[DBrow]

Yano, it's an old story, but Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat would make a fine series!

Sort of like McGuyver meets Grand Theft Auto.

Wonder how much the story rights cost?

[Chairman Fred]

Harry Harrison is a whore for the UN.

But the Stainless Steel Rat books are fun.

Doesn't anyone here read Poul Anderson, who gave us the Great Arch-capitalist, Nicholas van Rijn? And the man who was the model for 007, Dominic Flandry? (Flandry pre-dated Bond.)

And for something truly different, but seriously conservative, try Jack Vance.

[Grut]

...it's an old story, but Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat would make a fine series!

It's been done, kind of. Slippery Jim Digriz is pretty much Leslie Charteris's Simon Templar, projected into space. 'The Saint' made a good series starring Roger Moore back in the Sixties.

[marc costanzo]

Harry Harrison wrote PROTECTOR, I believe, and while it had adult themes, its' material was juvenile . .

[discostu]

Harrison would probably insist they speak Esperanto and thus make the show completely unwatchable.