Dick Van PattenFilmography

Born:: December 9, 1928 in New York City, NY
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Even in his seventh decade, actor Dick Van Patten has retained the cherubic, chipmunk-cheeked countenance of his child-star days. Born into a family of actors, Van Patten was seven when he made his Broadway bow, playing Melvyn Douglas' son in Tapestry in Gray; that same year, he first stepped...Read More

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2005
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Actors: David Spade, Mary McCormack, Jon Lovitz, Craig Bierko, Jenna Boyd

Synopsis: In keeping with his background in television sitcoms, Sam Weisman directs the cameo-filled comedy Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star. Dickie Roberts (David Spade) was a child actor on the hit TV show "The Glimmer Gang" and remains remembered for a particular catch phrase. Now in his thirties, he Read More

9/5/03
Television: The First 50 Years

2003
Groom Lake

Actors: William Shatner, Dick Van Patten, Amy Acker, Duane Whitaker, Tom Towles

Synopsis: Former USS Enterprise captain William Shatner takes the helm as director and star of this sci-fi adventure following a young couple who travel to a small-town near the notorious Area-51 military base in search of extraterrestrial life. Deep in the heart of the Nevada desert, not far from Area-51 Read More

2002
The Santa Trap

Actors: Stacy Keach, Shelley Long, Robert Hays, Dick Van Patten, Sierra Abel, Brandon Michael Depaul, Corbin Bernsen

Synopsis: One of several "Santa Goes to Jail" TV movies appearing during the Christmas season of 2002, The Santa Trap actually has roots going as far back as the 1909 D. W. Griffith one-reeler A Trap for Santa Claus. Transplanted from Connecticut to California, the Emerson family isn't too happy over the Read More

2002
Another Pretty Face

Synopsis: The media's tendency to favor youth and cosmetic perfection over experience and intelligence is the gist of this mildly trenchant TV movie. Mel Harris stars as Diana, a top TV news anchor who is summarily dumped from her lofty perch in favor of a younger and prettier journalist named Amber (Julianne Morris Read More

2002
Sinners Need Company

Actors: Gail O'Grady, James Eckhouse, Jennifer Morrison, Will Wallace, Daniel Roebuck

Synopsis: Attractive widow Molly Bowser (Gail O'Grady) finds herself unable to get a job because of the jealous wives of her potential male employers. Determined to get money in a hurry by any means possible, Molly arranges for her sexy daughter Lily (Jennifer Morrison) to "accidentally" meet wealthy young Read More

2002
The Price of Air

Actors: Josh Evans, Charis Michelsen, Michael Madsen, Dick Van Patten, Michelle Phillips

Synopsis: A drug runner finds his life is in danger when he becomes hooked on his own merchandise in this drama. Paul (Josh Evans) is a young hoodlum who falls in with Mr. Ball (Michael Madsen), a crime kingpin marketing a new street drug that he tells Paul is "more addictive than air." With few prospects Read More

2000
Big Brother Trouble

Actors: Bo Hopkins, Dick Van Patten

Synopsis: Sibling rivalry reaches new heights when two brothers fall for the same girl in this family comedy. Mitch Dobson (Michal Suchanek) is an 11-year-old soccer fan who doesn't get along very well with his 16-year-old brother, Sean (Shad Hart). When Police Captain Stacy (Dick Van Patten) and his family Read More

2000
Touched by an Angel: The Lady of the Lake

Synopsis: Having left his home town in disgrace after a tragic accident, jaded land developer Blake Cameron (Lee Tergesen) returns to face his former friends and loved ones. But this is not a social call: Blake's bosses have purchased the most of property fronting Lake Paradise, a rancid body of water which Read More

1998
Demolition High

Actors: Corey Haim, Alan Thicke, Jeff Kober, Dick Van Patten, Melissa Brasselle

Synopsis: This actioner is set at a California high school and centers on the courage of misunderstood and ostracized newcomer from New York who proves himself a fearless and creative leader in the face of terrorism. Lenny hasn't been in the school long. Branded a troublemaker by teachers, bullied by jocks Read More

1996
Boy Meets World: You Can Go Home Again

Synopsis: As Boy Meets World enters its fourth season, Cory (Ben Savage) and Eric (Will Friedle) are on the last leg of their two-month summer roadtrip, and heading back to Philadelphia. But Eric, whose college plans have been shot down in flames, doesn't want the summer to end, and when the boys make a pit Read More

1996
Love Is All There Is

Actors: Lainie Kazan, Joseph Bologna, Barbara Carrera, Paul Sorvino, Renée Taylor, Angelina Jolie, Nathaniel Marston

Synopsis: Romeo and Juliet gets updated -- and played for laughs -- in this romantic comedy set in the City Island section of the Bronx. Mike and Sadie Cappamezza (Joseph Bologna and Lainie Kazan) are a hard-working couple who have run a family-style Italian restaurant for years. The Cappamezzas' fiercest Read More

1996
Touched by an Angel: In the Name of God

Synopsis: Paul Winfield makes his first series appearance as Special Agent Angel Sam. After completing an assignment in the town of Roxford, Tess (Della Reese) makes a return visit to help Dr. Joanne Glassberg (Talia Balsam) open an AIDs hospice. Unfortunately, Joanne is injured in a bombing masterminded by Read More

1995
A Dangerous Place

Synopsis: Director Jerry P. Jacobs made his feature debut with this martial arts action film starring Ted Jan Roberts as Ethan, a teen karate expert looking to uncover the truth surrounding the recent death of his older brother. Suspecting the involvement of a shady band of fellow martial artists, Ethan Read More

1994
Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Actors: Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis, Roger Rees, Amy Yasbeck, Tracey Ullman, Dave Chappelle

Synopsis: Mel Brooks directed and co-wrote this satiric comedy which lampoons a number of cinematic treatments of the legend of Sherwood Forest, including Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and The Adventures of Robin Hood. Robin Hood (Cary Elwes) comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble Read More

1993
Final Embrace

Synopsis: When a well-known music-video star turns up dead, it is up to her sister and an inexperienced police officer to track down the killer. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Joker's Wild

Actors: Marty Rackham, Priscilla Barnes, Frank Gorshin, Dick Van Patten, James Hong

Synopsis: A Caribbean vacationer is mauled by sharks. Soon after he arrives on the beach of Miami. New York is his next stop. Vera Vin Rouge, Cinnamon, Spice and Paprika make his acquaintance. Their friend Johnny Zero, however, takes an immediate dislike to this man. The action is scripted in a 24 hour Read More

1992
Radon Free

Synopsis: This video teaches how to locate and eliminate radon. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1990
An Eight is Enough Wedding

Actors: Sandy Faison

Synopsis: Having racked up excellent ratings for the 1987 TV movie Eight is Enough: A Family Reunion, the producers concocted yet another "retro" film, 1989's An Eight is Enough Wedding. Dick Van Patten returns as Tom Bradford, who anxiously prepares for the wedding of his oldest son David (Grant Goodeve). Read More

1989
Jake Spanner: Private Eye

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Ernest Borgnine, Laurie Latham

Synopsis: In this mystery, based on a novel by L.A. Morse, retired L.A. detective Jake Spanner enlists the aide of a group of senior citizens to help him find an ex-mobster's daughter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Growing Pains: Fortunate Son

Synopsis: Maggie (Joanna Kerns) frets over the wellbeing of son Mike (Kirk Cameron) when he agrees to work the night shift at convenience store. As for Mike, he finds the job pleasant enough--until he tumbles to the fact that his racist boss Nick (Dick Van Patten) displays a rather obvious preference for Read More

1989
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking

Actors: Tami Erin, Eileen Brennan, Dennis Dugan, Diane Hull

Synopsis: Precocious Pippi Longstocking (Tami Erin) falls off her father's pirate ship and washes up in a small coastal town in Florida. She causes social worker Miss Bannister (Eileen Brennan) no end of trouble and influences two neighbor kids with her mischief-making and infectious attitude. Pippi uses Read More

7/29/88
Going To the Chapel

Actors: John Ratzenberger, Dick Van Patten

Synopsis: "It's the craziest wedding of the year!" promised the ads for the TV movie Going to the Chapel. Well, maybe not the craziest, but certainly the silliest. The thinnish plot concerns the roadblocks standing in the way of the impending wedding of Scott Valentine and Michelle Greene. As a means to Read More

1988
14 Going on 30

Actors: Daphne Ashbrook, Adam Carl, Rick Rossovich

Synopsis: 14 Going on 30 starts out like Candida and ends up like Back to the Future. 14-year-old Danny O'Neill (Gabey Olds), carrying a torch for his teacher, Peggy Noble (Daphne Ashbrook), can only suffer in silence as Peggy plans to marry brutish gym instructor "Jackjaw" Kelton (Rick Rossovich). With the Read More

1988
Spaceballs

Actors: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga

Synopsis: A space bum helps rescue a princess from an evil overlord with the help of a benevolent elder in this Star Wars send-up written and directed by Mel Brooks. Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his half-man, half-dog co-pilot, Barf the Mawg (John Candy), are content to scour the galaxy living the easy Read More

6/24/87
Eight is Enough: A Family Reunion

Actors: Mary Frann, Grant Goodeve, Lani O'Grady, Adam Rich, Dick Van Patten, Laurie Walters, Susan Richardson, Connie Needham

Synopsis: Most of the original cast members of TV's Eight is Enough are on hand for the "retro" feature Eight is Enough: A Family Reunion. The single most conspicuous defector is Betty Buckley, who is here replaced by Mary Frann in the role of Abby Bradford. The premise: On the eve of his 50th birthday, Tom Read More

1987
The Midnight Hour

Actors: Shari Belafonte, LeVar Burton, Lee Montgomery, Dick Van Patten, Kevin McCarthy

Synopsis: As a high-school prank, several high-school students unwittingly release an ancient witch and her demons in this made-for-TV comedy-thriller. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1986
Murder, She Wrote: Murder in the Electric Cathedral

Synopsis: Mildred Natwick plays wealthy widow Carrie McKittrick, who happens to have been the former English teacher of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). Much to the dismay of her family, Carrie has decided to bequeath her fortune to flamboyant evangelist Reverend Willie-John Fargo (Steve Forrest). Not Read More

1986
Combat High

Actors: Robert Culp, Keith Gordon, Wally Ward, George Clooney, Dana Hill

Synopsis: In this youthful film, to juvenile delinquents must spend a year in a military academy. They immediately begin driving their superior officers crazy. The film is also titled Combat Academy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1986
Hoboken Chicken Emergency

Synopsis: The emergency of the title is caused by a hen named Henrietta. The problem: she weighs 266 pounds! When the father of Henrietta's young owner (A Christmas Story's Peter Billingsley) makes plans to sell Henrietta, she goes berserk, wreaking Disney-like havoc on downtown Hoboken. Mayor Dick Van Patten Read More

1984
Lunch Wagon

Actors: Pamela Jean Bryant, Rosanne Katon, Candy Moore, Rick Podell

Synopsis: A trio of unemployed beauties inherit a lunch wagon, only to run afoul of bank robbers in this sex comedy also known as Lunch Wagon Girls and Come 'N' Get It. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
Eight Is Enough: Season 05

Actors: Dick Van Patten, Betty Buckley, Adam Rich, Willie Aames, Connie Nelson

Synopsis: Getting a late start due to the 1980 Hollywood actors' strike, the fifth and final season of Eight is Enough makes up for lost time with a frantic 90-minute opening episode, in which Susan Bradford Stockwell (Susan Richardson), one of the eight children of journalist Tom Bradford (Dick Van Read More

1980
Eight Is Enough: Season 04

Actors: Dick Van Patten, Betty Buckley, Adam Rich, Willie Aames, Connie Newton

Synopsis: As Season Four of Eight is Enough gets under way, David Bradford (Grant Goodeve), the oldest of Sacramento journalist Tom Bradford's (Dick Van Patten) eight children, is eagerly anticipating his marriage to his attorney fiancée Janet (Joan Prather). Romance also enters the life of David's sister Read More

1979
Nutcracker Fantasy

Actors: Michael Lee, Melissa Gilbert, Lurene Tuttle, Christopher Lee, Jo Ann Worley

Synopsis: Set to Tchaikovsky's score, this Japanese animated effort chronicles the adventures of a young girl dreaming of a magical land of anthropomorphic mice that are under the spell of a wicked two-headed mouse. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker

Synopsis: The first "new" ABC network TV movie of the 1979-80 season, this one was advertised under the slightly more lurid title Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker. Filmed in quasidocumentary fashion, the story chronicles the melancholy tale of rebellious, 17-year-old Trish Thurston (Katy Kurtzman), who, in Read More

1979
With This Ring

Actors: John Forsythe, Scott Hylands, Betty White, Diana Canova

Synopsis: In this drama three contemporary couples prepare for their upcoming nuptials. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
Eight Is Enough: Season 03

Actors: Dick Van Patten, Betty Buckley, Adam Rich, Willie Aames, Connie Needham

Synopsis: Season Three of Eight is Enough finds Abby Bradford (Betty Buckley) fully accepted as the second wife of Sacramento columnist Tom Bradford (Tom Bosley) by Tom's extremely judgemental brood of eight children, who now range in age from 10 to 25. Also, recurring actress Jennifer Darling has been Read More

1978
High Anxiety

Actors: Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Ron Carey

Synopsis: This is Mel Brooks' spoof of over ten Alfred Hitchcock classics, including Psycho, Vertigo, and The Birds (Brooks actually used the bird trainer from that classic suspense movie in making his film). Brooks plays Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke, a renowned Harvard psychiatrist with a concealed fear of Read More

1977
Eight Is Enough: Season 01

Actors: Dick Van Patten, Diana Hyland, Adam Rich, Willie Aames, Connie Needham

Synopsis: In most respects, the extended-length pilot episode of Eight is Enough bears a close resemblance to the series that follows, with Sacramento columnist Tom Bradford (Dick Van Patten) presiding over a rambunctious but loving brood of eight independent-minded children. Also, the series wastes no time Read More

1977
Eight Is Enough: Season 02

Actors: Dick Van Patten, Betty Buckley, Adam Rich, Willie Aames, Connie Needham

Synopsis: Acknowledging the death of series regular Diana Hyland during the previous season of Eight is Enough, Season Two opens with Sacramento columnist Tom Bradford (Dick Van Patten) being identified as a widower, whose wife Joan has been deceased for nearly one year. While this time passage makes it Read More

1977
Gus

Actors: Ed Asner, Don Knotts, Gary Grimes, Tim Conway, Liberty Williams

Synopsis: In this Disney film, Hank Cooper (Ed Asner) the owner of a losing professional football team, recruits Gus, a Yugoslavian soccer player, to his team. Even though Gus is a mule, he figures the animal can be taught to make field-goal kicks. Despite the outrage of his team, and sabotage efforts by Read More

1976
Emergency!: Grateful

Synopsis: Dick Van Patten and Ruth Buzzi guest star as Carter and Amy Merkl, who are extremely grateful after the Squad 51 paramedics save their lives. Before long, however, the Merkls' persistent expressions of gratitude become downright annoying and obnoxious--especially when the couple insists upon Read More

1976
Freaky Friday

Actors: Barbara Harris, Jodie Foster, John Astin, Patsy Kelly, Dick Van Patten

Synopsis: Prolific television director Gary Nelson made the Walt Disney live-action comedy Freaky Friday, based on the novel by Mary Rodgers. Barbara Harris stars as suburban housewife Ellen Andrews, the wife of Bill (John Astin) and the mother of Annabel (Jodie Foster) and Ben (Sparky Marcus). Ellen just Read More

1976
Blind Sunday

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

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

1976
The Streets of San Francisco: Clown of Death

Synopsis: In an intriguing change of pace, gimlet-eyed SFPD detective Mike Stone (Karl Malden) dons the greasepaint, red nose and floppy shoes of a circus clown. It's all part of an undercover assignment to ferret out the murderer of two retired circus riggers whose deaths occur just before a gala Big Top Read More

1976
The Streets of San Francisco: The Thrill Killers, Part 1

Synopsis: The two-part opener of Streets of San Francisco's fifth and final season marks a major transition, as SFPD homicide detective Mike Stone (Karl Malden) loses his longtime partner Steve Keller (Michael Douglas) and gains a new one, athletic young inspector Dan Robbins (Richard Hatch). But before Read More

1976
Treasure of Matecumbe

Actors: Robert Foxworth, Joan Hackett, Peter Ustinov, Vic Morrow, Johnny Doran

Synopsis: This adventure chronicles two boys' search for a treasure buried somewhere in the Florida Keys during the mid 1800s. The children are assisted by three adults, who each have the their own agendas for finding the cache. The hunters are followed by a greedy gang of villains. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

1976
The Shaggy D.A.

Actors: Dean Jones, Tim Conway, Suzanne Pleshette, Keenan Wynn, Jo Ann Worley

Synopsis: Robert Stevenson, Walt Disney Productions' house director, cobbled together his 19th family film for the organization with this slapstick sequel to the Disney comedy The Shaggy Dog (produced 17 years after the fact). Dean Jones plays Wilby Daniels, a lawyer running against the villainous John Read More

1976
The Love Boat

Actors: Don Adams, Tom Bosley, Ted Hamilton, Sandy Helberg, Florence Henderson, Gabe Kaplan, Hal Linden, Dick Van Patten, Theodore Wilson, Teri O'Mara

Synopsis: Originally telecast September 17, 1976, Love Boat was the first of two pilot films for the long-running TV series of the same name. On this maiden voyage of the Pacific Princess (from California to Mexico), we zero in on four separate sets of passengers. Gabe Kaplan plays a goofy salesman who Read More

1976
S.W.A.T.: Pilot

Actors: Georg Stanford Brown, Steve Forrest, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Walden, Jamie Lyn Bauer

Synopsis: This two-hour pilot episode for S.W.A.T. originated as a special installment of the ABC police series The Rookies, explaining the omnipresence of that program's co-star Georg Stanford Brown in his familiar role of Officer Terry Webster. Essentially a peace-loving man and a firm believer in due Read More

1975
The Strongest Man in the World

Actors: Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Eve Arden, Cesar Romero, Phil Silvers

Synopsis: Kurt Russell returns as Dexter Riley, the dedicated student of Medfield College who just can't stay out of trouble, in this follow-up to The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and Now You See Him, Now You Don't. In this story, Dexter is trying to devise a formula for a chemistry project that will increase Read More

1975
When Things Were Rotten

Synopsis: Taken from the television series "When Things Were Rotten," this collection includes three episodes from the Mel Brooks Robin Hood spoof. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
Adam-12: Alcohol

Synopsis: Dick Van Patten guest stars as Harry Curtis, a lovable drunk whose hilarious wisecracks have arresting officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) in stitches. What isn't so funny is the desperation which Harry is hiding under his clownish veneer--in fact, it can be said that Read More

1974
Banacek: Rocket to Oblivion

Synopsis: In this episode,Banacek must investigate the disappearance of an innovative rocket after it is stolen from an exposition center. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Westworld

Actors: Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, Alan Oppenheimer, Victoria Shaw

Synopsis: Welcome to Westworld, where nothing can go wrong...go wrong...go wrong....Writer/director Michael Crichton has concocted a futuristic "Disneyland for adults", a remote resort island where, for a hefty fee, one can indulge in one's wildest fantasies. Businessmen James Brolin and Richard Benjamin Read More

1973
Soylent Green

Actors: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters

Synopsis: Richard Fleischer directed this nightmarish science fiction vision of an over-populated world, based on the novel by Harry Harrison. In 2022, New York City is a town bursting at the seams with a 40-million-plus population. Food is in short supply, and most of the population's food source comes Read More

1973
Superdad

Actors: Sarah Fankboner, Jim Wakefield, Bob Crane, Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Barbara Rush, Dick Van Patten

Synopsis: A concerned father decides to become closer to his daughter the hard way in this live-action comedy from Walt Disney Pictures. Charlie McCready (Bob Crane) is the father of Wendy (Kathleen Cody), a pretty teenager soon to enter college. Like most parents, Charlie only wants the best for his Read More

1973
The Crooked Hearts

Synopsis: A million-dollar cast was assembled for this high-gloss TV movie. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Rosalind Russell play a pair of ageing con artists, plying their trade with the members of a lonely hearts club managed by Maureen O'Sullivan. Complicating the schemes of the tricky duo is the presence of a Read More

1972
The Streets of San Francisco: 45 Minutes from Home

Synopsis: William Windom delivers a compelling performance as Russ Rankin, an out-of-town salesman attending a convention in San Francisco. Targeted as the patsy in a badger game by a sexy female hitchhiker, Rankin is lured to a tiny houseboat, where he lapses into unconsciousness -- just before the girl is Read More

1972
Beware! The Blob

Actors: Richard Stahl, Godfrey Cambridge

Synopsis: Cashing in on director Larry Hagman's fame as star of Dallas, a canny distributor reissued Beware! the Blob (aka Son of Blob) with the come-on line "The Film That J.R. Shot!" Picking up where the original Blob (1958) left off, the film begins as the pudding-like goo thaws out and begins wreaking Read More

1972
Dirty Little Billy

Actors: Michael J. Pollard

Synopsis: Dirty Little Billy thankfully does not try to glorify its subject. Instead, Billy the Kid (Michael J. Pollard) is depicted as the homicidal mental defective that history has proven him to be. The film recounts Billy's formative years, exploding legends and myths all along the way. The Old West is Read More

1972
Emergency!: Women

Synopsis: Future General Hospital star Leslie Charleson appears in this episode as Christy Todd, a pushy journalist (aka "the Baby Barracuda") who insists upon accompanying the paramedics as they go about their rescue rounds. The virulently feminist Christy causes nothing but trouble for the male staffers Read More

1972
Joe Kidd

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon, Don Stroud, Stella Garcia

Synopsis: In John Sturges' Americanized version of Sergio Leone's Man-With-No-Name films, Clint Eastwood is Joe Kidd, a cryptic stranger who arrives in the New Mexican town of Sinola, where Mexican bandito/revolutionary Luis Chama (John Saxon) has organized a peasant revolt against the local landowners, who Read More

1972
Snowball Express

Actors: Dean Jones, Nancy Olson, Harry Morgan, Keenan Wynn, Johnny Whitaker

Synopsis: In this light-weight Disney family fare, Dean Jones plays Johnny Baxter, who -- along with his wife Sue (Nancy Olsen) and his two kids, Chris (Kathleen Cody) and Richard (Johnny Whitaker) -- decides to leave the New York City rat-race for the clean air and easy living of the Colorado ski country. Read More

1972
Hec Ramsey [TV Series]

Synopsis: A college-educated sheriff takes on an older crimefighter as his deputy in this western. (AKA Century Turns) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1972
Making it

Actors: Kristoffer Tabori, Joyce Van Patten

Synopsis: In the life of sexually successful young high-school student Phil Fuller (Kristoffer Tabori) the episodes in this story enable him to gain increased maturity and understanding. Phil is attracted to his gym teacher's beautiful wife who has a phobia about growing old and who eventually takes him to Read More

1971
Confessions of a Top Crime Buster

Synopsis: Confessions of a Top Crime Buster is a feature film in name only. In truth, it consists of three half-hour episodes of the 1971 TV sitcom The Partners. Don Adams plays bumbling police detective Lennie Crooke, while Rupert Crosse portrays Lennie's equally clumsy partner George Robinson (Lennie and Read More

1971
A Memory of Two Mondays

Actors: Harvey Keitel

Synopsis: Paul Bogart directed this 1974 televised production of Arthur Miller's classic play, A Memory of Two Mondays. An dramatic and comedic ensemble piece, the one-act traces several years in the lives of a group of characters working in an auto parts warehouse during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Read More

1970
Zachariah

Actors: Don Johnson, Doug Kershaw, John Rubinstein

Synopsis: This western is permeated with the culture of the early '70s; it features contributions by writers for the Firesign Theatre, a counter-culture comedy troupe of the period, as well as music from groups such as The James Gang, Doug Kershaw, White Lightening and others--a rock/folk/country fusion. Read More

1970
I Dream of Jeannie: My Master, The Chili King

Synopsis: Gabriel Dell guest stars as Arvel, Tony's wheeler-dealer cousin from Texas. Hoping to capitalize on Tony's fame, Arvel persuades Jeannie (Barbara Eden) to allow him to market his own chili recipe as "Cousin Tony's Texas Chili", with a picture Tony (Larry Hagman) on each can. Naturally, this Read More

1970
Charly

Actors: Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Leon Janney, Lilia Skala, Dick Van Patten

Synopsis: In 1961, Cliff Robertson starred in The Two Worlds of Charley Gordon, a TV adaptation of Daniel Keyes' story Flowers for Algernon. Determined not to lose out on the film version of this play as he'd done with Days of Wine and Roses, Robertson bought up the movie rights to Keyes' story so that he Read More

1968
Violent Midnight

Actors: Lee Philips, Shepperd Strudwick, James Farentino, Jean Hale, Margot Hartman, Lorraine Rogers

Synopsis: This stark but interesting low-budget thriller stars Lee Philips as Elliot Freeman, a veteran of the Korean War who has returned home to New England and is following his muse as an artist. Freeman inherited a fortune from his wealthy father and is earning an impressive reputation for his Read More

1963
I Remember Mama: Season 06

1954
I Remember Mama: Season 05

1953
I Remember Mama: Season 04

1952
I Remember Mama: Season 03

1951
I Remember Mama: Season 02

1950
I Remember Mama: Season 01

Actors: Peggy Wood, Judson Laire

1949
Reg'lar Fellers

Actors: Sarah Padden, Roscoe Ates, Maren Mayo, Netta Packer, Jack C. Smith

Synopsis: Based on the long-running comic strip by Gene Byrne, PRC's Reg'lar Fellers was intended as the first of a series of 6-reel comedies built around the talents of juvenile performers Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer and Billy Lee. The plot is set in motion by Hetty Carter (Sarah Padden), a wealthy dowager who Read More

1941
Molly and Mama

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