https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/detective-school.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0775208/
1979 ABC. "The Killer-Diller Lingerie Caper." Private detective night school sitcom. "These Greenhorn Private Eyes Turn Crime Into Comedy!" is the tagline. James Gregory as the inept gumshoe teacher, Lawanda Page, Taylor Negron, Randolph Mantooth, Melinda Naud, Pat Proft, and Douglas Fowley as Robert Redford. Taylor Negron gets an "Introducing" credit. This was on my want list of detective shows and one episode finally showed up on Youtube at the end of 2020. Yet another short-lived show from the 1979 season.
Hamilton Camp plays the haughty French lingerie designer getting ready for a show who is Maggie's (Melinda Naud) boss and hires the detective students to check out his security system. Then Silvio (Taylor Negron) witnesses a murder, but circumstances point to him as the killer, so it is up to the class to clear him. "I'm never going to narrate another fashion show again." Eddie (Randolph Mantooth) is drafted as the new fashion show announcer and Maggie is going to model. Lawanda Page and Robert Redford trade ugly barbs. Silvio is having corned beef on rye for lunch, because in Argentina, where he is from, it is really hard to get good deli.
Detective School is not very good. Very silly. Moderately amusing. Hamilton Camp is always funny. I would watch more if they were available because it is hard to judge a sitcom based on one episode.
No comments:
Post a Comment