Running Delilah

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| genre = Science Fiction
Thriller

| writer = Ron Koslow
Robert J. Avrech

| director = Richard Franklin

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| starring = Kim Cattrall
Billy Zane

| executive_producer = Ron Koslow

| producer = Mel Efros
Steve Oster

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| music = Lee Holdridge

| cinematography = Ellery Ryan

| editor = Andrew London

| company = ABC Productions
Empty Chair Productions
Sea Change Productions

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| released = {{Start date|1994|08|29}}{{cite book|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|title=Encyclopedia of television pilots, 1937-2012|date=2013|publisher=McFarland|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|isbn=978-0-7864-7445-5|page=255|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iHsjAwAAQBAJ&q=%22running+delilah%22+airing&pg=PA255}}

| runtime = 97 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

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Running Delilah is a 1993 American made-for-television science fiction thriller film directed by Richard Franklin, starring Kim Cattrall and Billy Zane, and aired on ABC. It was intended as the pilot episode for a TV series.

Plot

Top agent Delilah dies in a risky mission against weapons dealer Kercharian. She is revived using high-tech medicine and given artificial body parts. She returns as an invincible superwoman and continues her fight against Kercherian, who is currently seeking plutonium from Russia.

Cast

Kim Cattrall as Christina / Delilah
Billy Zane as Paul
François Guétary as Lucas
Yorgo Voyagis as Alec Kasharian
Diana Rigg as Judith
Michael Francis Clarke as Operative #1
Dawn Comer as Language Lab Technician
Rob LaBelle as Watcher
Marilyn McIntyre as Barbara
Philip Moon as Technician #2
Quentin O'Brien as Operative #2
Philip Sokoloff as Iraqi Scientist
Eric Stone as Liaison
Richard Topol as Technician #1
Victor Touzei as Security Guard #1

Production

The production was filmed in 1992 but not broadcast on television until 1994.

Home video

It was released on video in Japan, Sweden, and the UK in 1993, followed by the USA and Germany in 1994. The film was known as Robospy in Australia and was released on video in the UK as Cyborg Agent.

References to old movies

The overall concept may be based on RoboCop (1987), which was regarded as a modern classic at the time. Or more likely The Bionic Woman (1976 - 1978).

A hideout uses the password "swordfish", a reference to Horse Feathers (1932).

Delilah and Paul watch clips of It's a Wonderful Life (1946) on their Paris hotel's television, dubbed into French.