Pioneers of Television — S02E03 — Crime Dramas

00:00:01 Narrator: CRIME DRAMAS REMAIN

00:01:57 Friday: 7:48 P.M... FRANK AND I PULLED

00:04:01 SHE LEAVES HER SISTER AND FOUR CHILDREN BEHIND.

00:05:53 IT WAS TOTALLY DISASSOCIATED FROM ANY KIND OF ACTING REALITY.

00:07:45 WAS ALL DONE BY TELEPROMPTERS.

00:10:02 YOU WERE FINALLY GOING TO GET AROUND TO ME."

00:12:42 IT WAS REFLECTIVE OF WHAT WENT ON.

00:15:16 Narrator: THE MANNIX CHARACTER WAS A BREAK FROM

00:17:28 AND I SAID, "WELL, DO YOU WATCH IT?

00:19:29 TO KNOW THAT.

00:22:21 AND THAT'S WHAT WE DID, AND THAT'S WHEN I FELT

00:24:36 Narrator: "MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE" WAS JUST ONE OF A RAFT

00:27:10 WE'VE LEFT HIM ALONE.

00:29:09 AND HE WOULD SAY, "McGARRETT IS SCARED.

00:31:25 CHIN, GET OVER TO THE WOMEN'S DORM

00:33:54 SHE WAS AN ESTABLISHED STAR WHO HAD PAID HER DUES,

00:36:19 Dickinson: I WAS MARRIED TO A COMPOSER AT THE TIME,

00:39:17 AND I SAID, "I JUST WON'T DO IT,"

00:41:21 HE REALLY... HE BROUGHT HIMSELF TO THAT ROLE.

00:43:17 Narrator: COLUMBO DEMONSTRATED THAT STRONG CHARACTERS

00:45:18 THERE'S A LOT OF ACTORS THAT COULD LEARN THAT LESSON,

00:47:28 I THINK IT'S MY ATTITUDE,

00:49:50 OR THE LIKABLE CHARACTERS OF COLUMBO

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