Joe Regalbuto Filmography

Ally McBeal: One Hundred Tears

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Greg Germann, Peter MacNicol, Jane Krakowski, Portia de Rossi, Regina Hall, Josh Hopkins, Julianne Nicholson, James Marsden

Mockingbird Don't Sing

Actors: Melissa Errico, Joe Regalbuto, Sean Young, Michael Lerner, Kim Darby

Synopsis: Based on the actual events of one of the most horrific cases of child abuse ever to be documented, this haunting drama tells the tale of a young girl so severely affected by her traumatic experiences that she was unable to integrate into society after being rescued from her tormenting parents. Read More

Friends: The One with All the Resolutions

Crew: Director

Synopsis: With the New Year approaching, Chandler (Matthew Perry) resolves to abstain from poking fun at his friends for a whole week; Ross (David Schwimmer) vows to try something new each day; Joey (Matt LeBlanc) promises to learn to play the guitar (with Phoebe's help); Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) forsakes Read More

Murphy Brown: Seems Like Gold Times

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Returning from Europe, abrasive talk-show host Jerry Gold (Jay Thomas) wants to reconnect with his ex-lover Murphy (Candice Bergen)--a consummation which, it turns out, is also devoutly wished by Murphy's coworkers. Although willing to spend the night with Jerry, Murphy still can't make a Read More

Murphy Brown: Second Time Around

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After Murphy (Candice Bergen) generously arranges a reunion between her cancer support-group friend Lisa (Tracy Nelson) and Lisa's high school crush Wally (Eric Allan Kramer), the "FYI" gang decides to do the same for our heroine. It seems that Murphy once carried a torch for Dennis Page (Michael Read More

Touched by an Angel: Only Connect

Synopsis: Little League player Cameron Mancuso (Brendon Ryan Barrett) is saddled with an overbearing, "win at all cost" father named Donnie (Joe Regalbuto)--who, worse luck, is also the coach of Cameron's team. It is the task of Monica (Roma Downey) and her fellow angles to teach the widowed Donnie to be a Read More

Murphy Brown: When One Door Closes...

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In a spoof of a famous David Brinkley moment, Murphy (Candice Bergen) makes a disparaging remark about President Clinton while she thinks she's off the air--but she's not. Fired by network president Lansing (Garry Marshall) when she refuses to apologize, Murphy hardly knows what to expect when she Read More

Murphy Brown: Blind Date

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The newly unattached Jim (Charles Kimbrough) looks forward to escorting the Raven-Haired Receptionist (Mary-Margaret Humes) to Mr. Lansing's testimonial dinner (actually a charity benefit for strippers!) Unfortunately, a few wires get crossed, and Miller (Christopher Rich) ends up with the "dream" Read More

Murphy Brown: You Don't Know Jackal

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While preparing an expose of the CIA, Murphy (Candice Bergen) relies upon an unidentified source known only as The Jackal. When Kay (Lily Tomlin) demands to know the mysterious source's true identity, Murphy hires an impostor in order to protect The Jackal's privacy. Unfortunately, Frank (Joe Read More

Murphy Brown: Operation: Murphy Brown

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Murphy (Candice Bergen) can't bring herself to tell her son Avery about her cancer surgery--nor, for that matter, has she been able to even say the "C" word to anyone, herself included. As Murphy relentlessly cross-examines the doctors assigned to her surgery (apparently none of them are qualifed Read More

Murphy Brown: From Here to Jerusalem

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When she is nominated for a Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual Humboldt ceremony, Murphy (Candice Bergen) cannot help but feel that her mortality is rapidly closing in on her. For this reason, she accepts a date from Scott (Joe Flanigan), a much-younger man whom she met while chaperoning son Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 10

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: The tenth and final season of Murphy Brown resolves the previous season's cliffhanger finale, as TV reporter Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) bids farewell to her co-workers on the Washington-based newsmagazine "FYI," in preparation of starting her new job as a White House correspondent. Not Read More

Murphy Brown: Florence Night-en Corky

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A still-groggy Murphy (Candice Bergen) has trouble getting her act together after cancer surgery, so Corky (Faith Ford) offers to temporarily say with her colleague as both caregiver and cook. Before long, Corky is devoting so much time to Murphy that she can't deal with her own problems--which Read More

Murphy Brown: Petty Woman

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Joanna Gleason guest stars as Athena Gillington, a prominent Washington hostess with whom Murphy (Candice Bergen) has been feuding for years. When Athena invites Murphy to a party, Murphy thinks that the gesture has been made out of pity. In fact, the invite was made for purely mercenary reasons Read More

Murphy Brown: All Talking! All Singing! All Miserable!

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The Washington press corps' annual "Press Capades" show is rapidly approaching, and Murphy (Candice Bergen) is eagerly looking forward to portraying First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in "The Beltway Hillbillies", a sketch she wrote herself. Alas, Murphy's autocratic behavior during rehearsals is Read More

Murphy Brown: Trick or Retreat

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Frustrated that the "FYI" team openly mocks new anchorman Miller Redfield (Christopher Rich) on the air, Miles (Grant Shaud) turns to Miller's predecessor Jim (Charles Kimbrough) for advice. Jim suggests that Miles pack up the entire staff for a group retreat, where they will (supposedly!) get in Read More

Murphy Brown: All in the Family

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Appropo to the episode's title, Jean Stapleton guest stars as Miles' grandmother Nana Silverberg. The old dear is in Washington to attend the wedding of Miles (Grant Shaud) and Corky (Faith Ford)--actually the couple's "official" ceremony, inasmuch as they've already eloped. Trouble ensues when Read More

Murphy Brown: Miller's Crossing

Crew: Director

Synopsis: It's Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) vs. Miller Redfield (Christopher Rich) when both of them want to land a highly coveted interview with famed anthropologist Elizabeth Corning (Ruth Kobart). When Miller lands the interview, Murphy is outraged--and even more so when she finds out how the conniving Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 09

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: With the defection of series regular Grant Shaud at the end of Murphy Brown's eighth season, it was necessary to eliminate the actor's character Miles Silverberg, executive producer of "FYI," the Washington-based TV newsmagazine on which Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) is star reporter. Miles' Read More

Murphy Brown: That's the Way the Corky Crumbles

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Because of Kay's new restrictive office rules, Corky (Faith Ford) is unable to visit her husband Miles in New York. Hoping to get even with Kay (Lily Tomlin) for cancelling her expense account, Murphy (Candice Bergen) arranges a secret rendezvous for Miles and Corky. This bit of subterfuge works Read More

Murphy Brown: Separation Anxiety

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The annual party held by Jim and Doris Dial (Charles Kimbrough and Janet Carroll) has for many years been unchallenged in the annals of boredom. Jim hopes to entice his coworkers to attend this year's party by adopting a "Hawaiian" theme. As it turns out, however, the highlight of the evening is a Read More

Murphy Brown: A One Night Stan

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hoping to get Kay (Lily Tomlin) off her back, Murphy (Candice Bergen) arranges for Kay to produce an afternoon talk show--hosted by network president Stan Lansing (Garry Marshall), and featuring a band fronted by "FYI" investigative reporter Frank (Joe Regalbuto). Unfortunately for Kay, the first Read More

Murphy Brown: Office Politics

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Murphy (Candice Bergen) decides to convert part of her townhouse bedroom into an office--a move that not only proves to be an architectural atrocity, but may well be against the law. Though Jim (Charles Kimbrough) warns Murphy that she will need a permit to proceed with her new office, she Read More

Murphy Brown: The Feminine Critique

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When the "FYI" studio is decimated by a truck (you had to be there!), the news team heads en masse to Murphy's alma mater, where our heroine is to receive a doctorate for helping to create the school's Women's Studies Program. Murphy (Candice Bergen) of course anticipates being received like a Read More

Bodily Harm

Actors: Linda Fiorentino, Daniel Baldwin, Gregg Henry, Bill Smitrovich, Troy Evans

Synopsis: In this dark thriller set in Las Vegas, a sexy female cop, Rita Cates, begins looking into the brutal murders of two women who had been involved with an ex-police officer, Sam, a wealthy, fast-talker who was also one of her own lovers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 08

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: As Murphy Brown begins its eighth season, the titular heroine (played by Candice Bergen) has decided not to marry her current amour (and journalistic rival), Peter Hunt (Scott Bakula). Even so, wedding bells do ring at the outset for season eight -- but they're ringing for Murphy's fellow TV Read More

Murphy Brown: The Humboldt Doldt

Crew: Director

Synopsis: It is bad enough when the insufferable Miller Stanfield (Christopher Rich) wins the Humboldt Award for a story which the "FYI" staff had labored on to save Miller's behind. It's even worse when the clueless Miller displays a mile-long streak of ingratitude, acting as though he and he alone was Read More

Beyond Obsession

Actors: Victoria Principal, Emily Warfield, Henry Thomas, Joe Regalbuto, Donnelly Rhodes

Synopsis: In this drama, a teenaged girl and her boyfriend fight back after they are accused of murdering the girl's overbearing, but socially prominent mother. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 07

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Few other TV sitcoms could boast Murphy Brown's distinction of opening its seventh season with an episode guest-starring both Senator Barbara Boxer and TV's "Captain Kangaroo." This initial episode also introduces Dyllan Christopher in the role of Avery, the son of TV reporter Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen Read More

Murphy Brown: Two for the Road

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In his ongoing crusade to make sweeping changes at "FYI", hotshot network executive Mitchell Baldwin (Julius Carry) decides to subject the show's set to an extreme makeover--much to the dismay of Murphy (Candice Bergen). This incident leads to a full-scale war of nerves between Mitchell and Read More

Celebrity Guide to Entertaining

Synopsis: Find out how celebrity parties and dinners differ from those attended by most people. Hosts Bernard Erpicum of Spago and Paula McClure introduce the viewer to such basics as the Elegant Winter Meal, the Festive Holiday Dinner and the Afternoon or Evening Get-Together Meal. Tasty recipes for such Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 06

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Season six of Murphy Brown gets under way with the first appearance of Scott Bakula as Peter Hunt, a dashing and rather arrogant international reporter who is hired to pep up the ratings of the TV newsmagazine "FYI." Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen), heretofore the series' star reporter, resents Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 05

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: In the weeks just prior to the opening episode of Murphy Brown's fifth season, the series, and its star Candice Bergen, were at the center of a controversy largely stirred up by then Vice President Dan Quayle. Commenting on the fact that season four had ended with an unmarried Murphy giving birth Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 04

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: What TV reporter Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) suspected at the end of season three of her eponymously titled sitcom has turned out to be true: Murphy is pregnant. Thus, season four of Murphy Brown begins with our heroine figuring out that her ex-husband, Jake (Robin Thomas), with whom she had a Read More

Writer's Block

Synopsis: In this made-for-television drama a female writer of popular thrillers decides that it is time to kill off one of her characters, a serial killer who has appeared in many of her recent books. Soon afterward, she finds herself pursued by a copy-cat serial killer/fan. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Love Boat: A Valentine Voyage

Actors: Steve Bond, Tom Bosley, Julia Duffy, Bernie Kopell, Ted Lange, Roddy Piper, Shanna Reed, Joe Regalbuto, Jill Whelan

Synopsis: Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water again, along came the "retro" TV movie The Love Boat: A Valentine Voyage. Four regulars of the original Love Boat series are back on board: Gavin McLeod ($Capt Stubbing), Bernie Kopell (Doc), Ted Lange (Isaac) and Jill Whelan (Vicki). Filmed Read More

Matlock: Nowhere to Turn

Actors: Nancy Stafford, Clarence Gilyard, Jr., Julie Sommars, Joe Regalbuto

Synopsis: In this episode of the long-running courtroom drama, Matlock must prove that he is not responsible for murdering a Los Angeles judge. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Leona Helmsley - The Queen of Mean

Synopsis: Based on fact, this TV drama details the life of New York property magnate, Leona Helmsley, her personal ups and downs and her well publicised run in with the IRS. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 03

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Season three of Murphy Brown opens with star TV reporter Murphy (Candice Bergen) and her co-workers balking at the "improvements" that executive producer Miles Silverberg (Grant Shaud) has made in the weekly newsmagazine "FYI." In subsequent episodes, a pre-Shield Michael Chiklis is cast as a Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 02

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Season two of Murphy Brown begins as the titular TV-reporter heroine (Candice Bergen) gets on the bad side of her neurotic producer, Miles Silverberg (Grant Shaud), by dating his brother Josh (Jon Tenney) in an episode which also introduces Christopher Rich in the role of vacuous pretty-boy Read More

Prime Target

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a NYPD detective looks into the deaths of several policewomen and discovers that she is to be the killer's next victim. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Resolutions, Part 1

Synopsis: Magnum, P.I. wraps up its eight-year run with a two-part final episode (originally telecast in a single two-hour timeslot). In Part One, Magnum returns to his home town for a family reunion, where his paternal grandfather (Howard Duff) offers to reinstate him as a Naval officer. But before Magnum Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Resolutions, Part 2

Synopsis: In the concluding half of Magnum, P.I.'s final episode, Magnum (Tom Selleck) wrestles with the prospect of returning to active Naval service even as he lays a trap for the man who assaulted his former girlfriend Linda (Patrice Martinez). He also receives word that his daughter Lily, presumed Read More

Police Story: Cop Killers

Actors: Ken Olin, Patricia Wettig

Synopsis: Cop Killers was one of five Police Story specials, telecast in the fall of 1988. These "new" 2-hour specials were actually rewrites of scripts from the original Police Story series of 1973-80; there was an industry strike going on in '88, and networks needed material in a hurry. Ken Olin stars in Cop Killers Read More

Fatal Judgment

Synopsis: A Massachusetts nurse (Patty Duke) is accused of exercising Fatal Judgment in this made-for-TV movie. While tending a seriously ill cancer patient, the nurse administered a generous dose of morphine. The patient died, which is why the woman is now on trial for murder. Joe Regalbuto and Tom Conti Read More

Schizoid - Murder by Mail

Synopsis: This is a Whodunit-type film, where someone is using a nasty pair of scissors to play a one-by-one elimination game with a troop of group-therapy patients. The group is made up of attractive women who soon realize that they could be next. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Murphy Brown [TV Series]

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Making its first appearance on November 14, 1988, the long-running, Emmy-winning CBS sitcom Murphy Brown starred Candice Bergen as the title character, the driving, driven, often overbearing but essentially likable star reporter of the Washington, D.C.-based TV magazine "FYI." A thorough Read More

Deadly Weapon

Actors: Rodney Eastman, Kim Walker, Gary Frank, Michael Horse, Gary Kroeger

Synopsis: An impoverished adolescent outcast becomes a deadly, vengeful killer against his tormentors after he finds a super-secret anti-matter gun lying in an Arizona stream bed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 01

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Fresh from a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic, hard-driving (but no longer hard-drinking) TV personality Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) launches the first season of the CBS sitcom bearing her name. Returning to her job as star reporter of the Washington-based TV magazine show "FYI," Murphy is none too Read More

The Sicilian

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Joss Ackland, John Turturro, Richard Bauer, Barbara Sukowa

Synopsis: Adapted from Mario Puzo's novel, The Sicilian is an attempt to chronicle the life and times of Mafia leader, patriot and real-life Robin Hood Salvatore Giuliano, the infamous bandit who, together with his rag-tag band of guerillas, attempted to liberate 1940s Sicily from Italian rule and make it Read More

J. Edgar Hoover

Actors: Treat Williams

Synopsis: Based on the book My 30 Years in Hoover's FBI by William G. Sullivan and William S. Brown, this made-for-cable biopic stars Treat Williams as the infamous Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Raw Deal

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kathryn Harrold, Sam Wanamaker, Paul Shenar, Robert Davi, Darren McGavin

Synopsis: A former FBI agent is recruited to root out the gangsters who killed a fellow agent's son in this Arnold Schwarzenegger action film. After being booted out of the bureau for excessive violence, Kaminski (Schwarzenegger) lives in small-town exile with his bitter wife, Amy (Blanche Baker). He gets Read More

That Secret Sunday

Actors: James Farentino

Synopsis: The word for That Secret Sunday would seem to be "irresponsible." Two party girls are horribly murdered, and the police handle the investigation irresponsibly. The reason is that the four investigating cops are guilty of the murder, which stemmed from their own irresponsible behavior. Read More

Night Court: The New Judge

Synopsis: While Harry (Harry Anderson) takes a night off, his duties are assumed by Judge Watson (Jeff Altman), with whom Dan (John Larroquette) forms a bond. But when Watson proves to be packing heat--and worse, turns out to be a crook--it is a very reluctant Dan who agrees to wear a wire in a police sting Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Going Home

Synopsis: After thirteen years away from home, Magnum (Tom Selleck) returns to Tidewater, Virginia, to attend the funeral of his beloved grandfather. The occasion serves to reopen several old wounds, culminating with Magnum angrily accusing his stepfather Frank (David Huddleston), whom he has always Read More

Love Lives On

Synopsis: Love Lives On is the apotheosis of all made-for-TV "problem" films. The focus is on 15-year-old Susan Wallace (Mary Stuart Masterson), who in the course of the film's 97 minutes runs the gamut of crises from drug addiction to unwed pregnancy to cancer. In the climax, poor Susan must decide whether Read More

Invitation to Hell

Actors: Susan Lucci, Robert Urich, Joanna Cassidy, Joe Regalbuto, Kevin McCarthy

Synopsis: This minor made-for-TV effort from horror auteur Wes Craven is one of the oddest attempts at seriously blending supernatural horror and science fiction elements, which amounts to a muddled but amusing failure. The convoluted plot involves scientist Robert Urich's experiments with a new spacesuit Read More

Street Hawk

Synopsis: This sci-fi police drama is an episode from the short-lived television series and follows the exploits of a black-clad G-man who rides a specially designed gadget filled motorcycle to help him rid the country of crime. This time he and his Street Hawk take on a powerful drug lord. ~ Sandra Read More

Lassiter

Actors: Tom Selleck, Jane Seymour, Lauren Hutton, Bob Hoskins, Joe Regalbuto

Synopsis: This feature-length story about the heist of $10 million in Nazi diamonds primarily rides on star Tom Selleck's popularity as TV's Magnum, P.I., (a 1980s show), since the plot turnarounds, slighted character development, and stock situations are not that engaging on their own. The setting is 1934 Read More

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

The Other Woman

Actors: Hal Linden, Anne Meara, Madolyn Smith

Synopsis: Directed by seasoned comedy man Melville Shavelson, The Other Woman is a "menage a trois" TV movie with a twist. The stars are middle-aged Anne Meara and Hal Linden, and youngish Madolyn Smith. The twist? Linden, a book publisher, is married to half-his-age Smith, a fashion designer. It is Anne Meara Read More

Divorce Wars: A Love Story

Synopsis: This superior ABC Theatre of the Month presentation is not so much about the reasons for divorce as it is about the tensions surrounding the actual litigation. Tom Selleck plays a topnotch Seattle divorce lawyer, juggling several delicate cases at once. Arrogantly secure in his legal prowess Read More

Honkytonk Man

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, John McIntire, Alexa Kenin, Verna Bloom

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood put his tough-guy image on hold for this personal project, which follows a musician taking one final chance at the big time. Red Stovall (Eastwood) is a would-be country singer who has been bouncing around the margins of the music business for years. With nowhere in particular to Read More

Missing

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Charles Cioffi

Synopsis: Costa-Gavras's tense political drama opens in an unspecified South American country (though clearly intended to be Chile) in the throes of a military coup. American activist Charles Horman (John Shea), who has been a thorn in the side of the country's military ever since his arrival, suddenly Read More

Six Weeks

Actors: Dudley Moore, Mary Tyler Moore, Katherine Healy, Shannon Wilcox, Bill Calvert

Synopsis: Tony Bill directed this sentimental weepie starring Dudley Moore as California politician Patrick Dalton. When Nicole (Katherine Healy), the daughter of the well-to-do Charlotte Dreyfus (Mary Tyler Moore) asks to work for his campaign, Patrick initially turns her down. But when he discovers that Read More