{"id":3590,"date":"2007-02-08T00:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:37:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T16:37:47","slug":"putting-too-fine-a-point-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/08\/putting-too-fine-a-point-on-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting Too Fine A Point On It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Isenberg writes a piece called <a href=\"http:\/\/tv.msn.com\/tv\/privateeyesexposed-1\" target=\"_new\">Private Eyes Exposed<\/a> wherein he looks at some of the plucky and adorable gumshoes of television private eyes.  Here&#8217;s his list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jessica Fletcher (<i>Murder, She Wrote<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>Columbo (<i>Columbo<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>Monk (<i>Monk<\/i><\/li>\n<li>[Hercule] Poirot (<i>Poirot<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>Cagney and Lacey (<i>Cagney and Lacey<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>Matlock (<i>Matlock<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Mark Sloan (<i>Diagnosis Murder<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>Perry Mason (<i>Perry Mason<\/i>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Come on, doesn&#8217;t everyone see the problem here?  A list of private eyes from television, and we&#8217;ve got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Author<\/li>\n<li>Police detective<\/li>\n<li>Police consultant<\/li>\n<li>Detective<\/li>\n<li>Police detectives<\/li>\n<li>Attorney<\/li>\n<li>Medical doctor<\/li>\n<li>Attorney<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even at our most giving, only two of these characters can be considered true private detectives.<\/p>\n<p>What about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cody Allen, Nick Ryder, and the Boz (<i>Riptide<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>Spenser (<i>Spenser: For Hire<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>Sonny Spoon (<i>Sonny Spoon<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>James Rockford (<i>The Rockford Files<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Magnum (<i>Magnum, P.I.<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>Rick and A.J. Simon (<i>Simon and Simon<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>Laura Holt and Remington Steele (<i>Remington Steele<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>Maddie Hayes and David Addison (<i>Moonlighting<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>Mike Hammer (<i>Mike Hammer<\/i>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now those were some television private eyes.  I guess it&#8217;s also apparent the decade in which I did most of my television watching.<\/p>\n<p>What about you?  What are your favorite television private eyes that were actual, you know, <i>private invesigators<\/i>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Isenberg writes a piece called Private Eyes Exposed wherein he looks at some of the plucky and adorable gumshoes of television private eyes. Here&#8217;s his list: Jessica Fletcher (Murder, She Wrote) Columbo (Columbo) Monk (Monk [Hercule] Poirot (Poirot) Cagney and Lacey (Cagney and Lacey) Matlock (Matlock) Dr. Mark Sloan (Diagnosis Murder) Perry Mason (Perry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18271,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions\/18271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}