September 1, 1994<\/p>\n
EXTRA<\/b><\/p>\n
The Fox network hopes this Dial will touch you<\/i><\/b>
\nMARION GARMEL<\/i><\/p>\n
JAMES BOND?<\/i><\/b>
\nNo. “Dial. Carlton Dial.<\/i>”<\/p>\n
A working person’s James Bond will invade your television set at 7 p.m. Sunday (WXIN) as Fox network premieres “Fortune Hunter.”<\/p>\n
Mark Frankel, who played Simon Bolt on “Sisters,” stars as Dial, a former super spy who changed jobs at the end of the Cold War.<\/p>\n
Now he works for Intercept, a high-tech company that retrieves sensitive missing items.<\/p>\n
But he’s not alone in this venture. Back at the home office is Harry Flack, a couch potato. Flack monitors Dial’s every move on a giant Omnimax screen, seeing, hearing and reacting to the same things through tiny cameras on Dial’s person.<\/p>\n
“The perfect agent meets the monitor extraordinaire,” Flack proclaims when the two are matched up. “It’s a natural.”<\/p>\n
John Robert Hoffman, who can be seen as the Mad Hatter on the Disney Channel’s excellent “Alice in Wonderland” series, plays Flack with a perfect combination of computer smarts and armchair traveler.<\/p>\n
Frankel’s dark good looks and panache make him a suitable Bond clone. His British accent doesn’t hurt, either.<\/p>\n
And Dial has an unexpected and quite likable, if cynical, charm.<\/p>\n
“I could never resist a beautiful woman with a cigarette,” he says to a woman who has been following him around Morocco.<\/p>\n
“Really, why is that?” she asks.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s the sense of mystery. You never know when their lungs will collapse and they’ll keel over dead.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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