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The Defender (Studio One)

  • ... that The Defender, starring Steve McQueen and William Shatner, was called "one of the best dramas of the so-called Golden Age of Television."? Star Tribune: "The biggest treat tonight, though, is a quality blast from TV's past: a 43-year-old episode of Studio One on TV Land that is one of the best dramas from the so-called Golden Age of Television ... Studio One: The Defenders ... Twelve Angry Men author Reginald Rose wrote this classic for Studio One, a two-part 1957 drama starring Ralph Bellamy, William Shatner and Steve McQueen ...
    • ALT1:... that ...? Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)

Created by Cbl62 (talk). Self-nominated at 21:25, 5 October 2020 (UTC).

Template:Ping What I liked about alt 0 is that it focuses on the unlikely and little-known pairing of two future pop icons (McQueen and Shatner) in a drama considered to be one of the best from the Golden Era. I thought that was pretty hooky. If you prefer to go in another direction, we could focus on the fact that it was the first time a live drama was divided for broadcast over multiple nights, cliffhanger style. Maybe something like:
* alt 1 ... that Steve McQueen and William Shatner starred in The Defender, the first live television drama divided for broadcast on separate nights, "leaving audiences dangling on the cliff"? Cbl62 (talk) 19:00, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
  • As you can tell, I like a good quote, but both of the hooks can readily be modified to eliminate the quotes:
  • alt 2 ... that The Defender, starring Steve McQueen and William Shatner, was considered "one of the best dramas of the so-called Golden Age of Television"?
  • alt 3 ... that Steve McQueen and William Shatner starred in The Defender, the first live television drama divided as a cliffhanger for broadcast on separate nights?
Any of the above are fine with me. Cbl62 (talk) 19:24, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
ALT2 is better. We don't need Template:Tq because that's close paraphrasing and anyway plenty of people call it the Golden Age of Television. But who is doing the Template:Tq here? One newspaper article? Please try to get away from the promotional language in your hooks. I'm striking the unused ones. Yoninah (talk) 20:24, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
Why not go with alt 3 then? Cbl62 (talk) 21:16, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
Any of the proposed hooks, including 3a, are fine with me. Cbl62 (talk) 22:41, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
  • Symbol redirect vote 4.svg Well, that's nice. But we want to get something hooky AND verified on the main page. Template:U, would you mind helping out here? Is ALT3a hooky/verified? Is anything hooky? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 23:28, 8 October 2020 (UTC)