70s Crime Dramas
Dixon Hayes
our attention toward another genre, a particular one that flourished in the
1970s: crime dramas. What was your favorite police show and/or private eye
show in those days?
My favorite police show was "Columbo". Loved the way ol' Peter Falk managed to
sucker everyone into letting themselves get caught, or that red herring clue
that he always turned up in the scene right after the murder then never
mentioned again!
Favorite private eye show: "The Rockford Files." Gotta love a guy who gets
into fights regularly...and loses.
Dixon
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>our attention toward another genre, a particular one that flourished in the
>1970s: crime dramas. What was your favorite police show and/or private eye
>show in those days?
>
>My favorite police show was "Columbo". Loved the way ol' Peter Falk managed
>to
>sucker everyone into letting themselves get caught, or that red herring clue
>that he always turned up in the scene right after the murder then never
>mentioned again!
>
>Favorite private eye show: "The Rockford Files." Gotta love a guy who gets
>into fights regularly...and loses.
My favorite police show was Police Story. I liked the idea of a different cast
every week.
My favorite PI guy is Rockford. I go in late some mornings because he comes on
at 9 every morning.
azure
and, help me out here, the same series w/ McLoud, McMillan, etc., the one w/
Tony Curtis?
azure
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Ay Fongul
>show in those days?
I would have to say, without a doubt, "Streets of San Francisco". I remember
having a crush on Michael Douglas, Jr. Also, I am a native San Franciscan, and
I would get the biggest kick out of seeing them filming a scene in a
neighborhood and then in a split second, they would be across town (unbeknownst
to anyone who was not familiar with the streets of San Francisco).
I also like Rockford Files cuz Jim Rockford was such a cool laid back kinda
guy.
Ang
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Continental,with a mobile telephone in the console. The Police Story series
on N.B.C. was good too.
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>Awhile back we had a thread about our favorite sitcoms. Well, now let's turn
>our attention toward another genre, a particular one that flourished in the
>1970s: crime dramas. What was your favorite police show and/or private eye
>show in those days?
"Starsky & Hutch" would have to be my favorite 70s police show. As for private
eye, "Rockford Files." Although those Duke cousins were awfully slick at
foiling crimes as well! :-)
Shawn
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Starsky & Hutch
Baretta (cool theme song too. Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow)
Petrocelli
Police Story
Police Woman
& Hawaii Five-0.
I just love the way McGarret (sp?) solves crimes. "Dano get me the names of
every blond male from the state of Utah that has had a cold in the last 37
years. Then cross-check that against every Polynesian dolphin trainer for
the same time period & get back to me after dinner on Sunday." Somehow Dano
did it & then at the end we got that fix we were waiting on. We had to have
it. "Book 'em Dano!!" OH YEAH!!! THIS CRIME IS SOLVED!!!
Billy
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> The Name Of The Game, 'nuff said.
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O man I remember that one. Robert Vaughn was in it. It started out with that
car haulin' but over the salt flats as the name of the show came at you.
Hadn't seen that one in years.
Billy
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Also watched Rockford Files and Baretta.
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>Tony Curtis?
McCoy
Tank
Banacek.
Starsky & Hutch.
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azure
Jeff Troutman
>
> My favorite police show was "Columbo". Loved the way ol' Peter Falk
managed to
> sucker everyone into letting themselves get caught, or that red herring
clue
> that he always turned up in the scene right after the murder then never
> mentioned again!
"Colombo" was my fave, too. It had a nice hook - you already knew who the
killer was, the trick was figuring out how Colombo would put it together.
He was a fantastic combination of Sherlock Holmes and some street person who
won't stop babbling at you.
>
> Favorite private eye show: "The Rockford Files." Gotta love a guy who
gets
> into fights regularly...and loses.
>
My favorite as well. James Garner played up the human side of the character
really well. Another favorite of mine was Harry O, starring David Janssen.
Jeff Troutman
Marlene Blanshay
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Police Story; the Streets of San Francisco; Emergency! (does that count as
crime? Sort of precarious); The rookies; columbo. KOJAK was okay, but I
wasn't a regular viewer.
I've noticed that only a few of the 70s crime dramas seem as good today.
Many just seem silly, due to really bad scripts and hammy acting. "Police
Story" is still really good, so is "columbo".
Lynn Riley
being too violent? I liked that one alot too.
LR
Lynn Riley
FYI, it was cancelled, then renamed, recast and resurrected as "Barretta." But
I *loved* Angie Dickinson.
Lynn
Nancy
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> our attention toward another genre, a particular one that flourished in
the
> 1970s: crime dramas. What was your favorite police show and/or private
eye
> show in those days?
Ok, since I just have to be different <G>...
Never missed Charlie's Angels. There, I said it.
Used to watch Barnaby Jones, too.
(My absolute fave is Simon & Simon...but that's 80's)
Erin ">
Marlene Blanshay
> Oh yeah... anyone remember: "The Rookies," which was cancelled for
> being too violent? I liked that one alot too.
>
> LR
>
It wasn't "The Rookies". That show ran for about 5 years. I think you mean
"SWAT". I think it was more cancelled for bad ratings than anything else;
it wasn't a very good show at all. In fact, it was crap. I remember
watching one episode and was not impressed at all. I knew some kids who
weren't even allowed to watch it, but no one had to tell me. It sucked.
DavisK
"Raphael" <raphe...@sprint.ca> wrote:
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> Dixon Hayes <dixon...@aol.comspamless> wrote in message
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> > Awhile back we had a thread about our favorite sitcoms. Well, now
let's
> turn
> > our attention toward another genre, a particular one that
flourished in
> the
> > 1970s: crime dramas. What was your favorite police show and/or
private
> eye
> > show in those days?
>
> Ok, since I just have to be different <G>...
>
> Never missed Charlie's Angels. There, I said it.
> Used to watch Barnaby Jones, too.
"Run, Barnaby, run!" ;>)
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Crime Drama. My favourite has to be Starsky & Hutch. The cool acting,
the funky music, and the well scripted stories make it tops in my
books. My second favourite is Quincy (at least the 70's years - before
he got married). And Columbo was my third. I also liked Barnaby
Jones - it was always funny watching Buddy Ebsen run after criminals
half his age! ;>)
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> My favorite police show was Police Story. I liked the idea of a different
cast
> every week.
Now wasn't the episode that had David Cassidy a Police Story episode that
evolved into his own short lived series?? Or was it just a TV special for
him. I'm talking about the one where he is an undercover detective who goes
back to school to bust the local angel dust dealer. His then wife Kay Lenz
was in it with him. I really loved that show. It actually had an impact on
me. It made me damned afraid to try angel dust.
Billy
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drama, but not a series. That being Scared Straight from what 78?? 9?? Man
that scared the hell out of me. But of course the main reason I watched it
was because they said it was going to be 100% totally un-censored. I tuned
in cause I wanted to see how far they would take the 100% part of it. I was
freakin' out listening to those cons. I had never heard language like that
on TV. Prior to this show the biggest cuss word I ever heard on TV came from
Hawkeye Pierce when on M*A*S*H when he was giving someone a heart massage &
he said "breathe you bastard breathe." Scared Straight tho was REAL drama.
Billy
Trit...@webtv.net
Barnaby Jones!! Just something about that show made me tune in week
after week. I guess I was always waiting for the day when Barnaby
would solve a crime and say "Weeeeeeeeell doggies!!" :)
Marlene Blanshay
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I remember that! I saw it again for the first time a couple of years ago.
I remember the series too, but it didnt' last very long.
Phaedra Alwell
Charlies Angels
Columbo
I used to complain when my mmom would watch shows like that now i am
volntarily watching them what a hoot!
Phaedra '74
ANT The Monarch of Menace
>I would have to say, without a doubt, "Streets of San Francisco". I remember
>having a crush on Michael Douglas, Jr. Also, I am a native San Franciscan,
>and
>I would get the biggest kick out of seeing them filming a scene in a
>neighborhood and then in a split second, they would be across town
>(unbeknownst
>to anyone who was not familiar with the streets of San Francisco).
I too live in San Fran and crack up whenever I see that show (and Bullit too).
Even the way *I* drive (ex NYC cabbie) there's no way to jump from one side of
town to the other!!!
I have supplied stunt cars for many TV shows and movies here in town, and in my
small way try to make sure that scenes match or make sense (continuity).
-ANT
PS What happened to the "Bah" in Ayfongul? Asked of a spaghetti bender by a
spaghetti bender.
ANT The Monarch of Menace
Gesundheidt.
Or Kojak off in yer hat.
-ANT
ANT The Monarch of Menace
medallion around his neck that had a TV camera in it that could broadcast back
to a command center that was headed up by Burgess Meridith? They had all sorts
of computers and junk there, which at the time where pretty cutting edge, but
are laughable today.
-ANT
Nate
>
>Gesundheidt.
>
>Or Kojak off in yer hat.
As Kojak would say "eeeeeasy, baby"!
What about Quincy? Or was that 80's? I liked the whole forensic pathology
thing, but oh well I'm a bore and I like boring stuff like that.
Is what his name still alive?
"Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions" - Edward R.
Murrow
Dixon Hayes
>What about Quincy? Or was that 80's? I liked the whole forensic pathology
>thing, but oh well I'm a bore and I like boring stuff like that.
Quincy wasn't boring, it was perhaps the first show of its type, to bring the
crime drama into the modern age of labs, etc. Even now, when I look at a
Mannix or Dragnet rerun, I wonder what in the world they are going to do
without being able to run DNA tests on hair samples, etc.
Yes, Jack Klugman is still alive, but is very raspy voiced due to a hellacious
bout with throat cancer.
Francis McGill
Nate
>crime drama into the modern age of labs, etc. Even now, when I look at a
>Mannix or Dragnet rerun, I wonder what in the world they are going to do
>without being able to run DNA tests on hair samples, etc.
Yes! that's true. That's a good point <pressing rewind and saying HEY!!!>
Before there was ever a Dana Scully (whom BTW is a doctor in forensic
pathology) there was Quincy M.D.
Tiny Dancer???????????? (care to add?)
>Yes, Jack Klugman is still alive, but is very raspy voiced due to a hellacious
>bout with throat cancer.
I knew that! (after the buzzer). I hope he's is doing well.
Dixon Hayes
>Quincy was 80s.
Actually it premiered in 1976, and ran until 1983...
Jeff Troutman
> >Quincy wasn't boring, it was perhaps the first show of its type, to bring
the
> >crime drama into the modern age of labs, etc. Even now, when I look at a
> >Mannix or Dragnet rerun, I wonder what in the world they are going to do
> >without being able to run DNA tests on hair samples, etc.
>
> Yes! that's true. That's a good point <pressing rewind and saying HEY!!!>
>
True enough. It wasn't boring, although it was occasionally preachy and
shrill.
As for how someone like Mannix would handle an investigation, well, that's
why God invented fists.
Jeff Troutman
ANT The Monarch of Menace
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WKRP (with the song of the same name playing in the background, at least when
the show was orginially aired)
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Nate
>our attention toward another genre, a particular one that flourished in the
>1970s: crime dramas.
Hey Dixon! Do you mind if I pu this thread to rest?
Someone vaguely mentioned "Hawaii 5-0" so I'm gonna say. . .
Book 'em Dano!
BOOK all the folks that responded to this thread.
ANT The Monarch of Menace
Why, you nasty nasty man!
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Raphael
> >I did, the last time I had female company.
>
> Why, you nasty nasty man!
> -ANT
Hee...and he's just getting warmed up! :)
Erin ">
DA66
>evolved into his own short lived series?? Or was it just a TV special for
>him. I'm talking about the one where he is an undercover detective who goes
>back to school to bust the local angel dust dealer. His then wife Kay Lenz
>was in it with him. I really loved that show. It actually had an impact on
>me. It made me damned afraid to try angel dust.
>Billy
>
they spun him into his own show: David Cassidy, Man Undercover.
Nancy
listening to this? My guess is that the show wasn't a big hit.....
Nancy
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Ay Fongul
>PS What happened to the "Bah" in Ayfongul? Asked of a spaghetti bender by a
>spaghetti bender.
Well, since is this is a 70's NG, I thought I would make it 70's friendly by
using a quote from "Grease" which was in the 70's.
But hey, feel free to throw in a bah, an ay, whatever.... =)
Ang
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DA66
>listening to this? My guess is that the show wasn't a big hit.....
>Nancy
The show wasn't on for a long period, I think only one season. I am pretty sure
that it was on NBC. Basically, he infiltrated high schools and got the dirt on
those who were pushing drugs or some other high school campus crime.