One of the things I’ve been doing this weekend is recording TV Themes to my iPod (I’ve got over 300, and I’m thinking about more to add). Doing so got me thinking… What happened to the P.I. on TV? It used to be, in the 1960s through 1990s, that your crime procedurals were all P.I.s. Mannix. Cannon. Kojak. Hardcastle and McCormick. Blue Moon Detectives. Today? Most of your procedurals are government employees. Criminologists working with the police department, Naval investigations, and such. Your only P.I. are psychics… typically working with the police.
So what killed the Private Investigator? Perhaps we should hire a P.I…. if we could find one.
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