Douglas HeyesFilmography

Hunter: Fagin 1986

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After a teenager is killed in a robbery, Hunter (Fred Dryer) discovers that the kid was working for his old enemy Hector "El Gallo" Rivas (Trinidad Silvas). Determined to circumvent the law, El Gallo has assembled a gang of teens who are too young to prosecute as adults to do his dirty work. Read More

Hunter: Blow-Up

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Rick Hunter (Fred Dryer) is convinced that Otto Minski (Anthony James), a man he arrested several years before, is responsible for blowing up the angel statue on the grave of a woman whom Rick has once planned to marry. Trouble is, Minski is a past master at slipping through the fingers of the law Read More

Magnum, P.I.: The Hotel Dick

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Anxious to become an "official" detective rather than a mere private eye, Magnum hires on as security chief at the ritzy Hawaiian Gardens Hotel. His first assignment--which may also turn out to be his last--is to prevent a notorious cat burglar from plying his trade at an international convention Read More

North and South

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kirstie Alley

Synopsis: The expensively mounted miniseries North and South was originally telecast in six two-hour installments between November 3 and 10, 1985. Four screenwriters--Douglas Heyes, Paul F. Edwards, Kathleen A. Shelley, Patricia Green--were called upon to fashion a workable script from John Jakes' sprawling Read More

The French Atlantic Affair

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The third of ABC's miniseries offerings, The French Atlantic Affair was an expensive but pulpish all-star version of the same-named Ernest Lehmann novel. Chad Everett essays the nominal leading role as Robbins-esque novelist Harold Columbine, one of dozens of wealthy, well-dressed passengers on a Read More

Aspen

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sam Elliott, Perry King, Gene Barry, Martine Beswicke, Joseph Cotten

Synopsis: Ostensibly a six-hour miniseries adaptation of Bert Hirschfield's novel Aspen, the program actually used only the title of the Hirschfield work; the plot proper was lifted from another novel by a different author, Bart Spicer's The Adversary. Set in the titular Colorado ski resort in the 1960s Read More

Captains and the Kings

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: One of four dramatic miniseries carried by NBC under the blanket title Best Sellers, Captains and the Kings was adapted from a novel by Taylor Caldwell. Covering a time span from 1857 to 1912, this was the saga of the Irish-immigrant Armagh clan, with emphasis on the rags-to-riches career of Read More

Honky Tonk

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Will Geer

Synopsis: Honky Tonk represented an attempt by writer/director Douglas Heyes to create a TV series based on the 1941 Clark Gable-Lana Turner film of the same name. In Heyes' version of Honky Tonk, the role of gambler Candy Johnson, originally essayed by Gable, is filled by Richard Crenna, while Margot Kidder Read More

The Barbary Coast

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Ansara, Dennis Cole, Lynda Day George, William Shatner

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Barbary Coast is a tongue-in-cheek western in the Maverick tradition, produced by a former writer-director of that series, Douglas Heyes. Dennis Cole plays Cash Conover, a San Francisco saloonkeeper of the 1870s. William Shatner co-stars as Jeff Cable, an undercover policeman who Read More

Powderkeg

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Originally a pilot for a television series, this western centers on a wild pair of detectives who are hired to bring train hijackers to justice. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Lonely Profession

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ina Balin, Harry Guardino

Synopsis: A superb throwback to the "films noir" of old, The Lonely Profession puts icing on the cake with a strong dose of 1960s realism--within reasonable TV-movie limits. Harry Guardino plays a businesslike private eye assigned to trail the mistress (Ina Balin) of a Hughes-like reclusive millionaire. Read More

Drive Hard, Drive Fast

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Producer Roy Huggins and director Douglas Heyes, Maverick veterans both, reteamed for the made-for-TV Drive Hard, Drive Fast. Brian Kelly stars as a race car driver who would have been better off sticking to the track. Upon hopping out of his slicked-up auto, Kelly gets mixed up in an unsavory Read More

Ice Station Zebra

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown, Tony Bill

Synopsis: A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The Read More

Beau Geste

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Guy Stockwell, Doug McClure, Leslie Nielsen, Telly Savalas, David Mauro

Synopsis: Christopher Wren's classic adventure story is brought to the screen for the third time in this version, which featured several popular television stars of the day. Beau Geste (Guy Stockwell) is forced to take the blame for a crime he didn't commit in order to protect the good name of his family; Read More

Kitten With a Whip

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ann-Margret, John Forsythe, Peter Brown, Patricia Barry, Richard Anderson

Synopsis: An aspiring senator finds himself in deep trouble when he tangles with a sultry teenage girl gone bad in this campy drama. Ann-Margret stars as Jody, a tough customer who escapes from reform school by stabbing a matron and attempting to burn down the building and then takes refuge in a house owned Read More

The Twilight Zone: Dust

Crew: Director

Actors: Thomas Gomez, John Larch, Vladimir Sokoloff, John Alonso, Paul Genge

Synopsis: Wandering into the small Mexican town where Luis Gallegos (John Alonso) is about to be hanged, mercenary peddler Sykes (Thomas Gomez) sells the rope to the hangman, then turns around and sells a handful of "magic dust" to the condemned man's father (Vladimir Sokoloff). Lying through his teeth Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Invaders

Crew: Director

Actors: Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis: Written by Richard Matheson, this is one of those classic Twilight Zone episodes that has remained in the collective memory long after other lesser episodes (and lesser anthologies) have been forgotten. The action takes place at a remote farmhouse, where a soil-stained farm woman (Agnes Moorehead) Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Howling Man

Crew: Director

Actors: H.M. Wynant, John Carradine, Robin Hughes, Frederick Ledebur, Ezelle Poule

Synopsis: Adapted by Charles Beaumont from his own short story, this is one of a handful of Twilight Zone episodes that can truly be described as terrifying. Told in flashback, it's the story of David Ellington (H.M. Wynant), who, while on a walking tour of Europe in the 1930s, is forced to take shelter in Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Eye of the Beholder

Crew: Director

Actors: Maxine Stuart, William D. Gordon, Jennifer Howard, George Keymas, Joanna Heyes

Synopsis: An irreducable masterpiece, the Rod Serling-scripted Twilight Zone episode "The Eye of the Beholder" takes place in a hospital in the dead of night. The protagonist is Janet Tyler, who, having been shunned by society because of her hideous ugliness, has just undergone extensive plastic surgery. Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Chaser

Crew: Director

Actors: George Grizzard, John McIntire, Patricia Barry, J. Pat O'Malley, Barbara Perry

Synopsis: Scripted by Robert Presnell, Jr. from a short story by John Collier, this Twilight Zone episode focuses on Robert Shackleforth (George Grizzard), a lovestruck young man who cannot get the girl of his dreams, the ravishing Leila (Patricia Barry), to acknowledge his existence. In desperation, Robert Read More

The Twilight Zone: Elegy

Crew: Director

Actors: Cecil Kellaway, Kevin Hagen, Jeff Morrow, Don Dubbins

Synopsis: Adapted for television by Charles Beaumont from his own short story, the Twilight Zone episode "Elegy" was first telecast February 19, 1960. Making an emergency landing on an Earth-like asteroid, three astronauts -- Webber (Kevin Hagen), Meyers (Jeff Morrow), and Kirby (Don Dubbins) -- are Read More

The Twilight Zone: Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room

Crew: Director

Actors: Joe Mantell, William D. Gordon

Synopsis: Though obviously an episode designed to absorb the costs of the more expensive Twilight Zone installments, this was one of the better efforts of the series' second season, with a tour de force performance by Joe Mantell as penny-ante gangster Jackie Rhoades. Ordered to bump off a rival Read More

The Twilight Zone: The After Hours

Crew: Director

Actors: Anne Francis, Elizabeth Allen, James Millhollin, John Conwell, Nancy Rennick

Synopsis: Bearing traces of the classic John Collier short story "Evening Primrose", Rod Serling's "The After Hours" was seen as the June 10, 1960, episode of Twilight Zone. While shopping in a big department store, Marsha White (Anne Francis) is inexorably drawn to the store's Ninth Floor, where a Read More

Maverick: Two Beggars on Horseback

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In order to play in a high-stakes poker game, Bret (James Garner) and Bart (Jack Kelly) enter a pair of certified checks, each worth $10,000. Only after they've thrown the checks into the pot are the Mavericks informed by beautiful Jessamy Longacre (Patricia Barry) that the bank which issued the Read More

Maverick: Two Tickets to Ten Strike

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: En route from Tucson to the town of Ten Strike, Bret (James Garner) makes the acquaintance of Frankie French (Connie Stevens), a former saloon dancer. Frankie has been summoned to Ten Strike by a mysterious benefactor whom she has never met. Upon her arrival in town, Frankie discovers that her Read More

Maverick: The Strange Journey of Jenny Hill

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This episode is essentially a showcase for singer Peggy King, who receives a rare "guest star" billing in the opening credits (Ms. King had risen to fame as vocalist on George Gobel's popular comedy-variety series). While searching for a fugitive outlaw, Bret Maverick (James Garner) crosses the Read More

The Twilight Zone: And When the Sky Was Opened

Crew: Director

Actors: Rod Taylor, Charles Aidman, Jim Hutton, Maxine Cooper, Gloria Pall

Synopsis: Richard Matheson was first represented on the Twilight Zone with the December 11, 1959 episode "And When the Sky Was Opened," adapted by Rod Serling from Matheson's short story "Disappearing Act." After an experimental space flight crash-lands, the three crew members -- who have miraculously Read More

Maverick: The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The first episode of Maverick's second season may be the last appearance of Bret Maverick (James Garner) unless he does some quick thinking. When the town of Hallelujah is robbed of $40,000, the bandit plants incriminating evidence on poor Bret--who as a result is sentenced to hang. In order to Read More

Maverick: Burial Ground of the Gods

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Cheated by con artist Paisley Briggs (Claude Akins), Bart trails the man to Denver, where Briggs is preparing to fleece a young widow named Nancy Gates (Laura Stunton), whose husband may or may not have been killed by Indians. Persuading Nancy that her husband is still alive, Briggs talks her into Read More

Maverick: Plunder of Paradise

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Widow Grace Wheeler (Joan Weldon) tells Bart (Jack Kelly) and his friend Big Mike (Leo Gordon) about a gold mine in Mexico. She even offers to guide them South of the Border and lead them to the treasure's hiding place. Unfortunately, the Mexican government is also interested in laying claim to Read More

Maverick: Prey of the Cat

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: After suffering a broken leg, Bart (Jack Kelly) convalesces at the ranch owned by Pete Stillman (Wayne Morris) and his much-younger wife Kitty (Patricia Barry). Fascinated by Bart, Kitty tries to get him mixed up in a scheme to murder her husband. At the same time, Raquel Morales (Yvette Duguay) Read More

Maverick: Escape to Tampico

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Bret (James Garner) is offered $6000 by the American authorities to bring back accused murderer Steve Corbett (Gerald Mohr), who has hightailed it to Mexico. Heading South of the Border, himself, Bret ends up in the wide-open town of Tampico, where Corbett now runs a tourist camp, the "Cantina Read More

Maverick: Alias Bart Maverick

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This episode marks the first Maverick appearances of urbane swindler Gentleman Jack Darby (Richard Long) and Southern-fried dance hall gal Cindy Lou Brown. Through a series of incredible plot convolutions, Cindy Lou helps Gentleman Jack switch places with Bart, so that Jack can abscond with $1000. Read More

Maverick: Shady Deal at Sunny Acres

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In one of Maverick's all-time greatest episodes, Bret (James Garner) is cheated out of $15,000 by "respectable" banker John Bates (John Dehner). Since Bret is unable to reclaim the money through legal means, his brother Bart (Jack Kelly) devises an elaborate sting operation to beat Bates at his Read More

Maverick: Diamond in the Rough

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In San Francisco, Bart (Jack Kelly) suspects that one of the town's leading citizens, Van Buren Kingsley, is a swindler. Before long, Kingsley shows his hand by arranging for Bart to get beaten up and shanghaied. In typical Maverick fashion, Bart tries to turn the tables on the duplicitous Read More

Maverick: The Savage Hills

Crew: Director

Synopsis: If Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) had ever bothered to discuss the matter with his brother Bret, he'd have known to steer clear of the lovely but larcenous Samantha Crawford (Diane Brewster in her second series appearance). Unfortunately for Bart, he has never met Samantha, and thus he completely Read More

Maverick: The Long Hunt

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After a dying outlaw confesses to a crime for which Jedd Ferris (Richard Crane) has been sentenced to jail, Bret (James Garner) sets upon the task of securing Jedd's release. Trouble is, Jedd's wife Martha (Joan Vohs) is coveted by a tough customer named Ben Maxwell (Richard Webb), who will stop Read More

Maverick: The Quick and the Dead

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: When Bret (James Garner) is accused of robbery, he seeks out John Stacey (John Vivyan), the only man who can clear him. Alas, John may not live long enough to provide testimony for Bret's defense: he is slated for a showdown with notorious gunslinger Doc Holliday (Gerald Mohr), who isn't inclined Read More

Masterson of Kansas

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: George Montgomery, Nancy Gates, James Griffith, Jean Willes, Benny Rubin

Synopsis: Long before he devoted his life to gimmicky horror epics, director William Castle turned out a series of compact westerns for Columbia. One of the best of the batch was Masterson of Kansas, starring George Montgomery as dandified gunslinger Bat Masterson. The screenplay, by future Maverick Read More

Drums of Tahiti

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Patricia Medina, Francis L. Sullivan, George Keymas, Sylvia Lewis

Synopsis: During a 1980 interview, writer-director Douglas Heyes mentioned that he preferred to forget his first big-screen writing assignment, Drums of Tahiti. Though lensed in 3D, the film's action content is minimal: the character spend most of their time talking over their various problems. Set in the Read More

Battle of Rogue River

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: George Montgomery, Richard Denning, Martha Hyer, John Crawford, Emory Parnell, Charles Evans

Synopsis: George Montgomery heads the virile cast of the B-plus western Battle of Rogue River. Montgomery plays Cavalry major Frank Archer, assigned to protect the settlers in Oregon territory. Archer tries to find out why the previously peaceful Indians have suddenly become warlike. What he doesn't know is Read More

The Iron Glove

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Stack, Ursula Thiess, Richard Stapley, Charles Irwin, Alan Hale, Jr.

Synopsis: Robert Stack stars with Ursula Theiss (the wife of Robert Taylor) in the Columbia costumer The Iron Glove. Stack, an 18th century Scots adventurer, swashes and buckles on behalf of self-styled Prince James (Richard Stapley). Our hero insinuates himself into the court of King George I, the Read More