From the first episode,the short-lived television series "Dan August" lived up to its title and then some. Set in Santa Luisa,California, Burt Reynolds portrayed Dan August,a straight tough as nails police cop who works for the Santa Luisa Police Department along with Sergeant Charles Wilentz(Norman Fell)and Sergeant Joesph Rivera(Ned Romero)while under the supervision of the commander and chief(not to mention Dan's boss)George Untermeyer(Richard Anderson).
'The House on Greenapple Road' was the original pilot for this series, and in fact starred Christopher George as Dan August, not Burt Reynolds. The was never an episode called 'Once is Not Enough', let alone it being the pilot episode 'introducing us to the character of Dan August'.
Reynolds' golden era is the time of Smokey and the Bandit when he was around 40years old.This series is before he really hit it big,about 7years before Bandit,and before he established himself as a funny-guy from Johhny Carson's show.
From the opening notes of its musical theme to the last moment of its (standard QM) epilogue "Dan August" provided energetic entertainment. The opening credits alone provided more action than most of the other shows on TV at the time.
Great short-lived series. Reynolds in another cop show after Hawk, but this time in color, with more cast members and under a Quinn Martin format (Prologue, Acts 1 to 4, Epilogue).
I seem to recall that "Dan August" had a really good theme song ... most of the Quinn Martin shows did, but I remember this one being really up tempo and it fit the character Reynolds played ...
