|  USA
/ CBS / 1x120 minutes / 10 February 1979
Music: Don Peake / Flatbed Annie & Sweetiepie Vocal: Marhall Chapman / Producer: Frank von Zerneck / Writer: Robie Robinson / Director: Robert Greenwald / Art Director: Jack Bissell / Director of Photography: William K. Jurgensen
Adventure pilot for a series that never made it. The light-hearted misadventures of Flatbed Annie, a feisty, rough – and – tumble lady, trucker who can “push any rig” on the road, and her partner, Ginny “Sweetiepie” La Rosa, a naïve, “Wet behind the ears” beginner. The pilot episode, which teams the two lady truckers for the first time, depicts their efforts to save Jack La Rosa’s (Ginny’s husband) near –
bankrupt trucking firm from C.W. Douglas, a persistent creditor who, because of unpaid bills, seeks to repossess Jack’s rig.
With:- ANNIE POTTS as Flatbed Annie / KIM DARBY as Ginny “Sweetiepie” La rosa / HARRY DEAN STANTON as C. W. Douglas, the creditor / ARTHUR GODFREY as Ginny’s Uncle Wally / FRED WILLARD as Jack La Rosa, Ginny’s husband / AVERY SCHREIBER as Mr. Munroe / BILLY CARTER as Deputy Miller / RORY CALHOUN as Farmer / RANCE HOWARD as Mr. Murray / JULIE MANNIX as Georgina / DON PIKE as Al
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