Bill BixbyFilmography

Diagnosis of Murder

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Mariette Hartley, Ken Kercheval, Bill Bixby, Stephen Caffrey

Synopsis: In a 1991 episode of Jake and the Fatman, Dick Van Dyke guest-starred as Dr. Mark Sloan, who couldn't seem to keep his nose out of a murder investigation. Diagnosis of Murder is the two-hour TV-movie spin-off of that episode. This time, Dr. Sloan tags along with his police-sergeant son (Barry Van Dyke Read More

The E Files: The Real Story Behind the Event that Shocked the World

Actors: Bill Bixby

Synopsis: No one would argue that Elvis Presley led a remarkable life, but after his death a number of events and incidents have led fans to wonder if there was more going on with Elvis than we ever imagined during his lifetime. The E Files: The Real Story Behind the Event that Shocked the World examines Read More

Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind

Crew: Director

Actors: Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Rip Torn, Joan Severance, Shelby Lynne

Synopsis: The original made-for-TV Pair of Aces starred Kris Kristofferson as a Texas Ranger who, while searching for a serial killer, is aided and abetted by introspective safecracker Willie Nelson. The Kristofferson-Nelson combo proved so unbeatable in the ratings that a sequel was immediately Read More

Baby of the Bride

Crew: Director

Actors: Rue McClanahan, Kristy McNichol

Synopsis: This made-for-TV domestic drama is a follow-up to 1990's Children of the Bride. Rue McClanahan plays a 53-year-old newlywed, the wife of much-younger Ted Shackelford (replacing the earlier film's Patrick Duffy) It's bad enough when McClanahan unexpectedly becomes pregnant. It gets worse when the Read More

The Death of the Incredible Hulk

Crew: Director

Actors: Bill Bixby

Synopsis: Originally made for television, the story concerns David Banner (Bill Bixby), thought to be dead but actually working as a janitor at a laboratory. There, he hopes to cure himself of the monster lurking inside. However, a group of terrorists are interested in the awesome power of the Hulk. ~ John Read More

The Trial of the Incredible Hulk

Crew: Director

Actors: Lou Ferrigno, Rex Smith, Bill Bixby

Synopsis: Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno return to their mutual TV role in The Trial of the Incredible Hulk. Bixby is Dr. David Banner, who, after being pelted by gamma rays, occasionally turns into the green, gruesome, uncontrollable Hulk (Lou Ferrigno). This time, Banner/Hulk cross swords with an evil Read More

The Incredible Hulk Returns

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, Jack Colvin, Eric Allan Kramer, Steve Levitt, Tim Thomerson

Synopsis: Bill Bixby stars as physicist Dr. David Banner, the mild-mannered alter ego of the raging green mutant The Hulk (Lou Ferrigno), in this made-for-TV film based on the 1978 series (which was inspired by the Marvel Comics characters). In this outing, Dr. Banner teams with Thor, the Norse god of Read More

Sin of Innocence

Actors: Megan Follows, Bill Bixby

Synopsis: While we're tempted to label the TV-movie Sin of Innocence as Brady Bunch: The Lost Episode, the film transcends all kidding with its intelligent, tasteful approach to its story material. Dermot Mulroney plays a teenager whose widowed father (Bill Bixby) marries a divorcee (Dee Wallace Read More

International Airport

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

Goodnight, Beantown [TV Series]

The Incredible Hulk: Season 05

Actors: Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, Jack Colvin

Murder Is Easy

Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Helen Hayes, Bill Bixby

Synopsis: Murder Is Easy is one of a multitude of 1980s TV movies based on the novels of Agatha Christie. Bill Bixby stars as an American investor, vacationing in England. While on a train, Bixby strikes up a conversation with the seemingly dotty Helen Hayes, who insists she's en route to Scotland Yard with Read More

The Incredible Hulk: Season 04

Actors: Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, Jack Colvin

The Incredible Hulk: Season 03

Actors: Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, Jack Colvin

Three on a Date

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this comedy, four couples go on a dating game show and end up winning a fabulous Hawaiian vacation. Unfortunately, they are accompanied by a stern chaperone. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Incredible Hulk: Season 02

Actors: Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, Jack Colvin

The Incredible Hulk: Season 01

Actors: Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, Jack Colvin

Bride of the Incredible Hulk

Fantasy Island

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

Charlie's Angels: Dirty Business

Crew: Director

Actors: Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, David F. Doyle, Warren Berlinger

Synopsis: The mother of young film producer Marvin Goldman (Warren Berlinger) wants to know who set fire to her darling boy's office. Investigating, the Angels discover something that Mrs. Goldman (Eda Reiss Merin) is blissfully unaware of: It seems that the "respectable" Marvin has been moonlighting as a Read More

The Return of the Incredible Hulk

Synopsis: In this fantasy, based on the popular comic book hero, mild-mannered scientist David Banner is dismayed to discover that his new boss has been drugging her crippled stepdaughter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Black Market Baby

Actors: Linda Purl, Desi Arnaz, Jr., Jessica Walter, David F. Doyle, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: Elizabeth Christman's novel A Nice Italian Girl was the source for the TV-movie Black Market Baby. Desi Arnaz Jr. plays a slick lothario who is paid by an illicit adoption agency to impregnate impressionable college student Linda Purl. The racketeers stand to make $50,000 by selling the baby to an Read More

The Incredible Hulk

Actors: Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno

Synopsis: The Incredible Hulk, the live-action TV series based on the popular Marvel Comics character, was preceded by a 2-hour TV-movie pilot. Bill Bixby stars as Dr. David Banner (Bruce Banner in the original comic books), a scientist whose experimentation with gamma rays has a most dramatic effect. Read More

The Kentucky Fried Movie

Actors: Donald Sutherland, George Lazenby, Henry Gibson, Bill Bixby, Tony Dow

Synopsis: Comedy writers David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams of Airplane and The Naked Gun fame got their start at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, when they formed a theatrical group known as The Kentucky Fried Theater. The Kentucky Fried Movie is based on the KFT's gag-filled theatrical skits. Read More

The Great Houdinis

Actors: Paul Michael Glaser, Sally Struthers, Vivian Vance, Ruth Gordon

Synopsis: Made for television, The Great Houdinis tells the life story of famed American illusionist/escape-artist Harry Houdini and his wife Bess. Studiously avoiding covering the same ground as the 1953 Houdini theatrical-film biopic, director Mel Shavelson's script for Great Houdinis spends a great deal Read More

Spencer's Pilots

Synopsis: In this aerial adventure, courageous charter pilots who specialize in dangerous tasks are assigned to perform daring stunts during an air show in Arizona. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Invasion of Johnson County

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Invasion of Johnson County is based on a dark chapter in the history of Wyoming. As settlers pour in, a cartel of Wyoming cattle barons raise a private army to wipe the "interlopers" off the face of the Earth. Bostonian Bill Bixby teams with good ol' boy Bo Hopkins in warding off Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Police Buff

Synopsis: Bill Bixby earned an Emmy nomination for his chilling yet pathetic performance as Eric Doyle, a mild-mannered loser who is fascinated by police procedure. Rejected when he tries to join the San Francisco police force, Doyle vows to prove his worth by turning vigilante. Donning an authentic-looking Read More

Rich Man, Poor Man

Actors: Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, Susan Blakely, Steve Allen, Ed Asner, Bill Bixby

Synopsis: More ambitious and expensive than ABC's first "novel for television" miniseries QB VII, the eight-episode, 12-hour Rich Man, Poor Man was the one that truly put the genre on the map, its phenomenal success in the ratings making possible the even more spectacular Roots. Adapted from the mammoth Read More

The Apple Dumpling Gang

Actors: Bill Bixby, Susan Clark, Don Knotts, Tim Conway, David Wayne

Synopsis: The Apple Dumpling Gang stars Bill Bixby as Russell Donovan, a slick frontier gambler. In Runyon-esque fashion, he is compelled to look after three precocious oprhaned kids. He can't handle the responsibilities alone, so he agrees to an in-name-only marriage to hoydenish stagecoach driver Read More

Ironside: Raise the Devil, Part 1

Synopsis: The eighth and final season of Ironside begins with the first episode of a two-part story. Believing herself possessed by the malevolent spirit of her dead brother, college coed Susan Todd (Sian Barbara Allen) confesses to the murder of her mother. Suspecting that Susan is not telling the truth Read More

The Barbary Coast

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Ansara, Dennis Cole, Lynda Day George, William Shatner

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Barbary Coast is a tongue-in-cheek western in the Maverick tradition, produced by a former writer-director of that series, Douglas Heyes. Dennis Cole plays Cash Conover, a San Francisco saloonkeeper of the 1870s. William Shatner co-stars as Jeff Cable, an undercover policeman who Read More

Ironside: Raise the Devil, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Ironside's Season Eight opener, Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr) now knows that college coed Susan Todd (Sian Barbara Allen) was not truly responsible for the murder of her mother. The real villain of the piece is Susan's deranged psychiatrist Theodore Gallin (Bill Bixby), who Read More

Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love

Synopsis: This unsold pilot has borne a plethora of titles: Short Story, Short Stories of Love and Three Faces of Love. The "Rex Harrison" tag was added when Harrison agreed for a hefty fee to introduce the three playlets contained within the pilot's 90 minutes, each based on the works of a famous author. Read More

Stories of Love

The Streets of San Francisco: Target: Red

Synopsis: Bill Bixby guest stars as Charles Pine, a former government agent turned professional assassin. Hired by a group of fanatical right-wingers, Pine prepares to kill a Chinese diplomat visiting the U.S.--all the while keeping the woman in his life (Linda Marsh) from interfering with his sinister Read More

Steambath

Actors: Bill Bixby, Jose Perez, Valerie Perrine

Synopsis: Bruce Jay Friedman's acclaimed off-Broadway play, which offers a decidedly unusual perspective on the afterlife, is brought to the screen in this production originally created for public television. Tandy (Bill Bixby) is a New York Police Department employee who suddenly and unexpectedly finds Read More

Shirts / Skins

Synopsis: In this comedy, some clever amateur basketball players create an interesting and highly rewarding variation of the popular sport. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Magician

Synopsis: This TV movie stars Bill Bixby as a professional magician who is wrongly accused of a crime and sent to prison. Upon his release, Bixby swears to fight criminals and wrongdoers and to champion the underdog, using his prestidigitory skills to accomplish this. The film proudly states in its prologue Read More

The Couple Takes a Wife

Actors: Nanette Fabray, Robert Goulet, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: Contrary to popular belief, "B" pictures didn't die in the 1970s; they just changed their classification to "ABC Movies of the Week". First telecast December 5, 1972, The Couple Takes a Wife is a by-the-numbers screwball comedy with a spirited all-TV cast. Career-minded couple Bill Bixby and Paula Prentiss Read More

Congratulations, It's a Boy!

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

Ironside: Tom Dayton Is Loose Among Us

Synopsis: Bill Bixby sheds his "lovable sitcom hero" persona in the role of smooth-talking psychopath Tom Dayton. Seven years after killing the fiancee of Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway), Dayton is delcared to be "safe" by the authorities and is given his freedom. But Ed is convinced that Dayton's pathological Read More

Ironside: Sergeant Mike

Synopsis: The title character in the episode is a well-trained but ill-tempered Alsatian, who is the only witness to the murder of a sweet old lady. It turns out that the victim was anything but a paragon of virtue--in fact, she may well have been an accomplished con artist. What Ironside (Raymond Burr) Read More

Speedway

Actors: Elvis Presley, Nancy Sinatra, Bill Bixby, Gale Gordon, William Schallert

Synopsis: Steve Grayson (Elvis Presley) is a swinging racecar driver whose manager Kenny (Bill Bixby) has bet his money on the horses. Most of the horses didn't win, causing Steve to be visited by IRS agent Susan Jacks (Nancy Sinatra). Gale Gordon plays Hepworth, her stuffy supervisor, and William Shallert Read More

Clambake

Actors: Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Will Hutchins, Bill Bixby, James Gregory

Synopsis: Elvis Presley plays Scott Heyward, the son of a Texas oil millionaire in this thin storyline. Scott changes places with the poor but honest water-skiing instructor Tom Wilson (Will Hutchins) to find out if women love him for himself or his money. Tom goes to the posh penthouse previously occupied Read More

Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding

Actors: Sandra Dee, George Hamilton, Celeste Holm, Bill Bixby, Dick Kallman

Synopsis: In this comedy, an aspiring singer finds herself single and pregnant. The story begins when she is rushed to the hospital to give birth. She is joined by three men; all of them want to marry her. The story of her pregnancy and her rise to stardom are told in flashback. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Combat!: The Losers

Synopsis: Ordered to destroy a German bridge, Saunders (Vic Morrow) and Littlejohn (Dick Peabody) make their way to a command post in hopes of getting reinforcements. But the post has endured heavy enemy fire and the extra troops have scattered--leaving behind only four disreputable GI prisoners who were Read More

Ride Beyond Vengeance

Actors: Chuck Connors, Michael Rennie, Kathryn Hays, Joan Blondell, Gloria Grahame

Synopsis: Told via flashback by a saloon keeper to a census taker in a tiny Texas town, this brutal, adult-oriented western offers the tale of a drifter who settles down to marry a woman he doesn't love so he can get at her inheritance. When that is exposed, the drifter flees and does not return for eleven Read More

My Favorite Martian: Season 03

Actors: Bill Bixby, Ray Walston, Pamela Britton

Synopsis: The third and final season of My Favorite Martian found the series switching from black-and-white to color, and also making a few adjustments in its format. The basic premise remains the same: a misplaced martian (Ray Walston) has crash-landed on Earth and has moved in with young newspaper Read More

My Favorite Martian: Season 02

Actors: Bill Bixby, Ray Walston, Pamela Britton

Synopsis: As My Favorite Martian enters its second season, young newspaper reporter Tim O'Hara (Bill Bixby) has become quite accustomed to having a martian as his house guest. He has also come to take for granted the fact that his "Uncle Martin" (Ray Walston) has a super-genius I.Q., is able to travel Read More

Irma La Douce

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi, Bruce Yarnell, Herschel Bernardi, Sheryl Deauville

Synopsis: This romantic comedy opens with a resounding warning: its chief concerns are passion, bloodshed, desire, and death. "Everything," exclaims the narrator, "that makes life worth living." Irma La Douce (Shirley MacClaine) is Paris' most prosperous prostitute. Wise, endearing, and compulsively clad in Read More

My Favorite Martian [TV Series]

Actors: Ray Walston, Bill Bixby, Pamela Britton, Anne O. Marshall, J. Pat O'Malley

Synopsis: Making its CBS network debut on September 29, 1963, in the same Sunday night time slot previously held down by Dennis the Menace, My Favorite Martian starred Ray Walston as the title character, an affable, hyper-intelligent and extremely resourceful space alien whose one-man flying saucer Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Thirty-Fathom Grave

Actors: Mike Kellin, Simon Oakland, David Sheiner, John Considine, Bill Bixby

Synopsis: Written by Rod Serling, this 60-minute Twilight Zone episode gets under way when a U.S. Navy destroyer begins picking up unusual sounds on its sonar. Investigating, a frogman finds the remains of a sunken submarine -- and hears the sound of clanking from within. This information has a profound Read More

My Favorite Martian: Season 01

Actors: Bill Bixby, Ray Walston, Pamela Britton

Synopsis: Filmed in black-and-white, season one of My Favorite Martian begins literally at the beginning, when Tim O'Hara (Bill Bixby), young reporter for the "Los Angeles Sun," slows down his snazzy sports car long enough to investigate a strange object that has crashed on the side of the highway. Out pops Read More

Under the Yum Yum Tree

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley, Dean Jones, Edie Adams, Imogene Coca

Synopsis: Jack Lemmon stars as Hogan, who lives a bachelor's dream as the manager of an apartment building that caters only to single women. Hogan likes to romance his tenants, and he sets his sights on a newcomer named Robin (Carol Lynley). Robin and her boyfriend David (Dean Jones) have moved in together Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Bailey's Bad Boy

Actors: Bill Bixby

Synopsis: Bill Bixby guest-stars as the wealthy and spoiled-rotten Ronald Bailey. Arrested for sideswiping a produce truck with his expensive sportscar, young Bailey is tossed into the Mayberry jail by Andy and Barney. Far from chastened by his experience, the arrogant Ronald fully expects his influential Read More

Lonely Are the Brave

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, Mike Kane, Carroll O'Connor

Synopsis: Although it never quite escapes the pitfalls of pretension, this film was Kirk Douglas's bid for the affections of the art house crowd, and it remains one of his best efforts. The star plays unreconstructed "rugged individual" Jack Burns, who rides throughout the modern west knocking down man-made Read More