1975 American TV series or program
McCoy is an American comedy-drama series that starred Tony Curtis and aired on NBC-TV during the 1975–1976 season.
Synopsis
The series stars Tony Curtis as a con man who, along with a team of friends, "out-cons" bad guys in order to steal back their ill-gotten gains and return the loot to its rightful owners. The schemes were elaborate and laced with satirical humor. The series bears resemblances to the then-recent film The Sting, as well as to the contemporary series Switch and the British literary character Simon Templar.[original research?] Co-starring with Curtis was Roscoe Lee Browne as a nightclub comedian.
Episodes
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| 1 | "The Big Ripoff" | Dean Hargove | Dean Hargrove,
Roland Kibbee | March 11, 1975 (1975-03-11) |
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Series pilot: McCoy schemes to retrieve the ransom money that was paid for an oil tycoon's wife. |
| 2 | "Bless the Big Fish" | Nicholas Colasanto | Philip Chapin | October 5, 1975 (1975-10-05) |
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A crafty financial adviser cheats Papa Leone out of $450,000, and Leone tries to commit suicide as a result; McCoy intervenes with a plan to recover the money. |
| 3 | "Double Take" | Richard Quine | Dean Hargrove,
Roland Kibbee,
Howard Leeds | November 30, 1975 (1975-11-30) |
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| 4 | "In Again Out Again" | Stan Dragoti | Unknown | January 4, 1976 (1976-01-04) |
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J. Carter Sloan takes advantage of dying Bob Mayfield by forcing him to make a $200,000 life insurance contract, which affects Bob's sister's interests. |
| 5 | "New Dollar Day" | Nicholas Colasanto | Unknown | January 25, 1976 (1976-01-25) |
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Production and reception
The series was produced in the format of two-hour telefilms, that were broadcast as part of the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie as one of several rotating series that would air once a month. Other series involved in the Universal Television franchise package were Columbo, McCloud, and McMillan & Wife. However, McCoy failed to garner the same ratings as its fellow programs and was cancelled after an initial 90-minute pilot TV movie ("The Big Ripoff") and four two-hour episodes were broadcast. A novelization of the pilot, written by Linda Stewart as "Sam Stewart", titled for the series, was published by Dell in 1976, and reprinted as McCoy: The Big Rip-Off, under W.H. Allen's Star imprint in the United Kingdom.
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