Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Because, like, 3 people demanded it... here are the first five episodes of the very, very, VERY short-lived detective series starring the late Glenn Frey (The Eagles), Aries Spears (Mad TV) and Maria Pitillo (Partners) that aired on CBS in the fall of 1993. How short lived would you say this show was? Well, purportedly, it was cancelled after the first episode aired (or during its airing)... on the east coast. The west coast airing of the first episode was pre-empted in most areas due to raging Malibu wildfires at the time.
By comparison, even that godforsaken abomination (and by that I mean "masterpiece via the pinnacle of human existence") known as "Work It" managed to trick the executives at ABC into airing at least TWO episodes of that series before it was pulled off the air and all master copies in existence packed into a canister and dumped into the deepest part of the sea.
Thankfully, the first episode and the next four would go on to have a second life (I guess technically a second chance, if it never had a first life?) airing the following year, one per day, during the Eagles Family Tree Week on VH1, as a tie-in for their Hell Freezes Over Tour, which reunited the band following a 14-year break-up. For those if you in your 30s or younger, VH1 used to air these magical 3-5 minute audio/video interludes known as "music videos."
My young 13-year-old self must have thought the show looked cool from previews and hastily recorded the episodes in SLP/EP with the commercials edited. The VHS tape survived until some point around 2009-2012, when I converted it to an external hard drive using Elgato's EyeTV 250+ on my 2006 iMac. Had I known even just a year or two our, I would acquire much better capture devices, I probably would have held on to the tape. Alas, this may or many not be one of the few surviving copies left. I uploaded episodes on an old channel I no longer have access to that is no more nearly an eternity ago. There WAS also someone who had uploaded the same five episodes a few years back, but it looks like they are no longer available anywhere. So... here you go, time to repopulate the species once again.
Also... a random observation while converting and uploading this is that Judith Hoag, the original April O'Neil from the best live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie has a guest-starring role in the third episode. Si that's cool. Also, blink and you'll miss an appearance in the third episode from a young Monique Parent, late-night extended cable goddess of such DTV fare as "Buford's Beach Bunnies," "Play Time," "The Witches of Breastwick" and, of course, "Close Enough to Touch"... often released in both R-rated AND Unrated editions. 🙄
Apparently, little is known with regard to how many episodes of this series were completed or set to be produced. At one point I remember reading many years back that 7 episodes were to exist, though Wikipedia currently has 6 episodes listed. These 5 are the only ones I know that actually aired, so whether a 6th episode was completed and/or actually aired anywhere in the world is currently unknown to me. Wikipedia also (as of this posting) claims that series (co)creator John Byrum wrote EACH of the 6 episodes, which is clearly not correct, as seen by the actual listed credits indicating Paul Brown (episode 2), Terry Curtis Fox (episode 4) and Reggie Rock Bythewood (episode 5)... so who is to say? 🤔
Because, like, 3 people demanded it... here are the first five episodes of the very, very, VERY short-lived detective series starring the late Glenn Frey (The Eagles), Aries Spears (Mad TV) and Maria Pitillo (Partners) that aired on CBS in the fall of 1993. How short lived would you say this show was? Well, purportedly, it was cancelled after the first episode aired (or during its airing)... on the east coast. The west coast airing of the first episode was pre-empted in most areas due to raging Malibu wildfires at the time.
By comparison, even that godforsaken abomination (and by that I mean "masterpiece via the pinnacle of human existence") known as "Work It" managed to trick the executives at ABC into airing at least TWO episodes of that series before it was pulled off the air and all master copies in existence packed into a canister and dumped into the deepest part of the sea.
Thankfully, the first episode and the next four would go on to have a second life (I guess technically a second chance, if it never had a first life?) airing the following year, one per day, during the Eagles Family Tree Week on VH1, as a tie-in for their Hell Freezes Over Tour, which reunited the band following a 14-year break-up. For those if you in your 30s or younger, VH1 used to air these magical 3-5 minute audio/video interludes known as "music videos."
My young 13-year-old self must have thought the show looked cool from previews and hastily recorded the episodes in SLP/EP with the commercials edited. The VHS tape survived until some point around 2009-2012, when I converted it to an external hard drive using Elgato's EyeTV 250+ on my 2006 iMac. Had I known even just a year or two our, I would acquire much better capture devices, I probably would have held on to the tape. Alas, this may or many not be one of the few surviving copies left. I uploaded episodes on an old channel I no longer have access to that is no more nearly an eternity ago. There WAS also someone who had uploaded the same five episodes a few years back, but it looks like they are no longer available anywhere. So... here you go, time to repopulate the species once again.
Also... a random observation while converting and uploading this is that Judith Hoag, the original April O'Neil from the best live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie has a guest-starring role in the third episode. Si that's cool. Also, blink and you'll miss an appearance in the third episode from a young Monique Parent, late-night extended cable goddess of such DTV fare as "Buford's Beach Bunnies," "Play Time," "The Witches of Breastwick" and, of course, "Close Enough to Touch"... often released in both R-rated AND Unrated editions. 🙄
Apparently, little is known with regard to how many episodes of this series were completed or set to be produced. At one point I remember reading many years back that 7 episodes were to exist, though Wikipedia currently has 6 episodes listed. These 5 are the only ones I know that actually aired, so whether a 6th episode was completed and/or actually aired anywhere in the world is currently unknown to me. Wikipedia also (as of this posting) claims that series (co)creator John Byrum wrote EACH of the 6 episodes, which is clearly not correct, as seen by the actual listed credits indicating Paul Brown (episode 2), Terry Curtis Fox (episode 4) and Reggie Rock Bythewood (episode 5)... so who is to say? 🤔
