TV in the USA in the 1970's brought us quite a few fun and over the top detective shows, and many of these 1970's era TV Detectives had one gimmick or quirk to set them apart from the pack.
Look over this partial list of fun 70's era USA based Detective series and take your pick of the one you think was the most ridiculous and least plausible, and pick one you think could be the most realistic.
1. CANNON: A very heavyset Lincoln Continetal Mark driving, penthouse living, gourmet loving ex-cop who charged huge fees to solve cases.
2. BARNABY JONES: Geriatric, milk swigging, rickitey and thin as a matchstick Buddy Ebsen as a retired Detective who goes back on the job.
3. COLUMBO: Seemingly bumbling, but quite brilliant and strangely gleeful in how he mentally toys, tortures, and drives the murderer nearly insane.
4. MCCLOUD: Stubborn New Mexico Sherriff, always aggravating to the crabby Police Chief, let loose in modern NYC with a horse, cowboy hat and six shooter.
2007-07-07 09:17:45 · 11 answers · asked by Middy S 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
5. BARETTA: Grubby, old Chevy driving, slum loving and living ex-Cop who really liked his pet Parrot.
6. ROCKFORD FILES: Lived in a trailer on the beach with his Dad, loved driving Firebirds backwards really fast to make quick turnarounds.
7. BANACHEK: Polish, wealthy and a bit snobby, driven around alot in big Cadillac limos by colorful driver and solved big cases for 1 Million each.
8. MCMILLIAN AND WIFE: Husband and Wife who lived in San Fransicsco, Hubby was Police Commisioner, wife was a restless busybody.
9. KOJAK: Loved lollipops, bit of a smartass, chromedome Detective in grubby NYC who loved driving ugly cars with mini emergency lights on dash constantly flashing.
10. MANNIX: Smooth talking, good looking ex-cop who had a penchant for loosing control of his many different cool cars while driving in the hills around L.A. because of cut brake lines and getting rammed, and in having old WWII "buddies" always trying to kill him.
2007-07-07 09:19:13 · update #1
Oh good grief steven c, did you wake up on the wrong side of your nightstick?
2007-07-07 09:26:23 · update #2
None of it was real, but my two favorites were Columbo, and Banacek.
2007-07-07 09:25:30 · answer #1 · answered by CGIV76 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Being "on the job" I would have to say the closeest was Kojak, yet that was a bit off base also.
The best had to be, and I have only seen the reruns, was The Naked City, about detectives in NYC. If I am not mistaken, there were different stars each week. It ran from 1959 to the mid 60's.
Each week the narrator ended the show by saying: "There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them."
I am not sure why NYC is The Naked City either.
2007-07-12 00:58:16 · answer #2 · answered by detectivetom 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
actual, in case you think of roughly it, those adult men weren't plenty extra some distance fetched than what we've immediately. look at CSI the place they remedy each and every crime via finding somewhat hair here, lipstick there and different DNA lines everywhere in the crime scene. it is extremely plenty unrealistic and maximum criminals are convicted via a string of circumstantial data. I actual have even heard that those forms of exhibits are making it extra durable to get a jury to convict because of the fact they think of that there would desire to be concrete DNA attempting out to tutor guilt. So i might would desire to assert...television immediately is diverse, certainly not extra possible.
2016-12-10 05:00:26 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kojak was the only one that was even remotely close. Or, also one you forgot... Beretta. You remember? He had the white cockatoo. Maybe him.
The least: Barnaby Jones..... what a joke that would be in real life.
God, I remember them all well. I was a teen and lived with my Grand Parents. They never missed an episode of any of them. Funny stuff... Good question.
*edit... oops, sorry, you did have Baretta in there...just re-read it.
2007-07-07 11:04:36 · answer #4 · answered by Dog Lover 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Wow! What memories! I don't know who was least plausible, but I LOVED Columbo and McCloud! I loved the way Columbo (Peter Falk) would just kind of "suggest" his way through solving crimes. Sometimes I think Vince Dinofrio (in one of those current crime shows) is patterning his character after Columbo... as he is very soft spoken in the way he solves crimes...
From a civilian point of view, I think Kojak was not very realistic... something strange about stepping over a dead body and sticking a lollipop in your mouth.
I dunno... maybe that is realistic...
2007-07-07 09:40:59 · answer #5 · answered by scruffycat 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Cannon least plausable- a fat man could not chase down a in shape perp
most realistic- McCloud
2007-07-07 09:29:42 · answer #6 · answered by plhudson01 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Man, you bring back a lot of memories. And right now I'm listening to "In the Summertime" by Jerry Mungo...
I would have to say Starsky and Hutch...LOL because they needed Huggy Bear.
2007-07-07 10:25:23 · answer #7 · answered by Mike M 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
McMillan and Wife were probably the least plausable and I always liked Mannix.
2007-07-07 09:29:15 · answer #8 · answered by EvilWoman0913 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Looks like they all want to be like Kojac, that's why they shave their heads. But their donut-eating habits leave them looking like Cannon! I think The Simpson's Chief Wigum is a more realistic portrayal...
And, after sitting seven hours in a car, can you tell which is their true "Ironside?"
2007-07-07 10:03:16 · answer #9 · answered by TURANDOT 6 · 2⤊ 5⤋
I know they started in 1987, but what about Jake and the Fat Man?
2007-07-07 10:21:59 · answer #10 · answered by Jonah Chaos 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋