@atomicabe So sad that David Soul is gone. I still will not watch any reboot with females or any other people. FOX made the biggest mistake by not getting Paul Michael Glaser & David Soul make a more modern movie with those two. The rights should have been sold back to Paul & David. They made the show. Their directing in the series were the best, along with Earl Belamy & a few others. The writing needed to be better. Just like I never watched the 2004 movie.
Starrett also directed "Final Chapter--Walking Tall," the final installment in the "Walking Tall" trilogy (starring Bo Svenson in his second go-around as baseball bat-wielding Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser)!
This was back when people could laugh at each other and not make a big deal about it. It was innocent fun where both sides gave as good as they got. It's only "problematic" if you view everything through the lense of humourless modern day identity politics. The stuff in this episode was just mild and silly with no malice behind it. A movie like Blazing Saddles couldn't be made today for sure, but that's not a good thing.
I mean, people used to think it was funny to make dogs and bears attack each other. Does that mean people could laugh at each other and not make a big deal about it? I find the people who are the most offended are the people constantly whining about how nobody can be funny anymore. They still make comedy all the time, it's just gosh less racist now that most of society admits that black people and the Polish are also human beings. Jury's still out on women being human beings, though.
@@atomicabeYou're welcome It's quite funny because they used the movie set of Universal Pictures children's film, Casper (1995.) The Backstreet Boys were signed to Universal Music at the time.
Funny how The Dukes Of Hazzard has basically been blacklisted off TV reruns, but I recall seeing that blackface episode of Starsky And Hutch like a month ago.
You have a still from Enos where in that one the new partner is also named Turkey only this time it’s the black guy from the city. Also Peters is probably most famous from Kevin Smith’s Superman story
Don't get me wrong I loved watching starsky and Hutch and the monkees with my grandmother but since she passed on everything changed somethings I thought was funny at the time seems to fall flat now maybe because I'm getting older now it just doesn't hold the same appeal it once did. Still devastated to hear of David Soul's passing it was like reliving my grandmother's death all over again 😢😢
If you're gonna have a "white guy pretends to be black" thing in your show, it's better to go over the top. 30 Rock has Jack (white) imitating Tracy (black) and it's in such a weirdly over the top manner that it's actually funny and not just uncomfortable. And gosh that was from like 10 years ago, I thought nobody could make jokes anymore??????????????????????
As S&H fanatic I can say as bad as that episode is it's not the worst episode! and compared to the woke and stupid garbage on network TV that episode would be a better TV show than anything on TV today! At least the actors could act and it had some funny moments including Aunt Ester from Sanford and Son! There was another show by Stephen Cannell who made Rockford files called TEN SPEED AND BROWNSHOE with white and black detectives starring Ben Verren and Jeff Goldbloom! It was great but only lasted one season. As great and funny as Huggy was he was no Rooster from Baretta! Rooster was a pimp but a good guy and way cooler than Huggy.
My God, what a mediocre episode of "Starsky & Hutch" this was! As much as I admire and respect Antonio Fargas, there's no way in hell he would've been able to carry a solo spinoff on his own! In the words of lowly film critic Jay Sherman (voiced by Jon Lovitz) on the short-lived animated series "The Critic," "It stinks!" Chalk it up as yet another attempt by ABC's then-honcho, the late Fred Silverman, to piggyback off of the success of an already established series (as Silverman had done during his separate tenures as top dog at all then-three major television networks)!
Didn't ALL 70's cop shows suck, this one of few I times I agree with the critics? How did this backdoor pilot differentiate itself, besides S & H being sidelined most of the episode. A majority of the time, I'm not crazy about the comedy reboots of 70s/80s shows. They're flat, uninspired.
ABC's chief programmer, Fred Silverman, was always looking for "spin-offs" to enrich his schedules {TWICE, he wanted "The Fonz" to star in his own series, but Henry Winkler and Garry Marshall flatly refused- even when Silverman wanted to pair "Fonzie" with "Pinky Tuscadero" in a proposed "FONZIE LOVES PINKY" series, as Fred went nuts over Roz Kelly ("She's a female Fonzie!!!!", he exclaimed)}. He briefly considered "HUGGY BEAR AND THE TURKEY"....but finally rejected the idea for the 1977-'78 season.
ha ha ha. I bet every generation has fashion trends that were inspired by the hot TV shows. A lot of guys at school stopped wearing socks after MIAMI VICE came out.
I don’t know if anyone else noticed this, but every character on Starsky and Hutch is wearing clothes that look like they came right off the wardrobe rack and don’t have the tiniest speck of dirt or wrinkle on them. Maybe all the clothes were made entirely of polyester and embalmed in Scotchgard in the Disco era of the 1970s?
This episode aired before the Southern-boy renaissance of which you speak came about. Also, this video seems REALLY race-obsessed. It was the '70s, for crying out loud. Different time, different world. Get over it.
I’m sure the people who created Magnum PI tried to have a character spinoff from there? You should do it because because I feel like they tried with the funny Luther Gillis (that funny PI who wasn’t all there, but somehow he would solve it, and if appeared on four episodes at least).
Yes, there are three MAGNUM PI backdoor pilots: Luther Gillis, J. Digger Doyle (with Erin Gray) and another one called "Two Birds of a Feather". We'll get to Magnum eventually. I'm a sucker for Viet Nam Vet as Detective! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D8ktAYx8YF8.htmlsi=mDt8A9Gb3LWgPYdP
I'd love to see a deep dive on Booker, the 21 Jump Street spinoff with only 23 episodes. I'm actually rewatching it now and the show's fun. Booker was a miss tho.
That's a fun idea! We will add it to the list. Funnily enough, we are planning to cover the Miami Vice backdoor pilot which is about a young Vice squad and is clearly an attempt to cash-in on the success of 21 Jump Street.
Ì wont waste my time watching FOX'S Reboot of Starsky & Hutch with females. They can never duplicate the friendship, love, caring, and chemistry between Paul/Starsky & David/Hutch with females. Even the 2004 movie did not cut it & they were never Starsky & Hutch. Paul & David are still good friends to this day and keep in touch. What FOX needs to do is let Paul & David both direct & write and star in any reboot. In fact they should sell the rights back to Paul & David. No one else will ever be Starsky & Hutch except for Paul Michael Glaser & David Soul!!!❤️❤️. Love those guys to this day!!! Still watch the DVD'S of the original series to this day. Only wish they would include the scenes cut out & goofs made then the series would really be complete!!!
“I’m sure they’ll have some interesting adventures.” is a similar line said by Mr. Spock at the end of the episode, Assignment: Earth, which was a failed back door pilot in Star Trek for a time traveling character, Gary Seven that was never picked up.
Yes! Our very first video in BEHIND THE BACKDOOR PILOT was about Star Trek's ASSIGNMENT EARTH! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1xaUODjODGI.html
I recall this spin off, I was like, nah I like Huggy on Starsky & Hutch. I think a few of Aaron Spelling detective shows try to have Spin-Offs back in the day. I recall "Charlie Angeles" try to do a Spin-Off with the so-called male angels, about 3 brothers and their mother who were under cover detectives. I think they were called Toni's Boys or something.
