The TV series Hart to Hart is on Amazon Prime Video now -- when it was new on network television, I noticed it and meant to watch it, but only saw it a few times. Busy -- going, working, studying, looking for music and dancing and books and good scenes.
Reruns of it were on in the late 1980s -- on a cable channel, maybe, and I remember seeing parts of it a few times if I was home for lunch and thinking, "I should watch this, when I have time, it's just my style of show..."
Jonathan and Jennifer Hart solve crimes and are beautiful. Even their dog is beautiful -- and sweet. That animal sits by them, or between them, and seems to understand what they are talking about, & just looks adoring. What a love bug -- what a face.
Every episode has a mystery that needs to be solved, and on a rather frequent basis someone will be trying to kill one of the Harts on a rooftop. It's quite adventurous.
Light, droll humor is interwoven through the dialogue -- often turning up unexpectedly. Altogether, components of the show's style create an effect that is otherworldly -- like it's a detective fairy tale, or something.
The clothes and jewelry are terrific -- the costume designer responsible for the looks on the show is Nolan Miller (Dynasty, Charlie's Angels, The Love Boat, Hotel).
"Princess" phones appear in the show often -- the fancy ones that look like antiques...? Those were a new enthusiasm in the late '70s and early '80s. One of my roommates had one.
It was that Sidney Sheldon - Aaron Spelling - Leonard Goldberg TV Era in L.A.
Doing some scriptwriting and directing on Hart to Hart was Tom Mankiewicz, son of Joseph Mankiewicz, who made the classic films A Letter To Three Wives, and All About Eve.
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