5.8 /10 1 Votes
4.8/10 TV No. of seasons 1 Final episode date 25 December 1982 Number of seasons 1 | 6.7/10 IMDb Created by John Wilder Country of origin United States First episode date 2 October 1982 Number of episodes 13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genre Detective fictionProcedural drama Starring Rock HudsonJack Scalia Cast Similar The Eddie Capra Mysteries, Remington Steele, Riptide, Magnum - PI, The Rockford Files | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Devlin Connection is a short-lived American television crime drama starring Rock Hudson and Jack Scalia. The show aired on NBC for 13 episodes in 1982, premiering on October 2.
Contents
Premise
Hudson stars as Brian Devlin, a former military intelligence officer and ex-owner of a detective agency who is now the director of the Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles. Devlin meets racquetball pro and private investigator Nick Corsello (Scalia), who is revealed to be Devlin's son from a brief affair 28 years earlier. The duo proceed to solve a mystery-of-the-week.
Cast
1^ Character only in second version filmed in 1982 but aired first.
2^ Character only in first version filmed in 1981 but aired second.
Production changes
Production started in 1981 but after several episodes were filmed it was delayed a year due to Hudson's heart problems. When the filming resumed there were many changes. In the first version Brian has an older assistant (Irene Tedrow), and his office and apartment are modest. Nick is a Vietnam veteran and now just a small-time private detective who works out of a night club. The stories are grittier. In the second version Brian's assistant is glamorous (Leigh Taylor-Young), and his office and apartment are much larger and more sumptuous. Nick is a former NYPD officer and now a racquetball pro who works at a health club and investigates on the side. The stories are much more upscale. At Hudson's insistence, the nine flashier episodes aired first which was a little confusing because the episode where they actually meet, "Claudine", became the tenth episode.
Episodes
1^ NBC burned off the final episode in 1983. All 13 episodes aired on TV Land in the late 1990s.
Video releases
In the mid-1980s Trans World Entertainment officially released the first three episodes on VHS videotape cassettes. There are also bootleg DVDs of all the TV Land aired episodes.