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/ NBC-Ohlmeyer Communications Company-Telepictures Corporation / 2x120 minute episodes / 1980
Director: Richard C Sarafian / Producer: Don Ohlmeyer / Teleplay: David E Peckinpah From story by Douglas Wolfe / Don Ohlmeyer / Photography: Stephen H Burum / Editor: Robert Floroio / Gregory Prange / Music: Perry Botkin Jr. / Art Director: John Vallone / Associate Producer: Michael Greenburg
This Olympics film, tied in with the planned 1980 games from which the United States subsequently withdrew, focuses on an American athlete Wayne Robertson whose dreams of winning the Decathlon are threatened by his romance with pretty Russian Gymnast Anya Andreyev. Its two stars then were on the verge of major TV and screen recognition, but not soon enough to help this two – part four – hour romantic youth oriented drama already made somewhat redundant by his country’s withdrawal from competition.
With:- STEPHANIE ZIMBALIST as Anya Andreyev / DAVID KEITH as Wayne Robertson / RICHARD LAWSON as Gene Davis / VICTOR FRENCH as Anatoly Andreyev / MERLIN OLSEN as Tod Simms / ED MCMAHON as Marv Jordon / SALOME JENS as Llyena / ROBERT PEIRCE as Viktor / JACK PALANCE as Whitey Robinson / JAMES EARL JONES as Dane Oliver / BRYANT GUMBEL as Himself / CHARLIE JONES as Himself / O J SIMPSON as Himself / DICK ENBERG as Himself / BRUCE JENNER as Himself / KERRY SHERMAN / SUNNY JOHNSON / NICHOLAS MELE / PAUL LARSON / DIANE SOMMERFIELD / JEFF SEVERSON / DENISE CHESHIRE / DAN C REED / J P BUMSTEAD / LANCE ROSEN / JOHN KELLY / KEN FOREEE / SI PACIOREK / JAMES SAITO / PRESTON SPARKS / OWEN BUSH / EMMETT BROWN / PATRICIA DRATEL / JO ANN LEHMANN
an in Class / JAN MERLIN as 2nd Man in Class / JIM WILKEY as Death Car Driver
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