Dark Justice

My wife and I watched this show along with "Sweating Bullets", "Forever Knight", etc in the group of syndicated shows that made up what we collectively referred to as "sleaze" - and we enjoyed them all. "Dark Justice" had an edge to it lacking most of the time in the others. The vengeance theme never outweighed other moral considerations. The only real irritation was "the miracle of the hair": our hero would be neatly shorn in court and a wildly hirsute biker immediately after. Could he have tucked it down the back of his shirt? No. I fear our crusading jurist wore a six quart wig.

3 actors apparently played the lead of Nick the judge. I never saw any with the original actor nor was I aware there was someone who played the role prior, but I am aware of the 3rd actor who's name I don't know and is not listed in the cast on IMDb. They evidently brought the show back in 2000 I think on TNT with the new lead actor having a strikingly similar look to the 2nd and most popular Nick. It had everyone else back from the original and I'm not sure how long it lasted but it seemed to keep in step with the most popular of the 3 Nick's show but there still seemed to be something missing. We can thank the fact that CBS was willing to trash all of their crimetime lineup just to have a late show on their network for not getting more of this show at the time.

This is a really good show. It has some sad moments, and fun moments too. My mom got me hooked to this show, in December of 99.,She always told me about this show, she said it was good.So when I found out it was on TNT. I knew I had to see it. People do yourself a favor a watch this show, it's on Monday Through Fridays, on TNT 5:00 P.M. This show RULES!!!

Loved this show! I thought Bruce Abbott was perfection in the role: a true Dark Knight, with a sense of humor. The show should have lasted at least twice as long as it did, especially when one considers the boring, imitative, humorless CSI-type clones that infest today's schedule. (Not "NCIS", though: that has a lot of the same sensibility as DJ.) Dick Moon, Clayton Gibbs and Janet Gunn were likewise terrific, and the writing was clever and witty. Some of the plot twists were hilarious, and I never found it boring. Is it still not yet available on DVD? Because I would buy it in a heartbeat...I taped a bunch of them, but DVDs are so much better than homemade.

Oh,and by the way, Bruce's hair was pinned up for the courtroom sequences and left in its natural long state otherwise.

My mom introduced it to me, along with Silk Stalkings and the others mentioned.

The hair was done this way. They shot all the long hair biker sequences for several episodes then cut his hair and shot all the short hair sequences. She was of the opinion it was tied and tucked. Nice idea if he had short extensions put in to make it appear short, too much hassle. It could have been a wig too, but I did some close examination of the before and after. The hair did show his roots attached to his head and when he was in court his hair was not "padded" like that of lumpy wig wearers and the bike sequences showed the same uniform closeness of hair to head.

Excellent show, when are they going to turn it to DVD