"Jesse Stone: Night Passage" Is the Prequel to "Stone Cold"

 Also Starring Selleck   

Stephen Baldwin and Stephanie March Also Star

             JESSE STONE: NIGHT PASSAGE, starring Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Tom Selleck ("Magnum P.I."), a television movie to be rebroadcast Saturday, June 30 (8:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.  Selleck reprises his role as Jesse Stone in the prequel to the high-rated movie "Stone Cold."  The movies are based on the best-selling series of books by Robert B. Parker.  Stephen Baldwin ("Fallacy") and Stephanie March ("Law & Order:  SVU") also star.  (Originally broadcast 1/15/06)

            JESSE STONE: NIGHT PASSAGE reveals how Stone (Selleck) became the Police Chief of the small fishing town of Paradise, Mass. after being fired from the Los Angeles Police Department.  An unlikely candidate, Stone is recruited by Paradise's board of selectmen in the hopes that the failed cop won't dig too deeply into the town's dirty secrets.  Within moments of being hired and still drunk from the night before, Stone must investigate a domestic violence situation involving Joe Genest (Stephen Baldwin), Paradise's resident hothead, whose ties to a local bank manager, Hasty Hathaway (Saul Rubinek), expose a money laundering scheme.

            JESSE STONE: NIGHT PASSAGE is a production of TWS Productions II and Brandman Productions, Inc., in association with Sony Pictures Television.  Emmy Award-nominated Michael Brandman ("Rosencrantz and Guildenstein Are Dead," "Sunday in the Park with George") and Tom Selleck are the executive producers; Emmy Award-nominated Steven Brandman ("The Heidi Chronicles") is the producer. Emmy Award-nominated Robert Harmon ("Ike: Countdown to D-Day," "Gotti") directed the drama from a script by Tom Epperson ("The Gift").   

RATING:  TV-14-DL