Ken Wahl on "Wiseguy" + "The Wanderers" - Later with Bob Costas 10/10/91 

this is the ONLY interview on tape you will EVER find of ken talking about wiseguy.........such a great actor!

Wise Guy is the best mafia/organized crime show ever!

Ken Wahl, my favourite actor and what a here for what he is doing with rescue pets for your Veterans in USA. HE’S THE SEXIEST AND MOST HANDSOME MANE ALIVE. Karyn ❤️ in Australia.

Just bought the dvd set that includes the Dead Dog episodes. Thrilled to be enjoying the whole thing all over again.

My most fav hero . Wonderful person in real life . From Pakistan

He would have made a great Superman.

KEN WAHL IS THE MOST GORGEOUS MAN THAT EVER WALKED THE FACE OF WORLD I LOVE YOU KEN

I remember watching Ken Wahl do one more 2 hour Wiseguy tv show in 1996.

I wish he was still acting

My favorite show for a long time Great acting, great actors Ken Wahl turned down An Officer and A Gentleman role that Richard Gere took Ken is one of my top 5 favorite actors

I'm glad I stumbled upon this interview. It really connected some dots for me. The Sonny Steelgrave arc was top notch writing and the acting was unbeatable. I will forever LOVE the SS Arc. When the show moved into the Mel Profitt Arc, that was the demise, in my opinion. The writing was more about pushing the envelope of how much sex/perversion/language/violence could be gotten away with on prime time TV back in the day. Now we all know what's going on with Kevin Spacey at the present time, so that explains how he was able to play that perverted role so very well. I had not realized that Stephen J. Cannell had stepped out of writing and producing and knowing that Ken Wahl was involved with production, and maybe even writing, is quite disappointing, though not surprising in hindsight. I kind of wish Cannell had put his foot down much earlier. I could have gotten used to another "agent" for more "cerebral" writing. I will say that re-watching episodes now, I can see the disclosures about the amount of corruption in quite literally EVERYTHING, so in many ways the show was probably a docu-series. McPike was always my fav. The character development was bar none. The show was dark, often demonic, and ultimately they all had to live, and die, in the hell they created.

I am 66. Your posts are nostalgic to me.

He was such a beautiful man in tight jeans

He was good in "The Wanderers" and Wiseguy before Tony Soprano came along! 👆

ooops I said "Las Vegas" instead of "Beverly Hills" in my intro

Ken wahl ❤❤❤❤

The most handsome man alive

He could have been a good Superman ⭐️

Who was more handsome, a young Tom Selleck or Ken Wahl?

He ruined his career walking away from Wise Guy in conflict with the biggest show runner of the time. Jonathan Banks and Kevin Spacey kept doing great high profile work and he disappeared.

Stephen Cannell messed up, you can't bring another actor to play a main role that was Ken Wahl's. Ken was the "Wiseguy". Didn't watch the 4th season. Too bad what happened to Ken with his accident on the stairs that broke his back and neck. Messed up his career.

I wonder what he looks like now

This is his The taking of Beverly hills days

Just let me halt you there , Ken...you said you never had time while involved with Wiseguy to do interviews but you weren't filming one season after another without a break, were you? For instance when you spoke to Cannell between seasons 3 and 4, you were actually making a film in Mexico, were you not? Also I'd dispute that you were on screen 90% or whatever of the time. Some episodes (after season 1) you were hardly in at all, such as To Die In Bettendorf and Meet Mike McPike. And also the Volchek arc which was carried by William Russ. Not forgetting the garment industry one, where fair enough you had an injured achilles tendon and took very little part in the whole arc. I also think that in the episode White Noise, when you apparently eradicated all sense of guilt re Sonny's death, was a big mistake and denigrated the very genuine and moving episode where Sonny killed himself and Vinnie was devastated by grief and guilt. Furthermore I think you didn't care about leaving Wiseguy because of the deterioration in the quality of the writing and because you thought you'd be moving on to better things in films. Finally you say you were just part of a team but without Vinnie, season 4 was a failure. How I wish I'd been able to do that interview and get your comments on these points ;)