So I'm sitting there at work, when my co-worker and fellow blogger Ben (check out his blog here) poses a seriously intriguing question. If you're trapped in a cell with either McGuyver or The A-Team, and you're going to escape either way, who would you want to escape with?
That got my wheels turning. What we needed was to settle a larger issue ... who is the quintessential 1980s TV action show star? After doing a mountain of research (during my lunch break one day) and factoring numerous variable factors including duration of show run, hero coolness and behaviors, realistic chances of one hero to beat another and such, I have narrowed the field to 16 shows/actors to participate in our tournament.
These brackets are divided into Macho (Magnum PI, Spencer: For Hire, T.J. Hooker and Hunter), Tag Team (Miami Vice, Cagney & Lacey, Simon & Simon and Hardcastle & McCormick), Geriatric (The Equalizer, The Master, Jake and the Fatman and The Fall Guy) and Go-Go Gadget (Knight Rider, McGuyver, Airwolf and The A-Team)
Quick notes: I used hardcore action heroes and avoided redundancy as much as possible, which explains why you won't see Moonlighting, Remington Steele or Scarecrow and Mrs. King. TV shows that were in it for laughs as well as action were more or less disqualified (aka Dukes of Hazzard).
I'm making the next blog post now, to avoid having one that's too long. Check out Round 1 there.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
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