It's hard to believe that with all the Forensic shows out there, true and dramatized; with all the acknowlegements toward John Douglas, Ann Burgess, Robert Ressler and their teams; and no matter how many times the shows mention it, people still don't get that the BSU was started in the early 1970's.
This show was closer to the actual time frame, and was starting to show the real process of how Profiling came to be.
The cases on this show, just like on Quincy M.E. (1976 - 1983, based on Dr Noguchi also more acurate as in closer to the time frame) Criminal Minds, and CSI {and all it's franchises}, and Netflix's ridiculous inaccurate version Mindhunter (continuity errors galore, she should be fired) are based on real cases and real processes.
Just like the other shows, this show also has made up ones and hopes for what we could do in the future.
For an example we did not have the capabilities to run DNA and DNA comparisons as this show tries to bring up in episodes 6 and 7, until many years later. No one entity, not even today, has all the gadgets and "technology" these shows portray.
This show wasn't so much ahead of it's time (especially compared to Quincy M.E.) as it lacks chemistry between the characters, all though it did not have very much time to develop. Plus people were not interested in Drama, they were interested in The Simpsons, Baywatch and Seinfeld (unfortunately).
It is definitly more accurate than MindHunter, however, Criminal Minds comes right out and tells you it's based on John Douglas, Robert Ressler, Ann Burgess and the BAU, this show does not, and for the record, the real BAU used helicopters and Cessnas, due to costs, Lear jets came much later. Even in this show, it would be one of those hope - for - the - future situations.
All that said, it would have been great if the show had a chance to develop and maybe got rid of the empath and brought up the hypnosis, which is more accurate at the time frame. Definitely a better show than the Simpsons, Baywatch and Seinfeld.
All that said, it would have been great if the show had a chance to develop and maybe got rid of the empath and brought up the hypnosis, which is more accurate at the time frame. Definitely a better show than the Simpsons, Baywatch and Seinfeld.