U.S. TV shows in the '90s where Asian was main character
dcjglf
1) "All American Girl"
2) "Martial Law"
3) "Mystery Files of Shelby Woo"
Can you think of any other U.S. shows in the '90s where an
Asian was the main character of the show? Not too many, I
would guess.
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gweilojake
The Karate Kid pilot failed miserably. I recall a feeble attempt at
recreating Hawaii 5-0 which would have featured Asian-American leads (I
believe that S.J. Cannell was interested) and a remake of The Green Hornet,
which was to follow on the heels of the feature film release. In this
instance there was to be more attention lavished upon clever martial arts
choreography via Kato (once played by Hong Kong film legend, Bruce Lee).
Once again, a lack of enthusiasm and perhaps more relevant, poor
pitching/marketing had landed these projects on the pyre.
Gweilojake...
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mdryoon
>
> I can only think of 3:
>
> 1) "All American Girl"
> 2) "Martial Law"
> 3) "Mystery Files of Shelby Woo"
>
> Can you think of any other U.S. shows in the '90s where an
> Asian was the main character of the show? Not too many, I
> would guess.
Vanishing Son.
Richard Yoon (remove _eats_SPAM_ to reply via e-mail.)
Conase
heavy presence currently . They have come a long way.
HOP SING on Bonanza reruns. In cartoons there was Dondi. Not the 90s though.
The show with the Korean girl that didn't last long due to poor ratings. Can't
remember her name. Cancelled about 3 years ago. She was just on tv last
night.The guy making the suits in commercials for Meister Brau, "You pretty
smart man , Mr . Cookie." Didn't Mannix (in reruns) have an Asian housekeeper?
Charlie Chan reruns (even though he wasn't Chinese). His #1 son was Key Luke.
So was the Chinese girl he was always putting the moves on. The guy who played
opposite Peter Sellers as Cato. What about tv anchors and newspeople: Kaity
Tong, Cindy Hsu, Nancy Loo, Connie Chung, the girl on CNN, Daljit Dahliwal,etc.
dcjglf
> poor ratings.
> Can't remember her name. Cancelled about 3 years ago.
"All-American Girl". It was on ABC.
Lei Gong
V.I.P. had an asian guest on a couple of episodes ago.
SirArtist
dcjglf <dcj...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I can only think of 3:
>
> 1) "All American Girl"
> 2) "Martial Law"
> 3) "Mystery Files of Shelby Woo"
>
> Can you think of any other U.S. shows in the '90s where an
> Asian was the main character of the show? Not too many, I
> would guess.
Supporting characters are more plentiful, tho.
HBO's 'Arli$$' has the lovely Sandra Oh.
And 'Oz' has the Asian priest - didn't the actor play Margaret Cho's
brother on 'All-American Girl'?
'The Single Guy' had the extremely talented Ming Na Wen.
'Nash Bridges' had (has?) an Asian assistant.
I'm sure there are others, but these popped to mind
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Jim Tsou
Nathanial kai-po wrote:
> Rising Son, Mortal Combat, The Crow.
I am sorry, but, Rising Sun was a movie, and The Crow does not star
an Asian as the main lead.
Santoki
thinks he's Asian.
gweilojake
La Dama Luna
dcjglf <dcj...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > The show with the Korean girl that didn't last long due to
> > poor ratings.
> > Can't remember her name. Cancelled about 3 years ago.
>
> "All-American Girl". It was on ABC.
>
the "All-American Girl" was Margaret Cho. recently written about in
Salon
(http://www.salon.com/people/col/cintra/1999/07/28/cho/index.html).
Also don't forget about Ling on "ally McBeal," played by Lucy Liu!
She's certainly stepped in and made that smallish part an enormous part
of the entire show.
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Don Kirkman
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>In article <000b8d9b...@usw-ex0108-060.remarq.com>,
> dcjglf <dcj...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I can only think of 3:
>> 1) "All American Girl"
>> 2) "Martial Law"
>> 3) "Mystery Files of Shelby Woo"
>> Can you think of any other U.S. shows in the '90s where an
>> Asian was the main character of the show? Not too many, I
>> would guess.
>Supporting characters are more plentiful, tho.
>HBO's 'Arli$$' has the lovely Sandra Oh.
>And 'Oz' has the Asian priest - didn't the actor play Margaret Cho's
>brother on 'All-American Girl'?
>'The Single Guy' had the extremely talented Ming Na Wen.
Who has been and will again be a regular on ER.
--
Don
Cario Lam
Lauren Tom on Friends for a while eventually ending up on Roseanne?
Nathanial kai-po
Steven Moore
Isn't David Caridean asian
slacker808
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rich
Andy Fang
Also there is the asian guy on StarTrek Voyager, there was one on the
original too.
Nathanial kai-po
surprise. Last I heard the guy is Irish. I must say however, he does
play a pretty convincing eurasian hero. I'm leaning towards him being
part native American myself. But I think the truth is the guy's full
Irish. Never heard of him being anything else.
parchai
for the Kung Fu TV series. They didn't want the overwhemingly asian
Bruce Lee to star in any TV shows because I guess holly wood was too
racist back then. C'mon didn't any of y'all ever watch Dragon: The Bruce
Lee Story?
-Parchai Seributra
Steven Moore
I firt heard of the "triad" on Legend of Kung Fu.
steven