"COOL AND LAM TV PILOT" Billy Pearson, Benay Venuta, Allison Hayes, Don Megowan. 1-16-1958.

"Cool and Lam TV Pilot" Storyline - Light-hearted pilot for a proposed CBS detective series featuring characters created by Erle Stanley Gardner (under the pseudonym of A.A. Fair). Penny-pinching, rotund Bertha Cool runs a detective agency while her diminutive junior partner Donald Lam provides the legs and padded expense account. In the pilot, Lam's investigation of infidelity leads to murder.
Complete Cast & Crew Starring Billy Pearson - as Donald Lam and Benay Venuta - as Bertha Cool. With Guest Stars Maurice Manson - as Dr. Lintig,
Margaret Field - as Marion Dunton (as Maggy Mahoney) Judith Bess Jones - as Elsie Brand, Allison Hayes - as Evaline as (Alison Hayes), Sheila Bromley - as Flo Mortonson, Don Megowan - as John Harbet, Movita - as Carmen,
John Mitchum - as The Bartender, Tristram Coffin - as Thatcher, Alex Sharp - as The Plainclothesman (as Alex Sharpe), and Erle Stanley Gardner - as Himself. Directed by Jacques Tourneur. Released January 16, 1958.