Code of Vengeance
| Code of Vengeance | |
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Title card for the 1985 TV movie
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| Also known as | 'Dalton and Dalton's Code of Vengeance' |
| Genre | Action/Adventure |
| Created by | Robert Foster |
| Starring | Charles Taylor |
| Composer(s) | Don Peake |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | Pilot plus 4 episodes |
| Production company(s) | Universal Television |
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| Original network | NBC |
| Picture format | 4:3 |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | June 30, 1985 – August 24, 1986 |
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| Related shows | Knight Rider |
Code of Vengeance is the umbrella title for a series of American television programs, produced by Universal Television, that aired on NBC in 1985 and 1986. Charles Taylor stars as David Dalton, a Vietnam veteran who has become a drifter, travelling across the United States in a camper van with only his dog for company. Dalton gets involved in the personal lives of the people he meets and uses his fighting skills to help them win justice.
The Dalton character was created for All That Glitters, a planned spin-off series from Knight Rider, and a backdoor pilot aired as a second-season episode of that series in 1984. The character, originally a suave government agent, was retooled as a lone drifter for a new pilot, which aired as the television movie Code of Vengeance, to surprise ratings success in June 1985. A subsequent series, to be called Dalton, was ordered by NBC for midseason, then production was cancelled after just four episodes were completed. These aired in the summer of 1986 as a television movie titled Dalton: Code of Vengeance II and as a part of a fill-in series called Dalton's Code of Vengeance.
The David Dalton character was originally created by writer Robert Foster and executive producer Glen A. Larson for a proposed series titled All That Glitters. The show's two-hour backdoor pilot aired on April 8, 1984, as a special double-length episode of Knight Rider titled "Mouth of the Snake". The production featured Charles Taylor as David Dalton, an action-oriented government agent, and Joanna Pettet as Joanna St. John, the widow of a murdered lawyer, fighting crime and accepting secret missions from Archibald Hendley (played by George Murdock) on behalf of the United States Department of Justice. In this pilot episode, Dalton and St. John work with Knight Rider stars Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff) and KITT (voice of William Daniels) to locate Eduardo O'Brien (Pedro Armendáriz, Jr.), a master criminal who has stolen a prototype rocket launcher.
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