Clip of Jenny Seagrove on In Like Flynn

Here's a clip of Jenny Seagrove from the opening scenes of the 1985 TV movie In Like Flynn. Have you ever heard Jenny Seagrove do an American accent? Well here's your chance!

Jenny Seagrove in the In Like Flynn intro

Here is the introductory sequence for the 1985 pilot film In Like Flynn starring Jenny Seagrove. What a great weekly show this would have been! If you watch closely you'll see footage from other movies used. One of the most obvious is a clip from one of Jenny Seagrove's earlier movies, Nate and Hayes, where Tommy Lee Jones (or rather a stuntman in a bright red shirt) falls against a cliff when a primitive bridge collapses. I don't recognize some of the footage but I could swear that there are clips from the 1980 film The Stunt Man.

Promotional images of Jenny Seagrove for In Like Flynn

In 1985, Jenny Seagrove starred in In Like Flynn. The TV movie was a pilot for a proposed series, loosely based on the film Romancing the Stone. The project did not end up getting made into a weekly TV show but the pilot film still exists and stands a fine piece of campy mid-'80s entertainment.

Jenny Seagrove as Terri McLane in In Like Flynn

Besides star Jenny Seagrove, In Like Flynn also featured a number of other semi-well known actors. The biggest name in the film would obviously be William Conrad, who was well known for his work on television. Veteran actors Eddie Albert, Robert Webber and Maury Chaykin also had roles in the project. Jenny Seagrove's 'leading man' was played by William Gray Espy, an actor who had only worked occasionally beginning in 1972. He gives a capable performance in In Like Flynn but one feels that perhaps his role could have been better cast.



Here are two photos of Jenny Seagrove and her co-star William Gray Espy in In Like Flynn:

Jenny Seagrove in In Like Flynn

1984 saw Jenny Seagrove have a successful year on television. She starred in two miniseries, Diana and A Woman of Substance, and guest starred in an episode of Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense. Her next project would be a pilot movie for a proposed TV series called In Like Flynn.

The concept for In Like Flynn was supposedly suggested by the successful film Romancing the Stone, but I think that some have overstated the connection. The ideas for the two projects only have a superficial similarity. In Romancing the Stone, Kathleen Turner plays an author who lives vicariously through her stories and in actuality is quite shy and unadventurous. In In Like Flynn, Jenny Seagrove plays a woman who poses as the researcher for a reclusive author though secretly she is the author. Jenny Seagrove's character actually seeks danger and excitment, she just needs a cover story in order for her to feel comfortable in her actions.

In Like Flynn premiered on television in the summer of 1985. Even though the project was written and produced by the successful Glen A. Larson, In Like Flynn did not get turned into a weekly series. The movie had subsequent re-airings in the US and UK throughout the rest of the rest 1980s.

On a personal note, I think it is a shame that In Like Flynn did not get picked up. I think that the show would have made a terrific series with a lot of options as to plots and subject matter. Not mention that Jenny Seagrove was at the height of her powers at the time and looked absolutely beautiful in the pilot film. It would have been interesting to see how her career would have changed if she had had a successful American TV show.


Here are some articles about In Like Flynn:

And here a bunch of newspaper clippings featuring brief summaries of In Like Flynn: