Masquerade was an American secret agent television series that aired for a few months on ABC in the spring of 1983. Spy and secret agent redirect here; for alternate use, see Spy (disambiguation) and Secret agent (disambiguation). ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a television and radio network in the United States. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Considered an amalgam of Mission: Impossible and The Love Boat, the tongue-in-cheek series starred Rod Taylor as Mr. Lavender, the leader of "Operation Masquerade", a top-secret branch of American Intelligence that conducts missions using ordinary civilians, recruited for their anonymity and their specialized skills. Two trained field agents, Casey Collins (Kirstie Alley) and Danny Doyle (Greg Evigan) are assigned to chaperone the amateur spies. An amalgam is an alloy of mercury. ... Mission: Impossible is the name of an American television series which aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to September 1973. ... The Love Boat was a TV series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from 1977 until 1986. ... Rod Taylor Rod Taylor (born Rodney Sturt Taylor on January 11, 1930 in Sydney, Australia) is an actor. ... Jump to: navigation, search Kirstie Alley Kirstie Alley (born on January 12, 1951, in Wichita, Kansas) is an American actress. ... Jump to: navigation, search Gregory Ralph Evigan (born October 14, 1953 in South Amboy, New Jersey), better known as Greg Evigan, is an actor who was a teen idol during the late 1970s and early 1980s. ...

The Love Boat comparison (frequently used in contempory reviews of this series) stemmed from the show's casting of a different ensemble of well-known actors each week, much as Love Boat populated its episodes. The first act of every episode depicted the recruitment of a new group of agents, which was invariably followed by a briefing by Mr. Lavender aboard his private plane, ending with Lavender saying, stone-faced: "Welcome to Operation Masquerade".

The series debuted with a 90-minute pilot film and was followed by about a half-dozen episodes before the series was cancelled. This was Kirstie Alley's first television series after her debut in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan the previous year. Jump to: navigation, search A television pilot is the first episode of an intended television series. ... Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Paramount Pictures, 1982; see also 1982 in film) is the second feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ...

External links

• Masquerade at the Internet Movie Database