A Brief History of Nick Bounty.

Nick Bounty first appeared in a sketch written for a high school drama class back in 1986. The sketch, titled 'Under the Boardwalk', saw Nick Bounty meeting an unnamed informant down at the docks. After paying a hefty sum of cash for some rather ambiguous information, Bounty finds that he has been double crossed.

In 1987, the character then made the leap to video. Otter Productions created a trilogy of movies starring the unpaid detective. For the first time the character was captured in a medium that would make him popular.

'A Dame in Shoes' was the first film and starred Roman Terenzini in the lead role. He brought a sense of sarcasm and wit to the character that gave Nick Bounty a bit of a rough edge. The movie also starred Matt Young as a wannabe sidekick, Kristie Tincher as the grief stricken widow, and Max the Cat as the evil criminal mastermind.

'The Goat in the Grey Fedora' followed shortly after. Debuting in 1988, Roman reprised his role as Nick Bounty and set out trying to locate a ceramic goat for his client (played by Libby Randal). This movie introduced Jason Ellis and Mike Moylan as rivals Cormac and Sills who were also trying to find the statuette.

The trilogy concluded in 1992 with the release of 'Aerosol Nights', later renamed 'Nick Bounty: Public M' for the directors cut. This time Jason Ellis took on the role and brought a new sense of charm to the character. In this film, Nick Bounty sets out to stop a mad man from destroying the world through Global Warming. Comedian Pat Evans stole the show with his performance as the insane DeDominoes and Amy Quinlan was suitably cute in the role of murdered scientist's daughter.

In the mid-ninety's, work began on a movie starring Adam Darin as a very young Bounty. The film explored Bounty's early life and the origins of his interest in detective work. Although the movie had a promising start, 'Young Bounty: Gumshoes' was never completed.

In 1997, ten years after the original movie, Nick Bounty again made his way to a new medium. 'Nick Bounty: The Tale of the Vengeful Curtain Rod' was a video game created for the Amiga computer system and based loosely on Steve Martin "short story" of the same name. This Point & Click style adventure took Nick Bounty on quest for a magic curtain rod that began in his youth and carried over into modern day