Rockford Contemporary: Harry O [with David Janssen]
Reg
the bargin bin of a store in the San Francisco Bay area. I beleve it
was one of the pilot movies.
I loved that show, I liked the car he drove every once and a while
an old Austin Healey Sprite. (I have had a few of them).
I like the one show where Harry is being followed. and he leads his
"tail" around in circles untils he times the arrival of a city bus
and hops on while his tail is left stranded.
Reg
ttim...@aol.com (TTimgents) wrote:
>Sorry to be using The Rockford Files newsgroup for this message, but was
>interested in finding out if there was a Harry O Newsgroup. Have had no luck in
>finding one. Thought that Rockford fans might know.
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>"Harry O," starring David Janssen, consisted of approximately 40 episodes & two
>pilot movies. Quality of production, writing, acting, casting consistently
>high. Consider @ 10 episodes among best TV drama episodes ever done. Its
>first--and only--two seasons coincided with the first two seasons of "The
>Rockford Files." I believe I remember reading [back in the 70s] somewhere that
>Garner & Janssen would occasionally discuss the trials and tribulations of
>making their respective shows.
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>Unfortunately, I have not seen the show in reuns here [Washington-Baltimore]
>since the mid-1980s. At that time I managed to videotape all but one of the
>episodes. [Unfortunately I also taped over 1 episode.] I made these tapes
>sometime during the 80s, when they were broadcast on Baltimore's Channel 11 [@
>1:00 a.m. on Sunday nights.] An episode guide is available at epguides.com.
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>Doubt if they are currently showing elsewhere around the country. Never have
>seen videos on sale on-line or off-line. If you're interested in checking out
>some episodes, I might be able to arrange getting a copy of several shows to
>you.
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>Along with Rockford [ & England's Inspector Morse], the best PI show done for
>TV. Somehow didn't get ratings, which in the long run may have served the show
>well: no episodes showing burn-out.
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>Your comments & help appreciated.
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>Thanks
>Timgents
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TTimgents
first regular season episode, entitled "Gertrude." I believe I've read that
this episode of Harry O won a mystery writers' award [the Edgar?] . I believe
this was one of the best Harry O episodes.
The character tailing Harry was played by actor named Michael McGuire: among
roles he has played was the professor on very first episode of "Cheers" who
returned to his wife rather than marry fiancee Diane Chambers. The title
character, Gertrude, was played by Julie Sommars, who played a recurring
character on "Matlock". Her character had a brother who was played by the
actor Les Lannom, who later played the character Lester Hodges on three or
four comedic episodes of Harry O.
timgents