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No, not a crossover, sadly. That would probably have been rather fun. Just witless rambling as I continue my rewatch of both. The guest stars continue to be good. David Warner turned up in Remington Steele, which was nice (as a bad guy - now there's a surprise!). And then Paul Reiser! At his youngest and fluffiest, making him the single most obvious red herring ever in a whodunnit. And Dempsey & Makepeace continues to be filled with a barrage of old British TV faces - and then, in the final episode of series one: jackpot! I knew he was in there somewhere; I just couldn't remember which episode it was. Towards the end of the episode, leaping out of a window and smashing up automobiles, as is his wont, whilst sporting some alarmingly yellow hair. Tip Tipping! Look look look!
There he goes!
And then zoom! And also smash. He was actually playing a syphilitic rapist (whoever said acting wasn't glamorous?!), but whatever. You can tell it's still season one. By season two they'd chucked Jesse Carr-Martindale off the writing team, and things cheered up considerably!
The escape didn't go at all well. Which I should probably be glad about, because syphilitic rapist. Also murderer. But also also Tip Tipping.
I'm happy now. :)
Remington Steele does not give me awesome British stuntmen, at least very often (there are a scattering of episodes that were shot over here), but it does do some grandly peculiar things with its casting that have a different kind of appeal. Pierce Brosnan's wife, Cassandra Harris, was a frequent guest star on the show, playing Felicia, Steele's art thief ex-lover. Then suddenly in one episode she's instead playing Anna, another of Steele's ex-lovers, this time a would-be killer. It's quite bizarre when she turns up, as a completely different person, and we're apparently not supposed to notice that Anna and Felicia share a head. No wonder Steele spent that episode in such confusion! It's a bit like how in The A-Team both the true loves of Face's life were played by Markie Post. That wasn't because they were married in real life though. I think that was just by accident.
Oh, and hey - just in case one were to forget which decade the show is set in:
Laura and Steele take a stroll down the world's most 1980s corridor. Isn't it wonderful? And at the end of the corridor is this perfectly eighties computer:
Which naturally enough is voice-operated. How did the 1980s get all these amazing, voice-operated computers?! Voice recognition software isn't that good now, let alone thirty years ago. How did all those computer scientists do it?! And couldn't they at least have scribbled down a few hints before being rubbed out by their dodgy associates?!
It's a cruel world in the 1980s. But it has Tip Tipping smashing things, and that's worth more than gold. :)
There he goes!
And then zoom! And also smash. He was actually playing a syphilitic rapist (whoever said acting wasn't glamorous?!), but whatever. You can tell it's still season one. By season two they'd chucked Jesse Carr-Martindale off the writing team, and things cheered up considerably!
The escape didn't go at all well. Which I should probably be glad about, because syphilitic rapist. Also murderer. But also also Tip Tipping.
I'm happy now. :)
Remington Steele does not give me awesome British stuntmen, at least very often (there are a scattering of episodes that were shot over here), but it does do some grandly peculiar things with its casting that have a different kind of appeal. Pierce Brosnan's wife, Cassandra Harris, was a frequent guest star on the show, playing Felicia, Steele's art thief ex-lover. Then suddenly in one episode she's instead playing Anna, another of Steele's ex-lovers, this time a would-be killer. It's quite bizarre when she turns up, as a completely different person, and we're apparently not supposed to notice that Anna and Felicia share a head. No wonder Steele spent that episode in such confusion! It's a bit like how in The A-Team both the true loves of Face's life were played by Markie Post. That wasn't because they were married in real life though. I think that was just by accident.
Oh, and hey - just in case one were to forget which decade the show is set in:
Laura and Steele take a stroll down the world's most 1980s corridor. Isn't it wonderful? And at the end of the corridor is this perfectly eighties computer:
Which naturally enough is voice-operated. How did the 1980s get all these amazing, voice-operated computers?! Voice recognition software isn't that good now, let alone thirty years ago. How did all those computer scientists do it?! And couldn't they at least have scribbled down a few hints before being rubbed out by their dodgy associates?!
It's a cruel world in the 1980s. But it has Tip Tipping smashing things, and that's worth more than gold. :)
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