The Suicide Squadron is coming! The Suicide Squadron is coming.

Want other examples of the Suicide Squadron? Well, [Jack Scalia] has his own video-library of examples. "The Devlin Connection shut down when Rock Hudson, my co-star, had heart bypass surgery. A year later it debuted and was cancelled all within the span of two months." Even at that, it was far more successful than Hollywood Beat, which Scalia recalls started in September, 1985, and had vanished by November.

Peaceable Kingdom probably won't be so lucky. The pilot is so badly made, it's scarcely salvageable. [Lindsay Wagner] as a zoo keeper and Tom Wopat as her ever lovin' have come up such a cropper, they're out-acted by every ferret, barn owl and seal with bad breath they come up against. Wagner's last series, Jessie (1984), about a policewoman dealing in holistic medicine, ran three months. Wopat says he's still recovering from last season's Blue Skies.