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I liked "The Reluctant Dragon" for its interesting characters and performances. Often, especially in a one hour TV episode, the characters are one dimensional and predictable. This is pretty much a Rollin episode (Barney joins him but only plays a supporting role with very little tech work). Rollin's adversary, the Commissioner, is superbly played by John Colicos. Spoiler - Rollin and his adversary develop an admiration or respect for each other though they remain enemies. They share drinks several times, and at one point they play chess - how symbolic! At the end Rollin tries to save the bad guy's life - incredible! Plus, you get the feeling that the Commissioner lets them get away (he has an agent watching outside and could warn him to stop the escapees at the border). The barmaid character, Sophia, though a small part, steals some critical items - you wonder what her motives are? Also, one of the Commissioner's lieutenants, played by Michael Forest, has his own agenda and does not tell his boss about a key piece of knowledge. Joseph Campanella does a fine job as the reluctant scientist, and his wife is played by the memorable Mala Powers - he must have been really blinded by his work to leave a woman like that! Star Trek fans, take note that John Colicos and Michael Forest had memorable roles as a Klingon and a god (Apollo) in the original series.

Once again,the IMF are on a new mission.They are tasked to get a scientist,who just defected from the Iron Curtain out.The wife,who also just defected,is assisting Briggs and his group.

Rollin and Barney work together after Briggs sent them to facilitate the defection.Unfortunately,it is clear that there are major obstacles in this new mission.One of them is the fact that that the scientist apparently has no intention to defect at all to the United State.

It was an interesting and entertaining episode from the first season.The characterization of the Iron Curtain was nice considering the people were characterized with humanity instead of portraying them as insanely cruel and evil in many movies during the Cold War.

Dr. Karen Cherlotov (Mala Powers) defected from behind the Iron Curtain. Now she's approached the IM Force in order to get them to get her husband, Dr. Helmut Cherlotov (Joseph Campanella) out of the country as well. However, when Rollin meets Helmut, he soon realizes that the man does NOT want to defect and his wife lied about this. His desire to stay and work on missile guidance for the enemy is a surprise, as his government no longer trusts him due to his wife's actions. In particular, Commissioner Jankowski (John Colicos) is making Helmut's life miserable. So, instead of getting Helmut to defect, Rollin must first help open the doctor's eyes and make him want to leave.

"The Reluctant Dragon" is a very violent episode with Rollin killing one guy and shooting another. This is very atypical for the series but made sense as you'd think spies would occasionally kill in real life. It's also a dandy episode--thanks mostly to a nice guest appearance by Colicos--a guy was was remarkably good at playing bad! during fight, it's obviously not Rollin