James Doohan Filmography

Bug Buster

Actors: James Doohan, Katherine Heigl, Randy Quaid, Meredith Salenger, George Takei

Synopsis: When a typical teenager discovers her family is moving from a large city to a small town in the country, there are plenty of changes she's planning on ... but battling swarms of murderous insects isn't one of them. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

UFOs: Above and Beyond

Synopsis: This documentary on Unidentified Flying Objects collects video footage captured of UFO's landing on water, mass sightings of purported alien spacecraft and a look at the mysterious "Area 51." Interviews with numerous UFO researchers are also included, including Bob Lazar. Narrated by James Doohan Read More

Trekkies

Synopsis: Thirty years ago, science-fiction editor Art Saha coined the term "trekkies" when he saw a few fans of Star Trek's first season wearing pointy ears. Today, the word is found in the Oxford dictionary, and aficionados of the long-run series have seen their subculture achieve stratospheric status. In Read More

Through Dead Eyes

Actors: James Doohan

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 103: Trials and Tribble-ations

Synopsis: First telecast November 4, 1996, this Deep Space Nine episode was a harkback to the classic 1967 Star Trek installment "The Trouble with Tribbles." Charlie Brill, a holdover from the original episode, reprises his role as renegade Klingon agent Arne Darvin, who sets the plot in motion by Read More

Storybook

Actors: Swoosie Kurtz, William McNamara, Sean Fitzgerald, Richard Moll, Milton Berle, Ed Begley, Jr.

Synopsis: A trip to the attic of his new house lands young Brandon and his loyal dog in a magical world ruled by a wicked queen. There he meets a captive prince and vows to help the youthful prince relocate a powerful sword and prevent it from falling into the queen's greedy hands. This fantasy adventure is Read More

William Shatner's Star Trek Memories

Synopsis: William Shatner spent many years as Captain James T. Kirk, the captain of Star Trek's Enterprise and its intrepid crew. This video features Shatner and various other original cast members as they recollect some of the series' most interesting moments. Among the topics covered are the origins of Read More

Star Trek Generations

Actors: Patrick Stewart, William Shatner, Malcolm McDowell, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner

Synopsis: The seventh Star Trek feature passed the torch to a new crew. Decades after the original "Trek," the skipper of the fourth USS Enterprise is Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), who investigates a massacre at a science outpost. The only survivor is Dr. Soran (Malcolm McDowall), who Read More

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson, Jon Lovitz, Tim Curry, Kathy Ireland

Synopsis: The Lethal Weapon series and the rest of the buddy-cop genre receives the parody treatment in this low-brow comedy. Emilio Estevez stars as Jack Colt, the Mel Gibson-like loose cannon, while Samuel L. Jackson assumes the Danny Glover role as Wes Luger, his exasperated partner. Together, Colt and Read More

Amore!

Actors: Jack Scalia, Kathy Ireland, George Hamilton, Norm Crosby, Elliott Gould

Synopsis: Investment banker Jack Scalia would give anything to escape his wealthy but empty existence. He fantasizes about becoming an Italian movie star, like his idol George Hamilton. Shedding himself of his wife and job, Scalia heads to Tinseltown to realize his dream, changing his name and adopting a Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Relics

Synopsis: The old Star Trek intersects with the new version in this episode, which originally aired October 17, 1992. Responding to a distress call, Geordi and Riker come across the remains of a 75-year-old starship, whereupon they discover a crewman trapped in a transporter beam. The unfortunate fellow is Read More

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Kim Cattrall, David Warner, James Doohan, Walter Koenig

Synopsis: The plot involves a peace conference between the Federation of Planets and the troublesome Klingons. The Klingons are hoping to perform a little damage control after triggering a mining disaster on one of their moons; their spokesman is the seemingly contrite General Chang (Christopher Plummer). Read More

Knight Rider 2000

Actors: David Hasselhoff, Susan Norman, Edward Mulhare

Synopsis: Michael returns to the Knight coroporation to help them build a new KITT for the 21st century. Gunrunners and evil cops provide the first crime the new Kitt foils. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Double Trouble

Actors: Peter Paul, David Paul, Roddy McDowall, James Doohan, A.J. Johnson

Synopsis: Two beefed-up twins (played by the Paul brothers, Peter and David, who have appeared in several programmers as "The Barbarian Brothers") operating on opposing sides of the law, team up to stop a nefarious crook in this actioner. Peter Jade is a notoriously arrogant burglar who ends up with the key Read More

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

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

Synopsis: Kirk (William Shatner), McCoy (DeForest Kelley), and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) are enjoying a vacation in Yosemite National Park when duty calls. Vulcan cult leader Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill) and his followers have invaded a "planet of peace," where delegates from hostile races co-exist in a sort of Read More

1996

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

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

Synopsis: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) concludes the story arc begun with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and continued in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), but on a wholly new, different, and upbeat note. As the movie opens, months have elapsed since the events in Star Trek III; 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 Vulcan father Sarek (Mark Lenard Read More

Magnum, P.I.: The Big Blow

Synopsis: The guests at Robin Master's Spring Equinox party find themselves trapped on the estate by a raging typhoon. Unfortunately, among the revellers are a number of uninivited guests, including a pair of gun-wielding escaped convicts, a pregnant woman about to go into labor, and a person whose mission Read More

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

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

Synopsis: Because it is the simplest of the Star Trek theatrical films, Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan is fondly regarded as being the closest in spirit to the 1966-69 TV series that spawned it. William Shatner plays Admiral Kirk (remember his promotion?) who escapes the tedium of a desk job to join Mr. Read More

Danny

Synopsis: Rebecca Page plays a poor girl who comes across an injured horse. She names the animal Danny, nurses it back to health, and grows to love it. The problem is that the horse had previously been sold off to a wealthy family, whose spoiled daughter (Janet Zarish), having previously rejected Danny Read More

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

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

Synopsis: When plans to launch a second Star Trek television series in the late 1970s were scrapped by Paramount Pictures, the show's creator, Gene Roddenberry, instead transformed the aborted program's 2-hour pilot into this big budget theatrical feature. Five years after the legendary voyages of the Read More

Man in the Wilderness

Actors: Richard Harris, John Huston, Henry Wilcoxon

Synopsis: Not a sequel to Richard Harris' A Man Called Horse as is sometime alleged, 1971's Man in the Wilderness nonetheless bears a marked resemblance to that earlier film. Star Harris plays a trapper who joins a Northwest Territory expeditionary group. Left for dead after running afoul of a grizzly bear Read More

Pretty Maids All in a Row

Actors: Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Telly Savalas, John Carson, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: Ocean View High is an upscale suburban school in an otherwise unidentified community. It's 1971, the point when the sexual revolution started moving into full swing and even a lot of Middle America, at least on the two coasts, admitted the existence of same revolution. It seems like the guys and Read More

Star Trek: Season 03

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

Synopsis: The third and final season of Star Trek is frequently written off as the series' nadir, if only because creator Gene Roddenberryhad relinquished a great deal of his creative control to the NBC executives and to new producer Fred Freiberger). Another reason given for the series' decline was the Read More

Jigsaw

Actors: Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman, Hope Lange, Pat Hingle, Diana Hyland

Synopsis: In this thriller, Jonathan Fields (Bradford Dillman) awakens in a strange apartment and finds a dead woman floating in the bathtub after he suffered an LSD-flashback the night before. Finding blood upon his hand, he can only wonder how he is involved in the woman's death. He hires private Read More

Scalplock

Actors: Dale Robertson, Robert Random, Diana Hyland

Synopsis: Dale Robertson stars as Ben Calhoun, a cagey professional gambler in the west of the 1870s. After an unusually successful card game in Kansas City, Calhoun finds that his opponent has no ready cash. Instead, the gambler wins ownership of the Buffalo Pass, Scalplock and Defiance Railroad. Calhoun Read More

Star Trek: Season 02

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

Synopsis: The Starship Enterprise's five-year mission to "seek out new life forms and new civilizations" and "boldly go where no man has gone before" shifts into warp speed as Star Trek enters its second season. The biggest news this year is a fresh addition to the ensemble cast: Now taking his place Read More

The F.B.I.: The Animal

Synopsis: The chase is on in New Mexico for five dangerous escaped convicts, led by Earl Clayton (Charles Bronson). The deranged Clayton has already killed two law officers in cold blood, and isn't about to let anyone impede his escape--not even his fellow escapees. Ultimately, only Clayton and his young Read More

Star Trek: Season 01

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols

Synopsis: As everyone on earth (to say nothing of everyone in the United Federation of Planets) must know by now, the debut episode of Star Trek's first season, "The Man Trap", was not the first episode filmed. Nor was the series' "official" pilot episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", the first one to go Read More

One of Our Spies Is Missing

Actors: Leo G. Carroll, David McCallum, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: One of Our Spies is Missing was cobbled together from a two-part episode of the American TV series Man From UNCLE, then shipped overseas as a feature film. Robert Vaughn and David McCallum head the cast as Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin, U.N.C.L.E's top agents. The original two-parter, "The Read More

Bus Riley's Back in Town

Actors: Ann-Margret, Michael Parks, Janet Margolin, Brad Dexter, Jocelyn Brando

Synopsis: William Inge co-wrote this story about a young man who may have outgrown the straight-laced boundaries of his home town. After a hitch in the Navy, Bus Riley (Michael Thomas Parks) comes home to the staid Midwestern town of his birth; however, home doesn't feel quite like it used to, and Riley is Read More

Bewitched: A Strange Little Visitor

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, George Tobias, Alice Pearce

Synopsis: The Stephens household is set on its ear when Samantha is put in charge of capricious ten-year-old warlock Merle Brocken (Craig Hundley). Upon discovering that the little visitor is from Sam's "world," Darrin makes the boy promise not to perform any magic during his visit. Merle obediently agrees Read More

The Fugitive: Middle of a Heat Wave

Synopsis: Posing as "Jim Owen", fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen) has fallen in love with the beautiful but neurotic Laurel Harper (Carol Rossen). Realizing the danger in staying in one place too long, Kimble reluctantly breaks off the relationship. Shortly afterward, Laurel is sexually assaulted and Read More

The Satan Bug

Actors: George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, Ed Asner

Synopsis: Adapted from an Alistair MacLean novel, The Satan Bug is one of the best efforts in the "deadly virus at large" genre. Insane scientist Dr. Hoffman (Richard Basehart) steals several vials containing a lethal germ culture from a government lab. Hoffman has been unhinged by the notion of the Read More

The Outer Limits: Expanding Human

Actors: Keith Andes, Skip Homeier, James Doohan, Aki Aleong, Vaughan Taylor

Synopsis: A mysterious hulking figure prowls a university campus at night and yanks the door off of a locked storage room to steal chemicals -- a guard spots the intruder but before he can react, the man knocks him cold and kills him, carrying the body as if it weighed nothing. The police investigation, led Read More

36 Hours

Actors: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Taylor, Werner Peters, Russell Thorson, John Banner

Synopsis: In 1950, Maj. Jefferson Pike (James Garner), an Army intelligence agent who served with distinction in World War II, awakens in a hospital with severe amnesia. He isn't sure where he is, how he got there, or even who the woman at his side is, even though the doctor tells him that her name is Anna (Eva Marie Saint Read More

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Hail to the Chief

Synopsis: The President of the United States requires an emergency operation, which must be conducted in secret, after he is injured in a fall. The Seaview is chosen as the safest place for the surgery, but an enemy power has gotten an assassin aboard, as part of the surgical team performing the operation. Read More

The Outer Limits: I, Robot

Synopsis: In Volume 41 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, a robot goes on trial following charges it killed its creator. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Fugitive: Masquerade

Synopsis: Posing as "Leonard Hull", Kimble (David Janssen) journeys to a small Oklahoma town, where he is abruptly arrested by Sheriff Mayhew (Edward Asner). No, Mayhew hasn't recognized him as a fugitive from justice: Instead, the sheriff has mistaken Kimble for Leonard Hull (John Milford), who has escaped Read More

The Wheeler Dealers

Actors: James Garner, Lee Remick, Phil Harris, Chill Wills, Jim Backus, Louis Nye, John Astin, Charles Watts

Synopsis: This comical farce is a lighthearted lampoon of Wall Street and the vibrant trading and selling on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Henry Tyroon (James Garner) is the chameleonic broker who changes his colors and ethical standards to fit every deal. Molly (Lee Remick) is the novice trader Read More

The Twilight Zone: Valley of the Shadow

Actors: Ed Nelson, Natalie Trundy, David Opatoshu, James Doohan, Suzanne Cupito

Synopsis: Stranded in the remote mountain town of Peaceful Valley, reporter Philip Redfield looks on in amazement as a dog and cat seemingly vanish into thin air. Apparently, Peaceful Valley houses some sort of deep dark secret -- which has naturally aroused Redfield's journalistic instincts. He may Read More

Bonanza: The Legacy

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Robert H. Harris

Synopsis: While tracking down a gang of poachers, Ben Cartwright is shot and left for dead. Convinced that Ben is dead, his griefstricken sons head off in three different directions to bring their father's "murderer" to justice. Meanwhile, Ben recovers from his wounds and makes his way back to the Read More

Bonanza: Gift of Water

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Royal Dano

Synopsis: With the terrritory in the grip of a devastating drought, the local farmers, led by Jason Gant (Royal Dano) hope to use the water supply near the Ponderosa. Unfortunately, the neighboring ranchers take objection to this, organizing a vigilante group to drive off the farmers. Feeling personally Read More

Howdy Doody [TV Series]

Actors: James Doohan, Peter Mews, Alfie Scopp, Toby Tarnow, Caryl McBain

Synopsis: Every baby boomer worth his salt is familiar with the classic NBC puppet series Howdy Doody, which ran from 1947 to 1960. But how many of those "boomers" outside the continental United States are aware that a second version of Howdy Doody existed, this one produced in the Toronto, Ontario studios Read More

Cold Fusion: Fire From Water

Synopsis: James Doohan of Star Trek fame narrates this exploration of cold fusion as the next energy source. Somewhat of a controversial subject, cold fusion was, at one point, seriously considered to be a plausible candidate for Earth's next main energy source, as it was purportedly renewable. ~ Amanda Read More