Aaron SpellingFilmography

Born:: April 22, 1923 in Dallas, TX
Occupation:: Executive Producer, Producer
Biography:: The son of an immigrant Russian tailor, Aaron Spelling grew up in the Jewish ghetto of Dallas. Traumatized by constant bullying from his WASP schoolmates, Spelling psychosomatically lost the use of his legs at age eight and was confined to bed for a year. He spent his solitude with the written...Read More

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Wanted [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gary Cole, Ryan Hurst, Rashida Jones, Benjamin Benitez, Josey Scott

2005
Summerland [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

2004
Clubhouse [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dean Cain, Jeremy Sumpter, Mare Winningham, Christopher Lloyd, Kirsten Storms

2004
10-8 [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Danny Nucci, Ernie Hudson, Scott William Winters, Christina Vidal, Mercedes Colon

Synopsis: The title of this ABC cop series referred to the patrol-car code used to indicate that said car was "in service." The central character was Rico Amonte (Danny Nucci), a former Brooklyn street punk who after relocating to Los Angeles opted to work on the right side of the law. A deputy trainee with Read More

2003
Satan's School for Girls

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Shannen Doherty, Kate Jackson, Julie Benz, Daniel Cosgrove, Russell Paul Batty

Synopsis: A remake of the 1973 TV movie of the same name, Satan's School for Girls is set within the grim walls of Fallbridge College for Girls. Hoping to learn the truth behind the "suicide" of her younger sister, Beth Hammersmith enrolls in Fallbridge under the assumed name of Karen Oxford. Our heroine Read More

2000
Titans [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Casper Van Dien, Yasmine Bleeth, Lourdes Benedicto

Synopsis: The dirty laundry of the wealthy and oversexed gets yet another airing in this prime-time soap opera from producer Aaron Spelling. Richard Williams (Perry King) is a tough-as-nails businessman who single-handedly built his aviation business into a powerful multinational conglomerate. Richard is Read More

2000
The Mod Squad

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Claire Danes, Giovanni Ribisi, Omar Epps, Dennis Farina, Josh Brolin

Synopsis: Police Capt. Adam Greer (Dennis Farina) needs some new cops who can go where other cops can't. Greer finds three young people on their way to jail: Lincoln Hayes (Omar Epps), the black one, is up for arson; Pete Cochrane (Giovanni Ribisi), the white one, is up for robbery; and Julie Barnes (Claire Danes Read More

3/26/99
Safe Harbor [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gregory Harrison, Jeremy Lelliott, Rue McClanahan

1999
Charmed: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Life was anything but dull for the Halliwell sisters during the first season of WB's Charmed. No sooner had they been reunited in their ostentatious family home in San Francisco than the three ladies -- Prue (Shannen Doherty), Phoebe (Alyssa Milano), and Piper (Holly Marie Combs) -- discovered Read More

1998
The Love Boat: The Next Wave [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Urich, Joan Severance, Corey Parker, Phil Morris, Stacey Travis

Synopsis: Loosely following the format of ABC's 1969-74 comedy anthology series Love, American Style, Aaron Spelling's first Love Boat set sail September 24, 1977 with the series' intertwining stories all taking place aboard the cruise ship Pacific Princess, captained by Gavin MacLeod. Spelling Television Read More

1998
Charmed [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano, Terry W. King

Synopsis: Three of the most gorgeous TV witches since the days of Elizabeth Montgomery were the heroines of the hour-long WB fantasy series Charmed, which first materialized on October 7, 1998. Reunited in their ancestral San Francisco mansion, the Halliwell sisters -- Prudence (aka Prue, played by Shannen Doherty Read More

1998
Buddy Faro

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dennis Farina, Frank Whale, Allison Smith, Charlie Robinson, Felicity Waterman

Synopsis: In this TV drama-comedy, Julie Barber (Allison Smith) hires detective wannabe Bob Jones (Frank Whaley) to track down the legendary private eye Buddy Faro (Dennis Farina), who was once such a name that he was portrayed by an actor (George Hamilton) in a TV series. Now nearly forgotten, Faro has Read More

1998
7th Heaven [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tyler Hoechlin, George Stults, Stephen Collins, Catherine Hicks, Barry Watson, Jessica Biel, Beverley Mitchell, David Gallagher, MacKenzie Rosman

Synopsis: One of the most atypical weekly series to emerge from the Aaron Spelling TV factory, 7th Heaven, created by Spelling and Brenda Hampton, has eschewed the sex-and-sin shenanigans of such series as Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place in favor of honest, three-dimensional family values, with Read More

1996
Love on the Run

Crew: Executive Producer

1994
And the Band Played On

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Alan Alda, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: The late journalist Randy Shilts' best-selling book on the burgeoning AIDS crisis was adapted for cable TV by Arnold Schulman. In 1981, researchers begin discerning a mysterious new disease that apparently affects only homosexual males (or so they thought at that time). Working independently, and Read More

1993
Grass Roots

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Mel Harris, Reginald VelJohnson, John Glover, Katherine Helmond

Synopsis: A made for TV, two-part series, this is the story of a Southern attorney who suddenly finds himself embroiled in politics, a particularly controversial murder trial and a public battle with a vindictive journalist -- all at the same time. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Melrose Place [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

1992
Soapdish

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Robert Downey, Jr., Cathy Moriarty, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: In the comedic farce Soapdish, the behind-the-scenes lives of several soap opera actors are just as melodramatic as those of their television counterparts. Sally Field stars as Celeste Talbert, the star of a declining TV show. To make matters worse, Talbert's career is thrown into turmoil when her Read More

5/31/91
Jailbirds

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Phylicia Rashad, Dyan Cannon

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Jailbirds is a distaff comedy variation on The Defiant Ones. Phylicia Rashad plays an important LA business executive, while Dyan Cannon portrays a trailer-trash babe from Louisiana. Both Rashad and Cannon are thrown into a dank Southern jail for crimes they didn't commit. While Read More

1991
Loose Cannons

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: David Alan Grier, Gene Hackman, Dan Aykroyd, Dom DeLuise, Ronny Cox, Nancy Travis

Synopsis: Loose Cannons may be a wacky buddy-cop comedy, but it starts with a chilling premise. It seems that a film is discovered that depicts the final moments of Adolf Hitler's life. The climax features young German officer Von Metz, who is seen putting Hitler to death. Von Metz (Robert Prosky) is now Read More

2/9/90
Day One

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Brian Dennehy, David Strathairn, Michael Tucker, Hume Cronyn, Richard Dysart

Synopsis: This WW II-set drama follows the creation of the first atomic bomb. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Satisfaction

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Justine Bateman, Liam Neeson, Trini Alvarado, Scott Coffey, Britta Phillips

Synopsis: TV's sitcom teen (Family Ties) Justine Bateman is cast as the leader of a four-girl/one-guy rock band who's first real gig is an all-summer job playing at a resort club. The gig includes living accommodations--one room--which the entire band shares for the summer. That memorable summer, with all Read More

2/12/88
Cross My Heart

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Martin Short, Annette O'Toole, Paul Reiser, Joanna Kerns, Jessica Puscas

Synopsis: Martin Short and Annette O'Toole star in this comedy documenting a date from hell. Short is David, a sunglasses salesman, who makes a date with Kathy (Annette O'Toole) in order to celebrate his new promotion. David and Kathy have gone out a few times before, but they both think that this is the Read More

11/13/87
Surrender

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sally Field, Michael Caine, Steve Guttenberg, Peter Boyle, Jackie Cooper

Synopsis: Veteran television writer-director Jerry Belson concocted this sweet comedy that stars Michael Caine as Sean Stein, a best-selling mystery novelist who's been constantly hurt by women he's fallen for. Sally Field plays Daisy Morgan, an artist who has not yet hit it big. She and Stein are at a Read More

10/9/87
Three O'Clock High

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Casey Siemaszko, Anne Ryan, Stacey Glick, Jonathan Wise, Richard Tyson

Synopsis: The first feature film from director Phil Joanou (State of Grace), Three O' Clock High chronicles a high school nerd's much hyped after-school bout with the infamous class bully. When the impish Jerry Mitchell (Casey Siemaszko) is assigned to interview the new transfer student with a supposedly Read More

10/9/87
'Night, Mother

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sissy Spacek, Anne Bancroft, Ed Berke, Carol Robbins, Jennifer Rosendahl

Synopsis: 'Night. Mother was adapted by Marsha Norman from her own harrowing Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Outwardly normal Sissy Spacek calmly informs her mother Anne Bancroft that she's about to commit suicide. Thus the stage is set for a war of nerves between the determined Spacek and the distraught Bancroft Read More

9/12/86
Dark Mansions

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Loretta Young was originally to have starred in made-for-TV Dark Mansions, but she didn't like the script and passed up the project; her role was quickly filled by another Hollywood veteran, Joan Fontaine. Aaron Spelling and Douglas Cramer, the guys who brought you Love Boat, "go gothic" in this Read More

1986
Danielle Steel's 'Crossings'

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Lee Horsley, Christopher Plummer, Jane Seymour, Garrick Dowhen

Synopsis: A six-hour adaptation of Danielle Steel's best-selling novel, the ABC miniseries Crossings began on board a transatlantic ocean liner in 1938. In the course of a truly eventful sea voyage, a torrid romance developed between powerful American steel magnate Nick Burnham (Lee Horsley) and Liane Read More

1986
T.J. Hooker: Season 05

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: William Shatner, Heather Locklear, James Darren, Richard Herd

Synopsis: Canceled by ABC at the end of its fourth season, the weekly, hour-long cop drama T.J. Hooker was picked up by CBS for 19 additional episodes, to be telecast during the 1985-1986 season. Because the series would now be seen in the late night hours rather than in prime time, the producers were Read More

1985
Hollywood Wives

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Jackie Collins, the steamy ABC TV minseries Hollywood Wives began its three-evening run on February 17, 1985. Advertised with the teaser "If you think nothing can shock you anymore," part one got things up and running by introducing the central players, among them Elaine Read More

1985
International Airport

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The fact that this made-for-TV movie is derivation of the megahit Airport is obvious by the presence of novelist Arthur Hailey in the credits. Gil Gerard heads the cast as David Montgomery, manager of a huge and extremely busy airport. As David wrestles with personal problems at home and a crisis Read More

1985
The Love Boat: Season 09

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, Pat Klous, Jill Whelan, Ted McGinley

1985
T.J. Hooker: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: William Shatner, Adrian Zmed, Heather Locklear, James Darren, Richard Herd

Synopsis: Season four of T.J. Hooker opens with the titular police sergeant (William Shatner) and his partner-protégé Officer Vince Romano (Adrian Zmed) agonizing over the fact that their colleague, Officer Stacy Sheridan (Heather Locklear), is in a coma after being shot in the line of duty. Though some Read More

1984
Fantasy Island: Season 07

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Christopher Hewitt

Synopsis: With the departure of Herve Villechaize as Tattoo at the end of Fantasy Island's sixth season, enigmatic entrepreneur Mr. Roarke (Ricardo Montalban) finds himself with a brand new assistant as Season Seven gets under way: Christopher Hewitt as the veddy British, veddy proper Lawrence, who is just Read More

1984
Hart to Hart: Season 05

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander

Synopsis: The fifth and final season of Hart to Hart is something of a retrospective: "Two Harts are Better Than One finds millionaire industrialist Jonathan Hart (Robert Wagner) and his journalist wife Jennifer (Stefanie Powers) recalling the day they first met--and also recall how they were nearly killed Read More

1983
The Love Boat: Season 07

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, Lauren Tewes, Jill Whelan

1983
T.J. Hooker: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: William Shatner, Adrian Zmed, Heather Locklear, Richard Herd

Synopsis: The second (and first "full") season of T.J. Hooker finds the titular police sergeant (William Shatner) taking on wider responsibilities than his "official" job as trainer at the LCPD Academy Precinct. Along with Hooker, hotheaded rookie cop Vince Romano (Adrian Zmed) is back, as is T.J.'s Read More

1983
Mr. Mom

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Frederick Koehler, Taliesin Jaffe, Brittany White

Synopsis: Jack Butler (Michael Keaton) is a Detroit automobile engineer unjustly fired by his boss. Jack's wife Caroline (Teri Garr) is compelled to get a job to make ends meet, and is soon hired on as an advertising executive in a firm run by the shifty Ron Richardson (Martin Mull. This leaves Jack at home Read More

1983
T.J. Hooker: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: William Shatner, Adrian Zmed, Heather Locklear, James Darren, Richard Herd

Synopsis: As T.J. Hooker launches its third season, the titular Hooker (William Shatner), a police sergeant, can take justifiable pride in the fact that two of his trainees, Officers Vince Romano (Adrian Zmed) and Stacy Sheridan, have both graduated to street patrol. Hooker remains partnered with Romano Read More

1983
Making of a Male Model

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joan Collins, Jon-Erik Hexum

Synopsis: Joan Collins tops the cast of the made-for-TV The Making of a Male Model. No, silly: Joan doesn't play the title role. Rather, she is cast as the barracudalike owner of a top modelling agency, while Jon-Erik Hexum (at the time, a real-life male model) costars as a Nevada rancher whom Joan selects Read More

1983
Fantasy Island: Season 06

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Herve Villechaize

Synopsis: Ricardo Montalban is as suave, poised and mysterious as ever in the role of Mr. Roarke, owner of a lush tropical resort where dreams literally come true, as Fantasy Island launches its sixth season. Also on hand is dwarf actor Herve Villechaize as Roarke's versatile assistant Tattoo--but not for Read More

1983
Shooting Stars

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Billy Dee Williams, Parker Stevenson, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Edie Adams, Fred Travalena

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, two actors who pose as detectives on a television series lose their jobs, only to take up work as real crime fighters. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1983
The Love Boat: Season 06

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, Lauren Tewes, Jill Whelan

1982
Fantasy Island: Season 05

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Herve Villechaize

Synopsis: Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaize are still on hand as the mysterious Mr. Roarke and his sensitive dwarf assistant Tattoo, still ushering guests onto Roarke's lavish tropical resort where for $50,000 per customer dreams can literally come true, as Fantasy Island enters its fifth season. Read More

1982
Hart to Hart: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander

Synopsis: The opening episode of Hart to Hart's fourth season demonstrates that, even when doing something as benign as purchasing a new bed, millionaire industrialist Jonathan Hart (Robert Wagner) and his journalist wife Jennifer (Stefanie Powers) will eventually find themselves neck-deep in danger Read More

1982
Don't Go to Sleep

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Little Mary (Robin Ignico) is haunted by the guilty memory of her sister Jennifer, who died in an auto accident not long ago. Jennifer had always been more adored by their parents, and Mary can't help thinking that her jealousy was behind Jennifer's death. Soon, Mary begins to imagine that there's Read More

1982
T.J. Hooker: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: William Shatner, Adrian Zmed, April Clough, Lee Bryant, Richard Herd

Synopsis: The five-episode "trial run" of T.J. Hooker begins with the 90-minute pilot "The Protectors," in which former police detective T.J. Hooker (William Shatner) voluntarily accepts the lowered rank of sergeant to return to active duty -- and even campaigns to work in the city's toughest and most Read More

1982
The Love Boat: Season 05

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, Lauren Tewes, Jill Whelan

1981
Fantasy Island: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Herve Villechaize, Wendy Schaal

Synopsis: The lavish "wish-fulfillment" TV series Fantasy Island enters it fourth season with the mysterious Mr. Roarke (Ricardo Montalban) and his mercurial aide Tattoo (Herve Villechaize) still making dreams come true for the various and sundry visitors to Roarke's lavish island resort. New to the series Read More

1981
Sizzle

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, a singer (Loni Anderson) travels to Chicago during the 1920s to seek revenge against the gangster who killed her boyfriend. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
Hart to Hart: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander

Synopsis: Season Three of Hart to Hart begins with the emphasis on Max (Lionel Stander), the ratchet-voiced chauffeur and general factotum of millionaire industrialist Jonathan Hart (Robert Wagner) and his globetrotting journalist wife Jennifer Hart (Stefanie Powers). An amateur horticulturalist, Max Read More

1981
Dynasty [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Dynasty was set in Denver, and concerned the trials and tribulations of the oil-rich Carrington clan. John Forsythe and Linda Evans were top-billed as Blake and Krystle Carrington, but all the juicy scenes went to the cunning, conniving Alexis Carrington Colby, portrayed with caution to the winds Read More

1981
Casino

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gary Burghoff, Joseph Cotten, Lynda Day George, Robert Loggia, Bo Hopkins

Synopsis: Nick (Mike Conners) is the owner of a luxury liner and casino which cruises its way to action and adventure for those on board. Lackluster direction by Don Chaffey is not aided by a cast including Gary Burghoff, Joseph Cotten, Lynda Day George, Bo Hopkins and Robert Loggia, who seem to all be Read More

1980
Murder Can Hurt You

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Victor Buono, John Byner, Gavin MacLeod

Synopsis: Producer Aaron Spelling's made-for-TV Murder Can Hurt You is an unsubtle take-off of Neil Simon's theatrical feature Murder By Death. A crime is committed by the unknown, all-seeing Master Criminal. To solve the case, several top detectives are summoned, each one a takeoff of a popular TV gumshoe. Read More

1980
The Love Boat: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, Lauren Tewes

1980
Hart to Hart: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander

Synopsis: Season Two of the lighthearted adventure-mystery series Hart to Hart opens with Jennifer Hart (Stefanie Powers, the glamorous journalist wife of millionaire industrialist Jonathan Hart (Robert Wagner), once more mired in peril when she comes to the rescue of a bride whose new husband has vanished Read More

1980
Fantasy Island: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Herve Villechaize

Synopsis: Entering its third season as America's 22nd most popular series (not bad for an hour-long semi-anthology in a year dominated by sitcoms!), Fantasy Island indulges its fondness for the bizarre and offbeat with an opening episode wherein David Doyle plays an impoverished chap whose "fantasy" is to Read More

1980
The French Atlantic Affair

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The third of ABC's miniseries offerings, The French Atlantic Affair was an expensive but pulpish all-star version of the same-named Ernest Lehmann novel. Chad Everett essays the nominal leading role as Robbins-esque novelist Harold Columbine, one of dozens of wealthy, well-dressed passengers on a Read More

1979
The Return of the Mod Squad

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In this crime drama, based on the old TV series, the three terminally hip undercover cops reunite after a seven year absence to find out the identity of the person who is threatening their boss's life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
Hart to Hart

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jill St. John, Lionel Stander, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: Originally telecast September 25, 1979, Hart to Hart was the pilot film for a series which officially debuted three days earlier. Robert Wagner and Stephanie Powers play the fabulously wealthy, blissfully happy married couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart. He's a conglomerate CEO, she's a mystery Read More

1979
The Love Boat: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, Lauren Tewes, Jill Whelan

1979
Hart to Hart: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander

Synopsis: No sooner have millionaire industrialist Jonathan Hart (Robert Wagner) and his journalist wife Jennifer (Stefanie Powers) have been introduced in the feature-length pilot episode of Hart to Hart than the couple is indulging in their favorite hobby, amateur sleuthing; it's all for a good cause of Read More

1979
The Power Within

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In this exciting fantasy, a stunt pilot gets into a terrible accident and awakes to find himself imbued with the power to electrocute people by touching them. The trouble begins when he is abducted by an evil villain. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
Fantasy Island: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Herve Villechaize

Synopsis: Ranking 17th in the overall ratings for its brief first season on the air, Fantasy Island was a shoe-in for renewal for a full second season on ABC. Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaize return respectively as the enigmatic Mr. Roarke and his excitable dwarf assistant Tattoo, who hold court over Read More

1979
Beach Patrol

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robin Strand, Jonathan Frakes, Christine de Lisle, Richard Hill, Michael Gregory

Synopsis: Robin Strand stars as a female narcotics cop transferred to an all-male police squad assigned to patrol the California beaches. Strand's assignment ends almost before it begins when she is targeted for assassination by the Mob. First telecast April 30, 1979, Beach Patrol was supposed to have been Read More

1979
Fantasy Island: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Herve Villechaize

Synopsis: First telecast January 14, 1977, the feature-length pilot episode of producer Aaron Spelling's Fantasy Island introduces Ricardo Montalban as the enigmatic Mr. Roarke and dwarf actor Herve Villechaize as his resourceful assistant Tattoo, along with an impressive array of guest stars playing the Read More

1978
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Right after wrapping up her role as Emily on The Bob Newhart Show, Suzanne Pleshette began her reign as "queen of the TV pilot films" with Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid. Kate Bliss (Pleshette) is a private investigator in the 19th-century West, setting up her shingle in a tough frontier town. Read More

1978
Cruise into Terror

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This delightfully bad made-for-TV movie throws together an assortment of television stalwarts and movie has-beens for what is essentially a horror version of The Love Boat. The plot involves a vacation cruise in the Gulf of Mexico, during which some of the passengers find an ancient Egyptian Read More

1978
The Love Boat: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, Lauren Tewes

1978
The New Love Boat

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Bernie Kopell, Lauren Tewes, Fred Grandy, Gavin MacLeod

Synopsis: The New Love Boat was the third pilot film for the long-running TV series. After several casting missteps in the two earlier films, the series' regular characters are herein solidified: Gavin McLeod as Capt. Stubing, Bernie Kopell as Doc, Fred Grandy as Gopher, Ted Lange as Isaac and Lauren Tewes Read More

1977
The Love Boat II

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Celeste Holm, Bernie Kopell, Ted Lange, Diane Stilwell, Lyle Waggoner, Fred Grandy, Quinn K. Redeker

Synopsis: This second of two pilot films for the Love Boat TV series was originally telecast on January 21, 1977. After the shakedown cruise, several of the actors playing the crew of the Pacific Princess were replaced. In Love Boat 2, Ted Lange, Bernie Kopell and Fred Grandy portray the roles they would be Read More

1977
The Love Boat: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, Lauren Tewes

1977
Return to Fantasy Island

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ricardo Montalban

Synopsis: A sequel to the 1977 TV movie Fantasy Island, this film was originally titled Fantasy Island II and slated to air on November, 1977, but was instead re-christened and broadcast as the initial episode of the weekly Fantasy Island series. Once again, six people spend thousands upon thousands of Read More

1977
Little Ladies of the Night

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Linda Purl

Synopsis: Also known as Little Ladies of the Night, the story focuses on a teenager who runs away from home and finds herself in the sordid world of street-life prostitution. She gains help from a police officer, who is still connected to the underground since he formerly worked as a pimp. ~ John Bush, All Read More

1977
Fantasy Island

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Herve Villechaize, Dick Sargent

Synopsis: The long-running Aaron Spelling TV series Fantasy Island was launched with a two-hour pilot film, which originally aired January 14, 1977. Ricardo Montalban stars as the enigmatic, sartorially splendiferous Mr. Roarke, who welcomes those willing to pony up the $50,000 to spend a weekend on Read More

1977
The San Pedro Bums

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Five California party dudes (Chris Murney, Stuart Pankin, John Mark Robinson, Darryl McCullough and Jeff Druce) come upon a derelict boat on the beach at San Pedro, California. They decide to use the vessel as their home, and also as headquarters for an erstwhile fishing business. Before long, our Read More

1977
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Travolta, Diana Hyland, Robert Reed, Ralph Bellamy, Glynnis O'Connor

Synopsis: Welcome Back Kotter star John Travolta headlines the made-for-TV Boy in the Plastic Bubble. Douglas Day Stewart's fact-based teleplay casts Travolta as Tod Lubitsch, a teenager who was born without disease immunities. Tod is forced to live out his life in incubator conditions; whenever he vetnures Read More

1976
One of My Wives Is Missing

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jack Klugman, James Franciscus

Synopsis: Vacationing in a small town (actually Lake Arrowhead, California), a frantic James Franciscus shows up at the local police station, declaring that his wife has disappeared. Franciscus imperiously demands that easygoing police inspector Jack Klugman drop everything and find his missing spouse. Read More

1976
Charlie's Angels [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

1976
Family [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sada Thompson, James Broderick, Kristy McNichol, Gary Frank

1976
Baby Blue Marine

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, Glynnis O'Connor, Katherine Helmond, Dana Elcar, Bert Remsen

Synopsis:
In this WWII-era drama, Jan-Michael Vincent plays Marion Hedgepeth, a young Marine who fails out of a boot camp in 1943 and gets sent home wearing a baby blue suit to symbolize shame and dishonor. In Los Angeles, he runs into a veteran who -- eager to be discharged -- k.o.'s him and switches Read More

1976
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The third and final TV-movie in the "Joshua Cabe" saga, this ABC effort stars John McIntire as rascally rancher-turned-sheriff Joshua Cabe, a role played by Buddy Ebsen in the original The Daughters of Joshua Cabe) and by Dan Dailey in The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return. This time out, Cabe is Read More

1976
Murder on Flight 502

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: While bound for London from New York, the occupants of a 747 are terrorized by a mad bomber. The jet's pilot (Robert Stack) and several brave passengers must thwart the plot. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
Starsky & Hutch [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Antonio Fargas, Bernie Hamilton, Paul Michael Glaser, David Soul

1975
Death at Love House

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kate Jackson

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV film, a screenwriter (Robert Wagner) begins writing the biography of the dead movie queen who had a brief affair with his father. After work on the project has commenced, he becomes obsessed with her spirit and gets a response from the other side of the grave. ~ John Bush, All Read More

1975
The Legend of Valentino

Crew: Producer

Actors: Suzanne Pleshette, Franco Nero, Yvette Mimieux

Synopsis: Legend of Valentino is a TV-shorthand retelling of the life and loves of legendary silent screen star Rudolph Valentino, here portrayed by Franco Nero. This TV movie was advertised as "romantic fiction," which was just as well since its only nods to the truth are the basic facts of Valentino's Read More

1975
S.W.A.T. [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

1975
Charlie's Angels: Pilot

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: David F. Doyle, John Forsythe, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith

Synopsis: This 72-minute pilot film of the Charlie's Angels series stars the three original "Angels": Sabrina (Kate Jackson), Jill (Farrah Fawcett-Majors), and Kelly (Jaclyn Smith). Police rookies stuck in go-nowhere jobs, Sabrina, Jill, and Kelly are hired by the never-seen Charlie (voiced by John Read More

1975
California Split

Crew: Producer

Actors: George Segal, Elliott Gould, Ann Prentiss, Gwen Welles, Ed Walsh

Synopsis: The most narratively loose of Robert Altman's '70s films, California Split details the haphazard lives of two compulsive gamblers searching for that ever-elusive big score. Newly single and soon-to-be-unemployed Bill (George Segal) joins live-wire pal Charlie (Elliott Gould), as the pair moves Read More

1974
Only with Married Men

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In this made-for-television comedy, a young woman gets herself into trouble when she begins fulfilling her man-craving with a string of married men. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
The Girl Who Came Gift-Wrapped

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This TV movie opens with a Hefner-like magazine publisher (Richard Long), who's just turned forty, answering his doorbell. Into his bachelor pad pops a young, bikini-clad girl (Karen Valentine) with a bow fastened around her waist; she sings "Happy Birthday", then plants a kiss on the startled Read More

1974
Cry Panic

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Forsythe, Norman Alden

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, a driver is involved in a hit-and-run accident. By the time the guilt-ridden fellow returns to the accident scene, the body has mysteriously disappeared. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Death Cruise

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, six persons have won a cruise-ship vacation, but they find that the awards were just a trick to begin a killing game. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
The Death Squad

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Made for television, Death Squad focuses on a group of renegade police responsible for the murder of shady crooks--especially the ones who have avoided conviction on small technicalities. The commissioner decides to hire an ex-cop to bring the vigilantes to justice. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1973
Hijack

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Actually, Hijack has nothing to do with the Wild Blue Yonder: instead, the story involves two truckers (David Janssen, Keenan Wynn) hauling a mysterious cargo from LA to Houston. The U.S. government won't tell our heroes what they're carrying in their eight-wheeler, but someone knows what it is Read More

1973
The Letters

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: John Forsythe, Pamela Franklin, Henry Jones, Ben Murphy, Leslie Nielsen, Jane Powell, Lesley Ann Warren, Ida Lupino

Synopsis: Letters begins with the crash of a U.S. mail plane. One year later, cheerful postman Henry Jones delivers the long-delayed letters. These overdue missives profoundly affect the lives of (a) a man who's deserted his wife; (b) a woman anxious to break up her daughter's romance; and (c) a pianist Read More

1973
The Great American Beauty Contest

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Farrah Fawcett, Louis Jourdan, Eleanor Parker, Joanna Cameron

Synopsis: An unsubtle but effective TV-movie satire of the "Miss America" syndrome, Great American Beauty Contest stars Joanna Cameron as a fire-breathing feminist who enters the contest of the title. She plans to win the crown, then utterly destroy the contest by delivering a scathing attack on Read More

1973
The Affair

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood

Synopsis: The made-for-TV movie The Affair (working title: Love Song) marked the return to television of Natalie Wood after an 18-year absence (her last regular small-screen work was on the 1954 sitcom The Pride of the Family). Wood plays a crippled 32-year-old songwriter whose handicap has made her cynical Read More

1973
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Joshua Cabe (Buddy Ebsen) is a trapper in the old west. He hopes to set up his own homestead, but new government laws won't allow him any land unless he has a family. Cabe's own daughters refuse to come west to live with their dad, so Joshua hires three "shady ladies" (Karen Valentine, Lesley Ann Warren Read More

1972
Every Man Needs One

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: According to this cookie-cutter TV movie, every man needs a woman to put down his rampant chauvinism. Ken Berry is a swinging architect (yes, he has long sideburns) who doesn't believe that women should work. Enter Connie Stevens, a highly intelligent young lady whom Berry reluctantly hires as an Read More

1972
The Rookies [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

1972
Snatched

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this made-for-television crime drama a trio of kidnapped wives struggle with their ordeal. Real trouble begins when one of their wealthy husbands refuses to pay the ransom and one of the wives goes into insulin shock. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1972
Rolling Man

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Dennis Weaver plays a tow-truck driver sent to prison on a trumped-up charges of attempted murder. Out after serving four years, Weaver finds himself a reluctant loner. His wife has died, and his two sons have disappeared. In seeking out his boys, Weaver also keeps an eye out for the man Read More

1972
Death Sentence

Crew: Producer

Actors: Nick Nolte, Cloris Leachman, Laurence Luckinbill

Synopsis: Originally made for television, this story focuses on a woman selected for jury duty. During a murder trial, she discovers that the accused is the wrong man; she also finds that the real killer is after her. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1972
Two for the Money

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this drama, two private investigators must find a serial killer after the 12-year investigation of the police fails miserably. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1972
The Bounty Man

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Basehart, John Ericson, Clint Walker

Synopsis: The Bounty Man is Clint Walker, back in the saddle some nine years after the cancellation of his TV series Cheyenne. Walker is hired to bring in his quarry dead or alive, and in the past has had no qualms about choosing the latter option. Now he is in competition with hard-bitten Richard Basehart Read More

1972
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In her final acting appearance, Susan Hayward is ironically cast as a research doctor who can no longer face up to the notion of dealing with death on a daily basis. Recently widowed, Dr. Maggie Cole is on the verge of giving up her job and going into seclusion. She is shaken back to reality by Read More

1972
No Place to Run

Crew: Producer

Actors: Herschel Bernardi, Scott Jacoby

Synopsis: The made-for-television No Place to Run stars Herschel Bernardi as a seriously ill 73-year-old grandparent. Despite his many ailments, Bernardi is roused into action when he is denied custody of his orphaned grandson (Scott Jacoby). Grandpa and grandson decide to skip town together, with the Read More

1972
The Trackers

Crew: Executive Producer, Screen Story

Synopsis: A rancher sets out to find the party responsible for killing his son and kidnapping his daughter. He enlists an arrogant professional tracker to help him in his search. Ernest Borgnine and Sammy Davis, Jr. star in this made-for-television western. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1971
Congratulations, It's a Boy!

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: We know that Bill Bixby plays a swinging bachelor because he wears bell-bottoms. Opening the door of his bachelor pad one evening, Bixby is surprised to meet a personable young man claiming to be his son. He is further surprised that the young man is fully grown, the result of an indiscretion some Read More

1971
The Death of Me Yet

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The Death of Me Yet opens in a typical American small town that turns out to be in the middle of the Soviet Union. As we all know from those Jack Webb-narrated documentaries of the 1950s, the rascally Russians have set up these ersatz American communities in order to train their agents to subtly Read More

1971
The Last Child

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Michael Cole, Van Heflin, Janet Margolin

Synopsis: Back before he was producing Charlie's Angels, Aaron Spelling was a major supplier of made-for-television feature films, particularly to ABC, on which this movie premiered in 1971. The Last Child takes place in America in 1994, a time in which a massive, chronic overpopulation crisis has resulted Read More

1971
The Rookies

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Ontkean, Georg Stanford Brown, Sam Melville, Darren McGavin, Jennifer Billingsley

Synopsis: Produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, The Rookies was the pilot film for the popular early-1970s cop series of the same name. The story centers upon the training of three young rookie cops, played by Michael Ontkean, Georg Stanford Brown and Sam Melville. Darren McGavin is their Read More

1971
A Taste of Evil

Crew: Producer

Actors: Barbara Parkins, Bing Russell, Barbara Stanwyck, William Windom

Synopsis: Screenwriter Jimmy Sangster and John Llewellyn Moxey, longtime collaborators in the field of British psychological-horror efforts, once more combined their skills for the American TV movie Taste of Evil. Barbara Parkins plays a young rape victim, recently released from a mental institution. She Read More

1971
Five Desperate Women

Crew: Producer

Actors: Anjanette Comer, Joan Hackett, Stefanie Powers, Denise Nicholas

Synopsis: Five Desperate Women debuted as an ABC Movie of the Week on September 28, 1971. Anjanette Comer, Joan Hackett, Denise Nicholas and Stefanie Powers are four of five graduates of an exclusive girl's college, meeting together for a reunion on a remote island. The fifth girl (whose name we'll withhold Read More

1971
In Broad Daylight

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: "Broad" is right. This gloriously overacted TV movie stars Richard Boone as a movie star who suffers an accident, leaving him totally blind. Boone's wife (Suzanne Pleshette) takes advantage of hubby's infirmity to plot an illicit romance with a local stud (Fred Beir). But remember that Boone's an Read More

1971
Savage Run

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Savage Run was originally telecast as Run Simon Run (after bearing the working title The Tradition of Simon Zuniga). Burt Reynolds stars in this made-for-TV movie as a Papago Indian, who returns to his people after serving a long sentence for a crime he didn't commit. To clear himself of the Read More

1970
Yuma

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A down-and-dirty town is forced to shape up when a new sheriff (Clint Walker) comes to town. However, when a scheme is launched to destroy the lawman's authority, he must discover the perpetrators and preserve his reputation. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1970
Love Hate Love

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Peter Haskell, Ryan O'Neal, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: Seldom has a TV-movie title been more appropriate than Love Hate Love. Ryan O'Neal, Lesley Ann Warren and Peter Haskell comprise the three points of an unfortunate love triangle. Ms. Warren is a fashion model engaged to engineer O'Neal; she falls in love on a whim with charismatic playboy Haskell. Read More

1970
The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The Over the Hill Gang Rides Again is a TV-movie sequel to 1969's ratings-grabbing The Over the Hill Gang, which told of a group of retired Texas Rangers rallying to save their small town from criminals. In the sequel, the gang --Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan, Andy Devine, and Chill Wills (Pat O'Brien Read More

1970
But I Don't Want to Get Married!

Crew: Producer

Actors: June Lockhart, Tina Louise

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie stars Herschel Bernardi as a middle-aged widower, contentedly resigned to his bachelorhood. Bernardi's well-meaning friends and relatives are tireless in their efforts to hitch him up with a new bride. All the candidates are played by prominent actresses (Shirley Jones, Tina Louise Read More

1970
Crowhaven Farm

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: John Carradine

Synopsis: Crowhaven Farm is a contrived creepy-crawly originally telecast on The ABC Movie of the Week. Hope Lange is probably the last person you'd expect to see in the middle of a witchcraft/reincarnation plot, but there she is, in the company of Paul Burke, Lloyd Bochner and (who else?) John Carradine Read More

1970
The House That Would Not Die

Crew: Producer

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck

Synopsis: Barbara Stanwyck made her TV movie debut in 1970's The House That Would Not Die. The setting is an old house in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Stanwyck moves after inheriting the house, but has cause to rethink her decision. Built during the Revolutionary era, the house is said to be haunted by the Read More

1970
Black Brigade

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: With The Mod Squad sweeping the Tuesday night TV ratings in 1968, producers Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas hoped to get another multiracial adventure series on the air A.S.A.P. Carter's Army was the 72-minute pilot for this project. Set during World War II, the film stars Stephen Boyd as an Army Read More

1969
The Monk

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The Monk stars George Maharis as neither simian nor seminarian. Instead, he plays Gustavus "Gus" Monk, a San Francisco private eye/bodyguard created by Blake Edwards. The Monk is hired by an underworld lawyer (William Smithers) to deliver an envelope containing damning information about a powerful Read More

1969
The Over-the-Hill Gang

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan, Andy Devine, Pat O'Brien, Chill Wills

Synopsis: One of the better and more diverting of ABC's first full season of made-for-television movies, The Over-the-Hill Gang was a low-budget Western with a gimmick: Get a bunch of elderly actors, known either for their leading roles in the 1930s, or for playing comic sidekicks (and Walter Brennan was a Read More

1969
The Pigeon

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In his TV-movie debut, Sammy Davis Jr. plays a wisecracking private eye drawn into a web of murder and duplicity. Davis is suddenly attacked from all sides by crooks and cops alike, who seem to believe he's got something they want. Eventually he figures he's been set up as the fall guy for a Read More

1969
The Ballad of Andy Crocker

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie stars Lee Majors as Andy Crocker, a disillusioned Vietnam veteran. His homecoming is hardly a hero's welcome: Andy finds that his girl friend is married, his business is in the toilet, and his friends and neighbors are reluctant to acknowledge his existence. Originally Read More

1969
The Mod Squad [TV Series]

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this 1968-1973 television series, a trio of young people -- Pete (Michael Cole), a privileged white; Linc (Clarence Williams III), an African-American from the ghetto; and Julie (Peggy Lipton), the blonde daughter of a prostitute -- are recruited by the L.A. police to go undercover. ~ Jason Read More

1968
The Guns of Will Sonnett: Season 02

Crew: Producer

Actors: Walter Brennan, Dack Rambo

Synopsis: Most of the 23 episodes in Season Two of the peripatetic western series The Guns of Will Sonnett adhere to the formula established in Season One, with septuagenarian ex-Cavalry scout Will Sonnett (Walter Brennan) travelling throughout the west with his teenaged grandson Jeff (Dack Rambo, in search Read More

1968
The Guns of Will Sonnett: Season 01

Crew: Producer

Actors: Walter Brennan, Dack Rambo, Jason Evers

Synopsis: Seen on ABC's Friday-night schedule during its first season, The Guns of Will Sonnett firmly establishes its premise in the opening episode "Ride the Long Trail". Ex-Cavalry scout Will Sonnett (Walter Brennan) and his grandson Jeff (Dack Rambo) have left their home and begun wandering through the Read More

1967
The Guns of Will Sonnett [TV Series]

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: An Aaron Spelling production, the weekly, half-hour western The Guns of Will Sonnett debuted September 8, 1967 on ABC. Heading the cast was "the distinguished actor Walter Brennan" (as he was billed in the series' publicity), playing grizzled former Cavalry scout Will Sonnett Sometime in the Read More

1967
Burke's Law [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

1963
One Foot in Hell

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alan Ladd, Don Murray, Dan O'Herlihy, Dolores Michaels, Barry Coe

Synopsis: TV producer Aaron Spelling first came up with the story for this standard western set in a small town just after the American Civil War. Mitch (Alan Ladd) has tragically lost his wife during a problem in her pregnancy because he could not come up with $1.87 for the medicine she needed. A little Read More

1960
Guns of the Timberlands

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Alan Ladd, Jeanne Crain, Gilbert Roland, Frankie Avalon, Lyle Bettger

Synopsis: In this action drama, ranchers and lumberjacks are at loggerheads over the proper usage of the land. When the logging team finds a prime stand, the ranchers beg the loggers not to harvest it because the lack of trees will cause deadly mud slides during the rainy season that will destroy their Read More

1960
The Spirit of St. Louis

Actors: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson, Marc Connelly

Synopsis: A misfire for all concerned, The Spirit of St. Louis can be chalked up as a courageous failure. At age 48, James Stewart was far too old to be convincing as 27-year-old "Lone Eagle" Charles Lindbergh. Director Billy Wilder, a past master of cynical pessimism, was clearly the wrong choice to helm Read More

1957
Gunsmoke: The Guitar

Synopsis: Future TV mogul Aaron Spelling appears in this episode as Weed Pindle, a sweet-tempered, soft-spoken guitar player. Upon learning that Weed fought on the Union side during the Civil War, two brutish Southern sympathizers named Tyler (Charles Gray) and Augie (Jacques Aubuchon) mercilessly torment Read More

1956
Target Zero

Actors: Richard Conte, Peggie Castle, Charles Bronson, Richard Stapley, L.Q. Jones

Synopsis: Apparently as a reward for his excellent performance in the 1954 western Drum Beat, Charles Bronson was given a leading role in this Warner Bros. programmer. The action takes place during the Korean War: a melting-pot unit of American soldiers, together with three British troopers, find themselves Read More

1955
Dragnet: The Big Confession

Synopsis: Future TV producer Aaron Spelling appears in this episode as Bruce Marcus, a nerdish young man who walks into Police headquarters and confesses to a murder. Marcus tells Friday (Joe Friday) and Smith (Ben Alexander) that the victim was a young girl he'd met the night before, and whom he had killed Read More

1955
Wyoming Renegades

Actors: Philip Carey, Gene Evans, Martha Hyer, William Bishop, Douglas Kennedy

Synopsis: Phil Carey is his usual rough-and-tumble self in the Columbia western programmer Wyoming Renegade. Carey plays Brady Sutton, a former outlaw who wants to go straight. Trouble is, everyone is convinced that Sutton is still a no-good -- everyone, that is, except heroine Nancy Warren (Martha Hyer). Read More

1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Breakdown

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock's second directorial effort for his popular suspense anthology is one of the series' best ever episodes. Joseph Cotten stars as William Callew, a hard-nosed and hard-hearted businessman who holds in contempt such human failings as sentiment, pity, and tears. While racing to keep Read More

1955
I Love Lucy: Tennessee Bound

Actors: Tennessee Ernie Ford, Will Wright, Marilyn Borden, Rosalyn Borden, Aaron Spelling

Synopsis: Still en route from New York to Hollywood, the Ricardos and the Mertzes are arrested for exceeding the speed limit of Bent Fork, TN. Luck of luck, this flyspeck community is the home of "Cousin" Ernie (Tennessee Ernie Ford), who'd been the house guest of Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Ricky (Desi Arnaz) Read More

1955
Dragnet: The Big Pug

Synopsis: A elderly woman is robbed and beaten in a bank parking lot. Investigating, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are tipped off that two men were spotted a few days earlier, taking photographs near the scene of the crime. A subsequent photo "blowup" leads the detectives to surmise that one Read More

1954
Dragnet: The Big New Year

Synopsis: When police officer Jack Conley is murdered in cold blood on New Years' Eve, Joe Friday (Jack Webb) has the unenviable task of breaking the news to Conley's wife Betty (June Whitley)--just as she is preparing a big party. Making it his personal mission to track down Conley's killer, Friday pieces Read More

1954
Alaska Seas

Actors: Robert Ryan, Jan Sterling, Brian Keith, Gene Barry, Richard Shannon, Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.

Synopsis: Alaskan salmon fisherman Matt Kelly (Robert Ryan) doesn't care who he runs over in race to get ahead in life. He even manages to exploit his friendship with Jim Kimmerly (Brian Keith) so he can make time with Kimmerly's fiancee Nicky (Jan Sterling). As a capper to his many misdeeds, Kelly's Read More

1954
Dragnet: The Big Bindle

Synopsis: Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) receive a tip that the Plaza Royale, a fancy downtown hotel, is being used as a clearing house for "high grade" merchandise from an Eastern heroin ring. Going undercover, Friday poses as "Joe Edwards", a potential buyer from Phoenix. Though it appears Read More

1954
Black Widow

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, George Raft, Peggy Ann Garner

Synopsis: Broadway producer Peter Denver (Van Heflin) takes in young actress Nanny Ordway (Peggy Ann Garner) while his wife (Gene Tierney) is out of town. When Nancy is found murdered in his penthouse apartment, the two prime suspects are Peter and the neglected husband (Reginald Gardiner) of temperamental Read More

1954
Three Young Texans

Actors: Mitzi Gaynor, Keefe Brasselle, Jeffrey Hunter, Harvey Stephens, Dan Riss, Michael Ansara

Synopsis: Mitzi Gaynor was contractually awarded with top billing in 20th Century-Fox's Three Young Texans, but the film's true star is Jeffrey Hunter. To prevent his father from being blackmailed into committing a train robbery, Johnny Colt (Hunter) pulls off the theft himself. Our hero and his lady friend Read More

1954
Vicki

Actors: Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, Elliott Reid, Richard Boone, Casey Adams

Synopsis: Although a few character names and minor details are different, Vicki is a fairly faithful remake of the 1941 murder melodrama I Wake Up Screaming. The title character, Vicki Lynn, played by Jean Peters, is a waitress who is transformed into a top fashion model by press agent Steve Christopher (Elliot Reid Read More

1953
Dragnet: The Big Fire

Synopsis: Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate when a young wife and mother (Frances Rafferty) claims that she and her husband had signed a year-long lease for an apartment--only to have landlord Edward Daniels (John Qualen) chase them off the property at gunpoint before they can even Read More

1953
Dragnet: The Big Safe

Synopsis: Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are stymied by a series of well-planned safe burglaries, pulled off right under the authorities' noses. A clue provided by the owner of a fix-it shop turns out to be the latest in a long of false leads, but finally the investigation bears fruit when two Read More

1953
The Black Widow

Synopsis: Vernon Sewell, a mercurial filmmaker who preferred to lens his pictures on chunks of his own property, was the director of Black Widow. We don't know which of Sewell's real estate holdings served as the locale for this amnesia meller. We can, however, tell you that the film was inspired by the BBC Read More

1951

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