ABC (Wed., July 31, 10 P.M. ET)
C
The primary aim of television pilots, whether they succeed or fail (as this one did), is to be eye-catching. This slick miniflick, directed by Robert (Hill Street Blues) Butler, has the requisite energy but not enough to overwhelm a formulaic plot and egregiously artificial characters.
William (Wiseguy) Russ plays a dashing San Francisco TV reporter. Cheryl (Hull High) Pollak is his Harvard-Sorbonne-educated protégée.
For Russ, it's a faster talking version of the role he played in last year's quickly canceled Capitol News. But farfetched doesn't begin to describe this trench-coated crusader, who packs a pistol in his boot. Is this guy Geraldo or Bat Masterson?
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