{"id":18004,"date":"2026-02-14T17:02:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T00:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=18004"},"modified":"2026-03-26T23:41:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:41:25","slug":"wiseguy-season-four-the-steven-bauer-miami-arc-starring-maximilian-schell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=18004","title":{"rendered":"WISEGUY: Season Four. The Steven Bauer Miami arc starring Maximilian Schell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"WISEGUY%3A%20Season%20Four.%20The%20Steven%20Bauer%20Miami%20arc%20starring%20Maximilian%20Schell\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>By Peter Lance. October 30th, 2026<\/strong>.<\/span> In 1990 I became The Showrunner on the 4th Season of the acclaimed CBS series WISEGUY, created by Stephen J. Cannell and Frank Lupo. In taking over The Writer&#8217;s Room, my creative challenge was to develop an exciting role for Steven Bauer who would be succeeding departing star Ken Wahl (Vinny Terranova) who (per the new storyline) had been murdered by a Salvadoran Death Squad.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14660\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wiseguy-Steven-Bauer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wiseguy-Steven-Bauer.jpg 1158w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wiseguy-Steven-Bauer-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wiseguy-Steven-Bauer-1024x651.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wiseguy-Steven-Bauer-768x488.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wiseguy-Steven-Bauer-800x508.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/>Since Steven (born Esteban Echeverr\u00eda) had Cuban roots and I&#8217;d recently worked on the 4th Season of MIAMI VICE we created an initial Six Episode Arc, in which, as a disgraced former U.S. Attorney (Michael Santana) Steven agreed to work undercover with Frank McPike, Vinny&#8217;s former FBI handler played by the remarkable Jonathan Banks.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, Oscar winning actor Maximilian Schell found our scripts compelling enough to play the role of Amado Guzman, a billionaire Cuban-American banker who is running a money laundering operation for a Colombian cartel known as &#8220;La Mina.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Second arc, Set in Detroit, starred the legendary Bill Dee Williams as the principal of a distressed inner-city school. This 11 minute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OQ8rPCnSdO4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>HIGHLIGHT REEL<\/strong><\/span><\/a> contains highlights of a series that had the look and production value of a feature film.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"WISEGUY%3A%20Season%20Four.%20The%20Steven%20Bauer%20Miami%20arc%20starring%20Maximilian%20Schell\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>By Peter Lance. October 30th, 2026. In 1990 I became The Showrunner on the 4th Season of the acclaimed CBS series WISEGUY, created by Stephen J. Cannell and Frank Lupo. In taking over The Writer&#8217;s Room, my creative challenge was to develop an exciting role for Steven Bauer who would be succeeding departing star Ken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18004"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21725,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18004\/revisions\/21725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}