Movin' On: Explosion
01:00 am - 02:00 am, Saturday, November 15 on KMCC Vegas 34 HDTV (34.1)
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About this Broadcast
Explosion
Season 1, Episode 15
Jobless and truckless, Sonny and Will find their financial future riding on a racing greyhound they received in lieu of payment. Sonny: Claude Akins. Will: Frank Converse.
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1975
English
HD Level Unknown
Drama
Action/adventure
Cast & Crew
Claude Akins
(Actor)
.. Sonny Pruett
Frank Converse
(Actor)
.. Will Chandler
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Did You Know..
Claude Akins
(Actor)
.. Sonny Pruett
Born:
May 25, 1926
Died: January 27, 1994
Died: January 27, 1994
Trivia:
Trained at Northwestern University's drama department, onetime salesman Claude Akins was a Broadway actor when he was selected by a Columbia talent scout for a small role in the Oscar-winning From Here to Eternity (1953). With a craggy face and blunt voice that evoked memories of Lon Chaney Jr., Akins was a "natural" for villainous or roughneck roles, but was versatile enough to play parts requiring compassion and humor. A television actor since the "live" days, Akins achieved stardom relatively late in life via such genial adventure series as Movin' On (1974), B.J. and the Bear (1979), The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1979) and Legmen (1984). In his last decade, Claude Akins was a busy-and most genial-commercial spokesperson.
Frank Converse
(Actor)
.. Will Chandler
Born:
May 22, 1938
Trivia:
Tall (6'2"), sandy-haired American leading man Frank Converse studied at Carnegie Tech before launching his acting career with stage, commercial and soap-opera assignments. Converse became a star by way of a TV series that literally died before it was born. Thirteen episodes of Coronet Blue, in which Converse played an amnesiac pursued by mysterious assassins, were filmed in 1965, then shelved when no room could be cleared on CBS' fall schedule. Most of these episodes were telecast as a 1967 summer replacement series, sparking an intensely loyal fan following for Converse; by that time, however, he was committed to the weekly cop series NYPD and could not continue with Coronet Blue, thus his fans never did find out who his character really was or why he was being chased all over the country. Active in all aspects of entertainment, Frank Converse has been most visible on television: he starred on the prime time series Movin' On (1974-75), The Family Tree (1983), Dolphin Cove (1989), and for several years was a regular on the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live.
