Stingray: Pilot Episode
11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Thursday, December 4 on WHTV Binge TV (18.3)
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Pilot Episode
Season 1, Episode 1
In the series pilot, Stingray (Nick Mancuso) is hired by a deputy DA (Robyn Douglass) to find her missing boss. Part 1 of two. "Moonlight" Mendosa: Gregory Sierra. Evelyn Decter: Susan Blakely. Dr. Ernst Decter: Lee Richardson. Eduardo Cantero: Joe Renteria.
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1985
English
Crime Drama
Action/adventure
Cast & Crew
Nick Mancuso
(Actor)
.. Stingray
Robyn Douglass
(Actor)
.. Daphne
Joe Renteria
(Actor)
.. Eduardo Cantero
Gregory Sierra
(Actor)
.. `Moonlight' Mendosa
Susan Blakely
(Actor)
.. Evelyn Decter
Lee Richardson
(Actor)
.. Dr. Ernst Decter
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Did You Know..
Nick Mancuso
(Actor)
.. Stingray
Born:
May 29, 1948
Trivia:
Canadian stage and television actor Nick Mancuso was first seen on American TV screens in 1978's Dr. Scorpion. Mancuso's film career was launched the following year with Nightwing. The actor's raffish handsomeness has served him well in both heroic and less-than-heroic roles. Nick Mancuso has played the title character on two TV action series: in 1986's Stingray, he portrayed what was described by the NBC publicity flacks as "a Lone Ranger in a black sports cast;" and in the USA network's 1993 crime-fantasy series Matrix, he starred as a heartless hit man who is given a second lease on life as a celestial do-gooder.
Robyn Douglass
(Actor)
.. Daphne
Born:
June 21, 1953
Birthplace: Sendai
Birthplace: Sendai
Joe Renteria
(Actor)
.. Eduardo Cantero
Gregory Sierra
(Actor)
.. `Moonlight' Mendosa
Born:
January 25, 1941
Trivia:
Angular Anglo-Latino actor Gregory Sierra began showing up on screen in 1971 in such films as The Wrath of God. Sierra quickly familiarized himself with TV viewers via his continuing role as Julio Fuentes in the weekly sitcom Sanford and Son. He left Sanford in January of 1975 to accept the part of detective sergeant Chano Amenguale on Barney Miller, a role he held down until the fall of 1976. Next up, Sierra starred as Dr. Tony Menzies on A.E.S. Hudson Street, a 1978 TV comedy that folded after six weeks despite positive critical comment. Two years later, he was cast as South American revolutionary "El Puerco" on the nighttime serial spoof Soap, figuring prominently in the series' up-in-the-air final episode in 1981. Gregory Sierra's more recent television roles have included Lt. Victor Maldonado on the NBC sci-fier Something is Out There (1988), and the ill-fated Lt. Lou Rodriguez on the trendy 1980's cop show Miami Vice.
Susan Blakely
(Actor)
.. Evelyn Decter
Born:
September 07, 1948
Birthplace: Frankfurt, West Germany
Birthplace: Frankfurt, West Germany
Trivia:
Actress/model Susan Blakely, the daughter of a U.S. Army colonel, was born in Germany and raised in ports of call ranging from Korea to Hawaii to Texas. After a year at the University of Texas, Blakely struck out for New York, where she studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse while pursuing a modeling career. By 1972, she was pulling down 100,000 dollars a year for her appearances on magazine covers and TV advertisements; she also began showing up in bit parts in films like Savages (1972) and The Way We Were (1973). Larger roles came her way in The Lords of Flatbush (1974), Report to the Commissioner (1974), The Towering Inferno (1974), and Shampoo (1975). It was a television production that brought her full-fledged stardom: in 1977, Blakely appeared as Julie Prescott in the ratings-busting miniseries Rich Man Poor Man. She continued to flourish in TV movies into the 1990s, sinking her dazzling teeth into such meaty roles as Eva Braun in The Bunker (1981), Frances Farmer in Will There Really Be a Morning? (1982), and attorney Leslie Abramson in Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Brothers (1994). Susan Blakely has been married to screenwriter Todd Merer and producer Steve Jaffe.
Lee Richardson
(Actor)
.. Dr. Ernst Decter
Born:
September 11, 1926
Died: October 02, 1999
Died: October 02, 1999
Trivia:
Chicago-born Lee Richardson was a nondescript but extremely busy character actor. His stock-in-trade was well-heeled authority, in such films as Brubaker (1980), Prizzi's Honor (1985; as Dominic Prizzi) and Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987). The longest lasting of his many TV assignments was the role of Captain Jim Swanson on the CBS daytime drama The Guiding Light. One of Lee Richardson's most widely seen films was one in which he was seen not once: Richardson was the offscreen narrator of the 1976 media satire Network.
