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7/10
A couple screwups go on a weekend outing.
planktonrules21 January 2024
Marty and Glenn (David Groh and Robert Goulet) are detectives who must have done some foolish things to tick off their boss. This is because they are stuck doing the lowest level narcotics work...shaking down junkies on the street. Whenever they uncover a clue which might lead to bigger fish, their boss invariably tells them to send it to another unity to follow through with this. In other words, he doesn't trust Marty or Glenn to do it right!

When the detectives stumble upon a weird case, they know it must be related to something bigger. During a routine traffic stop, a bag with $20,000 falls out of the door! And, oddly, the woman driving doesn't have a license. What does this mean? They don't know but they do as they are told...they transfer it to another unit to investigate. However, Glenn asks if he and his partner can work with the other unit, as they'll be doing a stakeout and could use a few more warm bodies. They say it's okay...if their commander approves it. So, Glenn calls the boss and is told a loud a clear NO. And, he tells these investigators that the boss gave approval! Huh?! See the story to see why he said this and what the final result will be.

In addition to the two detectives, they show included sexy girlfriends for them and the woman are mostly semi-dressed when ever you see them. One is Cheryl Ladd in her pre-"Charlie's Angels" days.

Overall, a decent episode...entertaining and worth seeing but also not the most logical of shows. In particular, I really wanted to know why their boss hated them so much!
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8/10
The Joseph Wambaugh Touch
Gatorman921 January 2021
Warning: Spoilers
The plot description given here ("Marty Lacayo and Glenn Talbot are street narcs, meaning they are given the task of busting nickel-and-dime users and hustlers; Shep, one of their users, gives them a tasty lead on a big distributor, but they are forbidden by Lt. Hagedorn from pursuing him . . . ") doesn't begin to do this episode justice.

It leaves out the fact that Talbot (Robert Goulet) is a kind of wild-man instigator "optimistic" to the point of risking professional suicide, paired with a worrier's worrier and born pessimist of a partner whom he dragoons into this adventure kicking and screaming (actually, more like moaning and groaning), while their lieutenant boss is an absolutely no-nonsense by-the-book curmudgeonly stickler for rules and procedures with absolutely no sense of humor at all. If that were not enough, the whole time they are working this case that they have been expressly ordered not to work at all, no less than Cheryl Ladd and a girlfriend are left waiting in suspenseful anticipation of spending a weekend fling with them at a resort in Palm Springs. In other words, though I can't say for sure from the credits just exactly who really wrote this installment of one of the very best cop TV series ever made, it has famed police realism novelist (not to mention, cynical humorist) Joseph Wambaugh's characteristic style in story, characters, and wicked ironic humor written all over it, like a Wambaugh novel in micro. And although I have never been a fan of the hammy acting of Robert Goulet, here his over-the-top tendencies made him perfect for this part, and his performance of the shamelessly extroverted Talbot is beyond criticism. Thus, if you ever get a chance to see this (I caught it at about 2 am recently on the "H&I" or "Heroes and Icons" network) don't pass it up. (Hell, you even get to see Cheryl Ladd a year before she showed up to replace Farah Fawcett on *Charlie's Angels*).
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