chod@gypsy.UUCP (01/15/86)
Does anyone know if Robert Urich or some other star or staff member is of Yugoslavian ancestry, or has some other connection to Yugoslavia? Last night's show (1/14) had Spenser pitted against a hood named "Joe Broz". I am pretty sure that character has been on the show before. Last night I remembered that during WWII there was a communist partisan in Yugoslavia named "Iosip Broz". He took the nom de guerre "Tito" and went on to later fame under that name.
render@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU (01/20/86)
Written 8:52 am Jan 15, 1986 by chod@gypsy: > Does anyone know if Robert Urich or some other star or staff member is of > Yugoslavian ancestry, or has some other connection to Yugoslavia? Last > night's show (1/14) had Spenser pitted against a hood named "Joe Broz". I am > pretty sure that character has been on the show before. Last night I > remembered that during WWII there was a communist partisan in Yugoslavia > named "Iosip Broz". He took the nom de guerre "Tito" and went on to later > fame under that name. "Joe Broz" is a character who has appeared in the original Spenser books, written by Robert Parker. It is certainly possible that Parker knew who of Tito's original name. Hal Render University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign {pur-ee, ihnp4} ! uiucdcs ! render render@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU
lmv@houxa.UUCP (L.VANDERBILT) (01/21/86)
After watching the beginning of the episode with "Joe Broz" (1/14), I thought this was one of the worst shows on tv. I couldn't even stand it long enough to last 1/2 hour without changing the channel. The plot seemed so typical, bad guy turned good guy needs money to support pregnant wife and turns bad again, big boss finds out he is needling in on his territory and has him bumped off, etc... IT WAS SO BORING!!! My whole attitude watching the show was "who gives a ?*&!". My guess is that half the people who watch only do so because they are too lazy to get up and change the channel after "Moonlighting". What an awful show, I don't think I'll watch it again. Lynn vax135!houxm!houxa!lmv
rodean@hpfcla.UUCP (01/22/86)
Another question re Spenser for hire:
I only watched it once a couple of weeks ago, and it was the episode
that involved a women who worked making 'designer drugs'.
My question is: is the black character an ally or enemy of Spenser?
Early in the show, he was tailing Spenser and interrupted an attempt on
his life. However at the end, he was arguing with him whether or not he
should still kill him because he had been hired by 'bad guys' to do so.
I was terribly confused! What's the real story?
Bruce Rodean
{ihnp4|hplabs}!hpfcla!rodeanmoriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (01/23/86)
I think uneven is a better word, but you're correct, I think; the last few
episodes have been at least 60% mediocre, and the Broz episode was totally
stagnant. I'm dropping this from my "watch" list.
"When are you BUTTHEADS gonna learn that you can't
oppose Gestapo tactics WITH Gestapo tactics?"
-Reuben Flagg
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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<*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>wilson_3@h-sc1.UUCP (bradford wilson) (01/24/86)
> > Does anyone know if Robert Urich or some other star or staff member is of > Yugoslavian ancestry, or has some other connection to Yugoslavia? Last > night's show (1/14) had Spenser pitted against a hood named "Joe Broz". I am > pretty sure that character has been on the show before. Last night I > remembered that during WWII there was a communist partisan in Yugoslavia > named "Iosip Broz". He took the nom de guerre "Tito" and went on to later > fame under that name. Joe Broz appears regularly in Robert B. Parker's Spenser detective books; he is not a creation of the scriptwriter or TV land. I suppose you'd have to ask the author about Iosip. Wombat .:. aka h-sc1!wilson_3@harvard ---------------------------------- "In fact, if you do shoot him it will probably make him angrier..."