NIGHTSIDE (TV) (1980 USA)
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Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski
Starring: Doug McClure, Michael Cornelison, John de Lancie
Genres: Comedy, Cops, Drama, TV Pilot
69 minutes | Full screen | Color | English
Action star Doug McClure plays for light humor in Nightside. This turned out to be a wise move on McClure's part, because it's next to impossible to take this made-for-TV cop drama seriously. McClure and Michael Cornelison portray two graveyard-shift L.A. patrolmen who must deal with various crises of varying importance on the eve of the USC/UCLA football game. The bane of the cops' existence are the college students who insist upon pulling pregame pranks on their beat. Intended as the pilot for a series, Nightside was first shown on June 8, 1980, where it lost most of its audience to the competing Tony Awards telecast.
