Season 1 • Episode 5
LatestA Senator's campaign rally at the hotel gets interrupted by an escaped felon looking to Logan for help.
Palace Guard is the story of a reformed jewel thief and cat burglar, Tommy Logan, who, after serving three years in prison, is released on parole and accepts an offer to become the head of security for the posh Palace Hotel chain. There were two reasons for this somewhat unusual job offer. One was that Logan had previously enjoyed great success in stealing from the high-class clientele of the Palace chain, and hence it was thought that he'd understand how to prevent others from doing so. And the other was that Tommy was the illegitimate son of the chain's owner, Arturo Taft, though Taft did not reveal this to Logan. The show centered primarily around the working relationship between Logan and his new boss, Christy Cooper, the hotel chain's Vice-President of Public Relations. In each episode, Logan and Cooper travelled to a hotel in a different city where Logan would help avert some disaster using quirky and questionable methods, leaving Cooper to sweep up the fallout.
Acting
D.W. Moffett's smug charm as a reformed thief who clearly misses the thrill.
Production
Glossy hotel-of-the-week settings that scream early-90s network excess.
Creator
Stephen J. Cannell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stephen J. Cannell created this right after The Commish and before Renegade, during his peak 'quirky crime solver' era.
Marcy Walker quit this show to join Santa Barbara full-time, which probably tells you everything about its trajectory.
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