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Anaxagoras -> RE: is anyone else a fan of cheesy old detective/action shows? (12/11/2011 12:26:19 PM)
I'm quite shocked no one mentioned Murder She Wrote! Its often very lame but the episodes in "Cabbage Cove" with Seth, and the original sheriff especially. can be great.

DaddySatyr -> RE: is anyone else a fan of cheesy old detective/action shows? (12/11/2011 12:46:39 PM)
Matlock!

Lucylastic -> RE: is anyone else a fan of cheesy old detective/action shows? (12/11/2011 12:52:44 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: tazzygirl Moonlighting is Bones. yeah, David and Bruce have the same effect on me:) grins

BKSir -> RE: is anyone else a fan of cheesy old detective/action shows? (12/11/2011 12:55:48 PM)
Not big on the cheesy ones like mentioned, but I do like the old detective shows like the Poirot and the Miss Marple series. Especially Poirot. LOVE those. I somehow see the David Suchet version of Hercule Poirot as being the penultimate in the "quiet, subtle but effective as hell Dom" category.

Lucylastic -> RE: is anyone else a fan of cheesy old detective/action shows? (12/11/2011 12:59:06 PM)
I preferred the books to the tv versions, I can list maybe four Ive seen on tv, but I've read most of the books.

Moonhead -> RE: is anyone else a fan of cheesy old detective/action shows? (12/11/2011 1:10:35 PM)
DOA? There was a very '80s (and pretty good) remake of that one.

PeonForHer -> RE: is anyone else a fan of cheesy old detective/action shows? (12/11/2011 1:10:37 PM)
FR While we're on the subject, can anyone remember a detective series, or maybe it was just a film, that involved a big ugly blond man and a dwarf? It had a strange, whistling sort of theme tune. Wish I knew the name of it. Most of these detective series and films I remember particularly because of their theme tunes . . . .

Moonhead -> RE: is anyone else a fan of cheesy old detective/action shows? (12/11/2011 1:12:54 PM)
Twin Peaks? This is Julee Cruise's vocal version of the theme music here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBdH6SjBEX8

PeonForHer -> RE: is anyone else a fan of cheesy old detective/action shows? (12/11/2011 5:53:23 PM)
Oh no - thanks for the stab, and that was a good theme indeed, but it was much earlier - at least a decade.

BoxwineForBrunch -> RE: is anyone else a fan of cheesy old detective/action shows? (12/11/2011 6:17:19 PM)
@peonforher i will thank you not to speak of my parents that way @tazzygrl oh wow you're right, bones pretty much is moonlighting. good call. @anaxagoras i have a strange devotion to murder she wrote. it is as close as american television ever came to campion (which alas i just discovered is no longer streamable on netflix) jim rockford was my personal hero. i always wanted jim rockford and magnum pi to go head to head in a hot sweaty tournament of awesomeness. also mad love for columbo, but i didn't even mention columbo in the op because there can never be another columbo. there could, perhaps, someday be another banacek, for better or for worse.

tj444 -> RE: is anyone else a fan of cheesy old detective/action shows? (12/11/2011 6:30:48 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: PeonForHer Oh no - thanks for the stab, and that was a good theme indeed, but it was much earlier - at least a decade. I dunno Peon.. the only dwarf i can think of that was in a tv series was Hervé Villechaize in Fantasy Island but there was no blond guy that i can remember.. Hervé Villechaize was also in a Bond movie (The Man with the Golden Gun). I am sure it will come to you.. at some strange place and time.. lol

Hippiekinkster -> RE: is anyone else a fan of cheesy old detective/action shows? (12/11/2011 6:52:39 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: FrostedFlake Here is the theme to Peter Gunn. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcflCzZlLcQ Showing my vintage, but it is SO cool. Kickass tune/theme song. THE BRAINS (ATLANTA) DO A FUNKY "PETER GUNN" They did a show at the Agora Ballroom in 79 and opened with Peter Gunn. Alto Sax, as I recall. Straight-up, not a funk version.

TheBanshee -> RE: is anyone else a fan of cheesy old detective/action shows? (12/11/2011 8:43:20 PM)
Don't forget McMillan and Wife....and Father Dowling Mysteries? I'm trying to remember a show about a blond guy and a dwarf - can't think of anything. Castle is sort of a Moonlighting show too I think.

smartsub10 -> RE: is anyone else a fan of cheesy old detective/action shows? (12/11/2011 9:25:58 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: xxblushesxx There was a movie that came out a bit more than 20 years ago. It was done in a film noir style, and it was really good (and pretty funny if I remember correctly) it wasn't who framed roger rabbit and it didn't have madonna in it. I wish I could remember that movie (and the name of it) because I'd love to watch it again. Was it perhaps Dragnet with Dan Ackroyd and Tom Hanks? I loved the original series. Yes, I'm that old. [:D]

xxblushesxx -> RE: is anyone else a fan of cheesy old detective/action shows? (12/11/2011 9:27:48 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: smartsub10 quote: ORIGINAL: xxblushesxx There was a movie that came out a bit more than 20 years ago. It was done in a film noir style, and it was really good (and pretty funny if I remember correctly) it wasn't who framed roger rabbit and it didn't have madonna in it. I wish I could remember that movie (and the name of it) because I'd love to watch it again. Was it perhaps Dragnet with Dan Ackroyd and Tom Hanks? It was a movie about a detective...it was not a well-known movie at the time (or any time as far as I know) I don't think the people in it were famous, but I could be wrong about the last part. : (

smartsub10 -> RE: is anyone else a fan of cheesy old detective/action shows? (12/11/2011 9:44:09 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: xxblushesxx quote: ORIGINAL: smartsub10 quote: ORIGINAL: xxblushesxx There was a movie that came out a bit more than 20 years ago. It was done in a film noir style, and it was really good (and pretty funny if I remember correctly) it wasn't who framed roger rabbit and it didn't have madonna in it. I wish I could remember that movie (and the name of it) because I'd love to watch it again. Was it perhaps Dragnet with Dan Ackroyd and Tom Hanks? It was a movie about a detective...it was not a well-known movie at the time (or any time as far as I know) I don't think the people in it were famous, but I could be wrong about the last part. : ( A funny movie about a detective? Now it's going to drive me crazy trying to figure that one out. LOL

Moonhead -> RE: is anyone else a fan of cheesy old detective/action shows? (12/12/2011 4:51:44 AM)
The only ones from the early '90s that spring to mind are The (Shitawful) Adventures Of Ford Farlaine (which was ostensibly a comedy, despite resembling more an excuse for the loathsome Andrew Dice Clay to insult people for two hours), and the dodgy attempt at a Mike Hammer send up with Pamela Anderson-Lee-Anderson-Lee-Anderson as his secretary. Both have fairly famous people in the cast, so I doubt it's either, though...

TheBanshee -> RE: is anyone else a fan of cheesy old detective/action shows? (12/12/2011 8:17:07 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: xxblushesxx There was a movie that came out a bit more than 20 years ago. It was done in a film noir style, and it was really good (and pretty funny if I remember correctly) it wasn't who framed roger rabbit and it didn't have madonna in it. I wish I could remember that movie (and the name of it) because I'd love to watch it again. Okay - I have one thought - it has the big weird blond guy and a dwarf - Foul Play with Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn - there was a blond albino as a bad guy and there was a dwarf. I wouldn't consider it Film Noir though. Since you mentioned Who Framed Roger Rabbit - there also was a movie Cool World kind of in the same theme. That was kind of a film noir - not sure about the cast though. Just one more for your consideration - High Anxiety (one of my favorite movies ever btw). I don't think it meets your details but in a way a little film noir. This has been really driving me crazy...lol

xxblushesxx -> RE: is anyone else a fan of cheesy old detective/action shows? (12/12/2011 8:19:33 PM)
It was about a detective. I think I would have remembered a dwarf. There was no animation. That's all I got. Oh, and there was a dame. But isn't there always a dame? [:D]

TheBanshee -> RE: is anyone else a fan of cheesy old detective/action shows? (12/12/2011 8:31:07 PM)
Reading back, I got your details mixed up with PeonForHer's post. His movie might be Foul Play. Someone mentioned before Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. I'll keep thinking about it!

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