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02-21-2025, 01:33 AM
https://www.get.tv/gettv-blog/10-times-hart-hart-was-relationship-goals
The 1970s is generally considered the Golden Age of Detective Shows, with a parade of mostly male sleuths in rumpled suits dispatching bad guys night after night. But Hart to Hart (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125301/http://www.jumptheshark.com/h/harttohart.htm), which debuted at the tail end of the decade, flipped the script on an increasingly predictable format. Episodes didn’t end in jail, or the police station, or the morgue. They ended in the bedroom.
“We were doing a love story,” co-star Robert Wagner said in a 2005 interview. “The action and adventure was important, but the main thing was how they felt about each other.”
Just about every episode finds Bond-esque millionaire Jonathan Hart (Wagner) and his journalist wife Jennifer (Stefanie Powers) snuggling up like newlyweds in the honeymoon suite. There are murders, of course, and comic relief from their streetwise houseman Max (Lionel Stander) and dog Freeway. But everything usually gets wrapped up in time for a bedroom fade to black with our heroes smirking and giggling.
“I don’t think there was any other show on television — and there may not have been since then — with two married adults who were still in love with each other,” producer Leonard Goldberg said. “That’s what made it work.”
Goldberg and co-producer Aaron Spelling, the generals behind a battalion of successful shows like Charlie’s Angels and Dynasty, used their time-tested formula to make Hart to Hart a ratings hit. And Wagner and Powers kept it there for five seasons with their genuinely hot chemistry.
The 1970s is generally considered the Golden Age of Detective Shows, with a parade of mostly male sleuths in rumpled suits dispatching bad guys night after night. But Hart to Hart (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125301/http://www.jumptheshark.com/h/harttohart.htm), which debuted at the tail end of the decade, flipped the script on an increasingly predictable format. Episodes didn’t end in jail, or the police station, or the morgue. They ended in the bedroom.
“We were doing a love story,” co-star Robert Wagner said in a 2005 interview. “The action and adventure was important, but the main thing was how they felt about each other.”
Just about every episode finds Bond-esque millionaire Jonathan Hart (Wagner) and his journalist wife Jennifer (Stefanie Powers) snuggling up like newlyweds in the honeymoon suite. There are murders, of course, and comic relief from their streetwise houseman Max (Lionel Stander) and dog Freeway. But everything usually gets wrapped up in time for a bedroom fade to black with our heroes smirking and giggling.
“I don’t think there was any other show on television — and there may not have been since then — with two married adults who were still in love with each other,” producer Leonard Goldberg said. “That’s what made it work.”
Goldberg and co-producer Aaron Spelling, the generals behind a battalion of successful shows like Charlie’s Angels and Dynasty, used their time-tested formula to make Hart to Hart a ratings hit. And Wagner and Powers kept it there for five seasons with their genuinely hot chemistry.