McCloud is always entertaining, but Barbi Benton sounds BAD and we had to hear her singing constantly. Did Hugh Hefner sponsor this episode? Lorna Luft is in the episode. Just compare her singing to Barbi's. Otherwise, I do think it's an interesting episode and McCloud gives you some chuckles along the way.
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Tigeranne28 March 2022
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bkoganbing16 October 2015In a somewhat unusual move for the McCloud series, Dennis Weaver is on an authorized undercover mission. This occurs during the course of a join operation by the NYPD and the Feds into record piracy. The focus of the investigation is on a management company headed by Jessica Walter and a record company that Raymond St.Jacques has control of.
Weaver goes undercover as the new manager of country singer Barbi Benton after her old manager gets killed after being a hallucinatory drug. McCloud gets slipped the same Mickey Finn and Dennis Weaver goes off on a nasty trip of his own before the show is ended.
Some nice singing by Barbi Benton is a plus here, but the story also called for Terry Carter as Sergeant Joe Broadhurst to take a real nasty beating. It's all part of a scheme for McCloud to expose record piracy, but Dennis Weaver has to deliver a nasty body blow to Carter to keep his cover. Sergeant Broadhurst is nothing if not dedicated.
It occurred to me that with the coming of the internet this whole racket is passé. With all of what had to be done, the payola of all kinds for artists to get their material exposed, now all that's needed is to make a video and put it on YouTube. Artists have been made that way currently and the Disney teen comedy Austin&Ally is about a new teen idol played by Ross Lynch who gets his big break just that way.
A good show and a good racket while it lasted.