I’ve done a previous post on the 70’s television series Police Story. A channel called ‘Decades’ each weekend will pick a show and run with it for 48 hrs. This weekend it was Police Story. I was reminded looking in the credits that Joseph Wambaugh was a writer for it (he was crime drama in the 60’s & 70’s). What was just staggering about it, was that each week they had a completely new cast and director! Every week they hit a home run with a brand new team. Today’s shows can go 5 years and not get it right. And the stars! Tonight’s episode: Pernell, Barbara Anderson, Robert Brown, Christopher Stone, Alex Cord, Anne Jeffreys…

Pros. I don’t know about these things, but I would have to guess the “crew” was one of the best in Hollywood. To give it that same top notch feel each week. Best writers, best cameramen, best lighting, best editing, best acting. And to get the actors they did, makes me think everybody wanted to be part of a class act like that. Every week was like an “All-Star” game. The best of the best. And I almost forgot, the score (music?). NBC would do that, have the slickest productions. Bonanza, The Virginian. NBC was a class act back then.