Serial and Year: ISBN 0-8065-1242-3 / 1991.

Pages: 1/3 page.

Pictures: No pictures.

Article: Descripton of the failed TV pilot "Shamus: A Matter of Wife And Death".

Author: Lee Goldberg.

Publisher: Citadel Press / Carol Publishing Group.

Country: USA.

220. Shamus (aka A Matter of Wife and Death). NBC 4/10/76. 90 minutes. Columbia Pictures Television. Director: Marvin J. Chomsky. Executive Producer: David Gerber. Producer: Robert M. Weitman. Writer: Don Ingalls. Music: Richard Shores.

Rod Taylor is the wornanizing, freewheeling prívate eye Burt Reynolds played in producer Weitman's 1973 movie Shamus. Convenient narne. He's lucky his name wasn't "Bricklayer." Shamus works out of a pool hall run by Dick Butkus and has a friend-on-the-force (Shamus is a lucky guy) played by Joe Santos, who became James Garner's friend-on-theforce in The Rockfórd Files. In the pilot, Shamus investigates the murder of a small-time prívate eye whose office was bombed.

Cast: Rod Taylor (as Shamus), Joe Santos (Lt. Vince Promuto), Eddie Firestone (Blinky), Luke Askew (Snell), John Colicos (Joe Ruby), Tom Drake (Paulie Baker), Anita Gillette (Helen Baker), Charles Picemi (Bruno), Anne Archer (Carol), Larry Block (Springy), Dick Butkus (Heavy), Mare Alaimo (Angie), Cesare Danova (Dottore), Lynda Carter (Zelda).

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