Gotta love that portly, sherry swilling Professor anyway. He would give even Columbo a run for the money!
Hi, Happybat! Missed you at the Anaheim Fest.
Your thought about the intellectual and enigmatic Prof. Stokes taking on the deceptively hapless Columbo is a brilliant one! Couldn't you see the two of them competing to be the first to solve the week's mystery?
The more I think of it, the more I'm convinced Thayer David could have pulled off a weekly prime-time DS spin-off -- solving capers of the supernatural with dream intervention strategies, I-Ching wands, time-travel, and ample glasses of sherry. I think he could have blown Columbo, McCloud, and McMillen & Wife out of the water. But I wouldn't mind him collaborating with the esteemed Jessica Fletcher -- couldn't you see them toasting to a mystery well solved, as the "Murder, She Wrote" theme music closes the scene?
Ben