Originally Posted by monet View Post
Watched the Hot Shoe.
Good Information.
Thanks!

I'm working my way through the Banacek Series.
The episodes are really good.
I love the idea that he basically vultures the insurance companies and doesn't actually work for them.
The production quality of 70s TV Shows like this are amazing.
Really enjoying it.
The only problem with this show is they aren't very rewatchable after the big reveal.
Damn near mini movies though as the runtime is around an hour and fifteen minutes per episode.
My biggest gripe is that they don't need the driver and it's odd that he hired him away from Texas (Pilot Episode).
Someone, somewhere must have thought they needed the humor or maybe they were dumbing down the Italians.
Also, they didn't need to bring back the love interest in season 2.
Better to see Banacek womanizing someone new each week instead.
I love the Packard and seeing the 70s Boston Footage.
Spenser for Hire should have had a Banacek episode.

Season 1 Episode 4 is shot in Vegas.
Some really good footage.
Loved seeing how the surrounding area near the Stardust was all desert and parking lots.
Sure no problem - glad you enjoyed Hot Shoe.
I watched an episode of Banacek a year or so back (he had to do some sort of forensics involving a train/railroad IIRC) and then before that a few episodes many years ago (reruns, not when it came out). The episodes I watched were quite good, just as you describe, and since I didn't see all the episodes, I think it would be great to watch some of the ones I haven't seen, and perhaps some that I did see since I forgot a lot of it due to the passage of time. It might have been MeTV where I saw that episode a year back, but it was definitely one of the over the air channels that I saw it. These over the air channels are great. They have a newer one (or at least new to me) called Antenna TV and I'm sure there are some great 70's series on this channel to enjoy at some point.