I think that "Diagnosis: BEAR" could be a pretty sweet tv show about an investigative medical examiner who solves crimes by detailed procedural methods in a remote Yukon-like area way up in the rural Alaskan reaches or thereabouts. His whole deal is, he brings the most modern scientific methods to bear to crack the case in this scenic backwoods environment. Maybe expanding a few minds, as he goes. That's this M.E.'s M.O.
Every episode, there would be a new case to solve. At the end of every episode, after a lot of suspense and red herrings, the murder would be pretty conclusively pinned on a local bear known to be furtively rampaging in the region. The show would not go into any of the efforts to catch the bear - if such efforts were being made, it would be quite out of the department of our hero's exploits.
The story arc that would straddle the second half of the second season, the cliffhanger season finale, and the epoch-breaking first five episodes of the third season (including the 2-hour long "very special" 3rd episode) would involve a copycat killer.
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Man, I was just looking at an old post (this post here, DIAGNOSIS: BEAR)and nestled into the comments of it was this sweet tv show pitch idea!
I couldn't believe I'd forgotten it. This is better than a lot of my tv show ideas, I had to lift it out and post it verbatim.
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I could see the bear now looking furtively over it's shoulder, when really he was just hungry.
@jorg - that bear's a killer. Don't be fooled.
@Mel - that's kind of a...pig-bear.
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