5/6 Everybody’s got a boss. #AdrianZmed impresses his with a drug-stuffed pinata and walking talking party favors. #DavidLabiosa ups the stakes in his guest star role on #SilkStalkings episode “Judas Kiss” (January 1994). #SusanWood

6/6 Detective Lorenzo goes mano a mano with his best bud, a DEA agent who’s revealed to be corrupt. #BillyWarlock escalates the situation in his guest star turn on #SilkStalkings episode “Judas Kiss” (January 1994). #RobEstes #MitziKapture

Happy 70th birthday to #AdrianZmed. Mostly known as William Shatner’s partner, Officer Romano, on 72 episodes of #TJHooker (1982-86), Zmed made his screen debut disco dancing on the season four opener of #StarskyAndHutch. What better way to launch a career in TV crime-fighting?

Primetime Lineup wishes a happy 75th birthday to Erik Estrada, 70s TV superstar for his portrayal of Officer Frank “Ponch” Poncherello on 138 episodes of #CHiPs (1977-1983). #ErikEstrada

1/4 On their way to protect a rich woman’s jewelry in Sherwood Park, Honey and Sam are shot off the road by a familiar face. #EddByrnes guest-starred as #RobinHood – or so it would seem – on #HoneyWest today in 1966. #AnneFrancis #JohnEricson

2/4 Honey & Sam relay a strange eye-witness account to the widow who hired their services. Good news: it’s a story she’s familiar with. Bad news: she’s in no mood for fairytales. #EleanorAudley guested. #HoneyWest “Little Green Robin Hood” #OTD 1966. #AnneFrancis #JohnEricson

3/4 When a known impostor asks him to prove himself, Sam picks up a stick and goes to work. #EddByrnes guest-starred in #HoneyWest today in 1966. He made a fine #RobinHood, but his work as #Kooky in 161 episodes of #77SunsetStrip is the stuff of legend. #JohnEricson #AnneFrancis

4/4 Honey & Sam have a riddle to decipher. Where better to do it than from inside every retro detective show’s first choice for camouflage: a TV repair van. #HoneyWest episode “Little Green Robin Hood” aired on this day in 1966. #AnneFrancis #JohnEricson

This #Kojak episode is full of guest stars from other popular crime series. Besides #StarskyAndHutch’s #PaulMichaelGlaser, there’s #EdBernard & #CharlesDierkop months ahead of the series premiere of #PoliceWoman. “Down a Long and Lonely River” aired #OTD 50 years ago.

Remembering #KarlMalden's birthday, #OTD 1912. The man with kindly eyes & a bulbous nose made an impression on big screens & small, + as the 20+ year pitchman for #AmericanExpress. To #ClassicTV fans, he was Det Mike Stone #TheStreetsOfSanFrancisco (1972-1977). He passed in 2009.

1/3 Remembering #NormanFell on the 100th anniversary of his birth, #OTD 1924. An early start in TV saw him as Detective Meyer Meyer (pic) on 30 eps of #87thPrecinct (1961-62), but he lives on in reruns today as the fidgety and frigidy landlord Mr. Roper on #ThreesCompany.

2/3 Mrs. Roper wasn’t the only frustrated wife who couldn’t get Norman Fell to bed. Before the twirly-eyed landlord on #ThreesCompany, Fell was part of NBC’s Monday night crime drama #87thPrecinct 1961-62. Honoring the late #NormanFell on the 100th anniv of his birth, #OTD 1924.

3/3 Remembering #NormanFell on the 100th anniversary of his birth #OTD 1924. WW2 Air Force tail gunner, student at #TheActorsStudio, TV detective on #87thPrecinct, and nosy landlord on #ThreesCompany. Also #Oceans11 #TheGraduate #Bullitt #TheKillers. Fell passed in 1998, aged 74.

1/3 Honey & Sam go undercover on a movie set to figure out if a stunt woman’s death was really an accident. #HoneyWest episode “Just the Bear Facts, Ma’am” aired today in 1966. #AnneFrancis #JohnEricson

2/3 Honey & Sam roll tape on similar footage: the scene Honey was hired to film because the original stunt woman died before the final cut. #HoneyWest episode “Just the Bear Facts, Ma’am” aired today in 1966. #AnneFrancis #JohnEricson

3/3 After working with Honey on a movie, a Hollywood producer makes her an offer she can’t refuse. She literally can’t -- it’s not her offer. #FrankWilcox guest-starred on #HoneyWest episode “Just the Bear Facts, Ma’am” on this day in 1966. #AnneFrancis #JohnEricson

Kling asks a baseball hero to mentor troubled kids. The jock’s all for it until his no-good brother changes his mind. When you’re on parole, there’s never a good reason for having cops around. #87thPrecinct episode “Idol in the Dust” aired #OTD 1962. #MichaelDante #AlRuscio

#MichaelDante (rt) played big league ball before taking a swing at Hollywood. #AlRuscio (lt) enjoyed a 60-year career – a lot of it guest-starring on retro crime series. #OTD 1962, they played 2 very different brothers on #87thPrecinct. Our recap video is available now.

#BarnabyJones cracked his final case #OTD 1980. Two years after #TheBeverlyHillbillies, #BuddyEbsen reinvented himself as a shrewd L.A. detective hunting his son’s killer. #LeeMeriwether, as the widow, helped solve that case + 177 more over 8 seasons (1973-1980). #QuinnMartin

#HoneyWest aired its final episode #OTD 1966. Imagined as a #MikeHammer/#MarilynMonroe combo, #AnneFrancis brought her to television with #JohnEricson who had played her brother in 1955’s #BadDayAtBlackRock. #HoneyWest only ran for 30 episodes but enjoys cult status today.