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Stephen Joseph Cannell (/ ˈ k æ n əl /; February 5, 1941 – September 30, 2010) was an American television producer, writer, novelist, actor, and founder of Cannell Entertainment (formerly Stephen J. Cannell Productions) and The Cannell Studios.
During a routine day, Detective III Shane Scully accidentally strikes John Bodine, a homeless schizophrenic African America man with his car. After getting him medical attention and trying to offload the man without a lawsuit, Scully is called to a homicide where he finds a cop and former Crip gangbanger in his wife Alexa's car, and Alexa missing.
Police officer Mike Ragland and his wife Kitty have adopted three boys whose parents' lives were taken by violence; having been told stories about the police "hat squads" of the past, the three boys grew up to become an elite police unit called The Hat Squad, dressed in street clothes and fedoras.
The series premise was somewhat recycled from a previous Cannell series, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe. It was created by Patrick Hasburgh and Stephen J. Cannell, serving as the executive producers and produced by Stephen J. Cannell Productions for ABC. [citation needed]
Stephen J. Cannell reworked the character into a two-hour episode of The Rockford Files titled "The House On Willis Avenue" as the last new episode of the 1977-78 season. Rockford and Brockelman join forces to solve the murder of a veteran PI who taught both of them the ropes.
Created by Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell, the show in its early episodes played as television's answer to Dirty Harry. Actor Dryer bears a striking resemblance to Dirty Harry actor Clint Eastwood, with his tall thin frame, chiselled facial structure and even a similar receding hairstyle.
Stephen J. Cannell [1] Tawnia McKiernan is an American television director and producer. Since the mid-1990s she has amassed a number of directorial credits ...
Eventually, Cannell took the series to ABC and it won the ratings war with CBS for that time slot (Saturday nights at 10pm). Actor Jason Alexander said he had been offered a role on the show, but turned it down as the TV show he was already cast in — Seinfeld , where he played George Costanza — got picked up for another season and went on ...