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Former Rusk standouts Matt Friederich (50) and Quinn Anthony (75) pose for a photo at Turin Stadium following the conclusion of the Northwestern (La.) State University spring football scrimmage. Anthony is a junior defensive lineman and Friederich is a sophomore defensive specialist for the Demons of the Southland Conference. NSU has been tabbed by Athlon magazine as the pre-season favorite to win the league title.

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I'll admit it, I'm not really here for the cop action. Not that there isn't a good deal of it in Dempsey & Makepeace , more that my interest in this show was first piqued by the sight of Glynis Barber. Much like finding the all-girl CATS Eyes worth watching on a Saturday night, principally for Leslie Ash, and how gymnastics, thanks to Suzanne Dando, became almost as popular as football. Finding fame in pre-Loaded days, these three women were much like your old sister's best friends, albeit the kind that you get a hot flush in the presence of. With a certain tomboyishness to them, they were the poster girls of boys you really only wanted someone to hang out and talk football with but who wouldn't have minded holding hands with on the walk back through the park. Actually, not dissimilar to a cross between Dee Hepburn and Clare Grogan in Gregory's Girl , one of whom can kick a ball whilst the other is there for dancing in the park after sunset. As for Glynis Barber, she's probably better known now for refusing to disrobe during a tour of The Graduate , which led to near empty theatres but at the time of Dempsey & Makepeace , she'd been cast in Blake's 7 , had tangled with Faye Dunaway and, more intimately, Oliver Tobias in Michael Winner's remake of The Wicked Lady and had fought crime, fallen in love and lost much of her clothing in the BBC's adaptation of the comic strip Jane . With Dempsey & Makepeace , though, she had stepped into primetime ITV with an unknown American, Michael Brandon, and with a haircut that would be the Princess Di of its day. A blonde bob, possibly even a pageboy, so much was it in demand that a picture of Glynis Barber, possibly cut out of the TV Times, would soon be de riguer in any decent high-street hairdressers. Women not at all suited to the cut were soon wearing it but the fashion for it passed as quickly as it had arrived.

And was it the same for Michael Brandon? Well no, actually, as Dempsey & Makepeace didn't quite cut the mustard with a generation brought up on The Professionals , Starsky & Hutch and The Sweeney . Much as I love those shows, particularly The Professionals , it was obvious that television couldn't continue in that vein. Even now, watching The Professionals is grimly violent in a way that it simply isn't so much today despite a quarter of a century passing.

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