Ha. Well, this was from memory, though the institutional
memory here doesn't cite the original delivery system and
seems to imply that it was originally four hours long...which
both the mildly informative IMDb listing and your citation on
THRILLING DETECTIVE would disagree with. Oh, well.
It simply struck me as dull, though it was well-cast in terms
of talent, if not necessarily in terms of faithfulness to the
source material. TM
-----Original Message----- From: JIM DOHERTY [mailto:
jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com] Incidentally, it was in three
parts, not two, and it was originally broadcast on CBS, not
in syndication. I'm rather surprised Todd found it
unengaging. I really enjoyed it. Aside from changing the
setting
(Baltimore instead of San Francisco), naming the Op, and
changing the name of the agency (from the Continental to the
Dickinson, which may have been an inside joke referring to
former Pinkerton op Charlie Siringo), it was quite faithful
to the novel, and I thought the mini-series format served the
episodic plot well.
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