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Post by The J-Man on Feb 17, 2005 17:36:53 GMT -5
Let's hear it for "UNSUB". Light years ahead of it's time. In a different reality, we might still have been watching that, plus "UNSUB: Miami" and "UNSUB: New York" right now...
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Post by Maxwell - F.B.I. on Feb 23, 2005 21:35:16 GMT -5
Heheheheehhe... Alan Spencer (creator of Sledge Hammer!) had a great comment in a recent interview along the same lines... something like, at this point, he thinks CBS is about to rename their entire network CSI for the profits. Sad but true...
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Post by The J-Man on Feb 26, 2005 18:48:29 GMT -5
Anyone remember Cannell's unsold pilot, "Brothers-in-Law", aired as a TV movie circa 1985
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Post by ThatGirl on Feb 26, 2005 19:52:23 GMT -5
It sounded familiar, so I looked it up. us.imdb.com/title/tt0088859/Robert Culp was in it, too, but he was the bad guy. From the description, it sounds pretty bad. Was it any good? |
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Post by The J-Man on Feb 26, 2005 20:12:02 GMT -5
I don't think we suffered any major loss by not seeing this pilot go to series (first time that happened, though, since SJC went independant, I believe).
I'm not 100% sure, but I think it may have aired during Summer rerun season; so it was 90 minutes of brand-new, solid Cannell product. It wasn't bad, but the concept was so...average. Two private eyes, who used to be married to a set of twins. Where's my big pink helicopter? Where's my black pirate ghost? They didn't even have under-cover teenage cops, or Viet-Nam War veteran-masters of disguise, or anything.
Again, a very solid, entertaining 90 minutes of Cannell-written TV; but where's the hook?
Needless to say, Robert Culp was absolutley brilliant as the evil father-in-law, who seemed poised to be a recurring villian if a series had resulted.
And Dennis Burkley as the biker? Brilliant casting!! Who knew he had such range? I wonder if he's ever played a biker in anything else...
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Post by greenguy on Feb 27, 2005 0:06:33 GMT -5
Wish I'd seen it, but that was a Cannell that slipped past me.
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Post by The J-Man on Feb 27, 2005 15:10:19 GMT -5
Back then I used to comb through TV Guide, line by line, with a fine tooth comb; nothing got by me.
Unfortunately, I was married for several months back in the Nineties and my video tape orgainizing system suffered for it. The tape is definately here...somewhere...but because I tend to label the video tape boxes, and not the tapes themselves...well, it's anyone's guess at this point...
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Post by greenguy on Feb 27, 2005 15:20:02 GMT -5
I hear ya. Roughly from about 86 to 1991, I had my own business and putting in 70 hours a week made my series collection suffer. So I missed stuff here and there. Then when I was divorced, about 25/30 tapes didn't leave with me. So I even lost a little material I once had recorded.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Feb 9, 2007 22:59:58 GMT -5
Let's hear it for "UNSUB". Light years ahead of it's time. In a different reality, we might still have been watching that, plus "UNSUB: Miami" and "UNSUB: New York" right now... I have heard nothing about this really. I was not an avid TV watcher then...and I am still not know contrary to popular belief.  I was just wondering if anyone thought this might come out on DVD too the way PROFIT did. It seems that SJC had another horse picked that would be killing in the ratings now, but fell through the cracks back then. Does anyone know where to get copies of this besides Ebay? Or should I hope and pray that the idea will get through to DVD this sucker too?  |
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