The Georgia Peaches Explained

Alt Name:Follow That Car
Genre:Comedy
Director:Daniel Haller
Starring:Dirk Benedict
Tanya Tucker
Terri Nunn
Lane Smith
Music:R. Donovan Fox
Country:United States
Language:English
Producer:James Sbardellati
Thomas M. Hammel
Executive Producer:Roger Corman
Editor:Sandy Nervig
Cinematography:David Sanderson
Location:Charleston, South Carolina
Johns Island, South Carolina
Walterboro, South Carolina
Runtime:100 minutes
Company:New World Pictures
Network:CBS (Ryder Sound Services)

The Georgia Peaches (also known as Follow That Car) is a 1980 American made-for-television action-adventure comedy film produced by Roger Corman as a pilot for a proposed television series. It starred Tanya Tucker, Terri Nunn and Dirk Benedict as three friends extorted into becoming undercover FBI agents. The film was broadcast on CBS on November 8, 1980.[1]

Plot

The exploits of two sisters – Lorette Peach (Tucker), a country-western singer and Sue Lynn Peach (Nunn), owner of the Georgia Peaches Garage, and Dusty Tyree (Benedict), a stock car racer – as three friends recruited as undercover agents by the U.S. Treasury Department. In the pilot, they attempt to break up a ring of cigarette bootleggers operating out of their home state of Georgia.

Cast

Home media

The Georgia Peaches was released on DVD by Shout! Factory as part of "Roger Corman's Cult Classics" Triple Feature Action-Packed Collection series on April 5, 2011.

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=AKlgjBCPPnsC&dq=THE+georgia+peaches%3A+dirk+benedict&pg=PA164 Terrace, Vincent. Encyclopedia of Television Series, Pilots and Specials, Volume 2