Brad Pitt's onscreen career began in 1987, with uncredited parts in the films No Way Out, No Man's Land and Less Than Zero. His television debut came in November of the same year with a guest appearance on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains. Brad Pitt appeared in four episodes of the CBS primetime soap opera Dallas between December 1987 and February 1988 as Randy, the boyfriend of Charlie Wade (played by Shalane McCall). Brad Pittd escribed his character as "an idiot boyfriend who gets caught in the hay." Speaking of his scenes with McCall, Brad Pitt later said "It was kind of wild, because I'd never even met her before." Later in 1988, Brad Pitt made a guest appearance on the Fox police drama 21 Jump Street.