"Johnny Bago" (1993) TV series

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

25 June 1993 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

After a Federal faux pas, small-time mobster John Tenuti flees West across the U.S., pursued by bumbling...

Plot Keywords:

Character Name In Title

Cast

Timothy Stack	...	Bob Burrows / ... (4 episodes, 1993)
Peter Dobson	...	Johnny Tenuti aka Johnny Bago (2 episodes, 1993)
Richard Romanus	...	Vincint / ... (2 episodes, 1993)
John Edell		(2 episodes, 1993)
Barry Shabaka Henley	...	Detective Venezia (2 episodes, 1993)
Art LaFleur	...	Captain Lemsky (2 episodes, 1993)

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Trivia:

Theme song was performed by Jimmy Buffett

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Johnny is the `white sheep' of a mafia family, and a terrible embarrassment to them. Just released from jail, after serving time for a crime he didn't commit, he's framed for a murder.

Not wishing to return to prison, he becomes a fugitive. In the first episode, he takes up with a kindly old man in a motorhome. The old man dies (peacefully, while fishing -- no foul play), and Johnny takes off in the motorhome, with his parole officer (who also happens to be his very spiteful ex-wife) in pursuit.

The last name, `Bago', by the way, is an alias he assumed. When the old man asked him his name, he saw the letters B-A-G-O, and not being any more imaginative than that, gave that as his last name. He was looking, at the time, at a partly-covered nameplate identifying the well-known manufacturer of the motorhome -- `Winnebago'.

In subsequent episodes, Johnny meets Elvis Presley, hangs out with a group of environmentalist crackpots, spends time among a group of migrant farm workers who think they see The Virgin Mary in a pattern of mud splattered on the motorhome's windshield, and has a variety of other highly improbable adventures.