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The Dallas Cowboys have been known as "America's Team" since the late 1960s. After all, no other football team was able to win three Super Bowls in four years before. They have had 20+ winning seasons in the 1966-1985 span, plus 12 playoff victories and three titles in the 90s. It's easy to see why the Cowboys are so loved and popular among the American population. But their winning streak would not last forever. Ever since the Super Bowl XXX back in January 1996, the Cowboys have won no divisional-round playoff games. They only have five playoff winnings and have won no champion games. They have yet to win another Super Bowl as well. Yet they are still wildly popular and one of the most popular team assets in global sports.

We don't just see the Dallas Cowboys on the football field or even through our big screens when we watch their games.

“Two smoldering women made all the danger worthwhile!”… heck, we didn’t even see ’em catch fire. John Wayne is charismatic and Andrew V. McLaglen’s direction is decent for once in this formulaic ‘easy listening’ pot-boiler from the Wayne school of laid-back ’60s entertainment. After winning the Vietnam War, our intrepid action man extinguishes 101 out-of-control oil fires, which appear to happen every twenty minutes. When nothing’s burning, there are plenty of domestic tangles to straighten out with the womenfolk. In support are Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Vera Miles, Bruce Cabot and Jay C. Flippen. It’s old-fashioned but not embarrassing — Wayne still has his charm.

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Starring: John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Vera Miles, Jay C. Flippen, Bruce Cabot, Edward Faulkner, Barbara Stuart, Edmund Hashim, Valentin de Vargas, Frances Fong, Alberto Morin,...

Shout! Factory will release the first season of the revered 1970s television show Police Story on September 6 in a six-disc DVD set. It marks the TV series’s home entertainment debut.

The Police Story: Season One DVD will carry the list price of $39.97.

Don Meredith (l.) and Tony Lo Bianco are two of many stars of Police Story.

Created by ex-cop-turned-bestselling-author Joseph Wambaugh (The Onion Field), Police Story was broadcast for five seasons on NBC from 1973 to 1978. An anthology series detailing the lives of Lapd officers via a collection of realistic and drama-filled crime stories, Police Story had no regular cast, with each show featuring different stars each week. There was, however, a rotating acting ensemble of performers who popped up regularly, including James Farentino (Jesus Of Nazareth), Tony Lo Bianco (Kill the Irishman), Don Meredith (TV’s NFL Monday Night Football), Vic Morrow (Combat!), and Laraine Stephens (TV...

Award-winning TV producer David Gerber has died at the age of 86.

Gerber passed away at the University of Southern California Medical Centre on 2 January after suffering heart failure.

The star was responsible for a string of television hits in the 1970s, including Emmy Award-winning cop drama series Police Story, and Police Woman, starring Angie Dickinson.

He also produced a TV version of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, based on the hit 1954 musical film, as well as the small screen version of Oscar-winning movie In The Heat Of The Night.

More recently he worked on TV movie Flight 93, a drama based on the story of the United Airlines flight that was hijacked on 11 September, 2001 and crashed in Pennsylvania.

Gerber earned a string of notable awards throughout his long-running career, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

He is survived by his wife of 39 years, actress Laraine Stephens.

By Wrap Staff

David Gerber, a prolific television producer and executive behind such groundbreaking projects as "In the Heat of the Night" and "Police Woman," has died. He was 86. Gerber died Saturday of heart failure at University of Southern California Medical Center, with his wife of 39 years, actress Laraine Stephens, at his side. As the producer of many of TV's historic movies, television series and miniseries, Gerber won Emmy, Golden Globe and Peabody awards. He also&nb...

David Gerber, a seminal figure in American and international television for a half-century as a producer, studio executive, industry statesman and philanthropist, died Saturday at Los Angeles County-usc Medical Center. He was 86.

Gerber earned an Emmy (and six other Emmy noms), a Golden Globe, a Peabody award and a Christopher award -- not to mention honors from the American Film Institute, the Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors and others -- by taking on serious, often controversial subjects.

He was a pioneer of multiracial programming and an industry innovator with such series as "Police Woman," "Batman," "Room 222," "thirtysomething," "In the Heat of the Night," "Medical Story" and dozens of TV movies, including his last longform effort, the critically acclaimed "Flight 93" in 2006.

His miniseries included "George Washington," winner of a Peabody award; "The Lindberg Kidnapping Case"; "Nothing Lasts Forever"; and "Beulah Land."

In 1974, Gerber produced "Police Woman," the first successful...