77 Sunset Strip and Its Rip-Offs 77 Sunset Strip (1958-64) was a groundbreaker in oh, so many ways. At a time when most private eye shows were a half-hour long, and lone wolf P.I.s were doing their darnedest Phil Marlowe or Sam Spadeimitations, the Warner Bros. show boasted a team of good-looking private eye hunks … Continue reading The Clone Wars
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Dave Thorne, Kenny Madison & Sandy Winfield II (Surfside 6)
Created by William Orr & Hugh Benson The hook in television's Surfside 6 was that the three hip (and hunky) private eyes, DAVE THORNE, KENNY MADISON and SANDY WINFIELD, worked out of a houseboat moored across the street from the Fountainbleau Hotel on the real-gone locale of Miami Beach. The obligatory babe character quota was … Continue reading Dave Thorne, Kenny Madison & Sandy Winfield II (Surfside 6)
Bugs Bunny, Private Eye
Created by Warner Bros. "Bugs Bunny, private eyeball – thugs thwarted, arsonists arrested, bandits booked, forgers found, counterfeiters caught and chiselers chiseled.” — Bugs answers the phone in “Bugs and Thugs" Created in the late 30s by a slew of producers, writers and directors at Warner Bros., BUGS BUNNY has always seemed like a natural as … Continue reading Bugs Bunny, Private Eye
Tom Lopaka, Tracy Steele & Greg MacKenzie (Hawaiian Eye)
Created by Roy Huggins "The soft island breeze brings you strange melodies And they tell of exotic mysteries under the tropical spell of Hawaiian Eye. Hawaiian Eye. Hawaiian Eye." -- most irritating TV theme ever? Another piece of product from the Warner Bros. TV Eye factory, picture this as "77 Sunset Strip goes Hawaiian." But … Continue reading Tom Lopaka, Tracy Steele & Greg MacKenzie (Hawaiian Eye)
Rex Randolph, Cal Calhoun & Kenny Madison (Bourbon Street Beat)
Created by Charles Hoffman (?) Bourbon Street Beat (1959-60) was the first (but least commercially successful) of all the 77 Sunset Strip clones churned out by Warner Brothers TV factory back in the sixties, despite the intriguing setting of New Orleans. It was, arguably, the best of the bunch, but it got little love at … Continue reading Rex Randolph, Cal Calhoun & Kenny Madison (Bourbon Street Beat)