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Release Date:
4 October 1978 (USA) morePlot:
Pilot for the cult TV series about B.J. McKay, a guitar-playing independent trucker who travels with a fun-loving chimpanzee... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
They should remake this as a movie moreCast
(Credited cast)| Greg Evigan | ... | Billy Joe 'BJ' McKay | |
| Claude Akins | ... | Sheriff Lobo | |
| Mills Watson | ... | Perkins | |
| Penny Peyser | ... | Stilts | |
| Julius Harris | ... | Colonel Whitmore | |
| Woodrow Parfrey | ... | Store Proprietor | |
| Kristine DeBell | ... | Marcia | |
| Antoinette Stella | ... | Willie | |
| Elena Frank | ... | Julie | |
| Harry Townes | ... | Doctor | |
| Dave Murich | ... | First Deputy | |
| Dennis Fimple | ... | Second Deputy | |
| Ted Gehring | ... | First Sheriff | |
| Mario Roccuzzo | ... | High Ranking Suit | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Ross Borden | |||
| Pamela Jean Bryant | |||
| Kimberly Cameron | |||
| Angela Capre | |||
| Walt Davis | |||
| Sam Downey | ... | Bear | |
| Chip Johnson | |||
| Irene Kelly | |||
| J. Andrew Kenny | ... | Deputy | |
| John Kerry | ... | Security | |
| Kory Lynn | |||
| Tom Newman | ... | Helicopter Pilot | |
| Jane Steele | |||
| Barbara Stephen | |||
| William Stephens | |||
| Leslie Winston | |||
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I'm only half joking. This show as a mixture of Smokey & the Bandit, Dukes of Hazzard (which was probably a bigger influence), and Clint Eastwood's Every Which Way but Loose. NBC probably thought they had a real blockbuster on their hands, but I don't remember this being on for very long (maybe one season?) But as an eleven year old, I loved it. Greg Evigan, from what I remember, was appealing in an everyman, Kurt Russell type of way. I think he made some B movies after this, but never became a household name.
Hollywood take note: Mission Impossible. Charlie's Angels. Mod Squad. The Hulk. Starsky & Hutch. The Dukes of Hazzard. BJ and the Bear! "Bear is family."