Life on "The $treet" and in the "Fast Lane"

Recent conversation has turned to two former Fox shows that were popular with our group, but never gained broad acceptance.

Along with Coach/Mike, I loved "The $treet". It premiered at the peak of the stock market bubble and focused on a bunch of stock traders at a brokerage firm. Sort of like a legitimate version of "Boiler Room" only without the evil Giovanni Ribisi. The show had a great cast, it starred Tom Everett Scott and Adam Goldberg, and an unknown actor played Freddy Sacker, a completely obnoxious boor who said the most inappropriate, politically incorrect things. He was awesome.


It also had a hot group of females too. Jennifer Connelly, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras-VeronicaVaughn, Nina Garbiras (the flat-chested reporter from "Boomtown") and as Mike correctly points out, Jennie Garth was in a few episodes. Only 7 episodes of this show ever aired.

"Fastlane" was also aired (briefly) on Fox. It wasn't quite as high brow, Bill Bellamy, Peter Facianelli (Mike Dexter) and Tiffani Thiessen were cops and the show was just explosions gunfights and hot chicks in sexual situations. Here's an sample plot: "Billie (Thiessen) has to go undercover to stop a gang of lesbian car theives. How far will she go, not to blow her cover?" Or "Van and Deaq investigate the murder of a stripper, and get drawn into their world." It was basically, mindless titilating entertainment. Which explains why Leary's brother liked it so much, young boys are curious. Fastlane actually lasted a full season of 22 episodes.

Ok, I just checked and there was an episode called "Strap On" which I got pretty close to. Here is the actual description: "Van and Deaq are hot on the trail of a pair of home invasion robbers who use an all-girl valet service to target rich homeowners. But their case hits a wall when they learn the targets are lesbians. Billie has to step in, go undercover and solve this one herself—going up against a hot and dangerous Sara."

Here's another episode, titled "Asslane", "Murdoch, a crazy crystal meth manufacturer, Lena, a porn producer who is his distributor. But when the Candy Store goes undercover to bust up the partnership, Billie and Van are horrified to be paired for porn, while Deaq rides solo with a strung-out Murdoch."