If they were to have done “Heat” as a series, the time to have done it would’ve been after the movie in the late ‘60s or early ‘70s. It was puzzling when Carroll O’Connor chose to do it almost 20 years after the fact when it was no longer as “socially relevant.”
Heck, they did a COMEDY version of “Heat” in 1977 called “Carter Country”, featuring Victor French (close friend of Michael Landon, on both “Little House” and “Highway to Heaven”) as the Chief and Keen Curtis ostensibly in the Sidney Poitier role (but this time as a Sergeant). Curtis was later on “Matlock” as an investigator for Andy Griffith’s character. They showed it in reruns in the ‘80s, but not much since. It wasn’t bad and managed to last 44 episodes in two seasons.
Whoops, meant Kene Holliday. Keene Curtis played the stuffy owner of ‘Melville’s’ over the “Cheers” bar.
Not to toot my own horn, but...more & more folks are picking up on my points about canceling cable and sending the googles back to the jungle.
https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2017/09/29/tv-is-an-endless-sewage-stream-of-anti-white-male-poison/
@Impy: Kurt Sutter is one of (((them))) apparently.
https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2017/09/29/tv-is-an-endless-sewage-stream-of-anti-white-male-poison/#comment-921032
https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/crossing-the-hajnal-border/
“Carter Country”: Just when things could get worse...
Although it’s probably still better than either “Matlock” or “In The Heat Of The Night”.
I’ll say it again: TV has always mostly been crap.