Alex L'Hiboux (Adrian Paul, Highlander: The Series) - his last name is the owl, get it? - is a vigilante who is known as The Owl because he hasn't slept since his wife and daughter were killed eight years ago. Thanks to a young girl named Lisa (Erika Flores), he takes on a case to find her father and reconnects with the policewoman who helped him on the night of the tragedy that changed his life, Danny Santerre (Patricia Charbonneau).
Originally broadcast as a television pilot on CBS from 10:45 p.m. To 11:45 p.m. On Saturday, August 3, 1991 - this is what we call burning off a pilot - this was a 48-minute episode. When it was released on home video, every single shot ever filmed was reused and padded to make it 84 minutes long. Director and writer Tom Holland asked for his name to be taken off the home video.
Brian Thomson, who plays the bartender who is The Owl's frenemy, was the Night Slasher in Cobra, Bozworth in Fright Night 2 (which Holland did not work on) and Shao Khan in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. Oh yeah, speaking of people in Cannon movies, Rick Zumwalt - Bull Hurley from Over the Top, Joshua in Penitentiary III and Boom Boom in Rockula - also shows up. And holy Canadian crap, there's Alan Scarfe, the dad from Cathy's Curse!
You know why people liked the Punisher back before his logo became a Nazi flag for cowards? Because you could have empathy for what he's been through. The Owl seems like such a jerk that it's hard to ever feel anything for him.
Originally broadcast as a television pilot on CBS from 10:45 p.m. To 11:45 p.m. On Saturday, August 3, 1991 - this is what we call burning off a pilot - this was a 48-minute episode. When it was released on home video, every single shot ever filmed was reused and padded to make it 84 minutes long. Director and writer Tom Holland asked for his name to be taken off the home video.
Brian Thomson, who plays the bartender who is The Owl's frenemy, was the Night Slasher in Cobra, Bozworth in Fright Night 2 (which Holland did not work on) and Shao Khan in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. Oh yeah, speaking of people in Cannon movies, Rick Zumwalt - Bull Hurley from Over the Top, Joshua in Penitentiary III and Boom Boom in Rockula - also shows up. And holy Canadian crap, there's Alan Scarfe, the dad from Cathy's Curse!
You know why people liked the Punisher back before his logo became a Nazi flag for cowards? Because you could have empathy for what he's been through. The Owl seems like such a jerk that it's hard to ever feel anything for him.