What a sacrilege!!


I am formerly known as HillieBoliday....Member since May 2006

.....Done to this show during the last and 6th season!

What was Jack Webb, and the rest of those who were guilty in destroying what was once a very iconic and entertaining television show thinking???!!!

This new version of 77 Sunset Strip, looked like a ghost town compared to the original show!

The Stuart Bailey character seemed to digress from being a highly successful, polished, debonair, classy and refined Private Investigator; to a lonely, just starting, amateur Shamas all by himself gum shoe; who was worried about getting rubber checks in return for his service! When they stuck this in the place of the classy, sexy, hi browed, Brook's Brothers suits/skinny tie wearing, beautiful, Brylcreemed,fine-assed, handsome detectives; and their 'mink, diamond, Pearl draped, and perfectly coiffed victims/femme fatales of the original 77SS...It was a MAJOR travesty!

Jack Webb was obviously dilusional and believing his own hype...When he had Stu Bailey narrating as the episode progresses.....And then having him come back to an office that looked like it was housed in a dark, dismal, empty, delapidated and abandoned building!

To add insult to injury...They took away his Thunderbird, and relegated him to catching cabs and thumbing rides...WTH!

Somebody should line up the WHOLE directing/production team....Starting with whomever brainstormed this total ravaging of a wonderful show...And go down the entire line...Slapping them upside the head! To take away the family/team player aspect of the Bailey & Spencer investigating team; really trashed the show! The absence of Jeff, Kookie, Suzanne, Captain Gilmore, Roscoe, Rex, J.R., Frankie Ortego Trio, and Dino's Lodge; made the new show extremely depressing and totally empty!

The only redeeming aspect of this show...Was the new theme song. Although it was totally different from the original; the music was melodic, haunting, classy and poignant.

The theme song from the original series had clever lyrics, music that was so representative of that era, fun, light, breezy...And served to describe what you were about to see in each episode. With that being said...It was one of my favorites...And a great example of the lyrical/musical talents of Mack David and Jay Livingston. But my hat definitely goes off to Bob Thompson for creating a beautiful and haunting piece of musical delight, with its magnificent arrangement and orchestration as the new theme song! Though only short-lived....I pull the new theme up on YouTube just so I can listen to it over, and over again!!

"OOhhhooo....I'M GON' TELL MAMA!"

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I've basically only seen the first four seasons in reruns over the past 15 years or so. They never re-played Season 6 so I would love to see them. I hope MeTV contracted for all six seasons, but that may be wishful thinking.

The Season 6 theme music sounds interesting, but the original/classic theme is probably my all-time favorite.

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I'm looking forward to seeing Season 6. I really like the opening I saw on YouTube with Stu riding the elevator, and I wish I could find a copy of the Season 6 theme song. Do you know if the way Stu is portrayed in Season 6 is more or less closer to the way the character is portrayed in Roy Huggins' novel or short stories than he is in the rest of the series?

Je suis Charlie Hebdo.

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The world changed a lot between 1958 when the series began and 1964 when it ended. We look back at the series fondly, but I wonder how viewers at the time saw the show.

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Fans of the show rejected the changes resulting in the season six travesty. They stopped watching, resulting in it being canceled after a half season.

The changes weren't the result of trying to 'keep up with the times'. They were the result of Jack Webb's arrogance.

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