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Silk Stalkings / Lesbians on TV
Sep. 22nd, 2006 07:13 amI am watching the first season of Silk Stalkings on DVD. I absolutely loved this show where it was first on. The summer after I my freshman year of college (1992), I would stay up, practically all night, to watch Crimetime after Primetime. There were five or six different shows - a different one each night, Monday-Friday. SS was one of them. Later it moved to USA, in syndication, and for more original seasons.
Anyway, the first season of this aired, in 1991. I was surprised when I watched the eighth episode tonight that the "couple" in question were two women, and they are shown kissing and hugging, and there are some frank discussions about sexual preference in the show.
It's not perfect, of course, in that one of these women are killed, after getting into a fight with her lover, about wanting a threesome with some young stud. The main girl, who is so adamant about proclaiming her sexuality, is also the high school girl friend of Chris (one of the two cops on the show, Chris and Rita - for the first 5 seasons), and she ends up sleeping with him. He's a little angry with her - more about the fact that she's gay than the murder (which she did not commit), in fact. They solve the case, and Chris makes peace with her, and they go there separate ways. Still, for 1991 (actually 22 January 1992, I looked up the airdate) that was more than I expected for this type of storyline.
The show was created by Stephen J. Cannell, of The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, and Wiseguy fame, and ended up running for 8 seasons. The main couple Chris and Rita had good chemistry, and eventually RST (right before they left the show). The focus on solving high-class crimes of passion, they call they Silk Stalkings.
It is a bit dated (flourescent colors and very modern (80's) architecture and design), but fun. I was surprized by the science. They were still talking about matching suspects using ABO types, and had to send away to Washington for a DNA match in one case. It's a far cry from CSI. I still love it, though. (Except for the second half of the fifth season, which nobody discusses, and didn't really happen. Nope. Prior to that, you have "Classic Silk" with Chis and Rita, and after that "New Silk" with Tom and Cassie. The second half of the fifth season was some other show, with some other cops, and some other writers - who were smoking some heavy crack or something, and they disappear as mysteriously as they showed up, thankfully, to never be heard of again.)
Anyway, the first season of this aired, in 1991. I was surprised when I watched the eighth episode tonight that the "couple" in question were two women, and they are shown kissing and hugging, and there are some frank discussions about sexual preference in the show.
It's not perfect, of course, in that one of these women are killed, after getting into a fight with her lover, about wanting a threesome with some young stud. The main girl, who is so adamant about proclaiming her sexuality, is also the high school girl friend of Chris (one of the two cops on the show, Chris and Rita - for the first 5 seasons), and she ends up sleeping with him. He's a little angry with her - more about the fact that she's gay than the murder (which she did not commit), in fact. They solve the case, and Chris makes peace with her, and they go there separate ways. Still, for 1991 (actually 22 January 1992, I looked up the airdate) that was more than I expected for this type of storyline.
The show was created by Stephen J. Cannell, of The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, and Wiseguy fame, and ended up running for 8 seasons. The main couple Chris and Rita had good chemistry, and eventually RST (right before they left the show). The focus on solving high-class crimes of passion, they call they Silk Stalkings.
It is a bit dated (flourescent colors and very modern (80's) architecture and design), but fun. I was surprized by the science. They were still talking about matching suspects using ABO types, and had to send away to Washington for a DNA match in one case. It's a far cry from CSI. I still love it, though. (Except for the second half of the fifth season, which nobody discusses, and didn't really happen. Nope. Prior to that, you have "Classic Silk" with Chis and Rita, and after that "New Silk" with Tom and Cassie. The second half of the fifth season was some other show, with some other cops, and some other writers - who were smoking some heavy crack or something, and they disappear as mysteriously as they showed up, thankfully, to never be heard of again.)
