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Dragnet? Hawaii 5.0? Kojack? I wasn’t looking for colt DA guns on tv before but I am now. Plus tv of yesteryear were so much better than junk today
What t.v. Shows used colt DA revolvers?
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If you watch Blue Bloods, sometimes City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck) shows off his old Fitz Special Colt DA (cutaway trigger guard and short barrel).
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Cool! Thx. I forgot about that IMDb
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Almost ALL TV shows prior to 1980 used revolvers. Almost all movies too, so much that the first Lethal Weapon movie portrayed Mel Gibson as some sort of maverick because he used an automatic, not a revolver. By the mid 1980s, autos were starting to be seen as cool, modern, necessary in all media. That's when hundreds of DA revolvers started showing up in gun shows and shops, very cheaply, and when I started collecting them.
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Stuart Bailey (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) usually carried a nickel plated Colt Pocket Positive .32 with Stag stocks. For promotional photograps he used a blue S&W.
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As I recall NCIS- New Orleans started out with the star using a Python. For some reason, that gun disappeared in later seasons.
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I have a mint 4” OP from Dragnet
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I’ve got a bunch of stooges recorded! I’ll look for the guns.
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Paul Michael Glaser played Starsky, Browning Hi Power.
David Soul, Hutch Colt Python.
In the movie pilot Starsky used a Colt 1911 or G. M.
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It is a fun site. It will take this thread many months and hundreds of replies to gather as many TV shows as are already on there.
Charlie's Angels (1976) - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
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GEE... 15 posts and no one has mentioned TWD?
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In the old TV days mostly revolvers were used and almost always they were Colt's.
Among the shows I remember......
The Line Up.... Two detectives both with Detective Specials.
Mister Lucky, DS.
Peter Gun, DS.
M Squad with Lee Marvin, two DS's.
Hawk, DS
Surfside 6, DS.
Early Dragnet, DS and Official Police.
1990's short lived Dragnet, Colt 3 inch Python.
Richard Diamond, DS.
Honey West, often a DS.
Bourbon Street Beat, DS's.
Official Detective, DS's.
Tight Rope, DS.
Hawaiian Eye, DS.
State Trooper, Official Police.
Adam 12, brief mid period show... Colt Trooper Mark III's in clam shell holsters.
Coronado 9, DS.
The Detectives, DS.
The FBI, 2 1/2 inch Python.
Harry O, DS.
Madigan, DS.
Highway Patrol, DS
The Investigators, DS.
McCloud, Colt Single Action.
Naked City, DS's.
Police Story, occasional Colt's.
Among the shows I remember......
The Line Up.... Two detectives both with Detective Specials.
Mister Lucky, DS.
Peter Gun, DS.
M Squad with Lee Marvin, two DS's.
Hawk, DS
Surfside 6, DS.
Early Dragnet, DS and Official Police.
1990's short lived Dragnet, Colt 3 inch Python.
Richard Diamond, DS.
Honey West, often a DS.
Bourbon Street Beat, DS's.
Official Detective, DS's.
Tight Rope, DS.
Hawaiian Eye, DS.
State Trooper, Official Police.
Adam 12, brief mid period show... Colt Trooper Mark III's in clam shell holsters.
Coronado 9, DS.
The Detectives, DS.
The FBI, 2 1/2 inch Python.
Harry O, DS.
Madigan, DS.
Highway Patrol, DS
The Investigators, DS.
McCloud, Colt Single Action.
Naked City, DS's.
Police Story, occasional Colt's.
My wife and I just got through binge-watching The Walking Dead. Throughout the series, I always thought Rick Grimes had an odd way of shooting - holding the Python up high with barrel pointed downward. Your photo confirms that. No way he's seeing the sights. Kind of "gangsta zombie killer". Great show anyway. I just notice things like that.
Of course - NOW I want a Python!
Of course - NOW I want a Python!
GEE... 15 posts and no one has mentioned TWD?
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