America’s toughest

Press, 30 December 1988, Page 15

America’s toughest

Faced with a choice between a lifetime in prison and a war-time in the most dangerous parts of Nazi-occupied Europe, twelve convicted criminals choose the latter, and the promise of freedom it brings. That’s if they don’t get killed first. Tonight at 8.25, Network Two screens the pilot episode in a new action series, “The Dirty Dozen,” based on the hit movie of the same name.

Ben Murphy stars as

Lieutenant Danko, a United States Army officer serving a life sentence for attempting to kill a lieutenant colonel. Despite the nature of his crime, the army decides that he may still be of use to them. Faced with an incredibly dangerous task behind German lines, the army look around for someone with nothing to lose. They find Danko. By offering him his freedom if he undertakes this, and other dangerous

i assignments, they per- ' suade Danko to put to- . gether a task-force to des- > troy a Nazi installation hidden in a hospital run f by nuns. Danko heads for the s Marston-Tyne prison, 1 where he finds the wildest bunch of inmates ever to wear a uniform. They include an expert forger, Dylan Leeds (played by John Slattery); an actor, Jonathon Farrell (John Bradley); a demolitions expert, Jean Lebec (John Diaquino).