Rooster (film) explained

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.

Plot summary

A physically small police psychologist (Paul Williams) and a physically large insurance detective (Pat McCormick) team up on an arson case.

Cast

Follow-ons

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.