Who was mainly responsible for the movie lines that Remington would always be spouting?
I have to plead guilty to that. A few of the people over there [at the network] wanted me to take them out, but I’d never seen that on a show before. And we found that as we went along, in the few episodes where we didn’t have them, viewers got upset. We were trying to do a 1930s Thin Man/romantic-comedy/mystery show. And the opinion was, because we were trying to do that, maybe the movie references were kind of soft. But they were one of the most popular things in the series, so I’m glad I held onto them. You’d always look forward to that every episode, thinking, “What hard-boiled movie line are we going to get this time?” On the commentary, I note how those references really helped with plot. They’d trigger a character, a plot point, a tic, something. And when in doubt, have somebody wear a fedora, right? That was Stephi’s idea, and I thought it was a terrific one. She looked so damn good in them. Have you spoken to her about the DVD at all? She’s not in any of the extras. I’d been l
