In all the older T.V. shows from Sea Hunt

Higgins in Magnum PI proudly used a Webley MKVI .455.

Barney Miller - they all had snubbies but the reason Fish
had the shoulder rig was his long time in the can with
the newspaper.

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carebear said:

Spencer (for Hire) had a BHP IIRC, and Captain Sisko Hawk carried a Mdl 29(?).

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In the books, Spencer went to a BHP after being a revolver man, and I'm sure one of the book Hawk's hand cannons was a 29. In the show, Urich's Spensah had a Beretta 92FS (and later a Smith and Wesson Model 36 - or it could have been a 2" Model 10 - Urich was a big dude). Hawk, had that beautiful stainless/nickeled Colt Python 6" (with a stainless/nickel SIG Sauer P230 for backup).

(And I'd always wanted Captain Sisko to be confronted by some badness, step off the bridge, and come back in shades with a fingertip leather trench coat and lambs wool collar and proceed to kick much tail.)

The boys in Riptide (the one with the pink helicopter)?

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I loved that show. The only gear I remember them using was the grenade in the glass mason jars, dropped from the pink lady.

And Rockford did keep his in the cookie jar, I remember watching the show with my dad and asking if that was where he kept his.

(he didn't, no pistol at all in fact, verrrry disappointed carebear)

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Yeah... I was disappointed that my dad (an Army vet) didn't have a 1911 in a wooden case in his cabinet.

...who was the old whitehaired PI who used to play in Beverly Hillbillies who carried a can't-miss 5" .38???

In this weeks Bones.. Booth was carrying a 1911. On Numbers one of the agents carries a Glock and the other a 1911..

sheepdog said:

...who was the old whitehaired PI who used to play in Beverly Hillbillies who carried a can't-miss 5" .38???

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Buddy Ebsen as Barnaby Jones.

A great show of respect, and some humor on the actor's part - Buddy playing Barnaby Jones in the Beverly Hillbillies movie, helping Jim Varney as Jeb Clampett. I howled when I first saw that scene.

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As I recall, the revolver Jim Rockford kept in his cookie jar was an S&W Model 19, 2-1/2" barrrel. In one never-to-be-forgotten episode, he took careful aim, using two hands, and shot out the engine on a Cessna aircraft.

foghornl: Another short M19 was carried by Dennis Farina's charactrer, Det. Fontana, in the "Law and Order" series.

Jack Webb, as SGT, later LT, Joe Friday, carried a Colt Detective Special in a cross draw holster through most of the "Dragnet" series. I am told he later carried a Chief's Special, but I don't recall that.

oldguy53: I agree with most of what you wrote in post #15, except that in "Tales of the Gold Monkey," main character Jake carried a Mark VI Webley. Once, his sidekick heard gunfire in the distance and said, "That's Jake's Weatherby." Some writer sure got his wires crossed. Roy Weatherby hadn't even started marketing his fine RIFLES at the time the show was set.

In "Vegas," when Tom Selleck's character bought the Monticello casino, he was seen to be carrying a 1911-type in a Yaqui slide holster. Probably the same one Selleck carried as Chief Stone in the series of Robert Parker novels made into TV movies. Selleck is a real life firfearms enthusiast, and has undoubtedly had some input into the props he's used on-screen. In "Crossfire Trail," a TV movie based closely on the Louis L'Amour novel, he used a Remington and a S&W, as well as an 1876 Winchester.

"Magnum PI"'s sidekick T. C. occasionally used a Model 15 S&W Combat Masterpiece .38, carried in a GI shoulder holster. Other guy, Rick, used a Walther PPK and also had access to some cool submachine guns.

Anybody recall a 1966 TV series called "T.H.E. Cat"? A very young Robert Loggia played T. Hewitt Edward Cat, a retired acrobat and reformed thief who hires out as a bodyguard. He carried a Walther PPK, and in one episode, he was in a car chase on a desert highway, and sometimes stood up and fired over the windshield of his Corvette.

This is a fun thread.

Here's an auto for ya.

And.... was the 1911 in Magnum PI a Detonics?

Don't the FBI agent in bones carried a 686?

be safe

I recall the Cessna shootdown, although for some reason I remembered it as being Mannix.

Vega$ dude was a leftty and carried a Dan Wesson?

TimM said:

Here's an auto for ya.

And.... was the 1911 in Magnum PI a Detonics?

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Hot picture, if with a photoshop of an anachronistic Beretta.

They didn't have 92's back in the Police Woman days.

Though, Angie's legs were weapon enough for me.

gmh1013 said:

to Adam 12 they always used revolvers on T.V. the one show that comes to mind that didn't in the 60's was "The Man from Uncle" with those strange Walthers/carbine look.
I think Jim Rockford carried a Colt and all Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry was about
big bore Revolvers.
I was trying to think of any older show series that used and auto, and not revolvers?
now it the other way around you never see a revolver on T.V.

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Rockford was a convicted felon and thus not legally able to carry anything.

9mmepiphany said:

me too...i can see why she was a member of the Rat Pack

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I watched her in Rio Bravo Sunday night, and Angie's character didn't mess around. Chance (John Wayne) needed some sleep, so she waited outside his door two times. The one time we actually got to see her, she had a BIG double-barreled shotgun in her lap.

Not TV, but in the movie Ronan with the great chase scene around Paris, The U.S. agent played by Robert de Niro shows up in the French LEO shop
and they ask him what sidearm? He sez a 1911 and they start
calling him grandpa until the first shootout - Bobby does a
nice set of double taps and reload with the spare mag.

R-

In "Vegas," when Tom Selleck's character bought the Monticello casino, he was seen to be carrying a 1911-type in a Yaqui slide holster. Probably the same one Selleck carried as Chief Stone in the series of Robert Parker novels made into TV movies. Selleck is a real life firfearms enthusiast, and has undoubtedly had some input into the props he's used on-screen.

I read somewhere that the 1911 Selleck carries in Vegas is one of his own. Don't know if its true or not.

Apparently Steven Seagal is a huge M1911 man, which is why he always carries one in his movies. I heard some of them may be his own as well.

I remember THE Cat very much so, that was "65 or so. We had it on CTV but it was unfortunately short-lived. I just recently, several weeks ago, saw some scenes on You Tube.

Love all the guns in "Trailer Park Boys."

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Most of Seagal's guns were done by Tussey, if I recall correctly....