crime and gangsters for the fictitious newspaper The New York Record during the 1920s, such as Scott Norris (Rex Reason), Pat Garrison (Donald May), Duke Williams (John Dehner), and copy-boy Chris Higby (Gary Vinson). Mike Road played police Lieutenant Joe Switoski. Dorothy Provine features as Pinky Pinkham, the singer at the Charleston Club, in all 45 episodes. Other major actors were James Flavin as Robert Howard and Louise Glenn as Gladys, who appear in 33 and 30 episodes, respectively.

In 1960 Warner Bros. Records issued the soundtrack album The Roaring 20's to accompany the series (The full album title was: Music from The Roaring 20's Warner Bros. New Hit Television Show, Songs by Dorothy Provine and the Music of Pinky and Her Playboys).^[1] Musical direction was by Sandy Courage.^{[citation needed]}