So, in response to the “what polls do we need?” thread, here’s one covering a topic I think we simply must know.
I don’t think a poll was needed.
Logan and Briscoe, of course.
I voted Logan and Briscoe just because, Briscoe, but I always liked Greevey and wish they’d show some of those reruns instead of just the more recent ones.
Logan and Briscoe.
If Fontana had a better partner he would have had a chance.
I liked Briscoe and Green the best.
And Abby Carmichael as the McCoys assistant.
WGN & Sundance channels were running all the Greevy & Cerreta episodes a month or so ago.
I went with Briscoe & Greene too, I think the show was at its peak with them.
The episode when Lenny retired I thought that they really captured that happy/sad mix when someone you like moves on.
Dennis Farina (Fontanna) is a great actor, and I always enjoy anything he does, he was so damn funny in Snatch.
Thinking out loud:
Did Jack McCoy ever go against a defense attorney named “Hatfield”?
BTW, one of the defense attorneys that Stone went against was named (Horace) McCoy, played by James Earl Jones.
I liked Lenny and Green, but I liked Logan more.
I voted for Briscoe and Logan. It’s funny that they are by far the most popular, because Dick Wolf thought they were too similar, and had Chris Noth fired in order to replace him with someone less like Briscoe.
I never did like Curtis that much (albeit, I liked some of the episodes he was on a lot); my second choice would be Briscoe and Green. After that, I like the Greevey-Logan-Ceretta seasons. I think the writing was very good early on.
This is one of my favorite shows, and I love that it tied Gunsmoke for longest show, even though Gunsmoke produced more episodes.
The show premiered when I was 23, and lasted until I was 43, so it seems like it was on my whole adult life.
IMO, it’s one of the few mystery/cop shows that you can watch repeatedly. Usually, the point is “Who did it?” and one you’ve seen it once, what’s the point? but the whole show is so interesting, that I like rewatching even the ones I’ve seen several times before.
Logan and Briscoe, though I stopped watching not long after Curtis left, so I only saw a little bit of Green, only one of which was with Fontana, and nothing of any later pairs.
Briscoe and Logan, no contest.
Now, for hypothetical lesbian lawyer partnerships, there’s Cabot and Carmichael…
That’d be a crossover-- really screw up the reruns.
I saw some of those. I only started watching the show in the Briscoe/Logan/Van Buren/Kincaid/McCoy era. I knew there’d been other detectives and ADAs before, but I guess I just assumed that they’d cleaned house and brought in that whole cast together. I didn’t realize there were episodes with Briscoe and Cragen, or Kincaid and Stone.
I’d like to see some of their first and last episodes, to see how the characters were introduced or written out.
Or Southerlyn, if you want to preserve continuity.
Which one was played by Paul Sorvino? He was the best.
Are you sure Noth was fired?
Yeah he fired a Cragen and Robinette because he was ordered to bring in women and fired Stone(who I always liked more than McCoy) for reasons best left for another thread, but I always heard Noth left on his own accord.
Certainly the show went through actors like Kleenex or the TV show Homicide.
When I saw the thread title, I said “Lennie and Mike - there is no other partnership,” and it looks like the poll pretty much agrees.
Paul Sorvino played Phil Ceretta. I enjoyed his performance very much, but Lennie and Mike were in a class by themselves.
Unfortunately, it’s was. He died last year.
I voted for Briscoe and Green.
Don’t know if Noth was fired or left on his own, but he didn’t leave the character behind. There was a made-for-TV movie (Exiled (1998)) in which he was working in Staten Island and trying to crack a big case so he could be transferred back to Manhattan, and then he was on Law & Order: Criminal Intent from 2005 to 2008.
I wrote Briscoe and Curtis, of course, but I was also very happy with the last pairing of Lupo and Bernard. The show really got a lot of its mojo back before it was cancelled.
“The Simpsons”…
(at 25 seasons and 552 episodes per the wiki, my vote for best series of all time, but of course, YMMV)
My vote was for Briscoe and Logan. Like everyone else, it seems. Best ADA, anyone? Are we Moriarty people or Watterson people?