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This is for Barney Miller afficianados. As far as I can recall there were only 2 Canadian cities mentioned during the run of the show. Name one or both. Also, I welcome any correction to the answer.
ANSWER: Windsor and Medicine Hat.

Episode: The Child Stealers.
Harris arrests a man who claims to be from the future. While being booked the man tries to discourage Harris from investing in gold, because in the future there's a big gold find in Medicine Hat which causes the price of gold to plummet.

Epidode: The Rainmaker.
A female who is a victim of a crime mentions she is Canadian from Windsor,.
 

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What tv show used a cover version of a Rod Stewart song that he recorded (it peaked at #3 in the adult contemporary US chart), but was written by someone else as it's theme song?

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What tv show used a cover version of a Rod Stewart song as it's theme song?
In anticipation that you MIGHT want to reword this question, please check Rod Stewart discography to confirm that this is 'a Rod Stewart song', as opposed to a song covered by Rod Stewart, but written and originally recorded by someone else. Rod wrote or co-wrote only a few of his hits, and in many cases, the original version was already well known.

My gut says the song is Every Picture Tells a Story, which IS a Rod Stewart song, (he co-wrote it, with Ron Wood), because I could see CBS using that as a theme song for a CSI spinoff, but I never watched any of those.
 

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In anticipation that you MIGHT want to reword this question, please check Rod Stewart discography to confirm that this is 'a Rod Stewart song', as opposed to a song covered by Rod Stewart, but written and originally recorded by someone else. Rod wrote or co-wrote only a few of his hits, and in many cases, the original version was already well known.

My gut says the song is Every Picture Tells a Story, which IS a Rod Stewart song, (he co-wrote it, with Ron Wood), because I could see CBS using that as a theme song for a CSI spinoff, but I never watched any of those.
My song in question is a song recorded by RS , but written by someone else, my mistake , I will modify my question.

Every Picture Tells A story is not correct!
 

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What tv show used a cover version of a Rod Stewart song that he recorded (it peaked at #3 in the adult contemporary US chart), but was written by someone else as it's theme song?

Answer: Star Trek: Enterprise, "Faith Of The Heart" written by Diane Warren, song was also on soundtrack of film "Patch Adams".
 

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Name the show in which 2 of it's characters sing along to Neil Sedaka's song "Bad Blood" that is playing on the radio.

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Name the show.
Butch Patterson: Private Dick.

BP:pD was a Canadian show which aired on The Comedy Network, (Canada) from 1999-2001 - three seasons of 13 episodes each. The show was somewhat unique in that the 39 episodes are one continuous story. The show stars Greg Lawrence as Butch. Lawrence was also the writer/ producer, and voiced the title character in his other series from The Comedy Network, the cheaply animated but very funny Kevin Spenser.


This show is difficult to find because the only source to purchase the DVDs was a now defunct company named Express Media. They were essentially a shipping and handling company - whenever someone contacted them to buy DVDs, it was necessary to pay in advance by credit card, and Express Media would then dub copies of the disks. They probably weren't very busy, because there were only five days between when I placed the order and when I received the DVDs, by regular Canada Post. The disks have blank white labels, and some of the .VOB files are out of sequence.

BP:pD was made primarily to provide Canadian content for The Comedy Network. At that time, their programming block was six hours per day, repeated four times. Four airings of 'Butch' meant two hours of daily CanCon.

It's also possible that the show may have earned a profit before being made, because the budget is very low, and might have been less than the Government subsidies the producers would have received for making an 'all Canadian' TV series.

Butch Patterson: Private Dick can be viewed online or downloaded
here:

These are my own Xvid, (CINEPACK), DVD rips, but only the H.264, (.mp4), versions generated by the site can be VIEWED online.


 

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Seinfeld:

There are 2 instances in which Jerry breaks the 4th wall, what are they?


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Seinfeld:

There are 2 instances in which Jerry breaks the 4th wall, what are they?
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1- the final scene in "The Race" episode says "Maybe I will Lois, mabe I will" , looks at the camera and winks

2-in the highlights of 100 episodes , episode, he talks to the camera about the show
 

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Which filmed comedy show featured the line of dialogue: "I'm a locksmith, and I'm a locksmith."?

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