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Michael: Well, I think Erik Estrada is the funniest man in America. I will say that. I watch CHiPs. I suffer for CHiPs. It’s so stupid, those big yo-yos on motorcycles. Just kills me.
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Our camera operators Randall Einhorn and Matt Sohn were brought over from Survivor to work on our show. Greg wanted experienced documentary/reality camera guys who could find details and shared moments and make the action of scenes feel organically captured as in a documentary. These two great talents would end up directing many of our episodes and
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Winsten and his team collaborated with producers, writers, and actors from more than 160 prime-time TV programs, sprinkling designateddriver moments naturally into the plots. Segments featuring designated drivers appeared on Hunter, The Cosby Show, Mr. Belvedere, and Who’s the Boss? On an episode of the smash-hit 1980s legal drama L.A. Law, the hea
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Judd: Hill Street Blues is probably the most important show in all of TV history.
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meaner. That morning, he’d brought me into the station, placed his thick hands on my shoulders. “This is my boy,” he said. “Your old man’s a hard-ass, kid,” said another detective. “Are you a hard-ass, too?” I shrugged. They laughed. “Send him down to Vice,” another detective said. “Pop his cherry.” They wore suits and fedoras and smoked cigarettes
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prompting stunt coordinator Conrad Palmisano to come up with an eyebrow-raising solution. “A bunch of Black guys are attacking him in the scene, so I got a bunch of his Asian stunt team painted black,” remembers Palmisano, an event that surely would not be permitted today.