" [Note: The word ""EARTH"" couldn""t fit on the tarp and was written on the cab door.] Max hurriedly collected leaking gasoline from one of the two crashed cars.[Note: Some of he dripping gasoline fuel was mixed with the red blood of the murdered rucker - a cryptic metaphor for the lives lost over fuel competition.Other copy-cat husband/wife sleuthing comedies were also inspired, such as these 1970s-1980s shows:McMillan and Wife(1971-1977), on NBC, with Rock Hudson and Susan Saint JamesHart to Hart(1979-1984), on ABC, with Robert Wagner and Stefanie PowersRemington Steele(1982-1987), on NBC, with Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie ZimbalistMoonlighting(1985-1989), on ABC, with Bruce Willis and Cybill ShepherdWoody Allen""s part-homage filmManhattan Murder Mystery (1993)starred the director and Diane Keaton as the Liptons, modeled after the Charles couple...Marriage license.Did you say marriage license?Cruikshank: Now don""t change the subject.Just give me the stamps.Reggie: Oh, I love you, Adam...Alex...Peter...Brian...(his identities are seen in split-screen) Whatever your name is.Oh, I love you.I hope we have a lot of boys and we can name them all after you.Cruikshank: Well, before we start that, may I have the stamps?They kiss.BackgroundCat On a Hot Tin Roof(1958) is the powerful, highly-charged, moving story of a neurotic, dysfunctional Southern family with its rivalries, tensions, and avarice.Doolittle (1967),Star! (1968), andHello, Dolly! (1969).The star of the film was the previous year""s Best Actress Academy Award winner, a fresh-faced Julie Andrews in a similar role as her governess performance inMary Poppins (1964).