 Axminster “gripes in general about the cost of staying alive.‘All the angels left this burg about 20 years ago,’ is his succinct summation of the 1930s ...”

Inspired by the 1974 film "Chinatown", "City of Angels" adopted the same cynical view of Depression era Los Angeles, a place where Hollywood and crime competed for attention.This series also found its roots in Roy Huggins’ hard-boiled 1946 detective novel, "The Double Take", which had earlier provided the source material for another Huggins-created series, "77 Sunset Strip".