- Dead on Target (TV film)
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Dead on Target (TV film) Genre Action/Drama Written by Norman Klenman Directed by Joseph L. Scanlan Starring Ray Danton
Gay RowanCountry of origin United States Language(s) English Production Producer(s) R.H. Anderson Running time 77 min Broadcast Original channel ABC Dead on Target (also titled Our Man Flint: Dead On Target) is the third and final film in the Our Man Flint movie trilogy. The film originally aired on ABC on March 17, 1976.
The TV movie was also a pilot for a possible weekly series, but it did not get good enough ratings to warrant such, and Dead On Target became the last Derek Flint movie.
Plot
As with the first two Flint movies, the story takes place on a different earth in a parallel universe. In Our Man Flint, for example, "007" is "0008" (the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. mentioned there is the earth-2 version, spelled "SPECKTER" in the shooting script). And in In Like Flint, the U.S. President in 1967 is "Trent" (not Lyndon B. Johnson). Dead On Target continues this tradition by having B.E.S.L.A. be from a mythical middle east kingdom.
Ray Danton replaces James Coburn as Derek Flint, a detective (and former Z.O.W.I.E. government agent) who agrees to teach a pretty young woman named Benita Ryders (Gay Rowan) how to be a private eye. Their first mission together has them facing a group of terrorists called B.E.S.L.A. ("Bar El Sol Liberation Army"), who have kidnapped an oil executive. They rescue him and put B.E.S.L.A. out of business.
The cast also includes Sharon Acker, Susan Sullivan, Linda Woods and Donnelly Rhodes.
DVD release
Dead On Target was released by Fox as part of the "Ultimate Flint Collection " DVD set.
External links
Categories:- 1976 television films
- American television films
- English-language films
- Television film stubs
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