Toronto, actually. Everything outdoors was recognizable to a Torontonian. The Mid-South precinct HQ, for example, was a building on College Street, between Yonge and University.
I know where that is! I was watching the series in 1991–92, long before I came to Toronto.
Watching Due South, it never occurred to me that it wasn’t filmed in Chicago until I visited Chinatown here with my daughter.
I have been wanting to see again an unsold pilot called “This Week in Nemtim.”
The Rockford Files constantly airs in syndication. Currently it’s on GetTV in the US. It’s also streaming on apps like Tubi and Freevee.
Get Smart
… and loving it.
Missed it by that much.
Sorry about that, Chief.
HBOMax has the entire run available for streaming. I re-watched it last year. It is still great.
I’m glad to hear that – I have the DVDs, somewhere, but that means I don’t need to dig out the discs.
It’s still one of my all-time favorite shows, and the writers’ strike in 2007 led to its untimely death.
Same here.
Letterman’s morning show. I only saw the 4th of July show during the original run. Edie McClurg as Mrs. Marv Mendenhall displaying red, white and blue foods. (The latter is tricky.) Daytime “fireworks” from the top of the Chrysler building. Great stuff.
I’ve seen a couple episodes since. I want the whole run.
I remember watching several episodes that summer, and thinking, “I can’t believe that this is actually a morning show!” I’d love to see some of it again.
My brother and I watched some of that show. As I remember, we liked the randomness of much of it.
CHCH in Toronto strips Get Smart occasionally during its daytime retro block. I think it was last on this past winter.
I wish I could get services like HBOMax, but I unfortunately do not control access to cable where I live. My landlord does. He actually threatened to cut our subscription once because we have so many channels on it.
I didn’t dare tell him I almost never watch most of the channels anymore. I tend toward documentaries, old movies, and retro TV more than I do to today’s scripted shows. (Ones from the UK are an exception.)
HBOMax is a streamer. So if you have Internet you can get it. Comes with some phone plans from AT&T also. So you’re not reliant on the available cable package if you have decent Internet.
Good to know! I’ll look into it.
Is the programming different from cable HBO?
I can’t believe no one’s mentioned that a staggering 97 of the first 253 episodes of Doctor Who are currently lost because of the BBC routinely deleting their archive programs from 1967-78.
It pretty much covers everything HBO has, but also Max Originals, TCM, DC, Adult Swim & Cartoon Network, Looney Tunes and Studio Ghibli. So all the old HBO series seem to be available line Band of Brothers and Sopranos along with Game of Thrones. Even has most if not all of New Doctor Who.
This is as good a place as any to mention one of my pet peeves.
YT creators who make content out of love for an old show and then get a strike from the creators. Now MOST companies have figured out the following maxim: They are giving you FREE advertising and creating an interest in your product. Star Wars has mostly figured this out.
But there are more than a few companies that are ignorant of it.
Oh how I loathed that show! But my older sister made us watch it (I left the house). She pulled the same shit with HR Puffinstuff. I would rather go shovel snow than watch either one of those.
Please, stay lost!
You heard the fish!