Frank MaxwellFilmography

Fun and Games

Synopsis: In Fun and Games, a professional career woman is harassed by her boss, who then rejects her for promotion. The woman then sues her boss for sexual harassment ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Passing

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

All in the Family: Archie Gets the Business

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Frank Maxwell

Synopsis: All in the Family launched its eighth season on October 2, 1977 (and moved from Saturday to Sunday evening in the process), with the extra-length "transitional" episode "Archie Gets the Business." Tired of working for wages, Archie yearns to fulfill his longtime dream of purchasing Kelcey's Bar. Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Snake Eyes, Part 1

Synopsis: After a four-episode tryout as a component of the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie anthology, Quincy, M.E. launched its regular weekly run with this episode, originally telecast as a two-hour special but since re-edited for syndication as two one-hour installments. In Part One, we find LA County medical Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Snake Eyes, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Quincy, M.E.'s two-part Season Two opener (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Quincy (Jack Klugman) continues to look for the source of a mysterious epidemic that has caused several deaths at a pathologist's convention in a Lake Tahoe casino. The casino's Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Shallow Throat

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: Saddled with a close-mouthed patient named Twillmer (Richard Libertini), Bob encourages the man to open up and "let it all out." Unfortunately, Twillmer reveals that he has embezzled an enormous sum of money -- and Bob is bound by his doctor-patient confidentiality oath to keep mum about this Read More

M*A*S*H: Ping Pong

Synopsis: Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and B.J. (Mike Farrell) generously shell out $40 so that the camp's Korean ping-pong champ Cho Lin (Richard Narita) can purchase a wedding ring for his sweetheart Soony (Sachito Penny Lee). Cynical Frank (Larry Linville) is certain that Cho Lin will abscond with the cash and Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: A Good Cop...But

Synopsis: Two men from widely opposite spectrums in life are trapped in the same dilemma. Highly respected police detective Dave Lambert (Barry Primus) and seedy informer Art DeVoe (Mills Watson) have both witnessed a cop killing--and the murderer has sent his minions forth to get rid of them both. Featured Read More

Charlie's Angels: The Killing Kind

Actors: Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, David F. Doyle, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: The Angels investigate when a crusading journalist "accidentally" drowns at a fancy West Coast resort. As Kelly (Jaclyn Smith) and Jill (Farrah Fawcett-Majors) work undercover at the resort itself, Sabrina (Kate Jackson) and Bosley (David Doyle) team up on the "outside." It soon develops that the Read More

The Rockford Files: Piece Work

Synopsis: While investigating an insurance claim on behalf of the posh Brend Air Health Club, Jim (James Garner) finds himself in the middle of a sting operation involving Federal agents and illegal gunrunners. It all begins when an undercover Fed mistakes Jim for a police officer, an error which briefly Read More

The Rockford Files: 2 into 5.56 Won't Go

Synopsis: Korean War veteran Jim Rockford (James Garner) is contacted by his former commanding officer Col. Daniel Hart-Bowie (Frank Maxwell), who turns up dead after leaving a very brief and uninformative message on Jim's answering machine. Before long, the Army is exerting pressure on Jim to reveal the Read More

Who Is the Black Dahlia?

Actors: Lucie Arnaz, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Ronny Cox, MacDonald Carey, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: The still-unsolved Black Dahlia murder case, fictionalized in the 1981 theatrical feature True Confessions, is handled on a more factual level in this made-for-TV movie. Lucie Arnaz plays Elizabeth Short, an aspiring starlet of questionable morals, who in 1947 was murdered by person or persons Read More

The F.B.I.: The Animal

Synopsis: Hoping to escape the country, syndicate hit man Ben Silliman (Gary Lockwood) needs a lot of money in a hurry. To raise the cash, he blackmails William Braden (Peter Mark Richman), the "respectable" businessman who has enabled Silliman to rise to the top of his profession. Not to be confused with Read More

Ironside: The Last Cotillion

Synopsis: Aging socialite Athena Champion (Kim Hunter) desperately seeks out the aid of her friend Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr). Several elderly men have recently been murdered--all of them old boyfriends of Athena who had attended her debutante's ball. Suffering from the early stages of Alzheimers' Read More

Mr. Majestyk

Actors: Charles Bronson, Al Lettieri, Linda Cristal, Lee Purcell, Paul Koslo

Synopsis: Elmore Leonard's script for Mr. Majestyk was, like his novel, supposed to have concentrated on the plight of Chicano migrant workers; but what emerged on screen was extensively reshaped into a standard Charles Bronson vehicle. Battle-weary Vietnam veteran Vince Majestyk (Bronson) settles down in Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Pendulum

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: "Nightfall" is the code name of a widespread terrorist attack planned by a secret organization called the Pendulum. The IMF must learn the nature of the attack, and also bring down Pendulum leader Gunnar Malstrom (Dean Stockwell). As an interesting change of pace, the viewer is given far more plot Read More

Cry Rape!

Synopsis: Two TV films were shown during the 1973-1974 season dealing with the emotional and legal ramifications of rape. While the Elizabeth Montgomery vehicle A Case of Rape was closer to Real Life, Cry Rape! also had a lot going for it. Andrea Marcovicci stars as Betty Jenner, whose world is rent asunder Read More

Emergency!: The Professor

Synopsis: The Rampart emergency staff can't understand why Federal agents are so closely hovering over one of their patients (Hedley Mattingly), an apparent schizophrenic. Other problems vexing the staffers this week include an urgent summons to a fireboat, which yields surprising results; a possible Read More

Emergency!: Drivers

Synopsis: John (Randolph Mantooth) is pushed to the brink by the bad driving habits of others, and also joins Roy (Kevin Tighe) as he teaches a CPR class formerly conducted by John's late mentor. Meanwhile, the emergency staff tries to rescue a child stuck in a hollow tree, and to determine the source of a Read More

Ironside: And Then There Was One

Synopsis: Someone in San Francisco has been attacking Vietnam veterans with military-issue hand grenades. Two ex-soldiers have already fallen victim to the mystery assailant, and one of them has been killed. Ironside's aide Mark (Don Mitchell), a friend of the dead man, wants some answers--and thus he sets Read More

Emergency!: Helpful

Synopsis: The Rampart staff is at loss to explain the dangerously erratic behavior of brilliant physician Dr. Varner (Alicia Bond). At the Squad 51 station house, John (Randolph Mantooth) comes to grief when he tries to play peacemaker between Roy (Kevin Tighe) and his wife Joanne. The emergency staff's Read More

The F.B.I.: The Quest

Synopsis: Though he has been accused of killing his wife, mental patient Walter Carr (Earl Holliman)--who has no memory of the crime--is certain that she is still alive and that he has been framed for her murder. Escaping custody, Walter goes on a tortuous odyssey to find the truth, committing various small Read More

Adam-12: Log 104: The Bomb

Synopsis: Among the assignments tackled by mobile officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) during today's shift is to stop a would-be suicide. Also, the duo goes after a gang of drag racers who've turned the streets of LA into their own personal racetrack, and a group of thieves who Read More

Ironside: The Wrong Time, the Wrong Place

Synopsis: Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway) falls in love with Vivian Page (Tiffany Bolling), the beautiful movie actress whom he's been assigned to protect. Unfortunately for Ed, Vivian is a confirmed pacifist, who despises the weaponry carried by her protector. The situation becomes even more strained when Read More

Daughter of the Mind

Synopsis: Psychologist Don Murray investigates the claim of Nobel prize winning scientist Ray Milland, who insists he has spoken to his young daughter. The thing of it is, the daughter has been dead for several weeks. At first dismissing the claims as the delusions of a grief-stricken man, Murray decides to Read More

Family Affair: Ballerina Buffy

Synopsis: Buffy (Anissa Jones) is chosen over her classmate Melissa (Cindy Eilbacher) as the lead dancer in a ballet version of "Little Red Riding Hood". Miffed over this casting coup, Melissa's mom Clara (Ann McCrea) insists that Buffy got the starring part only because dance teacher Margot Dunbar is a Read More

The F.B.I.: The Raid

Synopsis: Acting on a tip from an ex-convict (who is promptly shot down!), the FBI heads to a motel in order to capture Scott Martin, a dangerous criminal known as "The Iceman." Unfortunately, Martin is currently stage-managing a major bank heist, and to make certain that he is left alone he has taken a Read More

The Wild Angels

Actors: Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd, Lou Procopio, Michael J. Pollard, Coby Denton

Synopsis: This biker gang exploitation picture from director Roger Corman and co-writer and editor Peter Bogdanovich earned critical respect in Europe for its gritty documentary style. Peter Fonda stars as Heavenly Blues, the leader of a wild, roving band of leather-clad bikers. When his best friend Loser (Bruce Dern Read More

The Fugitive: Running Scared

Synopsis: Upon learning of the death of his father, fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen) arranges a secret meeting with his sister Donna (Jacqueline Scott) in Fort Wayne, Indiana. What Donna doesn't know is that her every move is being monitored by Mike Ballinger (James Daly), the prosecutor who presided Read More

Madame X

Actors: Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban, Burgess Meredith, Constance Bennett

Synopsis: Lana Turner takes the lead in the seventh film version of Alexandre Bisson's glossy soap opera. Holly Parker (Turner) is married to respected diplomat Clay Anderson (John Forsythe), but his busy schedule prevents them from seeing each other very often. Distracted and lonely, Holly allows her head Read More

Family Affair: Mrs. Beasley, Where Are You?

Synopsis: Melancholy grips the Davis household when Buffy's beloved doll Mrs. Beasley is accidentally knocked off the terrace. As Bill (Brian Keith) and Mr. French (Sebastian Cabot) conduct a frantic search, Buffy (Anissa Jones) happens upon another little girl, clutching a Mrs. Beasley lookalike named Read More

Bewitched: Divided He Falls

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, David White, Frank Maxwell

Synopsis: Unable to decide whether to finish his work at home or to take Samantha on a long-overdue vacation, Darrin wishes aloud that he were two people. Obligingly, Endora splits Darrin into two separate personalities: one a super-dedicated worker, the other an irresponsible hedonist. The fun really Read More

The Munsters: All-Star Munster

Synopsis: Paying a visit to niece Marilyn's college, Herman (Fred Gwynne) had intended to simply discuss a matter of tuition with the main office. But through a series of bizarre occurences, he ends up being mistaken for the college's latest sports acquisition, basketball whiz Moose Mallory (played by Read More

A Rage to Live

Actors: Suzanne Pleshette, Bradford Dillman, Ben Gazzara, Peter Graves, Bethel Leslie

Synopsis: This soapy melodrama based on the novel by John O'Hara earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design. Suzanne Pleshette stars as Grace Caldwell, a newspaper heiress and nymphomaniac whose numerous dalliances threaten to destroy her wealthy Pennsylvania family's image. Taken on a Read More

The Fugitive: Crack in a Crystal Ball

Synopsis: Though he is using the alias "Joe Warren", Richard Kimble (David Janssen) is recognized by Sal Mitchell (Larry Blyden), a seedy nightclub performer who has a mind-reading act. Hoping to drum up publicity, Mitchell plans to arrange for Kimble's capture, thereby make it appear as if his "powers" are Read More

The Munsters: John Doe Munster

Synopsis: After being hit on the head by a falling safe (!), Herman (Fred Gwynne) completely loses his memory. The police find Herman and take him into protective custody, whereupon Lily (Yvonne DeCarlo) and Grandpa (Al Lewis) try to figure out a way to get him back. They hit upon the brilliant idea of Read More

The F.B.I.: All the Streets are Silent

Synopsis: Burt Reynolds is cast as psychotic criminal Mike Murtaugh, who with his partner Frankie Metro (James Farentino) hijacks a USMC weapons truck, killing a marine in the process. The FBI launches a nationwide search in hopes of stopping Murtaugh before he can either utilize the stolen weapons or sell Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Gentleman Caller

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Ruth McDevitt, Diane Sayer, Naomi Stevens, Juanita Moore

Synopsis: Elderly eccentric Emmy Rice (Ruth McDevitt) is charmed by the attentions of her much-younger gentleman caller, a fellow named Gerald Musgrove (Roddy McDowall). This is quite agreeable to Musgrove, a safecracker who has hidden 100,000 dollars in stolen money in Emmy's voluminous collection of old Read More

The Fugitive: The End Is But the Beginning

Synopsis: Using the alias "Steve Younger", fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen) hires on as a relief truck driver. While on assignment he picks up a hitchhiker, just before another vehicle crashes into him. Though Kimble is unhurt, his passenger is killed--a tragedy that Kimble may be able to turn to his Read More

The Outer Limits: The Architects of Fear

Synopsis: The third volume in a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series details the work of a group of scientists who attempt to better global relations by creating a fake space monster in order to frighten the people of Earth into aligning to battle a common enemy. Read More

The Haunted Palace

Actors: Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney, Jr., Frank Maxwell, Leo Gordon

Synopsis: The Haunted Palace is a witches' brew of stories written by Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft--with the fine hand of sinister scenarist Charles Beaumont stirring the pot. Vincent Price plays two roles this time: A New England doctor burned as a sorcerer in 1745, and the dead man's great-grandson Read More

The Outer Limits: The Man with the Power

Synopsis: The fourth volume in a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series recounts the story of a mousy scientist whose latest creation--a harness for cosmic energy controlled by his mind--wreaks havoc because of his repressed emotions. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Hat Box

Synopsis: The seventh season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents gets under way with a nasty little tale of academic gamesmanship featuring former Phil Silvers Show regular Paul Ford and onetime Father Knows Best co-star Billy Gray. Ford plays college anatomy professor Jarvis, who finds out that one of his Read More

By Love Possessed

Actors: Lana Turner, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Jason Robards, Jr., George Hamilton, Susan Kohner

Synopsis: There's always something simmering beneath the quaint and placid surface of small-town New England lives -- and that includes the usual maladies of alcoholism, rape, and suicide. At least this is the case if you go by the tortuous tale told in By Love Possessed, a Peyton Place knock-off, directed Read More

The Intruder

Actors: William Shatner, Frank Maxwell, Beverly Lunsford, Robert Emhardt, Jeanne Cooper

Synopsis: The Intruder was not only Roger Corman's most daring and unusual film, but a unique movie in the history of cinema, as one of the few theatrical feature films to deal with school desegregation in the South. William Shatner gives the performance of a lifetime as Adam Cramer, a sly, rabble-rousing Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Injured Innocent

Synopsis: Wealthy manufacturer and race-car enthusiast Walter Eastman (Jess Barker) imports a revolutionary new engine for an upcoming race. Along for the ride is famous European driver Vincent Danielli (Alejandro Rey)--who proceeds to betray Eastman's trust by deliberately sabotaging the engine. Not long Read More

Ada

Actors: Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ralph Meeker, Martin Balsam

Synopsis: Dean Martin plays an easygoing Southern politician, long on charm but short on brains. Susan Hayward, a poor girl with rich ideas, marries Martin and endeavors to engineer him into the governor's chair. Though no saint herself, Hayward is determined to overcome the good-old-boy corruption Read More

The Twilight Zone: A World of Difference

Actors: Howard Duff, Frank Maxwell, Eileen Ryan, David White, Gail Kobe

Synopsis: While sitting in his office and discussing business matters with his secretary, Arthur Curtis (Howard Duff) is suddenly interrupted by a shout of "Cut!" Looking up from his desk, Arthur finds that the wall of his office has disappeared, and in its place is a movie camera crew and director (Robert Cornthwaithe Read More

The Mountain Road

Actors: James Stewart, Lisa Lu, Glenn Corbett, Henry "Harry" Morgan, Frank Silvera

Synopsis: In this wartime drama set during WW II, a US Army major is assigned to travel to China with an eight-man demolition team and destroy all bridges and roads needed by the Japanese. They are assisted by two Chinese fellows. At one point the major blows of a mountain bridge that leaves thousands Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Contest for Aaron Gold

Synopsis: A short story by best-selling novelist Philip Roth (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint) is the basis for this sensitive -- and remarkably non-lethal! -- episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Unlike his fellow kids at summer camp, Aaron Gold (Barry J. Gordon) wants nothing to do with athletics Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Cell 227

Synopsis: Condemned for a murder he didn't commit, embittered death-row inmate Prof. Herbert Morrison (Brian Keith) has not only given up all hopes of a reprieve, but has informed his lawyer not to even bother getting him released. As his last hours tick away, Morrison is more annoyed than usual by the Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Red Riding Boots

Synopsis: As upset as she is over the impending divorce of her parents, Ann Farwell (Elen Willard) is even more upset that her rancher father Burt (John Archer) is keeping company with sexy young Rita Conover (Shirley Ballard). When Rita is murdered, Ann thinks that her mom Jill (Linda Leighton) is the Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Wayward Wife

Synopsis: Ben Sutton (Richard Shannon) is having a high old time spending the royalties from his best-selling book, dealing with his experiences a Korean POW. In fact, Ben has apparently depleted his savings, else why would he be borrowing so much from the brother of his long-suffering wife Sylvia (Bethel Read More

One Step Beyond: Forked Lightning

Synopsis: This episode bears a marked resemblance to the first-season One Step Beyond entry "Twelve Hours to Live". Once again, two complete strangers experience the same premonition, one that will thrust them headlong toward a mutual date with destiny. This time around, the wife of a prominent banker Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Special Delivery

Synopsis: Suburbanites Bill and Cynthia Fortnam (Steve Dunne, Beatrice Straight) are a tad surprised when their 11-year-old son, Tom (Peter Lazer), receives a special-delivery package. The package turns out to contain mushroom seeds, which the industrious Tom plants and cultivates in the cellar. Although Read More

Lonelyhearts

Actors: Montgomery Clift, Robert Ryan, Myrna Loy, Dolores Hart, Maureen Stapleton

Synopsis: For his film directorial debut, producer Dore Schary selected a longtime pet property: Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathaniel West's trenchant 1933 novel. Montgomery Clift delivers a haunting performance as journalist Adam White, assigned by his cynical editor Adam Shrike (Robert Ryan) to take over a Read More

The Violators

Actors: Arthur O'Connell, Nancy Malone, Fred Beir, Clarice Blackburn, Henry Sharp

Synopsis: Produced by Himan Brown (of radio's Inner Sanctum) and directed by John Newland (of TV's One Step Beyond), The Violators stars Arthur O'Connell as a rule-bound probation officer. When O'Connell refuses to loan $500 to his prospective son-in-law Fred Beir, the latter cooks up a swindling scheme to Read More