DELANCEY STREET: THE CRISIS WITHIN (TVM 4/19/75) Mark Hamill, Louis Gossett Jr., Walter McGinn, Carmine Caridi, Michael Conrad, Barbara Bostock, Barbara Cason, Hector Elias, Anthony Charnota, John Karlen
The story of the Delancey Street Foundation, a San Francisco halfway house. The founder, John McCann (Walter McGinn), gives drug addicts and ex-convicts a second chance.
This was an unsuccessful pilot for a proposed weekly series with Walter McGinn.
It was based on the real life story of John Maher (1940 – December 3, 1988), an American former child alcoholic and heroin addict, who founded the Delancey Street Foundation, a nonprofit organization, in 1971. The organization, based in San Francisco, provides residential rehabilitation services and vocational training for substance abusers and convicted criminals.
Stars: Carmine Caridi, Michael Conrad, Louis Gossett Jr., Mark Hamill, Barbara Bostock, Barbara Cason, Hector Elias, Anthony Charnota, John Karlen.