The ML-74 laser rifle, a rifle with a hyper-accurate laser scope that can fire 1,500 rounds between blanks and is known as "the most sophisticated weapon known to man", is stolen along with its original mold by the dangerous arms dealer Fernando Castilla, a man who has been granted diplomatic immunity for naming his associates to the government years earlier. A former U.S. Intelligence agent known as Hal hires a group of professional stunt performers to infiltrate Castilla's Cove, Castilla's pleasure palace located near Monterey, California, and retrieve the rifle as well as its mold before it is sold to its prospective buyer Axel Kalb.
The title of the film is an homage to the real company Stunts Unlimited, a stunt group formed by Hal Needham, Glenn Wilder, and Ronnie Rondell in 1970.[1]
Broadcast and reception
The TV movie was broadcast on ABC[2] at 9:30p.m. Eastern Time on January 4, 1980,[3] as the pilot for a proposed series,[2][1] but the series was not picked up. Upon the film's broadcast, the staff of People wrote that "the idea is ingenious" and "it ought to be a series".[4] The pilot had a Nielsen TV rating of 12.3 and was viewed in 9,380,000 homes.[5]
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