Whenever Trevor Eve gets too serious, remind him about Shadow Chasers

13 October 2014 Rob Buckley Classic TV, US TV, Weird old title sequences Post a comment

Trevor Eve is a serious actor. Very serious. Although best known for being only slightly grumpy in Shoestring, he’s gone on to some pretty dour roles in the likes of Waking The Dead, Kidnap and Ransom and the miserable Channel 5 ‘updating’ of Doomwatch. Even in interviews, he can be very serious.

But Trevor Eve has a sense of humour. Or at least he used to. He might not want anyone to remember that these days, but he did.

How else can you explain his decision to appear in the 1985 mystery series Shadow Chasers, in which he played an anthropologist blackmailed into working with tabloid journalist Dennis Dugan to investigate the paranormal? Created by Kenneth Johnson (The Bionic Woman, Alien Nation, V, The Incredible Hulk) and the Oscar-winning Brian Grazer (Splash, A Beautiful Mind), it was nevertheless the lowest rated of the 106 shows in the 1985-1986 season, with only the first nine of its episodes airing on ABC in the US, leaving the Armed Forces Network to air the remaining four.

Maybe the opening credits had something to do with that.

Poor old Eve – he never stood a chance. Maybe that’s why he lost his sense of humour?

Still, if that’s only whet your appetite for more, here’s the whole of the first episode.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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