We have multiple reasons for wanting to do a little tribute to Mike Connors (Krekor Ohanian, Jr., 1925-2017) over and beyond his most famous role on the tv show Mannix (1967-1975).
To wit:
-Early career Connors was a B movie stalwart at Columbia, Universal and AIP, appearing in things like Roger Corman’s Five Guns West (1955), The Day the World Ended (1955), Swamp Women (1956), Shake, Rattle…
Presents as another average cop show, but every single cop in the department is a plant for one of the local gangs, but each cop thinks they’re the only one, and are trying desperately to blend in with increasingly ridiculous excuses as to why each of them as an extreme in depth knowledge related to the gang’s activity in general, and they’re respective one
I can’t be the only one who fucking watched this shit! It was one of the few things my mom allowed me to watch on cable (I wasn’t allowed to watch anything she wasn’t watching cause I’d “mess up” the tv 😐) but like I used to get so excited for this shit.
But I couldn’t tell you a single god damn plot point. It feels like a fever dream. It was just Bones, NCIS and Criminal Minds wrapped into one, but worse 😂 There’s a reason I rewatch those and not this.
"The New Television Season" (Starlog Magazine, 1976)
Here's a scan I found from Starlog magazine that describes "Holmes & Yoyo". Here is a transcription of the relevant parts:
And, finding that science fiction
does indeed have an audience (how
could anyone have doubted it?), ABC
has gone ahead with two other shows.
The first of these is a situation
comedy called Holmes and Yoyo. The
basic premise is that of assigning a
425 pound robot, which is supposedly
indestructible, to be the assistant to
an accident-prone police detective,
whose accidents are often fatal—to
his assistants. There has been a great
deal of confusion between this show
and an ABC Movie of the Week
called Future Cops, starring Ernest
Borgnine. Future Cops used the same
basic situation, but in a straightfor-
ward, adventure-story approach to
the subject. Holmes is obviously
played for laughs.
Holmes is played by Richard B.
Shull, and both the robot Yoyo and
its creator, Dr. Gregory Yoyonovich,
are played by John Schuck. Obvious-
ly the robot was "modeled" in the
likeness of its creator, and that is
just about as close to a message as
the show will get. Also appearing will
be Bruce Kirby as Capt. Harry Sed-
ford and Andrea Howard as Officer
Maxine Moon. Maxine finds Yoyo
absolutely irresistible, not least
because the robot has no romantic
programming at all. John Schuck
will, of course, be recognized from his
role in the movie M.A.S.H. as Pain-
less, the dentist, from numerous
other films, and his role as Sgt.
Enright on McMillan and Wife.
PHOTO CAPTION:
Below: Richard B. Shull is Detective
Holmes in the new ABC comedy, Holmes
and Yoyo. He is trying to figure
out the inner workings of his robot
assistant Yoyo, played by John Schuck.
I'd like to know where James M. Elrod got some of that information. Yoyo's creator didn't appear in the show, though Chief Buchanan's comment upon meeting Yoyo in episode 2 ("Yoyonovich? Do you have a brother who's an inspector?") implies a likely resemblance, so if the original Gregory Yoyonovich (whose sole namedrop did not include the title "Dr.") had shown up, I wouldn't have been surprised if John Schuck also played the role.
Also, I never felt like Maxine was portrayed as crushing on Yoyo. She was friendly to him, but she was just as friendly to Alex. When she had to go undercover and pretend to be newlyweds with Yoyo in episode 5, she was focused purely on the job. No sense of desire or sexual tension whatsoever. However, I think that Max crushing on Yoyo and Yoyo trying to deal with that and Alex trying to deal with Yoyo trying to deal with that without hurting Max would've been a rich vein of conflict and comedic situations to mine.
Danny pinched the bridge of his nose, taking a deep breath, counting to ten and then letting it out. Why was this always his luck? Alright. Okay.
Time to move again thanks to Dan pushing his body too far again, and ending up in his core. This was not how he was expecting to spend his days when he ghost-adopted his clone and sort-of son now actual son. Welp, he’ll throw a dart at the map to figure out where he’ll go next.
Hm. Well, pack up Ellie! They’re moving to a place called Smallville, you always wanted a horse, right?
there's just... there is no reason to make yet another cop show in this day and age. copaganda is not only bullshit, it is a failure of imagination.
you want to watch brooding characters with dark pasts investigate crimes in an official capacity? just use private detectives (cops have a miserable solve rate anyway). want eccentric geniuses & their sidekicks solving mysteries? i present you with armchair detectives & neighborhood busybodies. oh, you're craving a workplace comedy-drama starring overworked protagonists doing their heartfelt best to resolve community conflicts? social worker office sitcom! bitch this is ACHIEVABLE