One of the first remakes about the same topic was the ABC-TV mini-series titledPearl (The Mini-Series) (1978)with superstars of the day Angie Dickinson and Dennis Weaver.He reluctantly let Marie join him, and she introduced herself as Rogue.Suddenly, there was a vehicle crash, and Wolverine (not wearing a seat belt) was propelled through the windshield.As she luxuriated in the hot swirling water, she fell asleep, and both Alice and Yvonne eventually ended up in the same dream-world:Yvonne climbed the ladder to the high-dive platform above the pool, marked with striped lanes.As her dull, middle-class husband Bert flops down on he sofa with a newspaper, Mildred nags him, slightly dissatisfied by the lean financial status of their strained marriage and his loss of employment." His amiable, drunken, dim-witted, quirky buddy that he cares for is Eddie (Walter Brennan), a gimpy-legged "rummy" with the jittery shakes, and a Caribbean helper named Horatio (Sir Lancelot).