MacGyver
Similarities to Target: In both, a hero draws on his technical skills and training to coming up with gimmicky solutions on the fly in dangerous situations.
What Target Should Have Taken From It: Richard Dean Anderson's hair. That shaggy mullet is still a TV legend, while Valley's close-cropped 'do is kinda forgettable. We guess it helps him blend in with the crowd, while a mullet that magnificent would give him away in a heartbeat.

Riptide
Similarities to Target: Both are about a trio that runs a private detective agency, and each team includes a geeky computer expert.
What Target Should Have Taken From It: Dude, no robot? Riptide had a robot -- actually, a "Roboz," invented by team nerd "Boz" Bozinsky. We'd like to see Jackie Earle Haley's character Guerrero build a robot to do chores around the office. Maybe the robot could have a kick-ass 'stache like his!

Remington Steele
Similarities to Target: Both Christopher Chance and titular hero Remington Steele are dapper, good-looking detectives with kick-ass fake names and mysterious pasts.
What Target Should Have Taken From It: Lady parts. Like its equally popular contemporaries Moonlighting and Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Steele gave its dashing rogue hero a female partner, providing back-up and sexual tension in one handy package. Adding a woman's intuition to the Target team might save it from becoming too much of a sausagefest.

Quantum Leap
Similarities to Target: A hero solving problems by assuming different identities every episode? That sounds a lot like what Sam Beckett used to do on the Leap.
What Target Should Have Taken From It: Time travel! The first couple of episodes of Target are pretty good, but they would have been a lot cooler if Chance had to go to the old West in one of them, and WWII Germany in another. Can't Guerrero invent the flux capacitor or something?

The Equalizer
Similarities to Target: A former secret agent with a network of contacts is hired each week to eliminate problems.
What Target Should Have Taken From It: Some pro bono work. If Chance is only gonna be hired to protect rich people, or someone that rich people have an interest in, it's gonna be hard to root for him. Hopefully he'll follow in the Equalizer's footsteps (and the A-Team's before him) and do some bodyguard work for free. It's not the soundest of business strategies, but if someone's in trouble and can't afford him, what's he gonna say, no?

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