A special cast for Kate Jackson

0 Comments | USA TODAY, September, 1994 | by Katy Kelly

If you want to see TV magic, check out Kate Jackson in Justice in a Small Town tonight (9 p.m. ET/PT, NBC).

Notice the opening kitchen scene.

Notice the oven mitt.

"That glove was a real invention," says Jackson, who halfway through 18 days of filming tripped on a cable and broke her wrist..

To accommodate the plaster cast, the silver mitt was slit and expanded with gaffer's tape. To camouflage the cast, "they painted it skin color" and found other props to hide it.

"I carried a lot of jackets," says Jackson, the heroine of the true-story tale about a Georgia Department of Labor secretary who exposes on-the-job corruption.

Other costumes were found on location in Wilmington, N.C. Jackson arrived a week early to brush...