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[Mr. Blue Sky]

I start to lean one way and then I go the other. I can’t recall a main cast member I didn’t like.

My argument is more with people who refuse to see Knotts as anything other than Barney Fife… but i will say it: Ralph Furley > Barney Fife…. Fight me, i dont care

 

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Never saw one single episode .


Im not sure what accounted for my taste in tv shows as a kid.. i was all over The Fall Guy, The A Team, Moonlighting , Matt Houston, et al but wasnt really a viewer of Hunter, TJ Hooker, Remington Steele or many others .

Same. There was a funny show in the late 80’s I think it was Hammer or something. Funny as heck.

 

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[sfidc3]

I loved this show. Loved all the cast and while my friends were talking about the blonde I was talking about Janet.

I did too, I was like 14 in 1977 when it debuted, I thought it was the funniest show ever at that time....

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Lol, i thought u were talking about Mike Hammer .

 

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[bigdaddysaints]

My argument is more with people who refuse to see Knotts as anything other than Barney Fife… but i will say it: Ralph Furley > Barney Fife…. Fight me, i dont care

I feel like Don Knotts saved the show. I think without him, the show would have not made it more than a couple seaons without Somers. Not a knock on Terri's character, but Knotts brought the ditzyness back that was lost with Chrissy.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Saw that in a theater in Florida… it was ……………. Not good .

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Never saw one single episode .


Im not sure what accounted for my taste in tv shows as a kid.. i was all over The Fall Guy, The A Team, Moonlighting , Matt Houston, et al but wasnt really a viewer of Hunter, TJ Hooker, Remington Steele or many others .

im remembering a late 70s show - it was somewhere between an anthology show and basic procedural
under the same umbrella you could get 1 of 3 possibilities - one was like a texas detective working in NY (he even rode his horse on the streets in the promo - maybe it was dennis weaver)
another one might have been hart to hart??

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man it's wacky what the brain does
Colombo was actually the 3rd in the 'umbrella' and i transposed 'McMillan & Wife' for 'Hart to Hart' which, i think, is understandable...:

• McCloud, starring Dennis Weaver as a rural Taos, New Mexico lawman temporarily assigned to the New York City Police Department (NYPD). Inspired by the Clint Eastwood 1968 film Coogan's Bluff, the show debuted the previous season as part of the hour-long NBC wheel show Four in One.
• Columbo, starring Peter Falk as a deceptively bumbling Los Angeles homicide detective. The series was derived from a 1968 made-for-television movie, Prescription: Murder, which starred Falk in the same role.
• McMillan & Wife, starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James as a husband-and-wife crime-fighting duo. Hudson's character was a hep sophisticated San Francisco city police commissioner. Saint James later left the series and it was renamed McMillan.

 

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How many marriages were saved because of this movie?

 

[MarylandWHODAT]

For me, still one of the freakiest, goriest movies. Saw the new version on Hulu and while the Pinhead character was more androgynous and faithful to the book version, this one is still on the top 10 of horror movies. When the Cenobytes show up, nothing good happens.......

 

[sfidc3]

How many marriages were saved because of this movie?

Of course all the attention went to Glenn Close but, man, Anne Archer was steaming hot in that movie.....very underrated actress IMO....

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Anne Archer was steaming hot in that movie.....very underrated actress IMO....

Fwiw she is a high profile $cientologist .

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

How many marriages were saved because of this movie?

if fear of bunny cooking is what keeps you together, i'm not sure 'saved' is the operative word

in college i had a gf who claimed that if i broke up with her she would 'harm herself' or take my dog or both
i did not want her taking my dog so i toughed it out a few more weeks - nothing was going to save that relationship