Tony Wolf
Created by David Perckinpah and Rod Holcomb

In Wolf, a short-lived CBS TV series, TONY WOLF was a San Francisco fisherman and sometime private eye. Originally a narcotics officer for the SFPD, Tony was framed and took the fall as a crooked cop. Drummed off the force, he wandered the world for a couple of years, before finally returning home to The City to make amends with his aging father and to take over the family fishing boat. He's also tried to re-kindle a relationship with Connie, an old flame.

Oh, and to occasionally do a little P.I. work for Dylan Elliot, the DA who originally prosecuted him two years earlier. Seems Dylan, now a high-powered attorney with a private practise, was starting to think maybe Tony was framed after all.

As far as I know, we never found out if Tony ever cleared his name or not. It turns out that smell emanating from the show wasn't fish after all -- it didn't even make it through its complete run in prime time. As Craig Nelson pointed out in Bad TV, "only insomniacs caught the rest of the series."

He attributes this to "The Curse of Jack Scalia." He goes on to state: "Evidently, Scalia did make it through a full season with Rock Hudson in The Devlin Connection (1982) as a private investigator/racketball pro, but only got through three episodes before being axed as an ultramodern security agent in High Performance (1983), and four airings as an undercover cop and master of disguises in Hollywood Beat (1985)."

TELEVISION

• WOLF
  (1989-90, CBS)
  1 two-hour pilot, 10 60 minute episodes)
  Created by David Perckinpah and Rod Holcomb
  Writers: David Perckinpah, Elliot Anderson
  Directors: Rod Holcomb
  Starring Jack Scalia as TONY WOLF
  Also starring Joseph Sirola as Sal Loupo
  Mimi Kuzyk as Connie
  J.C. Bandy as Angeline
  and Nicholas Survoy as Dylan Elliot
  Guest stars: Scott Shaw, Allison Smith, Billy Gallo, Paul Joseph McKenna, Anne Ramsay, Corinne Chooey, Joon B. Kim, Jason Scott Lee, John Wesley Shipp, Christine Steel
  ..

• "Pilot" (September 13, 1989; 2-hour pilot)
• "On the Run" (September 19, 1989)
• "Danny" (September 24, 1989)
• "Running on Empty" (September 26, 1989)
• "Two Men and a Baby" (October 3, 1989)
• "Curtains of Silence" (October 10, 1989)
• "Echoes of Yesterday" (October 24, 1989)
• "Guns and Roses" (November 7, 1989)
• "Betrayal" (November 14 , 1989)
• "Little Girl Lost" (June 21, 1990)
• "Vengeance" (June 28, 1990)

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.