Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site vax4.fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: net.tv,net.books Subject: Oh-oh, guess what's getting adapted to TV... Message-ID: <2566@vax4.fluke.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 20:36:07 EDT Article-I.D.: vax4.2566 Posted: Wed Aug 21 20:36:07 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Aug-85 14:25:32 EDT Distribution: na Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 17 Xref: tektronix net.tv:03458 net.books:02378 Just saw, in this week's TV Guide, that either a new TV series, or a TV-movie will be premiering this fall: "SPENSER: FOR HIRE". I enjoy Robert Parker's Spenser books enormously (though he has been running a little dry, lately); but if this is something that TV writers are dredging up week after week, forget it. The woman pictured playing Susan Silverman does not look promising; and the choice of Robert Urich for Spenser is still worse (not Urich's looks, Urich's acting). Frankly, though, I imagine that Quinn Martin or someone like that will find the books just another excuse to do VEGA$ one more time, except in Boston... "You can't go in there!" "Yes I can. This is America. I can go anywhere I want to." Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, allegra, sb1, lbl-csam}!fluke!moriarty <*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want to me, but leave my employers alone! <*>