Don WeisFilmography

CHiPs: The Greatest Adventures of CHiPS

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this episode of the "CHiPs" television series, the adventures involving officers Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello are nostalgically recalled by other officers. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Millionaire

Crew: Director

Actors: Ralph Bellamy, Jane Wyatt

Synopsis: The original TV series The Millionaire ran from 1955 through 1960. Marvin Miller starred as Michael Anthony, general factotum to "the late, fabulously wealthy" John Beresford Tipton, whose hobby was to anonymously dole out million-dollar checks to people he'd never met. The 1978 TV-movie revival Read More

Zero to Sixty

Crew: Director

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

M*A*S*H: Tea and Empathy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A crisis arises when the 4077th is deluged with wounded British troops. Someone has been stealing the camp's precious penicillin, and the evidence points to a ring of black marketeers. Klinger (Jamie Farr) and Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) risk life and limb to acquire some fresh Read More

M*A*S*H: The M*A*S*H Olympics

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Col. Potter (Harry Morgan) hopes to whip the camp back into shape by holding an Olympics. Since the first prize is a three-day pass, even the languine Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and B.J. (Mike Farrell) agree to participate. Admidst the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, Margaret's husband Donald Read More

Andros Targets [TV Series]

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M*A*S*H: Last Laugh

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This episode begins on a serious note, as B.J. (Mike Farrell) receives word that he is the target of a military investigation. Before long, however, tension has segued into laughter as Hawkeye (Alan Alda) merrily engages in a battle of practical jokes against his old pal Bardonaro (James Read More

M*A*S*H: Change Day

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Charles (David Ogden Stiers) hopes to profit from inside information that the Army intends to change the color of its scrip (the paper used in lieu of money during wartime). Purchasing the old blue scrip from the local Korean villagers at bargain-basement prices, Charles intends to turn it in for Read More

Baretta: The Ninja

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Blake, Edward Grover, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: In the opening episode of Baretta's third season, undercover cop Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) searches for the thugs who killed a young Nisei girl. Complications ensue when the dead girl's father takes the traditional Japanese vow to kill everyone connected with his daughter's death. Could this Read More

Ironside: The Return of Eleanor Rogers

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ironside (Raymond Burr) is skeptical when Isabel Fredericks (Katherine Cannon), the daughter of Judge John Fredericks (Joseph Campanella), insists that her father's life is in danger. What the Chief doesn't know (at least at first) is that the Judge's new wife Eleanor (Ina Balin) once had ties Read More

The Demon and the Mummy

Crew: Director

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

M*A*S*H: Iron Guts Kelly

Crew: Director

Synopsis: James Gregory, of Barney Miller fame, guest stars as celebrated American General "Iron Guts" Kelly. During his visit to the 4077th, Kelly abruptly dies in action -- said "action" being conducted in the bed of Maj. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan (Loretta Swit). Hoping to head off an embarrassing Read More

M*A*S*H: Springtime

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Everyone in the 4077th has spring fever, and few are more "feverish" than Col. Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson), who decides to take advantage of a lull in hostilities by shooting a few rounds of golf. Elsewhere, Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) relies upon a balky short-wave radio to perform a Read More

Back to the Planet of the Apes

Crew: Director

Ironside: Riddle at 24,000

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ironside (Raymond Burr) is reunited with his old friend Dr. Juan Domingo (Desi Arnaz), an eccentric Cuban-born doctor currently residing in a small California town. When not being sidetracked by an odd assortment of patients (which include an expectant duck!), Dr. Domingo likes to dabble in Read More

Ironside: Come Eleven, Come Twelve

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While Ed (Don Galloway) is escorting an extradited murder suspect to San Francisco, his plane is grounded in Reno. Knowing full well that the suspect's criminal cohorts are planning to kill him, Ed and his prisoner are forced to hide out in an abandoned bar until help arrives. Unfortunately, it Read More

Kolchak: The Night Stalker: The Ripper

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The first episode of the series, following the television films The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler, "The Ripper" attempts to condense the better elements of the longer entries into a workable hour-long format. Now based in Chicago and working for the news agency INS, reporter Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin Read More

Ironside: The Visiting Fireman

Crew: Director

Synopsis: John Williams guest stars as Bill Walston, a British police inspector who shows up in San Francisco, ostensibly to a attend a convention. Linking up with his old friend Ironside (Raymond Burr), Walston effusively offers to help the Chief in his investigation of a robbery. What Ironside doesn't Read More

Ironside: Speak No Evil

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway) is dismayed to learn that his priest friend Steve Timmins (Christopher Connelly)has been targeted for murder. Even more dismaying is the fact that Father Steve knows the identity of the would-be killer, but is bound by the rules of the Confessional to remain silent. As Read More

Ironside: Cross Doublecross

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Policewoman Fran Belding (Elizabeth Baur) has a new man in her life: Jim Marshall (Gary Lockwood), a police detective who is long on charm but dangerously short on temper. Marshall's well-known propensity for violence catches up with him when he is suspected of two murders. Ironside (Raymond Burr) Read More

Crackle of Death

Crew: Director

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

M*A*S*H: Check-Up

Crew: Director

Synopsis: It is time for the men and women of 4077th to undergo their annual medical checkup. When Radar (Gary Burghoff) is diagnosed with an ulcer, it looks as though he'll be shipped stateside, an event which calls for a gala farewell party. On a darker note, the usually cheerful Trapper (Wayne Rogers) Read More

M*A*S*H: For Want of a Boot

Crew: Director

Synopsis: All Hawkeye (Alan Alda) wants is a new pair of boots, but oh, what a labyrinthine route he must take to achieve his goal. Supply Sergeant Zale (Johnny Haymer, in his first series appearance) might be able to locate some boots, but only if he can wangle an appointment with overworked army dentist Read More

M*A*S*H: Crisis

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When the supply lines are cut, camp clerk Radar (Gary Burghoff) must resort to extreme, even Draconian conservation measures. Staff members are doubled up in tents to save on fuel, and before long every spare stick of furniture is being burned for heat. At the precise moment that the last of the Read More

M*A*S*H: Dear Dad.. Three

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In his latest letter to his father, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) relates a number of memorable events from the recent past of the 4077th. For example, there was the time that the doctors removed a grenade from the body of a soldier; then there was that bigoted GI who refused a blood transfusion from anyone Read More

M*A*S*H: The Trial of Henry Blake

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Frank (Larry Linville) and Margaret (Loretta Swit) joins forces to get Col. Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) removed from duty on a charge of incompetence. Covering all bases, the connivers place Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and Trapper (Wayne Rogers) under arrest so they can't come to Henry's rescue. The Read More

M*A*S*H: Henry In Love

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Col. Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) returns from a sojourn in Tokyo even giddier than usual. And no wonder; Henry has fallen in love with nurse Nancy Sue Parker (Katherine Baumann), a woman half the age of his wife. Even allowing for the relaxed morals overseas, the other officers are convinced Read More

Ironside: House of Terror

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The centerpiece of this episode is an allegedly haunted house, where over the course of many years several people have mysteriously vanished. The niece of the San Francisco police commissioner makes a bet that she can spend one night in the house--whereupon she disappears as well. Investigating Read More

Ironside: Fragile is the House of Cards

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A startled Ironside (Raymond Burr) is accosted by lawyer David Wills (James Olson), who claims to be suffering from amnesia. All Wills can recall from the last 72 hours is a fragmentary story of an unconscious man on a sinking boat. Racing against time, Ironside scours the streets and docks of San Read More

Ironside: Downhill All the Way, Part 1

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the first half of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Chief Ironside is assigned to protect little Jerry Abbott, an autistic 10-year-old who has witnessed a murder. Not long afterward, the newspapers are reporting that Jerry himself has been killed--and that Read More

Ironside: The Hidden Man

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Upon his return from Vietnam, ex-POW Mike Doyle (Cliff Potts) is certain that he sees his police-officer father (Warren Kemmerling) waiting for him at the airport--just before disappearing in the crowd. But the Commissioner (Gene Lyons), and everyone else who knows and cares about Mike, insists Read More

Ironside: Downhill All the Way, Part 2

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Ironside (Raymond Burr) has degenerated from a respected law enforcement officer to a seedy skid-row bum, apparently because 10-year-old murder witness Jerry Abbott (Lee H. Montgomery) was killed while in the Chief's protective custody. What even Ironside's Read More

Ironside: The Caller

Crew: Director

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

Ironside: Ollinger's Last Case

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After receiving a strange, plaintive phone call from his old friend and colleague Ted Ollinger, Ironside (Raymond Burr) sends his assistant Ed Brown (Don Galloway) to the small town of Grant Bay to investigate. Upon arrival, Ed finds that Ollinger has disappeared, and that most of the local Read More

Ironside: Love Me in December

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ironside (Raymond Burr) heads to a farming community at the request of Vickie Dunhill (Kathy Cannon), the 18-year-old fiancee of wealthy middle-aged rancher Aaron Clark (Steve Forrest). It seems that a murder has occurred, and that the local citizens, resentful over the fact that Clark has Read More

Ironside: Confessions from a Lady of the Night

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Season Seven of Ironside begins as Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr) goes head-to-head with the staff of a smarmy gossip magazine that has held a grudge with the San Francisco police department ever since the "botched" investigation of a missing actor. Now the magazine is going after Ironside himself Read More

Ironside: A Game of Showdown

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While on a fishing trip, Ironside (Raymond Burr) and Ed (Don Galloway) make a quick stopover at a roadside inn. It soon becomes obvious that the establish is the front for an illegal gambling house, run by a sinister professional speculator named Lou Hogan (Robert Webber), who may also have the Read More

M*A*S*H: Sticky Wicket

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After a series of disturbing medical mishaps, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) wonders if he has lost his surgical touch. Meanwhile, it appears as though Hawkeye's bête noire, the spectacularly incompetent Frank Burns (Larry Linville), could actually be speaking the truth for a change. Then again Read More

M*A*S*H: Major Fred C. Dobbs

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Fed up with the irreverence of Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and Trapper (Wayne Rogers), Frank Burns (Larry Linville) and Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan (Loretta Swit) apply for a transfer to another M*A*S*H unit. Unwilling to lose their two favorite patsies, Hawkeye and Trapper hatch a scheme to prevent Read More

Ironside: Buddy, Can You Spare a Life?, Part 1

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the first half of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Ironside (Raymond Burr) begins to question his judgment in a manslaughter case which occurred seven years ago. At the time, the Chief rammed through the conviction of chief suspect Walter Booth (William Read More

Ironside: Down Two Roads

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Newly graduated from law school, Ironside's assistant Mark Sanger (Don Mitchell) is assigned to the DA's office. His first assignment is to build a case against robbery suspect Roger Stewart (Felton Perry)--a school caretaker whom Mark had befriended during his studies. Balking at the prospect of Read More

Ironside: The Savage Sentry

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ironside (Raymond Burr) searches for a resourceful burglar who has figured out a method of "taming" vicious guard dogs so that he can rob stores without interference. In order to flush out the villain, Ironside adopts his own dog and sets both himself and the pooch up as bait. With the Read More

Ironside: Buddy, Can You Spare a Life?, Part 2

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Ironside (Raymond Burr) works in concert with attorney Ken Klaven (Cameron Mitchell) to secure the release of Walter Booth (William Campbell), whom the Chief had sent to prison on a manslaughter charge seven Read More

Ironside: Cold, Hard Cash

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Working undercover, Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway) infiltrates the gang responsible for the kidnapping of the daughter (Kay Lenz) of a famous movie actress (Barbara Rush). Curiously, in his efforts to secure the girl's release, Ed's boss Ironside (Raymond Burr) encounters a stunning lack of Read More

Ironside: The Deadly Gamesmen

Crew: Director

Synopsis: One of the wealthier sections of San Francisco is being terrorized by a crime wave. Studying the pattern of events, Ironside (Raymond Burr) figures out that the crimes are being planned and executed in the manner of a chess game. It now falls to the Chief to "checkmate" the two depraved socialites Read More

Ironside: The Countdown

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jackie Cooper guest stars as scientist Dr. Norman Chase, who early in the proceedings is waylaid by the minions of a criminal named Caesar (Richard Jaeckel) and forced to put on an explosive belt that cannot be removed . Unless Ironside (Raymond Burr) agrees to release three of Caesar's cohorts Read More

M*A*S*H: Cowboy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Billy Green Bush guest-stars as Cowboy, a wonder chopper pilot. When Henry (McLean Stevenson) refuses to ship Cowboy home, the outraged pilot threatens dire consequences. Before long, the 4077th is plagued by all manner of weird calamities, ranging from a runaway jeep to an exploding toilet. But Read More

Ironside: Unreasonable Facsimile

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In his second Ironside guest appearance, Burgess Meredith is cast as Harry Grenadine, a Hollywood make-up expert who has done jail time for bank robbery. No sooner has Harry been released from prison than a series of holdups occur, each one bearing his distinctive "signature." Ironside (Raymond Read More

Ironside: Death by the Numbers

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Raymond Burr tackles what amounts to a triple role in this episode, in which Chief Ironside investigates a series of murders that share a common bond. Each of four victims had in his possession a numbered disk: the current holder of Disk Number Five is none other than the police commissioner (Gene Read More

Ironside: The Accident

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After accidentally knocking her down with the van, a guilt-ridden Mark (Don Mitchell) befriends an elderly woman named Melissa Babcock (Juanita Moore). It is just possible, however, that the accident was no accident: Ms. Babcock has a reputation for staging phony injuries in order to collect huge Read More

Ironside: Grandmother's House

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jesse Royce Landis, who in an earlier episode played the aunt of Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr), is here cast as business executive Margaret Brainard, the widow of one of Ironside's oldest friends. When Margaret's purse is stolen, she asks Ironside to solve the crime--and to keep secret that the Read More

Ironside: Contract: Kill Ironside

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Scheduled to give evidence in a Federal trial, Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr) is all too aware that there are those who hope to silence him before he can appear in court. In fact, the Chief gets word from the grapevine that a professional assassin has been hired to shut him up permanently. What Read More

Ironside: Love, Peace, Brotherhood and Murder

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ironside (Raymond Burr) invests in a play staged by an avant-garde theater troupe. When one of the actresses dies of a heroin overdose during rehearsal, the Chief takes it upon himself to find the killer, prevent further murders--and, incidentally, protect his investment! Featured in the cast is Read More

Ironside: The Summer Soldier

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Theodore Bikel guest stars as Armenian immigrant Arschag Divinian, who--conveniently for plot purposes--is the uncle of a friend of police officer Eve Whitfield (Barbara Anderson). A tobacco dealer, Divnian is being blackmailed by his two disreputable nephews to allow them to prepare synthetic Read More

Ironside: The Quincunx

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Eve (Barbara Anderson) investigates when an old friend, the female member of a folksinging trio consisting of two brothers and a sister, disappears during a San Francisco concert tour. Could this disappearance be linked with the murder of another girl--to say nothing of a sinister drug ring? The Read More

Ironside: The Target

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ex-convict Gordy Brokaw (Earl Holliman), a demolitions expert, is being strongarmed into helping a gang of revolutionaries steal a huge cache of dynamite and assemble a time bomb. To bind the bargain, the rebels kidnap Gordy's young son (Vincent Van Patten). Though Ironside (Raymond Burr) is able Read More

Ironside: The Professionals

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Somewhere in San Francisco there lurks a phony cab driver who is setting his male customers to be drugged, mugged and robbed. The faux cabbie is a member of a clever gang of credit-card thieves, and Ironside (Raymond Burr) is determined to stop him--especially after one of the victims turns up Read More

Ironside: Ring of Prayer

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr) wants to find out why a terminally ill convict named Walter Butler (Ray Walston) has been denied parole. The trail of clues leads to Madame Jabez (Barbara Rush), a woman who claims to have supernatural powers. Many strange and inexplicable occurences follow as Read More

Ironside: Dear Fran

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Fran (Elizabeth Baur) is devastated when word arrives that her cousin Bobby has committed suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. But the lack of a corpse, and the sudden appearance of several letters allegedly written by Bobby and declaring his unrequited love for Fran, lead Ironside Read More

Ironside: Murder Impromptu

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This episode reunites Ironside star Raymond Burr with his former Perry Mason costar Barbara Hale. Chief Ironside (Burr) comes to the aid of Marsha Connell (Hale) when she is implicated in the murder of a member of an improvisational comedy group. The killing takes place during a stage performance Read More

Ironside: License to Kill

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The killer of police officer Randy Keating (Roger Perry) is himself killed by Keating's partner Frank Carlson (David Carradine)--whereupon Carlson finds himself facing a murder charge. Inasmuch as he attended police academy with both Keating and Carlson, Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway) takes a Read More

Ironside: The Gambling Game

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This episode marks the first series appearance of Elizabeth Baur as rookie policewoman Fran Belding. Anxious to prove that her murdered police-captain father is innocent of corruption charges, Fran tags along with Ironside and his team as they conduct their investigation of the killing. Though the Read More

Ironside: Beware the Wiles of the Stranger

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Tina Louise guest stars as Candy, a pretty cocktail waitress who hitches a ride from Ironside's aide Mark (Don Mitchell). What Mark doesn't know is that Candy is the accomplice of a wanted criminal, and that she is looking for a fall guy to take the rap for a recent robbery. The trouble really Read More

Ironside: A Killing Will Occur

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Season Four of Ironside begins as the titular wheelchair-bound detective (played by Raymond Burr) begins receiving anonymous phone calls warning him that a "justice" murder will occur. The only clues seem to point in the direction of a disgruntled ex-cop who was thrown off the force in 1955. Read More

Ironside: Little Jerry Jessup

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The only witness to a woman's murder is the victim's son, 13-year-old Jerry Jessup (Mitch Vogel). Unfortunately, Jerry refuses to cooperate with the investigation spearheaded by Ironside (Raymond Burr), holding the Chief responsible for the arrest of his bank-robber father Marty (William Shatner). Read More

Ironside: Warrior's Return

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ironside(Raymond Burr) is certain that John Walala (Ned Romero), a Native American silversmith who was recently paroled on a theft charge, is not guilty of a jewel robbery. Unfortunately, the evidence indicates that the heist could only have been pulled off by Walala--or at the very least, someone Read More

Ironside: Return to Fiji

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Returning to Fiji for the first time since WW2, Ironside is anxious to be reunited with a wartime friend. Upon his arrival, however, Ironside is informed that his friend has left for San Francisco to meet him. Suspecting foul play, Ironside summons Mark and Ed to the islands--only to mysteriously Read More

Ironside: Noel's Gonna Fly

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ironside (Raymond Burr) tries to prevent Noel Seymour (Richard Basehart), a respectable middle-aged accountant who is undergoing a bad case of "male menopause", from ruining the rest of his life. The trouble begins when Seymour is arrested on a charge of public intoxication, then skips his Read More

Ironside: Little Dog, Gone

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When a wealthy friend of the San Francisco police commissioner reports that his dog is missing, a disgruntled Ironside (Raymond Burr) passes the responsibility of locating the pooch to his assistants Ed (Don Galloway) and Eve (Barbara Anderson). Meanwhile, Mark (Don Mitchell) finds out that the Read More

Ironside: The Happy Dreams of Hollow Men

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Vacationing at a mountain cabin, Ironside (Raymond Burr) ends up trapped in a blizzard with an old friend named Harry Peters (Joseph Campanella). It soon becomes painfully obvious that Peters is a drug addict who will become dangerously violent once his supply runs out. Ironside's only hope for Read More

Ironside: Five Miles High

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This episode takes place almost entirely in the cabin of a night plane travelling from Hawaii to San Francisco. Among the passengers are Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr), his assistants, and a federal witness whom they are escorting to testify against a racketeer. Unfortunately, also on board is a Read More

Ironside: The Prophecy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Martha Scott guest stars in this offbeat episode as self-styled clairvoyant Francine Miller. All of Francine's recent prophecies have come disturbingly true, including her dire predictions concerning the members of Ironside's team. Now Ironside himself is faced with the dilemma of recovering a Read More

Deadlock

Crew: Director

Actors: James McEachin, Leslie Nielsen, Fred Williamson

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Deadlock stars Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Sam Danforth (since this is long before the Police Squad era, Nielsen plays it straight). The white Danforth finds himself at ideological loggerheads with black district attorney Leslie Washburn (Hari Rhodes). Racial tensions are escalated when Read More

Ironside: The Machismo Bag

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Mark (Don Mitchell) comes face to face with the Blue Berets, a group of Chicano dropouts turned freedom fighters. The leader of the group is Manolo Rodriguez (played by former UCLA drama student A Martinez in his first important TV role), who is determined to fight for the rights of his Read More

Ironside: Moonlighting Means Money

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ed (Don Galloway) and fellow police officer Ray Leonard (Linden Chiles) are suspected of killing a dope peddler in cold blood. Even worse, Ray was driving the dead man's "business" car while moonlighting as a cabbie, suggesting that he himself was involved in drug-running. Though suspended from Read More

Ironside: Up, Down and Even

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Eve (Barbara Anderson) is upset that her niece Kimberly (Susan O'Connell) has been arrested on a marijuana possession charge--especially since it is the girl's second offense. Though she knows she will be institutionalized unless she reveals her supplier, Kimberly refuses to talk. In order to save Read More

Ironside: The Tormentor

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Baseball star Clint Atkins (Gary Collins) is being plagued with hate mail, extortion notes, death threats and even a mysterious barrage of gas pellets. Curiously, Atkins insists that the police stay out of the matter, and that he will handle the problem all by himself. Naturally, Ironside (Raymond Read More

Ironside: Love My Enemy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A private delegation of Chinese and American diplomats has convened in a secret Scandanavian location to negotiate the release of several American POWS. Providing security at the meeting is Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr), who finds himself matching wits--and witticisms--with his cagey Chinese Read More

Ironside: Alias Mr. Braithwaite

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Season Thee of Ironside begins as wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside (Raymond Burr) and his team set their sighs on prolific con artist Raymond Otis Baker (Joseph Campanella), who specializes in bilking little old ladies out of their life savings. Unfortunately for Baker--or, as he is Read More

Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady?

Crew: Director

Actors: Phyllis Diller, Joe Flynn, Eileen Wesson, Jeanette Nolan

Synopsis: After registering well in supporting roles in such Bob Hope farces as Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number and Eight on the Lam, raucous comedienne Phyllis Diller attempted to carry a picture all by herself. Alas, Did You Hear the One About the Travelling Saleslady? proved to be as bad as its title. Read More

Now You See It, Now You Don't

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In his only starring made-for-TV movie, comedian Jonathan Winters plays an art expert engaged by an insurance company. Winters is assigned to protect a valuable Rembrandt, on loan from the Louvre to a major New York gallery. The Rembrandt disappears and passes through several hands (including the Read More

Ironside: The Taker

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Circumstantial evidence suggests that a murdered cop was supplementing his income as a blackmailer. Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr), an old friend of the dead man, is determined to prove otherwise. In the course of his investigation, Ironside reopens an unsolved homicide case in which the deceased Read More

The Longest Hundred Miles

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The Longest Hundred Miles was among the first feature films produced specifically for television. Doug McClure stars as an American GI, stationed in the Philippines during World War II. Reluctantly, McClure is persuaded by army nurse Katharine Ross and local priest Ricardo Montalban to transport a Read More

The King's Pirate

Crew: Director

Actors: Doug McClure, Jill St. John, Guy Stockwell, Mary Ann Mobley, Kurt Kasznar

Synopsis: This very economical remake of the 1952 Errol Flynn vehicle Against All Flags stars Doug McClure in the Flynn role. Cashiered from the royal navy in disgrace, McClure becomes a buccaneer, guiding his loyal crew to an island completely populated by cutthroats. Here he links up with pirate-captain Guy Stockwell Read More

Ironside: Let My Brother Go

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ironside (Raymond Burr) is counting upon African American pro-football hero Charles "Bat" Masterson (Ivan Dixon) to help keep a group of inner-city kids on the straight and narrow. But Masterson is preoccupied with keeping his parolee brother Joe (Don Marshall) out of trouble--and is even willing Read More

Ironside: Dead Man's Tale

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ironside (Raymond Burr) stage-manages an elaborate ruse to bring mob kingpin John Trask (a pre-Hawaii 5-0 Jack Lord) to justice. Hiding the fact that a gangster who'd planned to turn state's evidence has been murdered, Ironside leads Trask to believe that the dead witness is still alive and really Read More

Ironside: The Fourteenth Runner

Crew: Director

Synopsis: An international incident quickly develops when a celebrated Soviet track star disappears during an American athletic event. It's possible that the man was kidnapped, and equally possible that he has defected for love of a woman. Investigating the case, Ironside (Raymond Burr) must work hand and Read More

Ironside: The Monster of Comus Towers

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A baffling robbery at the Comus Towers art museum becomes a personal matter for Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr) when his close friend, the museum owner, is murdered. Inasmuch as the crime took place in a high-rise building, it would seem that a "human fly" was the culprit. At least, that's what the Read More

Ironside: The Past is Prologue

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Once again, Ironside (Raymond Burr) comes to the aid of an old friend, in this case an outwardly solid citizen who faces extradition to New York on a murder charge. Although Wally Stowe (Victor Jory) is a fugitive from justice who has been living under an assumed identity for nearly two decades Read More

The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini

Crew: Director

Actors: Deborah Walley, Tommy Kirk, Aron Kincaid, Basil Rathbone, Quinn O'Hara, Boris Karloff, Dwayne Hickman, Jesse White

Synopsis: American-International's Beach Party series came to an abrupt end with Ghost in the Invisible Bikini. Because of such tangible reasons as contractual commitments, coupled with such intangibles as illness and death, most of the series "regulars" are absent. Deborah Walley and Aron Kinkaid fill the Read More

Billie

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Patty Duke, Jim Backus, Jane Greer, Warren Berlinger, Billy De Wolfe

Synopsis: Billie is a screen version of Ronald Alexander's perennial stage favorite Time Out For Ginger. Patty Duke plays a tomboyish high schooler who excels in athletics but who continues to strike out socially. Jim Backus and Jane Greer perform yeoman service as Duke's parents, who wonder how long it's Read More

Pajama Party

Crew: Director

Actors: Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Elsa Lanchester, Jody McCrea, Jesse White, Buster Keaton, Harvey Lembeck

Synopsis: Out of the beaches and into the boudoirs go Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello and the rest of the gang in Pajama Party. Actually, the whole megillah is as innocent as a newborn babe, but there's plenty of smirking and snickering during a wild 'n' wacky girl's slumber party. Frankie Avalon has only Read More

Looking for Love

Crew: Director

Actors: Connie Francis, Jim Hutton, Susan Oliver, Joby Baker, Barbara Nichols, George Hamilton, Paula Prentiss, Danny Thomas, Johnny Carson

Synopsis: Popular singer Connie Francis stars in this romantic musical-comedy as Libby Caruso, an aspiring young entertainer who yearns for the attention of handsom Paul Davis (Jim Hutton). Though at first Paul is not interested in her, Libby soon wins him over. Upon catching him, however, Libby changes her Read More

The Twilight Zone: Steel

Crew: Director

Actors: Lee Marvin, Joe Mantell, Chuck Hicks, Merritt Bohn

Synopsis: By the year 1974, robots have replaced humans in the boxing ring. Travelling from one tank-town to another, fight manager Steel Kelly (Lee Marvin) hopes to squeeze one last bout out of his robot client Battling Maxo. Unable to pay for repairs when Maxo malfunctions, Steel grimly determines to win Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Floating Stones

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Juli Eng (Irene Tsu) travels from San Francisco to Hong Kong to claim the cache of precious diamonds left to her by her grandfather. Alas, the gems are missing, so Juli returns to America and asks Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) to help her track them down. Eventually, the identity of the thief, Ralph Read More

Critic's Choice

Crew: Director

Actors: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Maxwell, Rip Torn, Jesse Royce Landis

Synopsis: Ira Levin wrote the stage comedy Critic's Choice as a good-natured retort to a comment made by critic Walter Kerr. In his essay How Not to Write a Play, Kerr noted that the worst possible scenario would involve a drama critic forced to review a play written by his wife (we should mention that Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: First Class Honeymoon

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Saddled with paying huge alimony checks to his high-maintenance former wife, Edward Gibson (Robert Webber) seeks a legal method to rid himself of this burden. Enter Edward's pal Carl Seabrook (Jeremy Slate), who magnanimously offers to marry the ex-Mrs. Gibson himself -- for a 5,000-dollar fee. Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Secret Life

Crew: Director

Synopsis: James Howgill (Ronald Howard) hopes to divorce his wife, Margery (Patricia Donahue), whom he dismisses as drab and dull. On the advice of his attorney, James hires a private eye to dig up evidence of adultery that he can use against Margery. What the detective finds proves to be quite an Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Pearl Necklace

Crew: Director

Synopsis: At the urging of her boyfriend, Mark (Jack Cassidy), pretty young Charlotte Jameson (Hazel Court) accepts the marriage proposal of her wealthy old boss, Howard Rutherford (Ernest Truex). Inasmuch as Howard has been told he has only a year to live, Mark figures he won't have to wait long to cut Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Stranger in Town

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The Andy Griffith Show gingerly crosses over into Twilight Zone territory (or so it seems at first) in the episode titled "Stranger in Town." That stranger is Ed Sawyer (William Lanteau), who arrives in Mayberry armed with an amazing amount of familiarity concerning the town and its citizens. Ed's Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Opie's Charity

Crew: Director

Actors: Stuart Erwin

Synopsis: Sheriff Andy is coaxed into heading the fund-raising campaign for the children's charity established by Annabelle Silby (Lurene Tuttle), the wealthiest woman in Mayberry. Reasoning that charity begins his home, Andy scolds his son Opie for contributing a puny three cents to the charity. Andy soon Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Runaway Kid

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Opie befriends 8-year-old runaway George "Tex" Foley (Pat Rosson-and also forms a strong bond with George's pet frog. Having been told by his father Andy to always keep his word, Opie dutifully refuses to divulge the fact that George has run away from home. An embarrassed Andy must set things Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: A Feud is a Feud

Crew: Director

Actors: Arthur Hunnicutt

Synopsis: Mountaineer Josh Wakefield (Arthur Hunnicutt) wants to get hitched to his sweetheart Hannah Hoskins (Tammy Windsor). Alas, the Wakefields and the Hoskins have long been engaged in a feud, which though no longer a shootin' war is still churning up bad blood. Hoping to patch up the feud, Andy uses a Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Ellie Comes to Town

Crew: Director

Actors: Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: The people of Mayberry tend to be a bit resistant when an "outsider" sets up shop in town. Thus, several locals look askance when Ellie May Walker (Elinor Donahue), niece of the local druggist, takes charge of Walker's Drug Store. Almost immediately, Ellie's "modern" notions rub the traditionalist Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Guitar Player

Crew: Director

Actors: James Best

Synopsis: James Best makes the first of two Andy Griffith Show appearances as itinerant guitarist Jim Lindsey. Tossed in the Mayberry jail, Jim is afforded an opportunity to crack the Big Time when Sheriff Andy Taylor "coincidentally" places the members of the Bobby Fleet Band-including Bobby (Henry Slate) Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Irresistible Andy

Crew: Director

Actors: Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: Sheriff Andy mistakenly believes he can second-guess the opposite sex in general and Ellie Walker in particular. Convinced that Ellie is trying to snare him into marriage, Andy escorts her to the church picnic and encourages three local bachelors to woo her away. When Ellie finds out what's up Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Manhunt

Crew: Director

Actors: Frank Gerstle

Synopsis: When a notorious criminal escapes from the state prison, Mayberry sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) and his deputy, Barney Fife (Don Knotts), offer their assistance in tracking down the fugitive. Though the state troopers initially laugh off the bucolic Andy and Barney (especially after Barney Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Andy the Matchmaker

Crew: Director

Actors: William Lanteau, Phil Chambers

Synopsis: Deputy Barney wants to ask Rosemary Benton (Amzie Strickland) for a date, but lacks the courage to do so. Sheriff Andy decides that Barney needs a quick and instant jolt of self-confidence. To that end, Andy and Ellie concoct a phoney crime that will transform Barney into a hero. "Andy the Read More

The Gene Krupa Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Gene Krupa, Sal Mineo, Susan Kohner, James Darren, Susan Oliver, Yvonne Craig, Shelly Manne, Buddy Lester

Synopsis: Sal Mineo, who'd previously registered well as the lead in the TV drama Drummer Man, essays a strikingly similar role in The Gene Krupa Story. The film details Krupa's troubled home life: (he wanted to be a musician; his father wanted him to become a priest), his rise to fame as drummer for the Benny Goodman Read More

Ride the High Iron

Crew: Director

Actors: Don Taylor, Sally Forrest, Raymond Burr, Lisa Golm, Otto Waldis

Synopsis: Ride the High Iron originated as the 74-minute pilot episode of the proposed TV anthology Command Performance. When the series failed to sell, the film was released theatrically by Columbia Pictures. Don Taylor stars as Hugo Danielchick, the son of poor but proud railroad worker Yanusz Danielchick Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Big Switch

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Outraged over the infidelity of his girlfriend Goldie (Beverly Michaels), thuggish Sam Donleavy (George Mathews) decides to bump the dame off. Unfortunately, there is a more than somewhat stiff penalty for murder, thus Sam intends to provide himself with an airtight alibi -- and pays a huge price Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Santa and the Tenth Avenue Kid

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Barry Fitzgerald, who made his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's 1930 theatrical film Juno and the Paycock, guests in this episode as Stretch Sears, a recently paroled thief. With Christmas approaching, Stretch has no trouble landing a job as a Santa at a big department store. But it isn't the Read More

The Adventures of Hajji Baba

Crew: Director

Actors: John Derek, Elaine Stewart, Rosemarie Bowe, Thomas Gomez, Paul Picerni

Synopsis: In the 1950s, historical spectaculars set in the Far or Middle East became the repository for exploitive tales of eroticism, pure lust, and concupiscent freedom. The "decadence" of previous times gave American filmmakers an excuse to satisfy viewers' libidinal and voyeuristic desires. All this Read More

Remains to Be Seen

Crew: Director

Actors: June Allyson, Van Johnson, Louis Calhern, Angela Lansbury, John Beal

Synopsis: June Allyson plays a band singer working in New York City; Van Johnson is the manager of a fancy apartment house where a murder is committed. The victim is Allyson's wealthy uncle, and since she can't account for her actions at the time of the crime, Our Heroine is the principal suspect. The real Read More

I Love Melvin

Crew: Director

Actors: Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Una Merkel, Richard Anderson, Jim Backus, Allyn Joslyn

Synopsis: Singin' in the Rain co-stars Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds were re-teamed in the ebullient little musical I Love Melvin. O'Connor plays Melvin Hoover, the hapless assistant to Look magazine photographer Mergo (Jim Backus). When he falls in love with chorus girl Judy LeRoy (Reynolds), Melvin Read More

A Slight Case of Larceny

Crew: Director

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Eddie Bracken, Elaine Stewart, Marilyn Erskine, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: "Slight" is right: this harmless comedy programmer is as inconsequential as it is enjoyable. It's the tale of two Army buddies: go-getter Geechy Cheevers (Mickey Rooney) and sedate family man Freddie Clopp (Eddie Bracken). Inveigling his way into Freddie's household, Geechy drives everyone bonkers Read More

Half a Hero

Crew: Director

Actors: Red Skelton, Jean Hagen, Charles Dingle, Willard Waterman, Mary Wickes

Synopsis: Red Skelton does his best with the situation-comedy trappings of Half a Hero. A sort of poor man's Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, the story concerns one Ben Dobson (Skelton), whose wife Martha (Jean Hagen) talks him into leaving the big city and moving into a suburban housing development. Read More

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis

Crew: Director

Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van, Barbara Ruick, Bob Fosse, Hanley Stafford, Hans Conried

Synopsis: Though the film may be titled The Affairs of Dobie Gillis, Dobie -- that is, Bobby Van -- takes second billing to Debbie Reynolds. The scene is a Midwestern university, where freshman Dobie Gillis and his pal Charlie Trask (Bob Fosse) court cute coeds Pansy Hammer (Debbie Reynolds) and Lorna Read More

You for Me

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Lawford, Jane Greer, Gig Young, Howard Wendell

Synopsis: You for Me stars Peter Lawford as a profligate playboy who's a nice guy underneath. After suffering a hunting accident which leaves him with a butt full of buckshot, Lawford is interred in the hospital that his donations have kept afloat. Nurse Jane Greer refuses to treat Lawford any better than Read More

Just This Once

Crew: Director

Actors: Janet Leigh, Peter Lawford, Lewis Stone, Marilyn Erskine, Richard Anderson

Synopsis: Peter Lawford goes through his standard "rich, spoiled young playboy" paces in the MGM comedy Just This Once. In danger of squandering his entire fortune, the wastrelly Mark MacLene (Peter Lawford) is put on a strict allowance by an old family friend, Judge Samuel Coulter (Lewis Stone). To make Read More

Bannerline

Crew: Director

Actors: Keefe Brasselle, Sally Forrest, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: Bannerline was Don Weis' first solo directorial credit for MGM. Keefe Brasselle stars as cub reporter Mike Perrivale, who devises a heart-tugging promotional stunt. Upon learning that crusty old history teacher Hugo Trimble (Lionel Barrymore) is dying, Mike writes up a glowing tribute, ascribing Read More

It's a Big Country

Crew: Director

Actors: Ethel Barrymore, Gary Cooper, Van Johnson, Gene Kelly, Janet Leigh

Synopsis: Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern. Stories are framed by the lecture of a university professor. In one tale a Boston Read More