The Roaring 20's is set in 1920s New York and depicts the turbulent lives of Americans living in that era. The Roaring 20's follows the lives of two enterprising New York journalists, who know just about all there is to know about their city and if they don't, they find out!

Two of the protagonists in the series are Broadway columnist Pat Garrison (Donald May) who works for the New York Daily Record and his colleague, special assignment reporter for the same paper, Scott Norris (Rex Reason).

As Pat and Rex undertake their investigations, they are sometimes helped, but mostly hindered by young cub reporter Chriswell Williams Higbee 11, or Chris Higbee as he is commonly known. The actor who plays Higbee, Gary Vinson is tasked with playing the character as a naive 20-year-old, fresh out of Harvard and Columbia School of Journalism. Higbee never fails to be shocked at Pat and Scott's unorthodox news-gathering methods. Pat and Scott are always where the action is, thus enabling them to get their scoops. The two men know this is the only way to get the big stories for their paper.

The main female lead in the series is Dorothy Provine, who plays the blonde singer Delaware Pinkham, or Pinky, as she is more commonly known to her friends and to the customers of The Charleston Club where she works as a singer. Because of her vivacity and friendly nature, Pinky has made the club the most popular in New York city.

The Roaring 20's manages to recapture the music, action, humour and razzle-dazzle atmosphere of the 1920's New York lifestyle. Scott and Pat regularly become embroiled in daring, and sometimes dangerous situations; involving themselves with scandals in Park Avenue, Jazz dance marathons, ball games, flappers, speakeasies and bootleggers; after all, this is the time of the great prohibition!

48 x 60 minute episodes 1960 - 1962, produced by Warner Brothers Television Productions & originally aired in the US on ABC Television and in the UK on Associated Television (ATV) on Saturday evenings.