J. Pat O'MalleyFilmography

Taxi: The Road Not Taken, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of Taxi's two-part season-four finale, Elaine (Marilu Henner) mulls over the opportunity to leave the Sunshine Cab Company for a job in Seattle. This inspires the other cabbies to recall the pivotal moments in their own lives. Louie (Danny DeVito) remembers his ascension from Read More

Freedom

Synopsis: After a particularly bitter argument with her divorced mother, teenager Libby Bellow (Mare Winningham) runs away from home. Eventually, she links up with a traveling carnival and takes on a variety of responsibilities, in so doing coming to the realization that her life at home might not have been Read More

A Matter of Life and Death

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

A Small Killing

Synopsis: A policeman masquerades as a homeless alcoholic and teams up with a bag lady, who is really a college professor, to bring a drug lord's assassin to justice in this memorable made-for-television drama. Along the way, the two disparate partners find themselves falling in love. The story is based Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Return of the Ridge Raiders

Synopsis: A group of old-time bootleggers called the Ridge Raiders regroup after forty years to prevent Boss Hogg from financially depleting a senior-citizens center in order to build a nudie bar called the "Play Pen." Level-headed Jesse Duke (Denver Pyle) advises the gun- and bomb-happy Ridge Raiders to Read More

Cheaper to Keep Her

Actors: Mac Davis, Tovah Feldshuh, Art Metrano, Ian McShane, Priscilla Lopez

Synopsis: Marred by prejudice and derogatory stereoptypes of gays and Hispanics, this subpar drama by Ken Annakin does not treat women or men well either. Bill (Mac Davis) is a detective who has just been hired by a tough lawyer, K.D. Locke (Tovah Feldshuh) to check up on some deadbeat ex-spouses who are Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Crib Job

Synopsis: Quincy (Jack Klugman) receives an urgent call from his friend Rosey Grier (playing himself), who is currently running Giant Step, a city-funded remedial program for delinquents. One of Grier's charges, troubled teenager Victor Garn (Todd Davis), has been accused of murdering an old man, and the Read More

The Rockford Files: A Deadly Maze

Synopsis: Hired by Dr. Eric Albach (Larry Linville) to find the doctor's missing wife Tracy (Corinne Michaels), Jim is confused by Albach's seeming lack of concern over whether Tracy is brought back dead or alive--or at all. In fact, the farther Jim gets away from solving the woman's disappearance, the more Read More

The Gumball Rally

Actors: Michael Sarrazin, Norman Burton, Gary Busey, John Durren, Susan Flannery

Synopsis: For better or worse, The Gumball Rally was the catalyst for a short-lived cycle of "illegal cross-country race" flicks. As thick-headed cop Roscoe (Norman Burton) does his best to stop the titular rally, a vast and varied contingent of contestants prepare to burn rubber from New York to Read More

Emergency!: The Mouse

Synopsis: Just before they end their shift, the Rampart emergency team is summoned to an apartment house which has been struck by a jet liner. Elsewhere, nurse Dixie (Julie London) administers some T.L.C. on the worried husband (J. Pat O'Malley) of an elderly patient (Florence Lake); another man suffers Read More

Emergency!: Messin' Around

Synopsis: Victimized by one of Chet's (Tim Donnelly) practical jokes, John (Randolph Mantooth) maps out a sweet revenge. The rest of the Rampart team is kept busy with Old Bill, a chronic "faker" who continually figures out ways to get checked into the hospital in order to entertain the kiddie patients--and Read More

Ironside: Buddy, Can You Spare a Life?, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Ironside (Raymond Burr) begins to question his judgment in a manslaughter case which occurred seven years ago. At the time, the Chief rammed through the conviction of chief suspect Walter Booth (William Read More

Banacek

Actors: George Peppard, Christine Belford, Don Dubbins, Murray Matheson, Russell Wiggins

Synopsis: Banacek was the two-hour pilot film for the 1972-74 detective series starring George Peppard. The cigar-smoking, aphorism-spouting Peppard plays T. Banacek, Polish/American investigator for a major Boston insurance company. Independently wealthy, Banacek will only accept cases that have been Read More

Emergency!: Fuzz Lady

Synopsis: Sharon Gless makes one of her first TV appearances as Sheila Thomas, an undercover police deputy investigating a series of thefts at Ramparts. Assisting Sheila in her inquiries is paramedic John Gage (Randolph Mantooth, who is quite smitten by the lady. Elsewhere, an old man (Paul Fix) suffering Read More

Ironside: Buddy, Can You Spare a Life?, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Ironside (Raymond Burr) works in concert with attorney Ken Klaven (Cameron Mitchell) to secure the release of Walter Booth (William Campbell), whom the Chief had sent to prison on a manslaughter charge seven Read More

Willard

Actors: Bruce Davison, Ernest Borgnine, Elsa Lanchester, Sondra Locke, Michael Dante

Synopsis: This film is based on the novel Ratman's Notebooks, by Stephen Gilbert. Bruce Davison is Willard Stiles, a 27-year-old mama's boy whose repressions are bottled up inside and come to the fore in his nervous nail-biting. As one character describes Willard, "Willard is basically an extrovert, but Read More

Bonanza: The Reluctant American

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Daniel Massey

Synopsis: Londoners Leslie and Gillian Harwood (Daniel Massey and Jill Haworth) arrive in Nevada to take charge of a ranch on behalf of a British investment firm-and immediately mistake the Ponderosa for the ranch in question. Thus, the Cartwrights become involved in the couple's travails, attempting to Read More

Adam-12: Day Watch

Synopsis: Racial prejudice plays an ironic role in this episode, as Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) answer a number of day-watch calls. Among the miscreants facing arrest at the hands of the two cops are an elusive armed-robbery suspect and a female hitchhiker who specialize Read More

Skin Game

Actors: Susan Clark, James Garner

Synopsis: Skin Game was historically significant as the 2000th film produced by Warner Bros. studios. The film is a comedy western starring James Garner and Louis Gossett Jr. as a pair of clever Antebellum con men. Garner regularly "sells" the black Gossett into slavery for an exalted price, then Read More

The Cheyenne Social Club

Actors: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Shirley Jones, Sue Ane Langdon, Elaine Devry

Synopsis: James Stewart and Henry Fonda star in this light-hearted western comedy, directed by Gene Kelly. In 1870 Texas, John O' Hanlan (James Stewart), an itinerant cowboy, receives a letter notifying him that he has inherited a business establishment called the Cheyenne Social Club in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Read More

Adam-12: Log 64: Bottom of the Bottle

Synopsis: Officers Reed (Kent McCord) and Malloy (Martin Milner) have their hands full with a boisterous female alcoholic named Mae Pilaf (Norma Crane). After breaking up a barroom brawl in which Mae is involved, the two cops are summoned to an apartment where a shooting has occurred--and run into old Mae Read More

Adam-12: Log 96: Pilgrimage

Synopsis: Once again pulling holiday duty at Christmastime, mobile officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) have a great deal of difficulty locating any sort of Yuletide cheer on the streets of LA. For starters, the two cops are summoned to a robbery scene, where they find that the Read More

Petticoat Junction: Make Room for Baby

Synopsis: The seventh and final season of Petticoat Junction begins as Betty Jo (Linda Kaye Henning), her husband Steve (Mike Minor) and their infant daughter Kathy Jo move back into the Shady Rest Hotel while looking for a new home of their own. The Bradley girls' pet dog (played by Higgins of "Benjy" Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: Jeannie for the Defense

Synopsis: Involved in a very minor traffic accident, Tony ends up in court, facing a lawsuit from the other driver (Kay E. Kuter), who is faking a variety of serious injuries in hopes of winning an enormous settlement. Despite a hostile judge (J. Pat O'Malley) and an incompetent defense attorney (a Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Drysdale and Friend

Synopsis: Returning from their Hooterville holiday, Granny and Elly May arrive in Beverly Hills to discover that both Mr. Drysdale -- and Elly's pet bear -- are nowhere to be found. It seems that Drysdale, with bear in tow, had set out for Hooterville to meet the Clampett ladies, unaware that his car Read More

Hello, Dolly!

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Louis Armstrong, Marianne McAndrew

Synopsis: Twenty-seven-year-old Barbra Streisand seemed an inappropriate choice for middle-aged, match-making widow Dolly Levi, but her energy carries her right through the role and dominates the lackluster movie around her. The plot, drawn from Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker (itself based on a Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: U-F-Oh Jeannie

Synopsis: In the opening episode of I Dream of Jeannie's fourth season, Jeannie (Barbara Eden) stows away when Tony (Larry Hagman) and Roger (Bill Daily) are assigned to test a top-secret NASA spacecraft, which is shaped like a saucer. Alas, the craft crashlands in hillbilly country, whereupon a couple of Read More

Green Acres: The Candidate

Actors: Robert Foulk, J. Pat O'Malley, Skip Young

Synopsis: This episode of Green Acres was cunningly timed to air just before the 1968 presidential elections. Upset over the do-nothing record of incumbent state representative Ben Hanks (J. Pat O'Malley), Oliver (Eddie Albert) angrily declares that there is more to being a good politician than handing out Read More

The Flying Nun: The Sister and the Old Salt

Synopsis: J. Pat O'Malley plays Captain Barnaby, a self-styled "ancient mariner" who boldly embarks upon a 1000-mile sea voyage. There's only one slight problem: The Captain has never been on the ocean in his life! Sr. Bertrille tags along to make certain that Barnaby's secret remains a secret-and to insure Read More

Petticoat Junction: Billie Jo's First Record

Synopsis: Bea Benaderet(Kate Bradley) does not appear in this episode, in which budding singer Billie Jo (Meredith MacRae) cuts her first record album. Billie's new agent Ted Swift (Del Moore) aggressively promotes the album with a gaudy--and fraudulent--publicity campaign centering on the girl's home town Read More

Star!

Actors: Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Michael Craig, Daniel Massey, Robert Reed

Synopsis: Touted by 20th Century-Fox as a follow-up to their enormously successful The Sound of Music, Star! reteams that earlier film's leading lady Julie Andrews and director Robert Wise. Andrews plays legendary musical comedy star Gertrude Lawrence, while Daniel Massey appears as Lawrence's friend Read More

The Fugitive: Passage to Helena

Synopsis: Suspected of car theft, Richard Kimble (David Janssen), alias "Tom Barrett", is arrested in Wyler City, Montana and placed in a cell next to a rabid bigot named Carter (James Farentino), who is accused of a racially motivated murder. African American police deputy Dalton (Percy Rodriguez) bundles Read More

Hogan's Heroes: D-Day at Stalag 13

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

Synopsis: As part of the Allies' plans to invade Normandy Beach on June 6, 1944, Hogan is ordered to place the German generals encamped at Stalag 13 out of commission. To accomplish this, Hogan miraculously pulls enough strings to get Col. Klink promoted to German chief of staff -- or at least, to convince Read More

The Jungle Book

Actors: Bruce Reitherman, Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway, J. Pat O'Malley

Synopsis: The final animated feature produced under the supervision of Walt Disney is a lively neo-swing musical, loosely based upon the tales of Rudyard Kipling. The story takes place in a tropical jungle where people are conspicuously absent. But one day Bagheera the Panther (voice of Sebastian Cabot) Read More

Gunn

Actors: Craig Stevens, Laura Devon, Ed Asner, Albert Paulsen, Sherry Jackson

Synopsis: Blake Edwards directed this big-screen adaptation of the once-popular TV detective series Peter Gunn, which Edwards helped create. Peter Gunn (Craig Stevens) is a tough but polished private eye who fights crime with the help of friendly advice from an inside source at the police department, Lt. Read More

Hogan's Heroes: How to Cook a German Goose by Radar

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

Synopsis: Hogan and his men simply cannot warm up to the newest POW, a cranky, selfish, and arrogant American corporal named Walter Tillman (J. Pat O'Malley). Eventually, Hogan finds out that the crotchety old "corporal" is really a general in disguise, assigned to aid Hogan in an important sabotage Read More

Bewitched: Sam's Spooky Chair

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: There's something not quite right about that old rocking chair which Samantha purchased from an antique shop. For one thing, the chair seems to have a mind of its own, following Sam wherever she goes and refusing to leave her side, but causing great pain to Darrin whenever he tries to sit down. It Read More

Green Acres: The Rains Came

Synopsis: After 92 days with no rain, Oliver signs a deal with Mr. Haney (Pat Buttram), who claims to have a rainmaking machine. It turns out that the "machine" consists of a Native American rain-dancer named Chief Thundercloud (Robert Strauss). Ultimately, it rains cats and dogs, but Oliver insists that Read More

Petticoat Junction: War of the Hotels

Synopsis: Murdock Sneep (J. Pat O'Malley), sour-faced owner of the Pixley Hotel, is none too happy over the fact that business is booming at the Shady Rest. In order to win back customers, Sneep declares "war" on the rival hotel. It is a challenge that Shady Rest owner Kate Bradley (Bea Benaderet) is more Read More

Branded: The Richest Man in Boot Hill

Synopsis: Though he hardly relishes the assignment, Jason (Chuck Connors) agrees to help a rural undertaker haul a coffin into town. Little does Jason know that the coffin's occupant is a very-much-alive outlaw who intends to rob the local Wells Fargo office. J. Pat O'Malley makes a return appearance as Read More

F Troop: The 86 Proof Spring

Synopsis: At the behest of Col. Watkins (Parley Baer), Captain Parmenter (Ken Berry) makes it his mission in life to track down the source of the Hekawi Indians' bootleg whisky. Little does he realize that the "firewater" is stored right under his nose at Fort Courage. Rather than have another of their Read More

F Troop: Here Comes the Tribe

Synopsis: The F Troop misfits are mobilized when word comes down that Silver Dove (Laurie Sibbald), the daughter of Hekawi chief Wild Eagle (Frank De Kova), has been kidnapped by a warrior from another tribe. Upon finding Silver Dove, O'Rourke (Forrest Tucker) and Agarn (Larry Storch) learn that she hasn't Read More

Branded: Seward's Folly

Synopsis: This is the first of several Branded episodes in which fictional ex-military officer Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) has a significant influence upon actual American history. In this instance, Jason is hired to survey the vast territory of Alaska, recently purchased for the U.S. by William Henry Read More

Jonny Quest: Attack of the Tree People

Actors: Tim Mathieson, Mike Road, Danny Bravo, Don Messick

Synopsis: A shipboard fire forces Jonny, Dr. Quest, Race, Hadji, and Bandit to accidently maroon themselves on an unchartered island. The heroes are sought out by a duo of gunrunners named Silky and Chopper, who intend to hold Jonny and Hadji for ransom. In true Tarzan fashion, Jonny and company are Read More

The Fugitive: Crack in a Crystal Ball

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

A House is Not a Home

Actors: Shelley Winters, Robert Taylor, Cesar Romero, Ralph Taeger, Kaye Ballard

Synopsis: This drama tells the true story of one of Broadway's most successful madams in the 1920s. It is loosely based on the autobiography of Polly Adler. The story begins when young Polly is seduced and raped at her job by the sweatshop foreman. When her uncle, with whom she lived, learns of the act, he Read More

Apache Rifles

Actors: Audie Murphy, Michael Dante, Linda Lawson, L.Q. Jones

Synopsis: This western presents a more sympathetic view of Native Americans than is usually found in the genre as it tells the tale of the army commander of an Arizona outpost who despises all Indians until he falls in love with a beautiful missionary girl. He must change his ways because one of her parents Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Goes Into Politics

Actors: Gale Gordon, J. Pat O'Malley, Howard Caine, Sid Gould

Synopsis: Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon) is campaigning for the office of City Council Comptroller, and Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Viv (Vivian Vance) are his staunchest supporters. While planning a big political rally, Mooney entrusts Lucy with lining up some entertainment. Alas, Lucy forgets to make the necessary 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

My Favorite Martian: The Disastro-Nauts

Synopsis: A pre-Gilligan's Island Alan Hale Jr. appears in this episode as Omar Keck, an eccentric millionaire who has financed an experimental missile which he intends to send to Mars. Not surprisingly, Uncle Martin (Ray Walston) is the first to volunteer to pilot the vessel into space. In anticipation of Read More

My Favorite Martian: My Nephew, the Artist

Synopsis: In his efforts to help Tim (Bill Bixby) pay his household expenses, Uncle Martin (Ray Walston) tries to raise money by creating paintings in the exact styles of such famous artists as Van Gogh. The plan backfires when it is Tim, rather than Martin, who is lauded as an artistic genius--and as a Read More

My Favorite Martian: A Nose for News

Synopsis: Filling in for a tardy Tim (Bill Bixby) at the Los Angeles "Sun", Martin (Ray Walston) manages to score a much-coveted interview with Ambassador Lloyd Thomas (played by Bewitched's future "Larry Tate", David White). As a result, Martin is invited to join the reporting staff on a full-time basis. Read More

My Favorite Martian: Shake Well...and Don't Use

Synopsis: Angling for a promotion, Tim (Bill Bixby) invites his boss Mr. Burns (J. Pat O'Malley) home for dinner. The chef for the occasion is Uncle Martin (Ray Walston), who whips up a batch of his special "Martian stew." Unfortunately, the meal has a profound cooling effect on Mr. Burns--or more Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Plots Thicken

Actors: J. Pat O'Malley, Isabel Randolph, Carl Benton Reid, Geraldine Wall

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) have always been proud of the fact that their respective parents have never been "intrusive" in-laws. All this changes when the elder Petries and the elder Meehans each buy a separate family cemetery plot -- and both Rob's and Laura's folks expect Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Self-Improvement of Salvatore Ross

Actors: Don Gordon, Gail Kobe, Vaughan Taylor, J. Pat O'Malley, Douglas Lambert

Synopsis: Don Gordon stars as Salvatore Ross, a repulsively arrogant young man who thinks that the world owes him a living. When he is rejected by virtuous social worker Leah Maitland (Gail Kobe), Ross vows to improve himself, and to do that he harnesses his newly-found ability to acquire the physical and Read More

The Twilight Zone: Mr. Garrity and the Graves

Actors: John Dehner, J. Pat O'Malley, Stanley Adams, Percy Helton, Norman Leavitt

Synopsis: A jaunty harmonica-music score by Tommy Morgan was the main redeeming feature of this otherwise pedestrian Twilight Zone episode. John Dehner stars as Jared Garrity, a frontier con artist who convinces the citizens of a sleepy western town that he possesses the ability to bring the dead back to 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

My Favorite Martian: My Favorite Martian (Pilot)

Synopsis: Season One of My Favorite Martian literally begins with a bang as young reporter Tim O'Hara (Bill Bixby) witnesses the crash-landing of a UFO. Surveying the wreckage, Tim is startled to find a somewhat surly and imperious Martian (Ray Walton), who claims to be 450 years old (but doesn't look a day Read More

The Shotgun Wedding

Synopsis: In this convoluted trifle written by the world's worst movie director, Ed Wood, a family of hillbillies find their lives aboard a foundered riverboat (where they have been living for over 30 years) disrupted by a fugitive carnival worker who wants to hide out from the law. While there, she falls Read More

My Favorite Martian [TV Series]

Actors: Ray Walston, Bill Bixby, Pamela Britton, Anne O. Marshall, J. Pat O'Malley

Synopsis: Making its CBS network debut on September 29, 1963, in the same Sunday night time slot previously held down by Dennis the Menace, My Favorite Martian starred Ray Walston as the title character, an affable, hyper-intelligent and extremely resourceful space alien whose one-man flying saucer Read More

My Favorite Martian: The Awful Truth

Synopsis: Tim (Bill Bixby) is anxious to learn what it would like to be a Martian, so Uncle Martin (Ray Walson) gives Tim the power to read minds for a 24-hour period. Naturally, this special gift quickly backfires when Tim interviews Councilman Jack Gramby, a man who seems incapable of making up his Read More

Bonanza: Rich Man, Poor Man

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, John Fiedler

Synopsis: Perennial loser Claude Miller (John Fiedler) becomes a winner overnight when he strikes a rich silver lode. Determined to get even with the people who had previously subjected him to ridicule, Claude buys out his tormentors' mortgages. Alas, once a loser, always a loser: Claude's plans for revenge Read More

The Fugitive: See Hollywood and Die

Synopsis: During a gas station holdup, Richard Kimble (David Janssen) and Joanne Spencer (Brenda Vaccaro) are taken hostage by psychotic gunmen Miles (Chris Robinson) and Vinnie (Lou Antonio). In an effort to save Joanne's life, Kimble pretends to be a master criminal, offering to cut the two thugs in on a Read More

My Favorite Martian: Raffles No. 2

Synopsis: Applying for a driver's license, Martin (Ray Walston) is unable to provide copies of his fingerprints--mainly because he hasn't any. Thinking quickly, he "borrows" the print of the man standing next to him in line. Unfortunately, that man turns out to be notorious jewel thief Brian Henley (Howard Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Up in Barney's Room

Actors: Betty Lynn, Enid Markey

Synopsis: For committing various infractions-including cooking in his room-Barney is evicted by his landlady Mrs. Mendelbright (Enid Markey). Too stubborn to make amends, Barney temporarily moves into the Sheriff's office, but soon wears out his welcome there as well. Meanwhile, Mrs. Mendelbright is being Read More

Days of Wine and Roses

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman, Alan Hewitt

Synopsis: In this addiction melodrama, Joe Clay (Jack Lemmon), a promising adman, meet his future wife Kirsten (Lee Remick) at a party. Once married, the pressures of his business lead Joe to seek solace in liquor. Kirsten joins him in his nocturnal drinking sessions, and before long both are confirmed Read More

The Cabinet of Caligari

Actors: Glynis Johns, Dan O'Herlihy, Dick Davalos, Lawrence Dobkin, Constance Ford, Estelle Winwood

Synopsis: This horror film is an updated remake of the 1919 classic tale of horror and domination. This time a deeply troubled woman must go to a spooky, ramshackle old manse after her car breaks down. The owner takes her in and then subjects her to numerous humiliating torments. Just before she is to die Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Fugitive

Actors: J. Pat O'Malley, Susan Gordon, Nancy Kulp, Wesley Lau, Paul Tripp

Synopsis: One of Charles Beaumont's most charming Twilight Zone scripts, this episode stars the ubiqitious J. Pat O'Malley as Old Ben, the only ray of sunshine in the life of crippled eight-year-old Jenny (Susan Gordon). Out of earshot of Jenny's harridan guardian Mrs. Gann (Nancy Kulp), Old Ben confesses Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: What's in a Middle Name?

Actors: Carl Benton Reid, Geraldine Wall, J. Pat O'Malley, Isabel Randolph, Cyril Delevanti

Synopsis: A confused Ritchie (Larry Mathews) stops Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) cold during breakfast one morning with a big question: Why is Ritchie's middle name "Rosebud"? In answer, Rob and Laura flash back to a family gathering at the Petrie home a few months before Ritchie's birth Read More

The Swamp Fox: A Woman's Courage

Synopsis: In the seventh episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) has rescued his sweetheart Mary Videaux (Barbara Eiler) from the clutches of British officer Col. Tarleton. In their efforts to escape the British-held port of Read More

Blueprint for Robbery

Actors: Jay Barney, J. Pat O'Malley, Robert Gist, Romo Vincent, Marion Ross

Synopsis: Theft is the pivotal element of this drama which was based on a Brink's robbery. A gang of thieves decide to pull a major heist. They carefully prepare, including a trip inside to pinpoint the alarms and guards while making key impressions. The actual robbery is shown as is the chaos which Read More

101 Dalmatians

Actors: Rod Taylor, J. Pat O'Malley, Betty Lou Gerson, Martha Wentworth, Ben Wright

Synopsis: This Disney animated classic is based on the children's story by Dodie Smith. The story involves the canine pets of a struggling composer and his wife: Dalmatians Pongo (male) and Perdita (female). Perdita gives birth to fifteen spotted pups, cuing the entrance of the scheming Cruella De Vil. She Read More

The Swamp Fox: Horses for Greene

Synopsis: In the final episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Revolutionary War patriot Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) and his fellow guerillas have placed themselves under the command of Continental Army officer Captain Richardson (James Seay). Intending to instill some discipline Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Roving River

Synopsis: Perry (Raymond Burr) is summoned to Manzan Valley to settle a bitter land dispute. His client is Judy Bryant (Sarah Marshall), who claims the the boundary on her property was illegally changed when the river was rerouted. Judy's key witness is her no-good stepfather Amos (Robert Lowery), who Read More

The Swamp Fox: Redcoat Strategy

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, the guerilla forces under the leadership of Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) have succeeded in capturing British officer Col. Townes (Henry Daniell). Unfortunately, Marion's longtime enemy Col. Tarleton (John Sutton) has, at Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Prudent Prosecutor

Synopsis: Lt. Tragg (Ray Collins) can't believe his eyes: traditional courtroom rivals Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) and DA Hamilton Burger (William Talman) are working together to save a man from a murder charge! The man in question is Jeff Pike (J. Pat O'Malley), who years earlier had saved Burger's life. Read More

The Untouchables: Portrait of a Thief

Synopsis: At the behest of Elliot Ness (Robert Stack), "Untouchable" Enrico Rossi (Nick Georgiade) goes undercover to pinpoint the source of some 190-proof grain alcohol being smuggled into Chicago. The trail leads to an outwardly respectable pharamaceutical firm, run by E. Carlton Duncan (Edward Andrews) Read More

The Swamp Fox: Tory Vengeance

Synopsis: In the third episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) must pretend to despise his sweetheart, Mary Videaux (Barbara Eiler), lest anyone suspects Mary is one of Francis' most valuable allies against the Redcoats. Despite Read More

Wanted: Dead or Alive: The Medicine Man

Synopsis: Taken from the popular television series, this video follows the adventures of bounty hunter Josh Randall in the episode "The Medicine Man." ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Swamp Fox: Day of Reckoning

Synopsis: In the fourth episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Continental Army guerilla leader Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) feels responsible when his nephew Gabe is killed by the Tories. Letting revenge outweigh his duty to his men, Marion personally sets out to kill Gabe's Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Chaser

Actors: George Grizzard, John McIntire, Patricia Barry, J. Pat O'Malley, Barbara Perry

Synopsis: Scripted by Robert Presnell, Jr. from a short story by John Collier, this Twilight Zone episode focuses on Robert Shackleforth (George Grizzard), a lovestruck young man who cannot get the girl of his dreams, the ravishing Leila (Patricia Barry), to acknowledge his existence. In desperation, Robert Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Out at the Old Ballpark

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) has been summoned to the town of Whiskey Slide, where a baseball game has been going on for days and days. Unfortunately, the makeshift ballpark has become a battleground due to long-standing feuds amongst the local players and their professional out-of-town rivals; in Read More

The Swamp Fox: A Case of Treason

Synopsis: In the sixth episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, 18th century American guerilla leader Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) has again succeeded in thwarting the plans of Redcoat officer Col. Tarleton (John Sutton). Escaping from Marion's men, Tarleton takes refuge in the home Read More

Maverick: Betrayal

Synopsis: While travelling on a stagecoach, Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) strikes up a conversation with Ann Saunders (Pat Crowley), an Easterner who claims to have come West to meet her cousin. En route, the coach is robbed, and Bart cannot help but notice that Ann seems to be acquainted with one of the Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Dusty Drawer

Synopsis: Botany teacher Norman Logan (Dick York) is surprised to find that his bank account is short 200 dollars. Reporting this loss as an error, Norman confronts officious clerk Mr. Tritt (Philip Coolidge), who insists that the bank never, but never, makes a mistake. To prove Tritt wrong, and to extract Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Impossible Dream

Synopsis: Washed-up actor Oliver Mathews (Franchot Tone) would rather dally with a pretty wardrobe girl than spend time with his adoring spinsterish secretary, Miss Hall (Carmen Mathews). But there's a more pressing problem in Oliver's life: namely, a middle-aged woman named Grace Dolan (Mary Astor), who Read More

The Swamp Fox: The Birth of the Swamp Fox

Synopsis: One of producer Walt Disney's more blatant efforts to duplicate the success of his early TV miniseries Davy Crockett, the eight-part Swamp Fox featured another flamboyant frontiersman hero who wore coonskin-style headgear and whose adventures were introduced with a catchy, memorable theme song. Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Episode in Laredo

Synopsis: In Laredo, Texas, Paladin (Richard Boone) forms a fast friendship with Sam Tuttle (Gene Lyons), a notoriously unbeatable gunfighter. Not long afterward, Paladin kills a man named Kovac (Alan Dexter), who happens to be Tuttle's host. Now, despite their fondness and respect for one another, Paladin Read More

The Long, Hot Summer

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick

Synopsis: While often regarded as one of America's greatest novelists, William Faulkner produced work that did not always translate well to the screen; it's ironically appropriate that this movie, based on several of Faulkner's short stories, is often regarded as one of the best films based on his work Read More

Maverick: Shady Deal at Sunny Acres

Synopsis: In one of Maverick's all-time greatest episodes, Bret (James Garner) is cheated out of $15,000 by "respectable" banker John Bates (John Dehner). Since Bret is unable to reclaim the money through legal means, his brother Bart (Jack Kelly) devises an elaborate sting operation to beat Bates at his Read More

Four Boys and a Gun

Actors: Frank Sutton, James Franciscus, Otto Hulett

Synopsis: Long before he became entrenched in the public's consciousness as Sgt. Carter on Gomer Pyle USMC, Frank Sutton topped the cast of the minor juvenile-delinquent melodrama Four Boys and a Gun. Sutton plays Ollie Denker, a runner for a gang of bookies who gets into deep doo-doo when he rips off his Read More

Witness for the Prosecution

Actors: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Una O'Connor

Synopsis: Having just recovered from a heart attack, fabled British barrister Sir Wilfred Robards (Charles Laughton) has been ordered by his doctor to give up everything he holds dear-brandy, cigars and especially courtroom cases. Robards' already shaky resolve to follow doctor's orders flies out the window Read More

Courage of Black Beauty

Actors: John Crawford, Mimi Gibson, John Bryant, Diane Brewster

Synopsis: Shortly before signing on for TV's The Rifleman, Johnny Crawford played the juvenile lead in Courage of Black Beauty. Feeling alienated from his rancher father John Bryant,Crawford invests all his affections in his pet foal. Through his love for the horse--who of course grows up to become Black Read More

Thumbs Up

Actors: Brenda Joyce, Richard Fraser, Elsa Lanchester, Arthur Margetson, J. Pat O'Malley

Synopsis: In this wartime musical, a feisty singer working in a London dive swears that she will become a star. She gets a job in an airplane plant when she learns that her fiance, a producer, and his partner are looking for new talent at the war factories. While working there, the woman meets a handsome Read More

A Little Bit of Heaven

Actors: Gloria Jean, Robert Stack, Hugh Herbert, C. Aubrey Smith, Stuart Erwin

Synopsis: Teenaged soprano Gloria Jean plays the Little-Miss-Fixit heroine in Universal's Little Bit of Heaven. The most precocious member of an impoverished 10th Avenue family, little Midge (Gloria Jean) makes an impulsive appearance on a "man in the street" radio interview show. Catapulted to stardom Read More

Little Tough Guy

Actors: Billy Halop, Helen Parrish, Robert Wilcox, Marjorie Main, Gabriel Dell

Synopsis: The first of the "splinter" groups to emerge from the Dead End Kids was the Little Tough Guys, consisting of veteran Dead-Enders Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly and David Gorcey (Hally Chester and Billy Benedict would also appear in this new grouping from time to time). Read More