Rogues Gallery: The Gentry
Peter Callan
Nash Bridges ("Boomtown")
Peter Callan is the owner of a highly successful software firm that manufactures hand-held computer games. Suddenly his senior employees are being killed one by one at the hands of someone using sophisticated explosive devices, and the police become involved.
Callan is an honest, principled, well-meaning man who relies on his employees to do their jobs, and tell him the truth. When it turns out that the bomber is Calvin Reddick, a disgruntled former design engineer with a grudge against the company, the police inform Callan that one of his high-level managers may be to blame.
Confronted with the evidence, Callan immediately takes responsibility, and fires the female manager in question. Feeling betrayed by someone he trusted, he still steps up and holds himself liable for the wrongful actions of his company. Although he is willing to make restitution, Callan is a moral man who expects Reddick to face the consequences of his own criminal misdeeds.
Dr. Brian Patchett
Frasier ("Adventures in Paradise, Pt. 2")
Handsome Dr. Brian Patchett, seismologist at MIT, is Lilith's charming new trophy boyfriend. In an unlikely and comic turn of events, the pair take a romantic holiday in Tahiti, and end up in the cabana next door to Frasier Crane and Madeline Marshall, the new woman in Frasier's life.
Frasier and Lilith end up playing a silly game of one upsmanship with each other, using Brian and Madeline as the weapons. Although clearly uncomfortable with their childish antics, Brian is ever the gallant gentleman, doing his best to smooth over an incredibly awkward situation
William Bradford Huie
Ruby McCollum
A Radio Play based on the book 'Ruby McCollum: Woman in the Suwannee Jail'
William Bradford "Bill" Huie is a popular, white, southern-born journalist and author, a man who has made it his mission to pursue the truth, because that is what a newsman is supposed to do. At present, his search has brought him to Live Oak, Florida to inquire into the story of Ruby McCollum, a black woman convicted of killing prominent white doctor, Clifford LeRoy Adams.
Huie initially looks into the case as a favor to a reporter friend, but soon realizes a grave injustice has occurred as he talks to the local authorities and townspeople. As a white man born in the South, Huie is still surprised by the ugliness of hatred. He's a crusader for civil rights, and is not above paying for the information he needs to get a story. He is clearly a man ahead of his time, believing the South must rid itself of its outdated prejudices and oppression, and move into a future where all men are indeed created equal.
Angering his wife, endangering his health, and spending a great deal of his own money, Huie joins forces with Ruby's attorneys to battle the southern good-old-boy system, and restore freedom of the press. To get the death penalty reversed, he works tirelessly to have a new trial ordered. But knowing that a retrial would likely be held before the same biased judge and end with the same results, he and Ruby's lawyers must have her declared incompetent so she can get the psychiatric treatment she so desperately needs.