Joby BakerFilmography

Quincy, M.E.: To Clear the Air

Synopsis: During a smog alert, an old man and a child, both residents of a sanitarium, die of respiratory ailments. Medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman) is convinced that the deaths were linked to a nearby oil refinery, which is polluting the air with sulfur emissions. His task now is to prove that the Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Honor thy Elders

Synopsis: Performing an autopsy on a man in his eighties, Quincy determines (Jack Klugman) that the victim was physically abused before his death--possibly by his own son-in-law. Subseqeuntly, another old person shows up with similar symptoms, suggesting to Quincy that there may be a link between the two Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Physician, Heal Thyself

Synopsis: Peforming an autopsy at the request of a grieving family, Quincy concludes that a 17-year-old girl died in a botched abortion. Further evidence indicates that Ronald Shafer (John Dehner), the doctor who performed the surgery, was drunk at the time. But in his efforts to learn all the fact, Quincy Read More

Stone

Synopsis: Dennis Weaver plays Daniel Stone, a Joe Wambaugh-style LA cop turned novelist. The pressures of his new career cause a rift between Stone and his superior officer Pat Hingle, and also puts additional barriers between Stone and his estranged wife Mariette Hartley. The fact that Stone's partner Roy Thinnes Read More

Avalanche

Actors: Rock Hudson, Mia Farrow, Robert Forster, Jeanette Nolan, Rick Moses

Synopsis: When an "I'm-just-makin'-money" developer plops his new ski lodge at the foot of a mountain, the locals warn him about snowslides. So it's not too long before a gigantic avalanche buries the lodge and all the snow bunnies in it. Rock Hudson plays the ski lodge owner and Mia Farrow is his Read More

Quincy, M.E.: An Unfriendly Radiance

Synopsis: While engaged in the illegal sale of plutonium secrets, lab technician Bigelow (Joby Baker) dies in a car crash. Conducting the autopsy, Quincy (Jack Klugman) determines that Bigelow's body contained a high level of radiation. Meanwhile, the police arrest Ray Sanchez (Ronald Joseph Godines) on a Read More

Cry Rape!

Synopsis: Two TV films were shown during the 1973-1974 season dealing with the emotional and legal ramifications of rape. While the Elizabeth Montgomery vehicle A Case of Rape was closer to Real Life, Cry Rape! also had a lot going for it. Andrea Marcovicci stars as Betty Jenner, whose world is rent asunder Read More

Superdad

Actors: Sarah Fankboner, Jim Wakefield, Bob Crane, Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Barbara Rush, Dick Van Patten

Synopsis: A concerned father decides to become closer to his daughter the hard way in this live-action comedy from Walt Disney Pictures. Charlie McCready (Bob Crane) is the father of Wendy (Kathleen Cody), a pretty teenager soon to enter college. Like most parents, Charlie only wants the best for his Read More

Self-Portrait

Actors: Patricio Castilla, Maria E. Cavieres, Alicia Quiroga

Synopsis: A photographer for a prominent news journal heads for Vietnam and takes wrenching pictures of dead and dying children. Upon his return to Chile, the photographer is tormented by their war-torn anguished faces. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The First Day of Forever

Synopsis: Janice Rule guest stars as prostitute Beverly Landau, who after leaving her latest "John" is attacked and knifed by a religious fanatic who preys on San Francisco's "working girls" in a perverse attempt to save their souls. Three women have already been murdered by the fanatic, and as the sole Read More

Blackbeard's Ghost

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Elsa Lanchester, Joby Baker

Synopsis: Blackbeard's Ghost was one of the first Disney productions released after Walt's death. Peter Ustinov stars as the eponymous wraith, who returns to Earth to come to aid of his descendant, elderly Elsa Lanchester. The villains want to kick Lanchester and her friends out of their group home so that Read More

Valley of Mystery

Actors: Richard Egan, Harry Guardino, Joby Baker, Lois Nettleton

Synopsis: In this adventure, a commercial plane crashes in a remote South American jungle. All but one of the passengers survive. Unfortunately, he was the sheriff in charge of taking a dangerous criminal to the executioner. During the excitement of the crash, the prisoner killed the lawman. Among the other Read More

Good Morning World [TV Series]

Actors: Ronnie Schell, Joby Baker, Billy De Wolfe

F Troop: La Dolce Courage

Synopsis: Agarn (Larry Storch) unwittingly becomes the third corner of a romantic triangle involving a gorgeous Sicilian girl named Gina (Leticia Roman) and her hot-blooded suitor Mario (Joby Baker). As a result, Agarn is literally a marked man: it so happens that Mario is a member of a secret terrorist Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Love Thy Other Neighbor

Actors: Jerry Paris, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Joby Baker, Sue Taylor

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) go out of their way to be friendly to their new neighbors, Fred and Mary Jane Staggs (Joby Baker, Sue Taylor). Before long, the Petries and Staggs are spending a lot of time together -- way too much time, so far as Rob and Laura's jealous best Read More

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette, Karl Malden, Harry Guardino, Bryan Russell, Richard Haydn

Synopsis: This rambunctious Disney comedy was based on the novel By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman. Roddy McDowall plays Griffin, the very proper butler of Bostonian Bryan Russell. When Russell runs off to California during the 1849 gold rush, Griffin dutifully tags along. Master and butler team up Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Viva Petrie

Actors: Joby Baker, Jack Bernardi

Synopsis: Although she doesn't appear in this episode, the Petries' Spanish maid Maria, introduced in the third-season installment "Turtles, Ties, and Toreadors," figures prominently in the proceedings. Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) are persuaded to hire Maria's boyfriend Manuel Luis Read More

Girl Happy

Actors: Fabrizio Mioni, Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Harold J. Stone, Gary Crosby, Joby Baker

Synopsis: One of Elvis Presley's most popular vehicles, Girl Happy is also one of the most typical. Elvis plays Rusty Wells, the leader of a four-piece rock group, consisting of Gary Crosby, Joby Baker and Jimmy Hawkins. Hired by Chicago gangster boss Big Frank (Harold J. Stone) to protect the virtue of Read More

When the Boys Meet the Girls

Actors: Connie Francis, Harve Presnell, Herman's Hermits, Louis Armstrong, Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs, Sue Ane Langdon

Synopsis: Narrative takes a back seat to music in this loose remake of Girl Crazy, as Harve Presnell plays a footloose young millionaire who meets perky Connie Francis and hatches a scheme to save her father's failing Nevada ranch by turning it into a resort for people waiting out their quickie Las Vegas Read More

Looking for Love

Actors: Connie Francis, Jim Hutton, Susan Oliver, Joby Baker, Barbara Nichols, George Hamilton, Paula Prentiss, Danny Thomas, Johnny Carson

Synopsis: Popular singer Connie Francis stars in this romantic musical-comedy as Libby Caruso, an aspiring young entertainer who yearns for the attention of handsom Paul Davis (Jim Hutton). Though at first Paul is not interested in her, Libby soon wins him over. Upon catching him, however, Libby changes her Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Cadaver

Actors: Michael Parks, Joby Baker, Don Marshall, Ruth McDevitt, Martin Blaine

Synopsis: College football star Skip Baxter (Michael Parks) is in danger of expulsion because of his heavy drinking. Hoping to cure Skip of his booze habit, his prankish roommate, Doc Carroll (Joby Baker), cooks up an elaborate hoax. "Borrowing" a female cadaver from a medical classroom, Doc plants the Read More

Gidget Goes to Rome

Actors: Cindy Carol, James Darren, Jesse Royce Landis, Cesare Danova, Danielle de Metz

Synopsis: Gidget Goes to Rome was the third film to be inspired by the beach-happy characters created by Frederick Kohner back in the mid-1950s. This time, surfer gal Francie "Gidget" Lawrence is played by newcomer Cindy Carol. Per the title, the film finds Gidget vacationing in the Eternal City with Read More

Hootenanny Hoot

Actors: Peter Breck, Ruta Lee, Joby Baker, Pamela Austin, Bobo Lewis, Loren Gilbert, Nick Novarro, Vikki Dougan

Synopsis: A small town in the Midwest goes in big for the folk music craze that followed in the wake of the twist. The thin plot has some romantic interplay between two amorous couple, but mainly the film serves as a showcase for some non-offensive music from the collection of stars. Johnny Cash, Sheb Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Bogus Books

Synopsis: Moving from Saturday to Thursday evening for its sixth season on CBS, Perry Mason kicks off the new year with another baffling murder case. This time the victim is Joseph Kraft (Maurice Manson) a crooked book dealer who traffics in forgeries of rare first editions. Not long after firing his clerk Read More

Combat!: Lost Sheep, Lost Shepherd

Synopsis: Lost while on patrol in Occupied territory, Hanley (Rick Jason) and his men are ambushed and pinned down by enemy fire. Suddenly out of nowhere an American tank race to the rescue, driven by world-weary Sgt. Dane (Jeffrey Hunter). Joing Hanley in his efforts to return to their own lines, the dour Read More

Combat!: The Celebrity

Synopsis: Tab Hunter guest stars as Del Packer, a famous baseball pitcher who has joined King Company as a draftee. Sgt. Saunders (Vic Morrow) is the only member of the platoon who isn't starstruck by the celebrity in their midst, grimly demanding that Packer be treated just like any other GI. But this Read More

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson, John Lund, Chips Rafferty, Tom Tully

Synopsis: Hijinks and spyjinks lighten this effective comedy by Richard Murphy, based -- very loosely -- on an actual incident in World War II. The place is somewhere in the Pacific and the not-so-good ship USS Echo, captained by the comic Lt. Rip Crandall (Jack Lemmon), has a very specific assignment. The Read More

Gidget Goes Hawaiian

Actors: James Darren, Michael Callan, Deborah Walley, Carl Reiner, Peggy Cass

Synopsis: This second film in the "Gidget" series stars Deborah Walley as Francie Lawrence, better known as Gidget. After being disappointed in love by surfin' dude Moondoggie (James Darren), Gidge joins her parents (Carl Reiner, Jeff Donnell) on a Hawaiian vacation. Complications ensue when Moondoggie Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Right Kind of Medicine

Synopsis: A young Robert Redford headlines this episode as burglar Charlie Pugh, who after a shoot-out with the cops is himself wounded. In excruciating pain, Charlie visits a doctor (Gage Clarke), who fills out a prescription for pain killers. Upon learning that he has killed a cop in the shoot-out Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Madame Mystery

Synopsis: It can be said with some assurance that Hollywood publicity agent Jimmy Dolan (Joby Baker) would sell his own mother to get ahead. With this in mind, it is entirely logical that Jimmy would want to milk the accidental drowning of actress Betsy Blake (Audrey Totter) for all it is worth. Selling his Read More

Key Witness

Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, Dennis Hopper, Joby Baker, Susan Harrison, Johnny Nash

Synopsis: This is a well-wrought action-thriller with enough menacing violence to keep a shock value high, but not enough to overcome the characters or the script. Fred Morrow (Jeffrey Hunter), a real-estate agent who stops by a bar to make a phone call, is a chance witness to a knifing by an L.A. street Read More

Dragnet: The Big Counterfeit

Synopsis: Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate when an antique dealer loses $200 to a con artist. Posing as a police officer, the sharpster convinces his victims that they are holding counterfeit money, which he is duty-bound to "confiscate." But the criminal has already outsmarted Read More

Gidget

Actors: Sandra Dee, Cliff Robertson, James Darren, Arthur O'Connell, Joby Baker, Mary Laroche

Synopsis: Teenager Francie Lawrence (Sandra Dee) is known to her surfing friends as "Gidget" or a "girl midget" (she is kinda on the short side). Unable to compete with the curvaceous bikinied lasses at the local beach, Gidget is assured by her understanding parents (Arthur O'Connell, Mary LaRoche) that Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Six People, No Music

Synopsis: Prosperous Poughkeepsie undertaker Arthur Motherwell (John McGiver) is looking forward to handling the funeral for Stanton C. Barryvale (Howard Smith), the richest man in town. Barryvale's family members have insisted upon a huge and ostentatious funeral -- and, of course, the cost is no object. Read More

The Last Angry Man

Actors: Paul Muni, David Wayne, Betsy Palmer, Luther Adler, Joby Baker

Synopsis: In danger of losing his job, TV-producer David Wayne hopes to cook up a real ratings winner by building a network special around the life and work of elderly doctor Paul Muni. For the past 45 years, the iconoclastic Muni has run a free clinic in the slums of Brooklyn. Muni has no time for Read More

Dragnet: The Big Boot

Synopsis: Two men have been committing robberies throughout Los Angeles. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) have a single solid clue to go on: One of the bandits has huge feet--and he wears a pair of distinctively fancy cowboy boots. Joby Baker delivers another of his patented Dragnet portrayals Read More

Dragnet: The Big Truck

Synopsis: Young Emil Salter (Jody Baker) turns himself in to Friday (Joe Friday) and Smith (Ben Alexander), claiming he has committed a robbery--and a murder. Emil is certain that he had struck down and killed a man while driving a truck that he had stolen. Though the man's body is found, there is not a Read More

Target Zero

Actors: Richard Conte, Peggie Castle, Charles Bronson, Richard Stapley, L.Q. Jones

Synopsis: Apparently as a reward for his excellent performance in the 1954 western Drum Beat, Charles Bronson was given a leading role in this Warner Bros. programmer. The action takes place during the Korean War: a melting-pot unit of American soldiers, together with three British troopers, find themselves Read More