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Dan August es una serie dramática estadounidense que se emitió en ABC desde el 23 de septiembre de 1970 hasta el 8 de abril de 1971. Burt Reynolds interpretó al personaje principal. Se retransmitieron episodios en horario estelar por CBS desde mayo hasta octubre de 1973 y desde abril hasta junio de 1975.

Premisa

El teniente de policía Dan August investiga casos de homicidio en su ciudad natal (ficticia) de Santa Luisa, California. Se supone que la ciudad está basada en Santa Bárbara, California , pero la película se rodó en Oxnard .

Elenco

Barney Phillips tuvo un papel recurrente como Mike Golden, el médico forense. John Lasell también tuvo un papel recurrente como Benjamin Wedlock.

Estrellas invitadas

Entre los actores invitados se incluyen Diana Muldaur en el episodio piloto "Murder by Proxy"; Martin Sheen en "Dead Witness to a Killing"; Dabney Coleman en "The King Is Dead"; Larry Hagman en "The Law"; John Ritter en "Quadrangle of Death"; y Harrison Ford , Billy Dee Williams , Mickey Rooney , David Soul y Gary Busey en "The Manufactured Man". Ahna Capri interpretó a Linda Perry en "Death Chain" y "Prognosis: Homicide".

Otros actores invitados que aparecieron en el programa incluyen a Michael Ontkean , Joan Hackett , Vera Miles , Annette O'Toole , Gary Collins , Ricardo Montalbán , Ford Rainey , Carolyn Jones , Fritz Weaver , John Marley , Janice Rule , Alexandra Hay , Norman Alden , Joan Van Ark , Bradford Dillman , Geraldine Brooks , Donna Mills , Victor French , Richard Basehart , Sherry Lansing , Monte Markham , Jan-Michael Vincent , Stephen Collins , Laurence Luckinbill , Lee Meriwether , Sal Mineo , Anna Navarro , Richard O'Brien , Fernando Lamas , Ellen Corby , Susan Oliver , John Beck , Michael Pataki , Diana Hyland y Simon Scott .

Episodios

Producción

Reynolds recordó más tarde: "Juré que nunca interpretaría a un policía en la televisión porque no puedes hacer chistes ni tener una mujer. Acabas queriendo mucho a tu coche. Estaba a punto de irme cuando Quinn pronunció las palabras mágicas: 15.000 dólares a la semana". [ 1 ]

The series was based on Quinn Martin's 1970 TV movie House on Greenapple Road, starring Janet Leigh, which was based on Harold R. Daniels' 1966 mystery novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Day from a script by George Eckstein. Christopher George played Dan August, with Keenan Wynn as Sergeant Wilentz and Barry Sullivan as Chief Untermeyer. Ned Romero was the only actor in the film who reprised his role in the series.[2]

Reception and legacy

While the series' ratings weren't high enough to be renewed for a second season, Dan August became a fan favorite in repeats, particularly after Reynolds' popularity surged in the mid-1970s with his escalating movie career. CBS re-broadcast the series both on The CBS Late Movie and in prime time reruns, during the summer of 1973 and 1975, to larger audiences.[3]

Television films

An ABC television movie titled Dan August: Once Is Never Enough was broadcast on January 4, 1980. The film consisted of footage from episode 15, "Death Chain" and episode 25, "Prognosis: Homicide," cut together to television film length. ABC and Quinn Martin productions were looking to capitalize on the popularity of Burt Reynolds, who was one of Hollywood's biggest stars at that time.

Four further Dan August ABC TV films were produced, all of which were edited from earlier episodes into film-length narratives. The episodes starring Diana Muldaur and Dabney Coleman, ("Murder by Proxy" and "The King Is Dead") were edited into the second film Dan August: The Jealousy Factor, which was broadcast on February 4, 1980 and was followed by three more compilations, of selected episodes Dan August: The Trouble with Women ("Epitaph for a Swinger" and "The Titan"), broadcast on June 1, 1980; Dan August: The Lady Killers ("When the Shouting Dies" and "The Worst Crime") and Dan August: Murder, My Friend ("Trackdown" and "Bullet for a Hero"), were both broadcast in November, 1980.[4]

Home media

On December 7, 2018, Visual Entertainment released the complete series on DVD in Region 1. The set includes "House on Greenapple Road" with Christopher George as August.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Burt Prelutsky: Dos modelos de portada. Los Angeles Times, 24 de diciembre de 1972, pág. K14.
  2. ↑ Marill, Alvin H. Películas hechas para televisión: el telefilme y la miniserie 1964-1986 . Página 190.
  3. ↑ Brooks, Tim y Marsh, Earle. Directorio completo de programas de televisión de horario estelar de 1946 a la actualidad (4.ª edición) . Nueva York, Ballantine Books, 1988. págs. 181-182.
  4. ↑ "EpixHD - Dan August: El factor celos" . Archivado del original el 30 de mayo de 2014. Consultado el 22 de enero de 2013 .
  5. ↑ "Dan August - La colección completa" . Consultado el 12 de octubre de 2018 .