Bandit (film series)

Bandit
Genre	Action Comedy
Based on	Characters created by Hal Needham
Written by	Chris Abbott Brock Yates David Chisholm Jay Huguely
Directed by	Hal Needham
Starring	Brian Bloom Brian Krause
Composers	Steve Dorff Velton Ray Bunch
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of episodes	4
Production
Cinematography	Michael Shea
Editor	Stephen Lovejoy
Running time	91–94 minutes
Production company	Universal Television
Original release
Network	Syndication
Release	January 30 (1994-01-30) – April 10, 1994 (1994-04-10)

Bandit is a 1994 American television miniseries based on the Smokey and the Bandit franchise. All four episodes – Bandit Goes Country, Bandit Bandit, Beauty and the Bandit and Bandit's Silver Angel – were produced for Universal Television's Action Pack programming block from original Smokey and the Bandit director/writer Hal Needham.

Brian Bloom stars as a younger version of Bo "Bandit" Darville, the character originated by Burt Reynolds in Smokey and the Bandit (1977) and Smokey and the Bandit II (1980). The series serves as a reboot set in 1994. The car featured in this series is a Dodge Stealth, while the Smokey and the Bandit trilogy introduced two generations of the Pontiac Trans Am.

Episodes

Nº	Episode title	Directed by	Written by	Airdate
1	"Bandit Goes Country"	Hal Needham	Chris Abbott	January 30, 1994 (1994-01-30)
The Bandit (Brian Bloom) goes home for a family reunion and along the way, he meets music star Mel Tillis, who is forced to make an emergency landing when his plane malfunctions. The Bandit helps Mel, but soon finds himself in hot water when his cousin Johnny (Christopher Atkins) gets into the music bootlegging business.
2	"Bandit Bandit"	Hal Needham	Brock Yates	March 13, 1994 (1994-03-13)
A Bandit impostor (Gerard Christopher) lands the real Bandit (Bloom) in jail, but he needs to break out so he can deliver a futuristic car safely to Governor Denton (Gary Collins).
3	"Beauty and the Bandit"	Hal Needham	David Chisholm	April 3, 1994 (1994-04-03)
The Bandit (Bloom) is on the run with Crystal "the Beauty" (Kathy Ireland), a young woman being pursued by a mobster (Tony Curtis), a bounty hunter (Joseph Cortese) and the FBI.
4	"Bandit's Silver Angel"	Hal Needham	Jay Huguely	April 10, 1994 (1994-04-10)
The Bandit (Bloom) gets an unexpected visit from his Uncle Cyrus (Donald O'Connor) who later dies of a heart attack, leaving his carnival to his widow Angel (Traci Lords). The Bandit helps Angel face off against some shady characters smuggling stolen silver ingots hidden in the carnival.

Home media

On October 12, 2010, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment released all four episodes on DVD, along with the Smokey and the Bandit trilogy as part of Smokey and the Bandit: The 7-Movie Outlaw Collection.

See also

• Smokey and the Bandit
• Smokey and the Bandit II
• Smokey and the Bandit Part 3

External links

• Bandit Goes Country at IMDb
• Bandit Bandit at IMDb
• Beauty and the Bandit at IMDb
• Bandit's Silver Angel at IMDb