David AlexanderFilmography

Occupation:
Director
  • Quincy, M.E.: Passing

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Quincy (Jack Klugman) and Sam (Robert Ito) come across a human skull while travelling through the desert. With the help of forensic artist Lynn Peters (Zohra Lampert), Quincy concludes that the skull is that of a controversial labor leader who had mysteriously vanished a few years back (guess Read More

    1978
  • 200 Motels

    Crew: First Assistant Director

    Actors: The Mothers of Invention, Theodore Bikel, Ringo Starr, Janet Ferguson, Lucy Offerall

    Synopsis: Less a movie than a purposely crude series of musical vignettes and inside jokes for die-hard fans, Frank Zappa informs viewers in the opening scene that "Touring can make you crazy, ladies and gentlemen, and that is what 200 Motels is all about." The rest of the plot-less production is filled Read More

    1971
  • My Lover, My Son

    Crew: First Assistant Director

    Actors: Romy Schneider, Donald Houston, Dennis Waterman, Patricia Blake, William Dexter

    Synopsis: The British/American co-production My Lover, My Son stars Romy Schneider as Frances, the unhappy wife of businessman Robert (Donald Houston). When her lover is accidentally drowned, Frances turns to her teenaged son James (Dennis Waterman) for comfort. Her husband doesn't like this set-up and Read More

    1970
  • Star Trek: The Way to Eden

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Captain Kirk and the Enterprise become unwitting parties to the quest for a legendary, utopian planet in this episode from the third season of the well-known science fiction series. When the starship Aurora is stolen, the Enterprise is ordered to capture the hijackers. When Read More

    1969
  • Star Trek: Plato's Stepchildren

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Captain Kirk and several other Enterprise crew members are captured by a race of aliens with immense mental powers in this episode of the original Star Trek television series. The trouble begins soon after the Enterprise's arrival on the planet of Platonious, so that Dr. McCoy can provide medical Read More

    1968
  • Star Trek: Wink of an Eye

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: After coming into contact with an uncharted planet, a series of mysterious disappearances begins to decimate the crew of the starship Enterprise in this installment of the 1960s science fiction television series. The rash of disappearances begins after a landing party explores the planet Scalos Read More

    1968
  • F Troop: Lieutenant O'Rourke, Front and Center

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The future of O'Rourke Enterprises is threatened by the arrival of Major Duncan (James Gregory). Not that Duncan suspects that anything crooked is going on: It's just that he is impressed by Sgt. O'Rourke (Forrest Tucker) and wants to promote him to lieutenant. Realizing that such a promotion Read More

    1966
  • F Troop: Yellow Bird

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Julie Newmar guest stars as Yellow Bird, a white girl stolen by Apaches in infancy and raised as one of their own. Hoping to collect a huge reward, O'Rourke (Forrest Tucker) offers to rescue Yellow Bird on behalf of her father, millionaire mining tycoon Gideon D. Jeffries (Jacques Aubuchon). Read More

    1966
  • F Troop: Did Your Father Come from Ireland?

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Forrest Tucker plays a dual role in this episode as both Sgt. O'Rourke and O'Rourke's Irish-born father. Arriving in Fort Courage fresh from the Emerald Isle, the bombastic elder O'Rourke quickly sets abuout transforming the fort into an American replica of the Auld Sod. When it becomes obvious Read More

    1966
  • My Favorite Martian: Horse and Buggy Martin

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A mosquito bite gives Martin (Ray Walston) a case of "sympsympatheticus", causing him to act and think like a race horse named Sweet Sue, which had also been bitten by the same insect. At the same time, Sweet Sue has begun displaying Martin's behavior and intellect! The outcome of the story hinges Read More

    1966
  • F Troop: The Day the Indians Won

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: As we all know, the members Hekawi Indian tribe are not fighters, but lovers: after all, they invented the peace pipe. Thus, Hekawi chief Wild Eagle (Frank De Kova) is both perplexed and disturbed when the Council of Indian Nations orders his tribe to go on the warpath. To prevent Wild Eagle from Read More

    1966
  • F Troop: The Singing Mountie

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: F Troop launches its second season with the series' first color episode, in which Paul Lynde guest stars as singing Mountie Sgt. Ramsden, an incongruous new arrival at Fort Courage in Kansas. When not entrancing Wrangler Jane (Melody Patterson) with his splendid tenor voice, Sgt. Ramsden is Read More

    1966
  • F Troop: For Whom the Bugle Tolls

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Richard X. Slattery guest stars as Col. William Bartlett, the latest in a long line of Inspector Generals whose mission is to make life miserable at Fort Courage. Theorizing that a fort is only as good as its bugler, Bartlett demands to hear a reindition from F Troop's resident horn-tooter Read More

    1966
  • My Favorite Martian: Butterball

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Once again, Tim (Bill Bixby) is victimized by the sinister minions of the enemy spy organization CRUSH. This time, Tim is held captive by CRUSH mastermind Butterball (Larry D. Mann), who thinks that our hero has information concerning the "good" espionage agency TOPSEEK. How will Martin (Ray Read More

    1966
  • My Favorite Martian: Virus M for Martin

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Contacting the dreaded Martian "Virus M", Tim (Bill Bixby) develops red stripes on his face. Will Detective Brennan (Alan Hewitt) tumble to the fact that Martin (Ray Walston) is the source of this affliction? Nope: Brennan assumes that the red stripes are the result of a virus that Tim brought Read More

    1966
  • My Favorite Martian: Our Notorious Landlady

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: While on a dusting binge, Mrs. Brown (Pamela Britton) activates Martin's Personality Alternator--and is instantly transformed into a thief. Before the process can be reversed, Mrs. Brown hatches a scheme to steal the fabled Slotkin Diamond. As it turns out, someone has beaten her to it, but Mrs. Read More

    1966
  • F Troop: La Dolce Courage

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Agarn (Larry Storch) unwittingly becomes the third corner of a romantic triangle involving a gorgeous Sicilian girl named Gina (Leticia Roman) and her hot-blooded suitor Mario (Joby Baker). As a result, Agarn is literally a marked man: it so happens that Mario is a member of a secret terrorist Read More

    1966
  • F Troop: Bring on the Dancing Girls

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The entrepreneurial Sgt. O'Rourke (Forrest Tucker) may have to relinquish ownership of the Fort Courage saloon to blackmailing con artist Dan Larson (Peter Leeds). Determined to hold on to his ill-gotten gains, O'Rourke conspires with his confederate Agarn (Larry Storch) to beat Larson at his own Read More

    1966
  • My Favorite Martian: Martin the Mannequin

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: While shopping at a department store, Martin (Ray Walston) takes a whiff of the new cologne "Home Fatale"--and promptly freezes in a mannequin-like posture. Unless Tim (Bill Bixby) can take him home to reverse the process, Martin will remain a permanent clothes dummy. Unfortunately, the store Read More

    1966
  • F Troop: How to Be F Troop Without Really Trying

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Because of new orders issued by Washington, everyone at Fort Courage is transferred to another outpost--everyone but Corporal Agarn (Larry Storch). On his own for the first time in his military career, Agarn is saddled with the duty of training the newly arrived "G Troop"--which in its own way is Read More

    1966
  • My Favorite Martian: Martin Meets His Match

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Needing help to repair his spaceship, Martin (Ray Walston) activates the CCTBS time machine and summons up his old friend Leonardo Da Vinci (Michael Constantine). Unfortunately, Leonardo spends most of his 20th-century visit bemoaning the fact that all of his inventions have been credited to Read More

    1966
  • My Favorite Martian: Tim, the Mastermind

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A crisis develops when Martin (Ray Walston) develops an allergy to his brain-power pills, breaking out in embarrassing green blotches. Thinking quickly, Martin feeds the pills to Tim (Bill Bixby), figuring this will make Tim smart enough to discover a cure for the allergy. Trouble ensues when Read More

    1965
  • My Favorite Martian: I'd Rather Fight Than Switch

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Thanks to Martin's Molecular Reassembler, Martin (Ray Walston) and Mrs. Brown (Pamela Britton) swap personalities and intellects. Complications ensure when Detective Brennan takes Martin-as-Mrs. Brown on a date, for the purpose of proposing marriage. Meanwhile, Mrs. Brown-as-Martin is coming Read More

    1965
  • My Favorite Martian: Go West, Young Martian, Part 2

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In the conclusion of My Favorite Martian's two-part Season Three opener, Martin (Ray Walston) and Tim (Bill Bixby) are still stuck in the West of 1849, still endeavoring to return to the 20th century via their "CCTBS" time machine. Joining a wagon train headed for California, they are victimized Read More

    1965
  • My Favorite Martian: Martin Goldfinger

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A mineral deficiency called "gold starvation" temporarily gives Martin (Ray Walston) the Midas touch--that is, everything he touches turns to gold. Though he valiantly tries to hide this cumbersome talent, Martin "gold-izes" a dinner roll, which is discovered by snoopy Detective Brennan (Alan Read More

    1965
  • My Favorite Martian: Go West, Young Martian, Part 1

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: My Favorite Martian launches its third and final season with its first color episode, and its first (and only) two-part story. In his efforts to return to the moment just before he crash-landed on earth in 1963, Uncle Martin (Ray Walston) deploys his Cathode-Ray Centrifugal Time Breakascope--which Read More

    1965
  • The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: The Very Important Zombie Affair

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This episode is set in a tiny Caribbean dictatorship, where resistance leader Dr. Delgado (Ken Renard) has been placed in a zombie-like trance at the behest of the despotic El Supremo (Claude Akins) and corrupt police chief Captain Ramirez (Rodolfo Acosta). Hoping to rescue Delgado, Solo and Illya Read More

    1965
  • My Favorite Martian: Bottle Martin

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Unbeknownst to Mrs. Brown (Pamela Britton), that wine bottle she has packed in a CARE package bound for Baghdad contains a "reduced" Uncle Martin (Ray Walston). Upon his release from the bottle, Martin is mistaken for a genie by a lovestruck Middle Easterner named Abu (Paul Verdier). Proclaiming Read More

    1965
  • Petticoat Junction: Local Girl Makes Good

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Several years removed from her most famous TV role as nurse Consuelo Lopez on Marcus Welby MD, Eleana Verdugo appears in this episode as former Hooterville resident Mary Jane Hastings. Now a prominent big-city executive, Mary Jane returns to her home town, impressing one and all with her sharp Read More

    1964
  • The Munsters: My Fair Munster

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: After another of Marilyn's boyfriends runs away in horror upon seeing the monstrous Munsters, Grandpa Munster (Al Lewis) concludes that Marilyn (Beverly Owen) will never land a beau without his help. Dutifully, Grandpa repairs to his laboratory to cook up a love potion, which Lily (Yvonne DeCarlo) Read More

    1964
  • Petticoat Junction: Charley Abandons the Cannonball

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Charley Pratt (Smiley Burnette), one of the two engineers of the Hooterville Cannonball, has never been known as the sensitve type. But when it appears that no one wants to pay him any attention, Charley goes into a funk--one so deep that he quits his job. Bob Hastings, a busy comic actor best Read More

    1964
  • Petticoat Junction: Kate the Stockholder

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Now that he's superintendent of the C&F.W. railroad, Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) imposes all sorts of Draconian rules and regulations upon Charley (Smiley Burnette) and Floyd (Rufe Davis), the engineers of the Hooterville Cannonball. It is Bedloe's master scheme to force the two engineers to quit Read More

    1964
  • Petticoat Junction: The Talent Contest

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This week Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) has created a talent contest for the young folk of Hooterville and Pixley. Of course, Joe has more in mind than simply helping a local person to stardom. In fact, he plans to "fix" the contest so that one of his nieces will win--whereupon he will pocket the Read More

    1964
  • Petticoat Junction: Dog Days at Shady Rest

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Railroad president Norman Curtis (Roy Roberts) feels that his pet basset hound should get out of the house for a while. Thus, Curtis sends the pooch for a brief stay at the Shady Rest Hotel. This provides a golden opportunity to Curtis' second in command Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane), who cooks up a Read More

    1964
  • Petticoat Junction: Quick, Hide the Railroad

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, C&F.W. railroad troubleshooter Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) is determined to put the ancient Hooterville Cannonball out of business, despite the fervent appeals (mostly in song) by the three daughters of Kate Bradley (Bea Benadaret), owner of the Shady Rest Read More

    1963
  • Petticoat Junction: Please Buy My Violets

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Kate (Bea Benadaret) is confused when Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) begins buying up old bug-spray cans. It turns out that Joe is off on another of his get-rich-quick schemes, in this case the manufacture and sale of his own brand of cologne, "Lord and Lady Violet." Joe boasts that this business Read More

    1963
  • Petticoat Junction: The Ringer

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The annual Shady Rest Horseshoe Tournament is fast approaching, and the smart money is on the undefeated champion, Pixley Fats. This year, however, Fats is up against some formidable competition in the form (and what a form!) of the tournament's first female contestant: tomboyish Betty Jo Bradley Read More

    1963
  • Petticoat Junction: Is There a Doctor in the Roundhouse?

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, railroad president Norman Curtis (Roy Roberts) has decided--for now--not to scrap the Hooterville Cannonball. This would be good news but for the fact that, in his eagerness to run the engine himself, Curtis accidentally breaks the throttle. With the Read More

    1963
  • Petticoat Junction: Bedloe Strikes Again

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Though he struck out rather spectacularly during his first visit to the Shady Rest, railroad troubleshooter Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) has returned with a new scheme to put the Hooterville Cannonball out of commission. This time, Bedloe's fiendish plot involves a pair of VIPs, one of whom is Read More

    1963
  • Petticoat Junction: The President Who Came to Dinner

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, C&F.W. railroad president Norman Curtis (Roy Roberts) hopes to succeed where his vice-president Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) by putting the Hooterville Cannonball out of business. As part of this plan, Curtis shows up at the Shady Rest Hotel under an Read More

    1963
  • Petticoat Junction: Uncle Joe's Replacement

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Herbie Bates (Don Washbrook), head clerk at Sam Drucker's general store and erstwhile beau of Billie Jo Bradley (Linda Kaye), is offered a second source of income when Billie Jo's mom Kate (Bea Benadaret) appoints him assistant manager of the Shady Rest Hotel. Unfortunately, Uncle Joe (Edgar Read More

    1963
  • The Circle

    Actors: David Alexander, Sam Bernard, Peter Brocco, Rudolph Cameron, Robert Cherry

    Synopsis: The positive public response to such productions as Crossfire and Gentleman's Agreement led to a mini-cycle of postwar anti-prejudice films. One of these was The Vicious Circle, based on a true incident which had previously been dramatized in G. W. Pabst's The Trial. In the late-19th century, an Read More

    1948

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