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Saturday, February 25, 2006

"Maximum Bob" (1998)

I love Beau Bridges. I think he's an actor who doesn't always get his due. He is really good at playing sneaky, underhanded guys who are not above pulling cons to get their way, and he played one in this show. Bridges was Bob Gibbs, an outlandish judge who lorded it over a small Florida town. Gibbs was the kind of guy who would give 10 years in jail to someone for getting a minor traffic ticket. Gibbs was married to Leanne (Kiersten Warren) a nice, but very kooky woman who had worked as a mermaid in an underwater entertainment show. Leanne nearly drowned during one of her performances and was saved by the apparitition of a long-dead slave girl named Wanda Grace (RaeVen Larrymore-Kelly). Since that time, Wanda Grace would give guidance to Leanne.

Sheriff Gary (Sam Robards) was a feet-on-the-ground guy who loved the tango. He liked Kathy Baker (Liz Vasey), a go-getter of an Miami public defender who often bumped heads with Judge Gibbs. Gibbs liked her too, but she was not interested. She had planned to leave town after trying a case, but stayed on after Gibbs put her in jail for contempt. The real reason was that she had resisted the married man's advances. When she got out after her brief lockdown, she helped the judge catch the bad guys in town, while foiling Gibbs' other crazy schemes. The blockheaded Crowe brothers were one of the reasons that crimefighters were needed in town.

This quirky series, based on an Leonard Elmore book, was loved by critics, but disappeared from ABC's schedule after a month due to low ratings.

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