South of Sunset

1993
South of Sunset

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EP1 Satyricon Oct 27, 1993

In the pilot episode, Cody McMahon's friend asks Cody to help out his daughter. His daughter was drugged, taken to a hotel, and was taken some nasty pictures of her. Following the clues to right to the hotel, he gets physical with the dest clerk and made him spill out the truth. It turns out the daughter's mother was behind all this. Since her mother was having marriage problems with her husband, she wants to make some money before she will eventually loss everything after her devorce with her husband.

EP2 Dream Girl Jan 01, 0001

In this episode, we find out Cody's mom travels in a motor-home and met a friend, Lou. Lou believes he saw his perfect woman in his dream and wants Cody to help find her. Desperately needing money, Cody takes the job. He takes Lou to the fortune teller and the modeling agency and find out that the girl in his dream is on a TV ad for hair replacement. However, by the time Lou finds out, he had already fallen for the fortune teller. In another plot, Gina finally gets her major acting role and starts to flirt with her co-star. Cody is suspicious of her co-star and starts to do a background check in him. Gina finds out and is furious with Cody. Cody finally decides to stay away from her private life and throws a going-away party for Gina when she is about to leave for the Caribbean to film the movie. However, Cody and Ziggy finds out that Gina looks just like her co-star's wife. He is about to kill Gina and collects insurence money, claiming Gina is her wife. Cody and Ziggy arriv

EP3 Custody Jan 01, 0001

Gina posts as bait to a Aerobics instructor who has a suspicious wife. It turns out he never cheated on his wife, but consider it with Gina. Meanwhile, Cody and Ziggy takes in a case to find a mother's kidnapped daughter, who was kidnapped by her dad. They went into the bar, get into a fight, and snatch the little girl. When the father and the mother argue, Cody steps in and explain that it's the child's happiness that's most important.

EP4 Family Affair Jan 01, 0001

Cody helps a girl, Maya, who believes her father is somebody other than who her mother had convinced her is. It turns out Maya's biological dad is a jewery theif. Cody convinces the dad to tell her he's not her real father. Then, Maya's dad (not the jewery theif) steps in and tell her how he stepped in and took care of her mother when her biological dad left and said he will always love her. Meanwhile, he pretends to be Gina's significant other to satisfy her marriage-minded mother.

EP5 Newspaper Boy Jan 01, 0001

Cody is hire to find out why a young man was killed by the cops when his parents know he's a good kid. Cody tries to talk to a kid who sells drugs to get info. Cody gets arrested because cops believe he's trying to buy drugs from him. When he is out on bail, he saw the kid go into a mysterious car. He tries to chase it, but gets shot at. He went to a nearby house of a lady cop to get some water and when he looks out the window, he sees the exact same car he was just chasing. The lady cop tries to kill him, but fails. It turns out that she is running a drug business with the young man working for her. When the young man was asking out on the job, she shot him.

EP6 Remember Me Jan 01, 0001

Cody and Ziggy help a clear a guy who is accused of murder.

EP7 Chalk Lines Jan 01, 0001

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Released: 27 October 1993 Ended
Producted By: Paramount Television Studios
Country: United States of America
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South of Sunset is an American TV detective series, starring musician/actor Glenn Frey, that only aired one episode on CBS in 1993. Frey played Cody McMahon, a private eye whose offices were located just south of Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills. As a result, he calls his business the Beverly Hills Detective Agency, despite the fact he's in the "low-end" part of town. Aries Spears co-starred as Cody's young assistant Ziggy Duane, and Maria Pitillo played his cute blond secretary Gina Weston. The show was a combination of comedy and suspense, reminiscent of ABC's hit series Moonlighting. The show was created by John Byrum, who wrote all six of the episodes that were produced, and served as co-executive producer with Stan Rogow. The show was heavily promoted during the 1993 World Series by CBS. However, only the pilot of South of Sunset ever aired, on October 27, 1993—and not even to the entire country. News coverage of wild fires in Malibu pre-empted the show's lone episode on many West Coast stations, including KCBS in Los Angeles itself. Disappointed with the ratings of the pilot and unwilling to give it a chance to build a base, CBS immediately cancelled the show, much to Frey's chagrin. VH1 later aired four more of the shows as part of their Eagles Family Tree Week.

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chippion I thought the series was hysterical (and I did watch the subsequent run of all but one episode when it ran on VH1). The chemistry between the lead trio was wonderful and Aries Spiers stole the show from Glen Frey. I showed the tape to some friends who were crying with laughter, especially over Aries. So it's all in the perspective of the viewer.The problem was that it kept being postponed. It was supposed to start in September or October, then got pushed back again, then was supposed to run right after the Superbowl, which, as usual, ran long . . .The station seems to have believed that those of us who enjoyed The Eagles would watch it no matter WHEN they finally put it on.The show was actually canceled halfway through the first episode. However, it may not be the fastest show ever canceled. Friends remember a 1/2 show that went to commercial just before the ending and never came back on. So it's semantics on whether or not it actually is the shortest run, as it did run the full length of an episode on the East Coast but was canceled after 1/2 hour and didn't run in any other timezone, and the sitcom died after 20 minutes and never finished.
Larry Weisberg If I recall properly, I was living in Los Angeles, Califorina at the time of this series' debut. Being an Eagle fan and have liking Glenn Frey's performance in his MTV/VH1 music videos and on the series "Wiseguy" I had set my VCR to record the pilot/debut episode. If my memory serves me correctly, the series aired on the East Coast at 8PM or 9PM when it was scheduled to. Sometime within the subsequent two hour period, the series was actually canceled and never even got to air on the West Coast! If this is right, it would have to be the shortest-lived television series in history - not even airing across the entire country! How did network executives not realize the quality of this show? (If I am wrong about this, please let me know.)
Vincent Boyd (vince_diesel) South of Sunset was endlessly hyped prior to the World Series in 1993. This movie was supposed to be the TV version of 48 Hours but was the worse TV series ever made. It came as fast as it went. Glenn Frey and Aries Spears were mis-cast and it showed. The writing was God-awful and the stunts were ridiculous. The story lines were virtually non-existent. The show probably would have been easier to take if the networks had not hyped it up so much. Watching South of Sunset was the equivalent of someone inviting you to their home for a barbecue feast and the menu features cold-cuts on the grill instead of your favorite cut of steak. Let down city. All records of this TV show ever being made should be destroyed.