Stan Rivkin
Created by Peter Lefcourt

Earnest, but failed pilot starring Ron Leibman as STAN RIVKIN, a low-rent but high-intensity bounty hunter who tracks down bail jumpers in a busting-at-the-seams Manhattan.

Leibman has previously created and starred in the short-lived Kaz, about a quick-tempered reformed car thief turned quick-tempered criminal attorney, which I also seem to vaguely (and fondly) remember.

Did anyone ever see this? I seem to remember M*A*S*H's Colonel Potter as a priest or something, but I might be wrong, and that, as usual, Leibman always seemed about to explode.

Ah! Upon further research, it turns out that, yes, Harry Morgan did play a kindly retired priest who frequently babysat Rivkin's physically handicapped 12 year old son.

TELEVISION

• RIVKIN: BOUNTY HUNTER
  (1981)
  100 minutes
  Original airdate: May 20, 1981
  Written by Peter Lefcourt
  Directed by Harry Harris Harry Bellaver
  Produced by Frank Ballou, Arthur E. McLaird
  Associate producer: Ursula Alexander
  Executive producers: Peter Lefcourt, Greg Strangis
  Starring Ron Leibman as STAN RIVKIN
  Also starring Harry Morgan, Harold Gary, Verna Bloom, George DiCenzo, Glenn Scarpelli, John Getz, Harry Bellaver

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.