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Margaret Colin ... Claire McCarron (10 episodes, 1987)

Frances McDormand ... Willie Pipal (7 episodes, 1987)
Patrick James Clarke ... Lt. Fred McCarron (7 episodes, 1987)
Robert Dorfman ... Jeffrey (5 episodes, 1987)
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A lost gem, 23 November 2006
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Author: tsl04 from UK

The series aired (briefly) on ITV in the UK before disappearing without trace. I remember it as being fresh, different (not one but two female leads in Margaret Colin and Frances McDormand) and brave (I distinctly remember one episode showcased AIDS at a time when it was still a taboo subject, especially on US prime-time TV).

The show didn't have the crash-bang-wallop of high octane cop shows like Hunter. It didn't have the flashy car and stunts of Knight Rider. (Claire McCarron did own a Porsche which she had received as payment from one of her clients, but it was forever in the repair shop.) And it didn't rely on the hackneyed cliché of buddies-who-aren't-really-buddies from different sides of the track, as employed most tenuously in Hardcastle & McCormick. What it did have was a solid premise, engaging characters, good, straightforward stories and was very much rooted in the real world. (Would Magnum PI or Simon & Simon have done an AIDS storyline? I don't think so.)

Would it have been the greatest TV show ever if it hadn't been prematurely cancelled? No. But did it have the potential to be a strong, strikingly different addition to the genre alongside the almost exclusively male-led PI/cop shows of the era? Absolutely.

Very few people missed Leg Work when it vanished from the US & UK schedules. I was one of them.

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