The Ten Year Honeymoon: Claude Akins and Paul Burke
The Ten Year Honeymoon, Season 1, Episode 3, aired Tuesday October 23, 1973. Claude Akins and Paul Burke have been partners for ten years, but suddenly Akins is acting shockingly out of character. No spoilers, but it does have some intense shooting violence and (fairly fake-looking) blood. It's a great episode, in my Top Five of the series. It opens at the Claude Akins' family home. Very Valley but couldn't say where exactly as so much of the Valley looks (looked?) like that. But never too far from Toluca Lake. Why do they always have older actors with such young kids? Claude Akins is 47 here. Paul Burke was just two months younger than Akins; both born in mid-1926. Check out this Planet of the Apes blog for Claude Akins as I always think of him, when I'm not thinking of Movin' On . Akins picks Burke up at 1901 Riverside Drive in Glendale -- oddly at a business called Jacob Equipment. The duo drive to Toluca Lake, past Toluca Lake Florist, and again, was it reall...