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Back 38 years ago, I never heard of this series at the time. I found it on Prime. I've watched the first 3 episodes, including the unaired pilot. The unaired pilot and the actual first episode is the same story with the same actors except the two main leads. The scenes from the pilot are used in the first episode if the main characters aren't in the scene. I'm enjoying it. Kind of a Hart to Hart with some Bewitched thrown in, which maybe the producers were trying to copy. The hook is that the wife is a witch. The pilots leads were better with Kim Cattrall and Art Hindle. Kim has more of an ethereal vibe to her than Catherine Hicks did. Even Kim's clothes were more Boho style. Art Hindle was more mature than Tim Matheson. It was a shame that they traded Kim and Art for Catherine and Tim. K & A had better chemistry. It's 38 years really too late to even write this. I like the other actors, Barbara Barrie and an earlier role for Alfre Woodard. The cat is adorable. Ted Danson guest starred in both the pilot and first episode playing the same character. Cheers had started the year before this and he played 180 degrees from Sam Malone.

7 stars for the premise, Barbara, Alfre and the cat, Dickins.

Not sure why I came out watching this show, but it was highly advertised (or placed well) on Tubi. TV and I'm always willing to give canceled & forgotten TV shows a shot. I was shocked at entertaining, well-made, perfectly cast, and extremely well-written it was, I've seen 3 episodes and I'm going to finish in the near future, but this is a unfortunately & undeservedly forgotten show.

The writing and casting is where this show stakes its claim for greatness. The two leads are wonderful, and every single side character is extremely well-cast. The writing is consistently whipsmart & intelligently written with wonderful dialogue, the mystery actually unfolds in an interesting way & the show takes its time to get there purposefully.

Maybe it is shooting on film, but something about the look of these older TV shows are much more preferable to even great TV shows now. There is a crisp nature to the visuals, and a good amount of this is wonderfully cinematic, including the nighttime shooting.

A great pilot but a great show as well, a gem you have to watch on Tubi. TV but it is worth watching either way.

Private detective Rick Tucker (Tim Matheson) is married to beautiful young witch Amanda (Catherine Hicks). They live in palatial house in Laurel Canyon and they are partners in a Los Angeles private investigation firm. He has the training to be a P.I. but she has certain abilities, unpredictable and erratic though they may be, that give them an added edge on competitors.

Amanda dreams about three strangulation murders of married women committed in elevators of high-rise apartment buildings across the city by a mysterious psycho (Ted Danson). She also receives a telepathic message from her soothsayer cat Dickens saying that there has been a fourth murder and that she and Rick will soon be involved.

A woman soon hires the detectives to investigate the death of her sister in one of the murders. She suspects her brother-in-law Frank (Christopher Pennock) - an abusive construction worker. Amanda receives impressions during the course of their investigation but she does not know what they mean together or separately. Rick tries to make sense of them using judgement his experience and training have honed.

Their combined talents direct them to look into a 'high tech' (computer & video - this was the early 1980s) dating service they think was connected to the murders.

A romance/adventure of the kind begun by 'The Thin Man' series of movies in the 1930s combined with the supernatural theme of the wife being a witch like in 'Bewitched' is an appealing premise in my view and could have been a ratings winner. The cast is also very likable. But it probably seemed too implausible to survive as a series.