TV-movie pilot for the TV series.
The original Death Ray 2000, starring Robert Logan as TR Sloane. DEATH RAY 2000. NBC-TV Movie; aired 05 March 1981. (aka T. R. Sloane) Pilot for NBC-TV series A Man Called Sloane (1979-1980). QM Production/Woodruff Production. CAST: Robert Logan as Thomas R. Sloane, Dan O’Herlihy as The Director, Ann Turkel as Sabina, Maggie Cooper as Chrissy, Clive Revill as Erik Clawson, Ji-Tu Cumbuka as Torque, Michele Carey (voice) as Effie. Written and produced by Cliff Gould. Executive Producer: Philip Saltzman. Director: Lee H. Katzin.
Sloane hunts a rogue general who is plotting an assault on an underdeveloped country.
KARTEL employs a master of disguise to take control of a laser satellite.
A modern-day pirate forces down a plane carrying defense secrets.
A scientist moonlighting for KARTEL steals a virulent microbe and the formula for its antidote.
A murder at an observatory alerts Sloane to a plot to divert a huge comet toward North America.
A martial-arts fanatic working for KARTEL kidnaps the daughter of a South American premier.
Sloane teams with his Russian counterpart, a stunning female agent, to combat KARTEL's use of a destructive laser gun.
A maniacal architect's blueprint for the future is threatened when a common cat burglar steals an essential part of his secret weapon.
While investigating the disappearance of certain scientific material, Thomas was questioning the woman who was responsible, it was then that someone diverted Thomas' attention and two people grabbed the girl and injected her with something, when Thomas returns he finds that the woman has died of old age. When he returns to the director, he discovers that the institute that she works for was working on some sort anti aging process but apparently someone was able to alter it to have the reverse effect. He then says that all she said was that she was working for a Dr. Karla Meredith. Thomas then goes to Meredith's office and asks the secretary, Joanna for the doctor's files, it is later that some people appear so Thomas grabs Joanna and leaves, who tells him that all of the doctor's files are gone. Thomas then goes to see Hans Kruger the benefactor of the institute where Meredith works. What Thomas doesn't know is that Kruger is working for KARTEL. Kruger tries to kill Thomas but escapes.