[I just posted this in a thread in the MAGNUM P.I. section, but it really belongs here]
Y'know, I'd watch SLEUTH regularly, if they ran shows like these (click the links for related YouTube clips):
T.H.E. CAT (1966-67 color, half-hour, 26 episodes) reformed cat burglar/former circus aerialist Robert Loggia fights crime as a bodyguard-for-hire. Current rights holder unknown, may possibly be with NBC/Universal.
T.H.E. CAT introT.H.E. CAT lead-in + opening creditsM SQUAD (1957-60 black & white, half-hour, 117 episodes) Lee Marvin as "Lt. Frank Ballinger", who does for Chicago what "Joe Friday" did for Los Angeles. Part of NBC/Universal's library, Sleuth's parent company.
M SQUAD intro
DRAGNET (1951-59 a.k.a. BADGE 714, black & white, half-hour, 276 episodes) Jack Webb as "Joe Friday", in the orginal, grittier version of this classic series. Part of NBC/Universal's library, Sleuth's parent company.
DRAGNET - 1st part of "The Big Cast" (1952)CORONET BLUE (1965-filmed/1967-aired, color, hour, 11 episodes) Frank Converse is an amnesiac, who may be a sleeper agent/hitman... sounds a little like "Jason Bourne", don't it? Controlled by CBS/Paramount.
CORONET BLUE introIT TAKES A THIEF (1968-70, color, hour, 66 episodes) Robert Wagner as reformed burglar "Alexander Munday", using his skills to thwart bad guys. Part of NBC/Universal's library, Sleuth's parent company.
IT TAKES A THIEF lead-in + introHARRY O (1973-76, color, hour, 46 episodes) David Janssen as a down-on-his-luck, bohemian P.I. Controlled by Warner Bros.
HARRY O introHARRY O clip with Jodie Foster77 SUNSET STRIP (1958-64, black & white, hour, 206 episodes) Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as "Stu Bailey", solving cases with his detective agency crew, including Edd "Kookie" Byrnes. Controlled by Warner Bros.
77 SUNSET STRIP clip 177 SUNSET STRIP clip 2N.Y.P.D. (1967-69, color, half-hour, 49 episodes) Robert Hooks, Jack Warden and Frank Converse as NY plainclothes detectives; the series was filmed in real NYC locations.
N.Y.P.D. introN.Y.P.D. clip from "Candy Man" with James Earl Jones & William DevaneDECOY (1957-58, black & white, half-hour, 39 episodes) Bevery Garland as TV's first undercover policewoman. Controlled by Liberation Entertainment, website:
http://www.libent.com/index.php?id=50,340,0,0,1,0DECOY clip--as it is currently programmed, I, as a 40-year-old viewer, find little of interest on SLEUTH, which could be a great channel, if it didn't rely so much on lame and/or overplayed 1980s-Present series. That
KNIGHT RIDER is the main, highly-touted upcoming addition to SLEUTH's schedule, doesn't inspire much confidence to tune in (sorry, KNIGHT RIDER fans). Here's an idea-- How about running some stuff that we
can't already buy/rent easily on legit DVD?