| ABC | Season Premiere Date: November 2, 1988 |
Starring:
George Segal, Charles Rocket, Kim Lankford
Summary:
In this quickly canceled dramedy based (loosely) on Warren Murphy's "Trace" novels, George Segal stars as an insurance investigator and recovering alcoholic who shares a home with a model (Maggie Han).
Genre(s):
Drama
Season 1 Episodes
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S1:E13. All's Wrong That Ends Wrong
Air Date: unknown
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S1:E12. Doing It the Hard Way is Always Easier
Air Date: March 18, 1989
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S1:E11. Experience is Something You Don't Get Until Just After You Need It
Air Date: March 11, 1989
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Aug 7, 2014
It's a harmless, standard-issue - cheesy - detective (actually, insurance investigator) series in the vein of Rockford Files-like unwilling heroes. [2 Nov 1988]
Aug 7, 2014
Segal has a certain bombastic charm as he quaffs and quips his way through the part of Daedelus, the phoniest Irishman to hit the small screen since the last Irish Spring commercial. Han, who made her TV debut in the miniseries Space, is a good foil for Segal. She can act a little, which is all that's called for. [2 Nov 1988]
Aug 7, 2014
Segal's nasal, hard-bitten delivery is dreadful here, and his relationship with the beautiful Maggie Han is preposterous. [2 Nov 1988]
Aug 7, 2014
The opening story... is thin and uncompelling. ... This is one of those series in which plot is relatively unimportant, however. What is important is the Murphy/Fannuchi relationship, which is only partially platonic, but fully unbelievable. If the relationship doesn't work, the series doesn't work. The relationship doesn't work.
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Aug 7, 2014
A strong candidate for worst new series of the season. [2 Nov 1988]
Aug 7, 2014
A series so monumentally meaningless, so pathetically puerile, so irredeemably ridiculous that, within my limited professional context, it prompts the Biggest Question of them all: Why is there television? [2 Nov 1988]
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: November 2, 1988
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S1:E13. All's Wrong That Ends Wrong
Air Date: unknown
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S1:E12. Doing It the Hard Way is Always Easier
Air Date: March 18, 1989
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S1:E11. Experience is Something You Don't Get Until Just After Yo...
Air Date: March 11, 1989
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S1:E10. When You're Over the Hill, You Pick Up Speed
Air Date: February 18, 1989
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S1:E9. Where's There's a Will, There's a Won't
Air Date: February 11, 1989
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S1:E8. Never Wear Earmuffs in a Bed of Rattlesnakes
Air Date: February 4, 1989
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S1:E7. Two Wrongs are Only the Beginning
Air Date: January 28, 1989
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S1:E6. Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing
Air Date: January 21, 1989
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S1:E5. Never Play Leapfrog with a Unicorn
Air Date: January 14, 1989
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S1:E4. Do Someone a Favor and It Becomes Your Job
Air Date: December 17, 1988
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S1:E3. If You Can't Win, Shoot for a Tie
Air Date: December 10, 1988
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S1:E2. Where are My Socks and Other Mysteries of Love
Air Date: December 3, 1988
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S1:E1. The Room Above the Indian Grocery
Air Date: November 2, 1988
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Season 1 Overview