A New Orleans outing, in which Daniel and sidekick of the week Mason Pruitt (Jim McMullen) aid a pair of female French Royalist emigres escaping the Revolution.
This is the third episode where Dan has become involved with French emigres, and the two here (Kathleen Freeman and Brioni Farrell - of Greek ancestry, and Tula in Star Trek: TOS's Return of the Archons) are disguised as nuns. Not much backstory ascribed to the young noblewoman (Farrell) and her chaperone (Freeman) or to their pursuers, although in an outbreak of authenticity two French character actors, Marcel Hillaire and Maurice Marsac, portray Robespierre's agents. Farrell experienced a wide variety of TV guest star work, but its unfortunate she did not get a chance to let her talents shine as a series regular.
An abundance of horse action this episode; the Revolutionaries and their American henchmen are all mounted, while Dan and party are trying to get away in an overloaded freight wagon with a team of one before hoofing it on the Natchez Trace.
Farrell portrays the (fictional) daughter of General John-Baptiste Rochambeau, Washington's co-commander at Yorktown. He was arrested during the Reign of Terror in 1793, which dates this episode. Accuracy falls apart, however, in the depiction of 1793 New Orleans as a French-ruled and guillotine-obsessed revolutionary hotbed; it was Spanish-ruled at the time.
Continental soldier count - 3, as always uniformed as the Fairfax, Va. Independent Militia.
With last week's installment, the second of two good chase episodes, and this one deploying a strong history component.
This is the third episode where Dan has become involved with French emigres, and the two here (Kathleen Freeman and Brioni Farrell - of Greek ancestry, and Tula in Star Trek: TOS's Return of the Archons) are disguised as nuns. Not much backstory ascribed to the young noblewoman (Farrell) and her chaperone (Freeman) or to their pursuers, although in an outbreak of authenticity two French character actors, Marcel Hillaire and Maurice Marsac, portray Robespierre's agents. Farrell experienced a wide variety of TV guest star work, but its unfortunate she did not get a chance to let her talents shine as a series regular.
An abundance of horse action this episode; the Revolutionaries and their American henchmen are all mounted, while Dan and party are trying to get away in an overloaded freight wagon with a team of one before hoofing it on the Natchez Trace.
Farrell portrays the (fictional) daughter of General John-Baptiste Rochambeau, Washington's co-commander at Yorktown. He was arrested during the Reign of Terror in 1793, which dates this episode. Accuracy falls apart, however, in the depiction of 1793 New Orleans as a French-ruled and guillotine-obsessed revolutionary hotbed; it was Spanish-ruled at the time.
Continental soldier count - 3, as always uniformed as the Fairfax, Va. Independent Militia.
With last week's installment, the second of two good chase episodes, and this one deploying a strong history component.
