Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill

The first of three private-eye movies created by Robert Blake about rugged Joe Dancer as the forerunner to a prospective but unrealized series after the retirement of his "Baretta" character. In the initial outing, Blake, as Dancer, follows a trail of bodies through a maze of corruption involving a politically ambitious Beverly Hills family.

• Reza BadiyiDirector
• Robert BlakeCreator
• Michael ButlerWriter

• Robert BlakeJoe Dancer
• JoBeth WilliamsTiffany Farinpour
• Neva PattersonEliza Farinpour
• James GammonCapt. Jake Jacqualone
• Veronica CartwrightSister Theresa
• Carol WayneAllegra Farinpour
• Edward WinterJerrold Farinpour
• Phillip R. AllenCommissioner Wilkie
• Sondra BlakeCharlie
• Eileen HeckartSister Clara
• Wilford BrimleyWally Haskell
• Kevyn Major HowardDavid Farinpour