Screencaps for Ep 1.26 added & Season 1 completed!
I have finally added the screencaps for Legion of the Lost to the episodes' page. After three bums are brutally beaten to death in a two-week period, Mike Stone goes underover as a tramp. Straying the skid-row streets close to the waterfront, Mike accidentally crosses the night doss of a young rough sleeper, Paul Thomas, who is obviously hallucinating on detox. While Mike is offering a cup of hot coffee, a strong and tall buckler - convincingly performed by Leslie Nielsen - shows up, giving Mike advice to leave his hands off the young man and even better leave the city at all. Mike gets to know the young man's guardian is Jake Wilson, a former professional boxer and now-dry alcoholic, who is somehow related to all the victims, and his investigations finally lead him to an independently-run free doss house called Vera's Place. Following an attempt on Paul Thomas' life, police is taking him to the hospital. Steve finds out that Paul Thomas actually is Paul Cullen, son and heir to the owner of numerous ship yards who passed away two months before. Several other suspects, including Paul Cullen's sister and the manager of his father's company, are soon under investigation.
This episode is a rather tough one concerning the exact identification of filming locations. The opening sequence and crime scene was filmed on Osgood Street, a one-way side-road in the infamous red-light district of Broadway, where one of the bums is beaten to death (this side-road also appeared in the Pilot episode). Being undercover, Mike strays along the shabby skid-row part of the waterfront right beneath the elevated Embarcadero Freeway between Mission and Howard Streets, questioning other tramps, and later meets up with Steve on Fulton Street, right in front of Civic Center Plaza and San Francisco City Hall. The doss house, Vera's Place, is located in the Tenderloin on Eddy Street. Concerning the hospital to which Paul Cullen is taken by police, I am pretty sure it is not located in San Francisco at all. The facade looks completely unfamiliar, and the entrance door sign says "Emergency and Outpatients Only - Visitors use General Hospital Entrance on G Street" (there is no 'G Street' in San Francisco, other than in Sacramento, for example). The yacht harbour where Cathy Cullen is trying to sell off her boat to Steve, assuming he was a potential customer, actually is Marina Del Rey yacht harbor in Los Angeles. The Cullen Company's headquarters is located on the former 'San Leandro' ferry which had been converted for residential use in the 1960's and anchored at Pier 37 at the time this episode was filmed (the huge ferry boat caught fire later in the 1970's and was never rebuilt). As a sidenote, and still in act one of this episode, we are taken to Mike's house - just for indoor filming, though. Mike just returned from a fishing trip, so Steve is briefing his partner on the killed tramps, and is getting excited over Mike's new electric shaver.
More ABC Press Release Photos added
The media page was supplemented by another ten original ABC press release photos out of all the five seasons of the show, counting a total of 50 ABC pictures right now. There are more to come in the future, plus some production photography.
Next update will comprise of the screencaps and extended summary/locations for the final episode of season one. Stay tuned! :)
Screencaps for Ep 1.25 added
I have added the screencaps for The Unicorn to the episodes' page. When a nightly robbery attempt of an Asian ship on the docks goes wrong and leads to a wild gunfight between two police officers and two strangers, a longshoreman is killed, along with one of the policemen, and another one is wounded, still holding on the shipment box - supposedly full of cobra venom to be used in research. The wounded man is hiding out on the docks between ships and buildings, with the gun and the case, believing he has actually stolen a shipment of much greater value. He meets secretly with a priest, Father Joe, and refuses to turn himself in. Meanwhile, Mike and Steve have traced the killed crook to a Las Vegas Mafia unit in San Francisco, and learn on their own that hired killers of the Mob are coming in to find the longshoreman and finish the theft - which turns out to be a multimillion-dollar shipment of heroin. Father Joe turns to Mike Stone, asking for help and medical materials for "one of his men", but refuses to reveal where to find the wounded man.
This episode was primarily filmed along the waterfront between Ferry Terminal and Pier 70. In the opening scene, Father Joe helps one of his men who tanked up on Ferry Plaza, whereas the gun shooting and the explosion of the foodtruck take place at the Embarcadero, between Piers 36 and 38. The wounded longshoreman is hiding out between ships and parts in the Central Basin (you can see the Bay Bridge in background to the north, and famous former ship building Pier 70 to the south). By the way, this place is exactly the same as used for Reid Bradshaw's boat building company in the preceding episode Shattered Image (there is that typical "Boats, Beers & Bait" shop in the background). Other locations include the heart of Japan Town, where the mobsters pick-up Dr. Jason at Post and Buchanan Streets, as well as the famous parapet of Sutro Heights Park, where Dr. Jason is released.
Media Page split
In order to provide a better overview, I have split the former and rather general media page into two separate categories: first, the media page, providing traditional media items (press release photos, promotional materials, books, etc.), and second, the new media page, giving access to all the information on digital stuff such as the official DVD releases, online clips, and the theme tune.
I felt the former media page got overloaded, so this separation should improve the accessibility of the materials and information given.
Screencaps for Ep 1.24 added
I have just added the screencaps for Shattered Image to the episodes' page. When Fred Marshall, a famous politician, is found harpooned on a pleasure boat, Stone and Keller can hardly count on the cooperation of the victim's private secretary who is trying to protect the image of his boss. Among the suspects are a Senator and a boat builder as well as the private secretary himself. However, the past catches up with Mike when the grieving widow arrives in San Francisco, who turns out to be an old friend of Stone's from his Potrero neighbourhood, and is unexpectedly providing an indication for her husband having committed suicide. Following an attempt on Anna Marshall's life, Stone is even more biased. In the meantime, Steve is investigating the entanglement of the boat builder's charter business, and the puzzle finally makes up a picture. With the killer already detained, Mike and Steve set a trap for the suborner.
This episode gets started in the San Francisco Bay where Fred Marshall is murdered on a pleasure boat. Mike picks up Steve at his house on Union Street before our two cops are driving to the Marina District where the boat and Fred Marshall's dead body are inspected in the Golden Gate Yacht Club's basin. Several exterior and interior scenes were taken at the Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill as well as at San Francisco City Hall, whereas the site of Reid Bradshaw's boat building company is located somewhere in the old industrial harbour area (which is now completely rebuilt) south of Mission Bay. Following their unexpected reunion, Mike and Anne Marshall are talking and walking around on the elevated level of One Maritime Plaza and, later on, moving to their former neighbourhood on Potrero Hill (the former house of Anne Marshall's family is located on Arkansas Street).
