Just finished watching all of the “Poirot” episodes starring David Suchet. Outstanding tv series. Am now watching/ alternating both “Sherlock Holmes” with the late Jeremy Brett & “Morse” with the late John Thaw. These two series are also excellent. I have a membership with Britbox for only $10 a month. British television has excellent content.
If you can find it, a very similar series to DANGER MAN was one called MAN IN A SUITCASE. Indeed, many of the production people moved over to this show when Patrick McGoohan quit DANGER MAN and went on to THE PRISONER. MAN IN A SUITCASE is a private-eye/thriller about a former US intelligence man who was forced to resign and is now travelling around in Europe taking on private cases for hire in order to make enough to live on. It starred Richard Bradford and had a Ron Grainer theme.
Legend (previously known as the horror channel) have just started showing Knight rider. I'm watching the first episode now. Originally aired on the 26th of September 1982.
I was tempted to skip season nine of Dallas since it was famously erased in one of the silliest moments in network television, but the stories are pretty good so far. Bobby's will throws lots of things into chaos, and Sue Ellen having her lost week(end) in which her car is stolen, she's kidnapped and robbed, and staggers drunk around the seedy parts of Dallas in high heels is soap opera gold. I assume she'll become a prostitute by the end of the plotline.
Just saw this post. Looks interesting. Have suitcase, will travel. Hopefully it's on Amazon Prime for free.
I watched the pilot for Hill Street Blues and was slightly shocked at how over-the-top and even absurd some aspects of it were. Trying hard to grab attention as a new show, too many very eccentric characters introduced at once? It was definitely not like that later on whenever I first got hooked on it. I watched the second episode and it was heading in a more balanced direction, although the street gangs were tinged in the Warriors type shtick. Needed a lot more real New York input probably... I think the use of police helicopters in the first episode liquor store stand-off was very L.A. but came off as ridiculous and utterly pointless here. Fort Apache The Bronx was a theater release around this same time and I wonder how it would compare? Just finished series seven of London's Burning, a late '80s-'90s London Weekend production. It varies in story quality, sometimes too soapish (with one shrieking harridan woman/wife character too many, especially in that seventh season). There was a writer Anita Bronson who authored great episodes and continuity that kept you involved and after she leaves it is just not the same show, but the stunt and effects work is always absolutely top notch. Not going past this series though unfortunately, kind of the same story as with Heartbeat, seven is enough.
Edge of Darkness, the 1985 BBC miniseries... again. It gets better with time because of how it captures its own era, with the right amount of style, intrigue and the bizarre. You know the series made an impression when every side character looks like an old friend to you (the casting is impeccable). But it's only with repeated watching that I've caught onto many themes that now seem so obvious. Intimacy and bonding, for example.
Been a long time since I have seen Barney Miller. Will need to check it out. It's been so long that I remember nothing about the show.
Depends on what demographic you're asking Yeah,I seemed to never tire of it...was a great show...I do favor the first few seasons though with Chano,Fish and Nick and Wentworth
Murder she wrote Never watched it before. Every character from the rockford files Seems to appear in it.(more than once) I like the way the criminal always confesses to jessica with the cop always within hearing range.
I'm almost finished with season nine of Dallas. This of course was the infamous 31 episode season that to be declared "Pam's dream" to bring Patrick Duffy back the next season. The funny thing is that in many ways it really does seem like a season of plots that Pam would dream of... [SPOILERS FOLLOW] ...her not-Bobby dream guy Mark Graison and his 70's mustache returns in perfect health after having incurable T.V. cancer (the kind that has no symptoms) and is now in T.V. remission (which means he's totally cured of incurable cancer), she gets to run part of Ewing Oil and impress everyone with her business skills (!) and drive J.R. nuts while others are outsmarting him, Jenna Wade (her rival for Bobby) loses her mind, and she goes on a trip to Colombia which brings almost everyone in the cast searching for her (and in one case brawling over her!) when she's kidnapped. It seems like most of the plots were about Pam or involved her in some way.
Still on Hill Street Blues, it definitely took a major turn away from silliness about two thirds into season one... about where Betty Thomas goes outside on patrol and has Ed Marinaro for a partner! I don't think I ever saw much of season one back then unlike St. Elsewhere which I remember watching from the very start.
