Harry MorganFilmography

Family Plan

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Judge Reinhold, Emily Procter

Synopsis: In this family-friendly comedy, a band of orphans are taken to a summer camp by their accident-prone guardian Harry (Leslie Nielsen). However, they soon find that they have to fight to keep the place open when greedy land tycoon Jeffrey Shayes (Judge Reinhold) decides that he wants to buy the camp Read More

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

Actors: Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Directed by the acclaimed Walter Hill and narrated by actor Alec Baldwin, this documentary profiles the adventurous, contentious, and very talented director William Wellman (1896-1975). Ambulance driver for the French Foreign Legion and decorated American pilot in World War I, Wellman later became Read More

Incident in a Small Town

Actors: Walter Matthau, Stephanie Zimbalist, Harry Morgan

Synopsis: Walter Matthau, Stephanie Zimbalist, and Harry Morgan star in this made-for-television drama, in which a judge in a small town discovers that the skeletons in his family closet are aired for all to see after he's named as a prime suspect in the murder of his son-in-law. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Read More

Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore

Actors: Walter Matthau, Susan Blakely, Harry Morgan, Brian Kerwin, Bruce Kirkpatrick

Synopsis: In a sequel to the superior movie entitled The Incident, a small-town lawyer goes against the State of Maryland, suing on behalf of an institutionalized mental patient for release. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

The Incident

Actors: Barnard Hughes, Walter Matthau

Synopsis: Joseph Sargent's made-for-TV drama, set during World War II, stars Walter Matthau as an attorney coerced into defending a German POW who is accused of murdering the town physician (Barnard Hughes), Matthau's best friend. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

14 Going on 30

Actors: Daphne Ashbrook, Adam Carl, Rick Rossovich

Synopsis: 14 Going on 30 starts out like Candida and ends up like Back to the Future. 14-year-old Danny O'Neill (Gabey Olds), carrying a torch for his teacher, Peggy Noble (Daphne Ashbrook), can only suffer in silence as Peggy plans to marry brutish gym instructor "Jackjaw" Kelton (Rick Rossovich). With the Read More

Dragnet

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Harry Morgan, Alexandra Paul

Synopsis: Dan Aykroyd must have practiced for months to perfect his Jack Webb inflections for Dragnet. Screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz's directorial debut (also written by Mankiewicz, along with Aykroyd, and Alan Zweibel) is a gentle spoof of the legendary '50s television police drama -- pitting '50s Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Days Dwindle Down

Synopsis: This classic episode adroitly utilizes footage from the 1949 theatrical film Strange Bargain--with three of that film's stars, Jeffrey Lynn, Martha Scott and Harry Morgan, reprising their roles in the "new" scenes. Released from prison after serving 30 years for the murder of his boss, Sam Wilson Read More

Blacke's Magic [TV Series]

Synopsis: The TV detective series Blacke's Magic starred Hal Linden as dapper professional magician Alexander Blacke, and Harry Morgan as Alexander's con-man father Leonard. Together, Blacke and Blacke solved mysteries with the help of Alexander's prestidigatory skills and Leonard's flim-flammery. In the Read More

Sparkling Cyanide

Actors: Anthony Andrews

Synopsis: Scriptwriters Robert Malcolm Young, Sue Grafton and Stephen Humphrey transposed the Agatha Christie story Sparkling Cyanide from its veddy British locale to the plush environs of Pasadena for this 1983 TV-movie adaptation. Leading character Anthony Andrews is still a Briton, mingling with the rich Read More

M*A*S*H: U.N., the Night and the Music

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A United Nations delegation, comprised of a Swede (Dennis Holahan), a Briton (George Innes) and a Hindu (Kavi Raz), arrives at the 4077th for an inspection tour. Each of the delegates leaves a distinct and profound impression upon a separate member of the MASH unit. This was the final series Read More

M*A*S*H: Goodbye, Farewell & Amen

Synopsis: Goodbye, Farewell and Amen was the instant-classic final installment of the long-running TV series M*A*S*H. After nearly three bloody years of combat in Korea (and 11 years' worth of TV time!), a truce has been declared and the 4077th is going home. News of the cease-fire affects different people Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 11

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: As the 11th season of M*A*S*H* got under way in the fall of 1982, everyone involved with the series knew it would be their last (the program had already lasted eight years longer than the actual Korean War!) Looking back, the cast and crew could take pride in the series' many accomplishments, not Read More

M*A*S*H: Who Knew?

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A nurse that Hawkeye (Alan Alda) once dated casually has died. Inasmuch as he is the only person at the 4077th who knew anything about the decedent, Hawk is called upon to deliver her eulogy. As he investigates the last few days of the departed nurse, Hawk is surprised to discover that she was far Read More

The Flight of Dragons

Synopsis: This animated fantasy film, from the creators of The Last Unicorn, unfolds in an age when magic and science coexist uneasily, and humans still walk the earth alongside wizards, unicorns, and dragons. One of the four most powerful mages on the planet, Carolinus the Green Wizard (voice of Harry Morgan Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 10

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Its ninth season shortened to a mere 20 episodes thanks to a Hollywood writers' strike, M*A*S*H returned to a full 24-episode manifest for its tenth season, which began in October of 1981. With the defection of series regular Gary Burghoff two seasons earlier, the starring-cast lineup was now Read More

M*A*S*H: Tell it To the Marines

Crew: Director

Synopsis: With Col. Potter (Harry Morgan) away, the insufferable Charles is placed in charge of the 4077th. When they're not expressing displeasure over Charles' arrogance, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and B.J. (Mike Farrell) are locking horns with the US Marines. The reason: The doctors want to help an Read More

Rivkin: Bounty Hunter

Actors: Glenn Scarpelli

Synopsis: In this telemovie, Ron Leibman plays Stan Rivkin, who, sure enough, is bounty hunter, though he operates in Manhattan rather than the wild west. Rivkin has a physically handicapped 12 year old son (Glenn Scarpelli), who is frequently left in the care of a kindly retired priest (Harry Morgan). The Read More

M*A*S*H: Blood Brothers

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hawkeye (Alan Alda) is profoundly touched by a terminally ill GI (well played by a young Patrick Swayze) who is more concerned about the plight of his wounded pal. Unfortunately, the fact that Hawkeye can do nothing for the dying soldier exacts quite an emotional toll. All this occurs while a Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 09

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: After a late start thanks to a Hollywood writer's strike, M*A*S*H launched its ninth season on November 17, 1980. With the past defections of Wayne Rogers, Maclean Stevenson, Larry Linville and Gary Burghoff, Alan Alda (as Hawkeye), Loretta Swit (as Margaret Houlihan), Jamie Farr (as Klinger) and Read More

More Wild, Wild West

Actors: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin

Synopsis: The second of two attempts to revive the 1960s TV series The Wild, Wild West (the first was Wild Wild West Revisited), More Wild, Wild West was telecast October 7, 1980. Robert Conrad is back as 19th- century secret-agent James West, while Ross Martin returns to the role of "man of many faces" Read More

Scout's Honor

Synopsis: In this children's movie, a single executive enjoys her life on the fast track, but when she is talked into becoming a den mother to a rambunctious pack of Cub Scouts, her life is temporarily derailed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Roughnecks

Synopsis: One of several syndicated TV miniseries of the 1980s, Roughnecks was part of the same "Golden Circle" project that previously yielded the multipart Wild Times. The title refers to a group of two-fisted oil wildcatters, among them self-made millionaire Paul Marshall (Steve Forrest), his lifelong Read More

Backstairs at the White House

Actors: Leslie Uggams, Olivia Cole, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Hooks, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling memoirs of Lillian Rogers Parks, the NBC miniseries Backstairs at the White House traces over five decades of American political history as witnessed from the vantage point of the servants' quarters. Played by Tania Johnson as a teenager and by Leslie Uggams as an adult, Lillian Rogers Parks Read More

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again

Actors: Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Ruth Buzzi, Tim Matheson, Kenneth Mars, Elyssa Davalos

Synopsis: Tim Conway and Don Knotts, mere supporting characters in the original Apple Dumpling Gang, are promoted to starring roles in the 1979 sequel The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again. Once more cast as clumsy, soft-hearted western outlaws, Conway and Knotts come to the rescue of cavalry private Tim Matheson Read More

M*A*S*H: Rally Round the Flag Boys

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hawkeye (Alan Alda) is forced into a difficult decision: Should he immediately tend to a wounded American patient, or try to save the life of a more seriously injured North Korean prisoner? Hawkeye's actions arouse the Commie-baiting suspicions of xenophobic CIA agent Colonel Flagg (Edward Read More

Better Late Than Never

Actors: Harold Gould, Strother Martin, Tyne Daly, Harry Morgan, Marjorie Bennett

Synopsis: The elderly residents of a nursing home tire of being oppressed and stage a revolution in this made-for-television comedy. Following the ensuing riot they rush out and commandeer a passing train to go out for a few final adventures. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

M*A*S*H: Stars and Stripes

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Margaret (Loretta Swit) wonders if she should renew her battlefiled romance with scrappy soldier Jack Scully (Joshua Bryant), especially since he's been busted to Private for punching out an officer. On another front, B.J. (Mike Farrell) and Charles (David Ogden Stiers) are asked to collaborate on Read More

Roots: The Next Generations

Actors: Georg Stanford Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Paul Koslo

Synopsis: The phenomenal success of the 1977 ABC miniseries Roots all but demanded a sequel to writer Alex Haley's epic story of his African and African-American forebears. Debuting February 18, 1979, Roots: The Next Generations picked up where its predecessor left off, with Haley's slave ancestors winning Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 08

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Season eight of M*A*S*H was marked by the last of the series' major regular-cast defections. As the quietly resourceful and eerily clairvoyant company clerk, Cpl. Walter "Radar" O'Reilly, Gary Burghoff had been the only actor from the 1970 movie version of M*A*S*H* to carry over his role into the Read More

The Wild, Wild West Revisited

Actors: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, Harry Morgan, René Auberjonois

Synopsis: In the made-for-television film Wild, Wild West Revisited, the classic comedy/espionage/western television series is brought up to date with a story featuring government agents Jim West and Artemus Gordon leaving retirement to battle Miguelito Loveless, who is planning to conquer the earth by Read More

The Bastard

Synopsis: Produced for the syndicated "Operation Prime Time" series, The Bastard is the first of John Jakes' "Kent Family Chronicles" (followed by The Rebels and The Seekers). Presented in two parts, the story begins in 1771, with 17-year-old French commoner Philippe Charboneau (Andrew Stevens) discovering Read More

Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid

Synopsis: Right after wrapping up her role as Emily on The Bob Newhart Show, Suzanne Pleshette began her reign as "queen of the TV pilot films" with Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid. Kate Bliss (Pleshette) is a private investigator in the 19th-century West, setting up her shingle in a tough frontier town. Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 07

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Now in its seventh season on the air, the irreverent military comedy series M*A*S*H continued to roll along like a well-oiled machine. The most significant change during season six, the introduction of the insufferable but brilliant surgeon Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester (David Ogden Stiers), had Read More

Murder at the Mardi Gras

Synopsis: Didi Conn, who skyrocketed to fame thanks to Saturday Night Fever (77) and You Light Up My Life (78), did nothing for her career with the made-for-TV Murder at the Mardi Gras. Conn plays a loopy young Philadelphia waitress who witnesses a murder during the New Orleans Mardi Gras celebration, but Read More

Maneaters Are Loose!

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Tom Willis, the made-for-TV Maneaters Are Loose! also bears a surface resemblance to the 1973 TV film Maneater. On the verge of bankruptcy, suicidal animal trainer David Birk (Steve Forrest) releases his "pets" -- two ferocious Bengal tigers -- into the woods near the small Read More

The Cat from Outer Space

Actors: Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Harry Morgan, Roddy McDowall, McLean Stevenson

Synopsis: Zunar J5/90 Doric 4-7, also known as Jake, is an alien cat who crash-lands on earth. He heads off to the nearest scientist to find gold ($120,000 worth!) in order to repair his spaceship. Jake reveals that he can predict the winners in sporting events and soon the military is trying to track him Read More

M*A*S*H: Patient 4077

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The busiest person on this M*A*S*H episode is an adroit Korean jeweler, Mr. Shin (Keye Luke). His knowhow comes in quite handy when an emergency replacement is needed for Margaret's (Loretta Swit) wedding ring, which Klinger (Jamie Farr) unwittingly threw in the trash. But Mr. Shin's biggest Read More

M*A*S*H: End Run

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sgt. Billy Tyler (Henry Brown), a former college football star, loses the will to live when Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and B.J. (Mike Farrell) are forced to amputate his leg. Can the hero-worshipping Radar (Gary Burghoff) save Tyler from being overwhelmed by his own melancholia? Elsewhere, greedy Frank Read More

The Exo-Man

Synopsis: Exo-Man is a made-for-TV attempt to prolong the Six Million Dollar Man concept into yet another series. David Ackroyd stars as physics professor Nick Conrad, who is shot and crippled while trying to prevent a holdup. Returning to his lab, Conrad invents a superpowered suit that will enable him to Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 06

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Season six of M*A*S*H was noteworthy for yet another defection from its regular-cast ranks. Long dissatisfied with the artistic limitations of the role of obnoxious Major Frank Burns, actor Larry Linville followed the lead of his former M*A*S*H colleagues Wayne Rogers and Maclean Stevenson by Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 05

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville

Synopsis: Although M*A*S*H entered its fifth season with the cast from season four intact--including relative newcomers Mike Farrell as B.J. Hunnicut and Harry Morgan as Col. Sherman Potter--the production roster was short one significant name. Producer and co-creator Larry Gelbart had exited the series at Read More

The Shootist

Actors: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, Bill McKinney, James Stewart

Synopsis: About ten minutes into The Shootist, Doctor Hostetler (James Stewart) tells aging Western gunfighter John Bernard Books (John Wayne), "You have a cancer." Knowing that his death will be painful and lingering, Books is determined to be shot in the line of "duty." In his remaining two months, Books Read More

M*A*S*H: The Novocaine Mutiny

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Actor Harry Morgan takes on role of director for this episode.. During the absence of Col. Potter, Frank (Larry Linville) demands that Hawkeye (Alan Alda) be court-martialed for mutiny. Conducting a preliminary hearing, Col. Carmichael (Ned Wilson) hears both sides of the events which led up to Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 04

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville

Synopsis: Everybody knew that Maclean Stevenson would not return to M*A*S*H when the series inaugurated its fourth season in the fall of 1975; after all, Stevenson's character, Col. Henry Blake, had been abruptly killed off at the end of season three, so any sort of return was out of the question. It did Read More

The Apple Dumpling Gang

Actors: Bill Bixby, Susan Clark, Don Knotts, Tim Conway, David Wayne

Synopsis: The Apple Dumpling Gang stars Bill Bixby as Russell Donovan, a slick frontier gambler. In Runyon-esque fashion, he is compelled to look after three precocious oprhaned kids. He can't handle the responsibilities alone, so he agrees to an in-name-only marriage to hoydenish stagecoach driver Read More

The Last Day

Synopsis: In this western, a retired gunslinger must defend his town against the nefarious Dalton gang. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sidekicks

Synopsis: This comedy western is the failed pilot for a TV series based on the 1971 feature film Skin Game. Like the original, this tells the story of two bungling con artists, one white the other black, who ride around trying to collect an outlaw bounty and outsmart slave traders. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Charley and the Angel

Synopsis: Finding that he hasn't much time left to live, a man makes needed changes in his life with the help of an angel in this Disney feature. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Magnificent Magical Magnet of Santa Mesa

Synopsis: Michael Burns plays Freddy Griffith, a brilliant, altruistic and cheerfully goofy young inventor. Though his creations seemingly have value, they usually end up causing nothing but trouble (and bad special effects). Produced by veteran sitcom helmsman Hy Averback, this made-for-TV movie was Read More

The Century Turns

Synopsis: The Century Turns is the syndication title of the 2-hour pilot for the Hec Ramsey television series. Richard Boone stars as Ramsey, an old-fashioned western lawman coming to grips with the "modern technology" of the 20th century. Ramsey teams up with college-educated criminologist Oliver Stamp (Rick Lenz Read More

Snowball Express

Actors: Dean Jones, Nancy Olson, Harry Morgan, Keenan Wynn, Johnny Whitaker

Synopsis: In this light-weight Disney family fare, Dean Jones plays Johnny Baxter, who -- along with his wife Sue (Nancy Olsen) and his two kids, Chris (Kathleen Cody) and Richard (Johnny Whitaker) -- decides to leave the New York City rat-race for the clean air and easy living of the Colorado ski country. Read More

Jeremiah Johnson

Actors: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Stefan Gierasch, Allyn Ann McLerie, Delle Bolton, Charles Tyner, Josh Albee

Synopsis: Years before Kevin Costner danced with wolves, Robert Redford headed to the mountains to escape civilization in Sydney Pollack's wilderness western. Around 1850, ex-soldier Johnson (Redford) decides that he would rather live alone as a mountain man in Colorado than deal with society's constraints. Read More

Hec Ramsey [TV Series]

Synopsis: A college-educated sheriff takes on an older crimefighter as his deputy in this western. (AKA Century Turns) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Partridge Family: All's War in Love and Fairs

Synopsis: In his second Partridge Family guest appearance, future M*A*S*H regular Harry Morgan plays Cal Courtney, the owner of a small garage on the far outskirts of Las Vegas. When the Partridges' bus breaks down, Cal and his wife Amanda (Josephine Hutchinson) use all sorts of subterfuges to keep the Read More

Scandalous John

Actors: Freddie Hernandez, Brian Keith

Synopsis: The Old West is just not the same, what with so few cattle being run, and law-abiding folk running around like they own everything. In this family comedy drama, it's too much for John McCanless (Brian Keith). He is a cranky old rancher and former gunslinger who has no intention of selling his Read More

Support Your Local Gunfighter

Actors: James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elam, Joan Blondell, Harry Morgan

Synopsis: This Western action/comedy is told in the same tongue-in-cheek manner as its predecessor, Support Your Local Sheriff. Goldie (Marie Windsor), a madam, is a formidable woman, and Latigo Smith (James Garner) knows perfectly well that his disreputable ways will be trimmed considerably should she Read More

The Feminist and the Fuzz

Synopsis: With a title like The Feminist and the Fuzz, the TV-movie comedy could only have been produced in the swinging' seventies. Barbara Eden forsakes her "I Dream of Jeannie" obsequiousness to play dedicated feminist Dr. Jane Bowers. While engaging in a protest rally, Jane comes in contact with Read More

Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You

Actors: Peter Lawford, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: The first of two efforts by Universal to launch an Ellery Queen TV series in the 1970s, Don't Look Behind You stars Peter Lawford as intellectual private eye Ellery Queen. Based on the novel Cat of Many Tales, the film finds Queen investigating a series of murders. The male victims were strangled Read More

Confessions of the D.A. Man

Synopsis: The so-called feature film Confessions of the D.A. Man actually consists of two episodes from two different TV series. The plotline concerns a dangerous campus radical (John David Carson), who may go free if the DA's office can't locate any witnesses for the prosecution. The first portion of the Read More

The Barefoot Executive

Actors: Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Harry Morgan, Wally Cox, Heather North

Synopsis: At last the secret has been revealed! Prime-time network programming is determined by a chimpanzee! That's the premise of Disney's The Barefoot Executive, a highly amusing spoof of the TV bizz. Kurt Russell plays a page boy at a bottom-rated TV network. Stuck with his girl friend's (Heather North) Read More

The Partridge Family: The Sound of Money

Synopsis: Future M*A*S*H regular Harry Morgan guest stars as angry motorist Willie Larkin, who sues the Partridges for $500,000, claiming to have suffered whiplash in a minor fender-bender. After several failed attempts to prove that Willie isn't injured, the family takes a brand new approach, smothering Read More

Patton

Actors: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, Karl Michael Vogler, Edward Binns

Synopsis: In 1943 North Africa, George Patton (George C. Scott) assumes command of (and instills some much-needed discipline in) the American forces. Engaged in battle against Germany's Field Marshal Rommel (Karl Michael Vogler), Patton drives back "The Desert Fox" by using the German's own tactics. Read More

But I Don't Want to Get Married!

Actors: June Lockhart, Tina Louise

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie stars Herschel Bernardi as a middle-aged widower, contentedly resigned to his bachelorhood. Bernardi's well-meaning friends and relatives are tireless in their efforts to hitch him up with a new bride. All the candidates are played by prominent actresses (Shirley Jones, Tina Louise Read More

Support Your Local Sheriff

Actors: James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Harry Morgan, Jack Elam

Synopsis: James Garner is a nothing short of a delight in this western spoof that stands western clichés on their ears. The film takes place in the small western town of Calender, a town that experiences a gold rush when gold is discovered in an open grave by Prudy Perkins (Joan Hackett). As gold Read More

Dragnet

Synopsis: Filmed in 1966 (when screenwriter Richard Breen was still around), this made-for-TV feature marked the return of Jack Webb's classic 1950s cop series Dragnet after a seven-year absence. Ordered to cut his vacation short, Sgt. Joe Friday (played by Jack Webb) is assigned to investigate the Read More

Dragnet: Season 04

Actors: Jack Webb, Harry Morgan

Synopsis: Though the final season of the new Dragnet (aka Dragnet: 1970) represented the revived series' fourth year on NBC, in actuality it was the property's 12th season, if one counts the previous, classic Dragnet of the 1950s. The stories you are about to hear are true, the city is Los Angeles, CA, and Read More

Viva Max!

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Pamela Tiffin, Jonathan Winters, John Astin, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: This comedy was banned in Mexico and plagued by vandalism and threats of violence during film production in San Antonio, Texas. General De Santos (Peter Ustinov) organizes a ragtag group of Mexican nationals for the purpose of retaking the Alamo. Using the Washington's Birthday Parade in Laredo as Read More

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

Crew: Director

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

Dragnet: Season 03

Actors: Jack Webb, Harry Morgan

Synopsis: Proving remarkably durable despite its venerable reputation and occasional lapses into silent majority hysteria (especially in the episodes involving drug abuse), the new Dragnet launched its third season on NBC in the fall of 1968, under the forward-looking title Dragnet: 1969. The setting is Read More

The Great Stone Face

Synopsis: This 60-minute pastiche of silent film footage is narrated by humorist Henry Morgan. While the producers clearly worship Buster Keaton, they are confined to public domain material, so many of Keaton's best efforts, notably Sherlock, Jr. and The Navigator, are absent. The clips from Keatons Read More

Dragnet: Season 01

Actors: Jack Webb, Harry Morgan

Synopsis: In 1966, producer/director/actor Jack Webb filmed a new, TV-movie version of his classic 1950s series Dragnet for Universal Pictures and the NBC network. Both studio and network were so impressed by the results that they invited Webb to revive Dragnet on a weekly, half-hour basis -- which is just Read More

The Flim-Flam Man

Actors: George C. Scott, Sue Lyon, Michael Sarrazin, Harry Morgan, Jack Albertson

Synopsis: Michael Sarrazin plays Curley, a young man gone AWOL from the Army who soon makes the acquaintance of Mordechai (George C. Scott), a veteran confidence man. Mordecai takes a liking to Curley, and offers to show him the tricks of the trade as they drift through the American South, pulling one scam Read More

Dragnet: Season 02

Actors: Jack Webb, Harry Morgan

Synopsis: Although the second season of NBC's revived Dragnet debuted in the fall of 1967, the series' official title was Dragnet: 1968, reflecting the strenuous (and for the most part successful) efforts by producer/director/star Jack Webb to give his venerable property a fresh, contemporary slant. Back on Read More

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

Actors: James Coburn, Dick Shawn, Sergio Fantoni, Aldo Ray, Giovanna Ralli

Synopsis: In this service comedy set during World War II, Capt. Cash (Dick Shawn) and Lt. Christian (James Coburn) are given orders to invade a small but strategically important village in Sicily. To their surprise, none of the natives offer the slightest resistance to the Americans taking over their town Read More

Frankie and Johnny

Actors: Elvis Presley, Donna Douglas, Harry Morgan, Sue Ane Langdon, Nancy Kovack

Synopsis: Not a remake of the 1934 Helen Morgan vehicle of the same title, Frankie and Johnny stars Elvis Presley as Johnny, a Mississippi gambler, and Beverly Hillbillies regular Donna Douglas as his girl friend Frankie. In keeping with the old ballad, the romance of Frankie and Johnny is threatened by the Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The World's Oldest Motive

Crew: Director

Actors: Henry Jones, Robert Loggia, Kathleen Freeman, Linda Lawson, Dee J. Thompson

Synopsis: Lawyer Alex Morrow (Henry Jones) would like to dump his wife, Angela (Kathleen Freeman), in favor of his sexy mistress, Fiona (Linda Lawson), but he draws the line at divorce: Alex owns a valuable stamp collection, and does not want his wife to get it in the divorce settlement. Then one day, Alex Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Who Needs an Enemy?

Crew: Director

Actors: Steven Hill, Joanna Moore, Richard Anderson, Barney Phillips

Synopsis: When Charlie Osgood (Steven Hill) embezzles 95,000 dollars, his business partner, Eddie Turin (Richard Anderson), threatens to turn him over to the police. Not wishing to be arrested, Charlie elaborately fakes his own suicide, then runs off with his girlfriend, Danielle (Joanna Moore). Only when Read More

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna, Jim Backus, Scott Brady

Synopsis: Politics and sports clash in this occasionally funny spoof centered around a downed U2 pilot and an extravagant oil sheik. John Goldfarb (Richard Crenna), a former football player, now pilot, sent on a reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union, is lost and crash-lands in the Middle Eastern Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: American Primitive

Synopsis: This is the story of two old men who have outlived their time and usefulness, but are determined not to go gentle into that good night. Harry Morgan is cast as elderly sheriff Ernie Backwater, who joins his friend Paladin in search of another senior citizen, condemned fugitive Will Tybee (Robert Read More

The Untouchables: Double Cross

Synopsis: Ubiquitous Untouchables guest star Nehemiah Persoff makes his final appearance as criminal mastermind Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik. Determined to drive Guzik out of the bootlegging business, Elliot Ness secretly begins supplying Jake's rivals with illegal booze. Ness hopes this heightened competition Read More