John Shea (9/94 Justice in a Small Town)
Excerpt from Variety 9/23/94: John Shea | Justice in a Small Town
Review: ‘Nbc Friday Night at the Movies Justice in a Small Town’
Alan Rich September 23, 1994 | 12:00AM PT
High-level corruption in a Georgia governmental office stirs the anger of a civil service employee (Kate Jackson); she enlists a fellow worker (John Shea) in a whistle-blowing attempt, placing jobs, lives and families at risk. Under the thumb of its sleazoid boss (the ubiquitous Dean Stockwell), the Georgia Dept. of Labor is shown to be a veritable snakepit of sleaze: hiked expense accounts, kickbacks, drugs and sexual harassment. Before Jackson and Shea can get their story through to an FBI deus ex machina (Gustave Johnson), they undergo the familiar round of house-torching, car-smashing and the like.
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Cast: Kate Jackson, John Shea, Terry O'Quinn, Beth Broderick, Jennifer Guthrie, Rand Courtney, Megan Gallagher, Gustave Johnson, Robert Fentz, Mello Tare, Marc Macaulay, Ed Lillard, James Martin, Robert Raiford, Phil Loch, Muse Watson, Meredith Polland, Blaine Malee, Frank Taylor, Alex Van, Patt Noday.
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Excerpt from New York Magazine 9/26/94: John Shea
Television: The Moral Sense
Just guessing, but Kate Jackson in Justice in a Small Town (Friday, September 23; 9 to 11 pm; NBC) seems to be squinting through a facelift as she runs with John Shea, exposing corruption in the Georgia Department of Labor. There are call girls, shakedowns, blackmail, arson, and attempted murder, not to mention marijuana. If the cops are bought, a local newspaper isn't, which is why Dean Stockwell goes to jail and the Georgia Gazette, in real life, won a Pulitzer.
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Star News Online 9/23/08: John Shea
Justice in a Small Town (TV movie, 1994)
Published: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 11:17 a.m.
Plot description: Based-on-fact story of a Georgia civil servant who puts her family at risk when she sets out to expose local corruption.
When it filmed here: May-June 1994. Originally aired Sept. 23, 1994 on NBC.
Notable cast and crew: Kate Jackson, John Shea, Terry O’Quinn, Dean Stockwell
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Working title: Ordinary Heroes: The Sandra Prine Story. Also known as Day of Reckoning (Australian video-release title) and Hard Evidence.
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