Directed by Richard Lang and written by Mark Jones (Leprechaun) and Glen A. Larson, The Road Raiders was a pilot that wasn't picked up and aired as a TV movie.
It stars Bruce Boxleitner - who had just finished Scarecrow and Mrs. King - as Captain Rhodes, a disgraced soldier accused of being a deserter who is hiding from officials in the Philippines during World War II. When an officer comes to arrest him and dies, he takes that man's identity to get back to the actual fighting. Teaming up with Harlem (Reed R. McCants), Lt. Johanson (Susan Diol), Crankcase (Noble Willingham), Einstein (Stephen Geoffreys), Schizoid (Mark Blankfield) and the twin brother muscle of Black and Blue (David and Peter Paul, the Barbarian Brothers), he just might save the U. S. Army from Japan, which is represented by Clyde Kusatsu, John Fujioka and Tia Carrere.
It feels a little The A-Team, a bit The Dirty Dozen and it's an anachronistic take on the war. I mean, the Barbarian Brothers even drive a monster truck at one point. This all means that if this had been a series in 1989, there's more than a complete chance that I would have watched every airing.
It stars Bruce Boxleitner - who had just finished Scarecrow and Mrs. King - as Captain Rhodes, a disgraced soldier accused of being a deserter who is hiding from officials in the Philippines during World War II. When an officer comes to arrest him and dies, he takes that man's identity to get back to the actual fighting. Teaming up with Harlem (Reed R. McCants), Lt. Johanson (Susan Diol), Crankcase (Noble Willingham), Einstein (Stephen Geoffreys), Schizoid (Mark Blankfield) and the twin brother muscle of Black and Blue (David and Peter Paul, the Barbarian Brothers), he just might save the U. S. Army from Japan, which is represented by Clyde Kusatsu, John Fujioka and Tia Carrere.
It feels a little The A-Team, a bit The Dirty Dozen and it's an anachronistic take on the war. I mean, the Barbarian Brothers even drive a monster truck at one point. This all means that if this had been a series in 1989, there's more than a complete chance that I would have watched every airing.