Summer Series Shows

My fave. tv (old) series is Rockford Files. I love James Garner in that role. Rockford is so cool, living in a run-down trailer on the beach, fighting gangsters, and driving that fast car. (He is also great in The Notebook and The Gift. Although, I hate seeing him as being so old in real life. To me, he will always be 40's.) For Christmas the last couple of years, David has given me a R.F. DVD. The greatest thing is that now i can watch all of the seasons on Netflix. So that is what I did everyday at the start of the summer while cleaning. I soon ran out of R.F. so I switched to another series from my childhood... Quincy. If you haven't seen Quincy, you must. Quincy is older and not quite as cool as Rockford but he also solves crime...(think pre CSI). The really neat part of Quincy is seeing how much technology has changed. My degree is in Criminal Justice with a lot of classes in forensics so I love seeing the old crime-fighting tech.

For those who don't know Quincy, he lived on a boat in a marina. In between solving mysteries,lovely ladies would frequently visit him there. (My daughter thought it kind of gross bec. his character is rather older.) The show always spotlighted some kind of "issue", like alcholism, second hand smoking, Vietnam vets. It was usually Quincy against the "system". Sometimes the show ended with things getting better and sometimes not.

Now, I am on Magnum PI. Tom Selleck is so cute in this show. Magnum came on in the mid to late 80's. I really wasn't into TV much then, mostly dating, so I didn't watch it. Magnum, who was in his 40's on the show, was too old for me. But my sister loved him then. Magnum is a private investigator who drives a sports car and live in a mansion on Hawaii (My dream land). I am just starting on Magnum. It isn't as interesting as the others so I don't watch as much. The neat thing is that my daughter is "into" the 80's so I can show her the styles.

Only two more weeks to go until school starts. I better get to watching the flix.