Unpretentious in its aims, Legmen is one of those harmless, lightweight adventure series for youthful viewers that provides no compelling reason for watching it, but is amiable enough not to be painful if one happens to tune in.

The premise is that college students Bruce Greenwood and J.T. Terlesky are parttime assistants to seedy private eye Don Calfa in order to earn a few extra bucks. On the skein's second episode, the duo stumbled into a murder chase while trying to serve a subpoena in a divorce case.

The result was sitcom playing style imposed on an action-adventure foundation, with the bumbling but innovative twosome having some mildly amusing sequences while trying to save the life of looker Barbara Stock. How they succeeded made very little difference.

Greenwood and Terlesky are amiably likable going through their paces. Calfa was restricted to a single scene in the episode caught. The stanza highlight came from one funny scene in which Dick Shawn played a wacky girlie magazine publisher who was an involuntary prisoner within his own posh mansion. Production credits were slick under the fast-paced direction of veteran John Llewelyn Moxey, one of Hollywood's best tv directors.

Brisbane Courier Mail
11/16/84

If your'e partial to mindless shenanigans, watch 'The Legmen'
by Dean P

BEFORE I previewed Channel 0's Legmen, I thought it might be a newspaper yarn about reporters who get the facts and let someone else write the story. Or perhaps it was about marathon runners whose skills are put to use by the CIA. No. Not even close. The two protagonists are spunky guys who are putting themselves through college by working for some sort of private eye. They have to repossess things and serve papers on reluctant recipients. Whoever created the series could have called it Go-fers because that's what they are, but who'd watch anything with a name like that? So they made it Legmen on the grounds that that is what our heroes spend a lot of time doing. At 7.30 tonight, Jack (Bruce Greenwood) and David (J.T. Terlesky) are sent by their short-fused boss Oscar (Don Calfa) to repossess a Ferrari from a musician who is behind in his payments. This comparatively simple procedure lands them in chases, fights, mysteries and embarrassments with university lecturers. If it didn't, of course, there wouldn't be a series. Pitched plainly at the juvenile end of the viewing audience spectrum, Legmen incorporates some of the absurdities of Dukes of Hazzard mixed with the acting qualities of The Young and the Restless. No doubt by now both Greenwood and Terlesky have been returned to the obscurity from which they were plucked by the producers to star in this show. It is a fate that neither completely deserves. Both have engaging personalities and it isn't their fault that the basic concept and scripting give them little chance to shine. This is an action piece that needs young athletes rather than aspiring actors. As long as the two leading performers can run and jump and have enough breath left to deliver their lines, the producers' intentions are realised. One saving grace is that they are contrasted well. Jack is a bleached blond with slobby clothes, a casual manner and a mechanical knack that would take him far if utilised. David is dark, straight, smooth-talking with ambitions to be a lawyer. Together, they form a latter-day Starsky and Hutch or Dukes combination, but with more ham-handed exploits than earlier heroes could endure without denting their image. They cannot drive off without squealing the tyres or allow a lone girl in a car to pull up beside them without chatting her up. However, they are not depicted as irresistible and their bird-pulling ability is presented tongue in cheek. Writers Richard Chapman and Bill Dial take the usual course of relying on chases, crashes and complicated plots. Buried beneath the action somewhere is a reason for Jack and David's being chased by two (hand-holding) heavies, but that is of secondary importance and certainly not essential to the enjoyment of whatever goes on by those partial to mindless shenanigans.
Photo: BRUCE GREENWOOD, left, and T.J. Terlesky . . . two spunky young guys who are the legmen.

(QLD) Sunday Mail
11/11/84

If it's Action you want....

If it's action you want . . . The opening sequence of Channel 0's Friday newcomer, Legmen, makes it clear what audience the producers have in mind. It is the one that goes for action-oriented shows in which a car chase every 15 minutes keeps the adrenalin flowing _ the Dukes of Hazzard and Knight Rider audience. The legmen of the title are Jack Gage (Bruce Greenwood) and David Taylor (Johne Terlesky), 19-year-olds paying their way through college by working for private investigator Oscar Amismendi (Don Calfa). They serve divorce papers and summonses and repossess cars and motorcycles. One day, David is going to be a lawyer and Jack an inventor, but, meanwhile, in the opening episode, they repossess a $60,000 red Ferrari in the dead of night and take off at maximum speed pursued by a couple of men in another fast car. That is chase number one. There are a couple more before the hour ends because the lads have stumbled upon something more criminal than neglected car payments. When they are not repossessing cars they share a ramshackle house with a Japanese medical student they never see. David is an all-American boy, a good athlete and top student. Jack is a slob, but a brilliant mechanic. He has a motorcycle he takes apart in the middle of the living room.
Caption: PICS OF JOHN TERLESKY AND BRUCE GREENWOOD