It was more than that he never used guns–Angus was simply useless as a hand-to-hand combatant.
Wha? He got into a fistfight in a whole lot of episodes, if I recall. He was a master at using terrain to his advantage 
But generally, you are right, he preferred to set booby-traps and distractions allowing for escape. I think it generally acknowledged teh reality better that one person wasn’t going to fight his way out of most situations.
Burn Notice resorts to physical violence a lot more often (and I love it, don’t get me wrong), and I can’t help thinking that someone who had to get physical that often would have gotten himself killed by now in all likelihood.
Although I never watched it regularly, it took seeing a few episodes of Step By Step before I realized it was an exact copy of The Brady Bunch (including cousin Cody in the Alice role). They even brought in an annoying little child near the end of the show’s run.
Anything that premiered within the last year or so on The Discovery Channel is at least 80% Mythbusters.
I always felt Danger Mouse owed a bigger debt to Maxwell Smart than to John Drake or James Bond, or even Simon Templar.
At least now I finally understand why Barney sounded so weird in a few episodes.
I used to think that they were the same vehicle – thinking Filmation bought the Damnation Alley rig and redressed it – but no. Ark II was a – Hee – garbage truck. Check out the Wikipedia page.
Lord, spare me from all the TMNT comic book knock-offs. Adolescent Radioactive Black-Belt Hamsters…Pre-Teen Dirty-Gene Kung Fu Kangaroos…the list goes on and on.
Actually, if you think about it, Dances WIth Wolves is just like F-Troop. Really. Nice but clueless Captain sent out to the frontier populated with a shifty Sergeant and a friendly Indians…
30 Rock is a remake of The Mary Tyler Moore Show with Liz as Mary, Jack as Lou, Pete as Murray, Tracy as Ted
Cybil was a remake of Absolutely Fabulous with Cybil as Edwina, MaryAnn as Patsy. Only nobody ever told Cybil.