Amanda Reed and Jake West
Created by Keith Johnson

AMANDA REED and JAKE WEST are two star-crossed, bickering crime reporters working for the tabloid Crime World Magazine in this short-lived Canadian TV show from 1986.

It really wasn't that good -- a lame attempt to cash in on the then-current popularity of Moonlighting.  But the same producers did considerably better the next year with Diamonds. The show -- all twelve episodes -- was intended for CBS, who played it late-night in the fall of 1986 (which meant it could not be simulcast by CTV). It aired on the CTV in 1987.

TELEVISION

• HOT SHOTS
  (1986, CTV)
  12 60-minute episodes
  Based on a concept by Keith Johnson
  Directors: Tim Bond
  Theme written by Dominic Troiano
  An Alliance Entertainment Production
  Starring Dorothy Parke as AMANDA REED
  and Booth Savage as JAKE WEST
  Also starring Paul Burke as Nicholas Broderick
  Clark Johnson as Al Pendleton
  and Heather Smith, Mung Ling
  Guest stars: Henry Czerny
  .

• "The Star" (September 23, 1986)
• "Bluebeard's Inn" (September 30 , 1986)
• "Warriors7 October 7, 1986)
• "All in the Game" (October 14, 1986)
• "To Bee or Not to Bee" (October 21, 1986)
• "Accidental Victims" (October 28, 1986)
• "Cut Off in His Prime" (November 11, 1986)
• "Absent Minded" (November 18, 1986)
• "Tails You Lose" (November 25, 1986)
• "Writ of Habeas Corpse" (December 2, 1986)
• "The Family Jules" (December 9, 1986)
• "Roll Over, Agatha Christie" (December 16, 1986)
• "Riot" (December 23, 1986)

Report respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.