this be a fair little show about the paranormal although it feel a if art bell and his ilk figure out how to carve a career out of the attitude that carl kolchak exemplify . of course there probably wouldn not be an x file if this show hadn not prepped this audience for it so well . darren mcgavin be not exactly the super heroic type but he be a plausible ( enough ) guy to deliver heroic deed . check out his work on some of those old alfred hitchcock present . here he be the main attraction and there doesn not seem to be a girlfriend or wife who a distraction . in fact there isn not a whole lot of sex appeal to the show . something i be notice as well be that the pace isn not really suspenseful in a typical way . there a lot of throwaway humor to this show . sometimes it just pokey to get to the climax . there a thread from this show come all the way up to the present mad men show in term of style . not that david chase write mad men but the people that work under him on the soprano definitely have emulate and inherit his serio comic tone .