THE FEATHER AND FATHER GANG (1976-1977) – Happy Father’s Day, gentlemen! Back on Mother’s Day I reviewed Momma the Detective, so in that spirit here is a look at the short-lived detective series The Feather and Father Gang.
This program starred Stefanie Powers as attorney Toni “Feather” Danton and Harold Gould as Harry Danton, her charming, roguish conman father. Trying to keep her rascally dad on the straight and narrow, Feather hired him as a private investigator for her law firm.
In the tradition of Perry Mason and Matlock, Feather’s clients were always victims of frame jobs or bad circumstances, so her incorrigible father Harry inevitably resorted to extra-legal methods of clearing them. Papa Danton recruited some of his old conmen pals to help him in his efforts and dubbed the joint venture “the Feather and Father Gang.”
Harold Gould was clearly trading on his beloved character Kid Twist from The Sting in this role of a grifter with a heart of gold. Stefanie Powers was as capable as could be expected in the thankless role of the devoted daughter forever exasperated with her father’s repeated return to the underhanded tricks of his former trade. Continue reading
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