Popeye Doyle

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🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Eight months before starring as Al Bundy on Married… With Children, Ed O’Neill tried to keep pace with Gene Hackman in a TV spin-off of French Connection. Did NBC execs cancel this potential 1986 series because gruff narcotics detective Popeye Doyle was still murdering folks and violating civil liberties like it’s 1971? Or is the bigger problem that a future sitcom shoe salesman would rather sit on his ass watching sex tapes of Audrey Landers (Dallas) than chase down crooks? Find out if this failed pilot solves the Middle East crisis when you Listen Now!

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0:00.0	I've been a New York cop for 14 years. I know that the note that comes out of this city is
0:07.3	killing about my head.
0:10.3	Welcome to now playing's The French Connection retrospective series.
0:15.0	All right, clap-eyes here.
0:17.0	Get your hands on your heads.
0:19.0	Get off the barn, get on the wall.
0:20.0	Come on, move.
0:21.0	Move.
0:22.0	Move. Move. Move. Hosted by Arnie.
0:24.0	I think he's dirty, but I don't know why.
0:28.0	Stuart.
0:29.0	Are you everything they say you are?
0:32.0	And Jacob.
0:33.0	Hey, Bravo, the Americans have landed.
0:36.0	But be warned, this episode will contain detailed plot spoilers and strong language.
0:41.0	Not my city, you don't.
0:43.8	We hope you enjoy the show.
0:46.5	Enjoy what at last my friend.
0:49.2	Today we're discussing Popeye Doyle starring Ed O'Neill, Candy Clark, Matthew Lawrence, James Handy, and Audrey Landers as Jill, directed by Peter Levin.
1:02.0	This is the now-playing co-host who can be good or bad or anything you want me to be, Arnie.
1:08.0	I'm Irish. I can watch anything. This is Stewart.
1:11.0	And this is the co-host who has a lot of hate in him for one man, Jacob.
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