Original title
When the Whistle Blows
Released
3/14/1980
Origin country
US
Genre
Comedy
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
11
Short-lived comedy about construction workers enjoying themselves. The crew was all male except for Lucy – Randy the college grad; Buzz the extrovert; Martin the hunk; Norm, an older man married to Dottie; Bulldog the foreman; Hanrahan; and Darlene, who runs the bar that's "their place."
Accidentally Hunk hits a young woman with his car. Striven and fretful he takes her to a hospital for a medical checkup. Soon afterwards Hunk finds that he has fallen for her, but he also finds that she is in trouble with the law.
Hunk is bequeathed a heritage from a distant relative and this turns out to be a well of oil. Using the savings of relatives and friends he decides to explode the well, but an oil baron accuses him of robbing the oil that belongs to him.
Hunk, Randy, Buzz and Norman travel to Reno where they stay at a luxurious hotel-casino. There, they meet to a beautiful woman, a friend of Hunk's, who proceeds to involve them in a scheme.
Hunk courts a beautiful participant in a beauty pageant. The only obstacle that prevents a romance is the girl's ex-boyfriend, who resorts to abduct her to force a wedding.
Lucy is deeply in love with a car racing champion, who is constantly performing dangerous feats that may lead him to death.
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