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Renegade is an American television series that ran for 110 episodes spanning 5 seasons between September 19, 1992 and April 4, 1997.
The series stars Lorenzo Lamas as Reno Raines, a police officer who is framed for a murder he didn't commit. Raines goes on the run and joins forces with Native American bounty hunter Bobby Sixkiller, played by Branscombe Richmond. The series was created and produced by Stephen J. Cannell, who also had a recurring role as main villain, crooked police officer Donald 'Dutch' Dixon.
The show had the following voiceover before every episode summarizing the plot of the series:
The Renegade theme that followed was composed by Mike Post.
Renegade is the story of San Diego police officer Reno Raines. Reno was called to Bay City, California by his good friend District Attorney Harry Wells. Harry hired Reno to work undercover, exposing corrupt police officers. In a meeting with Harry Wells and Bay City Police Lieutenant Donald 'Dutch' Dixon, Reno explains he has enough evidence to press charges of murder and robbery against Dixon's partner Buzzy Burrell. Not wanting to be implicated in any crimes, Burrell and Dixon break convicted murderer Hogg Adams from prison in order to kill Raines. Later that night, Hogg busts into Reno's hotel room, aiming for Reno, but shooting his fiance Valerie Prentice, instead. Hogg flees the hotel and Burrell is seen rushing in to make sure Reno is dead. Dixon arrives moments afterwards and kills Burrell with Reno's weapon.
Set in present day middle America, focusing on the numerous misfortunes that have taken place in the past year alone, to an average, every day, struggling American family. Through a series of events, past and present, the audience is shown the bond our protagonist shares with his mother and sisters, and what he's willing to do in order for them to survive.
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Actors: Vera Farmiga (director), John Hawkes (actor), Alec Puro (composer), Joshua Leonard (actor), John 'JR' Craigmile (miscellaneous crew), Irwin M. Rappaport (miscellaneous crew), Vera Farmiga (actress), Bill Irwin (actor), Scott Friedman (miscellaneous crew), Brian O'Shea (miscellaneous crew), Jack Gilpin (actor), Donna Murphy (actress), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (actor), Michele Baker (miscellaneous crew), Matthew Parker (producer),
Plot: Vera Farmiga's directorial debut, HIGHER GROUND, depicts the landscape of a tight-knit spiritual community thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith. Inspired by screenwriter Carolyn S. Briggs' memoir This Dark World, the film tells the story of a thoughtful woman's struggles with belief, love, and trust - in human relationships as well as in God.
Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, accident, baby, baptism, belief-in-god, belief-in-heaven, belief-in-the-afterlife, born-again-christian, busActors: Vera Farmiga (director), John Hawkes (actor), Alec Puro (composer), Joshua Leonard (actor), John 'JR' Craigmile (miscellaneous crew), Irwin M. Rappaport (miscellaneous crew), Vera Farmiga (actress), Bill Irwin (actor), Scott Friedman (miscellaneous crew), Brian O'Shea (miscellaneous crew), Jack Gilpin (actor), Donna Murphy (actress), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (actor), Michele Baker (miscellaneous crew), Matthew Parker (producer),
Plot: Vera Farmiga's directorial debut, HIGHER GROUND, depicts the landscape of a tight-knit spiritual community thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith. Inspired by screenwriter Carolyn S. Briggs' memoir This Dark World, the film tells the story of a thoughtful woman's struggles with belief, love, and trust - in human relationships as well as in God.
Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, accident, baby, baptism, belief-in-god, belief-in-heaven, belief-in-the-afterlife, born-again-christian, busActors: Lee Roy Myers (writer), Samantha Ryan (actress), Andy San Dimas (actress), Chad Alva (actor), Scott Taylor (producer), Lee Roy Myers (director), Breanne Benson (actress), Faye Reagan (actress), Johnny Deep (actor), Tessa Taylor (actress), Freddy Fingers (miscellaneous crew), Bob Knob (miscellaneous crew), Syren Sexton (actress), Brooke Van Buuren (actress), Sonny Hicks (actor),
Genres: Adult,Actors: Paul J. Porter (actor), Jerry G. Angelo (actor), Rubén Blades (actor), Michael Brook (composer), Miguel Sandoval (actor), Bob Corff (miscellaneous crew), Castulo Guerra (actor), Chris Ranney (actor), Hayley Derryberry (actress), Cynthia Gates Fujikawa (miscellaneous crew), Monique Gabriela Curnen (actress), Arron Shiver (actor), Persia White (actress), Jacqueline Roberts (miscellaneous crew), Ryan J. Pezdirc (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Ryan Gosling (actor), Kristin M. Burke (costume designer), Clea DuVall (actress), Amy Adams (actress), David O. Russell (producer), Gavin O'Connor (producer), Frederic Perrin (miscellaneous crew), Kelly Lynch (actress), David Morse (actor), Robert Hawk (producer), Ethan Anderson (miscellaneous crew), Brent White (editor), Greg O'Connor (producer), Geraldine Keams (actress), David Cale (actor),
Plot: Roy gets cut from his high school football team just days after his estranged father dies. For him, football is more than a proving ground; it is a promised escape from his lonely rural existence and salvation from the paralyzing passivity that dominates his life. Enter Gideon, a loner living on the roughneck fringe who is looking for gamers--kids who scrap hard--to play on his six-man football squad. Roy joins the Renegades, and he and Gideon enter into tenuous friendship that pushes the limits of male bonding.
Keywords: american-football, coming-of-age, condom, country-music, diabetic, father-son-estrangement, football-coach, gay-friend, gay-interest, homosexual-subtextActors: Marton Csokas (actor), David Coulson (editor), Stewart Main (director), Stewart Main (writer), Michele Fantl (producer), Greg Mayor (actor), John Maunsell (actor), Nick Abbs (actor), Wayne Pivac (actor), Gregan Songhurst (actor), Joel Lund (actor), Tony Kingi (actor), Craig Jenkins (actor), Adam Cohen (actor),
Plot: A Maori warrior comes upon the aftermath of a battle to find that the only survivor is a wounded enemy soldier. His wishes to avenge his fallen countrymen by finishing off this helpless enemy but the gods won't allow it (as conveyed to him through a spirit bird). Anguished that he must instead treat the soldier's wounds, he's further repelled by the soldier's incessant homosexual advances. Slowly and surprisingly, a change comes over the warrior to accept the soldier's advances, but the war all too soon intrudes upon them.
Keywords: aftermath, alcohol, bayonet, bilingual, butterfly, coconut, compass, dead-animal, death, drowningActors: William Farnum (actor), Barney Furey (actor), Chief John Big Tree (actor), Ted Adams (actor), Ted Adams (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), Yakima Canutt (actor), Yakima Canutt (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Iron Eyes Cody (actor), Fred Burns (actor), Ken Cooper (actor), William Desmond (actor), Budd Buster (actor), Gaston Glass (actor),
Plot: When some men are attacked by Indians, a survivor obtains an Indian medicine arrow. An Indian tells Blade he has found gold but will not tell him where until he has that arrow. So Blade starts killing the survivors of the attack but fails to get the arrow. One of the men he kills is John Cardigan and Kit Cardigan, a Scout for Custer, now starts looking for the killer of his father.
Keywords: 1870s, abduction, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, alcoholic, alcoholism, ambush, american-flag, american-indian, ammunition, archive-footageActors: Reed Howes (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Chief John Big Tree (actor), Iron Eyes Cody (actor), Budd Buster (actor), Ted Adams (actor), Creighton Hale (actor), Ken Cooper (actor), William Desmond (actor), Ted Adams (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), William Farnum (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Barney Furey (actor), Walter James (actor),
Plot: A mystical medicine arrow, the key to a lost gold treasure, is lost in one of many Indian attacks. It is recovered by the only two survivors, a Major and his daughter, who become the targets of those who wish to possess it. General George Armstrong Custer and army scout Kid Cardigan attempt to stop the ensuing war over the arrow, but fail in their efforts, which becomes the historic Custer's Last Stand. Many historical figures and western stars of the time appeared in cameos in the feature, including Calamity Jane (Helen Gibson), Elizabeth Custer (Ruth Mix), Buffalo Bill Cody (Ted Adams), Sitting Bull (Howling Wolf), Wild Bill Hickock (Allen Greer), Chief Crazy Horse (High Eagle). A fun, if not historically accurate, wild western tale.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, archive-footage, battle-of-little-big-horn, character-name-in-title, corporal, epic-battle, feature-version-of-serial, indian-war, lieutenant, main-character-diesActors: William Farnum (actor), Barney Furey (actor), Chief John Big Tree (actor), Ted Adams (actor), Ted Adams (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), Yakima Canutt (actor), Yakima Canutt (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Iron Eyes Cody (actor), Fred Burns (actor), Ken Cooper (actor), William Desmond (actor), Budd Buster (actor), Gaston Glass (actor),
Plot: When some men are attacked by Indians, a survivor obtains an Indian medicine arrow. An Indian tells Blade he has found gold but will not tell him where until he has that arrow. So Blade starts killing the survivors of the attack but fails to get the arrow. One of the men he kills is John Cardigan and Kit Cardigan, a Scout for Custer, now starts looking for the killer of his father.
Keywords: 1870s, abduction, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, alcoholic, alcoholism, ambush, american-flag, american-indian, ammunition, archive-footageActors: Reed Howes (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Chief John Big Tree (actor), Iron Eyes Cody (actor), Budd Buster (actor), Ted Adams (actor), Creighton Hale (actor), Ken Cooper (actor), William Desmond (actor), Ted Adams (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), William Farnum (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Barney Furey (actor), Walter James (actor),
Plot: A mystical medicine arrow, the key to a lost gold treasure, is lost in one of many Indian attacks. It is recovered by the only two survivors, a Major and his daughter, who become the targets of those who wish to possess it. General George Armstrong Custer and army scout Kid Cardigan attempt to stop the ensuing war over the arrow, but fail in their efforts, which becomes the historic Custer's Last Stand. Many historical figures and western stars of the time appeared in cameos in the feature, including Calamity Jane (Helen Gibson), Elizabeth Custer (Ruth Mix), Buffalo Bill Cody (Ted Adams), Sitting Bull (Howling Wolf), Wild Bill Hickock (Allen Greer), Chief Crazy Horse (High Eagle). A fun, if not historically accurate, wild western tale.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, archive-footage, battle-of-little-big-horn, character-name-in-title, corporal, epic-battle, feature-version-of-serial, indian-war, lieutenant, main-character-dies