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Created by Stephen J. Cannell (The Rockford Files,
21 Jump Street, among others), the USA Network's Silk Stalkings
was about as sexy as non-premium cable TV got in the early 1990s. Palm Beach
homicide detectives Rita Lee Lance (Mitzi Kapture) and Chris Lorenzo (Rob Estes)
investigate crimes they call "silk stalkings," murders that expose the
seamy--and steamy--side of high society. Rita and Chris investigate the crimes,
frequently by going undercover (so to speak) to expose macho men or their
beautiful women companions, who tend to lounge about in swimwear or lingerie.
During the first season, the detectives face ghosts from their pasts and push
the edge of their profession (Ben Vereen plays their exasperated captain, a role
later filled by Charlie Brill), all the while swapping sexual innuendo but
dating other people with disappointing results. The platonic-partners schtick is
nothing The X-Files or Moonlighting didn't do with more style, but
the stars did have a chemistry that in later years their replacements were never
able to re-Kapture.
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