Which proves my point. Yes, in law enforcement or legal professional circles there are individuals who are well known for their involvement in major high profile cases. But I can’t think of any individual ever who is “thank God so and so is on our transatlantic flight to solve this murder!” famous.
A show like Adam-12 was a distillation of something like 100 man-years of policing, with 99% of a given day edited out for donuts. No individual detective, private or police, experiences anywhere near the level of strange and befuddling mysteries as do a Hercule Poirot or a Jessica Fletcher. There is just not much room for acquiring fame. Can anyone name the detective that caught Ted Bundy without looking it up? We remember the fiends and forget the whitehats.
He may not be world-famous, but William Dear became somewhat famous as the guy who found the “Dungeon Master” who disappeared playing Dungeons and Dragons in the steam tunnels beneath the University of Michigan.
Ness was an investigator for the Prohibition Bureau of Chicago. Is there a difference between a detective and an investigator? Don’t they both follow clues to solve crimes and catch criminals?
Nelson had a crew of tax accountants who did most of the actual investigating for him. All he had to do was coordinate and follow it up.
James Dallas Egbert III disappearance had nothing whatsoever to do with D&D . That so called “detective” got every single fact wrong.
Dear didn’t find Egbert, Egbert found Dear. Egbert called him.
Dear later capitalized on his errors by calling his book - The Dungeon Master: The Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III i even tho D&D had nothing do do with it.
Of that list I’d say William Burns,Raymond C. Schindler, and Ignatius Pollaky would qualify,
John Douglas, the FBI agent who wrote a whole bunch of books and is the basis of Mindhunter, which was a TV show, is a detective of a sort. That’s the only one I can think of.
There are no bathrooms.
bathrooms do not exist, only implied.
Except on the Brady Bunch.
Where there are no toilets.
Marsha held it in, until she reached 30.
Then, exploded.
An old Leave It to Beaver episode had Wally and Beaver owning a baby alligator. They kept it in the toilet tank in the bathroom adjacent to their bedroom.
Anyone who makes friends with Jessica Fletcher gets murdered, framed for murder, or put on trial for murder.
All in the Family was kind of ground breaking in that they featured occasional toilet-flushing noise (usually to go along with the dialog), though the bathroom was rarely if ever actually shown.
One oddity is that females did not start having explicitly mentioned periods until the late 70s or early 80s – except in ads for feminine hygiene products, which were abundant. A boy with no sisters or much exposure to women could easily be confused as to what that shit was about.
though quite circumspect about what was being talked about
However, the liquids they were shown to absorb were inevitably blue; certainly never seen that in real life.
Women were the original blue-bloods.
Some men still are! I’ve heard some men believe that women can willingly control the flow of their periods, like peeing, I guess.
Or whether they get pregnant when raped.
A lot of people still had B&W TVs then. That medium blue stood out well on both color as well as B&W.
AND didn’t remind you that you were talking about, y’know, eewww.
Also, since it was a clear liquid, red might make one think of punch or kool-ade, whereas blue reminds one of bleach.