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November 27

Which Show could it have been?

Many years ago, in the nineties, I saw an episode of a police TV Series, which I later thought was Hunter with Fred Dryer, and the actor Brion James, who normally played bad guys, was a cop who committed a murder at or near a car in the hills, then threw the murder weapon down the slope, but then was back in the daytime to investigate it, even conveniently finding the murder weapon after making reference to the main character about how one would throw something in an American Football style, and if so, where it would land. The show was not Hunter, since I saw both episodes he was in recently, and neither of them fit. I am pretty certain it was Brion James, whose killer cop character was eventually caught by the main character in the series, and this might have been James' only appearance in the series. The only other ones I could see he was in, (since I wrongly thought it could have been Jake and the Fat Man, but he was never in that), are Silk Stalkings and The Marshal with Jeff Fahey, but there are no clips available on YouTube of them. The Silk Stalkings episode that Brion James was in, called T.K.O., was conveniently not available - it is always the ones one is trying to find that just happen not to be there. In addition, in the early eighties, there was a movie I watched about a family who went onto a work farm to earn money, but did not realise until it was too late that it was a prison, and they were to be made to work and not get paid. I thought the actor William Smith (actor), also in Any Which Way You Can where he has a mammoth fight for money against Clint Eastwood, was in it, but having looked at all his works, nothing seems to match. There is an actor that looks like him, but I cannot recall his name. In the end the family man, after the crooks kill his dogs, overthrows the prison, and is about to beat the bad guy to death, but stops. If anyone else remembers these, please feel free to point me in the right direction. Thank You.Chris the Russian Christopher Lilly 05:19, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

"Scully, you're not gonna believe this"

Does Agent Mulder ever say these exact words on The X-Files, or is it one of those misquotations like "Beam me up, Scotty"? --Lazar Taxon (talk) 19:48, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Or "Play it again, Sam" or "Houston, we have a problem." ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:54, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

I believe Steve McGarrett does say "Book 'em, Dano, Murder One" in Hawaii Five-O, but not until later episodes.

At least once, in S02E10.[1][2]--William Thweatt ^TalkContribs 05:27, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks! I just fired it up on Hulu and confirmed. --Lazar Taxon (talk) 15:40, 28 November 2019 (UTC)