Anthony ZerbeFilmography

The Matrix Revolutions

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Jada Pinkett Smith

Synopsis: Shot back-to-back with The Matrix Reloaded, the third and final installment of Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski's sci-fi action saga picks up where the second film left off. Neo (Keanu Reeves) remains unconscious in the real world, caught in a mysterious subway station that lies between the Read More

The Matrix Reloaded

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Jada Pinkett Smith

Synopsis: After creating an international sensation with the visually dazzling and intellectually challenging sci-fi blockbuster The Matrix, the Wachowski brothers returned with the first of two projected sequels that pick up where the first film left off. Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) Read More

Frasier: Rdwrer

Synopsis: The Crane boys -- Frasier (Kelsey Grammer), Niles (David Hyde Pierce), and Martin (John Mahoney) -- prepare to set out from Frasier's apartment to attend a New Year's Party. Several hours pass, but the Cranes have still not arrived at the party, having been stymied by all manner of silly delays Read More

True Crime

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, Denis Leary, Lisa Gay Hamilton, James Woods

Synopsis: Investigative reporter Steve Everett (Clint Eastwood) has just relocated to the west coast after getting fired from the New York Times. Thanks to his old friend, Alan Mann (James Woods), the editor-in-chief of The Oakland Tribune, Everett still has a job, but that's hardly the end of his Read More

Star Trek: Insurrection

Actors: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Synopsis: Star Trek: Insurrection manages to recall the original 1960s series' spirit of liberalism, while transcending it for sheer boldness, embracing issues that are on the political cutting edge in the 1990s and beyond. The fact that the first 30 minutes are presented as a mystery only makes the Read More

Asteroid

Actors: Michael Biehn, Annabella Sciorra

Synopsis: Michael Biehn and Annabella Sciorra star in this drama about how the lives of a group of people in Dallas, TX -- doctors, firefighters, astronomers, and their families -- are affected when it is discovered that a huge asteroid is heading for the earth, with Dallas as the target. First aired as a Read More

Touch

Actors: Bridget Fonda, Christopher Walken, Skeet Ulrich, Tom Arnold, Gina Gershon

Synopsis: This film is the product of an unlikely pairing between novelist Elmore Leonard and maverick screenwriter-director Paul Schrader. Leonard usually writes Detroit-based crime novels; this time, Schrader transports one of Leonard's quirkier, non-crime books to an L.A. scene. Christopher Walken plays Read More

Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Charles S. Dutton, Susan Ruttan, Joe Morton, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: In this fifth TV movie based on the character of incorruptible Chicago detective Jack Reed, Brian Dennehy once again wears two hats as both star and director. A multiple murder has occurred in a suburban cemetery in broad daylight. Most of the victims are Russian immigrants, whose friends and Read More

Walker, Texas Ranger: Break In

Synopsis: In this episode of the Chuck Norris western series Walker, Texas Ranger, Cord Walker (Norris) attempts to provide conclusive evidence that an incarcerated racketeer, Joey Galloway (Anthony Zerbe), arranged the murder of two Rangers and a witness. He does so by assuming the guise of a prison Read More

Tales From the Crypt: Revenge is the Nuts

Synopsis: In this episode of HBO's popular Tales from the Crypt horror anthology series, a wicked man who runs a home for the blind (and abuses its residents) gets a taste of his own medicine from two scheming denizens. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder of the Month Club

Synopsis: As part of a promotional book tour, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) agrees to appear in a TV informercial. Also appearing is Matt Matthews (Anthony Zerbe), a once-popular author laid low by alcoholism. It turns out that Matthews--who of course is an old friend of Jessica's--is acquainted with a member Read More

To Save a Child

Synopsis: A newlywed's infant meets a fate worse than death in this horror movie. She believes the child has died, but then she learns the awful truth--her husband and his coven of witches are using the infant in their terrifying rituals. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Young Riders: Season 03

Actors: Anthony Zerbe, Ty Miller, Stephen Baldwin, Josh Brolin, Gregg Rainwater

Synopsis: Leathery old stationmaster Teaspoon Hunter moves his Pony Express way-station from Sweetwater, Wyoming to the larger, more urbanized community of Rock Creek, Nebraska, as The Young Riders begins its third and final season. Now a US marshal, Teaspoon has left the care and maintenance of his station Read More

The Young Riders: Season 02

Actors: Anthony Zerbe, Ty Miller, Stephen Baldwin, Josh Brolin, Travis Fine

Synopsis: Season Two of The Young Riders finds a few changes of personnel around and about the Pony Express station run by crusty old Teaspoon Hunter (Anthony Zerbe in pre-Civil War Sweetwater, Wyoming. Youthful riders The Kid (Ty Miller, Billy Cody (Stephen Baldwin, Jimmy Hickok (Josh Brolin, Ike McSawain Read More

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Actors: Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Joan Severance, Kevin Spacey, Kirsten Childs, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: The third pairing of comic actors Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder was much less successful than their previous team-ups, Silver Streak(1976) and Stir Crazy (1980). Wilder plays Dave, the deaf proprietor of a newsstand and employer of blind gambler Wally (Pryor). When Wally's bookie is shot and Read More

Listen to Me

Actors: Kirk Cameron, Jami Gertz, Amanda Peterson, Tim Quill

Synopsis: A college debate team heads to Washington to argue the abortion issue in front of the Supreme Court. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Columbo: Columbo Goes to the Guillotine

Synopsis: After an absence of nearly a decade, Peter Falk returns to the role of dishevelled detective Columbo in Columbo Goes to the Guillotine. The special guest murderer this time out is professional psychic Anthony Andrews. The victim is magician Anthony Zerbe, a onetime cellmate of Andrews' who had Read More

The Young Riders: Season 01

Actors: Anthony Zerbe, Ty Miller, Stephen Baldwin, Josh Brolin, Travis Fine

Synopsis: Season One of The Young Riders begins in 1860, as a rambunctious teenaged hothead known only as The Kid (Ty Miller) signs on as a rider for the Central Overland Express mail service in Sweetwater, Wyoming. This particular branch of the service is overseen by stationmaster Teaspoon Hunter (Anthony Read More

Licence to Kill

Actors: Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Talisa Soto, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Timothy Dalton is better in Licence to Kill than in his first James Bond endeavor (The Living Daylights), but he still seems uncomfortable on the right side of the law. This time around, Bond is working on his own rather than on behalf of the British Secret Service. His American friend Felix Read More

Onassis

Synopsis: Part One of this four-hour TV movie adaptation of Peter Evans' biography suggested that Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis spent every waking hour commiserating in bed with lovers of all sexes. Part Two of Onassis: The Richest Man in the World hunkers down to the Main Event: The showdown Read More

Steel Dawn

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Lisa Niemi, Christopher Neame, Brion James, John Fujioka

Synopsis: This futuristic drama offers the classic story of Shane seved up with a few Mad Max moments and some interesting twists. The tale is set in the smouldering, decimated post-World War III town of Meridian, where locals scrabble to keep their meager farms watered in the midst of a desert wasteland. Read More

P.I. Private Investigations

Synopsis: When newspaper editor Charles Bradley (Anthony Zerbe) makes a call uncovering corrupt Los Angeles cops selling drugs, his phone is tapped and his architect son Joey (Clayton Rohner) is endangered. A detective is killed in Joey's apartment and detective Ryan (Ray Sharkey) is assigned to protect Read More

The Equalizer: Memories of Manon

Synopsis: Every so often, the popular TV adventure series The Equalizer expanded from one hour to two. One such "extended" episode was the 1988 installment "Memories of Manon". Edward Woodward stars as Robert McCall, ex-spy turned do-gooder who is known to friend and foe alike as "The Equalizer" because of Read More

Independence

Synopsis: In this western, a sheriff finds himself faced with the most unpleasant type of deja vu when the gang that murdered his first wife and family rides up to threaten his second. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Baja Oklahoma

Actors: Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Coyote, Swoosie Kurtz, Billy Vera, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Based on a 1983 novel by Dan Jenkins, Baja Oklahoma is set sometime in the 1950s. Texas barmaid Lesley Ann Warren wants more than anything to be a rich and famous country-western songwriter. Unfortunately, she spends most of her time sorting out her many dead-end romances. Just when she thinks Read More

Opposing Force

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Lisa Eichhorn, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Roundtree, Robert Wightman

Synopsis: US air force lieutenant Lisa Echhorn is determined to prove her mettle by taking a grueling escape-and-evasion course. Along with several other trainees, Echhorn is parachuted to a remote island where she is to be tracked down by the "enemy". Reluctantly teamed with major Tom Skerritt, who has Read More

Off Beat

Actors: Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, Harvey Keitel, Cleavant Derricks, Joe Mantegna, Jacques D'Amboise

Synopsis: In this charming comedy that lives up to its title, Judge Reinhold stars as Joe Gower, a librarian's assistant posing as a police officer and trying to win the heart of a beautiful police officer, Rachel Wareham (Meg Tilly). A complex chain of events is put in place when Joe agrees to help out a Read More

Dream West

Synopsis: A sprawling adaptation of the same-named novel by David Nevin, the three-part CBS miniseries Dream West starred Richard Chamberlain as colorful, controversial American explorer John Charles Fremont (1813-1890). The story detailed the visionary (and occasionally mercenary) Fremont's lifelong war Read More

One Police Plaza

Actors: Robert Conrad

Synopsis: Robert Conrad stars in One Police Plaza as a New York homicide detective. A case on which he's working, involving the murder of a beautiful woman, is ordered closed by Conrad's superiors. Refusing to give up, the detective probes deeper, and unearths a hotbed of crooked cops, dirty "brass" and Read More

North and South, Book II

Actors: Kirstie Alley

Synopsis: This six-part, 12-hour miniseries was a sequel to the 1985 "mini" North and South, and like its predecessor it was based on a novel by John Jakes (Love and War). In the tradition of The Birth of a Nation (but without the negative racist content), North and South, Book II followed the fortunes of Read More

A.D.

Actors: Anthony Andrews, Colleen Dewhurst, Ava Gardner, David Hedison, John Houseman

Synopsis: Filmed in Tunisia on a budget of 30 million dollars, the five-part, 12-hour miniseries A.D. was the final installment in a historical trilogy which included Moses the Lawgiver and Jesus of Nazareth. Covering the years 30 to 69 A.D., the teleplay, co-written by Anthony Burgess, chronicled the Read More

The Dead Zone

Actors: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Christopher Walken plays a schoolteacher, Johnny Smith, who awakens from a five-year coma. He discovers that he has acquired the ability to foretell a person's future simply by touching his or her hand. After seeing several examples, Smith's doctor (Herbert Lom) becomes convinced that Smith can Read More

Soggy Bottom USA

Synopsis: Set during Prohibition in a tiny Southern town filled with colorful characters, this all-star comedy follows the exploits of a hard-working sheriff who tries his darnedest to keep things peaceful and above board. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Synopsis: Fifteen years after the cancellation of the tongue-in-cheek spy series The Man From U.N.C.L.E., stars Robert Vaughn and David McCallum were reunited in this made-for-TV movie. It all begins when Janus (Geoffrey Lewis), a former agent for the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement (aka Read More

Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

Synopsis: Inasmuch as Mark Twain thoughtlessly neglected to mention all the "secret adventures" of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in his own books on these colorful characters, this CBS TV movie performed a public service by taking up the slack. According to Rascals and Robbers, Hannibal's own Tom (Patrick Read More

A Question of Honor

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: The made-for-TV A Question of Honor was based on Point Blank, a novel by former cop Sonny Grosso and Philip Rosenberg. Ben Gazzara plays Joe DeFalco, a 15-year veteran of the NYPD who'd like to end his career in a blaze of glory. This leads him to act upon a tip intended for another officer, which Read More

Attica

Actors: George Grizzard

Synopsis: Attica is a probing, no-nonsense TV-movie re-creation of the tragic events which followed the Attica (New York) Correctional Facility rebellion of September 9, 1971. Inmates demanding better food and living conditions used jerry-built weapons to take 38 guards as hostage. Negotiations begin Read More

The Seduction of Miss Leona

Synopsis: In this romantic drama, a misanthropic college teacher with a love of solitude ends up falling in love with her married handy man. Though they are in love and want to marry, his wife refuses to divorce him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The First Deadly Sin

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, Brenda Vaccaro, James Whitmore, George Coe, David Dukes, Joe Spinell

Synopsis: The First Deadly Sin was Frank Sinatra's final starring movie vehicle. Based on a novel by Lawrence Sanders, it casts Sinatra as Edward Delaney, a big-city detective on the verge of retirement. Beset with profound personal problems--including a gravely ill wife (Faye Dunaway)--Delaney nonetheless Read More

The Chisholms

Synopsis: The Chisholms was a three-part miniseries adapted by Evan Hunter from his own novel. Covering the years 1842 through 1844, the dramatization follows the westward trek of the Chisholm family. Patriarch Robert Preston is driven from his midwestern homestead by a feud. Starting down the Ohio river, Preston Read More

Who'll Stop the Rain?

Actors: Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Masur

Synopsis: Thoroughly disillusioned by the Vietnam War, John, a journalist (Michael Moriarty), turns to heroin smuggling. Acting as John's go-between is the equally burnt-out Ray (Nick Nolte), who delivers the narcotics stateside to the journalist's wife, Marge (Tuesday Weld). Soon, however, Ray and Marge Read More

The Rockford Files: The Gang at Don's Drive-In

Synopsis: Having published absolutely nothing since his bestseller "Freefall to Destiny", hard-drinking writer Jack Skowran (Anthony Zerbe) pins his future career hopes on his next book, which he claims will be a "Where Are They Now?" tome about a group of high schoolers who used to hang around the same Read More

Centennial

Actors: William Atherton, Raymond Burr, Richard Chamberlain, Timothy Dalton, Alex Karras, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: The longest (26-1/2 hours), most expensive ($25 million) and most complicated (four directors, five producers, five cinematographers, almost 100 speaking parts, several hundred extras) project made for television up to that time, Centennial was shown in two- and three-hour installments over a Read More

KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park

Actors: Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley

Synopsis: This made-for-television film, an unusual collaboration between hard rock group Kiss and children's television kings Hanna Barbera, became one of NBC's highest-rated programs of 1978. The plot, reminiscent of the average episode of Scooby-Doo, begins with crazed inventor Abner Devereaux (Anthony Zerbe Read More

Child of Glass

Synopsis: Based upon a novel by Richard Peck, Child of Glass was updated to the present when it was created for Disney's TV series in 1978. Alexander Armsworth and his family move into a spooky old Dixie mansion that was once the home of a notorious river pirate. Before long, Alexander catches sight of a Read More

The Turning Point

Actors: Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: One of a cycle of '70s post-Women's Liberation "women's pictures," Herbert Ross's drama uses the ballet world to examine the conflict between family and career. Former dance colleagues Deedee (Shirley MacLaine) and Emma (Anne Bancroft) are reunited when Emma's New York ballet company stops in Read More

A Woman Accused

Actors: Chad Everett, Barbara Hershey, Howard Duff, Anthony Zerbe, Diana Scarwid

Synopsis: In the Glitter Palace was the first made-for-TV movie in which lesbianism was a crucial plot factor. Chad Everett stars as a defense lawyer and erstwhile detective, whose gay client is Barbara Hershey. She is on trial for murdering her slimy blackmailer (played by that master of sliminess, Anthony Zerbe Read More

Secret of the Pond

Synopsis: In this ecologically conscious drama, a teen-age boy learns to respect the precious eco-system of a bayou when he goes to visit his uncle. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rooster Cogburn

Actors: John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Jordan, John McIntire

Synopsis: John Wayne returned to the role that won him an Oscar in this sequel to the western classic True Grit. Rooster Cogburn (Wayne) has once again been stripped of his badge after some questionable behavior with his gun, but he's given the chance to earn it back after an especially appalling crime Read More

Farewell, My Lovely

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles, Jack O'Halloran

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1942 as The Falcon Takes Over and in 1944 as Murder, My Sweet, Raymond Chandler's Farewell My Lovely was given its third cinematic go-round under its original title in 1975. Spouting the Chandlerish prose as if it were second nature, Robert Mitchum stars as 1940s private eye Read More

The Parallax View

Actors: Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Paula Prentiss, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: While the Watergate scandal filled the headlines, Alan J. Pakula's 1974 thriller took its inspiration from the conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination. Journalist Joe Frady (Warren Beatty) misses witnessing the assassination of a senator at Seattle's Space Needle, but his Read More

The Animal Within

Synopsis: Also known as "Up from the Apes", this is a wildlife documentary video hosted by anthropologist Robert Ardrey. Ardrey delves into the animal kingdom seeking through their behavioral patterns explanations for man's own attitudes towards killing and death. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

The Healers

Actors: Beverly Garland

Synopsis: The Healers is a soap opera-style affair starring John Forsythe as head researcher at a California medical center. Underfunded and understaffed, Forsythe tries his best to hold his humanitarian enterprise together. At home, Forsythe is plagued by a mercurial wife (Beverly Garland) and rebellious Read More

The F.B.I.: Rules of the Game

Synopsis: John Marley essays another of his patented "mob boss" characterizations in this episode as a bigwig named Tully. Unfortunately, Tully is saddled with a hotheaded son who insists upon attempting to kill a federal witness. To take the heat off themselves, the mob insists that Tully's kid turn Read More

Carola

Actors: Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer

Synopsis: Norman Lloyd directed this televised production of Jean Renoir's World War II-era play. Taking place backstage at a theatrical performance in Nazi-occupied France, Carola is a tale of passion and intrigue that involves a beautiful stage actress and her emotional and psychological struggles over a Read More

The Laughing Policeman

Actors: Dave Belrose, Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett, Jr., Albert Paulsen, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Stuart Rosenberg's taut police thriller, based on the Martin Beck novel by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahlöö, concerns a serial killer who is targeting bus riders. When a bus full of innocent commuters are killed on a San Francisco street, Jake Martin (Walter Matthau) is assigned to track down the Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Twenty-Four Karat Plague

Synopsis: Vic Morrow heads the guest cast as Vic Tolliman, leader of a gang of thieves. Hijacking a gold shipment, Tollman and his henchmen are unaware that the gold has been mixed with deadly uranium. Per the episode's title, Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) have only twenty-four hours to Read More

Papillon

Actors: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: The autobiography of Henri Charriere, one of the few people to successfully escape from the notorious French penal colony of Devil's Island, served as the basis for Papillon. Steve McQueen plays the pugnacious Charriere (known as "Papillon," or "butterfly," because of a prominent tatoo) Read More

She Lives

Actors: Season Hubley

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the made-for-TV horror film She Waits, the equally TV-bound She Lives is (to some) a horror of a different sort. Desi Arnaz Jr. is Andy Reed, a college student who falls in love with coed Pam Rainey (Season Hubley). She learns that she has a fatal illness. They stay Read More

Ironside: The Savage Sentry

Synopsis: Ironside (Raymond Burr) searches for a resourceful burglar who has figured out a method of "taming" vicious guard dogs so that he can rob stores without interference. In order to flush out the villain, Ironside adopts his own dog and sets both himself and the pooch up as bait. With the Read More

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Actors: Alfred G. Bosnos, Fred Brookfield, Karen Carr, Dolores Clark, Margo Epper, Barbara J. Longo, Lee Meza, Paul Newman, Victoria Principal, Anthony Perkins, Ned Beatty, Jacqueline Bisset, Tab Hunter, John Huston

Synopsis: Paul Newman plays the title role in John Huston's surreal, revisionist western as the infamous Texas hanging judge. Upon arriving in the tiny West Texas town of Vinegaroon, Roy Bean draws a moustache on a wanted poster of himself, marches into a saloon, and declares his presence. He is immediately Read More

Snatched

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

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Actors: Stewart Granger

Synopsis: This oft-filmed Conan Doyle story is given the TV-quickie treatment, with Stewart Granger as master sleuth Sherlock Holmes. The Great Detective is engaged to protect the life of Henry Baskerville, a young man whose life has been put in jeopardy, ostensibly by an ancient family curse. Holmes sends Read More

The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Ken Howard, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Love can take many forms and express itself in any number of ways, as this offbeat drama makes clear. While hitchhiking, Rosalie (Bonnie Bedelia), a young Native American woman, meets Virgil (Ken Howard), a blonde-haired, blue-eyed dreamboat, and she soon becomes infatuated with him. She talks him Read More

Ironside: The Priest-Killer

Synopsis: First telecast September 14, 1971, "The Priest Killer" was originally identified as the two-hour opening episode of Ironside's fifth season. In truth, it is the second pilot film for the TV cop series Sarge, starring George Kennedy as cop-turned-priest Father Samuel "Sarge" Kavanaugh. Though based Read More

The Omega Man

Actors: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Paul Koslo, Lincoln Kilpatrick

Synopsis: This second film adaptation of Richard Matheson's science-fiction novel I Am Legend (the first version being The Last Man on Earth with Vincent Price) unfolds in a post-apocalyptic 1976. Charlton Heston is Robert Neville, the sole recipient of a serum that enabled him to survive an onslaught of Read More

The Priest Killer

Actors: George Kennedy

Synopsis: The Priest Killer was the second TV pilot film starring George Kennedy as Sarge, a cop-turned-priest-turned-amateur-cop (the first was The Badge or the Cross). This second effort served as the first 2-hour episode of the Sarge series proper on September 14, 1971. The case at hand: an unknown Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Connection

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: In still another virtuoso Mission:Impossible guest appearance, Anthony Zerbe is cast as heroin supplier Reese Dolan. It is up to the IMF to locate Dolan's source of raw opium, and to put him out of business permanently. Step Number One: The IMF agents must convert a tiny speck of land off the Read More

The Sheriff

Actors: Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee

Synopsis: The made-for-TV The Sheriff borrows a bit from the premise of the theatrical feature film Tick Tick Tick (71). Ossie Davis plays an African-American county sheriff, stationed in a small California mountain village; his wife is played by Davis' real-life spouse Ruby Dee. Kaz Garas portrays the Read More

The Molly Maguires

Actors: Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar, Frank Finlay, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: This grim historical drama from director Martin Ritt was loosely based on real-life events. Richard Harris stars as James McParlan, an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1876. The Pinkertons have been hired by a major coal company to infiltrate and expose an underground terrorist Read More

The Liberation of L.B. Jones

Actors: Lee J. Cobb, Anthony Zerbe, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lola Falana, Lee Majors

Synopsis: Justice runs red in the deep South in this powerful drama. Steve Mundine (Lee Majors) is a young lawyer who, shortly after marrying his sweetheart Nella (Barbara Hershey), takes a position with a law firm in a small Southern town, run by his uncle Oman Hedgepath (Lee J. Cobb). L.B. Jones (Roscoe Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Amateur

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The "amateur" in this Mission:Impossible adventure is greedy Iron Curtain nightclub owner Eric Schilling (Anthony Zerbe). Having come into possession of one of the pieces of a new secret weapon, Eric endangers the IMF's effort to smuggle the weapon--and resistance leader Father Bernard (Peter Read More

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Barbara McNair, Juano Hernandez, Anthony Zerbe, George Spell

Synopsis: Sidney Poitier reprises his role as Virgil Tibbs in this crime drama, a story unrelated to that of the earlier film In the Heat of the Night. Once again, he is a veteran homicide detective and is currently investigating the murder of a prostitute. The primary suspect is San Francisco political Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Amnesiac

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: A rare radioactive isotope known as Trivanium is the prize in this tense Mission:Impossible episode. With only 48 hours at their disposal, the IMF must recover the isotope before it can be applied to the manufacture of nuclear weaponry. Paris poses as Stefan, the amnesiac former partner of Johan Read More

Mission: Impossible: Live Bait

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Kellerman (Anthony Zerbe), chief of security in an Iron Curtain country, suspects that defector Orin Selby (John Crawford) is actually a double agent for the Americans. Having captured the only person who knows Selby's true identity, Kellerman holds the man in a booby-trapped cell in a state of Read More

Bonanza: A Ride in the Sun

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Robert Hogan, Marj Dusay

Synopsis: Passing themselves off as wealthy business owners, brother-and-sister swindlers Tobias and April Horn (Robert Hogan, Marj Dusay) hoodwink the Cartwrights into helping them rob the Virginia City bank. Humiliated at being taken in by the siblings, and angry that his father was wounded in the Read More

Will Penny

Actors: Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence, Lee Majors, Bruce Dern

Synopsis: Rambling along at its own measured pace, Will Penny is a vivid western character study, completely dominated by the rapport between stars (Charlton Heston) and (Joan Hackett). Heston plays Will Penny, an aging and impoverished cowboy. With his cohorts Blue (Lee Majors) and Dutchy (Anthony Zerbe) Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Photographer

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Anthony Zerbe guest-stars as David Redding, a high-profile fashion photographer--and treacherous double agent. In league with 150 fellow spies, Redding intends to destroy the U.S. with a deadly bubonic plague epidemic. With only 72 hours at their disposal, the IMF agents must stop Redding and his Read More

Cool Hand Luke

Actors: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Lou Antonio, Robert Drivas, Strother Martin

Synopsis: Paul Newman was nominated for an Oscar and George Kennedy received one for his work in this allegorical prison drama. Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is sentenced to a stretch on a southern chain gang after he's arrested for drunkenly decapitating parking meters. While the avowed ambition of the Read More