This new police drama to air starting Thursday night on ABC sounds intriguing. It centers on a NYC police detective hit by a car in 2008 and wakes up in 1973. Just think for those who remember life before the internet, cellular and wireless phones, DVDs, CDs, Videos, cable television in most peoples' homes, and the myriad other things we can still do without, you can see once again rotary phones, telephone booths, eight track tapes, and cars so big you could sail to Europe in them (wait a minute, we still have those). and if it's set in NYC, Times Square will be seen it all its grittiness...peep shows and all! Now, all that remains is a paean to the Big Mouse!

The show sounds like a cross between Kojak and Serpico! My favorite from the time was Hawaii 5-0.

It stars, besides Harvey Keitel, Gretchen Mol, and Michael Imperioli, Jason O'Mara. This guy's an Irish stud. He's done American television, but, if you get a chance, rent Berkeley Square. Set in turn-of-the-century (last one) London, it revolves around the lives of three nannies. Upstairs-Downstairs-lite, but good. And he also was in season two of Monarch of the Glen, where he first emerged butt-naked from the cold Highlands water!

Shrinkage was not an issue!

Gotta love the Irish!

This show is actually an American remake of a British show of the same name from a couple of years back. The British show was set in Manchester.

With the second game of the series on last night, some people may not have caught this show last night, but I can't stop singing its praises. The acting is very good and the story-line was well done. A returning Vietnam Vet is murdered in a park, and you pretty much can figure out that he might have been there cruising. I won't say anything else about the content, in case ABC airs it another night. What's best about the show is that they film in New York. One scene was in a neighborhood of Queens (Woodside? Middle Village?). All they have to do is bring in some big ole Chevys, Oldsmobiles, Buicks, and you're back in 19731 The music track is great. Last week Jason O'Mara was dancing to "Cecilia" with his flower child neighbor. It was so righteous!

Watch out for the line about "Soylent Green," and when the female cop is done running off copies, she sniffs the ink on the paper. How many of you out there can still remember that odor?

Ah, the smell of Mimeograph fluid.