The Phoenix aired on ABC on March 19, 1982, and ended on April 16, 1982.īlond-haired, blue-eyed Judson Scott was Bennu of the Golden Light, an ancient extraterrestrial who was awakened from his sleeping place in Peru. It was moved from its original Friday night position to Tuesday, but the viewers still never showed up.
The network did like the show enough to try to find a better night and time slot. Sadly, the series debuted against CBS's very popular series The Dukes of Hazzard. Orson Welles had originally been asked to play the role, but creative differences with Paramount, the production company, prompted him to bow out of the project. My poor feet are still aching from all the running I had to do in Cannon," referring to his previous five-year stint on ABC as private detective Frank Cannon. Conrad took the role because he liked the idea of playing a detective who let someone else do all the legwork, jokingly saying that, "I don't have to run any more. Lee Horsely, in his first television role, was his able-bodied assistant, Archie Goodwin. It had no gimmicks at all and was a welcome departure from The Hardy Boys.Īiring on NBC from January 16, 1981, to August 25, 1981, William Conrad brought to life Rex Strout's reclusive, orchid loving detective, Nero Wolf. Cassidy was proud of the show and how it dealt with real human issues and relationships.
It ran from November 29, 1980, to January 10, 1981.Ĭassidy didn't see the film before beginning to work on the series as he didn't want to allow his take on Dave Stohler to be influenced by the way Dennis Christopher portrayed the character in the film. It was pulled from the schedule after filming only eight episodes, only seven of which were shown. While ABC had publicized it heavily, audiences didn't seem to notice it once it came on the air. The series may have done a little better than it did if it hadn't been caught up in the 1980 Screen Actors Guild strike, which prevented it from going into production until late in the fall. Shaun Cassidy, who gained teen idol status as Joe Hardy on The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, took on the role of Dave Stohler, a guy who loved bicycle racing in the series Breaking Away, inspired by the 1979 feature film of the same name.
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