Gregory SierraFilmography

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Esai Morales, Edward James Olmos, Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: Fantasist Ray Bradbury wrote the screenplay for this adaptation of his 1957 Saturday Evening Post short story, "The Magic White Suit," previously adapted as a TV drama, a stage musical, and a play. Middle-aged Gomez (Joe Mantegna) hopes to own the beautiful white suit he spots in a store window. Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Film Flam

Synopsis: Hollywood is abuzz with the news that a film completed back in 1960, but shelved after its director died mysteriously, has been rediscovered and restored. This takes place at a studio that has become a target for a wide variety of movie pirates--and not a few dedicated film buffs. When one of Read More

A Low Down Dirty Shame

Actors: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Charles S. Dutton, Jada Pinkett Smith, Salli Richardson, Andrew Divoff

Synopsis: A black detective becomes embroiled in a web of danger while searching for a fortune in missing drug money in this action-comedy. Writer-director Keenan Ivory Wayans also stars as Los Angeles private eye Arthur Shame, a former cop whose troubled past resurfaces when a one-time colleague asks for Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Second Skin

Synopsis: Kidnapped by the Cardassians, Kira is informed that she is really a Cardassian agent. Arguing that she is a Bajoran through and through, Kira is further informed that her appearance was surgically altered and her memory changed for espionage purposes. As the evidence mounts in the Carassian's Read More

Murder, She Wrote: A Nest of Vipers

Synopsis: Season Eleven of Murder She Wrote opens with an episode that would seem to have been inspired by the 1933 horror film Murders at the Zoo. Jessica Fletcher ($Angela Lansbury}) pays an extended visit to a California animal park, there to research her latest mystery novel. Inevitably, a real-life Read More

Hot Shots! Part Deux

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna, Brenda Bakke

Synopsis: Movie references, sight gags, silly puns, and double entendres abound in Hot Shots! Part Deux, Jim Abrahams' sequel to Hot Shots -- only now the object of the skewering is the Stallone Rambo movies instead of Top Gun. Charlie Sheen returns as the lunk-headed Topper Harley, who has retreated to a Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Petrified Florist

Synopsis: While attending a celebrity-studded party held by the editor of a Beverly Hills gossip magazine, Jessica (Angea Lansbury) begins formulating the plot of her next mystery novel. The principal ingredients include a trendy florist with a roster of A-list clients who is secretly helping an Read More

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

Actors: Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Oliveri, Daniel Shalikar, Joshua Shalikar

Synopsis: In the sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, a bumbling but brilliant scientist (Rick Moranis) accidentally makes his two-year-old son into a giant who becomes larger every time he comes in contact with electricity. Though he and his wife try to control their son, the child inevitably escapes and Read More

Deep Cover

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Victoria Dillard, Charles Martin Smith, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: Laurence Fishburne plays no-nonsense LAPD narc Russell Stevens, Jr., who has worked all his life to expunge the memory of his dope-addict father, whom he saw die in a liquor-store robbery. DEA agent Jerry Carver (Charles Martin Smith) orders Stevens to work as an undercover operative on a major Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Day of the Dead

Synopsis: James Coburn guest stars as Cyrus Ramsey, chief archaeologist of the National Museum of Mexico. Ramsey is among those under suspicion when a hotel owner suspected of dealing in stolen art is murdered. It seems that the dead man was found wearing the Mask of Montezuma, which had recently been Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Will Gets Committed

Synopsis: This episode takes place just after the devastating LA riots of 1992. Philip (James Avery) and Vivian (Janet Hubert-Whitten) return to their old neighborhood to spearhead a clean-up effort, prompting a flashback to the couple's early years and their aspirations for the future (offering a glimpse Read More

Unspeakable Acts

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Brad Davis, Bess Meyer, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: Unspeakable Acts is the all-too-true story of a 1984 Dade County (Florida) sexual abuse case. Frank and Ilana Fuster (Gregory Sierra and Bess Meyer), who operate an upper-class day care center in a Florida suburb, are accused of committing appalling acts upon their young charges. The prosecution's Read More

Donor

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Jack Scalia, Pernell Roberts, Wendy Hughes, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: Donor is a variation on a familiar theme, played to the hilt by a topnotch cast. Doctor Melissa Gilbert-Brinkman is shocked when her close friend is strangled by an elderly patient. Before she has a chance to investigate, the killer himself dies in a mysterious accident. Probing further, Melissa Read More

Growing Pains: The New Deal, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Channel 19's new public-relations team fires news director Sid Sidlevich (Kenneth Tigar), and Maggie (Joanna Kerns) worries that she'll be next. Meanwhile, Jason (Alan Thicke) is offered a prestigious new job in a posh downtown psychiatric office. By Read More

Desperado: Badlands Justice

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

Dynamite and Gold

Actors: Jack Elam, Alfonso Arau, Willie Nelson

Synopsis: Dynamite & Gold is the videocassette title of the made-for-TV western comedy Where the Hell's That Gold? Willie Nelson plays a bank robber, Delta Burke his "moll" and Jack Elam and all-around gol-durned sidewinder. The three stars scrounge for a hidden fortune in stolen gold, fending off other Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder Through the Looking Glass

Synopsis: This week, Jessica is in Hartford, Connecticut--in the vicinity of Trinity College, to be exact. While walking along minding her business, Jessica is witness to the slaying of Adam Cosgrove,who with his dying breath confesses that he is a professional hit man. Before long, Jessica finds herself Read More

Something is out There

Actors: Joe Cortese, Maryam D'Abo

Synopsis: Something Is Out There is an expensive (and expansive) sci-fi TV movie in the tradition of the miniseries V and the theatrical picture The Hidden (1988). LA cop Joe Cortese finds himself with an unlikely partner--gorgeous extraterrestrial Maryam D'Abo. Both Earthling and alien are on the hunt for Read More

The Trouble with Spies

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Ned Beatty, Ruth Gordon, Lucy Gutteridge, Michael Hordern

Synopsis: Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is an inept international secret agent sent by the U.S. to the island of Ibiza in this uneven spy comedy. His mission is to secure the secret recipe for a truth serum to use on enemy agents. Appleton miraculously avoids being killed on several occasions as Read More

Her Secret Life

Actors: Cliff De Young

Synopsis: Kate Capshaw plays a schoolteacher and suburban housewife who happens to be an ex-spy. Nobody knows of Capshaw's previous espionage activities, least of all her somewhat obtuse husband Cliff De Young. When Capshaw's ex-lover Jeroen Krabbe, an intimate of Castro, lands in a Cuban prison, she is Read More

Hunter: Flashpoint

Synopsis: The son of Hispanic mayoral candidate Michael Elandro (Gregory Sierra) is one of three teenagers accidentally shot and killed in a police raid. In their efforts to prevent a race riot, Hunter (Fred Dryer) and McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) must convince Elandro that they are sincere in their efforts to Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Pleasure Principle

Synopsis: Temporarily assuming Higgins' duties at Robin's Nest, the normally freewheeling Magnum (Tom Selleck) begins behaving in the strict, stuffy manner usually associated with Higgins (John Hillerman)--who, conversely, is comporting himself in the footloose "Magnum manner" while on vacation! The reason Read More

Let's Get Harry

Actors: Michael Schoeffling, Thomas F. Wilson, Glenn Frey, Gary Busey, Robert Duvall

Synopsis: Stuart Rosenberg, under the guise of Alan Smithee, directed this action film concerning a soldier of fortune sent into a South American country to rescue a kidnapped American during a revolutionary upheaval. Harry Burk Jr. (Mark Harmon) and United States Ambassador Douglas (Bruce Gray) are held Read More

Stingray

Actors: Nick Mancuso

Synopsis: Created by Stephen J. Cannell, the made-for-TV Stingray combines choice elements from such past successes as Knight Rider, The Lone Ranger, and (stylistically, at least) Miami Vice. Nick Mancuso stars as the title character, a mysterious good samaritan who has apparently named himself after his Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Broadway Malady

Synopsis: Celebrated Broadway musical star Vivian Blaine is cast as--what else?--a celebrated Broadway musical star, named Rita Bristol. Headling a new production costarring her daughter Patti (Lorna Luft) and produced by her son Barry (Gregg Henry), Rita is among those expressing concern when an aspiring Read More

Command 5

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

Miami Vice: Pilot

Synopsis: When NBC head honcho Brandon Tartikoff demanded a flashy weekly series with "MTV Cops," executive producer Michael Mann responded with Miami Vice. The stars were Don Johnson as Sonny Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo Tubbs, members of Miami's Organized Crime Bureau. In the Miami Vice Read More

Uncommon Valor

Synopsis: The pilot for an unsold weekly series, Uncommon Valor stresses the courage and resourceful of a team of firefighters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Headed by dauntless batallion chief Tom Riordan (Mitchell Ryam), the unit tries to drench a raging conflagration at County General Hospital (a disaster Read More

The Gambler: The Adventure Continues

Synopsis: This two-part TV movie was originally titled Kenny Rogers as The Gambler: The Adventure Continues. A follow-up to Rogers' phenomenally successful 1980 made-for-TV The Gambler, the film charts the further adventures of frontier "plunger" Brady Hawkes (played by Rogers, of course). Also making a Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Baby Rattlesnakes

Synopsis: The opening episode of Quincy, M.E.'s eighth season finds medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman in the middle of another sociological dilemma. 14-year-old Ethan Kellough (DeVoreaux White, former member of a vicious street gang called the "Ravnes", is the prime suspect in the drive-by shooting of a Read More

Farrell for the People

Actors: Valerie Harper

Synopsis: Sitcom stalwart Valerie Harper trades jokes for the judiciary in Farrell: For the People. Valerie stars as New York attorney Elizabeth Farrell ("All she wants to be is a DA", declared the TV Guide ad copy, "but her toughest case is being a woman!"), whose case load runs the gamut from rapists to Read More

Soap: Season 04

Actors: Robert Mandan, Katherine Helmond, Jennifer Salt, Jimmy Baio, Arthur Peterson

Synopsis: The death of Jessica Tate (Katherine Helmond) was the big shocker at the end of Soap's third season. So imagine everyone's surprise when, as the series launched season four, Jessica was brought back to life -- following a brief stopover in Heaven to commiserate with all her ex-lovers! In another Read More

The Night the Bridge Fell Down

Synopsis: In this disaster movie, eight people stranded on a bridge find their lives jeopardized after a collision has caused the unstable structure to collapse. One of the eight is a bank robber on the lam. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Three Hundred Miles for Stephanie

Actors: Tony Orlando, Peter Graves, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: In this drama, a policeman tries to get God to heal his brain-damaged daughter by promising to run the 320 miles between San Antonio and the Shrine of San Juan de los Lagos. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Prisoner of Zenda

Actors: Peter Sellers, Lynne Frederick, Lionel Jeffries, Elke Sommer, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: The beloved novel by Anthony Hope is shown here in its sixth film adaptation. In this story, Peter Sellers is Rudolf IV, the reigning monarch of the tiny nation of Ruritania. One day, while flying in a hot air balloon, a champagne cork sends him plummeting to his death. The rightful heir, who is Read More

Evening in Byzantium

Synopsis: A piece of made-for-television hack work that suddenly became sort of topical 23 years later, with the attacks on the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, Evening in Byzantium was a two-part made-for-TV feature based very loosely on Irwin Shaw's best-seller. The book Read More

Mean Dog Blues

Actors: Gregg Henry, Kay Lenz, George Kennedy, Scatman Crothers, Tina Louise

Synopsis: Former TV documentary filmmaker Mel Stuart tries to inject an acceptable degree of verisimilitude in Mean Dog Blues. A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey (Gregg Henry) finds himself on a Southern chain gang. Captain Omar Kinsman (George Kennedy) snarls a lot as the Read More

The Night They Took Miss Beautiful

Synopsis: In this drama, five beauty aspiring beauty queens are abducted in a hijacked airplane. Also upon the plane is a strain of deadly virus. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Antonio and the Mayor

Synopsis: Not technically a movie, Antonio and the Mayor originated as a 90-minute CBS TV special. Set in rural Mexico in the 1920s, the play stars Diego Gonzales as Antonio, a 10-year-old boy of limited education who happens to be a whiz at all things mechanical. Gonzales dearly covets a bicycle so that he Read More

Sanford and Son: The Stung

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Gregory Sierra, Nathaniel Taylor, Richard Ward

Synopsis: Excluded from his son Lamont's weekly poker game, Fred gets even by arranging for his pal Al Banks (Richard Ward), a professional gambler, to sit in for a few hands. Just as Fred planned, Al wins all the players' money -- but then neglects to give it back. The result: Fred and Lamont (Demond Wilson Read More

The Castaway Cowboy

Actors: Patrick Sullivan Burke, Nephi Hannermann, Kahana, Lee Wood, James Garner, Vera Miles, Robert Culp, Eric Shea, Elizabeth Smith

Synopsis: James Garner stars as a genial cowboy in this wholesome slice of Disney family fare. Garner is Lincoln Costain, a cowboy in the 1850s who finds himself shanghaied and shipwrecked on a Hawaiian island. He runs into luckless widow Henrietta MacAvoy (Vera Miles) and helps her turn her struggling Read More

Sanford and Son: Season 04

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Whitman Mayo, LaWanda Page, Hal Williams

Synopsis: Season four of Sanford and Son was ushered in on Friday, September 13, 1974, with wonderful news for longtime fans of the series: after a well-publicized volley of recriminations between star Redd Foxx and the series' producers over Foxx's numerous (and somewhat bizarre) contractual demands, the Read More

Sanford and Son: The Way to Lamont's Heart

Actors: Demond Wilson, Whitman Mayo, Judy Pace, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: To get out of proposing to his new girlfriend Judy (Judy Pace), Lamont (Demond Wilson) claims that he needs permission from his father to wed -- and, fortunately, his father is out of town. Undaunted, Judy makes a beeline to Lamont's godfather Grady (Whitman Mayo), cozying up to him so he will Read More

Sanford and Son: Julio and Sister and Nephew

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Gregory Sierra, Miriam Colon, Graham Brown

Synopsis: Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx) barely lets a day go by without spewing forth bigotry aimed at his Puerto Rican neighbor Julio (Gregory Sierra). All this changes when Julio's nephew -- who through a series of bizarre circumstances is now a house guest of the Sanfords -- becomes a victim of discrimination Read More

Sanford and Son: Home Sweet Home

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Helen Funai, Yuki Shimoda, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: Fred (Redd Foxx) is the only holdout when a group of Japanese land developers want to buy up all the homes and businesses in the neighborhood. The media is convinced that Fred is acting out of sympathy for his neighbors, when in fact he's merely hoping to wangle a larger cash settlement from the Read More

Sanford and Son: This Land is Whose Land?

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Gregory Sierra, Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr.

Synopsis: An overstock situation prompts junk dealer Julio Fuentes (Gregory Sierra) to store some of his belongings at the home of his neighbors (and business rivals), the Sanfords. Upset by this, Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx) hires a surveyor to determine exactly where the property line is between his house and Read More

Sanford and Son: The Merger

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Gregory Sierra, Howard Platt, Hal Williams

Synopsis: Tired of the bickering between Fred (Redd Foxx) and rival junk dealer Julio (Gregory Sierra), and hoping to improve everyone's economic outlook, Lamont (Demond Wilson) convinces Julio to merge his business with Fred's. It is hardly surprising that Fred is convinced that this merger will ruin his Read More

Honky Tonk

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 Towering Inferno

Actors: Carlena Gower, Carol McEvoy, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Richard Chamberlain

Synopsis: A skyscraper and an all-star cast go up in flames in Irwin Allen's classic disaster movie. To celebrate the construction of the Glass Tower, the world's tallest building, architect Doug Roberts (Paul Newman) and builder James Duncan (William Holden) hold a gala bash on the highest floors. Trouble Read More

The Laughing Policeman

Actors: Dave Belrose, Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett, Jr., Albert Paulsen, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Stuart Rosenberg's taut police thriller, based on the Martin Beck novel by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahlöö, concerns a serial killer who is targeting bus riders. When a bus full of innocent commuters are killed on a San Francisco street, Jake Martin (Walter Matthau) is assigned to track down the Read More

Ironside: Love Me in December

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

The Clones

Synopsis: A scientist (Michael Greene) discovers a plot whereby one of his co-workers (Stanley Adams) has been cloning the minds of geniuses in a nefarious attempt to control the world. With the help of a clone-chaser (Gregory Sierra), the scientist has a slim chance of saving the planet. ~ John Bush, All Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: A Wrongful Death

Synopsis: Season Two of Streets of San Francisco opens with an episode focusing on Steve Keller (Michael Douglas), the young partner of veteran SFPD detective Mike Stone (Karl Malden). Forced to kill a robbery suspect, Keller finds his career on the line when the dead man's father (Michael Constantine) Read More

Papillon

Actors: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: The autobiography of Henri Charriere, one of the few people to successfully escape from the notorious French penal colony of Devil's Island, served as the basis for Papillon. Steve McQueen plays the pugnacious Charriere (known as "Papillon," or "butterfly," because of a prominent tatoo) Read More

The Thief Who Came to Dinner

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Jacqueline Bisset, Warren Oates, Jill Clayburgh, Charles Cioffi

Synopsis: Bud Yorkin directed this middling comedy, written by Walter Hill from a novel by Terrence Lore Smith. Ryan O'Neal plays a computer expert named Webster, who alleviates on-the-job doldrums by moonlighting as a successful jewel thief. Webster invites himself to upscale soirees, where he cases out Read More

The Waltons: The Gypsies

Synopsis: Caught in a heavy rainstorm on Walton's Mountain, a family of Gypsies takes refuge it what seems to be a deserted house. Actually, it's the home of the Baldwin sisters, temporarily out of town. The Gypsies' unwitting "break-in" fuels the bigotry of Matt Beckwith (William Bramley), who tries to Read More

Sanford and Son: Season 03

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Whitman Mayo, LaWanda Page, Hal Williams

Synopsis: Still riding high in the ratings, Sanford and Son returned to its by then traditional Friday-night NBC time slot for a third successful season on September 14, 1973. The basic premise -- crotchety old Fred Sanford running a rundown Los Angeles junk business with his restless son Lamont -- was Read More

Sanford and Son: Pops 'n' Pals

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Gregory Sierra, James Wheaton, Joaquin Garay III

Synopsis: Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx) is jealous when his son Fred (Demond Wilson) begins spending more and more time with the Sanfords' Puerto Rican neighbor (and business rival) Julio Fuentes (Gregory Sierra). After Fred announces plans to accompany Julio on a weekend visit to Tijuana, Fred goes into his Read More

All in the Family: Archie Is Branded

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: Prejudiced though he may be, Archie Bunker is no Nazi. Thus, he is both outraged and terrified when a swastika is painted on the Bunkers' front door. It turns out that Archie's home has been mistaken for the residence of a Jewish extremist named Paul Benjamin (Gregory Sierra), who pays a visit to Read More

Sanford and Son: Watts Side Story

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Gregory Sierra, Alma Beltran, Migdia Varela

Synopsis: Fred Sanford (Redd Fox) blows his top when his son Lamont (Demond Wilson) starts dating the sister of rival junk dealer Julio Fuentes (Gregory Sierra). In his efforts to spy on his son, Fred ends up in an embarrassing situation with Julio's mother (Alma Beltran). Witnessing the spectacle are Read More

Sanford and Son: Fuentes, Fuentes, Sanford and Chico

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Gregory Sierra, Alma Beltran, Whitman Mayo

Synopsis: Lamont (Demond Wilson) and Julio (Gregory Sierra) try to make some extra money by going into the used auto parts business. Convinced he is being deserted, Lamont's dad Fred (Redd Foxx) runs away from home. But before he does, Fred leaves behind a cleverly conceived audio tape, suggesting that he Read More

Sanford and Son: The Little TV Went to Market

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Whitman Mayo, Gregory Sierra, Howard Platt

Synopsis: In the market for a color television, Lamont (Demond Wilson) wants to purchase a new TV on credit, but Fred (Redd Foxx) intends to spend no more than 50 dollars on a used set. Luck of luck, Fred finds just such a bargain at Guy's Groovy Grab Bag. Alas, Fred has unwittingly purchased a stolen TV Read More

Sanford and Son: Fred, the Reluctant Fingerman

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Gregory Sierra, Hal Williams, Howard Platt

Synopsis: Fred (Redd Foxx) is the only eyewitness when burglars break into the home of his neighbor Julio Fuentes (Gregory Sierra), making off with Julio's pet goat. Fearing reprisals -- and, frankly, happy to see the goat gone -- Fred refuses to identify the crooks. Hoping to loosen Fred's tongue, Julio Read More

Pocket Money

Actors: E. Baca, R. Camargo, R. Manning, Wynn Pearce, Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Christine Belford, Kelly Jean Peters

Synopsis: Two modern day cowboys smuggle a herd of cows across the border in this loosely amiable comedy. Jim Kane (Paul Newman) is a cowboy who unexpectedly finds himself deep in debt and in need of some fast cash. A less-than-scrupulous businessman approaches Kane and offers him a handsome payday to Read More

The Wrath of God

Actors: Victor Eberg, Robert Mitchum, Frank Langella, Rita Hayworth, John Colicos, Victor Buono

Synopsis: This misunderstood film is a satirical western, written, directed, and produced by Ralph Nelson, which he adapted from the book by James Graham (a pseudonym for Jack Higgins) In a restless Central American nation in the 1920s, Van Horne (Robert Mitchum), a defrocked American priest, hides a gun Read More

Mission: Impossible: Cocaine

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, William Shatner, Barbara Anderson

Synopsis: The IMF has only 72 hours to intercept a huge shipment of cocaine, which is being delivered to supplier Carl Reid (Stephen McNally) by smuggler Fernando Lorca (Gregory Sierra). In order to undermine the main villains, agents Phelps and Willy prey upon the gullibility of Reid's second-in-command Read More

Sanford and Son: The Puerto Ricans are Coming!

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Gregory Sierra, Slappy White, Larry Blake

Synopsis: Gregory Sierra makes his first appearance as Puerto Rican junk dealer Julio Fuentes. Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx) is outraged that Julio, and his pet goat, have moved in next door to the Sanford's junk shop. Before the episode is over, Fred's bigoted anger matches, if not surpasses, that of another Norman Lear Read More

Sanford and Son: Season 02

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, LaWanda Page, Hal Williams, Howard Platt

Synopsis: A confirmed hit in its inaugural 14-episode season, the NBC sitcom Sanford and Son returned to its familiar Friday-night berth for a second batch of 24 episodes beginning September 15, 1972. In true "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" tradition, producer Norman Lear made virtually no changes in the Read More

The Culpepper Cattle Company

Actors: Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Luke Askew, Bo Hopkins, Geoffrey Lewis

Synopsis: Gary Grimes stars in this revisionist western as Ben Mockridge, a 16-year-old boy who has long dreamed of living the life of a cowboy. Wanting adventure, he persuades Frank Culpepper (Billy Green Bush) to take him along on a cattle drive, and Ben learns the hard way just how lonesome, exhausting Read More

Red Sky at Morning

Synopsis: In this drama, based on a novel by Richard Bradford, an adolescent boy and his mother are sent to live in New Mexico after his father goes off to fight WW II. The move is hard on both mother and son. The boy, one of the few whites in the area, must deal with making friends, the strange new land Read More

Believe in Me

Actors: Elizabeth Brown, Suzannah Norstrand, Barbara Thurston, Larry Weber

Synopsis: A drug addict seduces his lover into sharing his chemical joys and together they begin a wrenching downward spiral into destruction in this unflinching, well-wrought drama. Before getting hooked on speed, the woman had a successful career. But, despite the efforts of those who would help her, the Read More

Getting Straight

Actors: Elliott Gould, Candice Bergen, Robert F. Lyons, Jeff Corey, Max Julien

Synopsis: "Movies like Getting Straight are ceasing to be tolerable" complained one conservative movie magazine of 1970. Today, the once-relevant but now merely entertaining Getting Straight is not only tolerable, but downright user-friendly. Elliot Gould plays a Vietnam vet who decides to attend college Read More

McCloud: Who Killed Miss U.S.A.?

Actors: Dennis Weaver

Synopsis: A marshal (Dennis Weaver) from a small New Mexico town escorts a subpoenaed witness to New York City. When his witness is kidnapped, the marshall tries to track him down in the unfamiliar city. During his search, he finds himself in the middle of a murder case involving Puerto Rican nationalists Read More

Weekend of Terror

Synopsis: In this drama, two kidnappers begin looking for a new victim after they accidentally kill their latest hostage. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

Actors: James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, Linda Harrison, Paul Richards, Charlton Heston

Synopsis: Sometime after the events of the first Planet of the Apes, the climax of which is repeated frame for frame at the beginning of this sequel, another set of astronauts arrives on the far-future Earth that is the titular planet. This time it's Brent (James Franciscus) who survives the crash landing Read More

The Flying Nun: A Gift for El Charro

Synopsis: Celebrated bullfighter El Charro (Ben Archibek) has entered convent San Tanco under an assumed name. His purpose: to learn to read and write English, without attracting the attention of his adoring fans. Sr. Bertrille enlists the aid of casino owner Carlos in helping the timid toreador keep his Read More

The Flying Nun: Papa Carlos

Synopsis: Back during the Korean War, Carlos Ramirez adopted a 2-year-old orphan girl named Kim, whom he has supported, sight unseen, ever since. Now it is 1970: Kim (Mike Kayama) is 19 years old, a stunning beauty-and intent upon marrying Carlos! Once again, it's Sr. Bertrille to the rescue. Written by Read More

Mission: Impossible: Chico

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Fernando Lamas

Synopsis: A microfilmed list of undercover narcotics agents has been stolen and divided into two halves, with each half in the possession of a different drug kingpin. Though bitter enemies, Ramon (Fernando Lamas) and Arturo Sandoval (Percy Rodriguez) are poised to forget their differences so that the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Phantoms

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Luther Adler

Synopsis: Luther Adler guest stars as Leo Vorka, an aging European dictator who intends to purge his country of all young artists and intellectuals. The IMF hopes to topple Vorka from power and install his friendlier deputy Bartzin (Ben Astar) in his place. The mission: To drive Vorka insane and convince Read More

The Flying Nun: A Ticket for Bertrille

Synopsis: This time out, Sr. Bertrille is outraged over a parking ticket. No, she didn't technically receive the ticket, but her inbred sense of justice and equality dictates that nuns should not be granted special privileges. Insisting upon being arrested and locked up in jail, the militant nun causes a Read More