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DVD: DVD: Shaft: The TV Movie Collection

8 November 2011 10:02 PM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

During the mid-’70s TV mystery boom, CBS followed The NBC Mystery Movie’s “wheel series” concept and introduced The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies, rotating different 90-minute detective shows in and out of the same time-slot. At the start of the 1973-74 season, one of those regular Tuesday Night shows was Hawkins, starring Jimmy Stewart as a country lawyer—a sort of proto-Matlock. Alternating with Hawkins? Shaft. That’s right: Shaft, a TV version of the 1971 blockbuster film that helped initiate the “blaxploitation” boom.  The TV Shaft starred Richard Roundtree, same as the movies, and it sported »

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