Baretta was an indirect spinoff of Toma. After Tony Musante left the show, Robert Blake was asked to step in, and the show was revamped into Baretta. Tony Baretta was an unconventional cop, streetwise with a decidedly funky lifestyle. He lived in apartment 2-C of an old run-down hotel called the King Edward, with his pet cockatoo, Fred. The orphaned son of poor Italian immigrants, Baretta was a...
The show starring Steve Forrest was a spinoff of The Rookies . The show produced 39 episodes, 2 of which were really episodes of The Rookies that served as the pilot. The show ran from Febuary, 1975 until April, 1976. Also starring was Robert Urich (who went onto star in Soap in September, 1977), and Mark Shera.
Thanks to hit programs like Adam-12, the cop show rose to a new level of...
Miami Vice was one of the most innovative and powerful TV series of all time. Focusing on the Miami Metro-Dade Police "Vice" Department and it's continued battle against the illicit drug, prostitution, and firearms crime underworld of the city of Miami. It used fashion, color, and a varied musical selection in order to accentuate and amplify the emotional undercurrent of the drama it portrayed.
Vegas was about Las Vegas and Dan Tanna. His sports car was a vintage red Thunderbird, he had sexy assistants, there were glamorous settings and his charismatic and wisecracking personality were just a part of this entertaining show.
This show premiered on September 20, 1978 and the last episode aired on June 10, 1981.
68 episodes and a pilot episode were filmed.
This show...
Simon & Simon is a show based on two brothers who just happen to be private investigators. They live and work in San Diego where once a week, for eight seasons, the series revealed the loyality and love they had for one another. "They're more than brothers, they're best of friends." The show was cancelled midway into the eighth season, and it was only in re-runs that the final episodes were...
James Garner stars as Jim Rockford, a private investigator who lives and works from his trailer in Malibu, Los Angeles. Jim is an ex-con who had been imprisoned for five years in San Quentin for armed robbery a crime which he did not commit and was later pardoned. Jim has a quarter page advertisement in the yellow pages, drives a tan Pontiac Firebird and has an answering machine, which...
The adventures of Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. This great series had 6 seasons before it ended. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers always on the street to save lives.
1998 followed the TV movie "CHiPs ī99" with some of the series cast but we can also see new faces like Officer Roulette and his partner or Sandy Baker, Jonīs spouse.
