#David soul

[watermelonstick]

hutch appreciation post his smile is so damn cute

[sorenkingsley]

How many years we known each other, huh? You're the best friend I got in the whole world.

[yeahiwasintheshit]

Matt Baume does these great videos about queer tv history and this video is no exception. He traces the link between more accurate depictions of gay bars in the late 70s and the watered down queer-less drag bars of the late 80s to the Reagan administration and the rise of the conservative movement. Pretty good and fun video

[suspiria76]

SALEM'S LOT

USA

1979

Directed by Tobe Hooper

[vintagetvstars]

Lord of the Rings Vintage TV Recast - Faramir

You're traveling through another dimension - a dimension in which director Peter Jackson is currently getting ready to direct one of his biggest film projects to date, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. He has decided to cast beloved actor, John Astin, of The Addams Family fame, as Gandalf the Grey.

Inspired by this singular casting decision, Peter Jackson and the film's producers have decided to cast The Lord of the Rings films entirely with other vintage television actors. They've entrusted the process of casting for the film to whom they believe will make the perfect decisions: the tumblr userbase.

Each actor will be taken from places in the prime of their television career (as pictured). A common practice in this strange alternate dimension.

You are now the new casting director for The Lord of The Rings. Who will you choose?

LOTR Polls Masterlist / What rolls are being cast / Who has already been cast

[captainofthedefiant]

baby saddle up and ride on down

edit: Click thru for better quality! 😭

[postmodern-blues]

It’s so interesting to me just how ahead of their time Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul were in regards to the vision they had for Starsky and Hutch. Like, in the 1970s realm of mainstream television chock-full of strictly episodic, cookie-cutter concept shows (like Love Boat my beloved) that exploited their concepts to their very limit and prized action/violence/comedy/etc over character development, they envisioned a show with relationships at the forefront in a long-term sense. They fought for a Starsky and Hutch where the cops weren’t just embroiled in violence and seediness, but one where what happened to the two of them and what they did mattered and carried through, building their relationship into the main focal point of the show. And like… that’s what TV is now. Almost all the mainstream scripted shows you see nowadays are serialized and character-driven. The Starsky and Hutch they wanted and fought for would fit right in among the shows we stream today, in my opinion. And I’m not saying that the way we make television now is necessarily better or even good (there are some pretty glaring problems with the current model both on the production end and the consumer end); I’m just saying it’s crazy how those two basically predicted the future of television just because they wanted their cop characters to be gayer.

Also, in my dream Starsky and Hutch where PMG and David Soul got all their demands met and had free reign over the show, they could do things like:

* Explore the fallout of the various hurt/comfort episodes (like how Hutch recovers from being addicted to heroin or how Starsky recovers from Terry’s death)

* Go in-depth exploring Captain Dobey’s relationships with police work and blackness (“Manchild on the Streets” dips its toe in, but we really don’t get much)

* Get more Huggy Bear focused episodes where we can actually learn about him

* More commentary on the morality of police work in the 70s, and of course:

* Copious amounts of Starsky/Hutch affection

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Ford Gran Torino 2-door Hardtop, 1975. The producers of the new TV series needed a flashy specialty car for the main characters and the Gran Torino was chosen with a large white vector stripe added to make it less mundane. The series was a big success and the car attracted enough attention for Ford to make a special edition of 1000 "Starsky and Hutch" Torinos. The death was announced today of David Soul who played the role of Sergeant Kenneth Richard "Hutch" Hutchinson in the series. RIP

[esthete-god]

RIP David Soul (1943 - 2024)

[theoriginofcarrots]

Paul and David, Starsky and Hutch

Forever

feeling nostalgic and sad

[watermelonstick]

How Starsky and Hutch be standing

[sorenkingsley]

[theglitterdome]

Wonder Woman, Starsky & Hutch, and Most Wanted. In case you were wondering what to watch on April 28, 1976.

[thierry1970]

[johnny69150]

Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky), Johnny Hallyday, Bernie Hamilton (Capitaine Dobey) et David Soul (Hutch) 📺🥰

L'improbable rencontre entre les acteurs de la série Starsky et Hutch et Johnny Hallyday à Hollywood ��

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