Stone and Keller have less than 48 hours to prevent a politically motivated assassination by a mentally unstable, but very accurate, marksman.Stone and Keller have less than 48 hours to prevent a politically motivated assassination by a mentally unstable, but very accurate, marksman.Stone and Keller have less than 48 hours to prevent a politically motivated assassination by a mentally unstable, but very accurate, marksman.
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- TriviaSeveral of the character names in the episode (Jerry Schilling, Robert West, Myrna Schilling, Vernon Presley) are named after members of the Memphis Mafia, the nickname for Elvis Presley's inner circle. Episode writer Rick Husky was yet another member of Elvis' s crew and would frequently use his friends' names in his scripts.
- GoofsThe ticket for the baseball games of May 21, 1974, lists the games as 19 & 20 for the Giants. Per a site like baseball-reference they were actually 42 & 43 (and 41 & 42 for the Braves). The ticket location states Lower Stand Box. Assassin Jerry Schilling (Bill Bixby) and General Robert West (Andrew Duggan) are clearly moderately high into the stands. The ticket states a starting time of 5:30 p.m. - late in the afternoon with long shadows soon followed by lights. But, most of the footage shows strong, midday natural lighting - signs of a day game.
- ConnectionsRemade as T.J. Hooker: The Assassin (1985)
Featured review
My Favorite Assassin
Ah, Bill Bixby...we all know and love him from his classic sitcom roles in My Favorite Martian and The Courtship of Eddie's Father. Or maybe you liked him better as a hero (The Magician) or a thinking man in danger (The Incredible Hulk)? But here's something you may not have realized...Bixby was also capable of playing some downright nasty characters, such as the one on display here.
Jerry Schilling is a government-trained assassin with the ability to kill with his bare hands. It's one such murder that puts him on Stone and Keller's radar screen, and when the Feds show up, we now know what Schilling is up to...he's been hired by renegade Army General Robert 'Red' West (Andrew Duggan) to take out a visiting Vietnamese dignitary. One other casualty--that of a beautiful young hooker who made the mistake of rifling through his wallet for cash and discovering that he has multiple identities--will ensue before the cops can catch up with and stop Schilling.
It's an action-packed ride, one of the best episodes of the series and the only one directed by Mission: Impossible veteran Barry Crane. Bixby and Duggan, two actors who were very capable of playing both decent guys and creeps, deliver big-time. This episode's writer, Rick Husky, tweaked it somewhat and remade it as the T. J. Hooker episode "The Assassin" over a decade later, but Vincent Baggetta and Morgan Woodward (filling in for Bixby and Duggan, respectively) cannot compare.
And here's another bit of trivia regarding this episode...are you or anyone you know Elvis fans? Then you'll LOVE this episode, as a number of characters in the episode are named after members of the Memphis Mafia (including the villains Schilling and West). Rick Husky was also a confidante of Elvis's, and he would often name characters after other members of the Memphis Mafia in his scripts.
Jerry Schilling is a government-trained assassin with the ability to kill with his bare hands. It's one such murder that puts him on Stone and Keller's radar screen, and when the Feds show up, we now know what Schilling is up to...he's been hired by renegade Army General Robert 'Red' West (Andrew Duggan) to take out a visiting Vietnamese dignitary. One other casualty--that of a beautiful young hooker who made the mistake of rifling through his wallet for cash and discovering that he has multiple identities--will ensue before the cops can catch up with and stop Schilling.
It's an action-packed ride, one of the best episodes of the series and the only one directed by Mission: Impossible veteran Barry Crane. Bixby and Duggan, two actors who were very capable of playing both decent guys and creeps, deliver big-time. This episode's writer, Rick Husky, tweaked it somewhat and remade it as the T. J. Hooker episode "The Assassin" over a decade later, but Vincent Baggetta and Morgan Woodward (filling in for Bixby and Duggan, respectively) cannot compare.
And here's another bit of trivia regarding this episode...are you or anyone you know Elvis fans? Then you'll LOVE this episode, as a number of characters in the episode are named after members of the Memphis Mafia (including the villains Schilling and West). Rick Husky was also a confidante of Elvis's, and he would often name characters after other members of the Memphis Mafia in his scripts.
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