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Watched some episodes of detective show Vega$ last year. The P.I.'s office/home was in a former storage building right behind Circus Circus, and I noticed that, even in 1978, right behind his office it was still open desert.
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:
Where's the love for "Hawk"?
Cagney and Lacey
And to stretch it a bit,
Remington Steele Scarecrow and Mrs King
Oh, and Moonlighting!
we didn't see those, maybe they have better DMCA takedown people
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
Jake and the fat man sounds like a fake show
Fatman
Dan Tana! Great show. Or so my foggy memory recalls.
Yup. With Tony Curtis as his landlord/biggest client!