Arthur PetersonFilmography

Soap: Season 04

Actors: Robert Mandan, Katherine Helmond, Jennifer Salt, Jimmy Baio, Arthur Peterson

Synopsis: The death of Jessica Tate (Katherine Helmond) was the big shocker at the end of Soap's third season. So imagine everyone's surprise when, as the series launched season four, Jessica was brought back to life -- following a brief stopover in Heaven to commiserate with all her ex-lovers! In another Read More

Soap: Season 03

Actors: Robert Mandan, Katherine Helmond, Diana Canova, Jennifer Salt, Jimmy Baio

Synopsis: When Soap arrived at its cliffhanging season-two finale, Jessica Tate (Katherine Helmond) was trying to choose between her husband Chester (Robert Mandan) and a detective named Donahue; Jessica's son Billy (Jimmy Baio) was in the clutches of a religious cult called the "Sunnies"; and Jodie's Read More

Soap: Season 02

Synopsis: The cliffhanger that brought season one of Soap to a climax is resolved in season two when Jessica Tate (Katherine Helmond) is cleared of the murder of her lover (and step-nephew!) Peter Campbell. Jessica's husband, Chester (Robert Mandan), confesses to the crime whereupon he is convicted and sent Read More

Rollercoaster

Actors: George Segal, Richard Widmark, Timothy Bottoms, Henry Fonda, Harry Guardino

Synopsis: Rollercoaster was a by-product of the brief "Sensurround" craze of the 1970s. Nutsoid Timothy Bottoms sabotages an amusement-park roller coaster, killing several innocent revelers. After several other acts of terrorism, Bottoms (whose character is credited as Young Man) presents his demands to the Read More

Soap: Season 01

Synopsis: The endless intrigues (sexual and otherwise) involving the Campbells and the Tates are already up and running as the satirical sitcom Soap launches its first season. By the time episode one has faded from view, the audience is aware that blowhard businessman Chester Tate (Robert Mandan) is Read More

Adam-12: Training Division: The Rookie

Synopsis: Arrogant rookie cop George Barrett (John Elerick) has trouble following orders during his probation period--and Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord), Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Ed Wells (Gary Crosby) bear the brunt of his insubordination. Messing up a variety of cases and forever jumping to the Read More

Bonanza: The 26th Grave

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Mitch Vogel, Ken Howard

Synopsis: Humorist Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, makes his third Bonanza appearance, this time in the person of actor Ken Howard (fresh from his Broadway and Hollywood triumph in the musical 1776). As editor of the Virginia City Enterprise, Clemens is determined to prove that a government assayer is Read More

The Waltons: The Carnival

Synopsis: Olivia (Michael Learned) strongly disapproves when husband John (Ralph Waite) invites four travelling carnival performers (one of them played by legendary "little person" Billy Barty) to stay with the Walton family. The quartet of "carnies" had found themselves stranded after their manager skipped Read More

The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid

Actors: Bill Callaway, Cliff Robertson, Robert Duvall, Luke Askew, R.G. Armstrong, Dana Elcar

Synopsis: The oft-told story of the rise and fall of the James Younger gang is given the Dragnet treatment in The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid. With meticulous attention to detail, the film recreates the outlaw gang's most infamous escapade: the September 7, 1876, robbery of "the biggest bank west of Read More

The Adventures of Nick Carter

Actors: Robert Conrad, Shelley Winters, Broderick Crawford, Neville Brand, Pernell Roberts

Synopsis: Created for the "dime novels" in 1886, scientific detective Nick Carter has been transferred to film and radio several times in the past six decades, though most of these projects have tended to update his adventures. 1972's made-for-TV Adventures of Nick Carter restores the "turn of the century" Read More

Bonanza: Long Way to Ogden

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Walter Barnes

Synopsis: Ben and his fellow cattlemen find themselves at the mercy of Chicago meat packer Emmett J. Whitney (Walter Barnes). Having purchased the rights to all railroad cattle cars, the greedy Whitney refuses to allow anyone to use those cars unless they allow him to purchase their stock at the Read More

Bonanza: The Luck of Pepper Shannon

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Neville Brand

Synopsis: Neville Brand guest-stars as Pepper Shannon, a stage robber whose career has been blown up to "heroic" proportions by the dime-novel brigade. Unfortunately, Ben Cartwright's adopted son Jamie idolizes Shannon, who has allowed Jamie to "capture" him to avoid being shot by his enemies. It is only Read More

Green Acres: The Beeping Rock

Actors: Johnny Whitaker, Frank Ferguson, Jerome Cowan, Arthur Peterson

Synopsis: This episode was filmed not long after astronaut Neil Armstrong's fabled "moon walk" in the summer of 1969. Gullible Lisa (Eva Gabor) is convinced when child inventor Dinky Watson (Johnny Whitaker) insists that he, too, has been to the moon. Purchasing a "moon rock" from Dinky, Lisa receives a Read More

Mission: Impossible: Doomsday

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

Synopsis: European business tycoon Carl Vandaam (Alf Kjellin) hopes to recoup his lost fortune by building a hydrogen bomb and selling it to the highest bidder. The IMF's mission is to stop Vandaam in his tracks, a strategy that requires Rollin to pose as one of the potential buyers. The more dangerous Read More

Bonanza: The Clarion

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Phyllis Thaxter, Simon Oakland

Synopsis: Phyllis Thaxter guest-stars as widowed newspaper publisher Ruth Manning, yet another old friend of Ben Cartwright. Ben comes to Ruth's assistance when her newspaper is targeted for extinction by ruthless town boss Judge Seth Tabor (Simon Oakland). Featured in the cast are William Jordan as Leek Read More

The Young Animals

Actors: Tom Nardini, Patty McCormack, David Macklin, Joanna Frank, Zooey Hall

Synopsis: A small Arizona town is plagued by violence created from the tension between Anglo and Mexican-American youths. Tony (Tom Nardini) is the idealistic new kid in school who tries to alleviate long-time tensions between the rival factions. The Mexican gang is led by Paco (Zooey Hall), a hot-tempered Read More

Targets

Actors: Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly, Nancy Hsueh, James Brown, Sandy Baron

Synopsis: Together with Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and John Singleton's Boyz 'n the Hood, director Peter Bogdanovich's Targets is among the most impressive first features ever made. When Bogdanovich's cinematic mentor Roger Corman suggested that Bogdanovich might want to make his directorial debut, he Read More

Yours, Mine and Ours

Actors: Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson, Tom Bosley, Louise Troy

Synopsis: This story is taken from the real-life marriage of two people in the early 1960s. Helen North (Lucille Ball) is a widow with eight children who falls in love with Naval officer Frank Beardsley (Henry Fonda), a widower with ten children of his own. The two marry as comedy ensues from the sheer Read More

Bonanza: In Defense of Honor

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Lou Antonio, Arnold Moss

Synopsis: Ben's longtime unofficial ward Davy (Lou Antonio), a Ute Indian, tries to rejoin the tribe that had exiled him years earlier. Davey's re-entry into the culture of his ancestors is complicated when he falls in love with Bright Moon (Cherie Latimer), the daughter of Chief Lone Spear (Arnold Moss) Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: My Master, the Great Caruso

Synopsis: Jeannie (Barbara Eden) uses her magic to give Tony (Larry Hagman) the singing voice of the immortal Enrico Caruso. Upon hearing Tony sing, General Peterson (Barton MacLane) enters him in a NASA talent show. Unfortunately, just before this happens, Tony has ordered Jeannie to "remove" Caruso's Read More

Bewitched: Soapbox Derby

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: This installment of Bewitched is one of several 1960s sitcom episodes tied in with the annual Soapbox Derby in Akron, OH. Hoping to show up Gladys Kravitz's obnoxious nephew, Flash (Peter Dunhill), Samantha offers a helping hand to young soapbox racer Johnny Mills (Michael Shea). In so doing, she Read More

My Favorite Martian: Stop or I'll Steam

Synopsis: Martin (Ray Walston) gets mighty jealous when he sees Detective Brennan (Alan Hewitt) dallying with Mrs. Brown (Pamela Britton). To relieve the aggravation, Martin forces clouds of steam to spew out of his ears. When this "habit" causes him to dangerously dehydrate, Martin must repair the damage Read More

Gilligan's Island: Smile, You're on Mars Camera

Actors: Booth Colman, Larry Thor, Arthur Peterson

Synopsis: NASA sends a camera-equipped space probe to mars, but the rocket misses its target a by a couple million miles and lands on Gilligan's island. Naturally, the Castaways hope to use the camera to alert the authorities as to their location, but unfortunately the apparatus is damaged. By the time the Read More

Branded: The Rules of the Game

Synopsis: Disgraced Army officer Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) crosses the path of another outcast in the form of saloon girl-turned-dressmaker Elsie Brown (Jeanne Cooper). Inasmuch as Elsie once saved her life, Jason comes to the town of McKinley to return the favor. His visit coincides with that of a Read More

Invitation to a Gunfighter

Actors: Yul Brynner, Janice Rule, Brad Dexter, Alfred Ryder, Mike Kellin

Synopsis: Matt Weaver (George Segal) returns home after fighting for the South in the Civil War to his home in the New Mexico territory. He discovers that in his absence his ancestral house and land have been sold by Sam Brewster (Pat Hingle), an unscrupulous land developer. Matt tries to kill Sam, but when Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Badgered Brother

Synopsis: When Todd Baylor (Robert Harland) inherits an equal partnership in his family's successful chain of clothing stores, his brother Martin (Peter Walker) is outraged. It seems that Martin wants the whole business to himself, and he is determined to force Todd out of the picture. In the end, however Read More

The Untouchables: Double Cross

Synopsis: Ubiquitous Untouchables guest star Nehemiah Persoff makes his final appearance as criminal mastermind Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik. Determined to drive Guzik out of the bootlegging business, Elliot Ness secretly begins supplying Jake's rivals with illegal booze. Ness hopes this heightened competition Read More

Bonanza: Blessed Are They

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Robert Brown

Synopsis: The townsfolk of Virginia City find their loyalties divided right down the middle during the raging feud between the Mahans and the Clarkes. It is up to Ben Cartwright to negotiate a cease-fire, and also to decide which family will get custody of twin grandchildren. Helping Ben weather this crisis Read More

Return to Peyton Place

Actors: Carol Lynley, Jeff Chandler, Eleanor Parker, Mary Astor, Tuesday Weld, Robert Sterling

Synopsis: If anything, this star-studded sequel is even sillier than the original, adding to its problems by completely recasting all the roles, combining several of them into existing characters. Carol Lynley is the heroine this time, and she leaves Peyton Place for New York to write a book about the Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Fever

Actors: Everett Sloane, Vivi Janiss, Art Lewis, William Kendis, Lee Sands

Synopsis: Everett Sloane, who previously starred in Rod Serling's award-winning TV play Patterns, was reunited with Serling for this January 29, 1960, Twilight Zone installment. Having won an all-expense-paid trip to Las Vegas, parsimonious Franklin Gibbs (Everett Sloane) refuses to enter into the spirit of Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Irate Inventor

Synopsis: Inventor James Frazer (Tom Coley) has reason aplenty to hate his wife Thelma (Ce Ce Whitney). Not only is she cheating on him, but she has also stolen the plans of his latest invention. Rather than retaliate, Frazer leaves town for three months to cool off. During his absence, Thelma discovers Read More

Call Northside 777

Actors: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker, Betty Garde, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: In this documentary-inspired thriller, P.J. McNeal (James Stewart) is a reporter who is asked by his editor to look into a potential story: their newspaper has been carrying an ad offering a substantial reward for information regarding the murder of a policeman that occurred eleven years ago. It Read More