Cindy EilbacherFilmography

Thunder Alley

Actors: Roger Wilson, Jill Schoelen, Scott McGinnis, Cindy Eilbacher, Clancy Brown

Synopsis: In a standard story of a band's rise to popularity broken by drugs and tragedy, the friendship of the band members is tested to the limits. Donnie (Scott McGinnis) has started a band and wants his friend Richie (Roger Wilson) to join and help them put together a winning sound. Richie overcomes his Read More

There Were Times, Dear

Actors: Shirley Jones, Len Cariou, Cindy Eilbacher, Dana Elcar, Alan Haufrect

Synopsis: This excellent docudrama is an affecting dramatization of the decline of an Alzheimer's victim and the emotional and psychological toll his fatal illness takes on his family. Bob Millard (Len Cariou) is an active outdoorsman, he is strong and healthy and vibrant with life when the symptoms of Read More

Hunter: Pen Pals

City in Fear

Actors: David Janssen, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: In his last appearance before the cameras, David Janssen plays an alcoholic journalist desperate for a comeback. Janssen hitches his star to ruthless publisher Robert Vaughn, who is exploiting a rash of brutal murders to sell papers. The danger here is that the unknown serial killer, who preys Read More

A Last Cry for Help

Actors: Linda Purl

Synopsis: "Sharon cries out for strength...for hope...for love...." So read the ad copy for the made-for-TV A Last Cry For Help Sharon (Linda Purl) is an outwardly happy, normal high schooler: A-student, cheerleader, popular with everyone. So why is she so determined to commit suicide? Director Hal Read More

The Immigrants

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Howard Fast, the two-part, four-hour miniseries The Immigrants is the saga of Dan Lavetta (Stephen Macht). The son of an impoverished Italian immigrant family, Dan manages to emerge from the rubble of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (cunningly re-created via Read More

A Fire in the Sky

Actors: Elizabeth Ashley, Lloyd Bochner, Andrew Duggan, David Dukes, Joanna Miles, Merlin Olsen, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: The story begins as an astronomer notices that a blazing comet is headed straight for Phoenix Arizona. Unfortunately, no one believes him. They will eventually, but only after most of Phoenix has been reduced to cinders. Emmies went to the special effects (among the best ever seen on TV in those Read More

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie relates the true story of the infamous Donner Party, the group of unlucky pioneers who were stranded in the Rockies by a snowstorm and had to eat the bodies of the dead to survive. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Richie

Synopsis: This powerful made-for-television drama made a memorable impact on audiences in the late '70s and has earned a cult following as a result. The story focuses on Richie (Robby Benson), a well-meaning but emotionally confused teen who finds it all too easy to turn to drugs when he feels the world Read More

Blind Sunday

Actors: Leigh McCloskey, Jewel Blanch, Betty Beaird, Dick Van Patten, Debi Storm

Synopsis: Leigh McCloskey stars in this ABC Afterschool Special as Jeff, a teenage boy who falls in love with Eileen (Jewel Blanch), a fiercely independent blind girl whom he has met at the local swimming pool. Somewhat put off by the girl's adamant insistence that she be treated like a normal person, Jeff Read More

The Waltons: The Cloudburst

Synopsis: Newly married to Dr. Curt Willard (Tom Bower), Mary Ellen (Judy Norton-Taylor) begins to doubt that she is worthy of her husband--especially when she faints dead away while helping him during surgery. Elsewhere, John-Boy (Richard Thomas) comes to regret selling land entrusted to him by Grandpa Read More

The Waltons: The Emergence

Synopsis: With schoolteacher Rosemary Fordwick still on her honeymoon, Olivia Walton (Michael Learned) continues to substitute-teach in Rosemary's classroom. One of Olivia's students is a painfully shy youngster named Samuel Miller (Bob Arsic), who has been written off a "slow" because of his inability to Read More

The Waltons: The Sermon

Synopsis: As The Waltons begins its fourth season, Rev. Matthew Fordwick (John Ritter) and schoolteacher Rosemary Hunter (Mariclare Costello) are about to leave Walton's Mountain for their wedding and honeymoon. In their absence, John-Boy Walton (Richard Thomas) agrees to deliver the Sunday sermon, while Read More

The Waltons: The Ring

Synopsis: Rummaging through a second-hand purse which she has purchased in anticipation of going to a dance with John-Boy's friend Mike (Ted Eccles), Mary Ellen (Judy Norton-Taylor) finds a valuable ring. Allowing vanity to get the better of her, Mary Ellen decides to wear the ring to the dance, even as its Read More

Bad Ronald

Actors: Scott Jacoby, Pippa Scott, John Larch, Dabney Coleman, Kim Hunter

Synopsis: "Bad" Ronald (Scott Jacoby) has been in hiding in a secret room ever since going off the deep end and killing a teenaged girl who'd made fun of him. Ronald's mother (Kim Hunter) helps her son to remain hidden, even when the house in which he is sequestered is rented by a family. As luck would have Read More

Shanks

Actors: Mondo, Lara Wing

Synopsis: Shanks is not so much a movie as an hallucinatory experience. World-renowned mime Marcel Marceau plays a dual role as a mute puppeteer and an eccentric inventor. The inventor dies, passing along his secrets for reviving corpses to the puppeteer. With the help of an enigmatic little girl, Marceau Read More

The Waltons: The Prize

Synopsis: The Waltons attend the annual County Fair, where each family member hopes to win a prize. At the same time, Olivia's former beau Oscar Cockrell (Peter Donat) shows up at the fair in hopes of advancing his political career. Comparing Oscar's affluence with his own family's lack of same, John-Boy Read More

The Waltons: The Bequest

Synopsis: Grandma Walton (Ellen Corby) is pleasantly surprised when she receives a huge bequest--a whole $250!--from a casual acquaintance. Naturally, everybody in the Walton household has a special plan on how best to spend the money, and just as naturally, Grandma intends to be generous with her windfall Read More

The Waltons: The Braggart

Synopsis: Orphan Hobie Shanks (Michael McGreevey), who years earlier had briefly stayed with the Waltons, returns to the Mountain brimming over with braggadocio. Everyone is impressed by Hobie's claim that he is about to be given a pitching tryout with a professional baseball team--everyone, that is, except Read More

The Waltons: The Thanksgiving Story, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-part episode), John-Boy (Richard Thomas) refuses to reveal the seriousness of his accident, terrified that he will no longer qualify for a scholarship at Boatwright University. As John-Boy's eyesight grows weaker with each Read More

The Waltons: The Thanksgiving Story, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), John-Boy (Richard Thomas) is afforded the opportunity to qualify for a scholarship at Boatwright University--and, as icing on the cake, his former girlfriend Jenny (Sian Barbara Allen) is paying a return Read More

Adam-12: Airdrop

Synopsis: Fresh from his success in the movie blockbuster The Godfather, singer Al Martino guest stars as a cocky pilot named Paul Stocker, who is spotted making a suspicious landing by a passing equistrienne (Cindy Eilbacher). Investigating, Officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) 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 Waltons: The Hunt

Synopsis: In this episode from the first season of the long-running television series The Waltons, 16-year-old John-Boy (Richard Thomas) is deemed old enough to go hunting and he volunteers to join a turkey shoot. But John-Boy hates the idea of killing animals, and when a prize bird is in his rifle's sight Read More

The Partridge Family: Who is Max Ledbetter and Why is He Saying Those Horrible Things?

Synopsis: In his last professional appearance (he died on January 28, 1973), former Hogan's Heroes costar John Banner is cast as Max Ledbetter, bakery owner and self-styled psychic. Hoping to persuade the Partridges to help him pay his mortgage (we'd say "help him raise some dough", but that would be too Read More

The Great Man's Whiskers

Synopsis: In this comedy-drama, President Lincoln temporarily abandons his inaugural tour to visit a little girl who wrote him a letter asking him to grow a beard. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bonanza: Rock-a-Bye Hoss

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Victor Sen Yung, Edward Andrews

Synopsis: In this comic episode, Hoss Cartwright is tapped to judge a Virginia City "beautiful baby" contest. In so doing, he inadvertently sparks a chain reaction of disaster and ill will, culminating with the exposure of a long-suppressed "scandal". The Moral: All babies are beautiful, but most grownups Read More

Crowhaven Farm

Actors: John Carradine

Synopsis: Crowhaven Farm is a contrived creepy-crawly originally telecast on The ABC Movie of the Week. Hope Lange is probably the last person you'd expect to see in the middle of a witchcraft/reincarnation plot, but there she is, in the company of Paul Burke, Lloyd Bochner and (who else?) John Carradine Read More

Green Acres: The Confrontation

Actors: Frank Ferguson, Helen Kleeb, Johnny Whitaker, Debi Storm, Richard Steele

Synopsis: Newly appointed as president of the Hooterville school board, Oliver (Eddie Albert) must deal with a fervent campaign, spearheaded by his neighbors, to reinstate an expelled student. This isn't as easy as it seems: the "student" is Arnold the pig, who has been banished from the schoolhouse for Read More

A Clear and Present Danger

Actors: Joseph Campanella, Cindy Eilbacher, Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: The Bold Ones was the umbrella title given a group of rotating hour-long TV series, which ran from 1969 to 1973. Joining established Bold Ones components The Doctors and The Lawyers in 1970 was The Senator, starring Hal Holbrook as RFK-like Senator Hays Stowe. The pilot for The Senator was A Clear and Present Danger Read More

Green Acres: The Reincarnation of Eb

Actors: Garry Walberg, Cindy Eilbacher, Joe Hernandez

Synopsis: Here's the situation: Eb (Tom Lester), the Douglases' handyman, has been reported missing. Lisa Douglas (Eva Gabor) has been reading up on reincarnation. A stray dog wanders onto the Douglases' farm. Lisa jumps to what is for her the obvious conclusion: the pooch is actually Eb, returned from the Read More

The Big Bounce

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Leigh Taylor-Young, Van Heflin, Lee Grant, James Daly

Synopsis: Jack Ryan (Ryan O'Neal) is a cucumber picker who is fired after a fight with a Mexican-American (Victor Paul) co-worker. He finds work on a ranch owned by Ray Ritchie (James Daly). Soon his private secretary Nancy (Leigh Taylor-Young) is after Jack. She spends her free time in pursuit of hedonism Read More

Family Affair: Ballerina Buffy

Synopsis: Buffy (Anissa Jones) is chosen over her classmate Melissa (Cindy Eilbacher) as the lead dancer in a ballet version of "Little Red Riding Hood". Miffed over this casting coup, Melissa's mom Clara (Ann McCrea) insists that Buffy got the starring part only because dance teacher Margot Dunbar is a Read More

Combat!: The Furlough

Synopsis: On furlough in London, Saunders (Vic Morrow) delivers a $300 bequest to a local orphanage. The hard-bitten sergeant ends up lending a helping hand to Ann Tinsley (Carol Lawrence), who in true stiff-upper-lip fashion is trying to keep the orphans hale and hearty during an upsurge of German bombing Read More