Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: suzeeq Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Cops with a lot of money on TV Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:40:41 -0700 Message-ID: References: <9afe3ffd-0f01-4e8d-b2ee-829005ec93ben@googlegroups.com> <933529632.735584066.634434.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <178324819.735602746.804600.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:40:40 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="446472"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:5C0Cbu3YSNUEyaQKjANNshT9jBg= In-Reply-To: <178324819.735602746.804600.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> X-User-ID: eJwNyMkRwDAIBLCWgheWoRwO038Jjp4yUNiuNKqtrRzId1qCeRHlGpXcKBA4FteF/+hk7XbNPAfpEV8= Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2681 Lines: 35 On 4/23/2024 3:11 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: > suzeeq wrote: >> On 4/23/2024 1:17 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote: >>> suzeeq wrote: >>>> On 4/23/2024 10:04 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>>>> suzeeq wrote: >>>>>> On 4/23/2024 8:53 AM, David Lesher wrote: >>> >>>>>>> Doesn't anyone remember "Burke's Law.."? >>>>>>> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056745/ >>> >>>>>> He was a PI, not a cop. >>> >>>>> He was Captain Amos Burke, of LA homicide. >>> >>>> Okay, but maybe he inherited it. Or he was the crookedest cop ever.... >>> >>> I've heard of it but never saw it. I've never read an explanation of >>> where the money came from. My guess is that Bat Masterson invented off >>> shore holdings and, thanks to the magic of compounding interest over the >>> decades, he had access to this vast fortune. >>> >> Yeah, that sounds like it could be the thing. >> >> I was in midteens when it first aired, so only vaguely remember it. >> > > It’s a throwaway line, maybe in the pilot which has a lot of exposition > dump where they say he inherited it. No details. > > There is another episode where they imply and or infer that he is a > millionaire but only has the $1 million. It’s hard to imagine there was a > day when you could have a mansion and a Rolls-Royce, and a full-time man > servant/chauffeurfor $1 million. > Yep, mid-century.