{"id":5541,"date":"2009-04-12T06:28:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T05:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slipserver.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/bakula-as-chucks-father\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T08:13:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:13:46","slug":"bakula-as-chucks-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/04\/bakula-as-chucks-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakula As Chuck&#8217;s Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Scott Bakula<\/b> fans tuned in to NBC last Monday to see the first of several episodes of <i>Chuck<\/i> in which Bakula appears as the estranged father of the title character played by <b>Zachary Levi<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck&#8217;s father Steve Bartowski had not been seen since he left Chuck and his older sister Ellie ten years earlier. Found by CIA officer Sarah Walker (<b>Yvonne Strahovski<\/b>,) Steve is living in a trailer out in the boondocks, a disheveled and paranoid man. <!--more-->Steve (Bakula) reluctantly returns home to see his daughter Ellie, whose wedding approaches. By the end of the episode, after helping his son, a nerdy spy, Steve is kidnapped and will need to be rescued by his son and CIA officer Sarah Walker.<\/p>\n<p>The next episode of <i>Chuck<\/i> will air Monday night at 8 P.M. on NBC. <\/p>\n<p>Information on <i>Chuck<\/i> was taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/ausiellofiles.ew.com\/chuck\/index.html\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000836\/\">IMDB<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Bakula fans tuned in to NBC last Monday to see the first of several&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2599,2628],"class_list":["post-5541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-bakula","tag-chuck"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7000,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions\/7000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}