Bing RussellFilmography

Tango & Cash

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance, Brion James

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone tries his luck with his first cop buddy movie in Tango and Cash, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. Stallone is Ray Tango, a Los Angeles narcotics cop who dresses in fancy suits, wears wire-rim glasses, and talks to his stockbroker more than he talks to his mother. Kurt Russell is Read More

Sunset

Actors: Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway, Kathleen Quinlan, Dermot Mulroney

Synopsis: Director Blake Edwards departed from his customary sex farces to direct an unusual satirical Western comedy-thriller. In 1927, legendary lawman Wyatt Earp (James Garner) comes to Hollywood to serve as an advisor to a film studio making a movie about Earp's life. He meets silent screen cowboy star Tom Mix Read More

Overboard

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Katherine Helmond, Michael Hagerty

Synopsis: This screwball comedy casts real-life couple Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn in a film that finds the latter returning to her roots in a role reminiscent of Private Benjamin (1980). Hawn stars as Joanna Stayton, a snooty heiress who summons carpenter Dean Proffitt (Russell) to her lavish yacht, where Read More

Elvis

Actors: Kurt Russell, Shelley Winters, Bing Russell, Season Hubley, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: The first volley in the never-ending "Presley movie" blitzkrieg, the made-for-TV Elvis: The Movie stars Kurt Russell as the King, Season Hubley as Priscilla, Pat Hingle as Col. Parker, Shelley Winters as Elvis' mom, and Bing Russell (Kurt's real-life father) as Elvis' dad. The film recounts Presley Read More

The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe

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

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

The Streets of San Francisco: Labyrinth

Synopsis: The scene is a high-rise hotel in midtown San Francisco. Confronted by mobsters who are angry because he refused to throw a fight, an aging boxer manages to beat up two of his assailants and throw the third out the window to his death! Arriving on the scene to investigate the killer, Stone (Karl Read More

Emergency!: Pressure 165

Synopsis: This week's emergency roster includes an injured scuba diver who must be treated in a hyperbaric chamber, and a youthful gunshot victim. Also, dust explosion results in a serious fire, and danger for victims and firefighter alike. Meanwhile, on the culinary scene, John (Randolph Mantooth) is once Read More

Emergency!: I'll Fix It

Synopsis: In a true "Monty Python" moment, John (Randolph Mantooth) and Chet (Tim Donnelly) are pressed into service as bicycle repairmen. Of course, they also participate in Squad 51's emergency runs, which on this occasion includes the rescue of a man trapped in his own house by a supposedly dormant oil Read More

The Rockford Files: The Dexter Crisis

Synopsis: Jim (James Garner) is dispatched to Las Vegas in search of Susan Parsons (Lee Purcell), the missing mistress of millionaire mogul Charles Dexter (Tim O'Connor). Along the way, Susan's roommate Louise (Linda Kelsey), who identifies herself as a law student, insists upon helping Jim in his Read More

A Cry in the Wilderness

Actors: George Kennedy

Synopsis: Gilbert Wright's novel Madman's Chain had already been adapted to television by Alcoa/Goodyear Theatre by the time that Cry in the Wilderness premiered March 26, 1974. While the first version, titled Chain and the River, was a moderately suspenseful half hour, Cry in the Wilderness manages to keep Read More

Satan's School for Girls

Actors: Roy Thinnes, Kate Jackson, Pamela Franklin

Synopsis: One of the most memorable made-for-TV horror films of the 1970s, Satan's School for Girls is set an exclusive institution of learning in Salem, MA, where students have been committing suicide at an alarming rate. A young woman named Elizabeth Sayres (Pamela Franklin) enrolls at the all-girl's Read More

Emergency!: Computer Error

Synopsis: John (Randolph Mantooth) comes face to face with corporate bureaucracy when he falls victim to a credit-card computer error. On the job, the paramedics try to rescue a car-accident victim who may be pregnant, a woman who has fallen down a well, and a junkyard owner exposed to phosphorous Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Shield of Honor

Synopsis: The SFPD's internal affairs division suspects that something is amiss when a witness under police protection is killed. Clearly, someone in the Department is a Syndicate informer--and everyone is under suspicion, even Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas). Written by Star Trek veteran Read More

Bonanza: Frenzy

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Kathleen Widdoes, Michael Pataki

Synopsis: Anna Kosovo (Kathleen Widdoes), a friend of Ben Cartwright, has good reason to be terrified of her antagonistic immigrant husband Nick (Michael Pataki). Trapped in her own house by her husband, Anna-and her young son-must rely upon Ben to rescue them. Written by Preston Wood and Karl Tunberg, this Read More

Bonanza: New Man

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Mitch Vogel, Tim Matheson

Synopsis: Having saved Ben Cartwright's life during a prison riot, convict Griff King (played by new Bonanza regular Tim Matheson) is released into Ben's custody. In hiring Griff as a Ponderosa ranchhand, Ben faces the challenge of convincing the former prisoner to forsake his deep and abiding grudge Read More

Bonanza: The Hidden Enemy

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Mike Farrell, Melissa Murphy

Synopsis: Circuitously commenting upon the drug culture of the 1970s, this Bonanza episode probes the dangers of the onetime "wonder drug" morphine. Future MASH regular Mike Farrell is cast as Dr. Will Agar, who is revealed to be a morphine addict after he inadvertently causes the death of a young patient Read More

Bonanza: A Lonely Man

Actors: Victor Sen Yung, Kelly Jean Peters, Peter Hobbs, Henry Wills, Bing Russell

Synopsis: The focus in "A Lonely Man" is on Victor Sen Yung as Ponderosa houseboy Hop Sing; indeed, Sen Yung is the only series regular to appear in this episode. Having fallen in love with a white woman (Kelly Jean Peters, Hop Sing runs afoul of a racist judge (Peter Hobbs), who eagerly digs up an old and Read More

Bonanza: The Sound of Loneliness

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Tim Matheson, Jack Albertson, Bing Russell

Synopsis: Last seen on Bonanza in the 1968 episode "A Girl Named George," Jack Albertson paid a return visit to the series in the December 5, 1972 episode "The Sound of Loneliness." Albertson is here cast as elderly widower Jonathan May, who goes to great lengths to make sure that two orphan boys will not 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

Death Sentence

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

Bonanza: The Reluctant American

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Daniel Massey

Synopsis: Londoners Leslie and Gillian Harwood (Daniel Massey and Jill Haworth) arrive in Nevada to take charge of a ranch on behalf of a British investment firm-and immediately mistake the Ponderosa for the ranch in question. Thus, the Cartwrights become involved in the couple's travails, attempting to Read More

Bonanza: The Silent Killer

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Meg Foster

Synopsis: "The Silent Killer" is the deadly influenza epidemic that has swept through the territory around the Ponderosa. To combat the disease, tradition-bound Doc Martin (Harry Holcombe) and Harriet Clinton (Louise Latham) set up an emergency hospital on the Cartwright spread. Further complications ensue Read More

A Taste of Evil

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

Bonanza: Terror at 2:00

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Steve Ihnat

Synopsis: Steve Ihnat guest-stars as a self-proclaimed journalist named Gans, who shows up with his entourage in Virginia City to cover the signing of a treaty between the Paiute Indians and the Army. In truth, however, the rabidly racist Gans plans to kill everyone at the ceremony with his Gatling Gun. It Read More

Bonanza: Face of Fear

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Bradford Dillman

Synopsis: Neta (Jewel Blanch), a teenaged friend of Ben Cartwright's adopted son Jamie, witnesses the murder of Mr. Trunkett, but is too frightened to say anything about it. Meanwhile, the murderer, a man named Bannon (Bradford Dillman), impersonates the dead man in order to inherit a fortune. The danger to Read More

Bonanza: The Night Virginia City Died

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Angel Tompkins, Ray Teal

Synopsis: Bonanza's twelfth season commenced on September 13, 1970 with the episode titled "The Night Virginia City Died." Several Virginia City buildings have burned to the ground; the townsfolk are in an uproar, and the local constabulary is apparently helpless. Meanwhile, the Cartwrights have befriended Read More

Bonanza: The Wagon

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Denver Pyle, Salome Jens

Synopsis: When one of his prisoners escapes, sadistic prison-wagon boss Price Buchanan (Denver Pyle) abducts Hoss Cartwright and forces him to take the missing convict's place. Facing five years at hard labor, Hoss formulates an escape plan with another railroaded prisoner, Madge Tucker (Salome Jens). Read More

Bonanza: The Lady and the Mark

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Christopher Connelly

Synopsis: Having accumulated $67,000 from a gold strike, prospector Chris Keller (Christopher Connelly) finds himself the target of virtually every confidence trickster in the country. To save himself and his cash, Chris hides out at the Ponderosa, only to be lured into the open by lovely Charity McGill Read More

Bonanza: It's a Small World

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Michael Dunn

Synopsis: Multi-talanted dwarf actor Michael Dunn guest-stars as George Marshall, a former circus midget who, fulfilling a promise to his late wife, gives up show business to lead a normal life in Virginia City. Despite the assistance of his friend Ben Cartwright, George is unable to secure employment Read More

Bonanza: Danger Road

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Robert Lansing

Synopsis: Robert Lansing is cast as Gunny, a former Army officer dishonorably discharged for desertion, and now the owner of a small freight-hauling concern. Though Ben Cartwright cannot forgive Gunny for his dereliction of duty, he is willing to let the man prove his mettle by delivering three 30-foot Read More

Bonanza: The Impostors

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Strother Martin, Tony Colti

Synopsis: Oscar winner Strother Martin is cast as Joad Bruder, the father of jailed stagecoach robber Randy Bruder (Anthony Colti). Aware that Joad is holding the Ponderosa money that was stolen by Randy, Joe and Hoss hatch another of their hare-brained schemes to retrieve the loot. Heading to Pineville Read More

Bonanza: Honest John

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Jack Elam

Synopsis: Jack Elam plays the title role in this Bonanza episode from December 20, 1970. Belying his nickname, Honest John is a prevaricating drifter, who over the protests of the Cartwrights has settled on the Ponderosa. Banking on the trust and friendship of young Jamie, Honest John finds himself in a Read More

Bonanza: For a Young Lady

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Jewel Blanch

Synopsis: Carri Sturgis (Jewel Blanch), a young friend of Ben Cartwright's adopted son Jamie, lives in terror under the cruel supervision of her Aunt Vella (Madeleine Sherwood) and Uncle Gifford (William Bramley). Inasmuch as the couple hates children, Jamie can't understand why they so desperately desire 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

Bonanza: A Darker Shadow

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Gregory Walcott

Synopsis: Joe Cartwright is dumbfounded when his friend, bank employee Wade Turner (Gregory Walcott), abruptly leaves town before his marriage to his sweetheart Sarah (Sandra Smith). Wade's abrupt exit coincides with a shortage in the bank's accounts, prompting Joe to seek out his friend and demand an Read More

Bonanza: The Deserter

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Ben Johnson

Synopsis: Ben Johnson guest-stars as Sgt. Samuel Bellis, accused of desertion, murder, and selling guns to the Indians. Bellis insists that he's innocent, and Candy believes him-but before he can clear Bellis' name, he must elude the Army patrol that is hot on the fugitive sergeant's heels. In a further Read More

Bonanza: To Stop a War

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Steve Forrest, Miriam Colon

Synopsis: An epidemic of rustling has fueled the flames of a possible range war between the cattlemen and the nesters. Ex-sheriff Dan Logan (Steve Forrest) is hired to stop the war before it starts, while rancher Slater (Warren Kemmerling), convinced that the nesters are responsible for the trouble, offers Read More

Bonanza: Emily

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Elliot Gilbert, David Canary

Synopsis: Joe Cartwright's coquettish former fiancee Emily Anderson (Beth Brickell) returns to town, quickly wrapping the moonstruck Joe around her little finger once more. Unfortunately, Emily has neglected to inform Joe that she is now married to Deputy Marshal Wade McPhail (Ron Hayes). Furthermore, the Read More

Bonanza: The Witness

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Melissa Murphy

Synopsis: Melissa Murphy is cast as Jenny Winters, who claims she can identify the outlaw Logan gang as the men who robbed a stagecoach and murdered the driver. Hoping to protect Jenny from the Logans, Joe Cartwright and Candy offer the girl shelter at the Ponderosa. What neither the good guys nor the bad Read More

Bonanza: Old Friends

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Victor Sen Yung

Synopsis: Ben Cartwright finds himself in the uncomfortable position of choosing between two old and treasured friends, both of whom abuptly re-enter his life after 27 years. Charlie Sheppard (Robert Wilke), formerly Ben's prospecting partner, is now a wanted outlaw, while Jess Waddell (Morgan Woodward) has Read More

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

Actors: Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, William Schallert, Alan Hewitt

Synopsis: This film is another Disney comedy romp that takes place at the ubiquitous Medfield College. The plot kicks in when an interview, in which Professor Quigley (William Schallert) is denied a much-needed computer by apoplectic college president Dean Higgins (Joe Flynn), is broadcast to a student Read More

Bonanza: The Last Vote

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Tom Bosley, Wally Cox

Synopsis: As a result of a wager, Hoss and Joe Cartwright decide to enter politics, each supporting an opposing mayor candidate for the upcoming Virginia City election. Comic chaos ensues when both brothers become campaign managers for their respective candidates, and are thus forced to suck up to the man Read More

Bonanza: The Arrival of Eddie

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Jan-Michael Vincent

Synopsis: Forced to kill the father of young Eddie McKay (Jan-Michael Vincent), Hoss Cartwright tries to make amends by hiring Eddie as a Ponderosa hand. Eddie accepts the job-but only because he has entered into an unholy alliance with rancher Sam Butler (Jim Davis), who also has a grudge against the Read More

Journey to Shiloh

Actors: James Caan, Michael Sarrazin, Brenda Scott, Don Stroud, Paul Petersen

Synopsis: In this adventure, seven young west Texans ride out to volunteer for the Confederate army during the mid-point of the Civil War. The Concho County Comanches, as they call themselves, find that it is truly a long way to Shiloh, Tennessee where a major battle is about to occur. En route they Read More

Ironside: The Kill a Cop

Synopsis: Vicious, cop-hating Frank Vincent (Pernell Roberts) threatens dire consequences when he is arrested on a drunk driving charge by Ed Brown (Don Galloway) and two other officers (one of whom is played by director-stuntman Hal Needham, the other by Bing Russell, father of film star Kurt Russell)). Read More

Ironside: An Obvious Case of Guilt

Synopsis: Anne Baxter guest stars as Ironside's attorney friend Carolyn White, whom the authorities have tagged as the "most obvious" suspect in the murder of her cheating spouse. Convinced that Carolyn is being framed, Ironside (Raymond Burr) dedicates himself to proving his thesis, while his colleagues Read More

Bonanza: The Wormwood Cup

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Judi Meredith, Frank Overton

Synopsis: Both Linda Roberts (Judi Meredith) and Amos Crenshaw (Frank Overton) have sworn vengeance against Joe Cartwright. Linda thinks that Joe killed her brother, while Amos' son was shot by Joe in self-defense. The tension reaches the boiling point when Linda hires a man to assassinate Joe, then changes Read More

Bonanza: Napoleon's Children

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Michael Burns, Bob Biheller

Synopsis: Virginia City finds itself under siege from a group of highly organized juvenile delinquents, all guided by a disturbed young man (Bob Biheller) who calls himself Napoleon. Raised by his dissolute uncle (Woodrow Parfrey), a professor with a drinking problem, the boy knows his history well, and Read More

Bonanza: Joe Cartwright, Detective

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mort Mills, Ken Lynch

Synopsis: Thoroughly immersed in the mystery novel {^Inspector Foot of Scotland Yard}, Joe Cartwright begins to fancy himself an ace detective. Attempting to apply the latest Scotlard Yard techniques to prevent a bank robbery, Joe causes more trouble than he's worth-while his dad Ben and Sheriff Coffee end Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: A Secretary Is Not a Toy

Synopsis: While working as a secretary for General Peterson (Barton MacLane), Jeannie (Barbara Eden) gets the idea in her pretty little head that her master Tony (Larry Hagman) should be promoted to general as well. With a nod of the head and the blink of an eye, Jeannie sets the wheels in motion that will Read More

Bonanza: Desperate Passage

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Steve Forrest

Synopsis: The Cartwrights must carefully wend their way through Paiute territory, guarding two survivors of a recent massacre. One of the survivors, Josh Tanner (Steve Forrest), is an accused murderer. The other, Mary Burns (Tina Louise), knows that Josh is innocent, but can't-or won't-reveal this fact. Read More

Bonanza: The Gentle Ones

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Robert Walker, Jr., Lana Wood

Synopsis: Written by Frank Chase, "The Gentle Ones" is the tale of two brothers, both in the horse trading business. Kindhearted Mark (Robert Walker Jr.) is a cowboy who loves horses; his brutal sibling Frank (Pat Conway) is a rancher who likes nothing more than to "break" his horses in the most sadistic Read More

The Ride to Hangman's Tree

Actors: Jack Lord, James Farentino, Don Galloway, Melodie Johnson, Richard Anderson

Synopsis: The movie opens as two outlaws are just being rescued from being hung as thieves by an old friend. They go their separate ways, but keep running into each other across the country on their way to California as they alternately are on the good and bad side of the law. Their rescuer becomes the Read More

The Monkees: Here Come the Monkees

Actors: Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith

Synopsis: Originally titled "The Monkees," this pilot episode for the series of the same name was held back from public view until November 14, 1966, by which time the series had been on the air for ten weeks. Now rechristened "Here Come the Monkees," the episode was written by Larry Tucker and Paul Read More

Madame X

Actors: Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban, Burgess Meredith, Constance Bennett

Synopsis: Lana Turner takes the lead in the seventh film version of Alexandre Bisson's glossy soap opera. Holly Parker (Turner) is married to respected diplomat Clay Anderson (John Forsythe), but his busy schedule prevents them from seeing each other very often. Distracted and lonely, Holly allows her head Read More

An Eye for an Eye

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Lansing, Slim Pickens, Gloria Talbott, Paul Fix

Synopsis: Talion is the alternate title for the blood-splattered western An Eye for an Eye. You know that the filmmakers aren't kidding around when, in the very first scene, outlaw Slim Pickens puts a bullet into a squalling baby! Robert Lansing plays Talion, a homesteader who, after his ranch is burned to Read More

Billy the Kid vs. Dracula

Actors: Chuck Courtney, John Carradine, Melinda Plowman, Virginia Christine, Walter Janowitz

Synopsis: The venerable John Carradine gets his first chance to play the fanged count in 20 years (the last time was House of Dracula), albeit in one of the weirdest scenarios ever committed to film. Arriving in the Wild West via stagecoach, Drac installs himself in the home of a pretty rancher (Melinda Plowman Read More

The Fugitive: In a Plain Paper Wrapper

Synopsis: As "Bob Stoddard", Kimble (David Janssen) works as a bartender at the same restaurant where Susan Cartwright (Lois Nettelton) is a waitress. Recognizing Kimble from a police description, Susan's nephew Gary (Pat Cardi) and his pals decide to capture the fugitive and claim the reward, using a Read More

Bonanza: The Oath

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Tony Bill, Douglas Kennedy

Synopsis: Future movie-studio executive Tony Bill is cast as halfbreed Charlie Two, who has sworn to killi the Cartwrights to avenge the hanging of his father Charlie Monahan. Hoping to dissuade Charlie, Joe Cartwright adopts an alias and accompanies the boy on his journeys. In the course of events, the two Read More

Branded: The Golden Fleece

Synopsis: This episode opens in a curious fashion as Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) is arrested by uniformed troops and placed in a prison van. Once incarcerated, he meets another prisonder: Former Confederate officer Randall Kirby (Harry Townes), who rambles on about overthrowing the government and Read More

Bonanza: To Bloom for Thee

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Geraldine Brooks, Don Haggerty

Synopsis: Geraldine Brooks, who played Ben Cartwright's first wife in the 1961 Bonanza episode "Elizabeth, My Love," was cast as Hoss Cartwright's love interest in the October 16, 1966 episode "To Bloom for Thee." Beaten down by life, Carol Attley (Brooks) has become cold, aloof and distrustful. Read More

Combat!: Odyssey

Synopsis: Wounded in combat, Saunders (Vic Morrow) awakens to find himself dressed in a German uniform. In order not to give himself away to the Germans surrounding him, Saunders pretends to have been rendered speechless by shell-shock. In his laborious efforts to make his way back to the American lines Read More

The Munsters: Grandpa's Call of the Wild

Synopsis: During a family camping trip in a large national park, Grandpa (Al Lewis) hears some faraway wolf calls and begins waxing nostalgic about his youth in Transylvania. Before long, Grandpa has transformed himself into a wolf so that he can briefly recapture his salad days. Unfortunately, he is unable Read More

Bonanza: The Other Son

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Ed Begley, Sr., Tom Simcox

Synopsis: Ed Begley Sr. is cast as Clint Watson, an old muleskinner friend of Ben Cartwright. Now an explosives expert, Clint agrees to help Ben transport a shipment of nitroglycerin to a flood site, with Clint's sons Andy (Tom Simcox) and Ellis (Richard Evans) providing assistance. What begins as a western Read More

Branded: Very Few Heroes

Synopsis: While there are many people who hate accused coward Jason McCord (Chuck Connors), few are as vehement in that hatred as ranch owner Christina Adams (Kathryn Hays). Unfortunately for her, Christina needs Jason's testimony in a lawsuit to keep from losing her land. Will Jason do the "right thing" Read More

The Hallelujah Trail

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton, Pamela Tiffin, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: In The Hallelujah Trail, Lee Remick plays temperance leader Cora Templeton Massingale, who is determined to halt a shipment of whiskey headed for Denver. The shipment is being escorted by the US cavalry, under the guidance of Col. Thadeus Gearhardt (Burt Lancaster). As the Denver miners thirstily Read More

Cheyenne Autumn

Actors: Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden

Synopsis: John Ford's last western film, Cheyenne Autumn was allegedly produced to compensate for the hundreds of Native Americans who had bitten the dust in Ford's earlier films (that was the director's story, anyway). Set in 1887, the film recounts the defiant migration of 300 Cheyennes from their Read More

The Fugitive: Nemesis

Synopsis: Having followed the trail of the One-Armed Man to Northern Wisconsin, Kimble (David Janssen) runs afoul of a mean-spirited sheriff named Deebold (John Doucette). In his efforts to elude the vindictive lawman, Kimble steals a car--which by a cruel twist of fate belongs to his perennial pursuer Lt. Read More

The Fugitive: Runner in the Dark

Synopsis: When a TV fan recognizes a picture of Richard Kimble (David Janssen) on a quiz show, the fugitive takes refuge in a home for the blind. Posing as "Phil Meade", Kimble quickly acquaints himself several of the residents, including the attractive Claire Whittaker (Diana Van Der Vlis) and embittered Read More

The Stripper

Actors: Joanne Woodward, Richard Beymer, Claire Trevor, Carol Lynley, Robert Webber

Synopsis: This routine tale of an aspiring actress on the verge of a sharp decline is directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and features Joanne Woodward in a skillful and engaging portrayal of Lila, the would-be thespian. The setting is a small town in the plains state of Kansas where Lila finds herself Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Loaded Goat

Actors: Hal Smith, Parley Baer

Synopsis: An explosive situation develops when Cy Hudgins' pet goat Jimmy eats a box full of dynamite. The nervous Mayberryites spend the rest of the day gingerly tiptoeing around the goat, terrified that the animal will blow up "real good" at any moment. In the end, it is up to Barney to lead Jimmy out of Read More

One Man's Way

Actors: Don Murray, Diana Hyland, William Windom, Virginia Christine, Carol Ohmart

Synopsis: From at least the 1930s on to the 1970s, the upbeat protestant minister, Reverend Norman Vincent Peale, ministered to the well-heeled and upwardly mobile of the United States from his pulpit at the Riverside church on Fifth Avenue in New York City. At least as positive-thinking as the similarly Read More

The Fugitive: The Girl from Little Egypt

Synopsis: After discovering that her lover Paul Clements (Ed Nelson) is married, Ruth Norton (Pamela Tiffin) angrily jumps into her car and speeds away--striking down a pedestrian in the process. The victim turns out to be fugitive from justice Richard Kimble (David Janssen), whom the distraught Ruth takes Read More

Bonanza: The Hayburner

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, William Demarest

Synopsis: In this comic episode, Adam and Hoss Cartwright want to enter their newly purchased thoroughbred in the Virginia City Sweepstakes. Alas, Hoss loses the horse in a card game, and now must move heaven and earth to win the nag back. Complication piles upon complication, culminating in a wild Read More

Bonanza: Half a Rogue

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Slim Pickens

Synopsis: Slim Pickens makes his first appearance as the rogueish but lovable mountaineer Jim Leyton. Wounded while busting out of jail, Jim tries to steal Hoss Cartwright's horse for a quick getaway, then passes out from his injuries. When he comes to, Jim tries to beat his murder rap by claiming that Hoss Read More

Bonanza: Thunder Man

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Simon Oakland

Synopsis: The "Thunder Man" is explosives expert William Poole (Simon Oakland), who in addition to his demolition skills, happens to be a serial killer. No sooner has the episode gotten under way than Poole has murdered Joe Cartwright's girlfriend Ann. The sole witness is Ann's father, who has suffered a Read More

The Twilight Zone: Ring-A-Ding Girl

Actors: Maggie McNamara, Mary Munday, David Macklin, Bing Russell, Hank Patterson

Synopsis: Famous for her collection of valuable rings, movie star Bunny Blake (Maggie McNamara) is inexorably drawn back to her home town by an unusual ring which seems to talk to her. Upon her arrival, Bunny continues heeding the messages conveyed by the ring, and in so doing averts a tragedy -- for Read More

Bonanza: Rain from Heaven

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, John Anderson

Synopsis: John Anderson is cast as fiercely proud rainmaker Tulsa Weems, who is averse to charging money for his services, doing so only to afford medical care for his daughter Mary Beth (Eileen Chesis). When Tulsa is arrested for pulling a gun on Ben Cartwright, Ben's son Hoss takes it upon himself to look Read More

Bonanza: Mirror of a Man

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Ron Hayes

Synopsis: Ron Hayes appears in the dual role of virtuous family man Jud Lally and Jud's outlaw twin brother Rube Barnes. Forcing his brother to trade places with him, Rube steals a valuable stallion and commits a murder, crimes for which Jud is held responsible. The Cartwrights try to come to Jud's Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Memories of Monica

Synopsis: Paying back an old favor, Paladin comes to the assistance of a sheriff named Reagan (played by Bing Russell, the father of film star Kurt Russell). Several years earlier, Reagan had wed Monica (Judi Meredith), the onetime girlfriend of imprisoned outlaw Ben Turner (Larry Ward). Now Turner has been Read More

Bonanza: The Long Night

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, James Coburn

Synopsis: Hoping to meet the deadline for a crucial business transaction, Adam Cartwright rushes to the town of Bowline, with a bank draft in hand. En route, he is ambushed by, and forced to change clothes with, an escaped convict named Poindexter (Bing Russell, who later joined Bonanza in the semiregular Read More

The Untouchables: Bird in the Hand

Synopsis: This is the first of two Untouchables episodes intended as pilot films for the proposed spinoff series White Knights, starring Dane Clark and John Gabriel as US Public Health Service agents Dr. Victor Garr and Dr. Daniel Gifford. The plot gets under way when hoodlum Chicago Arnie Kurtz (Carroll Read More

Flashing Spikes

The Untouchables: The Whitey Steele Story

Synopsis: Robert Stack plays a dual role in this episode, as Federal agent Elliot Ness and his lookalike, two-bit bookie Whitey Steele. Posing as Whitey, Ness heads to San Francisco in hopes of smashing a heroine distribution ring operating out of a racetrack-infromation service run by hoodlums Joe Kulak Read More

Stakeout

Actors: Bing Russell, Billy Hughes, Bill Hale, Jack Harris

Synopsis: Joe (Bing Russell) is an ex-convict trying to make an honest living after his release from prison. He returns home to his long-suffering mother and his motherless son and tries to become gainfully employed. Joe faces the prejudice of the jaundiced townsfolk, who smugly refuse to hire him for any Read More

The Untouchables: Power Play

Synopsis: Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) joins forces with Willard Thornton (Wendell Corey), newly appointed Special Crime Commissioner of Chicago, to ferret out the brains behind a huge criminal combine. What Ness doesn't know (but the audience does) is that Thornton himself is a member of the combine, in Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Arrival

Actors: Harold J. Stone, Fredd Wayne, Noah Keen, Robert Karnes, Bing Russell

Synopsis: FAA investigator Grant Sheckly (Harold J. Stone) is called to the scene when Flight 107 from Buffalo makes an unscheduled landing. Inasmuch as the plane arrived with no luggage, passengers, or crew members, Sheckly really has his work cut out for him. Even allowing for the other-worldy nature of Read More

Seventy Times Seven

Maverick: A Bullet for the Teacher

Synopsis: Beau (Roger Moore) finds himself in the middle of some deadly intrigue (not to mention a bitter family feud) when he wins half-ownership of the Golden Wheel Casino. Shortly after this windfall, Bart's new partner Rand Storm is shot and killed in self-defense by dance-hall gal Flo Baker (Kathleen Read More

The Magnificent Seven

Actors: Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn

Synopsis: Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai (1954) is westernized as The Magnificent Seven. Yul Brynner plays Chris, a mercenary hired to protect a Mexican farming village from its annual invasion by bandit Calvera (Eli Wallach). As Elmer Bernstein's unforgettable theme music (later Read More

The Horse Soldiers

Actors: John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Althea Gibson, Hoot Gibson

Synopsis: Based on an actual Civil War mission, Colonel Marlowe (John Wayne) and Major Kendall (William Holden) are ordered by General Grant to take three regiments 300 miles into enemy territory. They must destroy the railroad line between Newton Station and Vicksburg in hopes of choking off supplies to Read More

Last Train From Gun Hill

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman, Brad Dexter

Synopsis: Just outside the small town of Pauley, a Native American woman is attacked by two riders on horseback, raped, and killed. Her husband, Matt Morgan (Kirk Douglas), the town marshal, has only two clues to their identity, a fancy saddle with the initials "C.B." that one of the men left behind, and Read More

Maverick: A Fellow's Brother

Synopsis: Rather than pay a gambling debt owed to Bret Maverick (James Garner), notorious gunslinger Henry Arnett (a pre-Batman Adam West) skips town when Bret shows up. Impressionable Smoky Vaughn (Gary Vinson) incorrectly assumes that Arnett was afraid of Bret's gun, and spreads the word that there's a Read More

Disneyland: Tales of Texas John Slaughter: Wild Horse Revenge

Synopsis: In the eighth episode of Walt Disney's 17-part miniseries Tales of Texas John Slaughter, John (Tom Tryon) and his new friend, Kentucky horse breeder Ashley Carstairs (Darryl Hickman), have managed to survive the ordeal of being stranded in the New Mexico desert. This experience has only Read More

Rio Bravo

Actors: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: Set in Texas during the late 1860s, Rio Bravo is a story of men (and women) and a town under siege. Presidio County Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) is holding Joe Burdette (Claude Akins), a worthless, drunken thug, for the murder of an unarmed man in a fight in a saloon -- the problem is that Read More

Bonanza [TV Series]

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, David Canary

Synopsis: The first hour-long network Western series telecast in color, Bonanza was also the granddaddy of all "property" Westerns, future examples of which included The Virginian, The Big Valley, and The High Chaparral. The series took place during and after the Civil War in Virginia City, NV. Lorne Greene Read More

Suicide Battalion (1958) / Hell Squad

Synopsis: This video offers a double dose of war dramas. The first Suicide Battalion chronicles the courage of two GIs who risk everything to cross enemy lines and bring back secret documents from an outpost overrun by the enemy. The second Hell Squad follows the exploits of five Yankee soldiers who must Read More

Maverick: Seed of Deception

Synopsis: Riding into a small town, Bret (James Garner) and Bart (Jack Kelly) are amused when the locals mistake them for the notorious gunfighters Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. But it's a bit less amusing when gorgeous Doll Hayes (Joi Lansing) begins cozying up to the local sheriff (Frank Ferguson) as a Read More

Cattle Empire

Actors: Joel McCrea, Gloria Talbott, Don Haggerty, Phyllis Coates, Bing Russell

Synopsis: A brave cowboy/ex-con hits the dusty trail as the leader of a major cattle drive in this western. He is offered the job by the very townspeople his gang terrorized a few years before. They are also the same people who put him in the slammer, and even though he accepts the task, he secretly plots Read More

Suicide Battalion

Actors: Michael Connors, John Ashley, Russ Bender, Scott Peters

Synopsis: American-International's Suicide Battalion was filmed virtually simultaneously with the studio's Jet Attack; both films were originally released on a double bill. Michael Connors plays Lt. Matt McCormick, who leads the eponymous battalion on a suicide mission in the Philippines during WW II. Their Read More

Good Day for a Hanging

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Maggie Hayes, Robert Vaughn, Joan Blackman, James Drury

Synopsis: The Springdale, NE, bank is held up and robbed by a well organized gang. One of the members is Eddie Campbell (Robert Vaughn), a onetime resident of the town and orphan who was brought up in part by Ben Cutler (Fred MacMurray), an ex-lawman-turned-rancher. While pursuing the robbers, the town Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: A Sense of Justice

Synopsis: Bing Russell, the father of film star Kurt Russell, is here cast as Andy Dawes, a mentally retarded man who is accused of murder. Hoping to save Andy from a lynching, the town's sheriff (Kurt Swenson) turns to Paladin (Richard Boone) from help. It soon develops that Andy has little idea why he has Read More

Ride a Violent Mile

Actors: John Agar, Penny Edwards, Richard Shannon

Synopsis: Ride a Violent Mile is an economically produced western with a Civil War background. Penny Edwards stars as Susan, a Union spy who poses as a dance-hall girl in a Confederate-friendly frontier town. Susan hopes to prevent the Mexican government from casting its lot with the South, and to do that Read More

Teenage Thunder

Actors: Chuck Courtney, Robert Fuller, Tyler McVey, Paul Bryar

Synopsis: Howco Productions, purveyors of many a drive-in "classic" of the 1950s, was responsible for Teenage Thunder. Charles Courtney (usually billed as "Chuck" in his supporting-player appearances) stars as a young gas station attendant with a fondness for hot rods. Despite objections from his father Read More

Fear Strikes Out

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore, Adam Williams, Perry Wilson

Synopsis: Anthony Perkins stars as troubled baseball great Jimmy Piersall in Fear Strikes Out. Based on Piersall's shattering tell-all autobiography, the film traces Jimmy's ascent from the sandlots of Waterbury, CT, to the Boston Red Sox, with his domineering father (Karl Malden) pushing the boy beyond all Read More

Maverick: Naked Gallows

Synopsis: Convicted murderer Clete Overton (Ed Kemmer) escapes from jail on the eve of his hanging. Bart tries to prove Cleve's innocence when the fugitive insists that he was charged on circumstantial evidence. Unfortunately, someone is determined that Clete remain under the shadow of the noose--and that Read More

The Deadly Mantis

Actors: Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton, Don Randolph, Patrick Conway

Synopsis: This is the one in which the "villain" is a huge, carnivorous praying mantis. After the titular insect has attacked several people in a remote Arctic region, Col. Joe Parkham (Craig Stevens) swings into action. Parkham and his associates, Dr. Ned Jackson (William Hopper) and Ned's assistant Margie Read More

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland

Synopsis: Of the many filmed versions of the October 26, 1881, O.K. Corral shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was one of the most elaborate and star-studded. Burt Lancaster plays Wyatt Earp, the renowned lawman, while Kirk Douglas is consumptive gambler (and gunfighter) Doc Holliday Read More

Behind the High Wall

Actors: Tom Tully, Sylvia Sidney, Betty Lynn, John Gavin, Don Beddoe

Synopsis: Behind the High Wall is a remake of the 1937 Jackie Cooper-Victor McLaglen film The Big Guy. Tom Tully plays prison warden Frank Carmichael, who is kidnapped during a jail break in which a policeman is killed. In an ensuing car crash, all the escapees are killed except young Johnny Hutchins (John Gavin Read More

Gunsmoke: Mr. and Mrs. Amber

Synopsis: Neil and Sarah Amber (Paul Richards, Gloria McGhee) are a struggling prairie couple, trying but failing to make a go of their tiny farm, and plagued by the prissy righteousness of Sarah's brother Peak (Ainslee Pryor). Thus, Mr. Amber must not only work harder than ever for the sake of his wife Read More

Tarantula

Actors: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva, Ross Elliott

Synopsis: A man with a strangely misshapen face wanders out of the desert near a small town and falls to the ground dead. The county sheriff (Nestor Paiva) tentatively identifies the dead man as Eric Jacobs, a laboratory assistant to Professor Deemer (Leo G. Carroll), a research scientist living a few miles Read More

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