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Assembled for television by Playboy Productions, Family Kovack stars James Sloyan, Sarah Cunningham, Andrew Robinson, Tammi Bula and Richard Gilliland. Cunningham plays the central character, the widowed matriarch of a close Chicago family. When her oldest son (Robinson), a city functionary, is accused of bribery, the woman spearheads a concerted family effort to clear the boy of all charges. Sort of an urban Waltons, Family Kovack was the pilot film for a series that didn't take. Its first network telecast, on April 5, 1974, was also its last.