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Does anybody remember some '80s show that had Bonnie Tyler's 'Holding Out For A Hero' as it's title track?  The main bloke in it it was some kind of MacGuyver type- who might also have been an Aussie.

What the fuck was it?!?

Cover Up?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086690/

Fuck:

"On 12 October 1984, between scenes on the set of "Cover Up" (1984), Jon-Erik Hexum jokingly placed a blank-loaded .44 Magnum prop gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. The gun fired, and the wadding from the blank cartridge shattered his skull. Hexum was rushed to the hospital where he was declared brain-dead and on October 18 was taken off life support and his organs were harvested for transplant."

Sounds like the one.  Oddly enough, I read about that same actor and what happened to him quite recently- what are the odds?

At least it answers one question- the bloke in the crappy show isn't who I thought he was.  Case closed.

Cheers.

This is the guy I was actually thinking of- still not who I thought it was though.

This is really stuff for a blog, isn't it?

Link: He's an Aussie.

Female doctor: "So how did you come to have this massive cut right across your face?"

Jack Striker: "I thought I'd look really cool eating beans with a surgically sharp combat knife and that it'd get me loads of girls. I slipped.

Doctor: "Modern women don't go for that kind of macho bullshit, Mr Striker! This is the 1980s!"

Striker: "I *was* eating them out of the tin."

Doctor [removing glasses, shaking out hair and suddenly wearing red lip gloss]: "Why...Mr Striker. You're sooooo brave!"

Weird- in my mind I remebered John Eric Hexum as  the actor who played Isbecki in Cagney and Lacey


This changes everything

Ah, I used to watch that, I even think I might have enjoyed it.

Wasn't this some sort of 'male model by day, crack detective by night' thing.

I remember it, but never seen it, although remember thinking at the time 'stupid twat'.

I'm not sure I remember this or if I'm confusing it with that aftershave ad which had lots heroic blokes doing heroic things.

I remember watching that but I'd somehow melded it with Hardcastle and McCormick where they had that red sports car/dragster thing.
I thought it was all the same programme.

Another warp in my memory

I was sure the red sports car was from " Crazy Like a Fox"

There were so many of these type of shows back then