Production Stills Supplemented!
Due to the positive feedback concerning the newly-established gallery of production stills and location photography (i.e. anything else apart from official press release photos), I decided to add a third batch of five colour production stills to the media page, making up a total of 15 pictures in this particular section right now. These include Mike behind his desk and performing as a clown, Steve and Mike opening a wizard's box as well as Mike and Dan booking a bad guy.
Screencaps for Ep 2.07 added
I added the screencaps for Harem to the episode's page. When the body of a teenage girl is towed out of the bay, our two cops soon draw certain parallels to another case indicating murder inside a teenage prostitution ring. This case strikes a nerve with Mike, so he immediately calls his daughter, Jeannie, who is preparing for an exam for her studies at the University of Arizona. Little does Mike know that Jeannie, alerted by her father’s unusual call and superficial questions, immediately packs her bag and takes a plane to see him in order to find out the reason for her father’s obvious concern. In the meantime, homicide picks up another young but professionally prepared hooker who was obviously tought very well in how to deal with police when getting booked. Soon after releasing her, however, police has to find her dead body at the beach right beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. Mike and Steve are struggling in putting the puzzle together; all they know is that the young prostitutes used to live in the same apartment, and they were obviously sent out on the streets by the same pimp. While having a deli with Jeannie, Mike and Steve are discussing the case. When Steve mentions the name of William T. Jeffers, a young transverse flute-playing guy living on the top floor of the apartment house, Jeannie suddenly recollects the name as Bill Jeffers - a former local rock star who was questioned by Steve before. It turns out that Jeffers not only turned from a rock star to pimp but that he also became a murderer. With the help of another teenage prostitute who got left in the lurch when police booked her, Mike and Steve can finally nail him.
This episode's opening sequence starts off with two of Jeffers' young hookers walking down Mission St. and turning onto The Embarcadero while appraoching the hotel they are assigned to. Jeffers usually plays his transverse flute at the famous little fountain on Ghirardelli Square, the apartment house in which Jeffers as well as his hookers use to live is located in the Lower Haight. Steve picks up Mike at his house on De Haro Street, whereas the first victim is towed out of the waters of the Marina Yacht Harbour. Their investigations also lead them downtown - around Union Square, including the former Downtown Airlines Terminal and Union Square where Mike books young hooker Sarah in a telephone booth. Additional filming locations include Baker Beach and, for the episode's final, a chase on and around Ghirardelli Square.
Check out latest production stills!
Folks,
I have added another five colour production stills and location photos to the media page, making up a total of ten pictures in this particular section right now. These include Mike and Steve on Alcatraz Island (for the episode 'Going Home') as well as Steve in midst of the Palace of Fine Arts and a photo of Mike and Dan from the fifth season's production run.
As a foretaste, I will add some more location photos to the locations page soon. :)
Screencaps for Ep 2.06 added
The screencaps for The Stamp of Death were added to the episode's page recently. A rich-man is killed over a rare and priceless stamp out of his exklusive collection. While it looks like a robbery-kill at first sight, a discrepancy between the insurance coverage details and the actual value of the collection leads Mike and Steve to a possible red herring and, finally, to an insurance fraud. When one of the involved, an aged ex-con specialized in professional printing, is found dead, our two cops are getting closer to solve the case.
This episode offers a variety of San Francisco locations again. The initial crime scene takes us to Pacific Heights at 2222 Broadway, whereas the philately store of expert Ed Hawkins is located downtown on Bush. We are also taken to Nob Hill, where today's Ritz-Carlton San Francisco was used as the insurance company's headquarters (at that time, it actually was the headquarters of an insurance company), as well as to The Tenderloin (Mike questions informer 'Doc' close to the intersection of Eddy and Jones Streets, and Jenkins' printing facility is located on Turk Street). Glenn and Chris Conway meet each other on Union Square, their apartment is located in the Pacific Heights Towers on Sacramento Street. The final scene was filmed at Ocean Beach, just south of famous Cliff House, which can be seen in the background.
Production Stills Gallery opened!
The media page was supplemented by a first batch of five colour production stills and location photos taken by set photographers during production of the series. As a sidenote, this kind of stuff is rather hard to find today, most of these were made on Kodak color slides and disappeared in the photographers' archives for decades.
I will add more in the future. Please enjoy! :)
