"The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo" (1979) TV series

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Creator:

Glen A. Larson

Seasons:

1 | 2

Release Date:

18 September 1979 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Sheriff Lobo's the corrupt sheriff from Orly County who appeared in several episodes during the first season of "B.J. and the Bear" (1979)...

Plot Keywords:

Police | Police Corruption | Sergeant | Character Name In Title

Cast

Claude Akins	...	Sheriff Elroy P. Lobo (38 episodes, 1979-1981)
Brian Kerwin	...	Deputy Birdwell 'Birdie' Hawkins / ... (38 episodes, 1979-1981)
Mills Watson	...	Deputy Perkins (38 episodes, 1979-1981)
Janet Curtis-Larson	...	Margaret Ellen (18 episodes, 1979-1980)
Leann Hunley	...	Sarah Cumberland / ... (17 episodes, 1979-1980)
Tara Buckman	...	Brandy / ... (16 episodes, 1980-1981)
Cydney Crampton	...	Rose Perkins / ... (16 episodes, 1979-1980)
Nell Carter	...	Sgt. Hildy Jones (15 episodes, 1980-1981)
Nicolas Coster	...	Chief J.E. Carson / ... (15 episodes, 1980-1981)
Amy Botwinick	...	Peaches (15 episodes, 1980-1981)
Janet Lynn Curtis	...	Margaret Ellen (14 episodes, 1979-1980)

Also Known As:

Lobo (USA) (new title)

Runtime:

60 min | 60 min (37 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Company:

Glen A. Larson Productions

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Zak McKracken Between Time and Space (2008) (VG)

Soundtrack:

The Ballad of Sheriff Lobo

It's Back...Kinda

Hey.

RTN is showing this series (perhaps along with B.J. & The Bear?) on Sunday afternoons/evenings.

When it was running the first time, the NBC affiliate for Tampa Bay refused to air it in its network-mandated time slot for something else (I forget just what) and put it on some horrible late-night slot on Sunday night/Monday morning. So I saw the tail end of an episode for the very first time yesterday.

I don't know if I would have liked it back in '79~'80 when I was turning teenager and was beginning to get overloaded on car chase genre action shows. This show is just so TYPICAL. You have the old man Sheriff, the goof-ball deputy, the pretty-boy deputy, and then the usual Central Casting darlings you see in all these shows. The writing and production values are standard-level, neither all that great or all that awful. No wonder it never clicked like some of the others had at that time.

Okay...I'll say one thing in defense of this series--it was better than "Border Pals."