
The Bandit helps Mel, but soon finds himself in hot water when his cousin Johnny ( Christopher Atkins) gets into the music bootlegging business. The Bandit ( Brian Bloom) goes home for a family reunion and along the way, he meets music star Mel Tillis, who is forced to make an emergency landing when his plane malfunctions. The car featured in this series is a Dodge Stealth, while the Smokey and the Bandit films introduced two generations of the Pontiac Trans Am.

The series also serves as a prequel as it focuses on events that took place prior to the original film.

The four telefilms – Bandit Goes Country, Bandit Bandit, Beauty and the Bandit and Bandit's Silver Angel – were produced for Universal Television's Action Pack programming block from original Smokey and the Bandit director/writer Hal Needham.īrian Bloom stars as a younger version of Bo "the Bandit" Darville, the character originated by Burt Reynolds in Smokey and the Bandit (1977) and Smokey and the Bandit II (1980). Bandit is a 1994 American made-for-television spin-off film series based on the Smokey and the Bandit franchise.
