Word: hutch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leonard Goldberg, 46. The two had been accused of trying to cheat investors in ABC's Charlie's Angels, chiefly Actor Robert Wagner, 50, and his actress-wife Natalie Wood, 42, by siphoning off at least $660,000 of Angels 'profits to Starsky and Hutch, a show that the producers owned a larger percentage of. Only slightly less elated were executives at ABC who had approved the transfer of funds and ABC President Elton Rule, 63, a close friend of the two producers. If Van De Kamp failed to make the criminal charges stick, he did provide...
...services? According to Martin's memo of the meeting, which the D.A. quoted, ABC V.P. Ronald Sunderland, replied: "You want to know what it's really for? They're [cheating] the Robert Wagners out of their money. We've been putting it into Starsky and Hutch up until now, but since Starsky is off the ah", the money's got to go somewhere else, so we're calling it exclusivity...
Despite their success, neither man is in business to lose money, and both were appalled at their problems with Starsky and Hutch, a shoot-'em-up centered on two offbeat policemen. Their lawyer, William Hayes, 59, repeatedly asked ABC to help them out. ABC made additional payments, and then refused to give another dollar. According to the D.A.'s report, Hayes says that former ABC Vice President George Reeves told him: "No, I can't help you. Don't even come ask me, because everybody here has had it up to their ears with Starsky...
...compact resolution to a wondrously complex plot. Toward the end of the past season, for example, the twine of stories looked hopelessly snarled. Cliff Barnes, now taking his revenge as an assistant district attorney, had Jock indicted for the murder, 28 years earlier, of Southfork Ranch Hand Hutch McKinney. But voilà Digger Barnes, on his deathbed, confessed to Miss Ellie that he had shot Hutch for planning to run off with Digger's wife Rebecca, who was carrying Hutch's child-Pamela...
...Spelling-Goldberg, one of Hollywood's most profitable TV production companies, told her that the breakdown of payments was a ruse to diminish the Wagners' share of the profits. The official also explained to Martin that before the demise of another Spelling-Goldberg program, Starsky and Hutch, $30,000 per episode in Charlie's Angels fees was diverted to the account of the less successful show, in which the Wagners did not have a share...