Crazy Like a Fox (1984)

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Debuting December 30, 1984. CBS, 9/8pm Central.

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β€œπ‘―π’‚π’“π’“π’Šπ’”π’π’, 𝑰 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 π’šπ’π’–π’“ 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑.”
β€œπ‘«π’‚π’…, π’šπ’π’– π’Œπ’†π’†π’‘ π’‡π’π’“π’ˆπ’†π’•π’•π’Šπ’π’ˆ. π‘°β€™π’Ž 𝒂 π’π’‚π’˜π’šπ’†π’“. 𝒀𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 π’…π’†π’•π’†π’„π’•π’Šπ’—π’†!
β€œπ‘¨π’˜, π’„π’π’Žπ’† 𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒐𝒏. 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝑰 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 π’Šπ’” 𝒂 π’“π’Šπ’…π’†. 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 π’‘π’π’”π’”π’Šπ’ƒπ’π’š 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏?”

Crazy Like a Fox was a crime drama/comedy was created by John Baskin, Roger Shulman, George Schenck, and Frank Cardea and was co-produced by Columbia Television. It starred Jack Warden as Harry Fox, a free-spirited private detective, and John Rubinstein as his high-strung attorney son, Harrison, who often gets unwillingly involved in his father’s cases. The show’s opening would feature Harry and Harrison in a phone conversation, with Harry asking for his son’s help despite Harrison being a lawyer and not a detective. Penny Peyser played Harrison’s wife, and Della Reese had a recurring role as a nurse who often assisted Harry.

Airing on Sundays opposite Sunday night movies, the show was initially a hit, but ratings suffered when it got moved around, being cancelled after a season and a half. A year after it went off the air, a reunion TV movie calledΒ Still Crazy Like a FoxΒ brought back the characters. The show’s theme music was composed by Mark Snow, most famously known forΒ The X-Files. The series has recently been aired on nostalgia network Me-TV.

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