Hal SmithFilmography

Beauty and the Beast

Actors: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury, Richard White, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Beauty and the Beast is widely considered the best animated Disney feature of the studio's 1980s/1990s renewal of the form. Based on the classic French fairy tale, it tells the story of Belle (voiced by Paige O'Hara), an intelligent young woman scorned by her townspeople for being a bookworm Read More

Bad Cat

Actors: Bart Braverman, Hal Smith, Tress MacNeille, Bobby Ellerbee, Alan Young

Synopsis: Based on a popular brace of children's books, the 30-minute cartoon Bad Cat was originally telecast as an episode of the ABC Weekend Special anthology. Recognized as the "King of Fulton Street," Bad Cat is not really all that terrible, despite his name and reputation. In fact, when his human Read More

Switched at Birth

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Brian Kerwin, Ed Asner, John M. Jackson, Lois Smith

Synopsis: The two-part, four-hour TV movie Switched at Birth is based on an actual event which began unfolding in Wauchula, Florida in 1978. Brian Kerwin and Judith Hoag play the new parents of a baby girl; a few days later, another couple, played by John M. Jackson and Bonnie Bedelia, have a baby at the Read More

18 Again!

Actors: George Burns, Charlie Schlatter, Tony Roberts, Anita Morris, Miriam Flynn

Synopsis: On his 81st birthday, grandpa George Burns, bemoans the fact that he's wasted his life, and wishes he had it to do all over again. He gets his wish when he and his 18-year-old grandson Charles Schlatter are involved in an auto accident. When he awakens, Burns' personality has been transferred to Read More

An American Tail

Actors: Cathianne Blore, Dom DeLuise, John Finnegan, Philip Glasser, Amy Green

Synopsis: An American Tail is a beautifully rendered animated flim that tells an overly familiar story in terms children can easily understand. Fievel Mousekewitz and his family of Russian-Jewish mice escape from their homeland in the late 1800s, boarding a boat headed toward America to evade the Czarist Read More

Return to Mayberry

Actors: Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Jim Nabors, Ron Howard, Howard Morris

Synopsis: Inspired by the success of previous TV sitcom "reunion" films, Return to Mayberry debuted on April 13, 1986. Eleven of the original cast members of the classic Andy Griffith Show were reunited in this marvelous blast from the past. The plot finds former sheriff Andy Taylor (Griffith, of course) Read More

The Adventures of an American Rabbit

Actors: Bob Arbogast, Pat Freley, Barry J. Gordon, Lew Horn

Synopsis: In an entertaining animated children's film for the youngest moppets only (no adult double takes here) a red, white, and blue rabbit miraculously appears to save the day like "Superhare." When not zooming about on roller skates, his special powers lie hidden in a mild-mannered alter ego named Rob Read More

Night Court: Dan's Escort

Synopsis: To fatten his bank account, Dan (John Larroquette) moonlights as a professional escort for wealthy women. One of his clients (Barbara Cason) is so enraptured by Dan that she insists he accompany her home--and thence to her bedroom! Meanwhile, Harry (Harry Anderson) tries to help out when the Read More

Here Come the Littles

Actors: Jimmy E. Keegan, Bettina Bush, Gregg Berger

Synopsis: In this animated film, the Littles--a family of half-man, half-mouse creatures living in the walls of human houses--aid a young boy whose parents have vanished. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Undercover Dukes, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Bo (John Schneider) and Luke (Tom Wopat), still operating undercover for the Feds, continue to race the General Lee under the banner of crooked promoter J.J. Carver (Ramon Bieri). The good news is that the Duke boys have managed to gather enough evidence to Read More

Mickey's Christmas Carol

Little House on the Prairie: He Was Only Twelve, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, James (Jason Bateman) heads to the Sleepy Eye bank to make a deposit. The bank is robbed and James is shot, leaving him comatose. Seething with grief and rage, James' adoptive father, Charles (Michael Landon), persuades his friend Mr. Edwards (Victor French Read More

Pink at First Sight

Actors: Frank Welker, Weaver Copeland, Brian Cummings, Marilyn Schreffler, Hal Smith

Yogi's First Christmas

Synopsis: When Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo's winter hibernation is disturbed by nearby freeway construction, the two join up with a group of friends to ensure the safety of Jellystone Lodge and celebrate the bears' first Christmas awake. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: R.I.P. Henry Flatt

Synopsis: The latest graft-ridden scheme hatched by Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) involves plowing up a veteran's cemetery in order to build a new highway. Unfortunately, this would reveal that the grave supposedly occupied by the late con artist Henry Flatt is empty--mainly because Flatt (played by Hal Smith Read More

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

Actors: Sterling Holloway

Synopsis: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is an hour-long compendium of the three Disney "Winnie" animated short subjects produced between 1966 and 1974. Sterling Holloway provides the voice of A.A. Milne's whimsical pooh-bear in all three cartoons, the first two of which are directed by Wolfgang Reithermann Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Trail of the Serpent

Synopsis: A vicious street gang robs a neighborhood store, kills a cop, and takes Detective Stone (Karl Malden). As the police surround the store, the thugs attempt to strike a bargain: They will let Stone go in exchange for the freedom of Buddy Sims (Cal Bellini), their imprisoned leader. This episode was Read More

Oklahoma Crude

Actors: George C. Scott, Faye Dunaway, John Mills, Jack Palance, William Lucking

Synopsis: Taciturn Faye Dunaway insists upon drilling for oil in her small, unpromising patch of Oklahoma land. Drifter George C. Scott signs on to work the derrick, but only after Dunaway, who for unspecified reasons hates all men, warns him to stay at arm's length. Jack Palance, the strong-arm Read More

Million Dollar Duck

Actors: Sandy Duncan, Dean Jones, Lee Montgomery, Joe Flynn, Tony Roberts

Synopsis: In $1,000,000 Duck, the titular duck is exposed to radiation and begins laying golden eggs, which brings it under the scrutiny of the treasury department, the FBI, and a gang of comic-opera crooks. The cast includes Disney perennials Dean Jones and Joe Flynn, with Sandy Duncan taking over the part Read More

Green Acres: Star Witness

Actors: Milton Selzer, Al Lewis, Hal Smith, David Renard, Barney Elmore

Synopsis: While staying with Oliver and Lisa Douglas (Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor), Arnold the pig witnesses a bank robbery. Normally, he'd be able to "squeal" to the cops concerning the crooks' identity -- but alas, Arnold is suffering from laryngitis. Meanwhile, holdup men Danny (Milton Selzer) and Charlie (Al Lewis Read More

Green Acres: The Cow Killer

Actors: Hal Smith, Allan Melvin, Al Lanti

Synopsis: This week, the bane of gentleman farmer Oliver Douglas' existence is Irene, a local cow who has been trampling his crops. In high dudgeon, Oliver (Eddie Albert) declares that he must get rid of Irene. As usual, wife Lisa (Eva Gabor) misinterprets Oliver's words and intentions, and soon has Read More

Santa and the Three Bears

Actors: Hal Smith, Jean Vander Pyl, Annette Ferra, Bobby Riha

Synopsis: This animated color feature finds a mother and her two young cubs eagerly waiting for Santa Claus to visit them in Yellowstone National Park. A kindly forest ranger who first told them about the jolly old elf is persuaded to impersonate Santa, and the young bears help him save the holiday. The Read More

Green Acres: The Case of the Hooterville Refund Fraud

Actors: Jay Jostyn, Hal Smith, Tom Lowell, Robert S. Carson

Synopsis: This episode begins at the headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service, where the agents take time from bleeding taxpayers dry to recall the case of the "Hooterville Refund Fraud." The whole mess was inadvertently caused by Oliver Douglas (Eddie Albert), who had encouraged his fellow farmers to Read More

Shinbone Alley

Actors: Eddie Bracken, Carol Channing

Synopsis: Based on a Broadway musical by Mel Brooks and Joe Darion, the animated feature Shinbone Alley is an adaptation of the Don Marquis stories. The film is about a love-struck cockroach named Archy (voiced by Eddie Bracken) and the object of his affections, a carefree cat named Mehitabel (Carol Channing Read More

Green Acres: Oliver's Double

Actors: Eddie Albert, Chanin Hale, William Sylvester, Hal Smith, Robert Ruth

Synopsis: Eddie Albert plays a dual role in this episode, as gentleman farmer Oliver Douglas, and Oliver's exact double, a bank robber named Charlie. When Charlie checks into a local hotel with his sexy gun moll Blanche (Chanin Hale), the neighbors are convinced that Oliver is cheating on his wife Lisa (Eva Gabor Read More

Green Acres: The Youth Center

Actors: Hal Smith

Synopsis: The town of Hooterville is gripped with melancholy when its population drops from a bustling 68 to a pitiful 46. It appears that, while there are plenty of middle-agers and oldsters in town, the "kids" are steering clear of the place. Oliver Douglas (Eddie Albert) expansively suggests that Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Great Race

Synopsis: Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) may have finally gone too far when he arranges a race between the Hooterville Cannonball and a jitney bus (a glorified taxi). If Joe loses, he also loses the Shady Rest--and even worse, he will be forced to work as a bellboy at the Pixley Hotel. Hal Smith,better known as Read More

Adam-12: Log 51: A Jumper-Code Two

Synopsis: In his efforts to talk a man out of committing suicide, Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) commits a serious breach of police protocol, whereupon Sgt. MacDonald (William Boyett) rakes the veteran patrolman over the coals. In a less traumatic moment, a woman (Katherine Squire) insists that Malloy Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Lady Doctor

Synopsis: June Lockhart makes her first series appearance as Dr. Janet Craig, the new replacement for Hooterville's Doc Stuart (Regis Toomey). Upon discovering that the town now has a female MD, the menfolk are none too pleased about it--nor are their jealous womenfolk! Although Bea Benaderet) is still Read More

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day

Synopsis: Winnie The Pooh & the Blustery Day was the second Disney animated featurette based on characters created by A. A. Milne. It was released December 20, 1968, two years and ten months after the first Disney "Pooh Corner" tales, Winnie the Pooh & the Honey Tree. As in the earlier film, Sterling Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Swing Shift

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: In order to destroy a German ammunition factory, Hogan and his men go undercover as workers in the target factory. Their plans to blow up the place hit a snag when, through a fluke, Newkirk is drafted into the German army. Hal Smith, best known for his portrayal of town drunk Otis Campbell on The Read More

The Lucy Show: Main Street U.S.A.

Actors: Mel Tormé, John Bubbles, Paul Winchell, Barry Kelley, Burt Mustin

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Lucy (Lucille Ball) turns activist to save the small town of Bancroft, which is slated to be demolished to make room for a new freeway. With sign in hand and slogans in her mouth, Lucy leads the citizens in a protest, blissfully unaware (at first) that her Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Puts Main Street on the Map

Actors: Mel Tormé, John Bubbles, Dan Rowan, Paul Winchell, Burt Mustin

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, a reluctant Mooney (Gale Gordon) has joined Lucy (Lucille Ball) and her songwriter friend Mel Tinker (Mel Torme) in their efforts to save the small town of Bancroft from being demolished to make room for a new freeway. In hopes of bringing Bancroft's plight Read More

Peter Potamus & Pals in Hippo to Go!

Synopsis: This animated compilation video is comprised of episodes from several popular Hannah-Barbera cartoons. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Peter Potamus & Pals in Rib-Ticklin' Travels

Synopsis: This animated compilation video is comprised of episodes from several popular Hannah-Barbera cartoons. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Green Acres: Lisa Bakes a Cake

Synopsis: The Hooterville telephone directory (two full pages this year!) comes out, and Oliver (Eddie Albert) is upset that Lisa (Eva Gabor) has listed him as "Attorney at Law." Oliver is worried that he will receive so many calls for his services that he'll never get his farm chores done -- and remember Read More

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

Actors: Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond, Dick Sargent, Skip Homeier

Synopsis: Luther Heggs (Don Knotts) is a typesetter at a newspaper who longs for a chance to be a reporter. Editor Beckett (Dick Sargent) gives Luther his big break and assigns him to spend the night in a house generally considered to be haunted. The situation allows a broad canvas for Knotts to react to Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Otis the Artist

Actors: Jack Burns

Synopsis: Hoping to succeed where his predecessor Barney had failed, Deputy Warren Ferguson tries to reform town drunk Otis Campbell. Reasoning that Otis needs a hobby, Warren channels the old tosspot into mosaic art. As it turns out, however, Otis does his best artwork when he's three sheets to the wind! Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Otis the Deputy

Actors: Hal Smith, Jack Dodson, Charles Dierkop

Synopsis: Andy is captured and held hostage by a gang of bank robbers. Emergency deputies Howard and Otis go to the rescue, but Howard also falls into the gang's clutches. Thus, it is up to Otis to rescue his two comrades-a daunting task, considering the fact that Otis is, as usual, drunk as a skunk. Joe Read More

The Flintstones: Fred's Flying Lesson

Synopsis: Winning some free flying lessons in a raffle, Fred begins entertaining dreams of becoming an airline pilot. However, he proves to be a less than apt pupil, and it isn't long before pretty female instructor Kitty Rockhawk has given up on teaching Fred how to fly. Even so, by episode's end is up to Read More

The Flintstones: Deep in the Heart of Texarock

Synopsis: In the second of two consecutive "western" episodes, Fred and Barney comes to the rescue of Fred's wealthy Uncle Tex, who is being plagued by infamous cowasaurus rustler Billy the Kidder. Reasoning that the only way to capture Billy is to pose as a cowasaurus, our two heroes don the required Read More

The Flintstones: Circus Business

Synopsis: Once again, Fred falls for a get-rich-quick scheme--in this instance, the purchase of a carnival. Any hopes Fred had for show-business success are dashed when all of the acts quit because they haven't been paid in months. But the show must go on, so Fred, Barney, Wilma, Betty, and even Pebbles and Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Curse of Chester W. Farnsworth

Synopsis: Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) is convinced that the Shady Rest is haunted by the ghost of Chester W. Farnsworth, who stayed at the hotel 50 years before, then vanished mysteriously. This puts Joe in a bit of a bind: Much as he'd like to exploit the ghost as a tourist attraction, he also feels he must Read More

The Great Race

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: Tony Curtis stars as The Great Leslie, a hero among heroes whose purity of heart is manifested by his spotlessly white wardrobe. Leslie's great rival, played by Jack Lemmon, is Professor Fate, a scowling, mustachioed, top-hatted, black-garbed villain. Long envious of Leslie's record-setting Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Arrest of the Fun Girls

Actors: Aneta Corsaut, Betty Lynn

Synopsis: Daphne and Skippy (Jean Carson and Joyce Jameson), those two "fun girls" from Mount Pilot, are back for more mischief in Mayberry. The girls deliberately get arrested for speeding so that they can spend all their time with those handsome hunks Andy and Barney. Though the boys manfully resist the Read More

Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree

Synopsis: "Bears love honey and I'm a Pooh bear," sings Winnie the Pooh setting the stage for the goings-on in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, the first of four Disney featurettes based upon the A.A. Milne characters. Indeed, Pooh has rather an insatiable desire for honey, and when he spies a group of Read More

The Ugly Dachshund

Actors: Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Charlie Ruggles, Kelly Thordsen, Parley Baer

Synopsis: Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette star in this Walt Disney family comedy as Mark and Fran Garrison, a dog-loving couple with different tastes in canines. When their dachshund gives birth to puppies, kindly veterinarian Dr. Pruitt (Charlie Ruggles) convinces Mark to take a Great Dane puppy home with Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Rehabilitation of Otis

Actors: Hal Smith, Howard McNear, Frank Cady

Synopsis: When all his efforts to reform town drunk Otis Campbell fail, Barney orders Otis to do all his future drinking in Mount Pilot. Before long, however, Barney and Andy realize that they miss old Otis. Utilizing Barney's "psychological therapy" ploy, Andy tries to lure everyone's favorite tosspot back Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Hot Rod Otis

Actors: Hal Smith

Synopsis: Andy and Barney go into full panic mode when town drunk Otis Campbell purchases a car. Inasmuch as Otis cannot even walk in a straight line, much less drive in one, the boys desperately try to convince him to sell his old beater before disaster strikes. This episode originally aired on February Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Aunt Bee the Crusader

Actors: Charles Lane

Synopsis: Profoundly moved by the hard-luck story of Farmer Frisbee (Charles Lane), Aunt Bee organizes a protest group to prevent Frisbee's eviction so that the county can build a new highway. The canny Frisbee has neglected to inform Bee that he is merely trying to protect the moonshine still on his Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Prisoner of Love

Actors: Susan Oliver, Hal Smith

Synopsis: The Mayberry jail plays host to Angela Carroll (Susan Oliver), a suspected jewel thief. Turning on the charm, Angela manages to wrap both Andy and Barney around her little finger. Andy is not so bedazzled that he hasn't caught on to the delectable Ms. Carroll's ulterior motives. This was one of Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Goodbye, Sheriff Taylor

Synopsis: Andy heads to Raleigh, there to interview for a job as that city's sheriff. Assuming that he will be Andy's successor, Barney casts about for a new deputy, but the only candidates turn out to be dimwitted mechanic Goober Pyle, town drunk Otis Campbell and octogenarian Judd (Burt Mustin). By the Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Otis Sues the County

Actors: Hal Smith, Howard McNear, Jay Novello

Synopsis: Leaving his usual jail cell after sobering up from his weekly bender, Otis Campbell trips and falls. Though the injury is minor, Barney insists that Otis sign all manner of documents absolving the county of any blame. This insignificant incident mushrooms into a major crisis when Otis falls into Read More

The Flintstones: Christmas Flintstone

Synopsis: To earn extra money during the Christmas season, Fred signs up as a department store Santa at Macyrock. With typical Flintstonian logic, this leads to Fred being chosen to substitute for the genuine Santa (who is suffering from a bad cold) and delivering presents throughout the world on Christmas Read More

The Flintstones: Abobe Dick

Synopsis: One suspects that Herman Melville was not consulted when the producers of this episode came up with the legendary "whaleasaurus" Adobe Dick. While on a lodge fishing trip aboard the HMS Bountystone, Fred and Barney spot the Great White Whale, but can't get anyone to believe them. Subsequently, the Read More

The Flintstones: Son of Rockzilla

Synopsis: The producers of the new horror epic "Son of Rockzilla" decide to hire someone to promote the film during its Bedrock premiere. The someone chosen is Fred, who dutifully dons a "Finkasaurus" outfit and wanders around town. The sight of Fred as a monster is terrifying to some, ridiculous to Read More

My Favorite Martian: If You Can't Lick 'Em

Synopsis: A neighborhood kid named Horace (Dennis Rush) latches onto Uncle Martin (Ray Walston) in peace after seeing antennae sprouting from Martin's head. Thinking that the receiving device is just a toy, Dennis creates his own pair--thus creating a nationwide fad, with the help of toy manufacturer Mr. Read More

The Flintstones: A Haunted House Is Not a Home

Synopsis: Fred inherits a house from his late millionaire uncle, J. Giggles Flintstone. There's only one condition: Fred must spend a night in the house, which is rumored to be haunted. Not surprisingly, the Flintstones and the Rubbles are kept awake all night by a wide variety of scary and spooky Read More

Hey There, It's Yogi Bear

Synopsis: Daws Butler provides the voice once again for the wacky titular bear. Between bouts of wit with Ranger Smith, Yogi juggles a little romance with Cindy Bear. Because of her fondness for Yogi, Cindy finds herself the victim of an evil circus impresario. He has her performing dangerous feats on a Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Becomes a Father

Actors: Hal Smith, George Neise, Cliff Norton

Synopsis: Widow Lucy (Lucille Ball) volunteers to accompany her boy Jerry (Jimmy Garrett) on a father-son camping trip. This being a mid-1960s sitcom, the other fathers are averse to having a woman along for the ride. Thus, when Lucy insists upon being treated as "one of the guys", the men capriciously take Read More

The Flintstones: Room for Two

Synopsis: It was a dark day when Barney offered to help Fred add a room to the Flintstones' house. Not long afterward, Fred discovers that he lost the title of Water Buffalo of the Year by one single vote--Barney's. The ensuing feud escalates when Barney insists that part of the new room is on his property. Read More

The Flintstones: Little Bamm-Bamm

Synopsis: As they watch their neighbors Fred and Wilma lavish affection on newborn daughter Pebbles, Barney and Betty wish that they could have a child of their own--in fact, they wish upon a falling star, and you know what THAT means! The next morning a baby is left on the Rubbles' doorstep, a child so Read More

The Flintstones: Once Upon a Coward

Synopsis: When a masked holdup man sneaks up behind Fred and orders him to take it "nice and slow" while he steals his wallet, Fred is so galvanized that he can't move a muscle! Although everyone tells him that he did the right thing by not challenging the crook, Fred can't shake the notion that he's a Read More

The Flintstones: Dino Disappears

Synopsis: Although it is the first anniversary of the day that the Flintstones adopted Dino as their pet, Fred and Wilma forget all about the occasion as they continue to lavish affection upon their newborn baby Pebbles. Heartbroken, Dino runs away from home, leading Fred and Barney on a not-so-merry chase. Read More

The Flintstones: Peek-A-Boo Camera

Synopsis: Attending a bachelor party for a lodge buddy, Fred and Barney get so swept up in the spirit of things that they spend the night dancing with lampshades on their heads and cavorting (harmlessly) with a bevy of chorus girls. What the boys don't know is that their shenangians are being filmed by the Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: You'll Be the Death of Me

Actors: Robert Loggia, Pilar Seurat, Carmen Phillips, Kathleen Freeman, Sondra Kerr

Synopsis: Betty Rose (Carmen Phillips) is ticked off when her boyfriend, Dandy Arthur (Robert Loggia), returns from military service with a young wife named Mieko (Pilar Seurat) in tow. After "helpfully" warning Mieko that Dandy has a homicidal streak, Betty confronts her ex-beau, resulting in a violent Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Citizen's Arrest

Synopsis: Gomer is outraged when Barney, dressed in civilian clothes, gives him a ticket for making a U-turn. Barney imperiously declares that he is within his rights to make a citizen's arrest. When Barney makes the same illegal traffic maneuver, it is Gomer's turn to shout "Citizen's array-est! Citizen's Read More

Son of Flubber

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk

Synopsis: Son of Flubber represented the first time that Walt Disney ever attempted a theatrical feature sequel: in this case, the earlier film was the 1961 moneyspinner The Absent-Minded Professor. While Flubber is more formula-bound than Professor, it proved an instant audience-pleaser, and a hit to the Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Dogs, Dogs, Dogs

Actors: Hal Smith, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: Andy and Barney steel themselves for the impending arrival of State Investigator Somerset (Robert Cornthwaite), a man notorious for his intolerance of any deviation from rules and regulations. It is Andy's hope that Somerset will allocate extra funds to keep the Mayberry courthouse afloat. Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Haunted House

Actors: Hal Smith

Synopsis: Opie loses his baseball on the grounds of the foreboding Rimshaw mansion, which is rumored to be haunted. Pooh-poohing this, Barney and Gomer gallantly offer to retrieve the ball, only to be frightened away by what seems to be a veritable army of spooks and goblins. It is up to Andy to uncover the Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: High Noon in Mayberry

Actors: Leo Gordon

Synopsis: Andy learns to his chagrin that ex-convict Luke Comstock (Leo Gordon) is coming back to Mayberry. Inasmuch as Andy was responsible for sending Luke to jail, everyone in town fears the worst-none more so than Barney, who organizes local lunkheads Gomer Pyle and Billy Ray Belfast (Dub Taylor) into a Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Loaded Goat

Actors: Hal Smith, Parley Baer

Synopsis: An explosive situation develops when Cy Hudgins' pet goat Jimmy eats a box full of dynamite. The nervous Mayberryites spend the rest of the day gingerly tiptoeing around the goat, terrified that the animal will blow up "real good" at any moment. In the end, it is up to Barney to lead Jimmy out of Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Barney and the Governor

Actors: Carl Benton Reid, Parley Baer, Hal Smith

Synopsis: Deputy Barney tickets the Governor's car for illegal parking-then thinks he's in for it when the governor himself prepares to visit Mayberry. Actually, the state's top executive is coming to congratulate Barney for doing his duty without showing any sort of favoritism. Alas, the nervous Barney is Read More

The Flintstones: Divided We Sail

Synopsis: Barney wins a houseboat on the TV game show "The Price is Priced" (a brilliant takeoff of The Price is Right, right down to the oohing-and-aahing studio audience). Because Fred bankrolled Barney's TV appearance, he figures that the houseboat is partly his. The boys are able to compromise on the Read More

The Flintstones: Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Synopsis: Fred umpires a PeeWee League baseball game between the Bedrock Giants and the Grittsburg Pyrites. During the game he is spotted by a big-league scout who sense professional potential in our hero. But Fred's new career may be nipped in the bud when the parents of the ballplayers (including his boss Read More

The Flintstones: Trouble-In-Law

Synopsis: Veteran character actress Verna Felton supplies the voice of Mrs. Slaghoople, the overbearing mother of stone-age hausfrau Wilma Flintstone. Having sold her own house, Mrs. S moves in with daughter Wilma and son-in-law Fred, who complains that the event is comparable to "Grant taking Richmond" Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Shapely Shadow

Synopsis: Prior to carrying out the orders of her boss Morley Thielman (George Neise) by placing a briefcase containing $100,000 in a train station locker, Janice Wainwright (Elaine Devry) stops at the office of Perry Mason (Raymond Burr), informing the lawyer that she thinks Thielman is being blackmailed. Read More

The Flintstones: A Star Is Almost Born

Synopsis: For the second time in Flintstones history, a Hollyrock movie producer sees star potential in cave-wife Wilma Flintstone. Galvanized by the prospect of having a movie queen in the family, Fred appoints himself Wilma's manager, then proceeds to get into a deep financial hole as he pays for singing Read More

The Flintstones: The Twitch

Synopsis: In this spoof of the 1960s dance craze "The Twist", pop singer Rock Roll comes to town to perform his newest hit tune, "The Bedrock Twitch." Thanks to a chance meeting, Fred brags about being to be close pals with Rock Roll. The trouble begins when Fred promises to talk the singer into performing Read More

The Flintstones: The Buffalo Convention

Synopsis: Fans of the Laurel&Hardy comedy Sons of the Desert should enjoy this sublimely derivative episode, in which Fred and Barney hope to attend a three-day lodge convention at Frantic City. Naturally, Wilma and Betty must be kept in the dark about this, so one of the boys' friends, a plumber, poses as Read More

The Three Stooges Meet Hercules

Actors: Vicki Trickett, Quinn K. Redeker, George Neise

Synopsis: Larry, Moe and Curly Joe work in a pharmacy where a young professor works on a time machine. When the machine is sabotaged by foil Ralph Dimsal (George N. Neise), the Three Stooges, the professor and beautiful Diane (Vicki Trickett) are transported back in time to ancient Greece. The group lands Read More

The Flintstones: Dino Goes Hollyrock

Synopsis: Season Three of The Flintstones begins with an episode focusing on Dino, the pet dinosaur of Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Thanks to a nationwide contest, Dino lands a role on the popular animal series "The Adventures of Sassie" (which is, of course, a takeoff of Lassie) at Screen Rocks Studios. Read More

The Flintstones: Invisible Barney

Synopsis: Hoping to cure Barney's hiccups, Fred administers a dose of the new soft drink that he has invented in his garage. However, the drink has a curious effect on Barney--namely, it renders him invisible! The rest of the episode finds Fred trying to cover up his "lab mistake", with Barney's disembodied Read More

The Flintstones: Bowling Ballet

Synopsis: Slated to bowl for his lodge in a upcoming tournament against the Rockland Rocket, Fred is having trouble living up to his potential--in fact, he's become downright inept with a bowling ball. In order to bring back his "old form", Fred secretly signs up for ballet lessons at the Bedrock Dance Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Wedding Bells for Aunt Bee

Actors: Fred E. Sherman, Hal Smith

Synopsis: Aunt Bee wonders why her widowed nephew Andy has never remarried-until her cousin Clara Johnson "helpfully" tells her that Andy will never marry as long as Bee herself remains unattached. Feeling like a fifth wheel, Bee tries to persuade Andy that she doesn't need his support by inventing an Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Aunt Bee the Warden

Actors: Mary Lansing

Synopsis: The moonshining Gordon boys (Paul Bakanas, Orville Sherman) threaten dire consequences for town drunk Otis Campbell, whom they hold responsible for their arrest. As a result, it isn't safe for Otis to occupy his usual cell after his weekly boozefest. Thinking quickly, Andy allows Otis to serve out Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Bailey's Bad Boy

Actors: Bill Bixby

Synopsis: Bill Bixby guest-stars as the wealthy and spoiled-rotten Ronald Bailey. Arrested for sideswiping a produce truck with his expensive sportscar, young Bailey is tossed into the Mayberry jail by Andy and Barney. Far from chastened by his experience, the arrogant Ronald fully expects his influential Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Deputy Otis

Actors: Hal Smith, Stanley Adams, Amzie Strickland

Synopsis: Envious of his ostensibly successful brother Ralph (Stanley Adams), town drunk Otis Campbell has for several years claimed to be Andy Taylor's deputy in his correspondence with his brother. When Ralph shows up in Mayberry, Andy agrees to help Otis keep up his "lawman" charade. It is up to the Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Cousin Virgil

Actors: Michael J. Pollard

Synopsis: A pre-Bonnie and Clyde Michael J. Pollard guest-stars as Barney's cousin Virgil, newly arrived from New Jersey. Not the brightest bulb in the basket, Virgil can't seem to do anything right, messing up even the smallest and easiest of chores. Andy discovers that Virgil has a latent talent which Read More

The Flintstones: In the Dough

Synopsis: Having entered a baking contest, Betty and Wilma create the "Upside Down Flint-Rubble Double Bubble Cake". Their concoction lands the girls a spot in a big TV bake-off, but on the eve of the event, both Wilma and Betty come down with the measles. At this point, Fred and Barney offer to save the Read More

The Flintstones: The Good Scout

Synopsis: Contemptuous Fred doesn't think that Barney knows how to be a good scoutmaster, so he offers to take charge of the neighborhood cave-scout troop. Not surprisingly, disaster ensues, culminating with a remarkably well-animated (for Hanna-Barbera!) flood scene. Incidentally, all of the voices of the Read More

The Flintstones: Social Climbers

Synopsis: Worried that their husband will embarrass them at the Ambassador's Reception, Wilma and Betty order Fred and Barney to attend a charm school. Though the boys do their best, they soon reveal themselves to be as uncouth as ever during the reception. Fortunately, Fred and Barney win over the Upper Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Quiet Sam

Actors: William Schallert

Synopsis: Deputy Barney grows suspicious of secretive farmer Sam Becker (William Schallert), convincing himself that the truculent Sam is up to no good. Sheriff Andy eventually learns that Becker is simply nervous over the prospect of becoming a father. The episode reaches a rousing climax as Andy is Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Bringing up Opie

Synopsis: Season One of The Andy Griffith Show came to a close on May 22, 1961, with the episode titled "Bringing Up Opie." Aunt Bee decides that Opie shouldn't be spending so much time hanging around the town jail where his sheriff father Andy works. Her opinion seems to be confirmed when Opie ends up Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Sheriff Barney

Actors: Howard McNear

Synopsis: In need of a new sheriff, the nearby town of Greendale offers the job to deputy Barney, on the basis of a newspaper story praising the efficiency of the two-man Mayberry police department. Realizing that Barney would be in way over his head, Andy contrives to make himself scarce so that Barney can Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Crime-free Mayberry

Actors: Dick Elliott

Synopsis: The citizens of Mayberry are duly impressed when an FBI man and a press photographer arrive in town to celebrate Sheriff Andy for making Mayberry the most crime-free city in the county. Andy is likewise impressed-until he notices that the FBI agent allows himself to be photographed. Sure enough Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Andy Saves Barney's Morale

Actors: Hal Smith

Synopsis: In Andy's absence, deputy Barney takes over as acting sheriff. By the time Andy returns, by-the-book Barney has jailed practically everyone in Mayberry-including Aunt Bee. Humiliated when Andy releases the outraged prisoners, Barney tenders his resignation. It is up to Andy to restore Barney's Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Alcohol and Old Lace

Actors: Howard McNear

Synopsis: Spinsters Jennifer and Clarabelle Morrison (Charity Grace and Gladys Hurlbut), Mayberry's self-appointed moral arbiters, take it upon themselves to impose their own brand of Prohibition on the town. With Barney's assistance, the Morrison sisters begin rounding up every moonshiner in the county. Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Plaque for Mayberry

Actors: Hal Smith

Synopsis: The Colonial Dames of America breeze into Mayberry, searching for the descendant of a celebrated hero of the Revolutionary War. Everyone in town is convinced that he or she is the person who will receive the coveted plaques from the C.D.A. Imagine everyone's shock and dismay when the descendant Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Andy and the Gentleman Crook

Actors: Dan Tobin

Synopsis: Deputy Barney's incessant complaints that nothing exciting ever happens in Mayberry are temporarily put to rest when celebrated criminal Gentleman Dan Caldwell (Dan Tobin) is escorted into the town jail. Everyone in Mayberry is charmed and thrilled by Gentleman Dan-none more so than Barney, who Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Inspector

Actors: Hal Smith, Tod Andrews

Synopsis: Worried about an impending visit from the state prison inspector, deputy Barney grouses over the fact that the Mayberry jail looks more like a luxury hotel room than an institution of incarceration. Andy pooh-poohs Barney's trepidations, explaining that the inspector is an old friend of his. Alas Read More

The Flintstones: Fred Flintstone: Before and After

Synopsis: Fred is hired to appear in a TV commercial, only to discover that he's been cast as the "before" in a before-and-after ad for the Fat Off Reducing Method. To avoid Fred's wrath, the sponsor offers to pay him a thousand dollars if he can slim down to a svelt 200 pounds for their next campaign. Read More

The Flintstones: Droop-a-long Flintstone

Synopsis: Fred's Cousin Tumbleweed invites the Flintstones and the Rubbles to "ranch-sit" for him at his huge western spread. While exploring the ranch, Fred and Barney suddenly spot a band of Indians--and, terrified, they run back to their wives to announce that they're being attacked. Little do our heroes Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Trial

Synopsis: Wealthy Morgan Gibbs (Robert F. Simon) hires Paladin (Richard Boone) to locate Gibbs' son David (Bud Slater), a fugitive from justice, and bring him back alive. Shortly thereafter, Paladin returns with David's dead body in tow. Accused of murdering the boy in order to collect a $500 body, Paladin Read More

The Flintstones: The Drive-in

Synopsis: Tired of being wage slaves, Fred and Barney decide to purchase a diner. Of course, they must keep this transaction a secret from wives Wilma and Betty, which proves difficult when a pair of glamorous car-hops (who AREN'T named "Charlie" and "Irving") show up at the Flintstones' front door. This Read More

The Apartment

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Edie Adams, David Lewis

Synopsis: Widely regarded as a comedy in 1960, The Apartment seems more melancholy with each passing year. Jack Lemmon plays C.C. Baxter, a go-getting office worker who loans his tiny apartment to his philandering superiors for their romantic trysts. He runs into trouble when he finds himself sharing a Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Treacherous Toupee

Synopsis: Missing for two years and presumed dead, hard-hearted businessman Hartley Bassett (Thomas B. Henry) suddenly returns and begins make everyone's life miserable all over again, especially his wife Sybil (Peggy Converse). After he fires his heir apparent Peter Dawson (Philip Ober), Bassett is Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Marshal's Boy

Synopsis: Reluctant to bring in his own son Billy (Andrew Prine) on a murder charge, a town marshal (Ken Lynch) hires Paladin (Richard Boone) to do the job. Venturing into treacherous mountain country, Paladin seeks out Billy in hopes of persuading the young man into surrending peacefully and standing Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Manhunt

Actors: Frank Gerstle

Synopsis: When a notorious criminal escapes from the state prison, Mayberry sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) and his deputy, Barney Fife (Don Knotts), offer their assistance in tracking down the fugitive. Though the state troopers initially laugh off the bucolic Andy and Barney (especially after Barney Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Ellie for Council

Actors: Elinor Donahue

Synopsis: Sheriff Andy's male chauvinism boils over when his girlfriend Ellie Walker decides to run for town council-the first woman ever to do so. As the campaigning proceeds, Andy and Barney do everything they can to throw roadblocks in Ellie's political career. The Sheriff realizes the error of his ways Read More

The Andy Griffith Show [TV Series]

Actors: Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Ronny Howard, Frances Bavier, Howard McNear

Synopsis: The pilot for the long-running CBS sitcom The Andy Griffith Show was seen on February 15, 1960, as an episode of The Danny Thomas Show, "Danny Meets Andy Griffith." As originally conceived, Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) was not only the sheriff of the sleepy North Carolina town of Mayberry, but he Read More

The Flintstones: At the Races

Synopsis: Fred and Barney want to buy Boulder Dan's Billiard Parlor, but first they must come up with an excuse as to why Fred hasn't come home with his paycheck. It takes some doing, but the boys manage to convince Wilma that Fred was the victim of a robbery. This done, our heroes head off to the local Read More

Leave It to Beaver: Beaver Won't Eat

Actors: Ken Osmond, Netta Packer, Bea Silvern, Hal Smith

Synopsis: Season four of Leave It to Beaver begins as Beaver (Jerry Mathers) refuses to eat the Brussels sprouts his mom June (Barbara Billingsley) has served him. Pleading, cajoling, and threatening do not work -- Beaver will not eat the vegetable no matter what his parents do to him. Anxious to defuse the Read More

Bonanza: The Magnificent Adah

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Ruth Roman

Synopsis: Legendary stage actress Adah Isaacs Menken (Ruth Roman) brings her celebrated Mazeppa troupe to Virginia City. Ben Cartwright welcomes the opportunity to renew his longstanding friendship with the "lady in pink tights." As for Ben's sons Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe, they become convinced that Adah Read More

Hot Car Girl

Actors: Richard Bakalyan, June Kenney, John Brinkley, Robert Knapp, Jana Lund

Synopsis: In this violent drama, a young juvenile delinquent gets into more trouble when he gets involved with a gang that steals auto parts and resells them on the black market to pay for their beer parties. It looks as if he might actually turn his life around after he meets a good-hearted woman, when he Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Great Mojave Chase

Synopsis: Crooked "sportsman" Billy Joe Kane (Lawrence Dobkin) is promoting a race in the Mojave desert, in which he is wagering that his posse will be able to track down any contestant before reaching the finish line. Accepting the challenge, Paladin (Richard Boone) enters the race--and, confirming his Read More

There's Always Tomorrow

Actors: Gigi Perreau, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, William Reynolds, Judy Nugent

Synopsis: There's Always Tomorrow is a remake of a 1934 film of the same name. Fred MacMurray is a toy company executive whose wife (Joan Bennett) and kids (Gigi Perreau, William Reynolds and Judy Nugent) take him for granted. Barbara Stanwyck is Fred's former girlfriend, whose own business activities Read More

It Came from Beneath the Sea

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis, Ian Keith, Dean Maddox, Jr.

Synopsis: It Came From Beneath the Sea was the first of several fruitful collaborations between producer Charles H. Schneer and special-effects wizard Ray Harryhausen. "It" is a giant, six-tentacled octopus, which is galvanized into action by an H-bomb test. Worse still, the monster is highly radioactive Read More

You for Me

Actors: Peter Lawford, Jane Greer, Gig Young, Howard Wendell

Synopsis: You for Me stars Peter Lawford as a profligate playboy who's a nice guy underneath. After suffering a hunting accident which leaves him with a butt full of buckshot, Lawford is interred in the hospital that his donations have kept afloat. Nurse Jane Greer refuses to treat Lawford any better than Read More

O. Henry's Full House

Actors: Charles Laughton, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Richard Widmark, Dale Robertson, Anne Baxter, Fred Allen

Synopsis: This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great American author O. Henry to the screen. In The Cop and the Anthem, a tramp named Soapy (Charles Laughton) tries to get arrested so that he can spend the winter in jail Read More

Customs Agent

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: William Eythe, Marjorie Reynolds, Griff Barnett, Howard St. John, Jim Backus

Synopsis: William Eythe is the Customs Agent in this brisk Columbia programmer. The plot finds Bert Stewart (Eythe) stationed in China, where he goes undercover to join a gang of dope smugglers. His plan is to stop the wholesale stealing of valuable streptomycin, which the crooks are peddling to drug Read More

The Milkman

Actors: Donald O'Connor, Jimmy Durante, Joyce Holden, William Conrad, Piper Laurie

Synopsis: The Milkman is a low-key variation of a theme explored in such slapstick festivals as The Fuller Brush Man and The Yellow Cab Man. Donald O'Connor plays Roger Bradley, who hopes to become a top-flight milkman to please his father (Henry O'Neill), the owner of the milk company. Jimmy Durante Read More

Thunderhoof

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Preston S. Foster, Mary Stuart, William Bishop

Synopsis: In this off-beat western, a middle-aged rancher endeavors to realize his dreams of starting up a horse ranch in Texas. His much younger wife, is opposed to the idea and begins questioning her love for her husband. The would-be rancher's adopted son doesn't help matters by trying to seduce his Read More

Black Eagle

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: William Bishop, Virginia Patton, Gordon Jones, James Bell

Synopsis: Black Eagle was based on The Passing of Black Eagle, a short story by O. Henry. William Bishop stars as Jason Bond, who stays out of trouble by the simple expedient of avoiding other people. Unfortunately, the plot dictates that Bond must come into contact with several characters, all of whom end Read More

Stars over Texas

Actors: Eddie Dean, Roscoe Ates, Shirley Patterson, Lee Bennett, Lee Roberts

Synopsis: Eddie Dean, PRC's low-budget answer to Gene Autry, starred in this lethargic singing western which benefited from Dean performing his own title-tune, "Fifteen Hundred and One Miles to Heaven" and "Sands of the Old Rio Grande", the last mentioned co-written with B-Western supporting actor Glenn Read More

Night Editor

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: William Gargan, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell, Coulter Irwin, Charles D. Brown

Synopsis: Inspired by the radio program of the same name, Night Editor features Charles D. Brown as the editor of the New York Star. In flashback, the editor tells the tale of police lieutenant William Gargan, who forsakes his happy home life for the love of no-good society dame Janis Carter. Both Gargan Read More

Dangerous Business

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this drama, it is up to two young lawyers to save a business executive who has been framed for embezzlement. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Music in Manhattan

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Anne Shirley, Dennis Day, Phillip Terry, Raymond Walburn, Jane Darwell

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a pair of small-potatoes performers try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent contest. Though this leads them to a few professional gigs, something is missing from their act and they are not popular. Believing a little cash will boost their career, the Read More

She's a Soldier Too

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: In this drama, a female taxi driver takes pity on a soldier who has come to search for his estranged son and decides to help him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Good Luck, Mr. Yates

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Edgar Buchanan, Jess Barker, Tom Neal, Albert Basserman

Synopsis: In this drama, set during WW II, a teacher at a military school is derided by his students because he has not joined the military. The man is deeply disturbed by their ridicule and disrespect and so pleads with the draft-board to reconsider his "essential" status and allow him to join. He is Read More