ABC Network - High Performance - "Ice on the Road" (Complete Broadcast, 3/9/1983) 📺 🏎️

From the "Lost and Obscure TV Shows" Department: Here's the complete original broadcast of an edition of the very short-lived (only four episodes) series High Performance, titled "Ice on the Road" (S01E02) and presented over the ABC Network, here via its Dallas/Fort Worth, TX affiliate WFAA Channel 8.

This show - starring Jack Scalia as Blue Stratton, Lisa Hartman (in-between stints with Knots Landing) as Kate Flannery and Rick Edwards as Shane Adams, and also starring Jason Bernard as Fletch (not to be confused with Chevy Chase's film character) and Mitchell Ryan as Brennan Flannery - was about a driving school that became a bodyguard service that sought to protect the world from natural disaster or up to no good.

In this installment, Blue, Kate and Shane are assigned to protect a shipment of crown jewels being sold in order to finance a Central American country's battle against rebel forces. Guest starring Fernando Allende, Gregory Sierra, Gerald Hiken, and special guest star Cesare Danova.

A little bonus will follow.

Includes:

Station ID / promo for special report "Every Two Seconds"

Show opening titles

Commercials for:
Wendy's Bacon Cheeseburger - "Makin' Bacon"
Phillips Petroleum

Act I

Commercials for:
Arrid Extra Dry Solid anti-perspirant (with Bryan Clark as the pharmacist)
Doritos Brand Tortilla Chips
Sears National Hardware Sale
Promo for Condo and Amanda's (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Animated ABC ID (but no lower-third station ID)

Act II

Commercials for:
Close-up Toothpaste (with Marquita and Chris) (voiceover by Alan Kalter)
Alka-Seltzer Plus cold medicine (with James Sommerfield of Chicago, Susan Evans and Dennis Haas of St. Louis, and Ruth Ptak of Minneapolis) (voiceover by Karl Weber?)
Promo for Benson and At Ease (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by ??)

Bumper (voiceover by Lisa Hartman?)

Promo for The Renegades and Tales of the Gold Monkey (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Commercials for:
Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages

Station ID / promo for News 8 at 10pm (with John Criswell)

Act III

Commercials for:
Pontiac 2000 (voiceover by Richard Basehart?)
Snickers candy bar
Pepsi Now! - "You're the Pepsi Generation"
Clairol Loving Care shampoo (jingle sung to tune of "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair" from "South Pacific")
Promo for Search (no, not a revival of 1972-73 series, but documentary-type special), Matt Houston and "The China Syndrome" (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by ??)

Act IV

Commercials for:
Sears National Hardware Sale
Burger King - "Broiling vs. Frying" (with Elisabeth Shue) (posted separately here:    • Burger King - "Broiling Vs. Frying" with E...  )

"Next on High Performance" - Scenes from next week's episode (unnamed, but it was "Juggernaut")

Commercials for:
U.S. Air Force - "Aim High"

Ending credits (with voiceover promo for Good Morning America by David Hartman, and for The Fall Guy by ??) (with Warner Communications' (\\`) logo at end)

Promo for 20/20 (voiceover by Fred Collins?)

Commercials for:
Fina gas station (featuring Mel Tillis)
Preview for News 8 at 10pm (with John Criswell) with items about:
School bus accident in Houston
Texas state budget
Sports highlights

Station ID / promo for "The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell"

Bonus:

Opening titles for The Fall Guy [cut]

Commercials for:
Datsun 5-Speed Turbo ZX
Shield soap - "Give Me Strength"

First two minutes of Act I of first-run episode "One Hundred Miles a Gallon" (S02E19)

This aired on local Dallas/Fort Worth TV on Wednesday, March 9th 1983 during the 7:00pm to 8:03pm time frame.

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