The Asphalt Jungle is a 1961 American police procedural television series starring Jack Warden, Arch Johnson, and Bill Smith about a squad of detectives targeting organized crime in the Midwestern United States. Inspired by the 1950 film The Asphalt Jungle, it aired from April 2 to June 25, 1961, on ABC. The Asphalt Jungles pilot episode was re-edited and lengthened to create the 1961 theatrical film The Lawbreakers. imdb.com