Just saw Van Patten today in his season 2 Cannon appearance, I mostly know him as a more comedic actor but he's absolutely brilliant here in a very dramatic vengeful low-key character part, looking almost like Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lector...
Sounds like another original release ala McCloud, at least fans have the chance for the complete thing should they wish and R1 omits the pilot, on the other hand E1's release apparently features subtitles which Madman releases unfortunately do not.
Right that's the one I meant, the 1971 one, I wasn't aware of the Hutton show pilot. It was Timeless too with Ellery Queen, if I remember correctly, that's why I thought maybe there's a chance E1 now have Hec Ramsey also.
Well, there's four years between the TV movie and the series so I don't know how big a difference or loss it'd be if it's not included here, but I'd certainly love to find that it is. Awesome news in any case. Wonder if it's E1 who has Hec Ramsey too.