User Reviews

The Double Eagle Detective Agency is approached by Deputy Sherrif Maggie to help a friend who is married to and dominated by a gangster. He's abusive but will not let her divorce him and take their son.

After being invited to the gangster's complex for a party, they manage to grab the woman and their son and take them back to their ranch for safe keeping. In a complication, the wife, played by the beautiful Leigh Taylor-Young, looks just like the long-lost love of Harland Pike.

I enjoy this show, but the writers had a little problem writing believable gun battles. Outnumbered and facing not only rifles but Uzis, they are somehow able to start standing in a line out in the open yet manage to persevere in the battle, using only their antique six-shooters. LOL It happened both in the pilot and in this episode.

What do you do when you have a brand-new tv show about time-travelling cowboys transported from the old west to 1980s houston, texas who have started a detective agency and have to deal with the mind-blowing culture shock of experiencing a new and confusing world? How about any of thousands of fun and exciting ideas based on such an absurd and entertaining premise? The cowboys have to deal with modern street gangs and get into an old-fashioned gunfight with crack dealers? Maybe they have to interact with modern technology to solve a case?

No. What you do is make a terrible, boilerplate 'made for lifetime network'-style story using the well-worn cliche of 'woman married to abusive mob boss wants to divorce him, but he wants their son'.

This is the first episode after the entertaining pilot, and they decided to deflate any action or adventure or fish-out-of-water humor and instead make a re-tooled soap opera script that had nothing to do with the characters being time-travelling cowboys. This is the kind of story that should have been resorted to somewhere around the 100 episode mark, but instead they decided to put it front and center. I wonder why the show only got one season? There are limitless fun things you could do with these characters but deborah dean davis (a cosmopolitan magazine writer! The last person who should have been writing a sci-fi western) decided to take a rejected 'hart to hart' script and set a few scenes at a ranch. I am outraged at this obscure, long-forgotten episode of a long-forgotten show! Curse you, deborah dean davis!