Genre: | Drama |
Starring: | Paul Williams Pat McCormick J. D. Cannon Ed Lauter Jill St. John Kathrine Baumann |
Director: | Russ Mayberry |
Executive Producer: | Glen A. Larson |
Music: | Stu Phillips |
Cinematography: | Chuck Arnold (as Charles G. Arnold) |
Editor: | David Howe |
Company: | 20th Century Fox Television Glen A. Larson Productions Tugboat Productions |
Network: | ABC |
Runtime: | 85 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Rooster is a 1982 made-for-television film starring Paul Williams and Pat McCormick who were reunited after their pairing in the Smokey and the Bandit movies. Rooster is an unsold television pilot written and produced by Glen A. Larson for 20th Century Fox Television and broadcast as a two-hour movie on ABC on August 19, 1982 and was rebroadcast on July 24, 1983.
A physically small police psychologist (Paul Williams) and a physically large insurance detective (Pat McCormick) team up on an arson case.
Rooster Steele and Sweets McBride, played by Paul Williams and Pat McCormick, would reappear in "How Do I Kill Thee...Let Me Count the Ways" episode of The Fall Guy in 1983.