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With the end of the regular season seeing many shows ending their runs in the middle of May, only one new series premiered this week across seven decades. But do you remember this show? Read on to find out!
1950
- No new series premiered this week in 1950.
1960
- No new series premiered this week in 1960.
1970
- No new series premiered this week in 1970.
1980
- No new series premiered this week in 1980.
1990
- No new series premiered this week in 1990.
2000
- No new series premiered this week in 2000.
2010
- May 19 — Action-Comedy series The Good Guys premieres on FOX. The series, created by Matt Nix, starred Bradley Whitford as Dan Stark, a former big shot detective who saved the life of the governor’s son but is now almost washed up, spending his days dreaming of his past life. But his intuition about crimes and his odd ways of doing his job still gets things done. But Stark is stuck in the past, considering new technology as something like black magic. Colin Hanks plays Jack Bailey, an ambitious by-the-book detective whose attitude has made him few friends on the force, being assigned to ‘baby-sit’ Stark after correcting the captain’s grammar in front of the chief. An uneasy partnership is formed and Jack eventually learns about the importance of a partner. The pair’s original mode of transportation was a Chevy Lumina but after Dan acquires a 1980 Trans Am that is used to great effect during the rescue of a hostage, the car wins the respect of the uptight Jack and it becomes their new team vehicle. The series was meant to be set in Los Angeles but filmed in Dallas. City officials were able to convince Nix to set the show in Dallas with Nix adding, ‘It’s a great city to jump on the hood of a car.’ The show’s working title was Jack and Dan, and was also known as Code 58 for several months then briefly as The Five Eight before producers settled on The Good Guys. Hanks jokingly suggested Opposite Buddy Cop Show as the title. Originally given a 13 episode order, FOX extended the order to 20 episodes with a summer run ending on August 2. The show returned September 24, moving from Monday to Friday with House M.D. reruns. Human Target was to be the show’s original lead in but that was moved to Wednesday when Lone Star was cancelled. The show regularly ranked fourth in its time slot, then dropped to fifth in October and despite the low production costs, renewal was uncertain. FOX said it was not immediately ordering new episodes but the series was not officially cancelled after its final epsiode aired on December 10. On December 15, the Dallas Observer reported that FOX had notified the Dallas Film Commission that the show would not be renewed for a second season. FOX reran the series on Saturday nights at 11 PM beginning January 1, 2011 but the repeats were pulled on January 13 in favor of Fringe repeats. In addition to Whitford and Hanks, the cast included Jenny Wade, Diana Maria Riva, RonReaco Lee, Angela Sarafyan, Joel Spence, Gary Cole and Rachel Harris.
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