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Vietnam veteran Stringfellow Hawke (Jan-Michael Vincent) steals a military grade helicopter from its traitorous creator and uses it to fight evil with the help of mentor Dominic Santini (Ernest Borgnine). Archangel (Alex Cord) watches over them from a shadowy government agency known as The Firm, assisted by first lieutenant Marella (Deborah Pratt) and others. And feisty co-pilot Caitlin O’Shannessy (Jean Bruce Scott) keeps everybody flying on the straight and narrow.

Playing a television character beloved by generations of viewers is a rare achievement. Doing it twice makes you an icon. Carroll O’Connor did just that: first, as loveable loudmouth Archie Bunker on All In The Family and then as Mississippi police chief Bill Gillespie on In The Heat Of The Night.  

Melinda Gordon (Jennifer Love Hewitt) sees dead people – spirits who can’t cross over because they have unresolved personal issues. She talks to them too, and to their family, acting as a sort of spiritual social worker. This power, passed down from her grandmother (June Squibb) and mother (Anne Archer), is both Melinda’s gift and her curse. 

“The program you are about to see is All in the Family. It seeks to throw a humorous spotlight on our frailties, prejudices and concerns. By making them a source of laughter, we hope to show—in a mature fashion—just how absurd they are.”

“Odds are they’re gonna shoot it out someday,” a character says about Pat Garrett (Barry Sullivan) and Billy The Kid (Clu Gulager) in The Tall Man, a thirty-minute Western series set in the New Mexico territory in the late 1870s.

When you think of actors who defined “cool” for their generation, Steve McQueen has to be at the top of your list. Although his tenure as a superstar leading man was relatively brief, he packed those years with a string of great films that remain iconic. And, unlike Bogart in the 1940s or James Dean in the ‘50s, McQueen’s screen persona – effortless, vulnerable masculinity –  still feels resonant. He’s not a relic of a bygone era, he’s a contemporary style guide.