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It's tough enough having to replace the perfectly-cast former Chicago cop Dennis Farina, who replaced the brilliant and beloved Jerry Orbach as co-lead detective alongside the always-sterling Jesse L. Martin, but they also try to sex up newbie partner Milena Govich's unlikeable character --- with her top buttons always open and lowcut tops, airing out the girls --- then cast her alongside the astonishingly beautiful Alana de la Garza and here, opposite the very attractive Amy Hargreaves and Madchen Amick.
Fortunately, the series' anchor, the wonderful S. Epatha Merkerson, remains this season. Fittingly, Govich lasted only one season as the worst cop show lead casting mistake since "NYPD Blue" inflicted Rick Schroeder on viewers. I'm pleased to see much better future casting here with Jeremy Sisto, the amazing Anthony Anderson, and the excellent Linus Roache.
Fortunately, the series' anchor, the wonderful S. Epatha Merkerson, remains this season. Fittingly, Govich lasted only one season as the worst cop show lead casting mistake since "NYPD Blue" inflicted Rick Schroeder on viewers. I'm pleased to see much better future casting here with Jeremy Sisto, the amazing Anthony Anderson, and the excellent Linus Roache.
It is impossible to watch this riveting episode and not proclaim "Ripped from today's headlines!!". Except, its prescience predicted these slimy characters and their manipulative machinations 18 years before what we see every day in today's newspapers. A slick politician who assigns his appointed lackeys to take the fall for him time and again as he zooms to the top, untainted. The fallout for journalists as they find how little power they actually wield in the face of money-backed corruption with the pols and their hacks and flacks defending the singles tennis court while hitting aces and winners into the doubles zone. Watch this episode and assign contemporary names of your own to these power brokers, enablers, and toadies as you see fit.
Where have I seen that name Joanna Frank --- who plays the flirty, troublemaking, spoiled daughter of resort owner Telly Savalas here--- before? Oh yeah....as law firm partner Douglas Brackman's (Alan Rachins) stormy wife, Sheila, in "L. A. Law".
No surprise, since Frank's brother, Steven Bochco, co-created "L. A. Law", but the surprise is that Frank and Rachins were, in real life, married for many years, in fact until his death in early November 2024.
There's an extremely risque (for 1963) scene in this episode of "The Fugitive", where the resort's resident stripper, portrayed by (ahem) "Beverly Hills", was doin' her act. She had the whole show, and that's a natural fact, until the drunken (of course) Frank gets up on a table to try and steal her thunder.
Bonus points for recognizing character actor Don Keefer as Savalas's fixer. Keefer was the drunken neighbor turned into a jack-in-the-box by little Billy Mumy in a terrifying episode of "The Twilight Zone".
No surprise, since Frank's brother, Steven Bochco, co-created "L. A. Law", but the surprise is that Frank and Rachins were, in real life, married for many years, in fact until his death in early November 2024.
There's an extremely risque (for 1963) scene in this episode of "The Fugitive", where the resort's resident stripper, portrayed by (ahem) "Beverly Hills", was doin' her act. She had the whole show, and that's a natural fact, until the drunken (of course) Frank gets up on a table to try and steal her thunder.
Bonus points for recognizing character actor Don Keefer as Savalas's fixer. Keefer was the drunken neighbor turned into a jack-in-the-box by little Billy Mumy in a terrifying episode of "The Twilight Zone".