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* SigningOffCatchphrase: "Goodnight, America, wherever you are."
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* SigningOffCatchphrase: Jack always signed off his radio show with "Goodnight, America, wherever you are."
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* SaltAndPepper: Jack and Deacon, when they work together. Deacon is more relaxed and outgoing than Jack, but he takes his job very seriously, which can lead to conflict when his priorities conflict with Jack's.
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''Midnight Caller'' was an American drama television series that aired on Creator/{{NBC}} from 1988-1991.
Months after accidentally shooting his partner dead, former San Francisco cop Jack Killian (Creator/GaryCole) is recruited by Devon King (Wendy Kilbourne), the manager of a local radio station, to host a midnight radio talk-back show to offer knowledge to listeners that wish to keep themselves safe from the city’s growing criminal world. Ever the humanitarian, Jack can’t help but get personally involved with the plight of those who call his show.
Months after accidentally shooting his partner dead, former San Francisco cop Jack Killian (Creator/GaryCole) is recruited by Devon King (Wendy Kilbourne), the manager of a local radio station, to host a midnight radio talk-back show to offer knowledge to listeners that wish to keep themselves safe from the city’s growing criminal world. Ever the humanitarian, Jack can’t help but get personally involved with the plight of those who call his show.
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''Midnight Caller'' was an American drama television series that aired for three seasons (1988–91) on Creator/{{NBC}} from 1988-1991.
Creator/{{NBC}}.
Months after accidentally shooting his partner dead, former San Francisco cop Jack Killian (Creator/GaryCole) is recruited by Devon King (Wendy Kilbourne), the manager of a local radio station, to host a midnight radio talk-back show to offer knowledge to listeners that wish to keep themselves safe from the city’s growing criminal world. Ever the humanitarian, Jack can’t help but get personally involved with the plight of those who call into his show.
Months after accidentally shooting his partner dead, former San Francisco cop Jack Killian (Creator/GaryCole) is recruited by Devon King (Wendy Kilbourne), the manager of a local radio station, to host a midnight radio talk-back show to offer knowledge to listeners that wish to keep themselves safe from the city’s growing criminal world. Ever the humanitarian, Jack can’t help but get personally involved with the plight of those who call into his show.
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** "Midnight Caller" was originally a Music/{{Badfinger}} song, which was actually about a HighClassCallGirl (the show's creator Richard [=DiLello=] worked for Apple Records and wrote the memoir ''The Longest Cocktail Party'' about the experience).
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** "Midnight Caller" was originally a Music/{{Badfinger}} song, which was actually about a HighClassCallGirl (the show's creator Richard [=DiLello=] worked for with Badfinger when he had an office job at Apple Records and Records, a job he later wrote about in the memoir ''The Longest Cocktail Party'' about the experience).Party'').
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** "Midnight Caller" was originally a Music/{{Badfinger}} song.
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** "Midnight Caller" was originally a Music/{{Badfinger}} song.song, which was actually about a HighClassCallGirl (the show's creator Richard [=DiLello=] worked for Apple Records and wrote the memoir ''The Longest Cocktail Party'' about the experience).
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* RaisedCatholic: Jack is a lifelong Catholic, although he isn't very devout.
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Not So Different has been renamed, and it needs to be dewicked/moved
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* NotSoDifferent: John Saringo accuses the people gathered outside the prison of being as bad as he is, since they're celebrating another human being's death.
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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: John Saringo accuses the people gathered outside the prison of being as bad as he is, since they're celebrating another human being's death.
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Your Cheating Heart is an index, not a trope.
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* LoonyFan: Angel from the first episode, who is convinced that she and Jack were meant to be because they both experienced their first kill of an innocent (well, [[YourCheatingHeart relatively speaking]] for Angel) on the same date.
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* LoonyFan: Angel from the first episode, who is convinced that she and Jack were meant to be because they both experienced their first kill of an innocent (well, [[YourCheatingHeart relatively speaking]] speaking for Angel) on the same date.
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* YourCheatingHeart: In "The Reverend Soundbite," [[spoiler:Zymak admits that he is having an affair with the city supervisor. He eventually breaks it off, but by then the damage to his marriage is done.]]
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* WeddingDay: Devon marries Richard Clark in "Sale Away." She goes into labor in the middle of the ceremony, causing the priest to rush through the rest of it as quickly as possible. By the time he says, "You may kiss the bride," everyone has run out of the room.
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* WeddingDay: WeddingEpisode: Devon marries Richard Clark in "Sale Away." She goes into labor in the middle of the ceremony, causing the priest to rush through the rest of it as quickly as possible. By the time he says, "You may kiss the bride," everyone has run out of the room.
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* KiddieKid: "Do You Believe in Miracles?" has a thirteen-year-old girl who spouts adorable one-liners like "Maybe he was grumpy because [[EightiesHair his hair]] hurt. It looked really sharp!" Surprising, since other episodes have kids her age who act more realistically adolescent.
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* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Jack's boss, Devon King, inherited KJCM from her father Mel, the "Laundromat King."
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* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Jack's boss, Devon King, inherited received KJCM as a twenty-first birthday present from her father Mel, the "Laundromat King."
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* CardboardBoxes: While Jack is running away from a shooter in "With Malice Towards One," he knocks over a trash can to delay him.
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* ChaseSceneObstacleCourse: While Jack is running away from a shooter in "With Malice Towards One," he knocks over a trash can to delay him.
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* ScrapHeapHero: After he shoots Rusty, Jack quits the force and falls into a deep depression, spending six months drowning his sorrows and letting his life fall apart. He doesn't start to recover until Devon hires him.
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* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: Jack's original boss Devon King pretty much gave him free rein and seemed more interested in well-researched, even-handed coverage of social issues than in ratings. Her replacement Nicky Molloy is much tougher and stricter and cares about building the business above all else.
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* BigNo: Jack does this twice after he kills Rusty.
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* UnderNewManagement: After Devon [[PutOnABus moves to Tahiti]], KJCM is bought by a young businesswoman named Nicky Molloy. She's a lot business-minded and ruthless than Devon, and less willing to give Jack free rein.
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* UnderNewManagement: After Devon [[PutOnABus moves to Tahiti]], KJCM is bought by a young businesswoman named Nicky Molloy. She's a lot more business-minded and ruthless than Devon, and less willing to give Jack free rein.
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* UnderNewManagement: After Devon [[PutOnABus moves to Tahiti]], KJCM is bought by a young businesswoman named Nicky Molloy. She's a lot business-minded and ruthless than Devon, and less willing to give Jack free rein.
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* PutOnABus: Wendy Kilbourne temporarily quit acting in 1990 to raise her family. As a result, Devon spends most of Season 3 in Tahiti.
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* PutOnABus: Wendy Kilbourne temporarily quit acting in 1990 to raise her family. As a result, Devon spends most of Season 3 in Tahiti. She's replaced by Nicky Molloy (Lisa Eilbacher).
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* PutOnABus: Wendy Kilbourne temporarily quit acting in 1990 to raise her family. As a result, Devon spends most of Season 3 in Tahiti.
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* EightiesHair: Jack's producer Billy Po's mullet, and his friend Deacon's hi-top fade haircut.
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* EightiesHair: Jack's producer Billy Po's mullet, and his friend Deacon's hi-top fade haircut.flattop.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: In "Someone to Love," Jack hears that Tina is about to die of AIDS. He spends most of the episode flashing back to the previous December, when he briefly cared for her while her condition worsened.
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* LostHimInACardGame: J. J. won his second "wife" by gambling, and lost her the same way.
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* MaternityCrisis: Devon goes into labor in the middle of her wedding.
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* RecognizableBySound: As Jack says in the first episode, "I may forget a face, but I never forget a voice." His ability comes in handy when criminals call the station or when he meets callers in person.
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* VehicularKidnapping: The villains of "With Malice Towards One" drive a windowless blue van. They use it to kidnap Billy and beat him almost to death, and later to [[CarFu try to run Jack down]].
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* FollowThatCar: Jack tries this with two police officers in "City of Lost Souls." Unfortunately, he's dressed as a homeless man at the time, so he only succeeds in getting himself arrested.
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* IWasQuiteAFashionVictim: In "City of Lost Souls," Jack and Laurie look at some pictures of Jack during his high school years in the early 1970s.
-->'''Laurie''': You're a lot better looking without the sideburns.\\
'''Jack''': Ooh, look at that. That's the last time I'll be a slave to fashion.\\
'''Laurie''': I can see why.
-->'''Laurie''': You're a lot better looking without the sideburns.\\
'''Jack''': Ooh, look at that. That's the last time I'll be a slave to fashion.\\
'''Laurie''': I can see why.
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* KillThePoor: G. Gordon Liddy's character in "City of Lost Souls" arranges for homeless people to be murdered because he sees them as leeches.
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* ManOnFire: The villains of "City of Lost Souls" murder homeless people by setting them on fire.
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** Jack's priest is named Joe DeMaggio.
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** Jack's priest is named Joe DeMaggio.[=DeMaggio=].
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* AffectionateNickname: Nicky calls Jack "Ace."
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* JustifiedTitle: "City of Lost Souls" sounds like it refers to San Francisco, but it's actually the name of a homeless camp.
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* LukeYouAreMyFather: In "City of Lost Souls," a seventeen-year-old girl named Laurie Windrow tells Jack he's her father. [[spoiler: Turns out she's not actually his - she's the daughter of his high school best friend, Sonny Rote.]]
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* TeenPregnancy: Laurie Windrow is the daughter of Jack's high school prom date.
