The 1980-1 season was delayed due to strikes, not unlike what happened last year.
As a result, NBC held back the 2nd season of Lobo (formerly The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo) until the end of December, and thought they were starting off with a bang.
Elroy Lobo (Claude Akins, ex-Nashville 99, Movin' On) and his deputies, Birdwell "Birdie" Hawkins (Brian Kerwin) & Perkins (Mills Watson) are assigned to a special task force in Atlanta, although the governor is unaware that it was Perkins who caused the accident that put him in the hospital.
Once in Atlanta, the guys meet their new boss (Nicolas Coster, ex-Another World), and Hildy Jones (Nell Carter, billed as Nell Ruth Carter), which means Lobo has to put more emphasis on detective work, as he's now a long way away from Orly County.
In the opener, a theft ring uses mud wrestling as a cover. Richard Anderson (ex-The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Dan August), who played his fair share of Western villains back in the day, is the lead villain here.
Gone was Frankie Laine's theme song. In its place is a variation on "Georgia On My Mind", but Ray Charles isn't credited.
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I actually remember watching The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo back when the Retro Television Network reran the show around 2008/2009 or so(KIRO-TV locally carried the channel on one of their subchannels, and our cable system picked up the channel).
Not a bad series actually, and I wish someone would either rerun it again, or put it on streaming...
Incidentally, I only remember them running the first season as I do not recall them running the episodes where Lobo and company were in Atlanta.
We lost Retro in the 518 a few years ago, due likely to redundancy since MeTV had been added at that time.
Ah, NBC during the Fred Silverman years. Throw anything and everything at prime time, and hope that something sticks. Let me tell you about the time he thought a TV show about a giant supersonic train would be a big hit. :D
I've covered Supertrain, Chuck.
@Hobbyfan: i'm kind of surprised MeTV, or anyone hasn't reran the show since Retro Television Network reran it...
The subchannel I mentioned incidentally has since switched to GetTV, and is now Cozi TV; Retro Television Network, or RTV as I think they're known now has not been picked up in Seattle since KIRO dropped it(although, from looking at their schedule I don't think it's really missed that much).
We had GetTV here, too, and lost that, but now we have Cozi TV. I'm hoping we get MeTV Toons when it debuts next week.
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