Gail Strickland Filmography

ER: The Peace of Wild Things

Synopsis: By now convinced that her friend Dr. Lawrence (Alan Alda) is in the early stages of Alzheimer's, Weaver (Laura Innes) dolefully conspires with Greene (Anthony Edwards) to force Lawrence to face his problem. A nursing-home fire brings in a multitude of patients and heap of trouble for Carter (Noah Wyle Read More

Murphy Brown: Turpis Capillus Annus (Bad Hair Day)

Synopsis: Her ongoing chemotherapy forces Murphy (Candice Bergen) to appear in public wearing a wig. This is humiliating enough for her without having to bare her soul on a weekly basis with her cancer support group--and accordingly, Murphy refuses to let her guard down with the other group members no Read More

How to Make an American Quilt

Actors: Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Maya Angelou, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan, Jean Simmons

Synopsis: A young woman at a crossroads in her life finds herself receiving plenty of advice from her older and wiser counterparts in this drama. Finn Dodd (Winona Ryder) is a graduate student trying to finish up her doctoral thesis on women's folk art while deciding if she should marry her fiancé Sam (Dermot Mulroney Read More

The American President

Actors: Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox, David Paymer, Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: This earnest, intelligent, and well-written romantic comedy is enjoyable and optimistic in classic Hollywood style, even if its idealism doesn't seem quite so credible against the cynical political backdrop of the Nineties. President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas), an unabashedly liberal Read More

Murder, She Wrote: To Kill a Legend

Synopsis: A motion picture crew descends upon Cabot Cove to film a historical documentary. In the course of production, the crew unearths an old document signed by George Washington, which claims that the town's most venerated Revolutionary War hero, Joshua Peabody, was actually a traitorous scoundrel. Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 35: Paradise

Synopsis: While on a standard surveillance mission, Sisko and O'Brien locate a heretofore unknown colonized planet. Stranded on the planet's surface, the two crew members are confronted by a group of humans who have militantly rejected all forms of technology. With no avenues of escape at hand, Sisko and Read More

When a Man Loves a Woman

Actors: Andy Garcia, Meg Ryan, Lauren Tom, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tina Majorino

Synopsis: A dramatic treatment of a family torn apart by alcoholism and recovering from it, this was a star vehicle for popular actress Meg Ryan, who plays Alice Green, a school counselor who has a serious drinking problem. Her husband is Michael (Andy Garcia), an airline pilot. Though she's lighthearted Read More

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Operation

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: While hiking with Sully (Joe Lando), Brian (Shawn Toovey) impulsively jumps out of a tree and sustains what at first seems to be a minor head injury. Already angry at Sully for allowing this to happen, Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) is beside herself with rage and grief when Brian lapses into a coma. Read More

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Portraits

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Kevin Rogers guest stars as David Watkins, a famed Civil War photographer. As the townsfok argue over who will be include and who will be left out of Watkins' proposed panoramic portrait of Colorado Springs, Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) comes to realize that the photographer is suffering from diabetes Read More

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Secret

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) and Sully (Joe Lando) come to the rescue of Zack (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a mentally challenged youth who has suffered ill treatment at the hands of his guardian. The rest of the community shuns Zack, not only because he is "simple-minded," but because he is apparently the Read More

Silent Cries

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Heroes

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Her "romantic" experience gleaned from pulp magazines, Colleen (Erika Flores) develops a crush on Sully (Joe Lando) after he saves her life. Colleen then deliberately gets lost in the woods, hoping to be rescued again -- and nearly dies of frostbite. Meanwhile, Hank (William Shockley) foments Read More

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Healing

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Irascible storekeeper Loren Bray (Orson Bean) holds his former son-in-law, Sully (Joe Lando), responsible for the early death of Loren's daughter Abigail. Thus, when he realizes that he still holds the mortgage to Sully's homestead -- now also the home of Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) -- Loren jumps at Read More

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Law of the Land

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Johnny Cash guest stars as Kid Cole, a famous gunslinger who hopes to live a life of peaceful retirement in Colorado Springs. The Kid's dreams are shattered when he is recruited as temporary sheriff. His first assignment: To prevent the outraged townsfolk from lynching Swedish immigrant Jon (Christopher Keene Kelly Read More

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Bad Water

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Sully (Joe Lando) reluctantly agrees to guide Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) to the high mountain stream that she believes is the source of mercury poisoning. Despotic mine owner Craig Harding (Michael Cavanaugh) captures Sully and Dr. Mike as trespassers and refuses to allow them to return to Colorado Read More

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Father's Day

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) faces the breakup of her adopted family when Ethan Cooper (Ben Murphy), father of Matthew (Chad Allen), Colleen (Erika Flores), and Brian (Shawn Toovey), shows up in Colorado Springs. Promising not to desert the kids again, Ethan fills their heads with fanciful stories of a Read More

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Prisoner

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: After a raid on Black Kettle's Cheyenne settlement, the imperious and sadistic General Custer (Darren Dalton) insists that Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) treat all of his injured soldiers before even looking at the more seriously wounded Indian prisoners. To make sure that Dr. Mike follows his orders Read More

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Rite of Passage

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Matthew (Chad Allen) wants to marry Swedish immigrant girl Ingrid (Jennifer Youngs), but Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) thinks that he is much too young. To prove his adoptive mother wrong, Matthew talks Sully (Joe Lando) into letting him participate in a grueling four-day Cheyenne ritual. Sully agrees Read More

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Epidemic

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: No sooner has Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn (Jane Seymour) hung up her shingle in Colorado Springs than the community is hit with an influenza epidemic. Using Charlotte's (Diane Ladd) recently foreclosed boarding house as a temporary clinic, Dr. Mike does her best to treat the disease, but the Read More

Law & Order: Promises to Keep

Synopsis: A young female doctor is found murdered. While seeking out evidence, the detectives come across the woman's diary. The book paints a sordid picture indeed, suggesting that the woman's death may have been the outgrowth of a romantic triangle involving her fiancé, Danny Garrett (Frederick Weller) Read More

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman [TV Series]

Synopsis: Enjoying astonishing (and well-deserved) popularity at a time in TV history when dramatic programs trafficking in "family values" were few and far between, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman was also one of the last of that hardy breed known as the "TV Western." Set in Colorado Springs, CO, in the years Read More

Three of Hearts

Actors: William Baldwin, Kelly Lynch, Sherilyn Fenn, Joe Pantoliano, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: A new '90s expressiveness regarding homosexuality in movies is gently mined for laughs in this 1993 comedy that predates the similar but much more raw Chasing Amy and slightly more humorous Threesome. With her straight greasy hair, semi-paranoid outlook, and leather jacket she wears like a shield Read More

The Burden of Proof

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie was originally offered in two parts under the title Scott Turow's Burden of Proof. Adapted by John Gay from Turow's bestselling novel, the film stars Hector Elizondo as defense attorney Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, the same character played by Raul Julia in the 1990 cinemazation Read More

The Man in the Moon

Actors: Sam Waterston, Tess Harper, Gail Strickland, Reese Witherspoon, Jason London

Synopsis: In its elegiac nostalgia for the days of childhood innocence, Robert Mulligan's The Man in the Moon recalls another of Mulligan's earlier films, To Kill A Mockingbird. Set in a Louisiana backwater town in the 1950s, the film chronicles the coming-of-age of a young teenage girl. Dani (Reese Witherspoon Read More

HeartBeat

Synopsis: This drama features a progressive medical group whose founding female members encourage the use of unique practices for the best results. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Steal Me a Story

Synopsis: No sooner has Jessica (Angela Lansbury) shipped her latest book to the publisher than someone plagiarizes its plotline for an episode of a TV crime series. Arriving in Hollywood to track down the culprit, Jessica crosses the path of an unscrupulous producer who specializes in stealing other Read More

Hyper-Sapien: People from Another Star

Actors: Sydney Penny, Ricky Paull Goldin, Keenan Wynn, Rosie Marcel, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: This sci-fi offering from director Peter Hunt boasts an unsympathetic cast of three aliens who have escaped from their spacecraft docked on the moon. Robyn (Sydney Penny) is the female alien watching over young Tavy (Rosie Marcel) and the three-armed, three-eyed baby Kirbi who feeds on gasoline Read More

What a Country! [TV Series]

Actors: Garrett M. Brown, Yakov Smirnoff, Gail Strickland

Night Court: All You Need is Love

Synopsis: He just happened to be home when the outgoing mayor was calling around to make judicial appointments. . .and that's how Harry T. Stone (Harry Anderson) became New York City's youngest--and wackiest--judge. In this debut episode of Night Court, Harry settles down to work in a nocturnal appellate Read More

Oxford Blues

Actors: Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Amanda Pays, Julian Sands, Julian Firth

Synopsis: This is an uneven modern remake of A Yank at Oxford (1938) from writer-director Robert Boris, the man behind such diverse earlier productions as Some Kind of Hero (1981) and Doctor Detroit (1983). Rob Lowe stars as Nick Di Angelo, an American hustler and parking attendant in Las Vegas who falls in Read More

Protocol

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus, Andre Gregory, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: In this routine spoof of government and media foibles, Sunny (Goldie Hawn) is an ordinary cocktail waitress, someone who graduated in the top 75% of her class. When she dramatically prevents the assassination of a visiting dignitary, an Emir (Richard Romanus) from an Arab country. the event puts Read More

Uncommon Valor

Actors: Gene Hackman, Robert Stack, Fred Ward, Reb Brown, Randall "Tex" Cobb

Synopsis: Ted Kotcheff continues his First Blood fervor with Uncommon Valor. Gene Hackman stars as Cal Rhodes, a former Marine Colonel who has been getting the run-around for ten years from the government concerning the disappearance of his son and his buddies - all Marines who enlisted years prior and Read More

Starflight One

Synopsis: In this taut, futuristic drama, the maiden voyage of a hypersonic passenger jet becomes a disaster when something goes terribly wrong and it gets stuck in orbit. The film is also known as Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lies

Actors: Anne Dusenberry, Gail Strickland, Bruce Davison, Clu Gulager, Terence Knox, Julie Philips

Synopsis: This thriller follows an heiress who is being driven insane so some unscrupulous thieves can get their hands on her fortune. Actress Robyn Wallace (Anne Dusenberry) looks a lot like heiress Elizabeth (Julie Philips), so Elizabeth's vile husband (Bruce Davison) and two psychiatrists (Gail Strickland Read More

Alice: Give My Regrets to Broadway

Synopsis: Gail Strickland guest stars as Julia, an old friend of Alice Hyatt (Linda Lavin). Having enjoyed a degree of success as a Broadway actress, Julia is convinced that Alice's son Tommy (Philip McKeon) has a future in show biz. Alice is amused by this prospect--at least until Tommy tries to push the Read More

Eleanor: First Lady of the World

Synopsis: Jean Stapleton stars as Eleanor Roosevelt in this made-for-TV biography, first telecast May 12, 1982. The film recounts Mrs. Roosevelt's life after the 1945 death of her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. At the request of new president Truman, Eleanor serves as a United Nations Read More

Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice

Synopsis: Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice is a fact-based TV movie starring Carol Burnett and Lloyd Bridges. Burnett plays Beatrice (emphasis on the second syllable: "Be-AT-trice") who compensates for her shyness and lack of self-respect by drinking heavily. Bridges plays Beatrice's husband, who Read More

My Body, My Child

Actors: Jack Albertson, Vanessa Redgrave

Synopsis: Originally telecast as an ABC Theatre of the Month special, My Body, My Child nobly attempts to tackle the abortion issue--but does so with a painfully contrived, mazelike Perils of Pauline script. Irish-American schoolteacher Vanessa Redgrave, married to Italian fireman Joe Campanella and Read More

M*A*S*H: Bottoms Up

Synopsis: Gail Strickland guest stars as Helen Whitfield, one of the 4077's best nurses. What head nurse Margaret (Loretta Swit) doesn't know--but, alas, will soon find out--is that Helen is a closet drinker. As for the doctors, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) is cold-shouldered by the camp after one of his practical Read More

A Matter of Life and Death

Synopsis: This fact-based made-for-television drama tells the story of nurse Joy Ufemal and her invaluable work with those dying of incurable diseases. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

King Crab

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the rivalry between two brothers vying for their father's love. They choose to wage their private war within the family seafood business. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case

Actors: Linda Hamilton, Mickey Rourke, Rip Torn, Eugene Roche, Conchata Ferrell

Synopsis: The landmark 1978 courtroom prosecution which determined that a married man can by law be brought up on charges of raping his wife, was meticulously--and tastefully--detailed in this made-for-TV movie. Linda Hamilton stars as Oregon housewife Greta Rideout, who after years of abuse at the hands Read More

Letters from Frank

Synopsis: Frank is Frank Miller (Art Carney), a 65 year old newspaper man. His letters are to his oldest son Richard (Mike Farrell), and they're decidedly on the vitriolic side. Frank, you see, was involuntarily retired from his job and replaced by a computer. But with the help and support of his wife Betty Read More

The Gathering, Part 2

Actors: Rebecca Balding, Bruce Davison, Maureen Stapleton, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: Ed Asner dominated the proceedings of the 1977 TV movie The Gathering; inasmuch as Asner's character died at the end of that film, he is absent from the 1979 sequel The Gathering, Part 2. Said sequel could certainly have benefitted from Asner's presence, no matter how illogical that presence might Read More

Norma Rae

Actors: Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Gail Strickland, Barbara Baxley

Synopsis: Norma Rae finds Sally Field cast in the title role, a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill. The factory has taken too much of a toll on the health of Norma Rae's family for her to ignore her Dickensian working conditions. After hearing a speech by New York union organizer Reuben (Ron Leibman) Read More

Who'll Stop the Rain?

Actors: Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Masur

Synopsis: Thoroughly disillusioned by the Vietnam War, John, a journalist (Michael Moriarty), turns to heroin smuggling. Acting as John's go-between is the equally burnt-out Ray (Nick Nolte), who delivers the narcotics stateside to the journalist's wife, Marge (Tuesday Weld). Soon, however, Ray and Marge Read More

The President's Mistress

Actors: Beau Bridges, Susan Blanchard, Larry Hagman, Karen Grassle, Don Porter, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: Made for television, this little gem was based on a novel by Patrick Anderson. The title character, the sister of a government courier, barely has time to acquaint herself with the audience before she is murdered - leading us to wonder who did it, and if it is, in fact, true that the dead woman Read More

Ski Lift to Death

Actors: Suzy Chaffee, Clu Gulager, Veronica Hamel, Don Johnson, Deborah Raffin

Synopsis: The most surprising aspect of the made-for-TV Ski Lift to Death is that it wasn't produced by Irwin Allen. Two ski-lift gondolas derail, hanging perilously close to destruction. Among the passengers are a former gangster and the hit man assigned to kill him. Also on board are a pair of champion Read More

The Gathering

Actors: Rebecca Balding, Gregory Harrison, Maureen Stapleton, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: The Gathering stars Ed Asner as an ill-tempered executive who long ago walked out on his family. Just before Christmas, Asner is told that he has only a few weeks to live. He confides this information to his estranged wife Maureen Stapleton, who suggests that he call his four adult children (Gail Strickland Read More

A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story

Actors: Ramon Bieri, Robert Burr, Blythe Danner, Edward Herrmann, Patricia Neal

Synopsis: Based on the 1976 autobiography My Luke and I by Eleanor Gehrig and Joseph Durso, Love Affair: The Eleanor & Lou Gehrig Story provides a slightly different slant on the events previously dramatized on film as Pride of the Yankees (1942). The story is told in flashback from the point of view of the Read More

One on One

Actors: Robby Benson, Annette O'Toole, G.D. Spradlin, Gail Strickland, Melanie Griffith

Synopsis: Robby Benson plays a talented but naive high school basketball star who wins a scholarship to a perfection-driven college. Here he discovers that he's way out of his league, easily outclassed athletically by his opponents and by his own team. In addition, he runs up against the sort of Read More

The Baron

Synopsis: A big daddy in the underworld is betrayed and vows to settle up. There's lots of action in this big-city streets tale. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Kojak: Justice Deferred

Synopsis: At a demolition site, a human skeleton is found encased in cement. This is precisely the evidence needed by Lt. Kojak (Telly Savalas) to reopen a "cold" murder investigation--eighteen years after the killing took place. Veteran character actors Ned Glass and Marjorie Bennett) are prominently Read More

Bound for Glory

Actors: David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, John Lehne

Synopsis: Adapted by Robert Getchell from Woody Guthrie's autobiography, Hal Ashby's biopic portrays a few pivotal years in the life of the celebrated folk singer and social activist. In the Depression 1930s, Midwesterner Guthrie (David Carradine) plays music locally but cannot make enough as a sign painter Read More

Bittersweet Love

Actors: Lana Turner, Robert Lansing, Celeste Holm, Robert Alda, Scott Hylands

Synopsis: Michael and Patricia meet in an unusual way – while he is on a date and is trying to retrieve his date’s car keys from a fountain. When Michael’s date abandons him, he hangs out with Patricia and these two nice young people soon find themselves falling in love. They decide to wed and hold the Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: My Boy Guillermo

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

Synopsis: Gail Strickland makes a return appearance as Courtney Simpson, Jerry's free-spirited former girlfriend. When Courtney announces her desire to marry Jerry, he is delighted. But then he discovers that Courtney merely needs a husband so that she can adopt an eight-year-old orphan named Richie (Matthew Laborteaux Read More

The Dark Side of Innocence

Synopsis: This pilot film for a TV series titled Hancock was initially telecast as The Dark Side of Innocence. The Hancocks are a tightly-knit, prosperous California family. Mom and Pop Hancock (John Anderson and Kim Hunter) oversee a thriving lumber business--when they're not refereeing the travails of Read More

The Drowning Pool

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: Paul Newman returns as private detective Lew Harper is this tale of blackmail and murder based on a novel by Ross MacDonald. Iris Devereaux (Joanne Woodward), the wife of a wealthy oilman from Louisiana, hires Harper after she receives a threatening letter. A blackmailer is threatening to tell Read More

Ellery Queen

Synopsis: Ellery Queen (also known as Too Many Suspects) was the 78-minute pilot film for a TV series based on the fictional intellectual author/sleuth created by cousins Frederick Dannay and Manfred Lee. Jim Hutton plays Ellery (the tenth actor to do so on screen!), while David Wayne is his police Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Jerry Robinson Crusoe

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

Synopsis: Bob's best friend, Jerry, is in love again. This time the light of his life is free-spirited Courtney Simpson (Gail Strickland). Completely under Courtney's spell, Jerry has decided to kick over the traces by giving up his practice and moving to Tahiti with the girl of his dreams. Will Bob Read More

Dark Shadows: Episode 766

Synopsis: Incredibly, the silver bullets fail to kill the werewolf, who escapes before reverting to its original form as Quentin Collins (David Selby). Barnabas (Jonathan Frid) makes another effort to remove Magda's (Grayson Hall) curse. Judith (Joan Bennett) has some startling news about little Jamison. Read More

Dark Shadows: Episode 751

Synopsis: Rev. Trask (Jerry Lacy) has sent one of his teachers, Dorcas Trilling (Gail Strickland), to spy upon Rachel (Kathryn Leigh Scott) at Collinwood. Alas, this tactic coincides with the sudden appearance of a werewolf, and in the morning, Dorcas' horribly mutilated body is found. This episode Read More