This thread seems to have stalled out months ago, but I just found it and couldn`t resist... As you might guess from my profile picture, my favorite TV character going back to when I was a kid in the 80`s was Inspector Sledge Hammer...and he carried a Smith and Wesson! Come to think about it, the gun was really a costar and not only did Sledge talk to it, but it even talked back in one episode when everyone at the station was hallucinating due to some exotic contagious ailment.
I still remember the feeling of horror and disbelief I felt that fateful day in 1987 when I dutifully tuned in to the usual channel at the usual time to see my favorite show and it wasn`t there. A frantic search of the dial and the TV guide I ripped from the latest newspaper turned up nothing. It took a couple weeks since I didn`t have an internet to look it up on but the reality finally set in that the best show on television was cancelled and taken off the air.
Then along came Ebay and in around 2001 a cache of new old stock VHS sets of the entire season was unearthed and sold one at a time on the online auction...going for over $400 a set which, boys and girls, was a lot of money back in those days! Was it worth paying that much for my set? Oh yes...yes it was. Well, at least until the DVD sets came out a couple years later for $19.99 per season. And ya...I bought those too. "Trust me, I know what I`m doing..."
