A forgotten '85 TV pilot where combat hockey and family drama collide at the edge of Y2K.
Futuristic prospective series pilot, a distant cousin the 1975 theatrical violent sport movie "Rollerball," revolves around a turn-of-the-millennium family on the Great Eve (the night before the year 2000 begins) planning for a reunion. Son Richard Beymer is an inventor working with prosthetic devices to help young athlete brother Drake Hogestyn perfect his game of combat hockey to maintain his skills as a national hero, and Cristina Raines is a socially conscious doctor who wants nothing to do with their prideful father, Bert Remsen, to the distress of their loving mother, Priscilla Pointer.
Production
Bizarrely ambitious world-building for a failed pilot.
Acting
Priscilla Pointer holding together chaotic family dynamics.
Director
Michael Tuchner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of multiple failed Rollerball spin-off attempts; MGM wanted to franchise the 1975 film's violent sports concept for television.
The 'Great Eve' Y2K setting now plays hilariously dated — the show imagined 2000 as full of combat sports and cyber-limbs, not party hats and millennium bugs.
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