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Xander: I still don't get why we came here to get info about a killer snot monster. Giles: Because it's a killer snot monster from outer space. I did not say that.
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Procedurals 1: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You.
This thread is for procedural TV, shows where the primary idea is to figure out the case. [NAFDA]
Ailleann - Apr 30, 2008 6:08:37 am PDT #1155 of 11831
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Stephanie - Apr 30, 2008 6:19:58 am PDT #1156 of 11831
Trust my rage
We actually do, although it's not the same one.
Fred Pete - Apr 30, 2008 6:55:55 am PDT #1157 of 11831
Ann, that's a ferret.
Interesting article on Perry Mason. I haven't seen the show in 30 years, but in my memory he's a millworker's kid who somehow got a law degree and decided (voluntarily or not) to use it more to serve justice than to make big bucks at a big firm.
And I wouldn't say Erle Stanley Gardner was a bad writer. He was a good genre and pulp writer at a time when genre and pulp writers didn't get respect. And had to churn out enormous volume to make a decent living.
erikaj - Apr 30, 2008 9:46:03 am PDT #1158 of 11831
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, compared to dragnet, it's pretty lefty, but what isn't?
beekaytee - Apr 30, 2008 10:39:33 am PDT #1159 of 11831
Compassionately intolerant
Was Dragnet rightie?
I ask because I listen to the ye olde timme radio Dragnet shows on npr each weekend. There is one episode that gets replayed regularly that is, hands down, the most compassionate, thoughtful treatment of heroin addiction I've ever encountered in pop media.
I'll have to go do some Jack Webb wikipedia-ing.
eta: I love this Webb trivia from imdb:
At the height of "Dragnet's" popularity, people would actually call the LAPD wanting to speak to Webb's character, Sgt. Joe Friday.
The Department eventually came up with a stock answer to the large volume of calls: "Sorry, it's Joe's day off."
erikaj - Apr 30, 2008 10:53:07 am PDT #1160 of 11831
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, I thought so, the few times I'd seen one, but I am from a different time and to the left of most Americans, even so. I should keep that in mind. I didn't know that Perry Mason had such humble origins(the character, not the...brand, or whatever.)
Connie Neil - Apr 30, 2008 11:26:57 am PDT #1161 of 11831
brillig
Perry's been playing on local PBS in the evenings around here. Is it at all accurate that he'd do criminal law as well as consulting on contracts and all that?
And he strikes me as just a touch sleazy anymore. I do like Della, though, she had a lot more to do than I remember.
Fred Pete - Apr 30, 2008 11:42:37 am PDT #1162 of 11831
Ann, that's a ferret.
connie, depends on where he is. Big city, more likely to specialize.
The first Perry Mason novels came out during the '30s, Dragnet during the early '50s (or maybe slightly earlier?). Reflected their times.
I remember some of the Dragnet eps from the late '60s. Definitely rightie in the law-n-order, police are always right, damn those dirty hippies because they're all crooks anyway sense. Might have some sensitivity toward at least some of the drug addicted, as long as they weren't committing other crimes to support their addictions.
Connie Neil - Apr 30, 2008 1:00:57 pm PDT #1163 of 11831
brillig
It's a subject that could bear interesting scrutiny, popular entertainment as commentary on current culture. As I'm sure someone probably has already done.
Connie Neil - Apr 30, 2008 1:03:56 pm PDT #1164 of 11831
brillig