E.W. Swackhamer Filmography

Occupation:
Director
Biography:
One of television's more prolific directors, E.W. Swackhamer helmed over 25 television pilots, 18 of which became successful series, including Quincy and Eight Is Enough. He also directed numerous miniseries, telefilms, and episodes from a wide variety of series ranging from Bewitched to M*A*S*H...Read More
  • MacShayne: Winner Takes All

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Kenny Rogers

    Synopsis: An ex-convict traveling to Las Vegas to visit his son is forced to re-enter the high-stakes world of casino poker in order to win back his family in a tense tale of family loyalty starring Kenny Rogers and Terry O'Quinn. There was a time when John J. "Jack" MacShayne (Rogers) was the best gambler Read More

    1994
  • MacShayne: Final Roll of the Dice

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Kenny Rogers, Maria Conchita Alonso, Wendy Phillips, Michael Tucci

    Synopsis: In this feature-length episode, Mac Shayne is busily trying to prove a pop star innocent of murder charges when he stumbles across a conspiracy to kill an up-and-coming politician. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1994
  • Law & Order: Profile

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: After surviving a blast from a double-barrelled shotgun, Henry Jackson (Joe Seneca) is still able and willing to identify his assailant. It turns out that the shooter is an outspoken white supremacist -- and a serial killer who preys upon minorities. This is why Assistant D.A. Stone (Michael Moriarty Read More

    1993
  • Perfect Family

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this made-for-cable television thriller, a widow hires a brother and sister to act as nanny and handy man to help care for her two kids and her home. The new employees seem to be perfect in every way, but for the fact that one of the siblings hides a dark and deadly secret. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

    1992
  • The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this complex, gripping made-for-TV courtroom drama, the new DA of a small town is given the job of prosecuting the alleged murderer of a stripper. Unfortunately, his own father is in charge of the defense. To make matters worse, both attorneys are in love with the wife of the accused. ~ Sandra Read More

    1992
  • Are You Lonesome Tonight?

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Jane Seymour, Parker Stevenson, Beth Broderick

    Synopsis: Made for cable TV, Are You Lonesome Tonight? serves as a wide-eyed, heart-in-throat vehicle for Jane Seymour. She plays a wealthy young society matron whose husband disappears. An added complication involves her hubby's preoccupation with a phone-sex "operator." Detective Mat Henderson (Parker Stevenson Read More

    1992
  • Law & Order: The Torrents of Greed, Part 1

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Law & Order's first two-part episode begins with an assault on the owner of a candy store. Following the trail of clues, Greevey (George Dzundza) and Logan (Chris Noth) end up at the door of prominent gangster boss Frank Masucci (Charles Cioffi). The so-called "Dandy Don" has long eluded Read More

    1991
  • Law & Order: The Torrents of Greed, Part 2

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this concluding episode of the first two-part Law & Order, the case against mob boss Frank Masucci (Charles Cioffi), aka "the Dandy Don," ignominiously collapses in a heap. Frustrated, assistant D.A. Stone (Michael Moriarty) vows to put Masucci in prison by whatever means necessary. Read More

    1991
  • Law & Order: God Bless the Child

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The ongoing debate over parental rights in medical procedures comes to the forefront when a five-year-old girl dies from a relatively minor throat infection. The child's parents, Ted and Nancy Driscoll (Byron Jennings, Kaiulani Lee) are arrested, whereupon they argue that their religious beliefs Read More

    1991
  • Law & Order: The Secret Sharers

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: When young Nicky Guzman (Enrique Monez) is accused of killing a drug dealer, public sympathy is very much on his side. This makes it difficult for the D.A.'s office to mount a successful case against Guzman. But things really get beyond the control of assistant D.A.'s Stone (Michael Moriarty) and Read More

    1991
  • Law & Order: Out of the Half-Light

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In a fictionalized replay of the notorious Tawana Brawley incident, African-American teenager Astrea Crawford (Kisha Miller) claims that she was gang-raped by white policemen. As Greevey (George Dzundza) and Logan (Chris Noth) pursue their investigation, assistant D.A.'s Stone (Michael MoriartyRead More

    1990
  • Law & Order: Poison Ivy

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Originally scheduled to air on October 11, 1990, this Law & Order episode was bumped forward to November 20 of that year. The flames of racial unrest are fueled when a young African-American honors student is shot by Freddo Parisi (John Finn), a white cop. Much to their dismay, detectives Greevey (George Dzundza Read More

    1990
  • Law & Order: Prescription for Death

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this first telecast of Law & Order, a case of fatal criminal negligence takes front and center. During a particularly frantic night in an emergency room, a young woman dies, prompting her father to sue the hospital. Investigating detectives Greevey (George Dzundza) and Logan (Chris NothRead More

    1990
  • The Rousters

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Chad Everett, Hoyt Axton, Jim Varney

    Synopsis: Originally shot as a television series pilot, the made-for-television Rousters is about Wyatt Earp's great-grandson (Chad Everett) who is a bouncer for Captain Jack Slade's carnival in Sladetown. The carnival is upset when a rascal named Clayton drops by, looking to cause some trouble. ~ Stephen Read More

    1990
  • Law & Order: Subterranean Homeboy Blues

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In a fictionalized replay of the Bernhard Goetz incident, former dancer Laura di Biasi (Cynthia Nixon), a white woman, is arrested after shooting two black youths on a subway. Di Biasi claims that she was acting in self defense, but Assistant D.A. Robinette (Richard Brooks), himself an Read More

    1990
  • Christine Cromwell: Things That Go Bump in the Night

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this episode, defense attorney Cromwell investigates the case of a woman accused of killing her rich husband. She discovers an underlayer of greed and adultery. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1989
  • Desperado: Badlands Justice

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Alex McArthur

    Synopsis: Badlands Justice is another in a series of Desperado feature films made exclusively for television. Alex McArthur returns as cowboy Duell McCall, who wanders the wide frontier in search of the one man who will clear him of a murder charge (What price Fugitive?) Once more, McCall finds himself in a Read More

    1989
  • Desperado: The Outlaw Wars

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In exchange for clearing Duell McCall's name, the cowboy's assistance is needed in locating the murderer of the sheriff's wife. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

    1989
  • Christine Cromwell: Easy Come, Easy Go

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this drama, legal eagle Cromwell must protect her client who has been wrongly accused of killing a grifter. She is up against a crafty, and earnest police officer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1989
  • The Return of Desperado

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Alex McArthur, Billy Dee Williams

    Synopsis: As a result of the surprise ratings success of the first Desperado TV movie in April of 1987, plans were hastily drawn up to release additional Desperado adventures over the next three years. Return of Desperado was the first such follow-up to be telecast, though in fact it was filmed after the Read More

    1988
  • Murder, She Wrote: Deadpan

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: When one of her former students adapts her novel Mainly Murder as a stage play, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is honored to attend the show's opening night. Not long afterward, the reviews come out, with one critic lavishing praise on the production, and the critic's chief rival penning a devastating Read More

    1988
  • Bridge Across Time

    Crew: Director

    Actors: David Hasselhoff

    Synopsis: The story of Jack The Ripper may be the cause of a small town's crime spree in this strange made-for-television thriller. David Hasselhoff stars as Don Gregory, a cop in an Arizona town whose claim to fame is being the home of the newly transplanted pieces of the original London Bridge. When the Read More

    1985
  • Command 5

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This action movie chronicles the exciting exploits of a crack crime fighting force. They are notorious for their unusual tactics when dealing with criminals. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1985
  • Brothers-In-Law

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this Stephen Cannell-produced pilot for a potential TV detective series, Mac Davis plays an ex-highway patrolman and Joseph Cortese an ex-trucker, related by marriage. Their wives were twin sisters--were, because in addition to all the other "ex" qualifications in their lives, Davis and Cortese Read More

    1985
  • Cocaine and Blue Eyes

    Crew: Director

    Actors: O.J. Simpson, Candy Clark, Cindy Pickett

    Synopsis: Cocaine and Blue Eyes was the pilot film for a TV detective series starring former footballer O.J. Simpson (who also produced the film). Playing a private eye in San Francisco, Simpson is hired by a man who ends up seriously dead. The deceased client had wanted Simpson to locate a former girl Read More

    1983
  • Malibu

    Crew: Director

    Actors: George Hamilton, Ann Jillian, Richard Mulligan, Valerie Perrine

    Synopsis: Malibu is a two-part, four-hour adaptation of William Murray's best-selling novel. William Atherton and Susan Dey play a green-as-grass married couple from Milwaukee who take a vacation in Malibu. Amidst the elite and their million-dollar beach houses, Atherton starts up an affair with divorcee Valerie Perrine Read More

    1983
  • Carpool

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Ernest Borgnine, T.K. Carter, Stephanie Faracy, Harvey Korman, Peter Scolari

    Synopsis: This made-for-TV comedy postulates that, someday, members of carpools will be selected by computer. The four so anointed herein are Harvey Korman, Peter Scolari, T.K. Carter and Stephanie Faracy. Their lives go along in their usual luckless fashion until the quarter of mismatched "poolers" find Read More

    1983
  • The Oklahoma City Dolls

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this film, a group of frustrated feminists form a football team for their factory in an effort to foil male chauvinists. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1981
  • Longshot

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: When one of the foosball team members is injured, a 14-year-old girl takes the champion's place. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

    1981
  • Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Ben Vereen

    Synopsis: Tenspeed and Brown Shoe was a "cult" comedy adventure series created by Stephen J. Cannell, which ran from January to June of 1980. Ben Vereen played E. L. "Tenspeed" Turner, a silver tongued African-American con artist. Jeff Goldblum costarred as staid stockbroker Lionel Whitney, whom Tenspeed Read More

    1980
  • Reward

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this mystery, a policeman quits the force to investigate the death of his partner independently. He is assisted by a pretty young woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1980
  • The Death of Ocean View Park

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Caroline McWilliams, Perry Lang

    Synopsis: The demolition of a real-life amusement park in Norfolk, Virginia was excuse enough for The Death of Ocean View Park. Factual footage of the park's destruction is blended into a fictional plotline by screenwriters John Furia Jr. and Barry Oringer. Mike Connors, Diana Canova, Perry Lang, Caroline Read More

    1979
  • Vampire

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Jason Miller, Richard Lynch, E.G. Marshall, Kathryn Harrold, Michael Tucker

    Synopsis: This remarkably chilling made-for-TV horror film plays as equal parts old-fashioned supernatural tale and 1970s-style detective thriller. After the groundbreaking of a San Francisco cathedral disturbs the resting place of an ancient European bloodsucker (professional creeper Richard Lynch), an Read More

    1979
  • The Winds of Kitty Hawk

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This made-for-television film Winds of Kitty Hawk, chronicles the efforts of the Wright Brothers to become the first men to build a functioning, motor-powered airplane, as well as their rivalry with Glenn Curtiss. While the movie is a little too leisurely paced, the aerial sequences are excellent. Read More

    1978
  • The Dain Curse

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Dashiell Hammett's money-grubbing detective Hamilton Nash is on the case in this mystery set in 1928. This time he is looking into the suspicious suicide of a prominent millionaire and trying to recover purloined diamonds that are reportedly cursed. This version of the tale was released as Read More

    1978
  • The Amazing Spider-Man

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this TV movie based upon the Marvel superhero, college student Peter Parker suffers a spider bite which turns him into the amazing webbed crime fighter. The plot finds a no-good scientist using mind power techniques in an attempt to pocket big bucks by extorting world leaders. this Read More

    1977
  • Nancy Drew 1

    Crew: Director

    1977
  • Once an Eagle

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Once an Eagle was a seven-part miniseries originally telecast December 2, 1976 through January 13, 1977; the first and last installments ran two hours each, while the interim episodes each ran 60 minutes. Based on the Anton Myrer novel, the series charts thirty years in the careers of two military Read More

    1976
  • Night Terror

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this made-for-television thriller, a beautiful young woman is driving home on the freeway late one night and inadvertently witnesses the murder of a police officer. Soon afterward, she finds herself pursued by the crazed killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1976
  • Quincy, M.E.: Go Fight City Hall--To the Death!

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Originally telecast as a component of The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie, the feature-length opening episode of Quincy, M.E. quickly establishes the prickly personality and crusading nature of LA County Coroner's Office medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman). We're also introduced to several others Read More

    1976
  • Death at Love House

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Kate Jackson

    Synopsis: In this made-for-TV film, a screenwriter (Robert Wagner) begins writing the biography of the dead movie queen who had a brief affair with his father. After work on the project has commenced, he becomes obsessed with her spirit and gets a response from the other side of the grave. ~ John Bush, All Read More

    1975
  • S.W.A.T.: Pilot

    Crew: Director

    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
  • McMillan and Wife: Requiem for a Bride

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Rock Hudson

    Synopsis: The made-for-TV Requiem for a Bride opens with San Francisco police commissioner McMillan (Rock Hudson) congratulating an old friend (Henry Darrow) on the friend's recent marriage. McMillan's words ring hollow when the bride (Susan Sullivan) is murdered. Complicating the issue is the growing Read More

    1975
  • Crunch

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this detective move, a black sleuth in Manhattan breaks up a drug ring and catches a psycho jewel thief. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1975
  • The Partridge Family: The Strike-Out King

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: At the urging of his siblings, Danny (Danny Bonaduce) tries out for the local Little League baseball team. In the process, he proves to be a champion-level pitcher--and an insufferable egomaniac. But the family's real problem turns out to be Danny's coach (Herb Edelman), whose "win at all costs" Read More

    1973
  • The Partridge Family: Reuben Kincaid Lives

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Feeling they have been a bit too rough on Reuben (Dave Madden) lately, the Partridges vow to be extra nice to him from now on. Unaccustomed to such positive treatment, Reuben jumps to the conclusion that the family is merely feeling sorry for him--and that he is doomed to die! A subsequent Read More

    1973
  • The Partridge Family: For Whom the Bell Tolls...and Tolls...and Tolls

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In his second Partridge Family guest appearance, Arte Johnson is cast as Morris Dinkler, a desperate but likable escaped convict. After using the Partridges' newly installed burglar-alarm system to his advantage, Morris proceeds to hold the family hostage--with a harmonica! In other words, The Read More

    1973
  • The Partridge Family: The Partridge Connection

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: On a dare from his "pal" Punky (Gary Dubin), Danny (Danny Bonaduce) shoplifts a toy at a department store. Unable to escape his own conscience, Danny confesses his crime, and all is forgiven--until Punky intervenes once more, leading store manager Phelps (Henry Jones) to conclude that Danny has Read More

    1973
  • Bewitched: Serena's Youth Pill

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, David White

    Synopsis: Smitten by Larry Tate, Samantha's lookalike cousin Serena slips Larry a pill which makes him progressively younger. Astonished at his rejuvenation, Larry tries to talk Darrin into marketing the pill, little realizing that the side effects would transform the nation's male population into children. Read More

    1972
  • M*A*S*H: Chief Surgeon Who?

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Frank Burns (Larry Linville) blows his stack when Hawkeye (Alan Alda) is promoted to chief surgeon. During Hawkeye's celebration party, Frank and his sweetie Hot Lips (Loretta Swit) sneakily arrange for General Barker (Sorrell Brooke) to make a surprise visit to the 4077th. What will happen when Read More

    1972
  • Bonanza: Stallion

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Clu Gulager, Mitzi Hoag

    Synopsis: The beautiful black stallion given by Ben Cartwright as a birthday present to his son, Joe, is stolen. Searching for the horse, Joe comes across a family of drifters, and is soon embroiled in a potentially deadly rivalry between Bill Brenner (Clu Gulager) and his son, Tommy (Vincent Van Patten). Mitzi Hoag Read More

    1972
  • The Partridge Family: Nag, Nag, Nag

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In a raffle, Danny wins "F. Scott Fitzgerald"--not the writer, but a racehorse who suffers from insomnia. The whole family pitches in to lure F. Scott off to dreamland so that the horse will be fit enough to run in a big race that the San Pueblo County Fair. Slim Pickens (Dr. Strangelove, Blazing Read More

    1972
  • Gidget Gets Married

    Crew: Director, Producer

    Actors: Paul Lynde

    Synopsis: Monie Ellis is the latest in a long line of movie and TV "Gidgets" in Gidget Gets Married. The title tells all: Francie "Gidget" Lawrence (Ellis) forsakes bikinis and surfboards for a wedding gown and corsage. Her husband, of course, is her faithful beau "Moondoggie", aka Jeff Stevens (Michael Burns Read More

    1972
  • Death Sentence

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Nick Nolte, Cloris Leachman, Laurence Luckinbill

    Synopsis: Originally made for television, this story focuses on a woman selected for jury duty. During a murder trial, she discovers that the accused is the wrong man; she also finds that the real killer is after her. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

    1972
  • The Partridge Family: The Mod Father

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Ray Bolger and Rosemary DeCamp return in the roles of Fred and Amanda Renfrew, the parents of Shirley Partridge (Shirley Jones). This time around, Grandpa Fred and Grandma Amanda have gleaned some rather strange ideas at an encounter group, and are going overboard in the efforts to embrace the Read More

    1972
  • The Partridge Family: Whatever Happened to Moby Dick?

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The Partridges join the "Save the Whales" movement thanks to Laurie (Susan Dey), who has talked them into recording her own composition "Song of the Humpback Whale". In search of authentic whale sounds, the family heads to Marineland of the Pacific, where they're given a crash course in Read More

    1971
  • Man and Boy

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Leif Erickson, Gloria Foster, George Spell, Bill Cosby

    Synopsis: This western is notable for having Bill Cosby in a dramatic role in his first feature film. Caleb Rivers (Cosby) is a black Civil War Veteran who just wants to clear out his Arizona homestead and live in peace with his neighbors. Instead, he and his son (George Spell) have to track his stolen Read More

    1971
  • The Partridge Family: But the Memory Lingers On

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The Partridges have a pungent problem on their hands when their psychedelic school bus is invaded by a skunk. As Shirley (Shirley Jones) and the kids try to figure out a way to dissipate the horrible aroma, manager Reuben (Dave Madden), unaware of the situation, books the family for a benefit show Read More

    1970
  • In Name Only

    Crew: Director, Producer

    Actors: Ruth Buzzi, Christopher Connelly, Bill Daily

    Synopsis: This by-the-numbers TV movie features an all-star cast in a comedy of marital mix-ups and misunderstandings. Consultants Michael Callan and Ann Prentiss arrange the marriages of several couples, only to discover that all the unions are illegal. Among those affected are a cop (Christopher ConnellyRead More

    1969
  • The Flying Nun: Two Bad Eggs

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Sr. Bertrille adopts two bird eggs, accidentally breaking a musty old law which is rigidly enforced by bean-counting Police Captain Fomento. Meanwhile, Carlos tries to escape an angry former flame (Diana Herbert Markes). And to make matters even worse, Fomento is bound and determined to capture an Read More

    1968
  • The Flying Nun: A Young Man With a Coronet

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: After promising to keep her flying abilities under wraps, Sr. Bertrille is inadvertently whisked aloft by a sudden gust of wind. Her ascent is witnessed by Charlie Webster (Brian Nash), a little boy with a history of telling big lies. How can Sr. Bertrille keep Charlie from getting into trouble Read More

    1967
  • The Flying Nun: With Love from Irving

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: While sailing through the air one fine morning, Sr. Bertrille discovers she has company: A pelican has fallen in love with her and refuses to leave her side. This is dilemma enough, but things get worse when visiting priest Father Sweeney (Harold Gould), a man who brooks no nonsense or dereliction Read More

    1967
  • The Flying Nun: Pilot

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This one-hour pilot episode for the popular ABC sitcom The Flying Nun introduces viewers to Sister Bertrille (Sally Field), formerly Elsie Ethrington, the newest arrival at Convent San Tanco in San Juan, Puerto Rico. One morning, a gust of wind blows the 90-pound nun into the air, where she stays Read More

    1967
  • The Flying Nun: The Convert

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Having seen Sister Bertrille fly through the air (thanks to her lightweight and oversized coronet), casino proprietor Carlos Ramirez is convinced that she is a "sign," and promptly makes plans to change his hedonistic ways and convert to Catholicism. Though Sr. Bertrille is naturally gratified Read More

    1967
  • The Flying Nun: Fatal Hibiscus

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Overhearing Sr. Bertrille's plans to transfer to another convent, the nuns mistakenly believe that their young comrade is not long for this world. They set about to brighten her "last days," much to her amazement and bewilderment. Meanwhile, casino owner Carlos finds out the reason that Sr. Read More

    1967
  • The Flying Nun: A Bell for San Tanco

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The bell of Convent San Tanco is broken, and the nuns are in desperate need of a quick substitute. The enterprising Sr. Bertrille tries to talk casino owner Carlos into helping her recover the convent's original, 200-year-old bell which currently rests on the ocean floor! Carlos' girlfriend du Read More

    1967
  • The Flying Nun: Days of Nuns and Roses

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Sr. Bertrille comes up with another of her sure-fire fundraising schemes for Convent San Tanco. This time, she persuades the other nuns to bottling and selling their own special brand of sea-grape juice. Alas, the beverage costs more to manufacture than it does to buy, and that's only the Read More

    1967
  • The Flying Nun: Flight of a Dodo Bird

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Psychologist Father Lundigan (John Askin) is skeptical about the Mother Superior's wild stories about a flying nun. Of course, the audience knows that the Reverend Mother is not hallucinating, and is anxious for Sr. Bertrille to take to the air and prove that she can indeed fly. Alas, Sr. Read More

    1967
  • I Dream of Jeannie: Richest Astronaut in the World

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this pivotal episode, Roger (Bill Daily) finally learns the truth: The gorgeous Jeannie (Barbara Eden) who lives in the house of his friend Tony (Larry Hagman) is a genuine genie. Hoping to take advantage of this, Roger "steals" Jeannie and becomes her new master. Before long, Roger is Read More

    1966
  • Gidget: Like Voodoo

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Gidget (Sally Field) accidentally offends a gypsy woman named Zangara (Jeanne Gerson), who is rumored to be a witch. Before long, all sorts of mysterious accidents are befalling Gidget, her family and her friends. Convinced that she's been placed under a curse, our heroine is willing to move Read More

    1966
  • Gidget: Gidget's Career

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Gidget (Sally Field) and Larue (Lynette Winter) organize a folk-singing group along with a couple of guys, one of whom is named Ringo--Ringo Feinberg, that is. A big opportunity comes the girls' way when local deejay Rick Farmer (Sandy Kenyon) holds a singing contest. Unfortunately, the contest is Read More

    1966
  • Gidget: Don't Defrost the Alligator

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this 32nd and final episode of Gidget, the titular heroine (Sally Field) does her best to console young Davey Seldon (Frankie Kabott), whose pet alligator has died. Thanks to local government bureaucracy, there is no place to "inter" the gator's body until the funeral, so Gidget generously Read More

    1966
  • I Dream of Jeannie: Get Me to Mecca on Time

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Tony (Larry Hagman) is startled when Jeannie (Barbara Eden) starts fading away before his eyes. It seems that it is the annual Day of the Ra