Television: Viewpoints: Second Season

Khan!, the Chinese private detective, has already been canceled because he does not play chop-shtik as well as Charlie Chan used to. Archer has been ax-murdered for resisting the estimable Brian Keith's attempt to supply him with the personality Ross MacDonald has refused to give him in the overpraised detective novels on which the series was otherwise distinctly not based. Baretta, it turns out, is not a sawed-off Italian shotgun but a sawed-off character actor named Robert Blake who has borrowed Toma 's old disguise kit but no noticeable amount of his suburban...

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