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Originally Posted by
Johdus Fanfoozal 
For reals.
Take this guy. Accused of a crime he didn't commit. On the lam from a military swat team.
Forced every fucking week to do pro-bono work for widows, orphans and cripples. Puttin up with Murdoch and his daily bullshit.
And STILL look how happy he is...

That's a common misconception. Although it's true the crew never took payment for services from the widows, orphans and cripples they helped they usually extracted payment from the ne'er-do-wells who were the antagonists of each episode. For example, if they took down a crime syndicate that was hassling the Dry Cleaner for shakedown money they would steal equipment, money and supplies from the crime syndicate, thus allowing them to continue on and do more good works in the future.
R.I.P. Stephen J. Cannell.