How did you wind up recently watching such an old obscure show? Like even if it was a nostalgia watch of a childhood show, how did it even come up in your mind again?
My mother broke her hip and was bedridden during recovery. I bought her a Roku and would watch mainly detective shows / mysteries (her fave) with her.
Before I got Prime & Netflix set up, that meant trawling for free ones on various platforms, and YouTube’s recommendation algorithm eventually led us to Vega$. Others we saw on YT:
The Saint
Burke’s Law
Honey West
Barnaby Jones
Rip Tide
Jake & the Fat Man
Perry Mason (inc the 80s revival)
Streets of San Francisco
probably a few more I can’t remember right now
On other platforms (Fawesome, TheArchive, Roku Channel etc):
The Commish ( we also watched The Shield: what a contrast!)
Booker
Wiseguy
Peter Gunn
Mr Lucky
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Decoy
Danger Man
Might have to pick “English-language detective/crime shows 1955-1995” as my specialist subject on Mastermind :)
does anyone else ever get the Simon & Simon theme song stuck in their head for no discernible reason? maybe it’s because that show came on just after bedtime, so I had to lay there listening to it, and all the shows my parents would watch as I fell asleep.
which brings me to the best theme song ever: Taxi
I hope that never leaves my head, it’s amazing and is like a massive sleeping pill when I hear it
How did you wind up recently watching such an old obscure show? Like even if it was a nostalgia watch of a childhood show, how did it even come up in your mind again?
My mother broke her hip and was bedridden during recovery. I bought her a Roku and would watch mainly detective shows / mysteries (her fave) with her.
Before I got Prime & Netflix set up, that meant trawling for free ones on various platforms, and YouTube’s recommendation algorithm eventually led us to Vega$. Others we saw on YT:
On other platforms (Fawesome, TheArchive, Roku Channel etc):
Might have to pick “English-language detective/crime shows 1955-1995” as my specialist subject on Mastermind :)
I see a couple missing from your list off the top of my head from the 80s:
Cagney and Lacey
And to stretch it a bit,
Remington Steele Scarecrow and Mrs King
Oh, and Moonlighting!
Where’s the love for “Hawk”?
does anyone else ever get the Simon & Simon theme song stuck in their head for no discernible reason? maybe it’s because that show came on just after bedtime, so I had to lay there listening to it, and all the shows my parents would watch as I fell asleep.
which brings me to the best theme song ever: Taxi
I hope that never leaves my head, it’s amazing and is like a massive sleeping pill when I hear it
Yep I can still hear Simon and Simon in my head
we didn’t see those, maybe they have better DMCA takedown people
Jake and the fat man sounds like a fake show
Fatman