Dabney ColemanFilmography

Domino

Actors: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Delroy Lindo

Synopsis: The (mostly) true story of a Hollywood princess turned bounty hunter is told in this witty action-drama from director Tony Scott. Domino Harvey (Keira Knightley) was the daughter of famed actor Laurence Harvey (played by Jesse Pate) who passed on when Domino was only eight years old. Domino's Read More

Where the Red Fern Grows

Actors: Dave Matthews, Ned Beatty, Dabney Coleman, Kris Kristofferson, Joseph Ashton

Synopsis: Based on the 1961 children's novel by Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows is a family-oriented drama four years in the making. This project is co-directed by Lyman Dayton, who also adapted the screenplay and produced the 1974 filmed version. The story involves 12-year-old Billy Coleman (Joseph Ashton Read More

Moonlight Mile

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon, Ellen Pompeo, Holly Hunter

Synopsis: Frequent television director Brad Silberling directs the romantic drama Moonlight Mile. Set in a Massachusetts town in the early '70s, Joe Nast (Jake Gyllenhaal) is distraught after the death of his fiancée. He moves in with her parents, Ben (Dustin Hoffman) and JoJo (Susan Sarandon), while trying Read More

The Climb

Actors: Jason Winston George, Ned Vaughn, Dabney Coleman, Clifton Davis, Kyli Santiago

Synopsis: An action-filled adventure drama with conservative Christian overtones, The Climb (2002) tells the story of Derrick Williams (Without a Trace's Jason George) and Michael Harris (Apollo 13's Ned Vaughn), two professional mountain climbers constantly at each other's throats. The men push their lives Read More

Fighting for Freedom: Revolution & Civil War

Synopsis: Filmmakers Phillip B. Kunhardt III, Nancy Steiner, and Peter W. Kunhardt explore the eternal struggle for liberty in America while simultaneously illuminating the hypocritical underlying factors that undermined the colonist's bold "experiment in freedom," in a revealing documentary featuring the Read More

Recess the Movie: School's Out

Actors: Rickey D'Shon Collins, Jason Davis, Ashley Johnson, Andrew Lawrence, Courtland Mead

Synopsis: Based on the popular animated children's program Disney's Recess, this full-length film focuses on the end of a school year, where young pupil T.J. Detweiler is looking ahead to having a wild, fun-packed summer vacation. T.J. stumbles upon a plot hatched by the villainous Dr. Benedict, a former Read More

Kiss My Act

Actors: Camryn Manheim, Scott Cohen, Dabney Coleman, Marlee Matlin

Synopsis: An aspiring comic who has to hide behind others to get her humor in front of an audience finds you can't do the same thing when it comes to romance. Samantha Berger (Camryn Manheim) works as a bartender at a New York comedy club; possessing a sharp imagination and a quick wit , Samantha writes Read More

The Guardian [TV Series]

Actors: Simon Baker, Dabney Coleman, Alan Rosenberg, Raphael Sbarge, Erica Leerhsen

Synopsis: Simon Baker stars in this weekly, 60-minute drama series as Nick Fallin, a hotshot attorney working for his father Burton's (Dabney Coleman) prestigious Philadelphia law firm. Arrested for doing cocaine, Nick is sentenced to 1,500 hours of community service. Reluctantly, he signs on as a part-time Read More

How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale

Actors: John Stamos, Joshua Malina, Shemar Moore, Gabrielle Anwar, Dorie Barton

Synopsis: This Yuletide-season TV movie reverses the standard "three girls on the make" formula of many an old 20th Century Fox movie, of which How to Marry a Millionaire is a choice example. This time out, a trio of enterprising young men decide to go on the prowl for rich wives, after first consulting a Read More

Stuart Little

Actors: Miles Marsico, Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, Nathan Lane, Jennifer Tilly

Synopsis: E.B. White's classic children's story is brought to the screen in this fantasy, which combines computer-animated characters with a cast of live actors. Mrs. Little (Geena Davis), Mr. Little (Hugh Laurie), and their son George (Jonathan Lipnicki) live in a brownstone near New York's Central Park. Read More

Inspector Gadget

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely Fisher, Michelle Trachtenberg, Andy Dick

Synopsis: Matthew Broderick stars in this live-action adaptation of the popular animated series. When a well-meaning but overly trusting security guard is wounded in an explosion created by the evil Dr. Claw, a beautiful scientist named Brenda (Joely Fisher) takes him under her wing and turns him into a Read More

Must Be Santa

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Deanna Milligan

Synopsis: In this holiday-themed comedy, Santa Claus decides the time has come for him to retire. However, the selection process for a replacement doesn't go quite as expected, and the new St. Nick turns out to be a young African-American man, who is as puzzled as anyone at how he got the job. Dabney Coleman Read More

Giving It Up

Actors: Mark Feuerstein, Amy Redford, Ali Larter, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: Rising advertising executive Ralph (Mark Feuerstein) is irresistible to women and he to them – he can even bed Lesbians. But when he falls for a new co-worker (Amy Redford) Ralph decides to change his ways by becoming celibate, and finds it harder than he thought to stay out of strange beds Read More

You've Got Mail

Actors: Michael Palin, Hallee Hirsh, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey, Greg Kinnear, Jean Stapleton

Synopsis: Sleepless in Seattle director Nora Ephron originally made a name for herself as the writer of romantic comedies such as Heartburn and When Harry Met Sally. She continues the genre with You've Got Mail, marking her second collaboration with actors Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. The story brings romance Read More

Exiled: A Law & Order Movie

Actors: Chris Noth, Dabney Coleman, Dana Eskelson, John Fiore, Dann Florek

Synopsis: Essentially a feature-length episode of NBC's long-running series Law & Order, this crime and courtroom drama marks the return of Chris Noth (Detective Mike Logan) to Manhattan's 27th precinct. For the past three years, Logan has been stuck on Staten Island, the result of an incident in which he Read More

Target Earth

Synopsis: Ever since the 1950s, the area around the city of Springfield, Illinois has been plagued by mysterious 3-day abductions, with the victims returning just as quickly as they disappeared, seemingly none the worse for wear. In truth, however, these victims have been harvest by aliens, who, using Read More

Taken

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Linda Smith

Synopsis: A man being held hostage discovers others besides his captors have it in for him in this taut thriller. Ethan Grover (Dabney Coleman) is a successful businessman who has made more than his share of enemies. His wife, Judy (Linda Smith), has been having an affair with Allan (Stewart Bick), one of Read More

My Date With the President's Daughter

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Jay Thomas, Will Friedle, Elisabeth Harnois

Synopsis: All poor Hallie Richmond wants is to be able to go on a normal date like every other teenage girl. Unfortunately, as the daughter of the U.S. president, she can never be treated as normal, and everywhere she goes she is followed by an obtrusive cadre of secret servicemen. Considered a bit of a Read More

Un Amour de Sorcière

Actors: Vanessa Paradis, Jeanne Moreau, Gil Bellows, Jean Reno

Synopsis: The good witch Morgane bears a son and finds herself faced with a painful choice. Tradition requires that she select a godfather for the child at the exact moment of its birth. The moral alignment of the godfather will determine that of the child. The trouble is that there are only six witches Read More

The Magic School Bus Sees Stars (Stars)

Actors: Dabney Coleman

Devil's Food

Synopsis: Aspiring TV journalist Sally McCormick (Suzanne Somers) can't get anyone to hire her--and the reason, she concludes, is that she is simply too chubby for the small screen. Although her boyfriend Andrew Burns (William Katt) tells her that eventually her talent will be judged separate from her Read More

Idols of the Game 2: Babes in Boyland

Synopsis: For some six centuries, professional sports was male-dominated, but eventually women managed to break through the uni-gender status of various professional sports and shine through determination and great skill -- athletes like U.S. Olympic Gold winner and pro golfer Babe Didrikson, tennis Read More

Idols of the Game 3: Love and Money

Idols of the Game 1: Inventing the All American

In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Timothy Busfield, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: The FBI investigates a fallen IRS agent who has apparently been using taxpayer's most personal information to formulate and execute kidnapping and extortion schemes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Clifford

Actors: Martin Short, Charles Grodin, Mary Steenburgen, Dabney Coleman, G.D. Spradlin

Synopsis: Versatile Canadian comedian Martin Short plays a 10-year old boy in this comedy aimed at younger audiences. The tale is told in flashback to another little boy. Clifford is a manipulative brat. Clifford really wants to visit Dinosaur World in Los Angeles. Clifford wants to go so badly that he Read More

Judicial Consent

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Will Patton, Billy Wirth, Dabney Coleman, Michael Greene, Lisa Blount

Synopsis: A judge is set up for murder in this suspenseful thriller. Criminal court judge Gwen Warwick is about to be appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court. One night she engages in sex with law clerk Martin in his office. They begin a torrid affair. A colleague of Gwen's, Charles Matron, is discovered Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies

Actors: Diedrich Bader, Dabney Coleman, Erika Eleniak, Cloris Leachman, Rob Schneider, Jim Varney

Synopsis: Penelope Spheeris directed this compulsively faithful film adaptation of the popular 1960s television series. The familiar story 'bout a man named Jed Clampett (Jim Varney), a poor mountaineer who barely kept his family fed, continues to follow the TV show's format. Jed discovers oil on his Read More

Amos & Andrew

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson, Dabney Coleman, Michael Lerner, Margaret Colin

Synopsis: When African-American professional Andrew Sterling (Samual L. Jackson) moves into a summer home on an up-tight all-white New England resort island, the snoopy white neighbors are sure he must be breaking and entering. They call the cops who get too rambunctious and break into Sterling's limo Read More

There Goes the Neighborhood

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Catherine O'Hara, Hector Elizondo, Rhea Perlman, Dabney Coleman, Judith Ivey

Synopsis: Avarice is the motivation behind the zany deeds in this comedy. It all begins when a dying prisoner whispers the location of his loot to the facility's psychiatrist who heads to Cherry Hill, New Jersey to find it. Unbeknownst to him, he is followed by two fugitive convicts who overheard the Read More

Lincoln: Now He Belongs to the Ages, 1865

Synopsis: This video is the fourth installment of the Lincoln series, originally aired on PBS. This volume focuses on the last days and hours of Abraham Lincoln's life. Viewers watch as Lincoln's enemies plot their final revenge on the man they believed had dishonored their heritage. The video also reveals Read More

Lincoln: The Making of a President, 1860-1862

Synopsis: A shrewd politician, Abraham Lincoln had the intelligence, ambition, and principles to grow into his job as president. This is the first of four videos in the Lincoln series, which originally aired on PBS. Produced and directed by Peter W. Kunhardt, this program is narrated by renowned actor James Read More

Lincoln: I Want to Finish This Job, 1864

Synopsis: By the third year of the Civil War, personal and national tragedy had worn down President Lincoln. However, he focused on his job tenaciously, having a strong sense of history. This is the third of four programs in the Lincoln series, which originally aired on PBS. Produced and directed by Peter Read More

Lincoln: The Pivotal Year, 1863

Synopsis: President Abraham Lincoln leads the Union in the fight to end the awful bloodshed of the Civil War. The year is 1863. The president had a continuous struggle with the commanders of his army, and the bloodshed from the fighting at Antietam and Fredericksburg distressed him greatly. 1863 was the Read More

The Applegates

Actors: Ed Begley, Jr., Stockard Channing, Cami Cooper, Bobby Jacoby, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: The Applegates is the video title for the darkly satirical comedy Meet the Applegates. The titular family, for all intents and purposes human beings, are actually a clan of giant Brazilian Cocorada bugs. Paterfamilias Dick Applegate (Ed Begley Jr.) takes a job with an Ohio nuclear power plant Read More

Never Forget

Actors: Leonard Nimoy, Dabney Coleman, Blythe Danner

Synopsis: In this fact-based made-for-cable docudrama, Leonard Nimoy stars as Mel Mermelstein, a Nazi death camp survivor who wages a court battle against the revisionist Institute for Historical Review over their claims that the Holocaust never occurred. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star

Actors: Peter Falk, Dabney Coleman, Cheryl Paris, Julian Stone, Shera Danese

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, the rumpled detective battles wits with a brilliant defense attorney who kills his mistress. Trouble ensues when he attempts to frame her lover for the murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Short Time

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Matt Frewer, Teri Garr, Barry Corbin, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: Gregg Champion, the son of dance stars Marge and Gower Champion, made his feature film directorial debut with this sitcom-influenced cop comedy. Dabney Coleman stars as Burt Simpson, a police detective one week short of retirement, who is told he has a rare blood disease called Wechsler's Curtain Read More

Where the Heart Is

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Uma Thurman, Joanna Cassidy, Crispin Glover, David Hewlett, Suzy Amis

Synopsis: In this comedy from writer-director John Boorman, wealthy real estate mogul Stewart McBain (Dabney Coleman) owns a demolition firm which specializes in blowing up old buildings to make way for upscale new ones. When neighbors protest his plans to raze a dilapidated old building to make way for a Read More

Hot to Trot!

Actors: Bobcat Goldthwait, Dabney Coleman, John Candy, Virginia Madsen, Jim Metzler

Synopsis: After his mother's death, Fred P. Cheney (Bob Goldthwaith) must share the family financial business with his scheming stepfather Walter Sawyer (Dabney Coleman) in this misfired comedy. Fred also inherits Don, a talking horse who provides him with hot tips on the stock market. Don's voice is Read More

Baby M

Actors: John Shea, Robin Strasser, JoBeth Williams

Synopsis: Baby M is a two-part TV movie predicated on a headline-making true event. In 1985, Mary Beth Whitehead accepted $10,000 to bear a child, which then would be adopted by William and Elizabeth Stern. But after the baby's birth in March of 1986, Whitehead reneged on the agreement. The subsequent Read More

Maybe Baby

Actors: Jane Curtin, Dabney Coleman, Julia Duffy, David Bowe

Synopsis: The 1988 TV movie Maybe Baby stars Jane Curtin as Julia, a 39-year-old career woman, married to upwardly mobile 57-year-old Hal (Dabney Coleman). Julia and Hal had originally agreed not to have children, but after heeding the tick-tock of her biological clock, Julia has changed her mind. At first Read More

Dragnet

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Harry Morgan, Alexandra Paul

Synopsis: Dan Aykroyd must have practiced for months to perfect his Jack Webb inflections for Dragnet. Screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz's directorial debut (also written by Mankiewicz, along with Aykroyd, and Alan Zweibel) is a gentle spoof of the legendary '50s television police drama -- pitting '50s Read More

Saturday Night Live: Dabney Coleman

Actors: Dabney Coleman, The Cars

Synopsis: This 1987 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Dabney Coleman and features musical guest the Cars. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Guilty of Innocence - the Lenell Geter Story

Actors: Dorian Harewood, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: Dorian Harewood stars as real-life Texas engineer Lenell Geter, who in 1982 was accused of armed robbery. Beyond the fact that both he and the suspect are African-American, Geter looks nothing at all like the actual robber; still, he is identified as the culprit in a police lineup. Despite the Read More

Sworn to Silence

Synopsis: In this drama, two young attorneys jeopardize their careers by defending a hated accused murderer whom they believe is innocent. Unfortunately, his confidential confession to them indicates otherwise. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Comic Relief II

Synopsis: Released by the now-defunct Simitar Entertainment rather than Rhino Video, which handles the other Comic Relief videos, Comic Relief II is featured on two separate 60-minute videos. A 1987 live charity event benefiting America's homeless, part one of Comic Relief II is hosted by Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg Read More

The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

Actors: Stacy Keach

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer was so named for two reasons. For one, this 1986 production appeared after two previous "Hammer" TV movies and a brief weekly series. For another, star Stacy Keach was returning to American television after a British prison term for Read More

The Man with One Red Shoe

Actors: Tom Hanks, Lori Singer, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Carrie Fisher

Synopsis: In this rather routine adaptation of the French hit, The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Richard (Tom Hanks) is a bicycling violinist who is innocently drawn into a nasty struggle for control of the CIA. Cooper (Dabney Coleman) is the unscrupulous current head honcho of the notorious U.S. Read More

Murrow

Synopsis: Daniel J. Travanti plays a glum, no-nonsense Edward R. Murrow in this made-for-TV biopic. We follow Murrow's rise to prominence as America's foremost news commentator between the years 1940 through 1955, beginning with his on-the-spot radio coverage of the bombing of London. After the war, Murrow Read More

Cloak and Dagger

Actors: Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman, Michael Murphy, Christina Nigra, John McIntire

Synopsis: Juvenile actor Henry Thomas, late of E.T., is the star of Cloak and Dagger. Given to telling whoppers, Thomas finds himself in a boy-who-cried-wolf dilemma when he overhears two spies plotting to smuggle valuable info out of the US. When he can't get his own father Dabney Coleman to believe him, Thomas Read More

Buffalo Bill [TV Series]

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Joanna Cassidy, Geena Davis

Buffalo Bill: Season 01

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Joanna Cassidy, Max Wright, John Fiedler, Geena Davis, Charles Robinson

WarGames

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin

Synopsis: Once more, a wise-guy teenager tries to prove he's smarter than any adult-and nearly destroys the whole world in the process-in WarGames. Computer-game aficionado Matthew Broderick inadverently taps into a hush-hush Pentagon computer, then proceeds to inaugurate his favorite game, "Global Read More

Buffalo Bill: Season 02

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Joanna Cassidy, Max Wright, John Fiedler, Geena Davis, Charles Robinson

Tootsie

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Geena Davis

Synopsis: Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman), a brilliant but troublesome New York actor, has managed to alienate every producer on both coasts. Michael's agent George Fields (Sydney Pollack) can't even get his client a commercial since Michael complained that the tomato he was playing wasn't properly Read More

Young Doctors in Love

Actors: Michael McKean, Sean Young, Harry Dean Stanton, Patrick Macnee, Hector Elizondo

Synopsis: In this comedy, a group of randy young interns turn City Hospital upside down with their romantic liaisons and their blunders. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

On Golden Pond

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: There's little that happens in On Golden Pond that isn't thoroughly predictable from the start, but the film is blessed with so much star power, charm and honest sentiment that everyone in the audience is willing to ignore the cliches and go the distance. In his last film, Henry Fonda plays Norman Read More

Modern Problems

Actors: Chevy Chase, Patti D'Arbanville, Mary Kay Place, Nell Carter, Brian Doyle-Murray

Synopsis: An air-traffic controller (Chevy Chase) is having the worst luck: first his girlfriend leaves him, and then he experiences a nuclear disaster. His life begins to pick up after he realizes that the radiation fallout has given him magical telekinetic powers. He decides to settle a few scores with Read More

Callie and Son

Synopsis: Lindsay Wagner stars as Callie, who battles her way up the ladder from waitress to fabulously wealthy Texas socialite. The price for her success is her son Randy, played by Jameson Parker. Though wielding great power, Callie is nearly powerless in her efforts to keep Randy away from beautiful Read More

Nothing Personal

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Suzanne Somers, Lawrence Z. Dane, Roscoe Lee Browne, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: Flawed and problematic, this romantic comedy is about Abigail Adams (Suzanne Somers), a sexy, talented, and dedicated lawyer, her new client Prof. Roger Keller (Donald Sutherland), and their fight to save baby seals from slaughter. The issue was a hot one, but the film as a whole does not rise to Read More

Melvin and Howard

Actors: Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards, Jr., Mary Steenburgen, Jack Kehoe, Michael J. Pollard, Dabney Coleman, Pamela Reed

Synopsis: Jonathan Demme's breakthrough movie featured the shaggy energy and affection for marginal American eccentrics that marked his earlier Citizens Band (1977) and such later films as Something Wild (1986) and Married to the Mob (1988). Melvin Dummar (Paul LeMat) is a barely-getting-by Nevada milkman. Read More

How to Beat the High Co$t of Living

Actors: Susan Saint James, Jessica Lange, Richard Benjamin, Fred Willard

Synopsis: Jane Curtin and Susan Saint James share star-billing with Jessica Lange in this uninspired comedy about three women who need a cash infusion. (Curtin and Saint James would later co-star in the popular sitcom Kate and Allie.) Jane (Saint James) is divorced and financially pressed to raise her Read More

Nine to Five

Actors: Brad David, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, Sterling Hayden

Synopsis: Judy Bernly (Jane Fonda), a housewife whose husband has left her for his secretary, begins her own secretarial career at a huge corporation. Violet Newstead (Lily Tomlin), a feisty, veteran office manager, instructs her on the perils and procedures of office life -- and of working for Franklin Read More

Pray TV

Synopsis: In this socially conscious, satirical made-for-television drama, a con-artist becomes one of the nation's top televangelists. The film is also known as K-GOD. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Fist

Synopsis: In this actioner, a pugnacious aspiring pugilist pummels his way out of the slums to become a professional prizefighter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

North Dallas Forty

Actors: Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Charles Durning, Dabney Coleman, Dayle Haddon

Synopsis: In a society in which major league sporting events have replaced Sunday worship as the religion of choice, North Dallas Forty appears like a desecration at the altar. In this film, directed by Ted Kotcheff (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz), the National Football League is revealed to be more Read More

When She Was Bad

Synopsis: A businessman finds that denial is his only coping mechanism when faced with his wife's constant physical abuse of their daughter. His idea of a solution is to move them to a new town. When that fails, he finds himself faced with painful choices. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Maneaters Are Loose!

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Tom Willis, the made-for-TV Maneaters Are Loose! also bears a surface resemblance to the 1973 TV film Maneater. On the verge of bankruptcy, suicidal animal trainer David Birk (Steve Forrest) releases his "pets" -- two ferocious Bengal tigers -- into the woods near the small Read More

More Than Friends

Actors: Penny Marshall, Rob Reiner, Phillip Richard Allen

Synopsis: This made-for-TV ancestor to When Harry Met Sally stars the then-married Rob Reiner and Penny Marshall in what was essentially a replay of their own courtship. Covering a timespan from 1958 to 1971, the teleplay (written by Reiner and his frequent collaborator Phil Mishkin) asks the musical Read More

Rolling Thunder

Actors: William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes, Lisa Richards, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: William Devane plays a rare sympathetic role in Rolling Thunder, though his behavior is just as cold-blooded and sharkish as in any of his villainous assignments. Devane is cast as Maj. Charles Rane, a recently released Vietnam POW who is given a hero's welcome in his Texas hometown. Things sour Read More

Quincy, M.E.: A Good Smack in the Mouth

Synopsis: Melissa Astin (Barbara Babcock), the wife of Quincy's supervisor Dr. Robert Astin (John S. Ragin), stops her car to pick up a runaway boy named Joey (Shane Sinutko) --and shortly afterward is involved in a traffic accident. When Quincy (Jack Klugman) pays a visit to Melissa and Joey in the Read More

Viva Knievel!

Actors: Evel Knievel, Gene Kelly, Marjoe Gortner, Lauren Hutton, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Gordon M. Douglas' kitsch masterpiece starts as Evel Knievel (as himself) sneaks into an orphanage at midnight to distribute Evel Knievel action figures. Miraculously, one little boy casts aside his crutches and begins to walk. The plot kicks in as Evel, heading to a performance in Mexico, finds Read More

Quincy, M.E.: A Dead Man's Truth

Synopsis: Answering a call to a burglary in progress, rookie cop James Wells ({$Mark Wells) shoots an kills an intruder. Performing an autopsy on the dead man, Quincy (Jack Klugman) discovers that the evidence doesn't match the young cop's story, but he refuses to issue an official statement--leading a Read More

The Quality of Mercy

Synopsis: In this drama, a group of doctors at a rural hospital confront an inefficient public health department. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Kiss Me Kill Me

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Pat O'Brien, Robert Vaughn, Stella Stevens

Synopsis: Originally titled D.A.'s Investigator, Kiss Me Kill Me stars Stella Stevens as Stella Stafford, "leg woman" for the LA district attorney's office. The case at hand is the murder of a young, highly respected schoolteacher. Stella is certain that she has the killer dead to rights--but this is before Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Drop

Synopsis: A kidnapping has occurred, and the ruthless abductor has posted a ransom. Among the kidnaper's demands is that detective Mike Stone (Karl Malden) deliver the ransom himself. Stone agrees to this condition, even though he suspects that he is walking into a murder trap. Future Hardy Boys regular Read More

Midway

Actors: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: An expensive war epic, Midway emulates The Longest Day and Tora! Tora! Tora! in attempting to re-create a famous World War II battle from both the American and Japanese viewpoints. The 1942 battle of Midway was the turning point of the War in the Pacific; the Japanese invasion fleet was destroyed Read More

Black Fist

Synopsis: Black Fist, a tedious "blaxploitation" film made in 1976, concerns a young man -- Leroy Fist (Richard Lawson) -- who becomes involved in the mob. When he attempts to change his life, the mobsters kills his wife and Leroy goes out to seek his bloody revenge. The film contains much action but Read More

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman [TV Series]

The Other Side of the Mountain

Actors: Marilyn Hassett, Beau Bridges, Belinda Montgomery, Nan Martin, William Bryant

Synopsis: A woman struggles to rebuild her life after a devastating accident in this drama based on the true story of Jill Kinmont. Kinmont (played by Marilyn Hassett) was a top ranked amateur downhill skier who seemed assured of a place on the 1956 Olympic team. But while racing in Utah's Snow Cup Read More

Bite the Bullet

Actors: Sally Kirkland, Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn, Ben Johnson, Ian Bannen, Jan-Michael Vincent, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: An excellent cast, featuring Gene Hackman, Ben Johnson, and James Coburn, highlights this entertaining Western that came and went at the box office, barely noticed by audiences. That doesn't stop the exciting story from capturing the viewer's attention as a disparate group of riders assembles to Read More

Attack on Terror: The F.B.I. vs. The Ku Klux Klan

Actors: Ned Beatty, John Beck, George Grizzard, Rip Torn, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: Attack on Terror: The FBI Versus the Ku Klux Klan is a fact-based, two-part TV movie. The film is a dramatization of the murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. The FBI, personified herein by southern operative Wayne Rogers, is brought in to investigate the trio's Read More

Returning Home

Synopsis: Returning Home attempts to do in 72 minutes what the Oscar-winning 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives did in 172. This TV movie is a potted remake of that classic film, tracing the lives of three returning World War II servicemen. Dabney Coleman plays the Fredric March role as a married banker Read More

The Towering Inferno

Actors: Carlena Gower, Carol McEvoy, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Richard Chamberlain

Synopsis: A skyscraper and an all-star cast go up in flames in Irwin Allen's classic disaster movie. To celebrate the construction of the Glass Tower, the world's tallest building, architect Doug Roberts (Paul Newman) and builder James Duncan (William Holden) hold a gala bash on the highest floors. Trouble Read More

Kojak: Therapy in Dynamite

Synopsis: Kojak (Telly Savalas) and his colleagues are perplexed by a mad bomber who has been striking various targets on Manhattan island. Not only are clues virtually nonexistent, but the bomber doesn't seem to be following any sort of pattern. However, the audience knows something Kojak doesn't: the Read More

The Dove

Actors: Setoki Ceinaturoga, Jose Augusto DeLima, Gordon Glenwright, Garth Meade, Apenisa Naigulevu, Cecily Polson, Joseph Bottoms, Deborah Raffin, John McLiam, Dabney Coleman, John Anderson

Synopsis: Gregory Peck produced this coming-of-age adventure, richly photographed by Sven Nykvist. Based on a true story, the film documents the five-year journey of Robin Lee Graham (Joseph Bottoms), a 16-year-old boy who sets out in a 23-foot sloop, determined to be the youngest person to sail around the Read More

The F.B.I.: Survival

Synopsis: In the 240th and final episode of The F.B.I., Inspector Lew Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and his partner Chris Daniels (Shelly Novack) are hot on the trail of escaped convict Sam Belson (Jon Cypher). The two agents manage to capture Belson in the middle of the California wilderness, but in the Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Jacob's Boy

Synopsis: Brock Peters plays the central figure in this story, a man charged by Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) with a murder that he didn't commit. Unfortunately, once he surrenders his fingerprints to the authorities, he will be exposed as the same person who ran away from a homicide Read More

House of Evil

Synopsis: Four teenage girls disappear in a small New England town. One of the girls suddenly reappears in a crumbling old house (yes, the same house mentioned in the title). She claims that she's been held prisoner by a group of satanists. Subsequent events prove her right--but that's not the whole story. 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

Ironside: The Caller

Synopsis: After housesitting for a friend, Fran (Elizabeth Baur) begins receiving obscene phone calls at her own home. It doesn't take long for the caller to escalate to death threats--and when a murder occurs nearby, Fran takes it upon herself to find out if there's a link between her unseen tormentor and Read More

Cinderella Liberty

Actors: Kirk Calloway, Marsha Mason, Eli Wallach, James Caan

Synopsis: A "Cinderella Liberty" is Navy jargon for a pass that runs out at midnight. Sailor John Baggs, Jr. (James Caan) has such a pass, and intends to make the most of it while his ship is docked in Seattle. He "wins" prostitute Maggie (Marsha Mason) in a pool game, but backs off at a "wham-bam-thank you Read More

Savage

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Savage is worth seeing today as an example of early Steven Spielberg. Martin Landau stars as Paul Savage, a TV investigative reporter. In possession of a photograph that might destroy the career of a Supreme Court nominee, Savage finds himself the target of scrutiny from all sorts Read More

Dying Room Only

Actors: Cloris Leachman, Ross Martin

Synopsis: Married couple Jean (Cloris Leachman) and Jim Mitchell (Ross Martin) stop at a rundown roadside eatery. When time comes to leave, Jean is ready, but Jim isn't. In fact, Jim is nowhere to be found. Jean's anguished efforts to locate her husband are mysteriously blocked by the hulking restaurant Read More

The President's Plane Is Missing

Synopsis: A crisis ensues when Air Force One crashes while on a flight out west, apparently killing all those aboard, including President Jeremy Haines (Tod Andrews). The United States is in the midst of a confrontation with China that could lead to a nuclear war between the two countries, and the Read More

The F.B.I.: The Game of Terror

Synopsis: A pair of youthful criminal wannabes, Chill and Bryan, concoct a "game" whereby they will kidnap a young boy and hold him for ransom. But the game turns deadly when the victim is hidden in a cave that is threatening to collapse upon him at any minute! In the original TV Guide synopsis, much was Read More

The F.B.I.: Incident in the Desert

Synopsis: After pulling off a jewel heist, four thieves headed by John Elgin (Steve Ihnat) escape to a ghost town in the desert. It isn't hard for Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) to follow the criminals' trail, but arresting them is another matter: The thieves have rounded up eight townspeople as hostages. Read More

The Brotherhood of the Bell

Synopsis: Glenn Ford plays a man who joins a mysterious fraternity, "The Brotherhood of the Bell", while in college. Upon attaining wealth and prominence, Ford discovers that the Brotherhood has been keeping tabs on him, and expects certain favors from him in the private sector. It dawns on Ford that the Read More

I Love My Wife

Actors: Elliott Gould, Brenda Vaccaro, Angel Tompkins, Dabney Coleman, Leonard Stone

Synopsis: This romantic comedy finds Richard Burrows (Elliot Gould) as a medical student in residence engaged to marry the pregnant Jody (Brenda Vaccaro). When Jody abstains from sex and her mother moves in with the newlyweds, Richard engages in a series of love affairs with the hospital nurses. He meets Read More

The Trouble with Girls

Actors: Elvis Presley, Marlyn Mason, Nicole Jaffe, Sheree North, Edward Andrews

Synopsis: Walter Hale (Elvis Presley) is the manager of a chautauqua, a traveling show consisting of performances, lectures and entertainment. Along with manager Johnny (Edward Andrews), he helps some young kids break into show business and contends with the union-organizing Charlene (Marilyn Mason). Vincent Price 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

Downhill Racer

Actors: Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv, Karl Michael Vogler, Jim McMullan

Synopsis: Director Michael Ritchie's ongoing satirical spin on the American Dream is dressed up in quasi-documentary fashion in Downhill Racer. Robert Redford stars as an Olympic-grade skier, whose talent is matched only by his aloof self-involvement. As the cocksure Redford rises to the top of his class Read More

The F.B.I.: Flight

Synopsis: In a desperate effort to escape from his Mafia bosses, Walter Hazlett (Tim O'Connor) hijacks a plane and demands to be flown to Cuba. Hoping to save the life of a wounded man on board the plane, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) tries to persuade Hazlett to give himself up. Meanwhile Read More

Death Valley Days: Ten Day Millionaires

Bonanza: Queen High

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Celeste Yarnall

Synopsis: Joe Cartwright, Candy and Kate Kelly (Celeste Yarnell) form a partnership to establish an ore-stamping mill. Though Joe and Candy know next to nothing about running the mill, they have no trouble courting Kate, with both partners showing up at the lady's doorstep on alternate evenings. But it Read More

The Scalphunters

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas, Ossie Davis, Armando Silvestre

Synopsis: For his third feature outing, director Sydney Pollack helmed this comedic western starring (Burt Lancaster) as fur trapper Joe Bass. While heading for the trading post for his pay after a successful hunting season, Bass runs into a band of Kiowa Indians, who offer to trade the educated slave Read More

The Invaders, Vol. 9: The Saucer

Synopsis: Roy Thinnes was the star of this 1967-1968 science fiction series, about an Earth poised on the brink of alien takeover. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The F.B.I.: The Conspirators

Synopsis: A seaport murder alerts Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) to the presence of Communist spies in the area. Sure enough, enemy agent Conrad Letterman (Michael Rennie) is laying the groundwork for a plan to blow up a military supply ship bound for the Orient. In order for the mission to Read More

The Flying Nun: Pilot

Synopsis: This one-hour pilot episode for the popular ABC sitcom The Flying Nun introduces viewers to Sister Bertrille (Sally Field), formerly Elsie Ethrington, the newest arrival at Convent San Tanco in San Juan, Puerto Rico. One morning, a gust of wind blows the 90-pound nun into the air, where she stays Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: The Mod Party

Synopsis: Tony (Larry Hagman) is looking forward to attending the "mod" party arranged by Roger (Bill Daily). Unfortunately, on the same night as the shindig, Dr. Bellows (Hayden Rorke) insists that Tony and Roger attend a party held by Bellows' wife Amanda (Emmaline Henry). To avoid this horrendous fate Read More

The Fugitive: Coralee

Synopsis: Arriving in San Pedro Harbor, Richard Kimble (David Janssen)--alias "Tony Carter"--goes to work for two-fisted salvage boss Joe Steelman (Murray Hamilton). When one of Steelman's divers perishes beneath the waves, the locals fix the blame on the dead man's girlfriend Coralee (Antoinette Bower) Read More

The Fugitive: Approach with Care

Synopsis: Now travelling under the name "Pete Allen", Kimble befriends Willie Turner (Denny Miller), a mentally challenged youth who is also on the lam from the law. To protect Willie, Kimble gets the boy a job as a carnival roustabout, but his generosity may result in his own arrest. Ultimately, the only Read More

This Property Is Condemned

Actors: Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson, Kate Reid, Mary Badham

Synopsis: Sydney Pollack's tawdry potboiler, adapted from a one-act play by Tennessee Williams, was rife with production problems, culminating in Williams' failed attempt to have his name removed from the credits. The story is set by a framing device as thirteen-year-old Willie Starr (Mary Badham) sits on Read More

The Slender Thread

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Anne Bancroft, Telly Savalas, Steven Hill, Ed Asner

Synopsis: Sidney Pollack marked his feature film directing debut with this taut suspense drama, based upon an actual incident reported in Time Magazine. Sidney Poitier stars as Alan Nuell, a student volunteer at a medical clinic in Seattle who answers the phone to find Inge Dyson (Anne Bancroft) on the Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: Anybody Here Seen Jeannie?

Synopsis: The three astronauts chosen by NASA to make America's first spacewalk are Tony Nelson (Larry Hagman), Roger Healey (Bill Daily) and George Conway (yes, that's Dabney Coleman). Unfortunately, it looks as though Tony will be scrubbed from the mission thanks to a nervous Jeannie (Barbara Eden), who Read More

The F.B.I.: The Hijackers

Synopsis: Forced into retirement, disgruntled truck driver Harold K. "Smitty" Smith (Arthur O'Connell) decides to get even with his employers. Assisted by two old friends, Smitty hijacks one of the company's trucks. It was supposed to have been a harmless gesture, but things become dangerous for Smitty when Read More

The F.B.I.: Slow March Up a Steep Hill

Synopsis: The FBI investigates when a Maryland bank is robbed twice in the same day by the same bandit. This matches the modus operandi of Wayne Powell (Crahan Denton), who pulled off the same double-robbery strategy some twenty years earlier--and when Powell confesses to the more recent crimes, the Bureau Read More

The Outer Limits: A Feasability Study

Synopsis: In Volume 29 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, a neighborhood is transported from Earth to an alien world that plans to use humankind as its slaves. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Isabel

Actors: Bradford Dillman, Barbara Barrie, Edmon Ryan, Les Tremayne, Doris Lloyd

Synopsis: Sentenced to 15 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Howard Clements (Bradford Dillman) is released after serving only two years. Shortly afterward, he pays a visit to Isabel Smith (Barbara Baxley), the woman whose testimony put him behind bars. Though Isabel is worried that he seeks Read More

The Outer Limits: The Inheritors, Part 2

The Fugitive: Nicest Fella You'd Ever Want to Meet

Synopsis: Travelling under the name of "Richard Clark", Kimble (David Janssen) is arrested for hitchhiking by Marshall Joe Bob Simms (Pat Hingle). Though he enjoys a reputation as a prince of a fellow, Simms is actually a scheming sadist who uses prisoners like Kimble as slave labor, forcing them to work on Read More

The Outer Limits: Tourist Attraction

Synopsis: In Volume 13 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, a prehistoric creature found encased in ice is thawed out to lead an army of cavemen. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Outer Limits: The Mice

Synopsis: When contact is established between Earth and the planet Chroma, located ten light years away, an exchange is proposed between inhabitants of the two worlds. This is to be done by matter-transmitter, using technology provided by the Chromoites -- as it is a dangerous experiment, the first Earth Read More

The Fugitive: World's End

Synopsis: Suzanne Pleshette guest stars as Ellie Burnett, the daughter of the now-deceased lawyer who had unsuccessfully defended Richard Kimble (David Janssen) during his murder trial. Claiming to have new information about the One-Armed Man whom Kimble insists is the real murderer, Ellie manages to Read More

The Outer Limits: Specimen: Unknown

Synopsis: In Volume 22 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, the crew of a spacecraft bound for Earth must kill a lethal plant attached to the ship before they reach their destination. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Dear Uncle George

Actors: Gene Barry, John Larkin, Patricia Donahue, Dabney Coleman, Lou Jacobi

Synopsis: Gene Barry stars as journalist John Chambers, who under the nom de plume "Uncle George" writes a daily newspaper advice column. One of John's readers is Mrs. Weatherley (Charity Grace), who sends a letter to "Uncle George" telling him that her next-door neighbor is cheating on her husband. Read More