Bandit is a 1994 American action comedy television series directed by Hal Needham and produced by Universal Television for the Action Pack programming block, starring Brian Bloom as the son of Bo "Bandit" Darville, and Brian Krause as Lynn. It is the fourth installment in the Smokey and the Bandit franchise. The show premiered on January 30, and its last episode aired on April 10, 1994.
The series serves as a standalone sequel to Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983) and a reboot set in 1994. Instead using the then newly released fourth generation Pontiac Trans Am at the time, the car featured as "Bandit One" in this series is a Dodge Stealth, while the original Smokey and the Bandit trilogy introduced two generations of the Pontiac Trans Am, the first two films both featured a second-generation Trans Am, while the third film featured a third-generation Trans Am.
The show's hit theme song "Another Dream Away" was performed by country music singer Dawn Sears. Sears is also featured in the opening title sequence performing the song while playing her guitar.
Episodes
Home media After many years of being an extremely hard-to-find series, on October 12, 2010, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment released all four episodes on DVD, along with the original Smokey and the Bandit trilogy as part of Smokey and the Bandit: The 7-Movie Outlaw Collection.Smokey and the Bandit The 7-Movie Outlaw Collection at Amazon.com
See also Smokey and the Bandit Smokey and the Bandit II Smokey and the Bandit Part 3
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