OP Center (1995)

Paul Hood is the newly appointed director of the OP Center, a special agency gathering a wide variety of experts monitoring international crisis. On his first day on the job, nuclear ... See full summary »

Director:

Lewis Teague

Writers:

Tom Clancy (story), Steve Pieczenik (story)

Stars:

Harry Hamlin, Patrick Bauchau, Kabir Bedi

Won 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Harry Hamlin	...	Paul Hood
Patrick Bauchau	...	Kurt
Kabir Bedi	...	Abdul Fazawi
Tom Bresnahan	...	Matt Stoll
William Bumiller	...	Lou Bender
David Garrison	...	Bill Mathis
Deidre Hall	...	Kate Michaels
Bo Hopkins	...	Dan McCaskey
Ken Howard	...	The President
Sherman Howard	...	Uri Stalipin
Mia Korf	...	Liz Gorman
Victor Love	...	Captain Ted Drake
France Nuyen	...	Li Tang
Mariangela Pino	...	Martha Macken
John Savage	...	Bob Herbert

Storyline

Paul Hood is the newly appointed director of the OP Center, a special agency gathering a wide variety of experts monitoring international crisis. On his first day on the job, nuclear missiles are stolen from the former Soviet Union by terrorists. The team must find out who did it, why, and most importantly, where they are heading so they can retrieve them.

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Plot Keywords:

woman in lingerie | terrorist | videotape | revolver | ambassador | 

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Taglines:

Defense. Intelligence. Crisis management. Enter the Center. [book series tagline]

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Genres:

Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 February 1995 (USA)

Also Known As:

Tom Clancy's 'OP Center'

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jack Ryan Partnership,Moving Target Productions,New World Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

114 min 240 min (2 parts)

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Tom Villard's last project.

User Reviews

The Russkies -- At It Again.

It's not bad for a TV miniseries, although you really don't get to know most of the characters, famous names or not, as other commenters have noted.

The exception is Harry Hamlin as the newly appointed head of one of those security agencies within the US government whose existence is kept so secret that everybody knows about it. He's having the usual trouble with his wife, the criminally radiant Kim Cattrall. I call it "the John Wayne problem." Are you more in love with your job or your wife? Any normal man would have no such trouble with Kim Cattrall. He would quit his job at once and do whatever she told him to, just for the chance to squeeze and bite her once in a while.

It seems the Russians or some fractious subgroup of them, have stolen a couple of nuclear warheads, put them on a ship in the Mediterranean and are schlepping them to Benghazi. Hamlin's mission, should he choose to accept it: recover the missing missiles by deploying Special Action troops to take over the ship. Meanwhile, there is the problem of a spy in the Special Advanced Ranger Task Force Agency.

It's all handled pretty well, considering that the budget could hardly have been lavish. The climactic shoot out, though handled in a pedestrian manner, is still exciting. I missed the usual cliché in which -- while trying to disarm the device that will shortly explode and sink the ship -- somebody had to choose between the red and green wires.

The acting is of professional quality with no one particularly standing out. Rod Steiger must have been hired for about two hours' worth of work time.