COS WHEN THEY MET... IT WAS MOIDER

I had a rush of blood last week when trawling through various websites and found out that one of the best tv shows with one of the best theme tunes was out on dvd now.

Hart to Hart aired in from 1979 - 1984 and dealt with a married couple called Jonathon and Jennifer Hart who with their cheeky dog, Freeway and their butler/friend/chef, Max dealt with murder and crime on a weekly basis. Jonathon was a self made millionare and Mrs H was a lady who really knew how to take of herself apparently.

The show was created by Sidney Sheldon and produced by media mogul, Aaron Spelling and had Robert "RJ" Wagner and Stefanie Powers as the ubiquitous couple. RJ Wagner worked closely on the production and was involved in set design and actually chose the house that the Hart's lived in. Watching the show again and listening to their comments in interviews showed how much love both Stefanie and RJ had for the show. Aaron Spelling was no slouch and plenty of shots of Stefanie in skintight outfits are abundant and RJ gets his hunky manly chest on almost every episode - he's a total DILF (Daddy I'd Like to Fuck!) Each episode is really self contained with various guest stars causing havoc to the Hart's wherever they turn up on vacations or at work or at their house or by chance in the street. Those damn Hart's seem to attract criminals almost as much as murder mystery writer Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote.

One thing I have noticed is that there's a lot of comedy and dry wit in the shows and despite the slightly dated wardrobe (Wagner wears a beige leather shirt ala amazon trek in one scene) it hasn't aged too much. Movie and TV buffs will clock RJ's wife, Natalie Wood in the pilot episode playing a Scarlett O'Hara type and RJ's next wife, Jill St John plays a doomed actress. And Jonathon and Jennifer get it on a lot - the dirty beasts, although I can see the attraction in Robert Wagner, he's lovely to look at, especially with his top off!

The opening credits have Max chatting over the hyper disco track telling everyone who Mr and Mrs Mart are and how he keeps them out of trouble - "Cos when they met, It was murder!"

At the same time as buying Hart to Hart, I picked up another season of one of my favourite comedies, The Golden Girls. Nothing has really changed with Rose, Blanche, Dorothy and Sophia except in season 2, they've got even funnier and ruder than ever before.

BLANCHE - I do love the rain so, it reminds me of my first kiss
DOROTHY - Ah, was your first kiss in the rain?
BLANCHE - No, it was in the shower

BLANCHE - I'm jumpier than a virgin at a prison rodeo

SOPHIA - You're Blanche's daughter, the model?
REBECCA - That's right
SOPHIA - What did she model? Car covers?!

BLANCHE - There is a fine line between having a good time and being a wanton slut. I know. My toe has been on that line.

BLANCHE - Oh girls, I'm in ecstasy. My body is tingling all over. You will never guess what just happened.
SOPHIA - We know what happened. Let us just guess what part of the Middle East he's from.

DOROTHY - OK then Rose, let's hear it. In ten words or less, when did a man not sleep with you?
ROSE - The time I was radioactive

BLANCHE - Are you implying I lost my virginity at an early age?
SOPHIA - I'm just saying, you're lucky Jack & Jill magazine didn't have a gossip column

ROSE - I haven't slept with another man since Charlie died
BLANCHE - Oh get outta here!
DOROTHY - Shut up Blanche. Not all of us are classified by the Navy as a friendly port

BLANCHE - Dorothy, this is crazy! Since when do you care about how you look?
DOROTHY - I think it started when I came down from the bell tower and had my hump fixed.

DOROTHY - Well Blanche is certainly taking her sister's novel better than I would. I would kill my sister Gloria if she ever wrote about my sex life.
SOPHIA - You would kill yourself over a pamphlet?

DOROTHY - Hi Blanche
BLANCHE - Eat dirt and die trash!

BLANCHE - Who knows my body better than I?
SOPHIA - Any man in Miami not attached to a woman or a respirator