Blue Light

I agree! My sister and I loved this show. Robert Goulet was great, the plots were interesting (we were 11 and 16, in the prior to internet days) I would love to see these shows again. "where were the Yankees in '37, '38 etc". I wonder if anyone else remembers that reference! K

I'm sorry to hear Robert is ill, and awaiting a transplant. He and Carol Lawrence (the Broadway maria in West Side Story) were the height of glamour for us in the 60's. My best wishes and hopes go out to him

Loved the Emerald Nuts Ad--I think someone else remembered Blue Light

Why does this site insist on 10 lines?

I'm just trying to fill space to get me comments posted.

I never watched "Blue Light", but I do remember the TV ads on ABC. It was a mid-season replacement. It was the same mid-season that also introduced the "Batman" TV series to the world. We all know about "Batman", but I haven't even heard the name "Blue Light" since I was in elementary school.

I had no idea what the series was about, but I knew that Robert Goulet had something to do with it. Now I'm seeing that it was about Nazis and World War II Europe. I had no idea.

Yeah, I was a pup at the time. Certain little facts always stick with me.

As pointed out in previous comments, Blue Light was part Counterfeit Traitor, part Operation Crossbow, part James Bond, and all Robert Goulet. Goulet was perfect, an earlier version of Pierce Brosnan in many ways, as "traitor" David March, double agent extraordinaire, trying his best to help win the war in WWII Europe almost singlehandedly. He was in his prime, handsome and virile, and convincingly charming and deadly, and his romantic interest and partner in spying was the exciting French actress Christine Carrere. Don't get me wrong, I came back week after week to see how David March could outwit the Nazis and advance the war effort, but I also came back to see Christine who, along with Diana Rigg as The Avengers' Emma Peel, was one of the sexiest European ladies on American 60's TV. Though historically inaccurate, the episode, which I believe was a larger part of the movie culled from the series, involved the destruction of the V-1 and V-2 rocket base at Peenemunde. It was for all intents and purposes an American James Bond taking on a Nazi version of a Spectre plot and great fun and adventure. Though I don't recall what was opposite it in its time slot, I was hooked, I know some veterans of WWII laughed at some of the plots, James Bond could be fantastic, but not David March in WWII, I still think, even today, that it was very underrated and Goulet should have been used more in roles like this. Today his voice is silent, most of his music is out of print, and this series is all but forgotten. Sadly, now that Robert Goulet has passed away, perhaps they'll resurrect his albums and put this short-lived series out on DVD. What a voice! How the heavens must sound today!

Goulet was excellent. He brought gravitas to the role of David March and all of the cast were very good. The guest stars and supporting players were well chosen and familiar from previous Nazi roles including Eric Brayden from Rat Patrol, Francis Lederer and Oscar Beregi. The actresses were all knockouts, of course. Unfortunately, the show lasted slightly over half a season. An official DVD and Blu Ray would be terrific but seems unlikely while crap gets the green light instead of the blue light.

The set up of this show was outlandish: As IMDB explains, David March, an American correspondent, pretends to go over to the Germans in World War II but is instead working for the United States against Hitler.

The non verisimilitude comes from the fact that he was a super-duper infallible agent and saboteur. In every episode he was successful in his mission while, again and again he managed to keep his real nature secret. That, in spite of the invariable presence of an overzealous Gestapo baddie who suspected March was, in fact, a double agent. Well, this James Bond squared hero, in addition to ALWAYS getting the job done, almost every time managed to get the suspicious Gestapo man dead or at least wrongly branded and punished as an anti-Nazi traitor or spy.

This impossible and unbelievable chain of successes was due to the ingenious imagination of experienced screenwriter Larry Cohen, who managed to get all the ducks in line for the hero to succeed.

Of course, viewers needed to suspend disbelief for this to work. And it didn't work for long: this series ran for 17 episodes only (but mostly because it was in a bad time slot).

If someone is interested on watching a little of this, Youtube is showing the 1966 film Deal in Danger, which is a collage of the first four episodes of Blue Light, which Cohen wrote linked on purpose, with a future feature film in sight. On that regard, I need to point out that at IMDB I Deal in Danger is rated 5,5 while the series receives 7.5. Even accounting for the fact that we expect more from a film than from a TV series, the discrepancy is remarkable. One explanation is that to reach representative averages large numbers of voters are required (which we don't have here) but I can't refrain myself from thinking that there might also be some snobbery in the IMDB audience.