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Jan 2024
26m 6s

70s and 80s Cop Shows Encore

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GGACP bids farewell to late "Starsky & Hutch" star David Soul with this ENCORE of a 2016 mini-episode about classic cop shows (and TV movies) from the 1970s and 80s, including "Murder Can Hurt You," which included a sendup of Soul and Paul Michael Glaser's popular actioner (and featured two "Amazing Colossal" podcast guests!). Also: Tony Curtis gets paged, David Cassidy goes undercover, Art Carney joins forces with a rabbi and the boys look back at the "NBC Mystery Movie" anthology series. PLUS: "Crazy Like a Fox"! "Tenspeed and Brownshoe"! The dulcet tones of Ernie Anderson! Peter Lorre sells antiques! And Gilbert hangs with Charlie Sheen!

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