Big Man (1988–1988)

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1. 01Another Falling StarS01E03 · 7.5Former movie star Susy Kaminsky is up to her eyes in gambling debts. She offers her famous jewelry to the owner of the gambling den, but unfortunately the jewels get lost on their way. As if this wasn’t enough, Susan’s personal servant is found death. As the lost cuff links had a big insurance at Lloyd’s International, Jack Clementi is in charge of the investigation. He is thrilled about the idea of working for Susy, even if the case is not so easy to solve.
2. 02BoomerangS01E04 · 7.0Big Man is hired by the manager of Sfnix, a leader business on technological armaments, to track down the criminals who stole the prototype of the the U.S.R., a new radiation beam rifle. The thieves were not able to steal the lethal weapon's computerized tracking system and are now threatening Sfinix with a massacre in order to get it. Feeling that the theft had been planed with the complicity of an employee of the Sfinix, Big Man, together with his good assistant Simon, investigates.
3. 03The False EtruscanS01E02 · 6.3Jack Clementi, reading the newspaper, learns that there is an imitation of the precious Etruscan goldsmith’s masterpiece ‘The laughing girl’. The article says that the piece belongs to the Houston Museum to which the deceased Texan billionaire and collector Jim Carlson donated it. But Jack knows that the precious statuette belongs to the feudal lords of Roccaferro who have kept it for two hundred years in the castles museum, with an insurance guaranty from Lloyd’s for 800,000 sterling pounds.

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Bud SpencerJack ClementiMylène DemongeotFernandeRaymond PellegrinCommissioner Tony CarusoGeoffrey CoplestonHenry Winterbottom

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