VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 158 - TX OCTOBER 15 2023

A QUARTET OF USTV SEVENTIES COP SHOWS

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 15th 2023

This week, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI, is back with another quartet of TV shows that he’s been watching in his quest to discover what sort of television he might be able to find when he’s off on his travels and far, far away from his own personal archive of DVDs, blu-rays, and other television that he might have about the house to entertain himself with.

This week he’s reached the early 1970s and has been watching four American series that, coincidentally, all happened to be popular crime dramas from that era, which, perhaps shouldn’t be all that surprising to us really, as, with the popularity of the Western fading fast in the television output of the time, it was the crime drama towards which the Networks and Production Companies turned in order to find their next sure fire hit in a turbulent and often gritty, grimy, and crime-ridden decade in which fear and anxiety often stalked the urban streets on both sides of that vast continent, and TV crime was fought mostly by the Cops, the Lawyers, or the Private Eyes.

So, during the next hour, PAUL will be talking about BARNABY JONES in which BUDDY EBSEN moved from spending many years as a comic oil millionaire into the more murky world of Private Detective work in L.A., KOJAK, in which TELLY SAVALAS was a streetwise cop fighting crime in the bankrupt city of NEW YORK, PETROCELLI, in which BARRY NEWMAN took on cases in Californian Courtrooms, and POLICE WOMAN featuring ANGIE DICKENSON as PEPPER ANDERSON in a ground-breaking yet hard-hitting police drama.

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show