Freedom Dance

Freedom Dance

October 29, 1986 TV Episode Rambo

Studio
Ruby-Spears Productions, Carolco Entertainment
Distributor
Worldvision

Synopsis

General Warhawk's men are in England and capture Freedom Dancer, a prize-winning black race horse owned by Winslow. Colonel Trautman was visiting Winslow, a close friend, and promises to get the horse back. Trautman sends Rambo's team on the mission. As Rambo's team approaches the area in a helicopter, they are attacked by Warhawk's troops firing anti-aircraft guns. Turbo fires back and the retreating troops lead him to Warhawk's headquarters. They again encounter heavy anti-aircraft fire and are forced to retreat. With the location of his base exposed, Warhawk moves the horse. The owner's daughter thinks she hears her horse crying and so Rambo's team gets in their helicopter and follows a horse trailer passing by at the time. Rambo sees a white horse being loaded on a train and so they start to leave. But then Rambo realizes that the horse was just colored white. They go back and Rambo jumps on the now moving train. The helicopter gets hit by Warhawk's men, forcing Turbo to land. Rambo is forced to jump off the train as it enters a tunnel. Rambo's team regroups and drives to London, where the train was headed. After some investigation, they find that the horse is hidden in a closed-for-repairs tourist attraction. It is also revealed that Warhawk has captured the horse at the request of an Arab horse owner, al Rasheed, who wants to eliminate it from competition. Rambo enters the attraction, encountering gunfire from Warhawk's men, and rides out safely with the horse.

Characters

John Rambo, Colonel Trautman, Gripper, Sergeant Havoc, Kat, Black Dragon, Turbo, General Warhawk, al Rasheed, Winslow, Sara

Credits

Directing

Director
Michael Hack

Producing

Producer
Joe Ruby, Ken Spears, Haim Saban, Shuki Levy

Voices

Voice
Neil Ross (Rambo), Allan Oppenheimer (Colonel Trautman), Lennie Weinrib (Gripper), Peter Cullen (SergeantHavoc), Mona Marshall (Kat), Frank Welker (Mad Dog), Robert Ito (Black Dragon), James Avery (Turbo), Edmund Gilbert (Nomad), Michael Ansara (General Warhawk)

Music

Music
Haim Saban, Shuki Levy
Non-Original Music
Jerry Goldsmith

Production notes

VERY toned down from the Rambo films, Rambo is now a member of a rag-tag force of heroes called "The Force of Freedom," a liberal-minded and ethnically-mixed group of men and women, each with his or her own combat specialties. Rambo and the Freedom Force always seemed to come up against the evil organization SAVAGE, led by renegade General Warhawk.