The Renegades

For other uses, see Renegades (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with the 1992-97 TV series Renegade

The Renegades
Ad for the 1982 TV movie
Genre	Crime drama
Created by	Executive Producers Lawerence Gordon Charles Gordon Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
Written by	Steven E. de Souza Rick Husky
Starring	Patrick Swayze Kurtwood Smith James Luisi
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	Pilot - 2 Hrs 6 episodes^[1] (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Production company(s)	Lawrence Gordon Productions Paramount Television
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	March 4, 1983 – April 8, 1983

The Renegades is a 1983 ABC TV show about a street gang that becomes a special police undercover unit in order to avoid jail time.^[2] The show starred Patrick Swayze as "Bandit", the leader of the gang.^[1]

Cast

Patrick Swayze as Bandit
Randy Brooks as Eagle
Paul Mones as J.T.
Tracy Scoggins as Tracy
Robert Thaler as Dancer
Brian Tochi as Dragon
Fausto Bara as Gaucho
James Luisi as Lt. Marciano
Kurtwood Smith as Captain Scanlon

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	"Back to School"			March 4, 1983 (1983-03-04)
College athletes are suspected of point-shaving.
2	"The Demon Dragsters"			March 11, 1983 (1983-03-11)
Car strippers use souped-up cars to evade the police.
3	"The Big Time"			March 18, 1983 (1983-03-18)
Prisoners are being trained to crack sophisticated safes.
4	"On the Pad"			March 25, 1983 (1983-03-25)
The team goes undercover to find out why a cop lets two extortionists go.
5	"Film at Eleven"			April 1, 1983 (1983-04-01)
An 11-year-old is a witness to a holdup-murder.
6	"Target: Marciano"	Nicholas Corea	Barbara Peeters	April 8, 1983 (1983-04-08)
An escaped drug pusher wants Marciano to surrender to him or else there will be a blood bath in the streets.

Broadcast history

After the success of the movie The Warriors, Hollywood looked to take the youth gang concept and market it to TV. In 1981, Swayze did a TV show, Return of the Rebels, about an aging motorcycle gang who get together to help a friend who owns a popular campground that is being threatened by a band of arrogant groupies. However, the show didn't catch on and was quickly canceled.

Brother team Lawrence and Charles Gordon tried to market Swayze's rebel look, combine the gang concept with a police angle and came up with The Renegades. Roger Spottiswoode directed the TV movie pilot that first broadcast on 11 August 1982 and a six-episode series was later broadcast in 1983. It too didn't do well and due to weak ratings ABC pulled the show.

Director Roger Spottiswoode, screenwriter Steven E. de Souza, and producers Lawrence and Charles Gordon went on to make the film 48 Hrs. Several years later, the Gordon brothers and de Souza created the Die Hard franchise.^[3] Lawrence served as President of 20th Century Fox from 1984 to 1986. The brothers then formed Largo Entertainment.

References

1 2 Roger Barr (aka: -RoG-) (2009). "The Renegades". I-Mockery. Retrieved 23 May 2009.
↑ "The Renegades". film.com. 2009. Retrieved 23 May 2009.
↑ Michael Cieply (September 20, 2008). "Battle Over ‘Watchmen’ Surrounds a Producer". New York Times. Retrieved 23 May 2009.

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