> On Behalf Of Ronn!Blankenship
> Sent: Tuesday, 13 December 2005 1:49 PM
> To: Killer Bs Discussion
> Subject: Re: Help me identify 80's cop show...
>
> At 04:55 PM Monday 12/12/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
> >Gary Nunn wrote:
> >>I apologize if I have asked this here before, but for
> several years I
> >>have been trying to identify a TV show I saw in the mid to
> late 80's,
> >>late one night.
> >>It was a police show, and I think their police station was an old
> >>bakery. The show jumped back and forth and followed the
> same officers
> >>through three different time periods - maybe in the 60's or 70's,
> >>present day (late 80's then) and in the near future.
> >>I think it was a failed pilot for a series. I can't remember anyone
> >>who may have been in it. I have searched many times on Google with
> >>different terms as well as the IMDB.
> >>Anyone?
> >
> >No clue. Want me to pass this along, though? I might know
> someone who
> >might know. (I'm almost frightened by what some of my acquaintances
> >know. That's more than mitigated by being grateful about
> what some of
> >them know.)
>
>
> I recall a show (I think it may have been a two- or three-part
> mini-series) which followed 3 generations of different police
> in iirc some small Southern town (frex, it was notable that
> the third generation police chief was black . . . played by
> Billy Dee Williams,
> iirc) chasing a serial killer (Keith Carridine, iirc) who
> preyed on young boys he picked up hitchhiking. ISTM it had a
> one-word title, although I have not been able to recall it.
> Does this sound anything like the show you (Gary) have in mind?
>
That sounds like Chiefs, which I cant say I saw, and seems to be a
movie.
http://www.learmedia.ca/product_info.php/products_id/652
1983, but it has many of the elements that Gary noted, such as taking
place over a long time frame.
Andrew
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