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Written by James M. Tate / 1/04/2015 / No comments / crime , cristine ferrare , elissa leeds , judy landers , michael mann , robert urich , seventies , TV , will sampson

TWO FLEW OVER THE FIRST TWO EPISODES OF VEGAS/VEGA$

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Will Sampson & Robert Urich on Vegas from 1978</u></td></tr>
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The pilot episode of VEGAS starring Robert Urich as smooth lady-killer Private Eye, Dan Tanna, started out a bit different than how it would gain traction later on…<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Will Sampson as Twoleaf</u></td></tr>
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Similar to another show a few years later, Dan is a Vietnam vet, and his war buddies, like MAGNUM P.I.'s big T.C. and shorter go-to guy Rick, are the tall Native American Will Sampson as Harlon Twoleaf and THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY actor Chick Vennera plays Costigan, a loyal hair-feathered friend. Thus Dan (with a gorgeous sister played by Catherine Hickland) had his team that would change in later installments: After the second episode, the ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST Sampson would only appear sporadically and Chick vanished completely after the pilot, both, for the most part, replaced by Bart Braverman’s Bobby ‘Binzer’ Borzo, who initially worked for the bad guys, unsuccessfully tailing Dan and, like Elliot Gould teaches David Arkin in Robert Altman’s THE LONG GOODBYE, Borzo learns he’s not cut out to be a gangster: token goofy sidekick was a much better fit. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Urich and Will Sampson on VEGAS</u></td></tr>
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The HIGH ROLLIN’ pilot evolves around a young hooker who makes like a bubbly cheerleader to turn on old men (including Michael Lerner). Dan is hired by her parents for the search – turns out, she ran out of the frying pan and into the fire of the Vegas nightlife. Meanwhile, in the b-story, playing a flashy Casino owner, Roth, who hires Dan to figure out how Red Buttons keeps winning the slots, is the iconic Tony Curtis... he only lasted through one season as well as Dan's sexy "secretary" Judy Landers.  <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Cristine Ferrare</u></td></tr>
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What works in the pilot and follow-up episode  titled CENTERFOLD (which is actually Episode One, the pilot Zero), in which Cristina Ferrare plays a model being blackmailed by crooks to pose in the flesh, is how well Robert Urich and Will Sampson complimented each other, literally going from location to location within the Las Vegas daylight, busting skulls until they get answers.<br />
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The final image of the second episode has the two strolling off together towards Dan Tanna’s slick hot rod. One can only imagine the possibilities if the series centering on the Urich/Sampson duo. And while VEGAS was a cool three-season series that, like most TV crime ventures, had hit and miss episodes, it would have been fantastic if the canvas remained true to the original template... Although Bart Braverman would probably disagree!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u> Catherine Hickland is Dan Tana's sister on the pilot of VEGAS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Will Sampson and Robert Urich head walk out of the VEGAS set</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Will Sampson, Chick Vennera and Robert Urich ready for duty</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>A spunky Elissa Leeds plays a hooker who dresses like a cheerleader</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>"I heard you own a diner... Should I make a Reservation?"</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Judy Landers plays a very hot human answering machine</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Will Sampson standing tall in the second episode of VEGA$</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Urich and Will Sampson on VEGAS</u></td></tr>
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crime, cristine ferrare, elissa leeds, judy landers, michael mann, robert urich, seventies, TV, will sampson

TWO FLEW OVER THE FIRST TWO EPISODES OF VEGAS/VEGA$

Will Sampson & Robert Urich on Vegas from 1978 The pilot episode of VEGAS starring Robert Urich as smooth lady-killer Private Eye,...

Written by James M. Tate / 1/12/2014 / No comments / billy jacoby , comedy , cult , eighties , high school , horror , judy landers , olivia barash , science-fiction , troy donahue

OLIVIA BARASH & BILLY JACOBY IN 'DR. ALIEN' W/ JUDY LANDERS

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>year of cinematic infestation: 1989 </u></td></tr>
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If a tree falls in the woods, and no one’s around to hear, does it make a sound? And if a movie’s meant to be awful, is it really? These are two difficult questions to answer but the second’s worth an attempt... <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Judy + Olivia Autographed DVD</u></td></tr>
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DR. ALIEN, a low budget science-fiction venture with Billy Jacoby as uptight high school student Wesley Littlejohn...<br />
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After becoming an experiment for the new, and very sexy, science teacher Judy Landers as Ms. Xenobia, he grows an antenna on his head and becomes lusted upon by every female on campus except Olivia Barash, the goody-goody dream-girl he’s been smitten with long before the Interstellar-Romeo morph: And unlike all the groupies, Barash's Leeanne doesn’t dig this “new improved” male slut one bit – until he becomes a rock star in a local band. And the high school sequences were filmed at Cypress College (in Orange County, California), this reviewer’s Alma mater – and perhaps personal nostalgia brings a heartfelt bias to the banal proceedings...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Olivia Barash at Cypress College SCORE: ***</u></td></tr>
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But channeling the many “so bad they’re good” 1950's martian flicks including b-movie b-actor cameos by the likes of Troy Donahue, and while adhering to a 1980's sex comedy template that, while waning by the latter eighties, had become a genre in itself during this decade that has been considered a sort of Neo-1950's... this awesome cult catastrophe works despite the deliberate cheese: And when Landers becomes what she’s been hiding, a space alien with a bloated green noggin who wants to take Wesley <i>home</i>, you'll either go with the flow or suffer the consequences...<br />
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Consequences which are at least entertaining unlike latter films by director  David DeCoteau, such as A TALKING CAT?, A TALKING PONY and AN EASTER BUNNY PUPPY making DR. ALIEN aka I WAS A TEENAGE SEX MUTANT, I WAS A TEENAGE SEX MANIAC or, depending where you're at, SOCORRO: ME PERSIGUE UN MARCIANO or MA PROF EST UNE EXTRATERRESTRE seem like THE GODFATHER or RAGING BULL or even something like THE CRAWLING EYE by comparison.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Judy Landers in the sci-fi 50's homage in the 80's of DR ALIEN</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Billy Jacoby (who's Billy Jayne now) and Judy Landers in DR. ALIEN</u></td></tr>
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billy jacoby, comedy, cult, eighties, high school, horror, judy landers, olivia barash, science-fiction, troy donahue