Bruce KirbyFilmography

Murphy Brown: Old Flames

Synopsis: Peter Hunt (Scott Bakula) drops by unexpectedly while Murphy is laboring throughout the night to finish her latest story. After a brief but chaste encounter with her former lover, an exhausted Murphy falls fast asleep--and dreams that she is standing trial for her "relationship sins" Read More

A Different Kind of Christmas

Actors: Shelley Long, Barry Bostwick, Nathan Lawrence, Nancy McLoughlin, Michael E. Knight

Synopsis: The bane of the existence of city attorney Elizabeth Gates (Shelley Long) is the jovial, widowed former barber (Bruce Kirby) who has chosen to be a year-round Santa Claus, transforming his house into a permanent "North Pole" village and giving away free presents to needy children. Unfortunately Read More

Murder, She Wrote: What You Don't Know Can Kill You

Synopsis: Seth's niece Amy (Cari Shayne) arrives in Cabot Cove, where she plans to hold her wedding. Alas, the happy event is postponed permanently when both a landscaper and attorney die under mysterious circumstances--and one of the two was Amy's fiancé. Another interested party begins asking a few Read More

The Cottonwood

Synopsis: In this comedy drama, a winning lottery ticket gives four aspiring actors the chance of a lifetime. The quartet is first seen commiserating over the failure of their latest off-Broadway production in the Cottonwood Diner in Greenwich Village. To ease the sting of a scathing review, the four buy a Read More

Rave Review

Actors: Jeff Seymour, Carmen Argenziano, Ed Begley, Jr., Robert Costanzo, James Handy

Synopsis: This black comedy centers upon the L.A. theater scene. Steve Maletti owns a small struggling theater. He also directs the plays there. He has just secured two popular TV stars to appear in his newest production. Unfortunately, the actors get a movie deal and fly away to Africa leaving the hapless Read More

Mr. Wonderful

Actors: Matt Dillon, Annabella Sciorra, Mary-Louise Parker, William Hurt, Vincent D'Onofrio

Synopsis: A young man (Matt Dillon) is trying to go in with his friends on a bowling-alley investment, but finds that his finances are too strapped to attempt the venture. To curb his outlays, he begins arranging a marriage for his ex-wife (Annabella Sciorra) so he can end the alimony payments which keep Read More

Getting Up and Going Home

Synopsis: Based on Robert Anderson's novel, the made-for-television Getting Up and Going Home is a drama about a divorced attorney (Tom Skerritt) who copes with a mid-life crisis by having affairs with no less than three women: his ex-wife, a single mother, and a married suburbanite. ~ Stephen Thomas Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion

Actors: Scott Baio, Raymond Burr, Valerie Harper, Diana Muldaur

Synopsis: Raymond Burr once more takes on a murder case and once more reveals the genuine killer at the very last moment in Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion. The setting is the world of high fashion, but that doesn't stop the writers from throwing in a few mobsters for good measure. The victim Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder--According to Maggie

Synopsis: Diana Canova guests as Maggie McCauley, former student of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) and now the producer of a TV police show. Shortly after a heated argument between Maggie and the network programmer who is planning to cancel the series, the programmer turns up murdered. With herself Read More

The Big Picture

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Emily Longstreth, J.T. Walsh, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael McKean

Synopsis: Another "get even with Hollywood" satire in the tradition of SOB and Movers and Shakers, The Big Picture is an elongated inside joke complete with un-billed celebrity cameos. In this first feature-film directorial effort by actor/writer Christopher Guest, Kevin Bacon plays a "boy wonder" director Read More

Anything But Love: Season 01

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard Lewis

Bad Jim

Actors: James Brolin, Richard Roundtree, John Clark Gable, Harry Carey, Jr., Rory Calhoun

Synopsis: Veteran Hollywood screenwriter Clyde Ware handled the directing chores in Bad Jim. The film is worth noting as the cinematic debut of John Clark Gable, the son of guess who. Gable, James Brolin, and Richard Roundtree play three soft-hearted bandits who purchase a horse from Billy the Kid. They use Read More

The In Crowd

Actors: Donovan Leitch, Joe Pantoliano, Jennifer Runyon, Wendy Gazelle, Sean Gregory Sullivan

Synopsis: Perry Parker (Joe Pantoliano) is a Philadelphia dance-show host who hopes to take the place of Dick Clark after the world's oldest teenager takes his show to Hollywood in 1965. Del Green (Donovan Leitch) is a college-bound high schooler who crashes the Dance Party and becomes a favorite of the Read More

Nitti

Synopsis: Al Capone's imprisonment opened the way for mobster Frank Nitti to become the underworld king of Chicago as related in this true story. (AKA Nitti) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Hunter: Girl on the Beach

Synopsis: Hunter's boss Devane (Charles Hallahan) is aroused from his slumbers late one night by his ex-wife Sarah (Frances Lee McCain), who shows up at his doorstep with an incredible story about finding an abandoned car and a dead woman. Even worse, Sarah has been drinking, and is convinced that she is Read More

Hunter: Naked Justice, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two part story, Hunter (Fred Dryer) is convinced that the murder of a movie star will be solved the moment he catches up with a Bulgarian hit-man in Mexico. Though Hunter's trip South of the Border clears up the mystery as to why the CIA is so interested in the case, the Read More

Throw Momma From the Train

Actors: Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Anne Ramsey, Kim Greist, Kate Mulgrew

Synopsis: The "exchange murders" plot gambit, played with utter solemnity in Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, is used as the launching pad for raucous laughter in Throw Momma From the Train. Director/star Danny DeVito plays Owen Lift, a middle-aged bachelor, totally dominated by his gorgon mother, played Read More

Happy New Year

Actors: Peter Falk, Charles Durning, Wendy Hughes, Tom Courtenay, Joan Copeland

Synopsis: Happy New Year is an Americanized remake of the 1974 French film of the same name. Peter Falk and Charles Durning play Nick and Charlie, a pair of seedy but suave jewel thieves. Preparing to rob the exclusive Florida jewelry store managed by Tom Courtenay, Nick and Charlie meticulously pre-plan Read More

Night Court: Murder

Synopsis: Sweet old Mrs. Rothman (Florence Stanley) dodders into the courtroom to confess the murder of her husband. The motive, opportunity and details are clear--but Judge Harry (Harry Anderson) has trouble believing her. Elsewhere, Dan (John Larroquette) is taken aback when he is rejected as a sperm Read More

Hunter: City of Passion, Part 2

Synopsis: In the second episode of a three-part story, the teenage hooker who'd busted a corrupt judge (Robert Reed) is abducted by a band of Satanists. Meanwhile, Rick Hunter (Fred Dryer) is stymied in his efforts to trap a serial rapist by lack of evidence; Dee Dee McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) and undercover Read More

Hunter: City of Passion, Part 3

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a three-part story, McCall ({$Stepfanie Kramer]) is strangely recluctant to report her near-rape at the hands of the predatory Lloyd Fredericks (Frederick Coffin). Elsewhere, while rounding up a band of Satan worshippers, Hunter (Fred Dryer) is forced into another "shoot first Read More

Hunter: City of Passion, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a three-part story, Hunter (Fred Dryer) finds himself up against a crooked judge, a coven of Satanists, and a serial killer known only as Big Foot. The intrigues commence when McCall is pressured to drop charges against Judge Warren Unger (Robert Reed), who was caught in a Read More

Armed and Dangerous

Actors: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Robert Loggia, Kenneth McMillan, Meg Ryan

Synopsis: In Armed and Dangerous, John Candy plays a cop who has been kicked off the force on a trumped up charge. Eugene Levy costars as a disbarred lawyer. The two outcasts take low-paying jobs as security officers at a company controlled by mob boss Robert Loggia. In their own stumblebum fashion, Candy Read More

Stand by Me

Actors: John Cusack, Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Richard Dreyfuss, Kiefer Sutherland

Synopsis: Based on the Stephen King short story The Body, Rob Reiner's easygoing nostalgia piece is set in Castle Rock, OR, over Labor Day weekend, 1959. A quartet of boys, inseparable friends all, set out in search of a dead body that one of the boys overhears his brother talking about. The foursome Read More

Night Court: The Gypsy

Synopsis: It seems terribly funny when gypsy fortuneteller Madame Loretta (Erica Yohn), cited for ontempt of court, places a curse on everyone in the courtroom. But no one is laughing when Bull (Richard Bull) suddenly becomes paralyzed and Dan's accountant (Herb Gilpin) abruptly drops dead during a tax Read More

Alice: Tommy's First Love

Synopsis: Alice's 14-year-old son Tommy (Philip McKeon) is in the throes of his first case of puppy love. Not that there's been any real physical contact: in fact, Tommy mostly conducts his courtship by telephone. And it is precisely for this reason that mom Alice (Linda Lavin) is up in arms--the kid spends Read More

The Muppet Movie

Actors: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Charles Durning, Dave Goelz

Synopsis: Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear, from of the large crew of loveably fuzzy characters created by puppetmaster Jim Henson, have embarked on a quest for stardom. They take a trip to Hollywood, riding in or on a wide variety of vehicles along the way. They begin their journey on a bicycle pedalled by Read More

Fyre

Synopsis: When a young woman travels from her Midwestern home town to the fast-paced streets of Los Angeles, she gets sucked into the dark world of prostitution. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Rockford Files: The Paper Palace

Synopsis: Rita Moreno makes her first series appearance as freewheeling prostitute Rita Capkovic, who is one of Dennis Becker's most reliable (but least welcome!) street informants. When Rita is attacked by a couple of shady French-speaking characters, she hires Jim (James Garner) to find out who is trying Read More

The Commitment

Actors: Richard Grand, Joe Turkel, Jon Ian Jacobs

Synopsis: Troubled by huge gambling debts, Steve (Richard Grand) is a salesman whose life and prospects are dreary indeed. His wife is anxious to move upward economically and socially, and he is caught between her desires and the grimness of his situation if he is unable to repay the debts. ~ Clarke Read More

Kojak: Out of the Shadows

Synopsis: Kojak (Telly Savalas) goes on a manhunt for "The Grim Reaper", a serial killer who preys upon merchants whom he feels have stiffed him financially. Six such murders occur before a hostile graffiti artist named Roger Villers (Ken Sylk) confesses to the crimes. Refusing to believe that Villers is Read More

The Rockford Files: The Real Easy Red Dog

Synopsis: A woman identifying herself as Jennifer Sandstrom claims that her sister's death was not a suicide as reported, and hires Jim (James Garner) to find out for sure. It doesn't take long for Jim to determine that his client has not been entirely honest and up-front--and indeed, she isn't even Read More

Kojak: The Trade-Off

Synopsis: Kojak (Telly Savalas) is approached with an offer that he may not be in a position to refuse. The detective has been ordered to relinquish incriminating evidence against a man named Steiner (Mark Stevens), who has been arrested on drug charges. If Kojak fails to do so, the kidnapped wife (Jean Le Read More

Conspiracy of Terror

Synopsis: Mixing humor and melodrama, this curiosity has a husband-and-wife detective duo investigating Satanic goings on in an American suburb, all the while bickering about their in-laws and other domestic problems. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Ten Dollar Murder

Synopsis: Police inspector Irene Elliott (Carol Rossen) is successful at her job, but less successful as a parent. As an act of rebellion, Irene's son Bob (Mark Wheeler) prowls around San Francisco, sticking up taxicabs just for kicks. But the "fun and games" are over for both Irene and Bob when, during one Read More

Kojak: Money Back Guarantee

Synopsis: A well organized ring of car thieves is flourishing in Manhattan, thanks to crime victims who appear more than willing to be ripped off. It's all part of an insurance scam, wherein cars are deliberately stolen so that the owners can collect huge settlements. Kojak (Telly Savalas) vows to stop the Read More

M*A*S*H: Hey, Doc

Synopsis: Some fancy horse-trading (without any horses) distinguishes this episode. In order to acquire a tank to scare off enemy snipers, the doctors of the 4077th must agree to administer an "illegal" penicillin shot. And in a related development, two precious bottles of Scotch are bartered for a bit of Read More

The Rockford Files: The Big Ripoff

Synopsis: This episode offers the viewer a glimpse of two stars in the making: Jill Clayburgh and Suzanne Somers). Clayburgh plays Marilyn Polanski, a model whom Jim Rockford (James Garner) meets while working for Ginny Nelson (Somers), the "widow" of a man (Fred Beir) reported killed in a plane crash. It Read More

Emergency!: Seance

Synopsis: Squad 51's emergency hotline is tied up a hysterical woman (Fintan Meyler) who is convinced that her husband (Charles Aidman) is being stalked. . .by the ghost of her late sister. Elsewhere, a tranquilizer overdose results in a quick trip to the E.R., a diver is trapped fifteen feet beneath the Read More

The Marcus-Nelson Murders

Synopsis: A roman a clef depicting the Wylie-Hoffert murders, this is the first of the made for TV movies introducing the Kojak character and was essentially the pilot for the long-running crime series. When a black ghetto youth is accused of two bizarre murders, Kojak takes it upon himself to find the real Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Fit, Fat and Forty-One

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: Bob panics when he discovers that he's gained eight pounds since his last birthday. Having seen the light, Bob immediately goes on a crash diet. When this ploy inevitably fails, Jerry arranges for Bob to attend a reducing class run by a sixtysomething health freak named Olga (Lilyan Chauvin). Read More

Kojak: Requiem for a Cop

Synopsis: No one is more grief-stricken than Kojak (Telly Savalas) when his old friend, a veteran detective, is found murdered with $10,000 in cash on his body. It appears that the victim was on the take, and as such has been slated for what the NYPD calls "burial with dishonor." Kojak has only 48 hours to Read More

Kojak: Web of Death

Synopsis: Kojak (Telly Savalas) begins his search for the murderer of a womanizing Wall Street lawyer. What he doesn't know is that the perp is one of his own detectives, Nick Ferro (Hector Elizondo). Having committed the crime after discovering that his own wife (Barbara Rhoades) was one of the victim's Read More

The Young Graduates

Synopsis: In this youthful drama, teenagers grow into young adults. The story centers on a young woman who falls in love with one of her teachers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Thief

Actors: Michael Lerner, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: Thief is a made-for-TV drama starring Richard Crenna as a paroled burglar. Crenna wants to turn over a new leaf and lead an honest life. To do this, however, he has to pull one last major heist which will square all his accrued debts. The focal point of this film is a near-silent cat burglar Read More

How to Frame a Figg

Actors: Savannah Bentley

Synopsis: In this comedy, a bungling bookkeeper's assistant works in the Dalton city hall and finds himself framed for embezzling by his corrupt superiors. A sweet young woman helps him clear his name. He is also assisted by Leo the computer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide 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

J.W. Coop

Actors: Lex Connelly, Myrtis Dightman, Frank Hobbs, Billy Hogue, Johnnie Jackson, Mel Lambert, Billy Martinelli, Clem McSpadden, Dennis Reiners, Augie Vallejo, Cliff Robertson, Geraldine Page, Cristina Ferrare, R.G. Armstrong, John Crawford

Synopsis: Cliff Robertson wrote, produced, directed and acted the lead in this film about a rodeo performer. The rodeo footage in this film was shot at actual rodeo competitions. Rodeo rider J.W. Coop (Robertson) has just spent ten years in jail for passing bad checks. He comes out and discovers that Read More

Catch-22

Actors: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Jon Voight

Synopsis: Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation of Joseph Heller's satiric antiwar novel. Haunted by the death of a young gunner, all-too-sane Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) wants out of the rest of his WW II bombing Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Gowns By Yvette

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan plans to use the wedding of General Burkhalter's chubby niece Frieda (Muriel Landers) as a rendezvous point with an Underground agent -- and as step one in an elaborate escape plan. Thus it is that Hogan's Gallic "hero" LeBeau impersonates an effete Parisian designer. Others in the cast Read More

Bonanza: The Big Jackpot

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

Synopsis: Inheriting a fortune from an Indian benefactor, Candy fulfills his long-standing ambition to quit the Ponderosa. Before long, Candy has accepted an executive position with a prosperous-looking land promoter (Walter Brooke). But when he discovers that his boss is a crook, Candy enlists the aid of Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Gestapo Takeover

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Major Strauss (Joseph Ruskin) of the Gestapo takes charge of Stalag 13 and ships Klink and Schultz off to the Russian front. Hogan devises an elaborate masquerade, contingent upon Newkirk's gift for celebrity impressions. Bruce Kirby, the father of film star Bruno Kirby, appears as Otto Baum Read More

Ironside: The Happy Dreams of Hollow Men

Synopsis: Vacationing at a mountain cabin, Ironside (Raymond Burr) ends up trapped in a blizzard with an old friend named Harry Peters (Joseph Campanella). It soon becomes painfully obvious that Peters is a drug addict who will become dangerously violent once his supply runs out. Ironside's only hope for Read More

Ironside: Dora

Synopsis: Woe betide the criminal who ever makes the mistake of victimizing a friend of Chief Robert Ironside (Raymond Burr)! In this case, the friend is a fruit seller named Dora Copeland (Ann Doran). A syndicate of protection racketeers has swarmed into town in hopes of gaining control of San Francisco's Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Gasoline War

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: The Germans install a fueling station in Barracks 12, right next to Stalag 13. Hogan must hatch a scheme to blow up the station without blowing up himself or his men. Mariana Hill, best known for her performance as a blind-drunk Corleone bride in the Oscar-winning The Godfather II, is cast as Read More

Adam-12: Log 123: Courtroom

Synopsis: While making a routine arrest on a traffic warrant, Officers Reed (Kent McCord) and Malloy (Martin Milner) come upon a large staff of narcotics. Convicted on a drug charge on the strength of this evidence, the perp turns the table on the two cops and brings them to court, hoping to gain his own 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

Bonanza: Child

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Unbeknownst to Hoss Cartwright, the horse he has just purchased previously belonged to a murdered millionaire. As a result, Hoss is railroaded into jail on a murder-theft charge. Threatened with lynching by a band of townsfolk eager to get their hands on the dead man's missing money, Hoss breaks Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: Jeannie and the Top Secret

Synopsis: It has been three years since Tony (Larry Hagman) and Jeannie (Barbara Eden) first met. The couple plans to go out and celebrate, but Tony is called back to the base and assigned to deliver a top-secret film to NASA headquarters. Unfortunately, Tony is not allowed to tell Jeannie anything about Read More