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The remake was the first major starring vehicle for the lead actor, BUT it was released after his second major starring vehicle, which leads people to [reasonably] think of this as his second major role. He plays a naval officer framed by the Secretary of Defense, who murdered his mistress. The Secretary puts the naval officer in charge of finding another man seen leaving his mistress' apartment the night of the murder, not realizing the naval officer WAS that other man.

I knew something was my turn and could not remember which game. Here we are. This live action show was aimed squarely at children and aired on Saturday mornings. It was a drama filmed on location and on film (not videotape). It started as part of another show, so episodes were typically 15 minutes and ended in a cliffhanger. After it became its own series, 12 half-hour episodes were produced. Good luck finding it: a single collection has not been produced. You might be able to track down a few episodes by buying collections of the parent series. One of the title characters is (quite literally) legendary. The other is all but forgotten.

The remake is a more political thriller type. A man has a brief liaison with a woman who is the mistress of a very powerful Washington DC figure. Mr. Powerful kills the woman and wants to pin the murder and the other man, not knowing that man's identity. Using his position of influence, he puts the man, his underling, in charge of the search for the scapegoat. Basically, a killer hires a fall guy to find the fall guy, not knowing they are one and the same. In the original, the bigshot Washington DC type is a newspaper publisher.

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Seriously? Ok, let's accept HWOB's answer for the sake of moving on. But DAMN!!! Claudette Colbert It Happened One Night Clark Gable

The only other Rodenberry series I can think of: Andromeda

Under the Boardwalk! Drifters

Rene Aberjonois (sp?) Star Trek VI: The Apology for Star Trek V Brock Peters Ok, there's an obvious route, and there's a more classic route. I'd be much obliged if you went the more classic route. But regardless, it's just a game

Damn that was quick. Yes. I thought Pleasantville and Seabiscuit would throw someone off to guess Tobey Maguire But as the Genie said, I'M FREE!!!! Your move.

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Guess 2 is disqualified. Guess 1 is correct.

She played: Theresa Stemple Charlotte Kensington Kate Burroughs Peg Mullen Eunice Higgins Princess Winnifred the Woebegone

Kurt Russell

Oh. Well, i thought he was dead anyway

Abe Vigoda.

SHUSH!!!!

The last two scenes of the "Love is a Battlefield" episode of Flash gave me the kind of chills and thrills I felt when I started this thread. Excellent work.

Just watched 61* with my son. You can pick a name out of a hat and he was probably in it. But I'm gonna go with: Thomas Jane The Mist Andre Braugher

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton ?

And this needs to be clarified: The publisher in the original movie is the killer. I did not mean to leave any room for the possibility that he wasn't. In the remake, the publisher is ... closely associated with the military

Let me rephrase something. The remake wasn't so much a remake as it was an updated adaptation of the novel that used the same source material as the original. You know how West Side Story was basically Romeo and Juliet? Yeah, same thing. So in this case: The original has the same name as the source material (a novel. Not trying to hide that). The "remake" has a different name and recycles the same general plot while changing the setting, characters and most other elements of the story... but the basic outline of the plot is the same: a powerful person kills someone and seeks to frame an innocent person, then employs the aid of an underling without realizing that underling is the person he's trying to frame. The lead actor and the actual killer in the remake were considered for the movie version of "The Fugitive" before Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones were cast. Personally, I could see it, but Tommy Lee Jones, man.

Jack Bauer and President David Palmer were only together in the same place for one episode. The President was a central character in every season. Not the same president. You're up.

He knows his writer. He doesn't know that's the person he's trying to frame. Explaining how this is possible gives away too much of the plot. Both movies involve a person in a position of power enlisting a subordinate to find "the real killer" (a person who is, in fact, being framed for murder), not realizing the subordinate IS the person they are trying to frame.

The lead actor on this series has said the format/conceit, not he, was the real star. In every season except the first, someone played a particular public official. The character wasn't always the same, but the office was. A college drinking game requires players to drink whenever the lead character said "damn it!" Two of the main characters from the first few seasons are depicted as having a professionally close relationship, so it may surprise to realize that they actually appeared together (not counting split screens) in exactly one episode.

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