David Cassidy in the News
Cassidy Leaves Hiding to Go 'Undercover'
October 26, 1978
Atlanta Journal
Maybe David Cassidy is a real person after all.
I mean he says the right things and he did walk away from show business for all the socially acceptable reasons. And maybe it really isn't his fault that they've inflicted his new series with the worst name of the new season.
Maybe, just maybe, a program called "David Cassidy - Man Undercover" can survive. Then again, maybe it can't. On the other hand, maybe you don't care. And that, friends, is very understandable. Goes on to rant about the hysteria surrounding David in the early 70's...
Cassidy recoiled when he was offered the role of undercover cop on a "Police Story" segment. "I told them I hadn't grown, that I still didn't look like a cop." He says when he met the man after whom his role had been modeled he stopped worrying. "He was smaller than me." The one-shot portrayal of officer Dan Shay turned into a series and when "W.E.B." fell on its face at NBC a slot opened for Cassidy's show, which starts next Thursday (10 p.m., Channel 2). But this doesn't tell you how the worst show title of the season came into David Cassidy's life.
"It was to be called 'Undercover,' but we couldn't use it for legal reasons. Nor would they let us use 'Man Undercover'. So they chose 'David Cassidy - Man Undercover'. I didn't ask for it, it wasn't in my contract. I didn't even know about it until I saw the show title on a memo I got."
