https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/gavilan.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0585932/
1982 NBC. "Pirates." Robert Urich is ex-CIA spy Robert Gavilan, who now works for the Oceanographic Institute, which gives everyone an excuse to walk around in bikinis and no shirts. Kate Reid is his boss and Patrick Macnee is con artist/friend Milo Bentley. Guest stars this week are Heather Menzies, Robert Urich's wife, as Dr. Maitland; the great slimy character actor Paul Koslo as Cutter, and Phil Rubenstein as Angelo.
Dr. Katherine Maitland, geologist, paleontologist, archaeologist, is organizing an expedition and dive on a shipwreck that may be full of gold coins, but a group of bad guys is also interested in the gold. IMDb says this was shot on St. Thomas, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and they have some nice underwater footage of Gavilan and Dr. Maitland diving on the shipwreck. After barely surviving a cave in on the ship, a group of modern day pirates take over their camp and want them to go back for the gold. "You can't do this to us, we're scientists!"
You'll have to forgive me but the highlight of this episode was Heather Menzies in a tiny white bikini. She was absolutely gorgeous. This was not unusual at all for NBC action shows in the 80s. No shirts and bikinis were the norm. Gavilan is an average 80s adventure show, given a boost by the island locations and Urich's charisma. Ten episodes aired and this is the only one currently on Youtube.
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