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Officer Caring is no ordinary cop. The 5 ft.-4 in., 180-pound officer, who looks like a blender with a glandular condition, comes to the force from 21st Century Robotics of Norcrost, Georgia. He runs on a 12-volt rechargeable cell instead of coffee and donuts, and he can be operated by remote control from 100 yards away...
High-level criticism of glasnost is perhaps to be expected. The policy was never envisioned, even by Gorbachev, as Western-style free speech. Indeed, according to some Soviet experts, Ligachev's naysaying may simply be a way of keeping the new freedoms within bounds. "It's the good-cop, bad-cop routine," says a Washington official. Others believe Ligachev is positioning himself to take over should the Soviet leader falter...
...Francisco police detective who inherits a run-down apartment building, the half-hour series plays like a scrunched together episode of Bochco's Hill Street Blues without the violence. The premiere segment made some jarring missteps (a running gag about a policewoman trying to seduce a gay cop) and lunged too hard for the emotional knockout (Ritter bursting into tears over the death of his landlady). But the engaging Ritter is adept at both ends of the comedy-drama spectrum, and Hooperman has possibilities...
...Harry McGraw, and Dale Robertson as a crime-solving Texas billionaire in J.J. Starbuck. Only Robertson seems to be truly enjoying the work. NBC's Private Eye, created by Anthony Yerkovich (Miami Vice), is hipper but not much better. Star Michael Woods, as a disgraced cop who becomes a private eye to avenge his brother's murder, growls like a road-company Don Johnson; the stylized 1950s look is unconvincing, and the dialogue sounds like parody: "I can look at myself mornings, Charlie. Sounds to me like you're havin' problems in that department." For hard-boiled crime fighting...
...pieces reaches its homophobic climax with this query: "Suppose a Chaps patron, reeling out the dark after 10 or 12 Brandy Alexanders, mistakes an off-duty cop coming out of Foley's for a junior high school student...