Darren McGavinFilmography

Miracles & Other Wonders, Vol. 4

Miracles & Other Wonders, Vol. 5

Synopsis: This video is one in a five-part series hosted by Darren McGavin that looks at some of the extraordinary, but true stories that have been termed miracles. In this volume, several remarkable stories are recounted by individuals who viewed the events as miracles in their lives. Their stories are Read More

Touched By an Angel: Missing in Action

Synopsis: Monica (Roma Downey) is transformed into an eighty-year-old woman to gain the trust of a bitter, self-loathing, desperately lonely WW2 veteran named George Zarko (Darren McGavin), aka "The Colonel". Our heroine's efforts to help Zarko succeed only in incurring the wrath of Stefanie Hancock Read More

Miracles & Other Wonders, Vol. 1

Synopsis: This documentary asks the question, "Do you believe in miracles?" Would you believe a deceased father communicated with his dead child; or a man who answered a plea for help issued over a CB radio that did not exist; or a rancher who had a dream that helped the authorities to locate a lost child; Read More

Miracles & Other Wonders, Vol. 3

Synopsis: Miracles and Other Wonders presents intriguing and entertaining true-life accounts of mysterious, yet factual events that suggest there is a friendly force guiding our way along the journey of life. In volume three of the eight-tape series, an elderly couple helps a young mother with her sick Read More

Miracles & Other Wonders, Vol. 2

Miracles & Other Wonders, Vol. 6

Synopsis: Hosted by Darren McGavin, the video is part of a series dealing with extraordinary events that have changed the lives of people. None of the individuals discussed are in any way remarkable, yet they have all experienced unexplained events that changed their lives. While the events recorded are Read More

Miracles & Other Wonders, Vol. 7

Synopsis: Though people live in a world ruled in many ways by technology and science, a number of events continue to occur that cannot be easily explained away by either. This series of videos uses reenactments and interviews to capture the mystery and hope present in the stories of people whose lives were Read More

Miracles & Other Wonders, Vol. 8

Synopsis: This video is part of an inspirational television series, which explores the world of the miraculous. Hosted by Darren McGavin, the shows present stories of people and the amazing events that have happened to them, which they feel are miracles. The show's compelling nature comes partly from the Read More

Fudge-A-Mania

Synopsis: A parade of old sitcom stars appear in this made-for-television adaptation of the book by Judy Blume. Peter Hatcher has to suffer through a summer with his worst enemy, Sheila Tubman. Much to his chagrin, his brother Fudge (Luke Taristano) announces that he wants to marry her. The two-hour movie Read More

Derby

Billy Madison

Actors: Adam Sandler, Darren McGavin, Bridgette Wilson, Bradley Whitford, Josh Mostel

Synopsis: Master of infantilism Adam Sandler stars as the title character, an overgrown rich kid who wiles away his days poolside, swilling kegs of beer and appreciating fine nudie magazines such as "Drunk Chicks" -- that is, until his father (Darren McGavin) decides to test his mettle as future head of the Read More

Danielle Steel's 'A Perfect Stranger'

Actors: Robert Urich, Stacy Haiduk, Marion Ross, Susan Sullivan, Darren McGavin

Synopsis: In this sudsy adaptation of a popular Danielle Steel novel, a beautiful young wife experiences waves of guilt when she finds herself increasingly distracted from caring for her dying, elderly and rich husband by the attentions of a virile stranger named Alex. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mysteries of the Ancient World, Vol. 1: Mysteries of the Ancient World

Synopsis: Mysteries of the Ancient World presents several religious and spiritual mysteries which continue to baffle science today. The four volumes include Mysteries of the Ancient World, The Discovery of Noah's Ark, Ancient Secrets of the Bible, and Ancient Secrets of the Bible, Part Two. Darrin McGavin, Dennis Weaver Read More

Happy Hell Night

Synopsis: A pointless and ill-advised return to the slasher movie formula -- which had long since worn out its questionable welcome by the mid-'80s. This silly endeavor begins with a hazing stunt perpetrated by pledges of the Phi Delta fraternity, who try to break into a local insane asylum to take a Read More

Arthur Miller's The American Clock

Actors: Eddie Bracken, Loren Dean, Mary McDonnell, Joanna Miles, Kelly Preston, David Strathairn, Darren McGavin, John Rubinstein

Synopsis: This made-for-cable version of Arthur Miller's play The American Clock was adapted for television by Frank Galati. Inspired partly by Studs Terkel's oral history Hard Times, and partly by Miller's own recollections, the film is set at the beginning of the Depression. When the stock market crashes Read More

Perfect Harmony

Synopsis: Music bridges a gap between two cultures in this made-for-TV drama. In 1957, Derek Sanders (Peter Scolari) is hired to teach music and direct the choir at Blanton Academy, a private school in South Carolina. Integration has not yet come to Blanton, and a number of students display an open Read More

Mysteries of the Ancient World, Vol. 4: The Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark

Synopsis: The final installment of the Mysteries of the Ancient World four-volume series, this documentary about the biblical Noah's Ark takes an in-depth look at the history and ambiguity of this biblical symbol that is said to have rescued two of every animal during a great worldwide flood. Hosted by Darren McGavin Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Angel of Death

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) heads to Carmel, California, to console her old friend, playwright Martin Tremaine (Darren McGavin), whose wife has recentlhy committed suicide. Before long, an attempt is made on Tremaine's life--but another member of his family ends up as the victim. Can it be that the Read More

Murphy Brown: I'm Dreaming of a Brown Christmas

Synopsis: Soon it will be the very first Christmas for baby Avery, and Murphy (Candice Bergen) has planned a very quiet, simple ceremony, inviting only Eldin (Robert Pastorelli) and her "FYI" colleagues to the event. All this changes when Murphy's bombastic father Bill (Darren McGavin) and her wealthy Aunt Read More

Captain America

Actors: Matt Salinger, Melinda Dillon, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty, Darren McGavin, Michael Nouri

Synopsis: After a scientist creates superhuman warrior Red Skull for the Nazis during WW II, she defects and does the same for the U.S.-- injecting a polio victim to transform him into the titular heroic beefcake. Forty years after a confrontation which left Captain America frozen in Alaska, he is found and Read More

Blood and Concrete

Actors: Billy Zane, Jennifer Beals, James LeGros, Darren McGavin, Nicholas Worth

Synopsis: Billy Zane stars in this direct-to-video gem as a spectacularly unsuccessful car thief. Hoping to reform by leaving LA, Zane must scare up $400 worth of exit money. He decides to pull off one last job, stealing a TV from William Bastiani. An ill-tempered criminal, Bastiani stabs Zane, who then Read More

Murphy Brown: Full Circle

Synopsis: This episode is dedicated to the memory of the late Colleen Dewhurst, the actress who played Avery Brown, mother of Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) on two memorable occasions. Much to the surprise of the "FYI" staff, Murphy exhibits no emotion over the death of her mother, but this is because of a Read More

Child in the Night

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV mystery a troubled psychologist must somehow reach a traumatized 8-year old boy who witnessed a family murder. The trouble is the boy cannot distinguish between reality and fact. According to him, the killer is Captain Hook from Peter Pan. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Kojak: It's Always Something

Synopsis: Assistant D.A. Crocker, Kojak's former partner, is certain that Kojak is the killer of a call girl. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Murphy Brown: Brown Like Me, Part One

Synopsis: It is not for nothing that Murphy (Candice Bergen) has described the relationship between her divorced parents as "a Fellini version of the Waltons." Nonetheless, Frank (Joe Regalbuto) feels that at least one of Murphy's parents should be in attendance when she wins the coveted RFK award. Read More

Murphy Brown: Brown Like Me, Part Two

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast on CBS as a one-hour episode), Murphy (Candice Bergen) is caught in the middle when both her domineering mother Avery (Colleen Dewhurst) and her distant father Bill (Darren McGavin) show up to see Murphy accept the coveted Robert F. Read More

By Dawn's Early Light

Synopsis: Soviet radicals upset with the thawing of the Cold War explode a nuclear weapon in Russia, setting off a series of events that may very well trigger World War III. The president (Martin Landau) has been isolated after a helicopter accident and must outwit government and military officials who are Read More

Dead Heat

Actors: Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Lindsay Frost, Darren McGavin, Vincent Price

Synopsis: Although many genre filmmakers have managed to blend horror and humor with great success, movies employing this formula often run the risk of both elements canceling each other out, resulting in a horror comedy that is neither scary nor funny. Alas, Dead Heat is a textbook example of this kind of 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

The Diamond Trap

Synopsis: In a film originally made for television, a detective accidentally involves himself with a female con artist who is planning a $12 million diamond robbery. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Inherit the Wind

Synopsis: This courtroom drama was inspired by the notorious Scopes trial of 1925 concerning the teaching of Darwinism in public schools. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

From the Hip

Actors: Elizabeth Perkins, John Hurt, Darren McGavin, Dan Monahan

Synopsis: Director Bob Clark, whose previous cinematic endeavors ran the gamut from Porky's to A Christmas Story, called the shots on From the Hip. Fresh out of law school, Robin Weathers (Judd Nelson) is hired by a law firm not known for its ethics. Weathers' first client is a man who, up to trial time Read More

Raw Deal

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kathryn Harrold, Sam Wanamaker, Paul Shenar, Robert Davi, Darren McGavin

Synopsis: A former FBI agent is recruited to root out the gangsters who killed a fellow agent's son in this Arnold Schwarzenegger action film. After being booted out of the bureau for excessive violence, Kaminski (Schwarzenegger) lives in small-town exile with his bitter wife, Amy (Blanche Baker). He gets Read More

Flag

Synopsis: The 90-minute TV movie Flag was meant to be a joint spoof of the nighttime serials Dallas and Knots Landing. In this instance, it was "bite the hand that feeds you time": Flag was produced by David Jacobs, creator of both Dallas and Knots, and distributed by Lorimar-Telepictures, which also Read More

Hitchhiker, Vol. 2

Synopsis: Page Fletcher stars as the title character in this 1983-1988 made-for-cable suspense anthology. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

My Wicked, Wicked Ways - The Legend of Errol Flynn

Actors: Duncan Regehr, Barbara Hershey, Darren McGavin

Synopsis: This made-for-TV biopic chronicles the exciting (at times scandalous) life and career of Eroll Flynn, Hollywood's most popular swashbuckling rake. Much of the information comes from Flynn's autobiography. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Turk 182!

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Robert Urich, Kim Cattrall, Robert Culp, Darren McGavin

Synopsis: Timothy Hutton stars in this rabble-rousing movie in the tradition of Rocky, directed by Bob Clark. Hutton plays Jimmy Lynch, the younger brother of New York City firefighter Terry (Robert Urich). Terry is off-duty and has been drinking but rescues a young girl for a dangerous fire. When he Read More

The Baron and the Kid

Actors: Johnny Cash, Greg Webb, Tracy Pollan

Synopsis: The "Baron", played by Johnny Cash, is a legendary pool shark. The "Cajun Kid", played by Greg Webb, is the Baron's long-lost son. Once they're reunited, the Baron and the Kid embark upon numerous adventures, each exploit bringing them closer. Based on Johnny Cash's hit song "The Baron", this Read More

The Natural

Actors: Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: The film version of The Natural pulls off the neat trick of conveying the spirit of the Bernard Malamud novel upon which it is based, even while changing both the outcome and the meaning of Malamud's closing chapters. In his first film appearance in four years, Robert Redford plays Roy Hobbs, a Read More

The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.

Synopsis: The sagacious old physician faces disaccreditation in this medical drama. The trouble begins when a financially troubled hospital he works at proposes to cut the privileges of its oldest staggers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Power, Passion and Murder

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, Hector Elizondo, George Murdock

Synopsis: Set during the '30s, this made-for-television sudser tells the melodramatic tale of a beautiful Hollywood starlet who throws away her promising career for the love of a married man. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Christmas Story

Actors: Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, Peter Billingsley, Ian Petrella, Scott Schwartz

Synopsis: Nine years after the Yuletide slasher flick Black Christmas, Porky's director Bob Clark once again took on the holiday genre, switching from gasps to laughs with A Christmas Story. Adapted from a memoir by humorist Jean Shepherd (who narrates), the film centers on Ralphie Parker (Peter Read More

The Hitchhiker [TV Series]

Synopsis: Among the first original anthology series to be produced for cable television, The Hitchhiker was a collection of tales of the supernatural and bizarre. The title character, played during the first season by Nicholas Campbell and thereafter by Page Fletcher, was an unnamed drifter who wandered Read More

Firebird 2015 A.D.

Synopsis: In this futuristic film, an extreme shortage of gasoline drives the government to deny citizens the right to own vehicles. A special force is put together to destroy these illegal cars, but one unbalanced member of the force (Alex Diakun) doesn't bother to remove the drivers before he torches the Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Mad Buck Gibson

Synopsis: Darren McGavin plays this episode's title character, a flamboyant and infamously self-destructive novelist. Magnum (Tom Selleck) is hired by Joan Gibson (Vera Miles), ex-wife of "Mad Buck" Gibson, to keep her former husband alive long enough so she can collect back alimony. This task proves Read More

Waikiki

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, when a friend is falsely accused of murder, two detectives must track down the true person responsible for the series of killings taking place on the island of Oahu. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Hangar 18

Actors: Darren McGavin, Robert Vaughn, Gary Collins, James Hampton, Philip Abbott

Synopsis: Could it be true? Is the U.S. government really hiding an alien spaceship in the mysterious Hangar 18? According to the producers at Sunn Classic Pictures, the answer is yes, and this sci-fi drama sets out to prove it. The trouble begins when an orbiting satellite runs into the UFO and it crashes. Read More

The Martian Chronicles

Actors: Rock Hudson

Synopsis: Everyone who tuned into The Martian Chronicles during its three-day run in January of 1980 sincerely hoped that it would be the ne plus ultra of televised sci-fi/fantasy. That it fell short of this goal was not the fault of the actors but of the script, which reduced Ray Bradbury's complex Read More

The Generation Gap

Captain America

Synopsis: Television film featuring the Marvel Comics hero doing battle with a mad industrialist who wields a neutron bomb. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

Love for Rent

Synopsis: The old 1930s song was "Love For Sale;" now it's the 1970s, and, just like cars and condominiums, it's Love for Rent. Lisa Eilbacher is the innocent midwestern girl who comes to wicked old New York looking for her sister Annette O'Toole. O'Toole is now gainfully employed by an "escort bureau" Read More

Donovan's Kid

Actors: Shelley Fabares

Synopsis: Set in 1900s San Francisco, Donovan's Kid stars Darren McGavin as pugnacious Irishman Timothy Donovan. Together with his sidekick Old Bailey (Mickey Rooney), Donovan attempts to rescue his wife and daughter from the autocratic rule of his wife's uncle. Shelley Fabares and Murray Hamilton costar in Read More

Ike

Actors: Robert Duvall, Lee Remick

Synopsis: Robert Duvall stars as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in this made-for-TV biography, which focuses on his career in the military during World War II as he helped to guide Allied forces to victory. Along with Eisenhower's military exploits and political aspirations, Ike: The War Years also offers a Read More

Zero to Sixty

Synopsis: Mike Nolan (Darren McGavin) is a Beverly Hills resident whose divorce case -- blown by a hopelessly inept, possibly larcenous attorney (Dick Martin) -- has left him with no home, no job, and no assets, except for his car. And when the car is driven off by 16-year-old repo agent "Larry" (Denise Read More

The Users

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV drama, a girl living in a small-town carefully hides her sordid past. She then meets a faded movie star and decides to help her make a comeback, so she herself can also break into Tinseltown society. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hot Lead and Cold Feet

Actors: Jim Dale, Karen Valentine, Don Knotts, Jack Elam, John Williams

Synopsis: In this Disney western, Jim Dale plays Eli Bloodshy, and his twin sons Wild Billy and Jasper. The older man has founded the town of Bloodshy, and now that he has apparently died, his sons must battle for control of his legacy in a wild train race. One of them is a city-slicker, a mild-mannered Read More

Airport '77

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis: Stretching the Airport concept as far as it will go, this third film in the series sticks a jet full of old actors 50 feet underwater in the Bermuda Triangle. Oxygen (and credibility) grows short, and Jimmy Stewart plays an art collector targeted for a heist. Jack Lemmon is the unfortunate pilot Read More

Law and Order

Actors: Art Hindle

Synopsis: Former policewoman Dorothy Uhnak wrote the book upon which this 150-minute TV movie was based. The central characters of Law and Order are the male members of an Irish-American family--three generations of police officers. The bulk of the drama concerns the conflicts between Deputy Chief of Public Read More

No Deposit, No Return

Actors: David Niven, Darren McGavin, Don Knotts, Herschel Bernardi, Barbara Feldon

Synopsis: In this Disney comedy, a pair of spoiled kids, bored by their filthy rich grandfather, decide they'd rather be with their mom who is in Hong Kong. In order to get her attention, they engineer their own kidnapping. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Brink's: The Great Robbery

Actors: Darren McGavin, Leslie Nielsen, Carl Betz, Stephen Collins, Jenny O'Hara

Synopsis: In this crime drama, two dogged FBI agents are on the case to investigate one of the U.S.'s most infamous bank robberies. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Demon and the Mummy

Synopsis: The Demon and the Mummy is a jerrybuilt "TV movie" comprised of two episodes from the 1974-75 TV series Night Stalker. As always, reporter Karl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) stumbles onto evidence of the Supernatural. And as always, his editor Tony Vincenzo (Simon Oakland) refuses to believe Kolchak. Read More

43: The Petty Story

Actors: Richard Petty, Darren McGavin, Kathie Browne, Noah Beery, Jr.

Synopsis: Though it barely received big-city release (it lay on the shelf for nearly two years before it received any sort of release), The Petty Story did quite well on a regional basis. As indicated by the title, this is the story of the Petty family of stock-car racing fame. Richard Petty, who won Read More

Shaft: Cop Killer

Synopsis: In this theatrically released episode from the TV series based on the popular feature film, Shaft, the tough New York detective must use all of his experience to solve the case and bring the crooks to justice. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Crackle of Death

Synopsis: Crackle of Death is a hybrid feature film comprised of two episodes from the 1974 TV series Night Stalker. Series regulars Darren McGavin and Simon Oakland head the cast, playing, respectively, reporter Carl Kolchak and editor Tony Vincenzo. It was Kolchak's weekly habit on the series to run Read More

Kolchak: The Night Stalker [TV Series]

Actors: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Ruth McDevitt, Jack Grinnage

Synopsis: Debuting Friday, September 13, 1974 on ABC, the weekly, hour-long sci-fi/fantasy series Kolchak: The Night Stalker was spun off from two well-received feature length entries from the same network's Movie of the Week: The Night Stalker (1971) and The Night Strangler (1973). Starring in both these Read More

Hay que Matar a B.

Actors: Patricia Neal, Darren McGavin, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: At first glance, we were prepared to designate B Must Die as a hybrid TV feature, consisting of two episodes of either The Outsider or Night Stalker. That's because the star of this obscure entry is Darren McGavin, who also headlined the two aforementioned weekly series. Further research revealed Read More

Run, Stranger, Run

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Ron Howard

Synopsis: In this star-studded Canadian feature, young Johnny (Ron Howard) returns to his home to find out more about his early childhood, and who his father is. He runs headlong into the rivalry between his mother (Cloris Leachman) and her sister (Patricia Neal). What he cannot know is that his inquiries Read More

The Night Strangler

Actors: John Carradine, Darren McGavin

Synopsis: The Night Strangler is the sequel to the enormously successful 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker. Darren McGavin returns as seedy reporter Carl Kolchak, who previously ran into conflict when Las Vegas authorities refused to acknowledge Kolchak's uncovering of a modern-day vampire. Now he's in Read More

The Six Million Dollar Man

Actors: Martin Balsam, Darren McGavin

Synopsis: This TV movie was the pilot for the popular series The Six Million Dollar Man. In this maiden effort, we are told just how astronaut Steve Austin became a bionic man. Surviving a near-fatal crash, the mutilated Austin is given artificial limbs (plus one faux eye) and reassembled into a part-human Read More

Sam Cade

Actors: Glenn Ford, Edgar Buchanan, Ed Asner, Shelley Fabares, Ed Flanders

Synopsis: Sam Cade was the first feature-length "movie" put together from episodes of Cade's County, the early '70s series starring Glenn Ford as a modern-day sheriff in Madrid County, CA. In the first half, directed by Marvin Chomsky, Cade finds himself targeted for assassination when he's scheduled to Read More

The Night Stalker

Actors: Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland, Ralph Meeker, Claude Akins

Synopsis: Seedy newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) is assigned the Las Vegas police beat by his boss Tony Vincenzo (Simon Oakland). A series of murders has been plaguing the Glitter Capital; the victims, all beautiful showgirls, have had the blood drained from their bodies. Kolchak can't Read More

Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole

Synopsis: In her final acting appearance, Susan Hayward is ironically cast as a research doctor who can no longer face up to the notion of dealing with death on a daily basis. Recently widowed, Dr. Maggie Cole is on the verge of giving up her job and going into seclusion. She is shaken back to reality by Read More

High Flying Spy

Synopsis: During a cross-country balloon race, 2 aeronauts become entangled in the start of the Civil War. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Something Evil

Actors: Steven Spielberg

Synopsis: A young Steven Spielberg helmed the made-for-TV Something Evil. Johnny Whitaker (Family Affair) is cast as Stevie Worden, an angelic child whose parents move into a foreboding Pennsylvania mansion. It isn't long before Stevie is possessed with the house's resident demonic spirit. In anticipation Read More

The Rookies

Actors: Michael Ontkean, Georg Stanford Brown, Sam Melville, Darren McGavin, Jennifer Billingsley

Synopsis: Produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, The Rookies was the pilot film for the popular early-1970s cop series of the same name. The story centers upon the training of three young rookie cops, played by Michael Ontkean, Georg Stanford Brown and Sam Melville. Darren McGavin is their Read More

The Death of Me Yet

Synopsis: The Death of Me Yet opens in a typical American small town that turns out to be in the middle of the Soviet Union. As we all know from those Jack Webb-narrated documentaries of the 1950s, the rascally Russians have set up these ersatz American communities in order to train their agents to subtly Read More

Banyon

Actors: Robert Forster, Darren McGavin, José Ferrer, Anjanette Comer, Herb Edelman

Synopsis: Banyon is an A-number-one detective yarn set (very accurately) in the 1930s. Robert Forster, emulating John Garfield in virtually every scene, plays private eye Miles C. Banyon. Right now he's in dutch because a beautiful young woman has been found murdered--and Banyon's gun was the murder weapon. Read More

Mrs. Pollifax -- Spy

Synopsis: A widow finds her life unbearably dull and so becomes a volunteer CIA agent. She is sent to Mexico City for her first assignment and though her intentions are good, she ends up tossed into a jail. This was one of actress Rosalind Russel's final films and is sadly, considered among her very worst. Read More

Battle at Gannon's Bridge

Synopsis: Battle at Gannon's Bridge originated as an episode of the weekly TV series Name of the Game. Darren McGavin appears as ex-convict Eddie Gannon, who holds the lease on a converted church used as a halfway house for recently released prisoners. Renewal of the lease is endangered by a rash of Read More

The Forty-Eight Hour Mile

Synopsis: The 48 Hour Mile is a "feature film" in terms of length only. In fact, it is comprised of two hour-long episodes from the 1968 TV series The Outsider. Darren McGavin stars as private eye David Ross, who after serving six years in prison on a trumped-up charge devotes the rest of his life to Read More

Berlin Affair

Actors: Pascale Petit

Synopsis: The press release for the TV movie Berlin Affair described how "an employee of a sophisticated international murder-for-hire syndicate is assigned to hunt down..." Fill in the blank. Is it (a) his wife, (b) his best friend, or (c) a good chili restaurant? If you answered "b", then you can fill in Read More

Tribes

Synopsis: The TV movie Tribes struck a responsive chord with young TV hounds of the early 1970s. Jan-Michael Vincent plays a long-haired hippie who, despite his anti-war sentiments, ends up in the Marines. Though forced to endure the torture of a buzz-cut, Vincent remains flippant and rebellious. Nail-hard Read More

The Challenge

Actors: Mako

Synopsis: This TV movie proposes that at some future date, America will be at loggerheads against some unnamed Asiatic power. Realizing that all-out nuclear war will decimate the planet, the two countries decide to boil down their argument to two combatants. Darren McGavin, an army malcontent, is the Read More

Anatomy of a Crime

Synopsis: Anatomy of a Crime is comprised of two episodes from the 1968-69 TV series The Outsider. Darren McGavin earns top billing as David Ross, an ex-cop who became a private eye after cooling his heels in prison on a trumped-up murder charge. Ever on the outside looking in, Ross only accepts case from Read More

Goodbye, Harry

Synopsis: This 90-minute episode of TV's Name of the Game guest-stars Darren McGavin as roving reporter Sam Hardy. Sam's boss, Crime magazine publisher Glenn Howard (Gene Barry), sends Hardy and magazine researcher Peggy Maxwell (Susan St. James) on a dangerous fact-finding mission. Their quarry is American Read More

Boomerang, a Dog of Many Talents

Synopsis: This film, set in the turn-of-the-century West, chronicles the exploits of a con-man and his very special dog. He uses the crafty canine in a bunco game. Unfortunately a tough widow beats him at his own game and now he must help her drive her turkeys to market. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Challengers

Actors: Anne Baxter, Susan Clark, Sean Garrison, Juliet Mills, Sal Mineo, Darren McGavin, Nico Minardos

Synopsis: Completed in 1968, the made-for-TV The Challengers wasn't telecast until one year later. This Grand Prix melodrama top-bills Darren McGavin as a veteran racer whose wife (Juliet Mills) wants him to retire. A secondary plot involves Sean Garrison and Nico Minardos, who carry their on-track rivalry Read More

Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the complexities of small-town politics after a murder occurs. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Seal

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The sacred gold seal of the Far Eastern nation of Kuala Rokat has been stolen. Masterminding the heist is American industrialist Taggart (Darren McGavin), who intends to hold on to the seal despite the danger of a major diplomatic breakdown. The IMF is assigned to recover the seal, a job that Read More

The Outsider

Synopsis: The Outsider is a refreshingly cynical TV detective drama, starring master cynic Darren McGavin. McGavin plays David Ross, a John MacDonaldesque private eye who virtually lives in his beat-up car and who spends most of his time eluding creditors. An ex-convict, Ross is prohibited from carrying a Read More

Mission Mars

Actors: Darren McGavin, Nick Adams, George de Vries, Heather Hewitt, Michael de Beausset

Synopsis: This routine science-fiction saga concerns the crew of a rocket ship slated to travel to the red planet Mars. Mike (Darren McGavin) is the chief pilot who is assisted by the navigator Nick (Nick Adams). Using several scenes containing stock footage of McDonnell Air Force Base and Cape Kennedy, the Read More

Ride the High Wind

Synopsis: The quest for a fortune gold bullion provides the impetus for this adventuresome crime drama set in Southwestern Africa. It all begins with a plane crash. The pilot barely survives. When he awakens he sees that he is near an abandoned, wreck of a wagon. He ends up taken in by a couple who talk Read More

The Great Sioux Massacre

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Darren McGavin, Philip Carey, Julie Sommars, Nancy Kovack

Synopsis: The Great Sioux Massacre is an entertaining pack of lies about Custer's Last Stand. General Custer (Philip Carey) is herein depicted as a bastion of tolerance, whose efforts to secure fair treatment for the Indians lead to several confrontations with corrupt government officials. Custer is forced Read More

Bullet for a Badman

Actors: Audie Murphy, Darren McGavin, Ruta Lee

Synopsis: Audie Murphy continued to make 1950s-style westerns into the 1960s. In Bullet for a Badman, Logan Keliher (Murphy) is framed for murder by onetime friend Sam Ward (Darren McGavin). Keliher escapes to mete out justice and to reclaim his former wife (Ruta Lee), whom Ward has married. The escapee Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: A Matter of Murder

Actors: Darren McGavin, Telly Savalas, Pat Crowley, Patrick McVey, Howard Wendell

Synopsis: Social-climbing car thief Philadelphia Harry (Telly Savalas) thinks he's finally hit the big time when he steals a Rolls Royce belonging to millionaire Sheridan Westcott (Darren McGavin). But Harry's delight turns to dismay when he discovers the body of Westcott's wife in the back seat. Though he Read More

Summer Magic

Actors: Hayley Mills, Burl Ives, Dorothy McGuire, Deborah Walley, Eddie Hodges

Synopsis: A young widow from Boston travels with her three children to Maine to enjoy their summer vacation. Margaret Carey (Dorothy McGuire) is helped by the friendly Osh Popham (Burl Ives), who finds the family a rent-free house vacated by a vacationing landowner. Daughter Nancy (Hayley Mills) catches the Read More

Riverboat: Season 02

Actors: Darren McGavin, Noah Beery, Jr.

Riverboat: Season 01

Actors: Darren McGavin, Burt Reynolds, Bart Patton, William D. Gordon

The Case Against Brooklyn

Actors: Darren McGavin, Maggie Hayes, Warren Stevens, Peggy McCay, Tol Avery

Synopsis: Case Against Brooklyn was based on an "expose" article by Ed Reid. Darren McGavin plays rookie cop Pete Harris, who goes undercover to help smash a Brooklyn bookie ring. The problem here as that the crooks have been bribing other cops to look the other way. As if Harris wasn't courting enough Read More

Beau James

Actors: Bob Hope, Vera Miles, Paul Douglas, Alexis Smith, Darren McGavin

Synopsis: New York City is known for choosing colorful characters for its mayors. One its most illustrious was the wisecracking, dancing and singing Mayor James J. Walker (as played by Bob Hope in a rare, serious role) who helmed the Big Apple in the 1920s. This biopic chronicles his surprising rise to Read More

The Delicate Delinquent

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Darren McGavin, Martha Hyer, Robert Ivers, Horace McMahon

Synopsis: Jerry Lewis' first solo effort was also his first headlong plunge into pathos. The Delicate Delinquent stars Jerry as mixed-up teenaged janitor Sidney Pythias, a nice kid on the verge of throwing in with a not-so-nice street gang. Sensing potential in Sidney, police officer Mike Damon (Darren McGavin Read More

The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell

Actors: Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy, Rod Steiger, Elizabeth Montgomery

Synopsis: In this 1955 Otto Preminger film, Gary Cooper stars as World War I hero Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The film recounts Mitchell's efforts to prove the viability of a strong air force. The hidebound military higher-ups refuse to finance aviation any further, figuring that the strength of the Read More

The Man With the Golden Arm

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang, Darren McGavin

Synopsis: When Otto Preminger was willing to release his drug-addiction drama Man With the Golden Arm without the sanction of a Production Code seal, it proved to be yet another nail in the coffin of that censorial dinosaur. Based on the novel by Nelson Algren, the film stars Frank Sinatra as Frankie Read More

Summertime

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin, Mari Aldon

Synopsis: Katharine Hepburn stars as Jane Hudson, an Ohio secretary on the verge of spinsterhood. Carefully saving her money, Jane takes an extended trip to Venice, half hoping to find the romance that has always eluded her. Luck of luck, she meets handsome Renato Di Rossi (Rossano Brazzi), who sweeps her Read More

Dateline II

Synopsis: Irregularly scheduled on NBC from 1954 through 1957, Producers' Showcase was a series of lavish, full-color 90 minute specials, bringing the best of Broadway to the 21 inch screen. On November 14, 1955, the series digressed from its usual format to present Dateline 2, the second annual variety Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Cheney Vase

Actors: Darren McGavin

Synopsis: Recently discharged museum curator Lyle Endicott (Darren McGavin) uses a forged letter to gain entry to the home of elderly recluse Martha Cheney (played by Patricia Collinge, who had been prominently featured in Alfred Hitchcock's 1943 movie classic Shadow of a Doubt). A lonely invalid, Martha is Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Triggers in Leash

Synopsis: In a fleabitten Western town, gunslingers Dell Delaney (Gene Barry) and Red Hillman (Darren McGavin) challenge each other to a shootout. Local cook Maggie Flynn (Ellen Corby) does everything she can to talk the two cowpokes out of their challenge, but they are determined to slap leather the moment Read More

Queen for a Day

Actors: Phyllis Avery, Darren McGavin, Rudy Lee, Frances Williams, Joan Winfield

Synopsis: The genesis for Queen for a Day was the Dorothy Parker short story Horsie, all about a homely woman who takes a job as a nanny in the household of a selfish, insensitive couple. Months later, the husband receives a gift of an electric razor from "Horsie," out of gratitude for his kindnesses Read More

Fear

Actors: Peter Cookson, Warren William, Anne Gwynne, James B. Cardwell, Nestor Paiva

Synopsis: Peter Cookson, Monogram's answer to Jimmy Stewart, stars in Fear, also known as Black Tower Cookson plays a medical student who becomes involved in a murder. Anne Gwynne is the girl who doesn't completely trust Cookson, but helps him out anyway. Also appearing as one of those oh-too-helpful types Read More

Kiss and Tell

Actors: Shirley Temple, Jerome Courtland, Walter Abel, Katherine Alexander, Robert Benchley

Synopsis: If there were any doubts that little Shirley Temple was all grown up by 1945, those doubts were disippated by her appearance in Columbia's Kiss and Tell. Based on the mildly risque stage comedy by F. Hugh Herbert, the film casts Temple as impulsive teenager Corliss Archer, who is the only person Read More

A Song to Remember

Actors: Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Cornel Wilde, Stephen Bekassy, George Coulouris, Nina Foch

Synopsis: One of the most successful filmed biographies of the 1940s, A Song to Remember alleges to be the true story of Polish composer Frederick Chopin. Actually, it has about as much relation to truth as a Heckle and Jeckle cartoon, but with such gorgeous creatures as Cornel Wilde and Merle Oberon in the Read More

She Wouldn't Say Yes

Synopsis: Rosalind Russell plays yet another independent career woman in She Wouldn't Say Yes. This time she's a psychiatrist who sees no need for a man in her life. Her resolve weakens a bit when she meets Lee Bowman, a dashing combat sketch artist suffering from wartime emotional problems. Bowman falls in Read More