''Sable'' is an American
mystery crime drama
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...
television series that aired on
ABC from November 7, 1987 to January 2, 1988, during the 1987–1988 season, and is based on the
comic book
A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panel (comics), panels that represent individual scenes. ...
, ''
Jon Sable: Freelance'', by
Mike Grell.
Seven episodes of the series aired.
The show was a one-hour adventure/drama about mercenary and vigilante
Jon Sable (
Lewis Van Bergen), who by day was children's book author Nicholas Fleming. The program ran on Saturdays at 8:00, and aired its final episode on January 2, 1988.
Rene Russo had her first television role on the series.
also had one of her first acting roles playing a kidnapped girl in the series pilot.
KISS frontman
Gene Simmons is a fan of the comic and purchased the rights to the series earlier in his career with the hope of turning it into a big action movie with
Pierce Brosnan as the lead. Simmons even starred in the lead role in an un-aired pilot for the eventual tv show.
[''Age of TV Heroes: The Live-Action Adventures of Your Favorite Comic Book Characters'' by Jason Hofius and George Khoury, TwoMorrows Publishing, 2010, page 13.]
Cast
*
Lewis Van Bergen as
Jon Sable
*
Rene Russo as Eden Kendell
*
Ken Page as Joe "Cheesecake" Tyson
*
Holly Fulger as Myke Blackmon
*
Marge Kotlisky
Marge Kotlisky (February 19, 1927 - December 2, 1997) was an American actress. She died in 1997 of cancer.
Filmography
*'' My Bodyguard'' (1980)
*'' Thief'' (1981)
*'' Sixteen Candles'' (1984)
*''Sable'' (unknown episodes, 1987)
*'' Major Lea ...
as Cynthia
*John Harkins as Thomas Watertson
Episodes
References
External links
*
1987 American television series debuts
1988 American television series endings
American Broadcasting Company original programming
Television shows based on comics
1980s American drama television series
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Chicago
Neo-noir television series
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