OK, so you just created the signal 80's cop show - Miami Vice. With that, you influence style, language and the whole "cop" genre in ways it had never gone before. MV was as far from Dragnet - or Naked City - as you were going to get. So what do you do next? Create a film noir TV detective show, the best one ever. You get Joe Jackson to create the theme song; you get strong, silent type Michael Woods as the star; you cast a young Josh Brolin as the sidekick; and you pay strict attention to style, props, clothes, settings and everything else. This episode shoows just what you can get from that. Songs from Chris Isaak. Excellent script based on the reality of 50's record production and sales. Plenty of action. And you still don't make it. One reason: you get put up against 20/20 (!) and Falcon Crest. Very tough odds there. But this two-parter was a gem and featured real heat between Alice Adair and Josh Brolin (led to their marriage) and a poignant but real wrapup story. The real shame is that this part-season wonder has never been officially available for view. A shame.
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