Frank Cannon is an overweight, balding ex-cop with a deep voice and expensive tastes in culinary pleasures; he becomes a high-priced private investigator. The weekly adventures of Frank Cannon, an overweight, balding ex-cop with a deep voice and expensive tastes in culinary pleasures, who becomes a high-priced private investigator. Since Cannon's girth didn't allow for many fist-fights and gun battles (although there were many), the series substituted car chases and high production values in their place. I love detective shows. One can watch Cannon on TV Land. I never saw a detective show with a fat, out of shape protagonist. The same formulated detective series, of running around asking question, with the usual confrontational climax. The viewer is assaulted with the out of the blue investigation breaks leading to figuring out the case. The usual plot devices of a found phone number, or random run in with character directs the story. The weired musical score sets a strange tone! A very 70's show because of the music, cloths, social message, and characters. The quality of filming and acting has come a long why from the 70's. Still a interesting show 7 out of 10 spy cams for Cannon. When "Cannon" was a prime time show, I rarely ever watched it because the show sounded like a bad concept. Imagine….an obese private detective chasing down criminals!! But when I recently got the "Cannon" DVD set, I realized that the show was far more than just 'some fat guy'….no, it was an excellent program…and William Conrad was excellent in the lead. Why? Well…two reasons. First, the writing was generally very good and the shows didn't insult your intelligence*. Second, Conrad was a very good and likable actor. He was especially good in the first episode of season five….an episode that called for more emoting than usual when Cannon tracks down the person responsible for murdering his wife and son long, long ago. <br/><br/>So my advice is do what I did….get a disk from Netflix and see if you like them. They only have season one….but I enjoyed it enough that I purchased the set.<br/><br/>*Okay, not show is 100% perfect. In season five, they also had an episode about aliens…or supposed contact with aliens. It was god-awful and stupid. So, yes, there were a few stinkers now and again…but rarely.
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