He beats the holy snot out of the bad guys. Kicks a guy out of his office by knocking him to the floor and kicking him in the ass several times as he crawls towards the door.
Beats a guy to the floor, and falls on him with his knee in the guy’s gut.
Several times he throws a guy out the window of his sixteenth floor office.
This is the man I want with me in a bar fight!
79 episodes in only 2 years (1958-59) and I never heard of it. I would have been 9-10 then, but it sounds like it was pretty violent, so maybe my parents didn’t watch it. Or it was on after my bedtime.
Oh yeah, baby. I had major adolescent lust for McGavin. And the theme song, “Riff Blues,” is one of the greatest TV themes of all time.
Where are you watching this?
McGavin was also good in Riverboat, as a Mississippi River captain. His pilot was a very young Burt Reynolds.
Darrin McGavin is a freakin’ American icon, and I say that as somebody who never knew he played Mike Hammer. Kolchak in The Night Stalker? That’s where I first came to know his work. The evil henchman in The Natural? Terrific. But he’ll always shine brightest as the Old Man in A Christmas Story.
“It’s a major award!”
“Fra-jee-lay … must be French!”
“Nadafinga!”
I came across it on youtube, and bought the first season on DVD.
Me, too. In an interview he said he hated doing it; to film night scenes they were working in the wee hours of the morning.
I met him and got an autograph in the late 80’s. Nice guy. I was a huge *Night Stalker *fan.
Very cool.