Wolf (TV series)
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Wolf was a 1989 CBS
television series starring Jack Scalia
and Nicolas Surovy. It featured Scalia as Tony Wolf, a former San Francisco
cop turned private detective and Surovy as the district attorney who had caused him to be discharged from the force. Joseph Sirola starred as Wolf's father, Sal who lived on a boat.
The programme was also later shown on ITV in 1992.
In Wolf, a short-lived CBS TV series, TONY WOLF was a San Francisco fisherman and sometime private eye. Originally a narcotics officer for the SFPD, Tony was framed and took the fall as a crooked cop. Drummed off the force, he wandered the world for a couple of years, before finally returning home to The City to make amends with his aging father and to take over the family fishing boat. He's also tried to re-kindle a relationship with Connie, an old flame.
Oh, and to occasionally do a little P.I. work for Dylan Elliot, the DA who originally prosecuted him two years earlier. Seems Dylan, now a high-powered attorney with a private practise, was starting to think maybe Tony was framed after all.
As far as I know, we never found out if Tony ever cleared his name or not. It turns out that smell emanating from the show wasn't fish after all -- it didn't even make it through its complete run in prime time. As Craig Nelson pointed out in Bad TV, "only insomniacs caught the rest of the series."
He attributes this to "The Curse of Jack Scalia." He goes on to state: "Evidently, Scalia did make it through a full season with Rock Hudson in The Devlin Connection (1982) as a private investigator/racketball pro, but only got through three episodes before being axed as an ultramodern security agent in High Performance (1983), and four airings as an undercover cop and master of disguises in Hollywood Beat (1985)."
TELEVISION
WOLF
(1989-90, CBS)
1 two-hour pilot, 10 60 minute episodes)
Created by David Perckinpah and Rod Holcomb
Writers: David Perckinpah, Elliot Anderson
Directors: Rod Holcomb
Starring Jack Scalia as TONY WOLF
Also starring Joseph Sirola as Sal Loupo
Mimi Kuzyk as Connie
J.C. Bandy as Angeline
and Nicholas Survoy as Dylan Elliot
Guest stars: Scott Shaw, Allison Smith, Billy Gallo, Paul Joseph McKenna, Anne Ramsay, Corinne Chooey, Joon B. Kim, Jason Scott Lee, John Wesley Shipp, Christine Steel
..
"Pilot" (September 13, 1989; 2-hour pilot)
"On the Run" (September 19, 1989)
"Danny" (September 24, 1989)
"Running on Empty" (September 26, 1989)
"Two Men and a Baby" (October 3, 1989)
"Curtains of Silence" (October 10, 1989)
"Echoes of Yesterday" (October 24, 1989)
"Guns and Roses" (November 7, 1989)
"Betrayal" (November 14 , 1989)
"Little Girl Lost" (June 21, 1990)
"Vengeance" (June 28, 1990)
Also guest starring was ex-bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno and Eric J. Gebotsreiber
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
television series starring Jack Scalia
Jack Scalia
Jack Scalia is an American actor. He has had many roles in television series , television movies, and feature films.-Early life:...
and Nicolas Surovy. It featured Scalia as Tony Wolf, a former San Francisco
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
cop turned private detective and Surovy as the district attorney who had caused him to be discharged from the force. Joseph Sirola starred as Wolf's father, Sal who lived on a boat.
The programme was also later shown on ITV in 1992.
In Wolf, a short-lived CBS TV series, TONY WOLF was a San Francisco fisherman and sometime private eye. Originally a narcotics officer for the SFPD, Tony was framed and took the fall as a crooked cop. Drummed off the force, he wandered the world for a couple of years, before finally returning home to The City to make amends with his aging father and to take over the family fishing boat. He's also tried to re-kindle a relationship with Connie, an old flame.
Oh, and to occasionally do a little P.I. work for Dylan Elliot, the DA who originally prosecuted him two years earlier. Seems Dylan, now a high-powered attorney with a private practise, was starting to think maybe Tony was framed after all.
As far as I know, we never found out if Tony ever cleared his name or not. It turns out that smell emanating from the show wasn't fish after all -- it didn't even make it through its complete run in prime time. As Craig Nelson pointed out in Bad TV, "only insomniacs caught the rest of the series."
He attributes this to "The Curse of Jack Scalia." He goes on to state: "Evidently, Scalia did make it through a full season with Rock Hudson in The Devlin Connection (1982) as a private investigator/racketball pro, but only got through three episodes before being axed as an ultramodern security agent in High Performance (1983), and four airings as an undercover cop and master of disguises in Hollywood Beat (1985)."
TELEVISION
WOLF
(1989-90, CBS)
1 two-hour pilot, 10 60 minute episodes)
Created by David Perckinpah and Rod Holcomb
Writers: David Perckinpah, Elliot Anderson
Directors: Rod Holcomb
Starring Jack Scalia as TONY WOLF
Also starring Joseph Sirola as Sal Loupo
Mimi Kuzyk as Connie
J.C. Bandy as Angeline
and Nicholas Survoy as Dylan Elliot
Guest stars: Scott Shaw, Allison Smith, Billy Gallo, Paul Joseph McKenna, Anne Ramsay, Corinne Chooey, Joon B. Kim, Jason Scott Lee, John Wesley Shipp, Christine Steel
..
"Pilot" (September 13, 1989; 2-hour pilot)
"On the Run" (September 19, 1989)
"Danny" (September 24, 1989)
"Running on Empty" (September 26, 1989)
"Two Men and a Baby" (October 3, 1989)
"Curtains of Silence" (October 10, 1989)
"Echoes of Yesterday" (October 24, 1989)
"Guns and Roses" (November 7, 1989)
"Betrayal" (November 14 , 1989)
"Little Girl Lost" (June 21, 1990)
"Vengeance" (June 28, 1990)
Also guest starring was ex-bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno and Eric J. Gebotsreiber