Comments on: What Was the Best TV Drama ‘Star Vehicle’? https://popculturereferences.com/what-was-the-best-tv-drama-star-vehicle/ Brian Cronin takes a look at interesting pieces of pop culture history from the worlds of TV, film, music and more. Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:29:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Chuck sutton https://popculturereferences.com/what-was-the-best-tv-drama-star-vehicle/#comment-78362 Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:29:45 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=7473#comment-78362 the problem is I don’t know switch were built around a star but in the 1970s it seemed like we have a name star let’s build a copy or p.i. show around them. my choice and I hope they qualify

Cannon, William Conrad
Kodak Telly Savalas

and Barbaby Jones screams we got Buddy Ebsen let’s make him a p.i.

]]> By: Garth Gersten https://popculturereferences.com/what-was-the-best-tv-drama-star-vehicle/#comment-78203 Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:34:50 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=7473#comment-78203 I dont know origins but jack Klugman in Quincy ME. Although with Glen Larceny as creator, it may not have been built for Klugman.
Lee Majors in The Fall Guy but, again, Gken Larceny as creator suggests show first then actor.

Thinking of movie stars going to small screen suggests Rock Hudson in McMillan & Wife?
James Earl Jones in Gabriel’s Fire?

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