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V.I.P. crossed with Cagney & Lacey
Aug. 6th, 2003 03:59 pmBetween Louche's posts on childhood and Dommeyourass's new user icon with Wonder Woman, I was reminded of a story.
Two of my favorite television shows from early childhood that had two of my favorite women was WKRP in Cincinnati for Loni Anderson and Wonder Woman for Lynda Carter. I was mostly watching these in syndication since they were slightly before my time, or at least the time when I was forming memories. Around the time of the syndicated reruns, a new show premiered on NBC called Partners in Crime, starring Lynda Carter and Loni Anderson in 1984, which I remember because during the summer Olympics it got pre-empted, much to my dismay.
This show lasted all of one year, I believe, though I think there were reruns played on Lifetime for awhile. The premise were these two women who were "opposites" who both married the same guy and find out about it when he dies, and they end up taking over his private investigation business. IMDB has a review that called it VIP meets Cagney & Lacey, and you know how I feel about Cagney & Lacey. Or at least some of you do, if you've been to my house.
So yes, I loved this show -- even as a child I loved campy and trashy television, or maybe I just had bad taste because I was a kid. Anyway, I have a very distinct memory of watching once while visiting Savannah -- at the house of close friends of my parents from their Army days who we visited once or twice a year. Their daughter was about my brother's age and their son was about my age and we mostly hung out the four of us together but night we stayed in separate rooms according to gender. So Suzanne and I had sleeping bags on the floor of the office spare room, watching television, and she turns the channel and I declare that I like the show, so she indulges me in watching, probably amused at the choice. I remember it was scene of them in a car, getting ready to do some sort of stakeout or break-in, and their wearing all black outfits, probably in leather.
"I reeeaaaally like Loni Anderson," I gush.
"Yeah, she's very pretty," Suzanne answers.
"Yeah." Pause. "She's something else too."
"What?"
"I can't say -- it's a bad word." [I think I even cringed at the time at my own language, but I wasn't sure how else to express my embarassment.]
"A bad word?"
"Yeah, it starts with the letter 'S'."
"Whisper it in my ear."
So I leaned over and whispered, "she's SEXY!" and then proceeded to laugh it off and feel supremely embarassed. Suzanne seemed a little surprised but mostly amused.
Speaking of, I noticed while reading the paper yesterday that it was Loni Anderson's birthday. While the idea of having sex with her now, or even in her glory days in the late-70's and 80's doesn't really appeal to me...at all....I still have a soft spot in my heart for both her and Lynda.
Two of my favorite television shows from early childhood that had two of my favorite women was WKRP in Cincinnati for Loni Anderson and Wonder Woman for Lynda Carter. I was mostly watching these in syndication since they were slightly before my time, or at least the time when I was forming memories. Around the time of the syndicated reruns, a new show premiered on NBC called Partners in Crime, starring Lynda Carter and Loni Anderson in 1984, which I remember because during the summer Olympics it got pre-empted, much to my dismay.
This show lasted all of one year, I believe, though I think there were reruns played on Lifetime for awhile. The premise were these two women who were "opposites" who both married the same guy and find out about it when he dies, and they end up taking over his private investigation business. IMDB has a review that called it VIP meets Cagney & Lacey, and you know how I feel about Cagney & Lacey. Or at least some of you do, if you've been to my house.
So yes, I loved this show -- even as a child I loved campy and trashy television, or maybe I just had bad taste because I was a kid. Anyway, I have a very distinct memory of watching once while visiting Savannah -- at the house of close friends of my parents from their Army days who we visited once or twice a year. Their daughter was about my brother's age and their son was about my age and we mostly hung out the four of us together but night we stayed in separate rooms according to gender. So Suzanne and I had sleeping bags on the floor of the office spare room, watching television, and she turns the channel and I declare that I like the show, so she indulges me in watching, probably amused at the choice. I remember it was scene of them in a car, getting ready to do some sort of stakeout or break-in, and their wearing all black outfits, probably in leather.
"I reeeaaaally like Loni Anderson," I gush.
"Yeah, she's very pretty," Suzanne answers.
"Yeah." Pause. "She's something else too."
"What?"
"I can't say -- it's a bad word." [I think I even cringed at the time at my own language, but I wasn't sure how else to express my embarassment.]
"A bad word?"
"Yeah, it starts with the letter 'S'."
"Whisper it in my ear."
So I leaned over and whispered, "she's SEXY!" and then proceeded to laugh it off and feel supremely embarassed. Suzanne seemed a little surprised but mostly amused.
Speaking of, I noticed while reading the paper yesterday that it was Loni Anderson's birthday. While the idea of having sex with her now, or even in her glory days in the late-70's and 80's doesn't really appeal to me...at all....I still have a soft spot in my heart for both her and Lynda.
