back in the 80s Michael Pare was my favorite actor after doing Eddie And The Cruisers and Streets Of Fire and Philadelphia Experiment all in a row then he never got a good role again. i was flicking through the cable channels one night probably around 88 and i saw him so i was like what is this and stopped. it was an episode of Houston Knights which i somehow had no idea even existed and i watched it and liked it. but then i had no idea when the show was on, i had no idea if it was new or if it was in some sort of syndication on that cable channel. so for the next few weeks i would occasionally flick to that channel to see if it was on. in total i probably only saw 3 or 4 episodes and then never found it again, for decades i have been waiting for a dvd release or something and have still never seen anything but those few episodes one time. so thank you for the upload. PS. i also forget to mention Pare was my favorite actor in the 80s, but The Warriors is ALSO my all time favorite film. its like Cody and Swan as cops.
Michael Pare started out with a bang! Before those films he was one of the students in the then-popular TV show "Greatest American Hero", which I watched as a child and that's where I first saw Pare. Remember how big a hit that theme song was? Very singable. Unfortunately for Pare, none of those films were successful, with "Streets" being an expensive bomb that also hurt young Diane Lane's career. "Eddie" was initially a flop too, but later found success on cable and built a following. Studios won't give second chances to new actors whose big films are bombs. And that's what happened to Pare's career. He seemed to have the makings of some level of stardom, at least a well-known TV star. But that didn't pan out. I think the mid~late 80s TV landscape was too crowded with similar buddy cop shows.
Michael Beck was in the mega flop "Xanadu" and that killed his chances. If he'd had a moderate or even minor success after "Warriors" that would likely have led him to being cast in more promising films, films with a shot at success, and allowed Beck a greater chance of becoming a well-known name in either film or TV in the 80s. I think Beck has said something about Xanadu tanking his chances. Beck didn't have the luck of say, Kyle MacLachlan. MacLachlan starred in the mega bomb "Dune" directed by David Lynch. MacLachlan has spoken about how that caused his career to disappear into the depths. But luck was on his side. Lynch offered MacLachlan the lead in his film "Blue Velvet", and that turned out to be a fresh start and revived his career. Lynch then cast MacLachlan in his TV show "Twin Peaks". Both Velvet and Peaks were unexpectedly very successful, especially Peaks. So luck was on Lynch's and MacLachlan's side. It was because Lynch really liked MacLachlan and liked to cast him in these roles that really is responsible for MacLachlan becoming a star and getting further opportunities. Nobody else, no other big director, was banging on his door. Lynch has cast many of the same actors over and over in his films, so working with a director like that can really help an actor.
back in the 80s Michael Pare was my favorite actor after doing Eddie And The Cruisers and Streets Of Fire and Philadelphia Experiment all in a row then he never got a good role again. i was flicking through the cable channels one night probably around 88 and i saw him so i was like what is this and stopped. it was an episode of Houston Knights which i somehow had no idea even existed and i watched it and liked it. but then i had no idea when the show was on, i had no idea if it was new or if it was in some sort of syndication on that cable channel. so for the next few weeks i would occasionally flick to that channel to see if it was on. in total i probably only saw 3 or 4 episodes and then never found it again, for decades i have been waiting for a dvd release or something and have still never seen anything but those few episodes one time.
so thank you for the upload.
PS. i also forget to mention Pare was my favorite actor in the 80s, but The Warriors is ALSO my all time favorite film. its like Cody and Swan as cops.
Michael Pare started out with a bang! Before those films he was one of the students in the then-popular TV show "Greatest American Hero", which I watched as a child and that's where I first saw Pare. Remember how big a hit that theme song was? Very singable.
Unfortunately for Pare, none of those films were successful, with "Streets" being an expensive bomb that also hurt young Diane Lane's career. "Eddie" was initially a flop too, but later found success on cable and built a following.
Studios won't give second chances to new actors whose big films are bombs. And that's what happened to Pare's career.
He seemed to have the makings of some level of stardom, at least a well-known TV star. But that didn't pan out. I think the mid~late 80s TV landscape was too crowded with similar buddy cop shows.
Michael Beck was in the mega flop "Xanadu" and that killed his chances. If he'd had a moderate or even minor success after "Warriors" that would likely have led him to being cast in more promising films, films with a shot at success, and allowed Beck a greater chance of becoming a well-known name in either film or TV in the 80s. I think Beck has said something about Xanadu tanking his chances. Beck didn't have the luck of say, Kyle MacLachlan. MacLachlan starred in the mega bomb "Dune" directed by David Lynch. MacLachlan has spoken about how that caused his career to disappear into the depths. But luck was on his side. Lynch offered MacLachlan the lead in his film "Blue Velvet", and that turned out to be a fresh start and revived his career. Lynch then cast MacLachlan in his TV show "Twin Peaks". Both Velvet and Peaks were unexpectedly very successful, especially Peaks. So luck was on Lynch's and MacLachlan's side. It was because Lynch really liked MacLachlan and liked to cast him in these roles that really is responsible for MacLachlan becoming a star and getting further opportunities. Nobody else, no other big director, was banging on his door. Lynch has cast many of the same actors over and over in his films, so working with a director like that can really help an actor.
Nice, hoping you can get more!
There he is!! 🎉🎉🎉
Loved this show.
Hung out with Michael all day at The Warriors reunion. Ah the old days.
I always wanted a Lundy Cowboy and Gilley's.
Would love to see all épisodes with commercials
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0:37 I can't drive 55, yay Congress! make it 65!
How can we watch every episode?
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This intro was so long.