1966 was golden, and Friday night TV was a bonanza: Man From Uncle, The Green Hornet, The Time Tunnel, freakin' LAREDO (what a great show), Hogan's Heroes, The Wild, Wild West...and if you were allowed to stay up late, Twelve O'Clock High (A Quinn Martin Production). And smack dab in the middle of it all was T.H.E. Cat, starring Robert Loggia.
My mom worked on Friday nights, so I stayed with a couple near us in Northeastern Ohio, just outside Cleveland. Often it would just be me and the husband, Bob, because his wife Carol was a nurse and often worked late shifts. Bob was a "puer aeternis", a man who would always be a boy, an eternal adolescent. We would eat Kentucky Fried Chicken, or Manner's Big Boys while watching TV, taking occasional breaks to shoot BB guns or light M80s. I treasure those Friday nights.
Anyhow, T.H.E. Cat was awesome. It lacked the gratuitous violence of "Man From U.N.C.L.E, but featured lots of cool acrobatic shenanigans: rappelling down buildings, vaulting over fences and walls, , and young Robert Loggia being cool and sexy and bad-ass in a manner that made Napoleon Solo look like Tim Conway. and, he drove a wicked-looking corvette...super-cool.
I can't remember if Lalo Schifrin did the soundtrack, but I recall the music was pretty hip. Regrettably, the only people watching were me & Bob and the other people leaving reviews here...great time to be a kid, but it sucked if you were draft age.
My mom worked on Friday nights, so I stayed with a couple near us in Northeastern Ohio, just outside Cleveland. Often it would just be me and the husband, Bob, because his wife Carol was a nurse and often worked late shifts. Bob was a "puer aeternis", a man who would always be a boy, an eternal adolescent. We would eat Kentucky Fried Chicken, or Manner's Big Boys while watching TV, taking occasional breaks to shoot BB guns or light M80s. I treasure those Friday nights.
Anyhow, T.H.E. Cat was awesome. It lacked the gratuitous violence of "Man From U.N.C.L.E, but featured lots of cool acrobatic shenanigans: rappelling down buildings, vaulting over fences and walls, , and young Robert Loggia being cool and sexy and bad-ass in a manner that made Napoleon Solo look like Tim Conway. and, he drove a wicked-looking corvette...super-cool.
I can't remember if Lalo Schifrin did the soundtrack, but I recall the music was pretty hip. Regrettably, the only people watching were me & Bob and the other people leaving reviews here...great time to be a kid, but it sucked if you were draft age.