the Good Guys vs. The Bad Guys
The international adventure stories prevalent on television follow meticulously
a plot which is inexorable to its development. Those are on the side of law and
justice face perfidious men and organizations. These are anathema to those values
the staunch heros would defend. These infamous men have no capacity for 
compassion, they treat the lovely women with opprobrium. The intrepid heros
are place in deleterious situations as a result of the Machiavellian 
maneuvers of their opponents. One unconscionable act of duplicity follows another
until the total destruction of the "good guys" seems at hand. At the last
moment, usually amidst the pandemonium of battle, the cause for which the heros
strive triumphs. However, evil is ubiquitous, and next week another fracas will
erupt.


through thick and thin--in spite of all sorts of difficulties.
He decided to stick with his fairweather friends through thick and thin.