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Showing posts with label 1973. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1973. Show all posts

Friday, October 14, 2016

Tenafly (1973)



















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Storyline
African-American private eye Harry Tenafly was a happily married, middle-class family man who had given up being a cop to work for a better paying position at a big L.A. detective agency. One of the few TV detectives who relied more on brains and solid legwork, Tenafly had no interest in gunfights, fisticuffs, or chasing beautiful women. Nevertheless, trouble seemed to find him anyway. In this pilot episode written by Levinson & Link, Tenafly investigates the murder of a talk-show host's wife.

Saturday, August 20, 2016

Firehouse (1973)





















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The first African-American assigned to an all-white firehouse, rookie firefighter Shelly Forsythe must battle both blazes and racism as the fire department hunts for a serial arsonist in 1973 New York. The house's senior firefighter is hostile to Forsythe at first but eventually comes to respect him and is forced to make a dangerous choice between his orders and his duty to a fellow firefighter. 

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Voyage of the Yes (1973)























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While sailing from Los Angeles to Hawaii, two young men, one (Mike Evans, TV's The Jeffersons, Killer by Night, The House On Skull Mountain) running from his involvement in the death of a drug pusher, the other awaiting acceptance to Stanford, must overcome their bigotry when they encounter a series of terrifying experiences.