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Larry Hagman shows what's to come with his appearance as a suave double dealing thief. Any fan of Dallas would definitely want to check this out.

Detectives Calabrese (Tony Lo Bianco) and Jameson (Don Meredith) capture a bank robber near the beginning of the show. Alan Richardson (Larry Hagman) is not your typical bank robber, however. He's extremely nice, well mannered and slippery. Repeatedly, Richardson is able to escape and he's a very smart crook. Calabrese and Jameson spend the show looking all about California looking for the guy...a guy who folks really like despite his being a crook! This is no typical felon, that's for sure.

Calabrese and Jameson are a bit unusual in that these same characters show up in quite a few episodes of "Police Story". Normally, the show features a unique story with characters only seen once...or perhaps twice...in the series. This pair, however, show up five times...as if, perhaps, the network might have been considering them for their own show. It never materialized but all the shows featuring the pair were enjoyable and well made. Well made and well worth seeing.

This is one of several episodes that feature partners Tony Calabrese (LoBianco)and Bert Jameson (Meredith),the totally irreverent, but fiercely loyal, robbery/homicide detectives. The chemistry between these two and their hilarious good cop-bad cop routines with suspects and civilians alike, make these episodes some of the most memorable of the anthology series. The sense of how close partners become, and how important the bond between them is to their survival, even to the exclusion of spouses, is very clear. If you ever thought Don Meredith was just a country-boy quarterback or color commentator to Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford, you should watch him in this role. IMHO.