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Outlaws (1986)
Outlaws is a short-lived action-adventure American television series which aired Saturday nights on CBS. Five cowboys are sent forward through time from 1886 to 1986, and fight crime. The original series began as a 2-hour pilot movie, and was followed by eleven one-hour episodes.
Writing:
- Nicholas Corea
Release Date:
Sun, Dec 28, 1986
Country: US
Language: En
Runtime: 60
Country: US
Language: En
Runtime: 60
Season 1:
In the series premiere the members of the Pike gang are on the run from a posse lead by former member John Grail in 1886. During a showdown during a lightning storm in an Indian graveyard they are transported forward 100 years and are quickly introduced to the modern world. They manage to get by using their now-highly valuable gold coins but Isaiah, Wolf, and Billy soon strike off on their own and run afoul of a crime lord. John and Harland come to the rescue and they manage to take the man down, and form the Double-Eagle Detective Agency to bring the code of the Old West to the present.
While providing security for one of their clients, Harland Pike becomes infatuated with a woman who looks remarkably similar to his old love from the past.
The men protect immigrant shopkeepers harassed by thugs in a protection racket. Meanwhile, Billy confronts the fact he's illiterate and goes to adult education classes to learn how to read. He winds up conneting the gang involved in the protection racket.
When the agency runs short on funds they set out to New Orleans to recover a buried stash that Isaiah hid back in 1886. The land is owned by a descendant of Isaiah's slaveowner who runs his own criminal racket. While Isaiah helps one of his own descendents who has run afoul of the man, he and the fellows take on the crook and in the end Isaiah defeats him in an old-fashioned duel.
The Agency is hired to protect a female evangelist from a stalker and Wolf Lucas realizes she is not a true believer as he is. As they work the two of them both make some new discoveries about their faith in God.
The Agency is hired by a rich millionnaire who plans to develop the Old West town of Madril into a shopping mall. John is the one insisting on them taking on the job - as a sheriff he worked in Madril and one of remaining residents was a child when John rode into town. The millionnaire's wife is keeping John occupied as the rest of the Agency discovers that the wife is up to no good, working behind her husband's back. They manage to convince John to join back up with them and together they take the wife and her men down.
A researcher and author is fascinated by the Outlaws, especially when he discovers they bear a strong resemblence to the Pike gang of 1886 - not surprising since they are the same gang. The guys try to cover their tracks while taking on a crime lord.
The guys are hired by a man who once worked for the mob. Years ago he felt that being associated with them was not good for his daughter so he left, and has been hiding from them ever since. Now he is about to die and before he does he wants to see his daughter again and it seems that she doesn't want to see him. The guys, especially John, are moved when they thinksof the loved ones left behind so the agree to do it. When they find her, she's very obstinate. And not only that the people who are looking for her father are trying to get her to get to him.
The Outlaws ride to the rescue of the owner of an independent taxi-cab outfit and her daughter.
The Agency take in a young kid on the run from crooks and Billy Pike has to deal with the boy - the splitting image in personality of himself when he was a kid.
The guys travel to Las Vegas to protect an acountant with vital evidence against the mob.
The guys get together on their ranch to celebrity Maggie's birthday, but it's the eve of their date to testimony against a crime lord they arrested, and he's sent out his lieutenants to kill them all before they can arrive in court. As the weather bears down, the ranch is under siege, and several of them are wounded, things look grim and the Outlaws go all out to take out their opponents.
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