Season 1 • Episode 5
LatestLegendary fighter pilot Woody Harrell is testing a new jet prototype when it suddenly vanishes from radar screens leaving Lime Street on the hook for a $200 million insurance payout. Grey and Eddie join the FAA in it's investigation and begin to suspect foul play when no wreckage can be found.
Lime Street is an American action/drama series that aired on the ABC television network during the 1985 television season. The series was created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who also served as executive producer alongside husband Harry Thomason and series star Robert Wagner. Robert Wagner is half of a crackerjack team of insurance investigators. A colorful British bachelor (John Standing) is the other half, and he resides in a castle outside London. This Lloyd's of London-type duo travel all over the world to crack some of the toughest insurance cases ever devised by a scriptwriter. Lew Ayres is Wagner's dapper Virginia countrygentleman father and the grandfather to Bob's motherless children.
Acting
Lew Ayres brings old Hollywood class to every Virginia gentleman scene.
Production
Actual UK location shooting on a 1985 ABC budget—miraculous.
Creator
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Samantha Smith was the Maine schoolgirl who wrote to Andropov and became a Soviet-American peace symbol; her casting was major news.
The August 1985 Bar Harbor plane crash that killed Smith and her father halted production with two episodes unshot; ABC burned off what existed.
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