Watch the Opening Credit of an Imaginary 70s Cop Present Starring Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beck­ett: avant-garde drama­tist, brood­ing Nobel Prize win­ner, poet, and…gritty tele­vi­sion detec­tive? Unhappy­ly, no, however he had the mak­ings of a terrific one, no less than as lower togeth­er by play­wright Dan­ny Thomp­son, cofounder of Chicago’s The­ater Oobleck. Some 35 years after Beckett’s dying, Thompson—whose cred­its embody the Com­plete Misplaced Works of Samuel Beck­ett as…