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And I loved the slowly-unveiling backstory of who Ray actually was &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>And it was a Stephen J. Cannell production, which was the gold standard for fun action TV in that era.<\/p>\n<p>(Not to be confused with another Guity Childhood TV Pleasure, &quot;Stingray&quot; (1964) (<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/rPu9mLfLoOA\" >http:\/\/youtu.be\/rPu9mLfLoOA<\/a>))<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><iframe type='text\/html' width='97.5%' height='385' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9FNEvOIeAjY?hl=en&#038;fs=1' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/2mcBtoRM47n' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mystery man in a black classic Corvette. Who helps those in trouble, asking only that, when he asks them for a favor in return, they do so. I loved the main titles for this show, as (yes) cheesy as they are by today&#39;s standard (mystical karate! veiled women! car parts! emmasculated Vitruvian Man!). And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/guilty-tv-pleasures-stingray-1985.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guilty TV Pleasures: &quot;Stingray&quot; (1985)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10105,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/04\/crikey_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":28046,"position":0},"title":"Crikey","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 4-Sep-06 9:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"Steve Irwin, the fascinatingly annoying \"Crocodile Hunter,\" is dead. 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