1 9 8 4 (USA)
1 x 120 minute episode
11 x 60 minute episodes
In an attempt to stop her husband, Victor (Bradford Dillman), from squandering company money to develop a car she feels will be a disaster, Estelle Modrian (Dina Merrill) arranges for his murder.
When Estelle learns Victor has promised a share of the profits to Kate Wyler (Canadian actress Kerrie Keane), the designer of the car, she decides to use Kate in her plan.
On the pretext that one of their horses is sick, Estelle phones Kate’s husband, Jim (Eric Pierpoint), a veterinarian. While Jim is at the Modrian home, Victor is shot, and a woman fitting Kate’s description is seen fleeing from the scene.
Kate, who has no alibi, is arrested and later charged with murder when a gun with her fingerprints is found.
Sometime later, while in a bar, Jim spots his wife’s lookalike but is unable to capture her after she spots him and escapes.
When Jim tries to convince authorities that Kate was set up, no one will believe him. Jim devises a plan. He ambushes the car that is carrying Kate to prison, and the two escape.
The series follows their adventures as Kate and Jim become the pursued and the pursuers – on the run from the law and the real killers – and searching cross-country for Kate’s impersonator – drug-addicted lesbian Kathy Ladd (also Kerrie Keane, obviously), who is the only hope they have of clearing themselves.
Other regular characters included Estelle’s one-eyed henchman, Alec Shaw (Michael Preston); Jim’s father, Edward Wyler (Mitchell Ryan); Jim’s sister, Stephanie Josephson (Deidre Hall); and Stephanie’s daughter, Jody (Deborah Foreman).
The NBC series was widely considered to have “borrowed heavily” from the classic series, The Fugitive.
Kate Wyler/Kathy Ladd
Kerrie Keane Jim Wyler
Eric Pierpoint Estelle Modrian
Dina Merrill Edward Wyler
Mitchell Ryan Stephanie Josephson
Deidre Hall Jody Josephson
Deborah Foreman Alec Shaw
Michael Preston Victor Modrian
Bradford Dillman
Episodes
Pilot || Steel Trap | Riding High | Home is the Heart: Part 1 | Home is the Heart: Part 2 | Gillian | Portrait of a Lady Killer | Goodbye, I Love You | Identity Crisis | Dead Game | Twilight Home | The Only Chorale
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On the pretext that one of their horses is sick, Estelle phones Kate’s husband, Jim (Eric Pierpoint), a veterinarian. While Jim is at the Modrian home, Victor is shot, and a woman fitting Kate’s description is seen fleeing from the scene.
The series follows their adventures as Kate and Jim become the pursued and the pursuers – on the run from the law and the real killers – and searching cross-country for Kate’s impersonator – drug-addicted lesbian Kathy Ladd (also Kerrie Keane, obviously), who is the only hope they have of clearing themselves.
