When a famous model (Cybil Shepard) loses everything she liquidates her remaining assets, including a detective agency bought as a tax write-off. Then she and the detective (Bruce Willis) get caught up in adventure.
I saw this when it was first broadcast and I spread the news about a great new series at a good friend's wedding reception--when I had absolute laryngitis and couldn't talk above a whisper.
Thank goodness Shepard had learned to act by this point in her career. Her on-screen chemistry with Willis is amazing and both together make the crazy story believable.
Though the series ran into well-known difficulties and in retrospect seems overrated (I certainly overrated it and I clung tenaciously on to the bitter end; forty years on I prefer "Remington Steele") this pilot movie still holds up as a great comedy-romance-detective story on its own. It's still one of my favorite pilots. It's too bad they can't all be this wonderful.
I saw this when it was first broadcast and I spread the news about a great new series at a good friend's wedding reception--when I had absolute laryngitis and couldn't talk above a whisper.
Thank goodness Shepard had learned to act by this point in her career. Her on-screen chemistry with Willis is amazing and both together make the crazy story believable.
Though the series ran into well-known difficulties and in retrospect seems overrated (I certainly overrated it and I clung tenaciously on to the bitter end; forty years on I prefer "Remington Steele") this pilot movie still holds up as a great comedy-romance-detective story on its own. It's still one of my favorite pilots. It's too bad they can't all be this wonderful.