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It was good to see Gene Barry once again on prime time TV, 22 May 2006
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(big_bellied_geezer@hotmail.com) from USA
I liked the show and wished it could of lasted longer than it did,
although I suppose it is a miracle that such a high styled campy
escapist detective show like this would even have been revived in the
mid-Nineties and went for 27 episodes! In the Fifties to the Seventies
this sort of entertainment designed for the small screen went over
reasonably well, but now I suspect that there are more humorless TV
viewers than ever who possess little patience and even less
appreciation of anything with a sense of old school style and flair
that BURKE'S LAW had in abundance. Such folks enjoy formulamatic fare
like the nightly news, Fox News and CSI and a million copycat shows,
they don't and won't try to get something like BURKE'S LAW, which is
too bad...
Such easy to understand and digest TV shows around at the same time
like MURDER SHE WROTE and MATLOCK were designed to appeal to similar
tastes, but with BURKE'S LAW you had to have a more fine tuned
appreciation of wit, well timed sarcasm and style plus a tongue in
cheek sense of humor to fully appreciate the gifts and sheer force of
personality and presence that Gene Barry brought to the screen in his
role and to enjoy the campy proceedings at hand. Despite being at the
helm of other successful series and in many films, Gene Barry IS Amos
Burke, he owns that role!
If you are reading this, then chances are you already know about the
original BURKE'S LAW and what it is about, and as others have already
written about how the storyline was updated for the 1990's. On this
1990's version, Burke was still as sharp as ever, big name guest stars
abounded just like in the Sixties, and for a little while CBS looked
like it had showcased a nice revival of a classy Sixties favorite to
its lineup. Too bad they didn't order another season
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