Dave KetchumFilmography

Get Smart, Again!

Actors: Dave Ketchum, Bernie Kopell, King Moody, Dick Gautier, Don Adams, Barbara Feldon

Synopsis: The second feature-length revival of the Get Smart television series (1965-1970) of blessed memory, Get Smart Again reunited Don Adams as bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart and Barbara Feldon as his wife, sultry "fellow" agent 99. Smart coerces 99 to drop her public-sector job and join him in 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

Laverne & Shirley: Jinxed

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Scoffing at superstition, Laverne (Penny Marshall) refuses to answer a chain letter and tosses the missive in the trash. Predictably, all sorts of disaster begin to befall our heroine, causing her to regret her insouciance. In order to "exorcise" the supposedly jinxed Laverne, her friends arrange Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Malibu Mansion

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Stubby Kaye guest stars as Cowboy Bill, owner of the restaurant chain that employs Laverne's dad Frank (Phil Foster). When Bill is called out of town, Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) offer to take care of his Malibu mansion until he returns. Alas, the girls use the Read More

Laverne & Shirley: The Bardwell Caper, Part 2

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) must retrieve an angry letter that they have written to their boss. Unfortunately, it is well "after hours", and the letter is safely locked in the boss' office--which is safeguarded by the most thorough Read More

Laverne & Shirley: The Bardwell Caper, Part 1

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) are outraged when they think they have been passed over for a salary hike. In the tradition of such previous sitcom protagonists as Ralph Kramden and Rob Petrie, the girls mete out vengeance by writing Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Laverne's Broken Leg

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: This episode marks one of the first instances (but hardly the last!) in which a popular sitcom spoofed the Yuletide classic It's a Wonderful Life. Laid up with a broken leg and unable to attend a party, Laverne sits at home, alone and miserable. In the midst of her self-pity orgy, Laverne begins Read More

The Main Event

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Paul Sand, Patti D'Arbanville, Whitman Mayo, Rory Calhoun

Synopsis: Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal attempt to recapture the screwball spark of What's Up, Doc? in the labored farce The Main Event. Streisand plays Hillary Kramer, a bankrupt perfume executive who discovers that one of her tax write-offs from more prosperous times was the ownership of prizefighter Read More

Love at First Bite

Actors: George Hamilton, Susan Saint James, Richard Benjamin, Dick Shawn, Arte Johnson

Synopsis: George Hamilton confounded his detractors by turning in a first-rate comic performance in Love at First Bite. Hamilton plays Count Dracula, who is evicted from his Transylvanian domicile when the Communist government decides to nationalize his castle. With faithful toady Renfield (Arte Johnson) at Read More

The North Avenue Irregulars

Actors: Edward Herrmann, Barbara Harris, Susan Clark, Cloris Leachman, Karen Valentine, Michael Constantine

Synopsis: One of the bigger non-cartoon moneymakers for Disney in the 1970s, The North Avenue Irregulars is predicated on the premise of the "Neighborhood Watch" system. Priest Michael Hill (Edward Herrmann), newly arrived on North Avenue, decides to buck the patriarchal notions of his superiors by Read More

Alice: The Sixty Minutes Man

Synopsis: Alice sees an episode of 60 Minutes about a famous mobster who dropped out of sight three decades ago. Shortly thereafter, an oldster named Gino (Michael V. Gazzo) makes another of his regular drop-ins at the diner. Taking a closer look at the elderly Gino than she ever has before, Alice is Read More

The Elevator

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: An all-star "disaster" flick set in an elevator: is there no limit? This made-for-TVer top-bills James Farentino as a bank robber suffering from claustrophobia. Fleeing from his latest crime, the criminal is forced to take an elevator, populated with the likes of Roddy McDowall, Craig Stevens, Teresa Wright Read More

Your Three Minutes Are Up

Actors: Robert Funk, Suzi Goei, Leigh Heine, Pat Houtchens, Candace Howerton, Carol Kristy, Tom Moses, Sam Nudell, Michael Perrotta, Patti Shayne

Synopsis: Beau Bridges plays an uptight insurance clerk. Ron Leibman plays Bridges' laid-back pal, who talks Beau into skipping work in order to drive Leibman to the airport. This little trip across town turns into an idyllic trek up the California coast. While Leibman wheels and deals in his efforts to con Read More

The Partridge Family: My Heart Belongs to a Two-Car Garage

Synopsis: Arte Johnson makes his first Partridge Family guest appearance as all-purpose handyman and "part-time Cossack" Nicholas Minski Pushkin. Hired to work for the Partridiges, the self-styled "Pushkin the Magnificent" proves to be inept in practical matters but a positive genius as a chef and Read More

M*A*S*H: Tuttle

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In order to requisition extra money and supplies for a group of Korean orphans, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) invents a fake doctor and war hero, "Captain Jonathan S. Tuttle." All goes well until Henry (McLean Stevenson), impressed by "Tuttle's" sterling record, wants to make the imaginary physician the Read More

Bless the Beasts and Children

Actors: Barry Robins, Miles Chapin, Darel Glaser, Bob Kramer

Synopsis: Bless the Beasts and Children is most fondly remembered as the film which introduced the song "Nadia's Theme" (better known as the title music for CBS' Young and the Restless). The film itself is a well-meaning if heavy-handed tale of six idealistic young boys whom come to the rescue of a buffalo Read More

Green Acres: The Free Paint Job

Actors: Tom Lowell, Robert Nichols, Dave Ketchum, Fabian Dean, Al Lanti

Synopsis: Oliver (Eddie Albert) and Lisa (Eva Gabor) are given an offer they can't refuse: a free paint job for their house and barn. Of course, there are a few strings attached -- namely, the Douglases will have to allow the paint company extending this offer to use the side of their barn for an Read More

The Grasshopper

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Jim Brown, Joseph Cotten, Corbett Monica, Ramon Bieri

Synopsis: Christine (Jacqueline Bisset) is the young bank teller who is bored with her job and her husband. She leaves for Las Vegas where she scores a job as a chorus girl. The beautiful Christine does not have the talent to parlay the job into an upwardly mobile career. She marries an older man and Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Singing Sweethearts

Synopsis: The Bradley sisters, alias the "Singing Sweethearts", are signed sight unseen to perform on the TV show hosted by Buddy Buster (David Ketchum). But Buddy isn't very happy upon discovering that Betty Jo Bradley (Linda Kaye Henning)--who hadn't wanted to be on the show in the first place--is visibly Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Goober the Executive

Actors: Paul Hartman, George Cisar

Synopsis: After putting in several years as a pump jockey and mechanic, Goober buys Wally's service station, with Andy and Emmett as his financial backers. Unfortunately, Goober's new responsibilities prove to be too much for him; he worries so much about making executive decisions that he ends up making no Read More

The Munsters: Munster the Magnificent

Synopsis: Eddie (Butch Patrick) volunteers Herman (Fred Gwynne) to do an act at his school's talent show. With no discernable talents, Herman turns to Grandpa (Al Lewis) for help--and emerges as a ballet dancer of questionable prowess. When it turns out that Eddie wants Herman to perform a magic act Read More

Good Neighbor Sam

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider, Edward G. Robinson, Dorothy Provine, Michael Connors, Edward Andrews

Synopsis: Disgusted by the smarminess of his 1963 vehicle Under the Yum Yum Tree, Jack Lemmon vowed that his next effort would be a wholesome family picture. Good Neighbor Sam is suitable for all ages, to be sure, but that doesn't stop producer-writer-director David Swift from injecting plenty of Read More