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Not important
enough to matter,
but way too
important
to ignore!
And
now, for a
little imagination!
If
we could only go back and juggle the creative ingredients of the Silver
Age of Television, what interesting concepts and casts we could come up
with! Bear with me as I indulge myself, and imagine the potential of productions
that never were...
"Donovan, Dibbs, Doyle & Dean"
..... (series
pilot synopsis, Western, Action)
Lloyd Donovan, a boozed-out lawman (Chuck Connors), teams up with a cockeyed
horse trader (Warren Oates), a discredited Pinkerton agent (Nick Adams)
and a broken-down buffalo skinner (Jack Elam), to put out of business
the gambler (Jack Palance) who stole his town.
..... (1964— written by Laurence
Heath; directed by Sam
Peckinpah)
"Brother's Keeper"
..... (made-for-TV
movie synopsis, Fantasy, Western, Romance)
When Hank Corbin (Vic Morrow) is hung for murder in frontier Laramie,
his wandering soul is permitted to enter the body of his twin brother
Zack, who has simultaneously died in a gold-mining mishap in Colorado.
After returning home with Panther Eyes (Ricardo Montalban), his newfound
spirit guide, he discovers that his older brother Sam (Ross Martin) has
married the widow (Madlyn Rhue) of the man he killed in self defense,
and is working for Duncan McDonald (Claude Akins), the corrupt sheriff
who framed Hank to win the hand of his former sweetheart, Sally (Susan
Oliver).
..... (1970— written by Rod
Serling; directed by Richard
Donner)
"The Collar Squad"
..... (series
pilot synopsis, Drama, Crime, Mystery)
Research criminologist Burton Theodore (Will Geer) leaves retirement to
assemble a team of experts to fight white-collar crime in Los Angeles
after his only grandson is drowned by a money laundering kingpin (Pernell
Roberts). Eager to join the high-level squad are psychologist Eric Larson
(John Dehner), mystery playwright Melissa Burke (Jessica Walter), and
mathematician Tony Lamina (Martin Sheen). Less enamored is police detective
Logan Gregory (Bradford Dillman).
..... (1968— written by Paul
Playdon; directed by Leonard
J. Horn)
"Timber Line"
..... (series
pilot synopsis, Western, Action)
Ruthless cattleman Reed Marley (Barry Sullivan) employs bounty hunter
Cade Jansen (Clint Walker) to track down his missing trail boss (Christopher
George), the only man alive who can implicate him in a crooked land deal,
but then hires professional killer Joseph Copperhead (Richard Boone) to
murder them both.
..... (1967— written and directed by
Tom Gries)
And, now, what if we jump to the present? Let's
build four ideas around some old favorites, matching them with outstanding
talent...
"The Defectors"
..... (series
pilot synopsis, Crime, Comedy, Romance)
Bored with life in Palm Springs, former con man Jasper "The Stud"
Collins (Adam West) forms a crime-fighting partnership with an old mentor
released from prison, Elias "The Prospector" Knox (Dabbs Greer),
in an effort to win the approval of a beautiful federal undercover agent,
Jasper's estranged daughter Andrea (Kelly Rutherford). Converted to their
cause is an active grifter, Tate "The Ermine" Mitchell (Christina
Applegate), but The Ermine has creative ideas of her own when the target
is a hunky swindler (Kevin Sorbo).
..... (1999— written and directed by
Henry Winkler)
"Bison Flats"
..... (made-for-TV
movie synopsis, Drama, Western, Romance)
Former slave and cavalry soldier Hamilton "Hambone" Bartholomew
(Julius Carry) seeks his destiny in the Dakota Territory. Trouble boils
over when he decides to court Molly (Alfre Woodard), longtime caregiver
to wealthy Judge Oliver Tollhouse (Robert Culp), who, on his deathbed,
is rumored to have named the black woman as his sole heir. The judge's
political enemies, federal marshall Wyeth Dukes (Sam Elliott) and Indian
agent Abe Malta (Mandy Patinkin), are not about to stand by and watch.
..... (2001— written by Ed
Spielman; directed by Peter
Medak)
"Password: Peril"
..... (series pilot
synopsis, Drama, Crime)
Special Agent Joyce Devlin (Brenda Bakke) has a highly unorthodox plan
to help the FBI bust a ring of extremists hacking into government systems—
teach computer science to 3 aging geniuses killing time in federal maximum
security prison. All they have to do to get a presidential pardon is to
successfully participate on her secret team. Eager to get started are
gambler Mickey Castle (Jack Hogan), embezzler Rudy Kincaid (Larry Hagman),
and safecracker Tommy Van Gelder (Peter Graves). Agent Devlin has only
one problem— making sure her criminal recruits don't find out that
the Attorney General (Tim Matheson) hasn't mentioned anything to the White
House about the project.
..... (1998— written and directed by
Phil Alden Robinson)
"The Hawk and the Raven— Lost Days of
Houston"
..... (made-for-TV
movie synopsis, Drama, Adventure)
Learning that Sam Houston (Brad Johnson) has left Nashville to make his
home among the Cherokee, Benjamin Broadwing (Wes Studi) pays a visit to
his boyhood companion. He finds Houston on a drinking binge and at odds
with notorious land speculator Emerson Shelby (Keith Carradine). The situation
is futher complicated by a pulp novelist (Johnny Crawford) who hopes to
nudge them into fighting a duel. Ben intervenes, risking his friendship
with the famous leader, and is then arrested for murder when Shelby is
found dead.
..... (2000— written by John
Milius; directed by Simon
Wincer)
We play and we know that we play,
so we must be more than merely rational beings, for play is irrational.
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. . —
J o h a n . H u i z i n g a
Notice
to Hollywood scoundrels— all the dramatic concepts within this Web
page are the creative property of John Dixon, but you already knew that,
right? (copyright, 2001)
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