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American TV series or program
McCoy
is an American
comedy-drama
series that starred
Tony Curtis
and aired on
NBC-TV
during the 1975?1976 season.
Synopsis
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The series stars
Tony Curtis
as a con man who, along with a team of friends, "out-cons" bad guys in order to steal back their ill-gotten gains and return the loot to its rightful owners. The schemes were elaborate and laced with satirical humor. The series bears resemblances to the then-recent film
The Sting
, as well as to the contemporary series
Switch
and the British literary character
Simon Templar
.
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original research?
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Co-starring with Curtis was
Roscoe Lee Browne
as a nightclub comedian.
Episodes
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Nº
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Title
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Directed by:
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Written by:
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Air date
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1
| "The Big Ripoff"
| Richard Quine
| Dean Hargrove
,
Roland Kibbee
| March 11, 1975
(
1975-03-11
)
|
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Series pilot
: McCoy schemes to retrieve the ransom money that was paid for an oil tycoon's wife.
|
2
| "Bless the Big Fish"
| Nicholas Colasanto
| Philip Chapin
| October 5, 1975
(
1975-10-05
)
|
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A crafty financial adviser cheats Papa Leone out of $450,000, and Leone tries to commit suicide as a result; McCoy intervenes with a plan to recover the money.
|
3
| "Double Take"
| Richard Quine
| Dean Hargrove,
Roland Kibbee,
Howard Leeds
| November 30, 1975
(
1975-11-30
)
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4
| "In Again Out Again"
| Stan Dragoti
| Unknown
| January 4, 1976
(
1976-01-04
)
|
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J. Carter Sloan takes advantage of dying Bob Mayfield by forcing him to make a $200,000 life insurance contract, which affects Bob's sister's interests.
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5
| "New Dollar Day"
| Nicholas Colasanto
| Unknown
| January 25, 1976
(
1976-01-25
)
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Production and reception
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The series was produced in the format of two-hour telefilms, that were broadcast as part of the
NBC Sunday Mystery Movie
as one of several rotating series that would air once a month. Other series involved in the Universal Television franchise package were
Columbo
,
McCloud
, and
McMillan & Wife
. However,
McCoy
failed to garner the same ratings as its fellow programs and was cancelled after an initial 90-minute pilot TV movie ("The Big Ripoff") and four two-hour episodes were broadcast. A novelization of the pilot, written by Linda Stewart as "Sam Stewart", titled for the series, was published by
Dell
in 1976, and reprinted as
McCoy: The Big Rip-Off
, under
W.H. Allen
's Star imprint in the
United Kingdom
.
See also
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Leverage
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