Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill

About Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill

The first of three private-eye movies created by Robert Blake about rugged Joe Dancer as the forerunner to a prospective but unrealized series after the retirement of his "Baretta" character. In the initial outing, Blake, as Dancer, follows a trail of bodies through a maze of corruption involving a politically ambitious Beverly Hills family.

Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill is a 1981 crime mystery film directed by Reza Badiyi. At 100 minutes long, it arrived in January 1981.

Robert Blake stars as Joe Dancer, JoBeth Williams as Tiffany Farinpour, Neva Patterson as Eliza Farinpour, and James Gammon as Capt. Jake Jacqualone. The screenplay is by Michael Butler. Produced by NBC Productions. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and fuboTV.