Shows that have done a 'Rear Window' episode

Last night's Leverage got me thinking about this. With a little help from Wikipedia (though their list is by no means comprehensive), here are all my shows that have done some sort of takeoff on the movie:

Early Edition
White Collar
Psych
Person of Interest
Leverage

And I'm probably forgetting some. Plus a whole bunch of other shows that I haven't seen. (Maybe some of you have seen versions that I haven't?)

It's fascinating just how pervasive the "disabled person spies on a criminal" trope has become. It may just be our modern version of the "locked room mystery." And it's usually pretty well done, in my experience: White Collar's version, though part of a generally weak season, had some genuine laugh-out-loud moments, while PoI's version was my favorite episode of that show so far. (One could argue that the whole series is a version of Rear Window, but in this instance it was a neat twist having Reese be the disabled person, for a change.) And Leverage's Parker, last night, made a fantastic "Jeff Jeffries," although it's extremely difficult to believe that our acrobatic girl could have injured her leg in the first place!

All I know is, if I ever decide to commit a crime, I'm going to check the neighborhood very carefully first for people with wheelchairs or crutches!

I have been assimilated

As mosinging1986 knows, I've finally been talked into watching LOST. I'm now four episodes in. Someone tell me, do Sawyer and Locke improve at all? Because right now the former is annoying me and the latter is creeping me out. Though I have to say the "Walkabout" episode was beautifully done. I've picked up an awful lot about the show and the characters over the years, through what they call "fandom osmosis," but apparently not as much as I thought, because I truly did not see that twist coming.

Anyway, given the way that TV shows go, those two will probably turn out to be the big heroes or something.