Does anybody remember the late 1980s series OUTLAWS? It starred Rod Taylor, Richard Rountree, Charles Napier, Patrick Houser, and William Lucking.
Basically the plotline was as follows: Sometime in 1899, The Pike Gang, consisting of Harlan Pike (Lucking), Billy Pike (Houser), Wolfson Lucas (Napier) and Isaiah "Ice" McAdams (Rountree) rob a bank in a small Texas town. They are pursued by a posse lead by Jonathan Grail (Rod Taylor), who was at one time a member of the self-same Pike Gang, but who had "gone straight" and was now the town Sheriff. The posse corners the Pike Gang, and Grail calls a parley where he tries to convince his former comrades to give up. But the parley goes sour, and all five men draw their guns on each other. Just at that moment, a bolt of lightning strikes the group...and takes them through a time warp to the year 1986.
When they wake up, they are lying on a hill outside of modern Dallas, Texas, evidently near the airport, because their first experience is seeing a huge jumbo jet pass close by over them on it's way to land. They quickly figure out...after some very humourous sequences where they encounter things like running water and TV for the first time....they have been transported in time. They decide to take Grail's advice, take the gold from the bank job, buy a ranch, and start a detective agency.
The series was wonderful, but only lasted one season. Some of the very interesting scenes are when the outlaws are having flashbacks to their former lives. Grail, Lucas, and Harlan Pike apparently served in the Army of Northern Virginia, and Grail has "Gettysburg flashbacks." Ice McAdams was a former slave who killed his former owner in a duel after the war, which precipitated his flight to Texas and his joining the Pike Gang.
Basically the plotline was as follows: Sometime in 1899, The Pike Gang, consisting of Harlan Pike (Lucking), Billy Pike (Houser), Wolfson Lucas (Napier) and Isaiah "Ice" McAdams (Rountree) rob a bank in a small Texas town. They are pursued by a posse lead by Jonathan Grail (Rod Taylor), who was at one time a member of the self-same Pike Gang, but who had "gone straight" and was now the town Sheriff. The posse corners the Pike Gang, and Grail calls a parley where he tries to convince his former comrades to give up. But the parley goes sour, and all five men draw their guns on each other. Just at that moment, a bolt of lightning strikes the group...and takes them through a time warp to the year 1986.
When they wake up, they are lying on a hill outside of modern Dallas, Texas, evidently near the airport, because their first experience is seeing a huge jumbo jet pass close by over them on it's way to land. They quickly figure out...after some very humourous sequences where they encounter things like running water and TV for the first time....they have been transported in time. They decide to take Grail's advice, take the gold from the bank job, buy a ranch, and start a detective agency.
The series was wonderful, but only lasted one season. Some of the very interesting scenes are when the outlaws are having flashbacks to their former lives. Grail, Lucas, and Harlan Pike apparently served in the Army of Northern Virginia, and Grail has "Gettysburg flashbacks." Ice McAdams was a former slave who killed his former owner in a duel after the war, which precipitated his flight to Texas and his joining the Pike Gang.