Private Eyes and Their Dads "Well, Wilmer, I'm sorry indeed to lose you. But I want you to know I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, it's possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon." Okay, it's just possible Kaspar Gutman wasn't … Continue reading Father’s Day
Tag: It's a Family Affair
Jake & Malachy Doyle (The Republic of Doyle)
Created by Allan Hawco, Perry Chafe & Malcolm MacRury "Why are you such an arse, Jake Doyle?" -- the eternal question At last! The Rock gets some P.I. love! MALACHY and JAKE DOYLE are a father-and-son team of P.I.s working St. John's, Newfoundland in Republic of Doyle, an endearingly quirky television show that consistently delivered … Continue reading Jake & Malachy Doyle (The Republic of Doyle)
It’s a Family Affair…
Down these mean steeets a man (or a woman) must go... along with a spouse, maybe a son or daughter, a couple of siblings, possbly a few grandkids, and a few in-laws... Family-Owned Detective Agencies The Lunghis by Michael Z. LewinPapa Lunghi (father), Mama Lunghi (mother), Salvatore Lunghi (son), Angelo Lunghi (son), Rosetta Lunghi (daughter), … Continue reading It’s a Family Affair…
Dorothy Skelf, Janny Skelf & Hannah Skelf (The Skelfs)
Created by Doug Johnstone They are women--hear them roar. Tere have been some strange families in the Shamus Game over the years, from the duplicitous, fractious Spellmans of San Francisco and the loud, unruly British-Italian Lunghis to the enternally bickering father-son combo of the Doyles of Newfoundland, but THE SKELFS of Edinburgh, Scotland are in a class … Continue reading Dorothy Skelf, Janny Skelf & Hannah Skelf (The Skelfs)
Frank and Steve Faraday (Faraday and Co.)
Created by Ken Pettus After spending twenty-eight years in a Caribbean jail for a crime he didn't commit (the murder of his partner), allegedly hard-boiled FRANK FARADAY (played by the movies' likable 40's song-and-dance man Dan Dailey) busts out and heads back home to Los Angeles... to a family he doesn't know anymore, on the short-lived series, … Continue reading Frank and Steve Faraday (Faraday and Co.)
Izzy Spellman (The Spellman Files)
Created by Lisa Lutz It's a family affair... Despite her habit of being arrested, former bad girl and wild child ISABEL "IZZY" SPELLMAN may just be the sane one in her family. Which may not be saying much. She's the obstensible bad girl heroine (and narrator) of this series that details the hijinks of an extremely … Continue reading Izzy Spellman (The Spellman Files)