Pitch a series… Wrangler Jane of the Secret Service
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 9:56 am
There was a common theme to the favorite shows of my childhood, girls and danger. Actually, if the danger was absent, I would add it in my head. Batgirl, Agent 99, Emma Peele, Penelope Pitstop and April Dancer all found BDSM excitement in their respective shows. While other shows featured the eye candy of the week, they might occasionally feature the hero and special guest heroine some inventive yet horrible fate. Man for UNCLE and Wild, Wild West were good for the occasional tie-up or whirring buzzsaw.
Other female characters did not “get the treatment,” but should have. Some shows had all the potential but seldom delivered. Wilma Deering should have gotten the death trap of the week at the hands of flamboyant villain but seldom did. My head was forever filled with adventures untold for the likes of Isis, Yeoman Rande and Joy of the Bugaloos. I cannot fathom the perils Jeannie was subjected to by the evil Jinn before he locked her away for a thousand years in a bottle (well, maybe I can...), or what perils she would face at hands of her evil twin. What fiendishness could be created for a blond in harem pants If I only had to blink it into existence?
Perhaps my greatest disappointment was the show F-Troop. The show featured Wrangler Jane, an absolute perfect heroine, pretty, petite, blonde and willful girl with a bubbly personality and skills with a gun. Surrounded her with incompetent men and dubious villains and never so much as tied her to a tent pole... much less sent her off on her own to prove the boys wrong and Nancy Drew herself it a bundle of ropes and mine car headed for doom. A complete waste of a beautiful girl.
Wrangler Jane of the Secret Service
I have been thinking that she should have had her own show. Set in the same universe as the Wild, Wild West, before she landed in F-Troop. In her backstory, Wrangler Jane had spent the closing years of the Civil War working a Union spy. Young and resourceful, Confederates soldiers and bureaucrats could easily underestimate this blonde wisp of a girl until it was too late. When the war ended she was hired by the Treasury Department to track the evil Confederate Dr Miguelito Loveless who had, in the closing days of the war absconded with a million dollars in gold. His plan is use the money to create a new New Confederacy in the western territories, before they could become states. Assisting him are his trusted aids, the beautiful and deadly Antoinette and his heavy muscle, the giant Voltaire. His vast wealth and connections to the fallen South would give him many connections and allies to execute his plans.
Wrangler Jane pursues Loveless and his Minions through a steampunk landscape of the old west. In her quest, she takes on secret identities and goes undercover to foil their plots and thwart Loveless' co-conspirators. Frequently finding herself as dance hall girl, a school teacher, gunslinger, barmaid or the newest addition to the local brothel as she travels the west repeatedly unraveling Loveless' machinations and plots. Of coarse each episode has the villain of the week and the elaborate steampunk deathtrap perils for her or those that have been caught helping her.
If you were going to reinvent a program(s) from your youth, make a pitch that describes your mash-up TV reboot project...
Other female characters did not “get the treatment,” but should have. Some shows had all the potential but seldom delivered. Wilma Deering should have gotten the death trap of the week at the hands of flamboyant villain but seldom did. My head was forever filled with adventures untold for the likes of Isis, Yeoman Rande and Joy of the Bugaloos. I cannot fathom the perils Jeannie was subjected to by the evil Jinn before he locked her away for a thousand years in a bottle (well, maybe I can...), or what perils she would face at hands of her evil twin. What fiendishness could be created for a blond in harem pants If I only had to blink it into existence?
Perhaps my greatest disappointment was the show F-Troop. The show featured Wrangler Jane, an absolute perfect heroine, pretty, petite, blonde and willful girl with a bubbly personality and skills with a gun. Surrounded her with incompetent men and dubious villains and never so much as tied her to a tent pole... much less sent her off on her own to prove the boys wrong and Nancy Drew herself it a bundle of ropes and mine car headed for doom. A complete waste of a beautiful girl.
Wrangler Jane of the Secret Service
I have been thinking that she should have had her own show. Set in the same universe as the Wild, Wild West, before she landed in F-Troop. In her backstory, Wrangler Jane had spent the closing years of the Civil War working a Union spy. Young and resourceful, Confederates soldiers and bureaucrats could easily underestimate this blonde wisp of a girl until it was too late. When the war ended she was hired by the Treasury Department to track the evil Confederate Dr Miguelito Loveless who had, in the closing days of the war absconded with a million dollars in gold. His plan is use the money to create a new New Confederacy in the western territories, before they could become states. Assisting him are his trusted aids, the beautiful and deadly Antoinette and his heavy muscle, the giant Voltaire. His vast wealth and connections to the fallen South would give him many connections and allies to execute his plans.
Wrangler Jane pursues Loveless and his Minions through a steampunk landscape of the old west. In her quest, she takes on secret identities and goes undercover to foil their plots and thwart Loveless' co-conspirators. Frequently finding herself as dance hall girl, a school teacher, gunslinger, barmaid or the newest addition to the local brothel as she travels the west repeatedly unraveling Loveless' machinations and plots. Of coarse each episode has the villain of the week and the elaborate steampunk deathtrap perils for her or those that have been caught helping her.
If you were going to reinvent a program(s) from your youth, make a pitch that describes your mash-up TV reboot project...