Saturday, January 19, 2008

F-R-E-E, FREE!

Last night while at my Comcast.net home page I discovered a small text link on the top of the page that read “Full Episodes of 150 TV Shows - Watch Free Online!“.

I clicked and was taken to Fancast, where you can watch full episodes of a large and varied selection of series from Adam 12, Airwolf and Alfred Hitchcock to Land of the Giants, Lou Grant and Lost in Space, to Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Weird Science. The list includes current shows such as Monk, Psych, Bones, House, Heroes, the 3 CSIs, and How I Met Your Mother, and obscure syndicated shows like Team Knight Rider, Jack of All Trades, and Cleopatra 2525. Comedies, sci-fi, police and action shows, cartoons, and soap operas. Even, unfortunately, reality excrement.

I selected the pilot for the police 1992 police series Tequila and Bonetti (1992), which I vaguely remembered, created by Donald Bellisario (MAGNUM PI, JAG, NCIS). According to Wikepedia –

Nico ("Nick") Bonetti (Jack Scalia), is a policeman from New York City who is proud of his Italian heritage and very fond of his vintage rose-colored Cadillac convertible, which he inherited from his father. After he erroneously shoots a young girl during a gunfight, he relocates to a beachfront Los Angeles precinct on temporary assignment. Here he meets his new partners, Tequila (a large, burrito-eating dog voiced by Brad Sanders), and Officer Angela Garcia (
Mariska Hargitay), who joined the police after her policeman husband's death. Their boss is Captain Midian Knight (Charles Rocket) {Capt Midnight, get it – rdf} , who is almost as interested in selling a screenplay as he is in police work. The series shows their investigations about crimes and the relations between the characters. This show has the peculiarity that television viewers are able to hear Tequila's thoughts.”

I also watched an episode of Team Knight Rider, a syndicated spin-off of Knight Rider, which appeared to be a pilot for a series Girl Spies that would eventually become the similarly syndicated She Spies.

Like the other online options for watching past and present tv episodes there are commercials – but only one brief one separating each of the 4 “Acts” of the teleplay. And, of course, you can pause, fast forward and fast back.

Check out Fancast – and look to see if your favorite series of the past is included in its list of episodes.

TTYL

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