In this tongue-in-cheek spoof of James Bond, Carlton Dial (Mark Frankel) was a debonair former spy for British counterintelligence – a man’s man who was irresistible to women – who worked as a handsomely paid agent for Intercept Corporation, a recovery firm based in San Francisco.
Intercept had clients all over the world and generated most of its revenue retrieving stolen valuables and top-secret military equipment.
Harry (John Robert Hoffman) was the nerdy popcorn-munching computer whiz who monitored Carlton’s activities using high-tech telemetry equipment that the agent wore – a miniaturised camera in a contact lens and a transceiver in a tiny ear implant, with a watch that amplified and transmitted for both.
As the monitoring partner, Harry saw everything Carlton saw, heard everything he heard and provided him with useful information via the ear implant.
Carlton’s gun was a tranquilliser pistol that fired six high-potency darts (Intercept had been hit with lawsuits over excessive use of violence) instead of bullets.
Yvonne (Kim Faze) was the sexy Intercept employee who gave Carlton his assignments via a special video link.
Fox ordered Fortune Hunter to hold male viewers when Sunday NFL football games ended but at $1 million per episode they found it too rich for them and cancelled the series after only five episodes had aired.
Carlton Dial
Mark Frankel Harry Flack
John Robert Hoffman Yvonne
Kim Faze
