September 4, 1994

TV FOCUS

CHIP IN THE OLD BLOCK
MARK LORANDO

‘FORTUNE HUNTER’
Mark Frankel, John Robert Hoffman
Premieres Sunday, 6 p.m. Ch. 38

So pronounced are the similarities between this show and the James Bond movies it emulates, it may has well be called “Fortune Hunter 007.” Frankel is Carlton Dial, smooth-talking spy-for-hire and star agent for Intercept, a “global recovery organization that tries to get deadly weapons out of the hands of terrorists, and so forth. The big gimmick: Dial has a computer chip in his head that lets a computer operator (Hoffman) see and hear everything Dial sees and hears-and to bark information and instructions right back at him. There’s something amusing interplay between the two, but if you decide to watch this instead of “60 Minutes,” it’ll be for one reason: To see the dashing Frankel do his debonair thing. An entertaining diversion with sex appeal, if you can get past the Bond comparisons.