The Last of the Mohicans book, film and television franchise, the character Hawkeye Pierce is given his nickname by his father, after Hawk-eye from "The Last of the Mohicans". A main character in the original and subsequent film adaptation, Hawkeye, as portrayed by Alan Alda, is the central character in the long-running TV series. A number of films have been based on the lengthy book, making various cuts, compressions, and changes. The American adaptations include: The 1920 film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. According to the director Michael Mann,
The Detectives (1959 TV series) went on to major TV roles after the series ended: In syndication, the series was rebroadcast for a time under the name, "Captain of Detectives". Rebroadcasts were shown in the early 2000s on cable's TV Land network. "The Detectives", as of 2016, has yet to see a DVD release in the U.S., but has been released in Germany (in dubbed German language only) under the name "Kein Fall für FBI" The Detectives (1959 TV series) The Detectives (also known as The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor and Robert Taylor's Detectives) is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during