External links
- Murder Can Hurt You at IMDb
- Murder Can Hurt You at MSN Movies
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| Murder Can Hurt You | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy |
| Written by | Ron Friedman |
| Directed by | Roger Duchowny |
| Starring | Tony Danza Burt Young Jamie Farr John Byner Gavin MacLeod Victor Buono Jimmie Walker Buck Owens Connie Stevens |
| Music by | Artie Kane |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Douglas S. Cramer Aaron Spelling |
| Producers | Shelley Hull Robert L. Jacks E. Duke Vincent |
| Cinematography | Archie R. Dalzell |
| Editor | John F. Schreyer |
| Running time | 100 min. |
| Production company | Aaron Spelling Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | May 21, 1980 |
Murder Can Hurt You (stylized onscreen as Murder Can Hurt You!) is a 1980 American made-for-television comedy film that parodies detective and police TV shows of the 1960s and 1970s, much as Murder by Death spoofed literary detectives. [1] The film was directed by Roger Duchowny. [2]
A mysterious "Man in White" is out to kill famous detectives in bizarre ways, and the heroes are obvious parodies of Kojak , Baretta , Starsky and Hutch , Ironside , Police Woman , Columbo , Mrs. Columbo , and McCloud . [1]
The movie starts with the Man In White killing Lambretta, after which Lt. Nojack calls a meeting of all the best detectives in the city. During this meeting the man in white threatens to kill them all, locks them in their meeting room, and sets a bomb to kill them all while he makes his escape.
The Aaron Spelling Productions logo at the end pays homage to Mark VII Limited, using a hammer and stamp.
| Actor | Character | Sends up: |
|---|---|---|
| Don Adams (voice only) | Narrator | -- |
| Marty Allen | Detective Starkos | Detective Stavros |
| Mel Blanc (voice only) [3] | Chickie Baby | -- |
| Victor Buono | Ironbottom | former Chief of Detectives Robert Ironside |
| John Byner | Hatch | Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson |
| Tony Danza | Pony Lambretta | Tony Baretta |
| Jamie Farr | Studsky | David Starsky |
| Mitchell Kreindel | The Man in White | -- |
| Gavin MacLeod | Nojack | Lieutenant Theo Kojak |
| Buck Owens | MacSkye | Marshal Samuel McCloud |
| Connie Stevens | Salty Sanderson | Sergeant Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson |
| Liz Torres | Mrs. Palumbo | Mrs. Columbo |
| Jimmie Walker | Parks the Pusher | Mark Sanger |
| Burt Young | Lieutenant Palumbo | Lieutenant Columbo |
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