Quinn Martin Productions look like sitcoms, even though they were mostly hour-long dramas, and this, a police show, is the epitome of slow-burn, part neo noir since Burt Reynolds' titular cop moves around and asks questions to various characters in various locations like a good old fashion gumshoe...
Only this noirish series is in color, oh such color like all Quinn Martin shows, so very 60's, especially the fuzzy distorted guitar music coinciding with the action that all flows pretty well, although Burt didn't yet have THAT THING that made him a star...
Whether it be fun movies like The Longest Yard or before that his breakthrough Deliverance... he looks great but is a bit stiff (like he was in Riverboat a decade earlier): and the mystery (here involving a disliked race car driver found naked and bullet-holed in a lake) is entertaining enough.
Only this noirish series is in color, oh such color like all Quinn Martin shows, so very 60's, especially the fuzzy distorted guitar music coinciding with the action that all flows pretty well, although Burt didn't yet have THAT THING that made him a star...
Whether it be fun movies like The Longest Yard or before that his breakthrough Deliverance... he looks great but is a bit stiff (like he was in Riverboat a decade earlier): and the mystery (here involving a disliked race car driver found naked and bullet-holed in a lake) is entertaining enough.