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Action: Season 1

Action

Action: Season 1

Silver Pictures Television (1999)
DVD
NR (Not Rated)
683904531995
TV Series | Comedy | Drama
USA | English | Color | 04:59

Action was one of the first politically incorrects to hit the air in the late 90's. It was rude, prejudiced, sexist, homophobic, and one of the funniest shows of all time. Peter Dragon is a movie-producer whose latest movie has just gone down the tubes. His next flick has to be the greatest action film he's made. So when his company buys the wrong script from a wanna-be screenwriter, he enrages himself to the limit. He meets up with his new friend Wendy Ward, a child-star turned adult-prostitute. Peter asks her to read the scripts and she picks Beverly Hills Gun Club, the script Dragonfire Films mistakenly bought. The show is based around Peter's insanity being hung on a rope "faster than O.J. at a clan rally" as Peter put it. The show was doomed from the start when it was on at 9:00 on Thursday nights, which NBC has ruled since Seinfeld. And when it didn't pick up right away, the show was put on hiatus for their new hit game-show GREED. After the cancellation in Dece


Episodes View details

1 Pilot 23 min | Sep 16, 1999

On his way to the premiere of his latest action movie, "Slow Torture", producer Peter Dragon accidentally picks up a hooker, Wendy Ward. Afterwards it becomes clear that the film is a disaster and Wendy is the only one who honestly tells Peter what's wrong with it. So, he takes her in and asks her to read a pile of scripts he has just purchased. She picks out the only good one: "Beverly Hills Gunclub".

2 Re-Enter the Dragon 23 min | Sep 16, 1999

Dragonfire's Christmas action extravaganza "Slow Torture" has tanked at the box office, leaving Peter to set his last hopes on the newly discovered script "Beverly Hills Gunclub". He hires the hooker who pointed this script out to him, Wendy Ward, and makes her vice president of production.

3 Blood Money 23 min | Sep 23, 1999

On Monday, Bobby G. tells Peter to raise $50 million before Friday or he won't back the "Beverly Hills Gunclub". Adam is facing major revisions to his script but gets writer's block. So, Wendy promises him a night to remember to encourage him. Jane, Peter's ex, tells him that an unexpected bout of love-making between them resulted in a pregnancy, and that her current husband Bobby G. is ecstatic to finally get an heir.

4 Blowhard 23 min | Sep 30, 1999

Sandra Bullock bursts into Peter Dragon's office having discovered that he is selling a sex tape secretly filmed while they were dating on his website. Adam Rafkin is in hospital suffering from a serious case of exhaustion and Peter's star Cole Riccardi visits him in the middle of the night to tell him he wants to come out of the closet.

5 Mr. Dragon Goes to Washington 23 min | Oct 21, 1999

Peter Dragon mouths off during a Washington court hearing, so Bobby G. forces him to hire crafty publicist Connie Hunt to work on his image. Meanwhile slick agent Marty Jordan dazzles Adam Rafkin and makes him part with his agent of ten years

6 Twelfth Step to Hell 22 min | Oct 28, 1999

Peter turns down Scott Wolf for the lead in Beverly Hills Gunclub and Leonardo DiCaptrio proves uninterested. So, he pulls Holden van Dorn out of rehab and leaves him in Adam Rafkin's care.

7 Dragon's Blood 23 min | Aug 01, 2000

Peter Dragon has to entertain his daughter Georgia for the duration of "Take Your Daughter to Work Day" while trying to arrange a meeting with a reclusive director, Titus Scroad.

8 Love Sucks 23 min | Aug 08, 2000

On the day of the first script read-through, Adam can't get onto the stage, Holden is tempted by a drug pusher and the hot young actress hired by Stuart turns out to be 50 pounds overweight.

9 Strong Sexual Content 23 min | Dec 02, 1999

A rumor about Peter Dragon ending up in hospital with a frog in his behind spreads like wildfire. Meanwhile, a blissfully unaware Peter picks up Jenny Johnson at a party and makes her Wendy's assistant. But then his ex wife, Jane, has a falling out with Bobby G and wants to return to Dragon.

10 Lights, Camera, Action! 23 min | Dec 02, 1999

It's the first day of shooting and naturally nothing goes right, leading to heart troubles for Peter Dragon. Holden is unhappy with the size of his codpiece and the fact his character wears a watch. Reagan is insecure and doesn't want anyone to look at her while she acts and a feud between Stuart and Jenny results in Holden getting drunk.

11 Dead Man Floating 23 min | Aug 29, 2000

After being declared dead, Peter makes a miraculous recovery from his heart attack and starts going to baby class with his ex, Jane. Holden Van Dorn calls in the middle of the night to say director Titus Scroad is floating face up in his pool.

12 One Easy Piece 23 min | Sep 05, 2000

Stuart is considering a job offer to become head of comedy for UPN. Reagan is being difficult while shooting a sex scene for Beverly Hills Gun Club. Adam wants to get paid for all of his rewrites, but Peter talks him into accepting a producers credit instead.

13 The Last Ride of the Elephant Princess 23 min | Sep 12, 2000

After hiring the last available director on the list, Guy Rennolds and inadvertently investing his own money into Beverly Hills Gun Club, Peter is more adamant to finish the picture than ever. Just then it turns out the Rothstein brothers bought Adam Rafkin's script under a different title a year earlier and as such own the rights to the film.

Cast View all

Jay Mohr Peter Dragon
Illeana Douglas Wendy Ward
Jack Plotnick Stuart Glazer
Buddy Hackett Uncle Lonnie
Jarrad Paul Adam Rafkin
Lee Arenberg Bobby G.
R. Lee Ermey Titus Scroad
Fab Filippo Holden Van Dorn
Erin Daniels Jenny
Cindy Ambuehl Jane
John Vargas Asher
Jennifer Lyons Reagan Lauren Busch
Robert Leon Casey Le Prix Bartender
Edouard Saad Momo Shabong
Richard Burgi Cole Ricardi
Amy Aquino Connie Hunt
Sara Paxton Georgia Dragon
Leslie David Baker Guard
Keith Diamond Dick Marcellus
Steve Kmetko Steve Kmetko
Jules Asner Jules Asner
Kara Zediker Missy Scroad
Keanu Reeves Keanu Reeves
Sandra Bullock Sandra Bullock
Salma Hayek Salma Hayek

Edition details

Nr Discs 1
Screen Ratios Fullscreen (4:3)
Audio Tracks Stereo [English]
Layers Single side, Single layer
Edition Release Date Apr 01, 2014

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