If Tomorrow Comes (miniseries)

Sidney Sheldon's If Tomorrow Comes is a 1986 American television miniseries based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Sidney Sheldon, starring Madolyn Smith, Tom Berenger and David Keith. It was directed by Jerry London and the screenplay was written by Carmen Culver.

Plot summary
Trying to get justice for her wronged mother, financial expert Tracy Whitney is instead framed by a gangster for bank fraud and sent to prison for fifteen years by a corrupt judge and a crooked attorney. At first a victim, Tracy makes alliances, learns valuable skills from her fellow inmates, and plots her escape. She abandons her plan in order to save the warden's young daughter from drowning, earning herself a pardon.

After exacting revenge on the men responsible for her sentence, Whitney accepts an offer from the brutal Gunther Hartog to become his apprentice; under his tutelage, she becomes a master con artist and disguise expert. While plotting her biggest score, she crosses paths with another veteran con artist, Jeff Stevens, to whom she is attracted but is not sure she can trust. Trailing behind them is the unstable insurance investigator Daniel Cooper.

Cast

 * Madolyn Smith as Tracy Whitney
 * Tom Berenger as Jeff Stevens
 * David Keith as Daniel Cooper
 * Jack Weston as Uncle Willie
 * Richard Kiley as Gunther Hartog
 * Liam Neeson as Inspector André Trignant
 * Barry Jenner as Zeller
 * Lane Smith as Warden Brannigan
 * CCH Pounder as Ernestine Littlechap
 * Maryam d'Abo as Solange

Production and broadcast
The role of Tracy Whitney required Smith to use 16 different disguises, including a latex mask to pose as an old woman. She called the miniseries "a very classy soap opera" that is "fun and adventuresome". The seven-hour miniseries was broadcast on CBS in three parts on March 16, 17 and 18, 1986.

Home media
If Tomorrow Comes was released on VHS by Anchor Bay on September 30, 1997 (318 minutes), and in a two-disc DVD set from Image Entertainment on March 1, 2011 (313 minutes).