You mean like Horny Bestselling Thriller Writer and Amateur Detective Richard Castle? That show was one part MURDER, SHE WROTE, one part REMINGTON STEELE, and made up the rest with a combination of Female Star Stana Katic’s hard-nosed hotness, and Nathan Fillion just Fillioning his way around.

You mean like Horny Bestselling Thriller Writer and Amateur Detective Richard Castle? That show was one part MURDER, SHE WROTE, one part REMINGTON STEELE, and made up the rest with a combination of Female Star Stana Katic’s hard-nosed hotness, and Nathan Fillion just Fillioning his way around.

Hey, remember THE MAGICIAN, with Bill Bixby as a crimefighting stage magician? The big draw of the show was that Bixby did all his own magic tricks - he’d been an amateur magician all his life, and their Technical Advisor was famous Stage Magician Mark Wilson, who’d teach Bixby how to do the more elaborate tricks.

Yep - too bad for him Shaggy & Scooby just had to score when they were driving through that town...

I never even saw BAYWATCH NIGHTS - and the promise of a faintly supernatural mystery show is like catnip to me! I could never find when it was on near me....

It’s Jessica Fletcher - she kills the victims, then uses her standing as a mystery writer and amateur detective to frame some other poor mope for the crime.

The Court Jester - where Incredibly Beautiful Young Angela Lansbury tries to get Danny Kaye, who’s a Resistance entertainer turned Court Jester turned Assassin turned Nobleman (just roll with it, okay?) originally named “Hubert Hawkins” but spends most of the movie being called either “Jacimo, King of…

You mean “Notorious Serial Killer Jessica Fletcher”?

Ugh - there was a war in the Army churches in Frankfurt, West Germany, over a Sunday School collection of stories about Young Jesus and his two brothers! Basically, it was like reading SUPERBOY stories, only Jesus was less an ass about it than teenaged Clark Kent....

Oh, no, cferejohn - Kevin Smith’s Dogma, which came out five years before THE DA VINCI CODE, and includes Ben Affleck & Matt Damon being smug self-righteous fallen angels (who knew it was a documentary about Damon?), Jay&Silent Bob, and a Shit Demon.

Is that because so many of us are screwed-up by Sunday School Kids...?

Midnight Cowboy...?

I shudder to think how your children are growing up with you as a Father.

Thank you - Gods know I’m old enough to be telling Dad Jokes.
Usually this is the response I get:

The Aqueducts!

Yeah, that’s kind of what I expected. I think my sense of humor had evolved past that point by then, and as I recall it was shot on video with the cheapest possible F/x work. There was a time I’d put up with almost anything for great optical effects - I used to love the OG BATTLESTAR: GALACTICA for John Dykstra’s…

The “Cop With a Robot Partner” is a theme television keeps revisiting, Jeeshman - either Straight-Up as in FUTURE COP, humorously with HOLMES & YOYO, MANN & MACHINE as a near-future adventure with sexual tension between David Andrews’s Det. Mann and Yancy Butler’ Sgt. Eve Edison, the “Machine” in the title, and most…

Yep, Saturday Nights at 8:30, if I remember right.

Once you’ve thought about it, you know it and can “discuss” it from there - not present it like it was a brand-new idea, dirtside....

Nonsense, Soylent Green! It’s a perfectly innocent name - just like “Lidsville”, where there’s nary a nickname for a sandwich baggie full of marijuana in sight!