Gavilan is an American adventure drama television series that aired on NBC from October 26, 1982 to March 18, 1983.
Plot Robert Gavilan (Robert Urich) is a former CIA agent who now works for the Oceanographic Institute, which is headed by Marion Jaworski. Every now and then, someone from Gavilan's past as a CIA spy comes to him asking for his help. Or, on one of the jobs that Gavilan is on, the situation somehow turns into trouble, or someone he knows just needs his help as both as former spy, or as an oceanographer. Milo Bentley is an old friend of his father's, who stays in Robert's guest room, and uses his history with his father to freeload, and mooch off him.
Cast Robert Urich as Robert Gavilan Kate Reid as Marion Jaworski Patrick Macnee as Milo Bentley
US television ratings
Season Episodes Start date End date Nielsen rank Nielsen rating 1982-83 13 October 26, 1982 March 18, 1983 90 N/A
Episodes
Production The show was made by Tom Mankiewicz and Leonard Goldberg, who had enjoyed success with Hart to Hart. Fernando Lamas was originally cast as the conman. The lead character was named after the boxer Kid Gavilán (often spelled Kid Gavilan in US). NBC made an order for 13 episodes but the show was taken off the air after ten episodes had aired.Tom Mankiewicz, My Life as a Mankiewicz: An Insider's Journey Through Hollywood (with Robert Crane) University Press of Kentucky 2012 p 256-257 Episodes were rerun on TNT in 1994 alongside Chicago Story with Dennis Franz.
See also 1982–83 United States network television schedule
References
Bibliography Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present, Ninth edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 2007)
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