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...have stretched as far as TV writers' imaginations can fetch. The good guys come in wondrous array: in uniform (Adam-12, The Rookies), in disguise (Toma), in court (Perry Mason, Owen Marshall) and in hayseed (Hawkins, McCloud). They are black (Shaft, Tenafly), elderly (The Snoop Sisters), bald (Kojak), Polish (Banacek), portly (Cannon), paralytic (Ironside) and partly computer (The Six Million Dollar Man). They work alone (Mannix), in pairs (The Streets of San Francisco, Faraday and Company, McMillan & Wife) and in precision-movement teams (Chase, Hawaii Five-O). --TIME...
...ethnic identity badge. ABC's "Kung Fu" is a sort of "Fugitive" foo yung ? a Chinese priest permanently on the lam in the American West of the 1870s, nonviolent but ready to zap troublemakers with the self-defense art of kung fu. The title character of NBC's "Banacek" (one of three rotating shows in the NBC "Wednesday Mystery Movie") is not only a rugged insurance sleuth but also a walking lightning rod for Polish jokes...
...wasn't spring, it wasn't the Head, and it wasn't Banacek; but crew season was here again. And the ostensible absurdity of compressing five months of training into a five-minute sprint made perfect sense...
...cool, although his bird is cool. Barnaby Jones was cool when he worked for President McKinley. Mannix's theme song is cool, but he gets slugged in the medulla too often to be cool. Starsky and Hutch are the antithesis of cool, with their bullshit Trans Am and all. Banacek could never be cool with that haircut...
...writers' imaginations can fetch. The good guys come in wondrous array: in uniform (Adam-12, The Rookies), in disguise (Toma), in court (Perry Mason, Owen Marshall) and in hayseed (Lawyer Hawkins, McCloud). They are black (Shaft, Tenafly), elderly (The Snoop Sisters), bald (Kojak), Polish (Banacek), portly (Cannon), paralytic (Ironside) and partly computer (The Six Million Dollar Man). They work alone (Mannix), in pairs (The Streets of San Francisco, Faraday and Company, McMillan & Wife), and in precision-movement teams (Chase, Hawaii Five...