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  • The Optimist The Good, the Bad and the Nasty (Season 1, Episode 2)
  • TV Episode | Comedy

The Optimist

The Good, the Bad and the Nasty (Season 1, Episode 2)
TV Episode | Comedy
Dressed up for a weekend break, the Optimist (Enn Reitel) arrives at a dude ranch. He meets the beautiful Girl (Carinthia West), a riding instructress, and squares off with a handsome Rival (Martin Kove), who also pursues her affections. ...See moreDressed up for a weekend break, the Optimist (Enn Reitel) arrives at a dude ranch. He meets the beautiful Girl (Carinthia West), a riding instructress, and squares off with a handsome Rival (Martin Kove), who also pursues her affections. Learning to be a cowboy, he tries to spit like the grizzly Veteran (Bill Erwin), gets lost in the desert, is lassoed in the corral, and knocks himself out on the gun range, before fantasising he's Clint Eastwood in a shootout with the Rival. Written by AS See less
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Director
Peter Ellis
Writers
Peter Ellis (additional material) | Mike Porter (additional material) | Enn Reitel (additional material) | Robert Sidaway (additional material) | Richard Sparks
Producer
Robert Sidaway
Composer
John Cameron
Cinematographer
Peter Appleton
Editor
John Daniels
Production Designer
Mike Porter (art director)
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Status
Edit Released
Updated Apr 21, 1983
Release date
Apr 21, 1983 (United Kingdom)

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