Picks and Pans Review: Joe Panther

UPDATED 08/18/1980 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 08/18/1980 at 01:00 AM EDT

NBC (9-11 p.m. ET)

A young Seminole Indian, Ray Tracey, longs to escape the reservation—and his degrading job wrestling alligators for tourists—but despairs when a friend dies trying to help him. Ricardo Montalban, as wise elder Turtle George, helps set him right in this TV movie. (No, he doesn't send him to Fantasy Island.)