Uncommon Valor (1983)
The pilot for an unsold weekly series, Uncommon Valor stresses the courage and resourceful of a team of firefighters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Headed by dauntless battalion chief Tom Riordan (Mitchell Ryam), the unit tries to drench a raging conflagration at County General Hospital (a disaster enhanced by some pretty good special effects). They also have to battle the villain of the piece, discreetly described in the original network press release as a "deranged arsonist."
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"Gene Hackman was like, we're going to get you out of there. Yeah, uncommon Valor, man. I was referencing."
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"I thought that Gene Hackman assembled like ragtag groups of people that go in behind enemy lines like 10 years later. I thought that's how we did it. What was that? Uncommon valor."
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"I've seen on Common Valor. That was a good movie."
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"To Gene Hackman. Picked up. Yeah, Gene Hackman was like, we're going to get you out of there."
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Chuck referenced Uncommon Valor when talking about Gene Hackman's role in rescue missions, both real and fictional.
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Cast
Mitchell Ryan
Chief Tom Riordan
Barbara Parkins
Dr. Margaret Houghton
Ben Murphy
Jim Merritt
Gregory Sierra
George Callender
Belinda Montgomery
Joan
Chris Lemmon
Reggie
Salome Jens
Nurse Ann Botts
Nicholas Guest
Robertson
Norman Fell
Garvin
Julie Cobb
Karen Merritt
S
Spencer Alston
Jimmy
J
Jay Bernard
Corvallis
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