"Foxy" and endearing private eye show
"Crazy Like a Fox" combined wit, adventure and good old fashioned common sense that always triumphs over established education. Jack Warden is ideal as "the bull in the china shop" investigator who has no awareness of proper social protocol and frankly does not care. His son,Harrison, played by John Rubenstein is the exasperated and at first unwilling partner to his father. But once he becomes th reluctant assistant, he is always fiercely loyal and is determined to always compensate for his father's madcap blunders and see the case through. Harry might be gauche and deliberately unpolished but in more than one episode , he empowers those around him,who are struggling and are at life's crossroads and gives them hope and an incentive to succeed. The family dynamic always is beautiful to behold and loving and nobody in the family is ever made to look foolish or ineffectual. And the best part is that the nuclear family is normal and free of dysfunction. There is the additional joy in the absence of profanity and some of the frantic chase scenes remind me of humorous escapades from 1960s Disney feature films. It is a great series which my wife and I see again and again with renewed enjoyment every time.
- thekingschild-65274
- 1 may 2025