The Devlin Connection is an American television crime drama[1] created by John Wilder and starring Rock Hudson and Jack Scalia.

[2] Hudson stars as Brian Devlin, a former military intelligence officer and ex-owner of a detective agency who is now the director of the Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles.

Nick is a Vietnam veteran who works as a small-time private detective operating out of a night club run by his friend Otis (Herbert Jefferson Jr.).

The types of cases tackled by Brian and Nick usually involved ordinary people in dire, slightly seedy, and decidedly unglamorous circumstances.

At the health club where Nick works he often flirts with his shapely co-worker Alice (Melanie Vincz), who is nearly always seen in an extremely form-fitting leotard.

This meant, from the audience's perspective, that the series abruptly changed tone from flashy to mildly gritty after the first nine weeks and the show's supporting characters were dropped without explanation.