James B. SikkingFilmography

Fever Pitch

Actors: Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon, Jason Spevack, Jack Kehler, Scott H. Severance

Synopsis: Nick Hornby's acclaimed memoir about one man's struggle to balance his love of a woman and his love for soccer was the basis of a well-reviewed British film in 1997, and now gets a Americanized rewrite with this picture, in which the game is changed from soccer to baseball. Ben (Jimmy Fallon) is a Read More

Curb Your Enthusiasm: The 5 Wood

Synopsis: During rehearsals with David Schwimmer for The Producers, Larry (Larry David) finds out that Schwimmer's father runs the Health-Glo mixed nut company. Larry has some ideas for the company, but Schwimmer advises him to "stay in your element." Later, Larry goes out to get some snacks with Steve (Patrick Bristow Read More

Submerged

Synopsis: Made for television, Submerged is the true story of the U.S.S Squalus, a submarine which was immobilized some 230 feet below the Portsmouth Naval Yard in 1939. Taking into account the 59 crew members on board, a daring and dangerous plan was hatched to expedite a rescue, using a diving bell for Read More

Nowhere to Land

Actors: Jack Wagner, Christine Elise, James B. Sikking, Ernie Hudson, Mark Lee

Synopsis: Even as security is beefed up in Australia in anticipation of the 2000 Olympics, someone manages to slip a deadly nerve gas device -- and a detonator -- on a 747 jet bound from Sydney to L.A. The authorities are uncertain as to whether the person responsible for this outrage is a terrorist or Read More

Mutiny

Actors: Michael Jai White, David Ramsey, Duane Martin, Adrian Pasdar, Matthew Glave

Synopsis: This made-for-television docudrama that aired on March 28, 1999 on NBC, relates the story of an actual event that occurred during World War II, but is centered around the lives of fictional characters. On July 17, 1944 at a U.S. naval base near San Francisco, a ship exploded causing the deaths of Read More

Brooklyn South [TV Series]

Danielle Steel's 'The Ring'

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Linda Lavin, Michael York, Jon Tenney, James B. Sikking

Synopsis: In this drama, a German woman treasures a ring, the one tie she has left to her life before WWII. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dare to Love

Synopsis: Devoted to the point of obsession to her brother, Jessica Wells (Jodie Bissett) is completely unhinged by the brother's death. When Jessica becomes schizophrenic, her family must deal with the grim necessity of institutionalizing the girl. Salvation comes from an unexpected source: a new Read More

World War II: Breadlines to Boomtimes - A World in Flames

Synopsis: This documentary is part of a three-volume set that looks at the effects of World War II on the American economy and society. In this episode, the film explores the impact of the war on the American psyche. Many did not want the United States to be involved in the European conflict. Others felt Read More

World War II: Breadlines to Boomtimes - The Problems of Peace

Synopsis: This is the final episode in a three-part series which explores the effects of World War II on the United States. Postwar America was a much changed place for the returning veterans. Gone were the bread lines of the Depression. In their stead were new jobs and factories. And new people were Read More

Dead Badge

Actors: Brian Wimmer, M. Emmet Walsh, Yaphet Kotto, James B. Sikking, Olympia Dukakis

Synopsis: In this police drama, a police detective must wear the badge previously owned by a deceased colleague. Following a terrifying shoot-out, the shaken gumshoe begins investigating the circumstances surrounding the slain officer's demise. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Pelican Brief

Actors: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard, Tony Goldwyn

Synopsis: Embroiled in an affair with Thomas Callahan (Sam Shephard), her alcoholic professor, precocious 24-year-old Tulane University law student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) writes up an insightful theory about the recent murder of two Supreme Court justices, one of whom, Abraham Rosenberg (Hume Cronyn) Read More

Final Approach

Actors: James B. Sikking, Hector Elizondo, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Kevin McCarthy, Cameo Kneuer

Synopsis: Colonel Jason J. Halsey is a test pilot for the super-secret Stealth bomber. During one mission, he has a terrible crash and loses consciousness. This special-effects-laden drama follows what happens to him afterward. When Halsey finally awakens he is suffering from total amnesia and finds himself Read More

Doogie Howser, M.D.: Season 04

Actors: Neil Patrick Harris, James B. Sikking, Belinda Montgomery, Max Casella, Lawrence Pressman

Synopsis: At the age of 20, child prodigy Doogie Howser (Neil Patrick Harris) remains America's youngest practicing physician--not to mention one of the shyest and most self-effacing members of his profession--as Doogie Howser MD begins its fourth and final season. Besides Harris, most of the familiar Read More

Doing Time on Maple Drive

Actors: James B. Sikking, Bibi Besch, David Byron, Jayne Brook, Jim Carrey

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV drama, a New England family's secrets all come tumbling out at once as they spend a weekend together to celebrate the engagement of their youngest son. Lisa Carter (Bibi Besch) and her military husband, Phil (James B. Sikking), couldn't be happier when their youngest son, Matt Read More

Doogie Howser, M.D.: Season 03

Actors: Neil Patrick Harris, James B. Sikking, Belinda Montgomery, Max Casella, Lawrence Pressman

Synopsis: Season Three proves to be a year of transition on Doogie Howser M.D.. Figuring that he has reached his majority at age 18, child prodigy Doogie Howser (Neil Patrick Harris), America's youngest practicing physician, decides to move out of his family's house and into a bachelor apartment, sharing Read More

Narrow Margin

Actors: Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James B. Sikking, J.T. Walsh, M. Emmet Walsh

Synopsis: Narrow Margin directed by Peter Hyams and loosely based on the classic film noir of the same title, tells the story of a resourceful District Attorney who must return a witness to San Francisco alive so she can testify in a trial. Carol (Anne Archer) is in the bathroom of the hotel room of her Read More

Doogie Howser, M.D.: Season 02

Actors: Neil Patrick Harris, James B. Sikking, Belinda Montgomery, Max Casella, Lawrence Pressman

Synopsis: Season Two of Doogie Howser M.D. finds the titular hero (Neil Patrick Harris entering his third year of residency at LA's Eastman Medical Center--not bad for a 17-year-old kid who still has to be home before curfew! The responsibilities of his job has child-prodigy Doogie worrying that he is Read More

Hunter: City Under Siege, Part 3

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a three-part story, the various intrigues at a violence-ridden high school come to head as McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) settles accounts with a gang leader and a philandering teacher. At the same time, Deputy Chief Moorehead (Robert Vaughn) clashes with McCall's boss Devane Read More

Doogie Howser, M.D.: Season 01

Actors: Neil Patrick Harris, James B. Sikking, Belinda Montgomery, Max Casella, Lawrence Pressman

Synopsis: Although 16-year-old prodigy Doogie Howser (Neil Patrick Harris) is America's youngest physician, he still has a lot to learn in the maturity department, as amply demonstrated during Season One of Doogie Howser, M.D.. Doing his appointed rounds as second-year resident at Eastman Medical Center in Read More

Hunter: City Under Siege, Part 2

Synopsis: In the second episode of a three-part story, Hunter (Fred Dryer) continues his search for a serial killer who preys on authority figures, beginning with a phy-ed teacher at a violence-ridden high school. Meanwhile, a mysterious neighborhood vigilante has been targetting those whom he regards as Read More

The Brotherhood of the Rose

Actors: Robert Mitchum, David Morse, Peter Strauss

Synopsis: Based on a novel by David Morrell, the made-for-TV Brotherhood of the Rose is unabashedly old-fashioned escapist espionage fare. Peter Strauss and David Morse play polar-opposite CIA agents, code names Romulus and Remus. Their superior-and father figure-is crusty CIA official Robert Mitchum. Read More

Desperado: Badlands Justice

Actors: Alex McArthur

Synopsis: Badlands Justice is another in a series of Desperado feature films made exclusively for television. Alex McArthur returns as cowboy Duell McCall, who wanders the wide frontier in search of the one man who will clear him of a murder charge (What price Fugitive?) Once more, McCall finds himself in a Read More

Hunter: City Under Siege, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a three-part story, Hunter (Fred Dryer) and McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) are ordered to participate in a police task force to curb a recent upsurge in urban violence. McCall goes undercover as a phy-ed instructor at a tough neighborhood school, replacing a teacher who has been Read More

The Final Days

Actors: Ann Hearn, Lane Smith, Amanda Wyss

Synopsis: The three-hour TV docudrama The Final Days was based on the Bob Woodward/Carl Bernstein chronicle of President Richard M. Nixon's last months in the White House. Given his behavior during the entire Watergate imbroglio, Nixon cannot help but come off as a paranoid power-abuser. As played by Lane Smith Read More

Too Good to Be True

Synopsis: A remake of the 1945 Gene Tierny vehicle Leave Her to Heaven, Loni Anderson plays a newlywed whose over-possessiveness of her husband's attentions takes on a dangerous edge. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss

Synopsis: Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss was first telecast in the Summer of 1988--appropriately enough, since its plot deals with a disaster-laden summer vacation. The "Haven of Bliss" is a ramshackle summer house where a bullheaded father insists that his family spend a few of their vacation weeks. If Read More

Police Story: The Freeway Killings

Synopsis: Much of the original cast from the popular television series Police Story reunited for this edgy drama, in which the detectives search for a killer loose on the roads. This entry was one of several TV-movies in the late 1980s to feature the familiar cast in the Police Story format. ~ Bernadette Read More

Bay Coven

Actors: Tim Matheson, Pamela Sue Martin, Woody Harrelson, Susan Ruttan, Barbara Billingsley

Synopsis: This slow-moving occult thriller has Pamela Sue Martin and hubbie Tim Matheson menaced by a coven of witches when they move to an island off the coast of Massachusetts. Director Carl Schenkel -- who went on to make the interesting Knight Moves -- does the best he can with a tedious script and a Read More

Soul Man

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Arye Gross, Rae Dawn Chong, James Earl Jones, Melora Hardin, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: An ambitious-but -spoiled rich white kid wins a scholarship to Harvard Law School by pretending to be African-American in this broadly-played comedy. After his father cuts him off financially, Mark Watson (C. Thomas Howell) wins a full tuition scholarship to Harvard by claiming to be Read More

Dress Gray

Synopsis: A made for TV movie which serves as much a condemnation of the military establishment as a murder mystery, this film revolves around an upper classman who is falsely accused of responsibility for the death of a student when he begins to investigate the mysterious demise of the young gay cadet. Read More

Hill Street Blues: Season 06

First Steps

Actors: Judd Hirsch, Amy Steel, Kim Darby

Synopsis: First Steps was inspired by a widely-seen, enthusiastically received 1982 piece on 60 Minutes. Amy Steel plays Nan Davis, a young woman totally paralyzed in an auto accident. Judd Hirsch costars as Dr. Jerold Petrovsky, a bioengineer who attaches computerized electrodes to Nan to enable her to Read More

Morons from Outer Space

Actors: Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, Paul Bown, Joanne Pearce, Jimmy Nail, Dinsdale Landen

Synopsis: In this partially successful Brit sci-fi comedy, four invading aliens cannot really think their way out of a paper bag, much less conquer Earth with their superior knowledge (apparently also non-existent). Of the aliens, Desmond (Jimmy Nail) is particularly thick-headed and leaves Bernard (Mel Smith Read More

Hill Street Blues: Season 05

World War II: Breadlines to Boomtimes - Changing the Face of America

Synopsis: This is an episode in a three-part series on the impact of the second World War on the United States. The coming war brought unprecedented changes to America. Once sunk deeply in economic depression, the economy was now booming, as the country made ready for war. It was a time of unprecedented Read More

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Walter Koenig, James Doohan

Synopsis: When last we left the crew of the star ship Enterprise, they were heading home following a skirmish with the despotic Khan. The unpleasant incident had cost the life of Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy)--or so it seemed. Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) is informed by Spock's father Sarek (Mark Lenard Read More

Hill Street Blues: Season 04

Up the Creek

Actors: Tim Matheson, Jennifer Runyon, Stephen Furst, Dan Monahan, Sandy Helberg

Synopsis: In this inane teen comedy, a rafting competition is going to determine whether four friends will graduate or not (an interesting amendment to college practices), and up against their team is a group of offensive rich kids. Meanwhile, a band of expelled military rafters is out to thwart the race as Read More

Hill Street Blues: Season 03

The Star Chamber

Actors: Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, Sharon Gless, James B. Sikking

Synopsis: Fed up with watching vicious criminals walk on technicalities and loopholes, judge Michael Douglas accepts his older colleague Hal Holbrook's invitation to join "The Star Chamber." This sub-rosa organization consists of nine like-minded judges who endeavor to take the law into their own hands. Read More

Hill Street Blues: Season 02

Outland

Actors: Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James B. Sikking, Kika Markham

Synopsis: For Marshal O'Neil (Sean Connery), the Jupiter moon Io is just another dingy mining town on the final frontier. When his wife leaves him and takes their son with them, it merely confirms that though he's traveled millions of miles, his life is going nowhere. Then he notices that miners are dying Read More

Hill Street Blues: Season 01

Actors: Daniel J. Travanti, Michael Conrad, Mike Warren, Charles Haid, Veronica Hamel

Ordinary People

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, Elizabeth McGovern

Synopsis: Robert Redford's directorial debut ended up the 1980 Oscar winner for Best Picture. It is a simple but painfully emotional story of the disintegration of a "perfect" family. Teenager Conrad (Timothy Hutton) lives under a cloud of guilt after his brother drowns after their boat capsizes in Lake Read More

The Competition

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Amy Irving, Lee Remick, Sam Wanamaker, Joseph Cali, Ty Henderson

Synopsis: Can two prodigies fall in love and stay in love, even when they are competing against one another in an international piano competition? Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving attempt to answer that question in The Competition. Richard Dreyfuss plays Paul Dietrich, a shabby prodigy slouching past the Read More

Trouble in High Timber Country

Synopsis: In this drama, union organizers, desperate to control the lumber and mining empire of a wealthy family, resort to sabotage. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Electric Horseman

Actors: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine, John Saxon, Willie Nelson

Synopsis: A cowboy-turned-huckster unexpectedly finds love as he tries to regain his self-respect in this romantic comedy drama. Sonny Steele (Robert Redford) is a one-time rodeo star whose career as a cowboy has ground to a halt. He makes a good living as a spokesman for Ranch Breakfast, a sugar-coated Read More

Brother on the Run

Synopsis: Perennial supporting players Terry Carter and James B. Sikking get to play leads in Black Force 2. It goes without saying that this is a sequel to the first Black Force (1975, aka Force Four). In the original, two crime-fighting brothers battle international criminals. In the sequel, two Read More

The Rockford Files: A Good Clean Bust With Sequel Rights

Synopsis: Jim (James Garner) is hired by an insurance firm to "baby-sit" Frank Falcone (Hector Elizondo), an ex-cop who has struck it rich as a crime novelist. Falcone's career has inspired a movie, a TV show, and a line of toys, and now Jim must prevent the former cop from engendering negative publicity at Read More

Capricorn One

Actors: Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston, O.J. Simpson

Synopsis: Astronauts Charles Brubaker, John Walker, and Peter Willis (James Brolin, O.J. Simpson, and Sam Waterston, respectively) are hailed as heroes when they become the first men to be rocketed to Mars. Actually the space travelers are as phony as their mission controller, Dr. James Kelloway (Hal Holbrook Read More

A Woman Called Moses

Actors: Orson Welles

Synopsis: The made-for-TV A Woman Called Moses stars Cicely Tyson as real-life escaped slave Harriet Tubman. A the risk of recapture, Tubman helped organize the underground railroad, which enabled hundreds of enslaved African Americans to make their way to the freedom of the Northern states. Adding to the Read More

Kill Me If You Can

Actors: Alan Alda, Talia Shire, Walter McGinn

Synopsis: The story of "red light bandit" Caryl Chessman, previously dramatized in the 1955 film Cell 2455, Death Row (based on Chessman's own book), was adapted for television as Kill Me If You Can. In a radical departure from his usual duties as MASH's Hawkeye Pierce, Alan Alda plays Chessman, who in 1948 Read More

Little House on the Prairie: To Live With Fear, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) is in dire need of a life-saving operation. Lacking the necessary funds, Mary's father, Charles (Michael Landon), signs up for a high-paying -- and highly-dangerous -- new job. Working shoulder to shoulder with his neighbor Read More

The Rockford Files: The Becker Connection

Synopsis: Police detective Dennis Becker (Joe Santos) is suspended after being framed on a heroin-possession charge. Since the drugs in question had been confiscated by the police, it would seem that somewhere in the Department is lurking a "dirty" cop determined to destroy Dennis. In his efforts to prove Read More

Young Joe, The Forgotten Kennedy

The Last Hurrah

Synopsis: 1977's Last Hurrah is a TV-movie remake of the 1958 John Ford film of the same name. Both versions are based on the Edwin O'Connor novel about the last days of flamboyant, larcenous Mayor Frank Skeffington--based upon the equally colorful, equally underhanded Boston mayor James Curley. Carroll O'Connor Read More

The Night God Screamed

Synopsis: In this grim and gory thriller, a young woman testifies against a murderous cult in court and finds herself threatened by a vengeful hood-wearing killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The F.B.I. Story - The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number

Actors: Harris Yulin

Synopsis: This somewhat clunkily titled TV movie was an offshoot of producer Quinn Martin's series The FBI. Robert Foxworth plays Depression-era desperado Alvin Karpis, who for nearly five years eluded capture while committing bank robberies, kidnappings and murders. Karpis finally comes acropper when the Read More

The Terminal Man

Actors: George Segal

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Michael Crichton, Terminal Man is a sci-fi thriller about a scientist who decides to be the lab rat in an experimental surgery to control his violent tendencies. During the surgical procedure, a miniature computer is implanted in his head. Unfortunately, the mechanism Read More

Man on the Run

Synopsis: After a teenager is involved in a small robbery, he becomes the prime suspect of a murder. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Coffee, Tea or Me?

Actors: Karen Valentine, John Davidson, Michael Anderson, Jr., Louise Lasser, Lou Jacobi

Synopsis: A dirty joke that became a "clean" TV movie, Coffee, Tea or Me stars Karen Valentine, cast to type as a perky stewardess. In a chaste variation of The Captain's Paradise, Valentine finds herself married to two different men in two different countries. Since the men are played by John Davidson and Michael Anderson Jr Read More

The Alpha Caper

Actors: Henry Fonda, Leonard Nimoy, Larry Hagman, James McEachin, Elena Verdugo

Synopsis: Henry Fonda stars in this TV movie as a worn-out probation officer who decides to heist a $30,000,000 gold shipment, using three ex-convicts as his "mob". Fonda's cohorts include Leonard Nimoy, James McEachin and Larry Hagman. The plan is meticulous (due in part to Fonda's inside knowledge), the Read More

Scorpio

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield, John Colicos, Gayle Hunnicutt

Synopsis: This spy thriller from future Death Wish (1974) director Michael Winner stars Burt Lancaster as the enigmatic Cross, a CIA agent who has hired a government assassin, Jean Laurier (Alain Delon), to kill an Arab terrorist. Once they return home, Laurier is arrested by his superior, McLeod (John Colicos Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Act of Duty

Synopsis: This 1973 episode features Brenda Vaccaro, the then girlfriend of series costar Michael Douglas (Steve Keller), as rookie SFPD officer Sherry Tate. When her roommate, likewise a cop, is murdered while tracking down an elusive rapist, Sherry volunteers to act as bait for the killer. Even after Read More

The New Centurions

Actors: George C. Scott, Stacy Keach, Jane Alexander, Scott Wilson, Rosalind Cash

Synopsis: Joseph Wambaugh's best-seller about patrol-car cops in urban Los Angeles is given a competent yet antiseptic treatment by director Richard Fleischer. The film has a bad-tasting us-versus-them mentality in its depiction of patrolmen-civilian interaction, and its hopeless atmosphere carries over Read More

Mission: Impossible: Committed

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Susan Howard

Synopsis: "Committed" was first telecast on January 22, 1972, the same day that the latest cast of Mission:Impossible appeared on the cover of TV Guide. Bert Freed guest stars as Syndicate chieftan Leon Chandler, whose trial for murder may end in acquittal thanks to the actions of a corrupt lieutenant Read More

The Magnificent Seven Ride!

Actors: Stefanie Powers, Mariette Hartley

Synopsis: This is the final sequel to The Magnificent Seven. In this chapter, the lead gunslinger has settled down with a new wife, and has become the marshal of a little town. His peaceful existence is disrupted when a psychotic outlaw rides in, robs the bank, wounds the marshal with his gun, and then Read More

The Astronaut

Synopsis: Astronaut Monte Markham has been dispatched to the heavens on the first US space trip to Mars. When TV coverage is abruptly cut off, the official story reads that there's been a slight malfunction, and that Markham is heading home. Only space official Jackie Cooper and a handful of associates know Read More

M*A*S*H: Tuttle

Synopsis: In order to requisition extra money and supplies for a group of Korean orphans, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) invents a fake doctor and war hero, "Captain Jonathan S. Tuttle." All goes well until Henry (McLean Stevenson), impressed by "Tuttle's" sterling record, wants to make the imaginary physician the Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Goodnight, Nancy

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

Synopsis: Though Emily does not look forward to a visit from Bob's former girlfriend, Nancy (Penny Fuller), and Nancy's husband, Chuck (Dick Schall), Bob is in a state of anticipatory glee. It seems that Nancy had thrown over Bob in favor of Chuck; now, convinced that Nancy is still carrying a torch for Read More

Family Flight

Synopsis: The family in "flight" is played by Rod Taylor, Dina Merrill and Kristoffer Tabori. While taking an airborne vacation to Mexico, the family crash-lands somewhere in the Baja peninsula. Having taken the vacation as a means to patch up a variety of differences, the family is forced to pull together Read More

The F.B.I.: The Game of Terror

Synopsis: A pair of youthful criminal wannabes, Chill and Bryan, concoct a "game" whereby they will kidnap a young boy and hold him for ransom. But the game turns deadly when the victim is hidden in a cave that is threatening to collapse upon him at any minute! In the original TV Guide synopsis, much was Read More

The F.B.I.: Three-Way Split

Synopsis: In a plot reminiscent of such "perfect crime" films as The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing, three strangers are brought together to commit a $900,000 bank robbery. Much of the preliminary footage is devoted to establishing the personalities and motives of the three crooks. Playboy Eliot Fielding Read More

Ironside: Dear Fran

Synopsis: Fran (Elizabeth Baur) is devastated when word arrives that her cousin Bobby has committed suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. But the lack of a corpse, and the sudden appearance of several letters allegedly written by Bobby and declaring his unrequited love for Fran, lead Ironside Read More

Man on a String

Actors: Christopher George, Jack Warden, Joel Grey, Keith Carradine

Synopsis: Man on a String was a derivation of Tightrope, a 1959-60 TV series starring Mike Connors as an undercover agent. Despite high ratings, Tightrope was forced off the air due to its excessive violence, but its producers held out hopes that someday they'd be able to revive the property. This 1971 Read More

Chandler

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, a private investigator falls for the former mistress of a racketeer who is slated to be a witness for the state. He is supposed to be quietly guarding her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Big Broadcast

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

Synopsis: In order to evade German radio-detection units, Hogan plants a transmitter in Klink's car. Hoping to relay information about a Nazi rocket factory to the Underground, Hogan is unexpectedly stymied by Sgt. Schultz, who "borrows" the car to do a bit of black-market swapping. This episode was written Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Homecoming

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: In a change-of-pace Mission:Impossible episode, Jim Phelps makes a sentimental journey to his rural home town. Even here, however, Phelps finds himself waist-deep in a danger, as a series of unexplained murders terrorizes the community. Summoning the aid of his fellow IMF agents, Phelps conducts Read More

The F.B.I.: The Condemned

Synopsis: The Season Six opener of The F.B.I finds federal agents Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and Colby (William Reynolds) canvassing an era ranging from Pennsylvania to Oregon in search of two elusive bank robbers. Perry Victor (Martin Sheen) is the suave schemer of the pair, while Shep Buford (Tim Read More

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

Actors: Carol White, Scott Hylands, Paul Burke, Mala Powers, Rachel Ames

Synopsis: Kenneth Daly (Scott Hylands) is the right-wing anti-abortion fanatic who snaps when his girlfriend has an abortion. The couple naturally breaks up, but Kenneth remains bent for revenge against Cathy (Carol White). She goes on to marry a politician, but the vengeful Kenneth returns and subjects her Read More

Hogan's Heroes: My Favorite Prisoner

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

Synopsis: Well aware of Col. Hogan's fondness for pretty ladies, Klink dispatches sexy Baroness Von Krim (Marj Dusay to pry information out of Hogan. Quickly tumbling to Klink's strategy, Hogan quickly improvises a counterscheme, introducing the Baroness to a British agent named Captain Sears (John Orchard) Read More

Charro!

Actors: Elvis Presley, Ina Balin, Victor French, Lynn Kellogg, Barbara Werle

Synopsis: This western saga finds Jess Wade (Elvis Presley) as a reformed gunfighter who is stalked and captured by his former band of outlaws. Vince (Victor French) is the heavy who orders Jess' cheek to be branded with a hot iron. The gang terrorizes a small town by threatening to use a gold-plated and Read More

Hogan's Heroes: No Names Please

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

Synopsis: Hogan and his crew enable war correspondent Walter Hobson (Richard Erdman) to escape to England. Unfortunately, Hobson chooses to honor Hogan by publishing an account of his underground exploits in an American newspaper. Though the article mentions no names, Gestapo officer Hochstetter puts Read More

Bonanza: The Trackers

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Warren Stevens

Synopsis: Ben and Hoss Cartwright, together with ranchhand Candy, join a posse to capture Cully Maco (Bruce Dern), an ex-convict wanted for robbery and murder. Trouble is, the other members of the posse are determined to kill their prisoner without a trial. And as if that wasn't enough intrigue, Cully is Read More

Adam-12: Log 72: El Presidente

Synopsis: Officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) answer a summons from a bemused suburbanite, who can't figure out why over fifty Mexican youngsters have "adopted" him as a surrogate father and camped out on his front lawn. Elsewhere, the two patrolman capture a robber, and try to Read More

The F.B.I.: Wind It Up and It Betrays You

Synopsis: In the opening episode of The F.B.I.'s fourth season, Inspector Lew Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and his assistant Tom Colby (William Reynolds) go undercover to trap master spy Lorenz Tabor (Louis Jourdan). Ingredients essential to the intrigue are a bus ticket, a cryptanalysis, and a dead man's Read More

Point Blank

Actors: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor, John Vernon

Synopsis: Based on Donald E. Westlake's novel The Hunter, John Boorman's gangster film hauntingly merges a generic revenge story with a European art cinema sensibility. In Alcatraz to divvy up the spoils from a robbery, thief Walker (Lee Marvin) is instead shot point blank by his double-crossing friend Mal Read More

Bonanza: Judgement at Red Creek

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, John Ireland, Harry Carey, Jr.

Synopsis: Joe Cartwright joins a posse led by Sheriff Rimbau (John Ireland) to capture two robbery/murder suspects. For Rimbau, it is personal: His own brother Jack (James B. Sikking) was killed by the outlaws. Before long, Joe realizes that Rimbau intends to be judge, jury and executioner, thoroughly Read More

The F.B.I.: The Assassin

Synopsis: Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) learns that Bishop John Atwood (Dean Jagger), a peace envoy to the US, has been targetted for assassination. Unfortunately, the trigger man, known only to the FBI as "Anton Christopher", has never been photographed or fingerprinted, making it virtually impossible to Read More

The Fugitive: Ten Thousand Pieces of Silver

Synopsis: At the request of Lt. Gerard, a newspaper posts a $10,000 reward for the capture of fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen)--who at that moment is working as a farmhand for Jacob Lawrence (Lin McCarthy). While thus employed, Kimble befriends Lawrence's autistic daughter Cathy (June Harding) Read More

Von Ryan's Express

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà, Brad Dexter, James Brolin, Sergio Fantoni, Edward Mulhare

Synopsis: Von Ryan's Express is a fast-paced, well-acted World War II drama, featuring a squadron of Allied soldiers trying to escape a prison camp in Italy. While most of the prisoners at the camp are British, a determined, resourceful American Air Force colonel (Frank Sinatra) takes charge and leads the Read More

My Favorite Martian: Who's Got a Secret?

Synopsis: Gavin McLeod makes the first of two appearances as Mrs. Brown's younger brother Alvin, a lifelong moocher with a tendency to stretch the truth to the breaking point. Thanks to Alvin's loose lips, a high ranking general (Don Briggs) becomes convinced that Alvin and Martin (Ray Walston) are working Read More

The Fugitive: Last Second of a Big Dream

Synopsis: As "Nick Peters", Kimble (David Janssen) lands a job with the wild-animal show owned by Barry Craft (Steve Forrest). Figuring out Kimble's true identity, the greedy Craft hopes to make his circus as famous as the Biograph Theater (where Dillinger met his doom) by arranging for the fugitive to be Read More

The Strangler

Actors: Victor Buono, David McLean, Diane Sayer, Davey Davison, Ellen Corby

Synopsis: In 1964, as the "Boston Strangler" killings of young nurses in Boston remained unsolved, this film was rushed into release to exploit the horrifying situation. Victor Buono gives a chilling performance as Leo Kroll, a worker in a Boston hospital who has a propensity for strangling young nurses. Read More

Combat!: The Long Way Home, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Saunders (Vic Morrow) and his men attempt to cross over a hill festooned with German soldiers. They have only advanced a few yards when they are captured by Captain Steiner (Richard Basehart), a sadistic SS officer. Herded into Steiner's headquarters Read More

The Fugitive: Home Is the Hunted

Synopsis: Receiving word that his father Dr. John Kimble (Robert Keith) is seriously ill, Richard Kimble (David Janssen) risks recapture by paying a return visit to his home town of Stafford, Indiana. No sooner has Kimble arrived than he is confronted by his resentful brother Ray (Andrew Prine), who seems Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Misguided Missile

Synopsis: Once again, Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) is called upon to defend an old war buddy on a murder charge. This time around, his client is Major Jerry Reynolds (Robert Rockwell), who is also the target of an investigation at Vandenberg Air Force Base concerning the mysterious crashes of several guided Read More

Man on the Run

Actors: Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Edward Chapman, Laurence Harvey, Howard Marion-Crawford

Synopsis: A man recently gone AWOL from the Army (Derek Farr) is arrested in a store robbery that occurred while he was shopping. With help from a beautiful lawyer (Joan Hopkins), he must prove his innocence. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More