The Feather and Father Gang | |
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Title card for The Feather and Father Gang, showing Stefanie Powers as Toni "Feather" Danton and Harold Gould as Harry Danton.
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Genre | Crime drama |
Created by | William Driskill |
Starring |
Stefanie Powers Harold Gould Frank Delfino Joan Shawlee Monte Landis Lewis Charles |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 14 |
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Executive producer(s) | Larry White |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production company(s) | Larry White Productions Columbia Pictures Television |
Distributor | Sony Pictures Television |
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Original network | ABC |
Audio format | Monaural |
Original release | December 6, 1976 | – July 30, 1977
The Feather and Father Gang is a 1976–1977 United States crime drama television series starring Stefanie Powers and Harold Gould which centers on an attorney who enlists her con-man father and his team of bunco artists to help her solve crimes. The show aired from December 6, 1976, to July 30, 1977.
Toni "Feather" Danton is a beautiful and clever young attorney. Her father, Harry Danton, is a shrewd and skillful confidence man. To keep Harry out of trouble, Feather hires him as an investigator for her law firm. Feather and Harry work together to help their friends and Feather's clients by bringing criminals to justice. Feather uses legal means, while Harry uses his underworld connections and extensive knowledge of scams and stings to help her with her cases. Harry assembles a gang of bunco artists – the "Feather and Father Gang" – who use disguises and elaborate ruses to trick the murderers and swindlers who victimize Feather's friends and clients into incriminating themselves.
Created by William Driskill, The Feather and Father Gang was an imitation for ABC of CBS's successful crime drama Switch, which aired from 1975 to 1978. Coincidentally, Powers would later costar with one of the stars of Switch, Robert Wagner, in another crime drama Hart to Hart which ran for 5 seasons beginning in 1979.
Larry White was the executive producer of The Feather and Father Gang. Driskill wrote the pilot episode, "Never Con a Killer," a 90-minute made-for-television movie which was broadcast as the series' sixth episode. The other writers who wrote episodes were Larry Alexander, Calvin Clements, Jr., Robert Dellinger, John T. Dugan, George Kirgo, Harold Livingston, Simon Muntner, and Mann Rubin.