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Unfortunately, last week's premiere moved as slowly as Dryer's walk, but at least he's not playing a character named Fred, like other stars whose characters share the same first name.Ĭoming back for a second season is the syndicated series "Lonesome Dove," moving from WPWR-Ch. 50, stars former "Hunter" hotshot Fred Dryer as ex-LAPD lieutenant Mike Land, who relocates to Mexico's Cabo San Lucas, on the tip of the Baja peninsula, and finds action, exotic locale and ways to get himself on film without a shirt. Where's the remote? Action is the watchword for several new and returning syndicated series this fall. On the writing end, Cassidy developed the short-lived CBS series "Over My Dead Body " with Edward ("The Equalizer") Woodward, and wrote "Midnight Run For Your Life," a syndicated TV-movie sequel to the Robert De Niro-Charles Grodin flick.
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"And I came up with this show."Ĭassidy has had an interesting career since "Hardy Boys." He appeared in a few TV network and cable movies over the course of the years, and starred in a well-received TV series based on the movie "Breaking Away" in 1980-81. How do we do that in a new way," Cassidy continued. And he also was one of those bubble-gum pop stars that moms didn't mind their daughters goggling over.īut Cassidy has been a writer for Universal Studios for about four years now, squeezing in acting jobs such as appearing with his brother on Broadway in "Blood Brothers." It was in New York where Shaun got a call from Universal saying CBS was looking for a show with "supernatural overtones." He agreed, but he wanted to do something "that was different and challenging and something that would sort of allow me to push my imagination. Cassidy, son of the late actor Jack Cassidy and Shirley Jones of "The Partridge Family" and half-brother of fellow former teen idol David Cassidy, was squeaky-clean Joe Hardy in "The Hardy Boys" to Stevenson's crime-solving Frank Hardy. 2), which has become one of the most controversial new shows of the season, has anything to do with Cassidy, a '70s teen dream heartthrob who starred with Parker Stevenson in ABC's "The Hardy Boys Mysteries" from 1977 to '79, and had hit records with the aforementioned "That's Rock 'N' Roll," and a remake of "Da Doo Ron Ron."īut Cassidy is in fact the creator and serves as supervising producer of "Gothic," a series built around the malevolent, manipulative sheriff (Chicago's Gary Cole) of the fictional small town Trinity, S.C.Ĭassidy, who celebrates his 37th birthday on Wednesday, knows the public will be surprised by two things: "One is that I'm writing at all, because I don't know how many people knew that and two, this show may seem incongruous with whatever image people may have had of me.' "(But) became a writer," laughs Shaun Cassidy.Ī lot of people may be surprised to find that "American Gothic" (9 p.m.
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