One of the top rated shows on the 1980s decade, Magnum, P.I. thrilled audiences with its exotic setting and fast-paced action. Winner of multiple Emmys and Golden Globes, the show was a mainstay in the Top 20 Nielsen Ratings. The show’s Vietnam flashbacks (exploring the combat experiences of the main characters) were widely lauded, and […]

One of the most fondly remembered and action-packed detective series of the late ’60s and early ’70s, Mannix was the brainchild creators Richard Levinson and William Link (Columbo, Murder: She Wrote) and executive producer Bruce Geller (Mission: Impossible). Mike Connors won an Emmy as the title character, a tough, streetwise private eye whose hands-on approach […]

Over the years I’ve enjoyed many TV private detectives: Mannix, Rockford, Magnum, 77 Sunset Strip, SurfSide 6 and Checkmate, however none more than Harry O. Harry O was the melding of a great actor and a perfect role for that actor. The Fugitive is one of my favorite series, however I’ve always felt that he […]

For only “two hundred dollars a day, plus expenses,” the original and quintessential anti-hero detective, Jim Rockford (James Garner) , is on the case. Garner stars as the ex-con-turned-private-investigator who stays under the radar and takes on the cases of the lost and the dispossessed, chasing down seemingly long-dead clues in the sunbaked streets and […]