The Rendezvous, television series pitch/Episode loglines

Anitque National television.

The Rendezvous Tavern with strategically designed look-out windows.

The Rendezvous Bar was wired into four other roadhouses with warning buzzers to alert them of impending police raids.

The Edgewater Thomas Inn was a high-class blind-pig in Riverside with secret passageways and hidden wine cellars.

Bertha Thomas was the eccentric roadhouse pioneer who ran the Edgewater Thomas Inn.

A logline (aka elevator pitch) is a one or two line plot summary.

Work in progress

Rather than directly adapt The Rendezvous screenplay, an unpublished feature screenplay by Jason Carswell, after many years of not looking at my script or copious notes I'm going to first outline the story from memory to see what new gems may turn up before polishing.

Episode 1 He's sinking! (1922)

From the blustery winter outdoors boys burst into The Rendezvous roadhouse tavern with alarming news. The men and boy venture out onto the frozen Lake St. Clair

Reference

Wikipedia links, unless otherwise noted:

1922

• Ain't Misbehavin' (song)

  "Ain't Misbehavin'" is a 1929 stride jazz/early swing song. Andy Razaf wrote the lyrics to a score by Thomas "Fats" Waller and Harry Brooks for the Broadway musical comedy play Connie's Hot Chocolates (opened June 20, 1929). As a work from 1929 with its copyright renewed, it will enter the American public domain on January 1, 2025.

• Alcohol-related crime#Rum-running
• Boardwalk Empire, an HBO television series, 2010-2014
• Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
• Jazz_Age#Rum running/bootlegging
• Jewish-American organized crime
• Joseph Zerilli
• Gertrude Lythgoe
• Prohibition in Canada
• Prohibition in the United States
• Pub#Roadhouse
• Racketeering
• Riverside, Ontario#Historical and the Grand Taverns of Riverside:
  • Edgewater Thomas Inn
  • Island View Tavern (known as Abars)
  • Lauzon Stop House
  • Menard's Tavern
  • Rendezvous Tavern
  • Wolf's Hotel
• Rum row
• Rum-running
• Rum-running in Windsor, Ontario
• Teetotalism
• The Purple Gang
• William McCoy (rum runner)