John Shea (1996 Robert Ludlum's The Apocalypse Watch)
Excerpt from Robert Ludlum's The Apocalypse Watch 1996: John Shea | The Apocalypse Watch
The Apocalypse Watch
When American undercover agent Harry Latham (John Shea) tries to infiltrate the Fourth Reich, he is captured and a computer chip carrying erroneous information is implanted in his brain. Upon his return to his colleagues, he causes confusion with his false reports. His younger brother, Drew (Patrick Bergin), and a close friend, Karin de Vries (Virginia Madsen), also secret agents, realize something is wrong. When Harry is assassinated, Drew assumes his brother’s identity to continue the investigation.
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Excerpt from New York Times 2/28/97: John Shea
TV WEEKEND
By JOHN J. O'CONNOR Published: February 28, 1997
'Robert Ludlum's ''The Apocalypse Watch'' ' ABC, Sunday and Monday nights at 9
As a death-watch clock ticks toward an apocalypse planned by a Fourth Reich, American and British agents working out of London try feverishly to save the world for democracy. Leading the C.I.A. contingent are Harry Latham (John Shea) and his brother Drew (Patrick Bergin), both of whom have more than professional ties to the glamorous Karin de Vries (Virginia Madsen), a British agent who may or may not be involved with the other side.
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Excerpt from LA Times 3/1/97: John Shea
'Apocalypse' Centers on Neo-Nazi Plot
March 01, 1997|JON MATSUMOTO
Initially, undercover CIA agent Harry Latham (John Shea) comes within whiskers of cracking this seemingly hard-to-conceal conspiracy. But after an unknown double agent exposes him to the enemy, Harry is mentally reprogrammed by the Nazis and eventually murdered. Latham's brother Drew (Patrick Bergin) subsequently takes over the case, along with Harry's old partner, Karin de Vries (Virginia Madsen).
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Excerpt from South Coast Today 3/1/97: John Shea
'Journey of the Heart' fails to engage viewer's emotions
March 01, 1997 12:00 AM
Proceeding from the merely flawed to the thoroughly idiotic, we come to Robert Ludlum's "The Apocalypse Watch" (9 p.m. Sunday, ABC, TV-PG; concludes Monday), a spy-vs.-spy caper in which the neo-Nazi villains have lines like, "May I remind you zat Ze Leader himzelf has zanctioned zis operation!" Stars Patrick Bergin, Virginia Madsen and John Shea deliver performances so wooden that they practically have knotholes.
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New York Magazine 3/3/97: John Shea
John Leonard's TV Notes
Robert Ludlum's The Apocalypse Watch (3/2 and 3/3, 9 to 11 pm; ABC) glares, grunts, galumphs, stalks, and struts through four mini-series hours of bad acting, during which, because of mad-scientist memory transplants, C.I.A. operatives John Shea and Patrick Bergin, who also happen to be brothers, can't really trust Virginia Madsen not to be in zombie-cahoots with evil neo-Nazis who threaten to infect the world's water supply with a deadly plague, even though both would appear to have slept with her.
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Excerpt from Houma Today 3/7/08: John Shea
Worth checking out on TV tonight
MIKE HUGHES Gannett News Service Published: Friday, March 7, 2008 at 6:01 a.m.
Other choices include: “The Apocalypse Watch,” 6-10 p.m., Ion (formerly Pax TV). Here’s a re-run of a miniseries from four years ago, based on a Robert Ludlum novel about the hunt for neo-Nazis in Europe. Filmed partly in London, it includes Patrick Bergin, Virginia Madsen, John Shea and Michael Brandon.
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