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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)
- Reviewed: Mount Melbourne
Created by Cbl62 (talk). Self-nominated at 21:25, 5 October 2020 (UTC).
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Template:Ping do you realize that many of your television hooks are in the same format, using a quote to praise the production? See Template:Did you know nominations/Forbidden Area (Playhouse 90), Template:Did you know nominations/P.O.W. (United States Steel Hour), Template:Did you know nominations/Bang the Drum Slowly (United States Steel Hour) Maybe you could try a different angle? Yoninah (talk) 17:21, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
- And we just promoted Template:Did you know nominations/The Ford 50th Anniversary Show and Template:Did you know nominations/Sacco-Vanzetti Story. Yoninah (talk) 17:24, 8 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)- I'd like to encourage you to try to write a hook without using a quote. Anyway, Template:Tq meets WP:LIMITED. Yoninah (talk) 19:11, 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)
- Do you mean:
- ALT3a: ... that The Defender, a 1957 live drama starring Steve McQueen and William Shatner, was one of the first television cliffhangers? Yoninah (talk) 21:33, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
- Any of the proposed hooks, including 3a, are fine with me. Cbl62 (talk) 22:41, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
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)
- Why not go with alt 3 then? Cbl62 (talk) 21:16, 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)