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Well I guess Quinn Martin thought if it would work in the sixties why not the seventies, I can see them now instead of a male lead lets have a female lead character and try to change up the story a little so she's on the lam trying to figure out how to clear her name. Hey that sounds pretty good and lets have her father perish so that gives her the motivation to see it through. Let's find a female lead that's quite likable but tough and head strong, hey with that we should have another hit show on our hands.

Well unfortunately it's all pretty straight forward after that. Mind you this pilot is not bad television making it just comes across as a very simple movie. Donna Mills is quite attractive in the lead role and she is certainly likable, tough and head strong it just never takes off. It must not have of gotten the ratings from it's first run that the series was never commissioned.

This pilot also has some good character actors in it Andrew Duggan, Geoffrey Lewis, Robert Reed from Brady Bunch fame kind of weird to see him fall for Donna Mills character but there all quite good in it. Also anyone who grew up in the seventies will see quite a few familiar faces. The plot is not overly complicated she gets mixed up with the mob they try to kill her and her cop partner and in the end frame her for killing her partner that's why she on the lam trying to clear her name. Her father played by Andrew Duggan winds up getting killed for not giving the mob the information on where she is. The first hour kind of sets everything up and the second hour tells her first story of winding up with characters in a small town where she is supposed to make a difference. The final scene of her walking down the road to what would of been the next town trying to clear her name and set up her next adventure. Well unfortunately will never know but if you run into the movie under it's title The Hunted Lady give it a look, it's above average with some capable actors so I still recommend it.

Good intentions doesn't always make a good movie, and while there are a lot of good things here, there are also way too many to keep it from being straightforward. It focuses on a very tough cop played by Donna Mills who is brought in to be a part of a special case. That ends up getting her framed for murder and when she is found passed out in the desert is taken in by doctor Robert Reed to message her back to health. She becomes involved in the play of the local Native American tribes, particularly an adorable little boy played by Panchito Gómez.

The scene-stealing Gomez takes over the film at the hour mark, peaking in on Mills as she's recovering while in Reed's Hospital. The first part of the film deals with her investigation which leads to the death of her father, Andrew Dugan, and that's after she shot and wakes up in the hospital, having been framed for the murder of a colleague to discredit the evidence that she has discovered. You can't help it like Mills in this. She takes no prisoners unless it's someone that she manages to shove into a set of bushes in the park after they try to mug her, and she is very funny while taking on men allegedly twice her strength.

Fans of "The Young and the Restless" will be thrilled to see Jess Walton and Quinn Redeker here, although they do not work together. Walton is very funny as Mills' cop roommate, while Redeker plays a sleazy mafia type whom Mills smooth talks. Another good performance is by Will Sampson as Gomez's uncle, and there's also Jeffrey Lewis as a sleazy local who threatens the young boy in a vial way. This would have been a good film if it decided to deal with one plot or the other, but the two together make it feel like two different movies. Perhaps part one should have been expanded another half an hour and the story involving in Gomez and read expanded as a sequel.