John FiedlerFilmography

Winnie the Pooh: Springtime With Roo

Actors: Jim Cummings, Ken Sansom, Jimmy Bennett, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Walt Disney Pictures presents this straight-to-video animated feature starring Winnie the Pooh and friends. It's Easter and the whole gang is excited because that means Rabbit will be playing the Easter Bunny as he has in years past. Unfortunately for Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, Eeyore, and Roo, Rabbit Read More

Piglet's Big Movie

Actors: John Fiedler, Jim Cummings, Andre Stojka, Kath Soucie

Synopsis: One of the smaller residents of the 100 Acre Woods finally gets his moment in the spotlight in this animated feature, based on the characters created by A.A. Milne. As Winnie the Pooh (voice of Jim Cummins) and his pals Tigger (also voiced by Cummins), Rabbit (voice of Ken Sansom), and Eeyore Read More

The Book of Pooh: Stories from the Heart

Synopsis: Part of The Book of Pooh series, which offers preschool kids simple life lessons and scholastic pointers, The Book of Pooh: Stories From the Heart uses puppetry and computer animation to tell Christopher Robin's imaginative tales. Kids join Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, and Tigger Read More

The Book of Pooh: Fun with Friends

Synopsis: This program for the preschool set features Winnie the Pooh with his friends Tigger, Piglet, and Christopher Robin. Small children are exposed to the ideals in friendship while they enjoy the antics of the famous bear and his lovable comrades. Winnie the Pooh finds himself in one of his usual Read More

The Book of Pooh: Fun with Words

Synopsis: Part of The Book of Pooh series, which offers preschool kids simple life lessons and scholastic pointers, The Book of Pooh: Fun With Words makes a game of learning words and language. Winnie the Pooh and his dear friends from the Hundred Acre Wood use music, song, dance, and play to help little Read More

The Tigger Movie

Actors: Jim Cummings, Nikita Hopkins, Ken Sansom, John Fiedler, Peter Cullen

Synopsis: In this animated story for the whole family, Disney brings A.A. Milne's classic characters from the Winnie the Pooh stories back to the big screen. Tigger is having a hard time finding anyone to play with him, so he decides to track down his family tree and find other Tiggers. Concerned that their Read More

Seize the Day

Actors: Robin Williams, Jerry Stiller, Joseph Wiseman, Glenne Headly, William Hickey

Synopsis: The PBS series Great Performances first presented the made-for-TV feature Seize the Day. The time is the success-driven '50s; Robin Williams plays Tommy Wilhelm, a middle-ager who has just lost his salesman's job. Margaret, his wife (Katherine Borowitz), is on the verge of divorce and fully Read More

I Am the Cheese

Actors: Robert MacNaughton, Hope Lange, Don Murray, Robert Wagner, Cynthia Nixon

Synopsis: In this interesting drama based on a novel by Robert Cormier, flashbacks to two different periods of time mixed with scenes from the present slowly unveil the mysterious circumstances surrounding a lonely teen (Robert MacNaughton) who meets regularly with a psychiatrist delving into his past. The Read More

Buffalo Bill: Season 01

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Joanna Cassidy, Max Wright, John Fiedler, Geena Davis, Charles Robinson

Buffalo Bill: Season 02

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Joanna Cassidy, Max Wright, John Fiedler, Geena Davis, Charles Robinson

Cheers: The Tortelli Tort

Synopsis: Rabid Red Sox booster Carla Tortelli (Rhea Perlman) gets steamed when boorish Yankees fan Ed Kellner (Ron Karabatsos) drops in at Cheers. So inflammatory are Ed's abrasive anti-Boston insults that Carla ends up slugging the guy. As a result, Ed threatens to slap an enormous lawsuit on Sam (Ted Danson Read More

Savannah Smiles

Actors: Mark Miller, Donovan Scott, Bridgette Andersen, Peter Graves, Chris Robinson

Synopsis: Savannah Smiles is a sweet little film that proved a surprising hit on the Saturday matinee circuit. Mark Miller and Donovan Scott play a pair of good-natured escaped convicts who cross the path of precocious runaway Bridgette Andersen. When Andersen explains that she's hit the road because her Read More

Sharky's Machine

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Vittorio Gassman, Rachel Ward, Bernie Casey, Brian Keith

Synopsis: A William Diehl novel was the source of the noirish nailbiter Sharky's Machine. Sharky (Burt Reynolds) is an undercover cop who fouls up an assignment and is kicked downstairs to the vice squad -- a rough-shod bunch of hellraisers who make life miserable. Soon, however, Sharky's life does a 180 Read More

The Fox and the Hound

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Pearl Bailey, Jack Albertson, Sandy Duncan

Synopsis: The Disney animated feature The Fox and the Hound tells the story of a friendship between traditional enemies. Tod is a fox whose parents have died. His best friend is a hunting dog named Copper. As Copper grows up, he learns that it is his job to hunt foxes. Tod's caretaker Widow Tweed takes Tod Read More

The Cannonball Run

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin

Synopsis: Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham team up for the fourth time, this time bringing an all-star cast of characters on a cross-country car race in the vein of 1976 release The Gumball Rally. The police are the least of the Cannonballers' worries as they push the pedal to the metal in a race from Read More

The Monkey Mission

Synopsis: The Monkey Mission was the second of three feature-length pilot films for the never-sold Robert Blake TV series Joe Dancer. On this occasion, hard-boiled private eye Joe Dancer (Blake, of course) takes on the challenge of return a priceless European vase to its rightful owner. Stolen by Nazis Read More

Quincy, M.E.: For the Benefit of My Patients

Synopsis: Quincy (Jack Klugman) is outraged to discover that an accident victim had died when he was refused admittance to the hospital run by Dr. Chet Rawlins (James Karen). Investigating, Quincy finds out that Rawlins' hospital regularly turns away emergency cases if they are unable to pay for Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Group on a Hot Tin Roof

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

Synopsis: Future WKRP in Cincinnati co-star Howard Hesseman reprises his role as Mr. Plager, the gay, culturally inclined member of Bob's therapy group. Urged on by Bob and the other patients, Plager writes, produces, and directs a play. Unfortunately, Plager's masterpiece, though ostensibly set during WWI Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Easy For You to Say

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

Synopsis: Jerry Fogel is cast as Paul Billingham, aka "Ralph Alfalfa the Happy Farmer" of Chicago radio fame. Though a huge success on the airwaves, Billingham harbors a dark secret: He stutters. Now that he has been offered a TV job, Billingham is terrified that the bizarre physical subterfuges he uses to Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Happy Trails to You

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

Synopsis: The Bob Newhart Show ended its six-season, 142-episode run with the aptly titled "Happy Trails to You." The show opens as Bob assumes his new responsibilities as a psychology professor in a small Oregon college. In flashback, Bob recalls how he bade farewell to his friends, colleagues, and Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Matters of Life and Death

Synopsis: Acting under orders from his supervisor Dr. Astin (John S. Ragin), Quincy (Jack Klugman) fills in for Max Gilliam (Walter Brooke), a vacationing small-town general practitioner. This assignment was supposed to distract Quincy from his incessant crusading and crimesolving. Instead, the exact Read More

The Rockford Files: The Competitive Edge

Synopsis: While searching for an embezzler who disappeared after posting bail, Jim (James Garner) asks one question too many at an elite health club. As a result, he is knocked out, heavily sedated, and bundled off to a mental institution. Unable to convince anyone of his real identity and surrounded by Read More

Harper Valley P.T.A.

Actors: Barbara Eden, Ronny Cox, Nanette Fabray, Susan Swift, Louis Nye

Synopsis: This low-budget expansion of the popular Tom T. Hall/Jeannie C. Riley song "Harper Valley PTA" is surprisingly good, boasting lively performances by star Barbara Eden and everybody else in the cast. Eden plays Stella Johnson, a widowed single mom whose gaudy makeup, miniskirts and tight jeans are Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Of Mice or Men

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

Synopsis: Hoping to get a grip on "the woman's angle," Bob's all-male therapy group converges in the Hartley apartment. The result is a scattershot role-playing session, with Emily assuming the guise of Chicago's own Barbara Walters. Featured in the cast are Inga Neilsen as Wanda and Betty Kean as Flo. Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: 'Twas the Pie Before Christmas

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

Synopsis: For only the second time in five years, Bob is forced to raise his rates. Likewise for the second time in five years, his patients react unfavorably to the increase; not only do they boycott his Christmas party, but also Mr. Carlin puts out a "contract" on Bob by hiring a professional pie thrower Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: You're Fired, Mr. Chips

Synopsis: Hoping to lighten his workload, Bob interviews several candidates for the job of his assistant. When his efforts fail to yield fruit (most of the candidates, alas, are unable to diagnose a hangnail, much less a neurosis), Bob turns to his former college professor, Alan Dreesen (guest star Ralph Bellamy Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Who Was That Masked Man?

Synopsis: With the help of Bob and a bottle, henpecked Mr. Petersen (John Fiedler) stands up to his wife. The consequences are enormous, not only for the Petersens, but also for Bob. Toni Lamond appears as the much-discussed but seldom-seen Doris Petersen, while Larry Goldman is cast as the cop. Scripted by Glen Read More

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

Actors: Sterling Holloway

Synopsis: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is an hour-long compendium of the three Disney "Winnie" animated short subjects produced between 1966 and 1974. Sterling Holloway provides the voice of A.A. Milne's whimsical pooh-bear in all three cartoons, the first two of which are directed by Wolfgang Reithermann Read More

The Rescuers

Synopsis: Two fantasy novels by Margery Sharp were combined for in the Disney animated feature The Rescuers. The title characters are a pair of mice, Bernard and Miss Bianca. A little girl named Penny has been kidnapped by Miss Medusa. When the human law enforcement officials fail to locate the child Read More

Alice: Mel's Happy Burger

Synopsis: Show-business hopeful Alice (Linda Lavin) is convinced that her big break has come when she is chosen to sing and dance in a commercial for Mel's Diner. Alas, the assignment requires Alice to hide much of her talent--and most of her body--under a huge, idiotic-looking hamburger costume. Though Read More

Alice: Vera's Mortician

Synopsis: The impressionable Vera (Beth Howland) has fallen in love again. This time the lucky man is Jerry (Tom Poston), a middle-aged mortician. But things may not be as idyllic as Vera imagines they are: there's a strong likelihood that Jerry is already married. Once Alice (Linda Lavin) is in possession Read More

The Shaggy D.A.

Actors: Dean Jones, Tim Conway, Suzanne Pleshette, Keenan Wynn, Jo Ann Worley

Synopsis: Robert Stevenson, Walt Disney Productions' house director, cobbled together his 19th family film for the organization with this slapstick sequel to the Disney comedy The Shaggy Dog (produced 17 years after the fact). Dean Jones plays Wilby Daniels, a lawyer running against the villainous John Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Some of My Best Friends Are...

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

Synopsis: Future WKRP in Cincinnati regular Howard Hesseman makes a return appearance on The Bob Newhart Show, this time in the role of Bob's new patient, Mr. Plager. Described as "mildly neurotic with compulsive tendencies," Plager is welcomed by the rest of Bob's therapy group with open arms. Alas, those Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: A Crime Most Foul

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

Synopsis: Bob turns amateur detective when his expensive new tape recorder turns up missing. Deducing that there's a thief at large, Bob places everyone -- friends and family members alike -- under suspicion. But the solution to the mystery is embarrassingly close to home. Originally shown over the CBS Read More

Who Is the Black Dahlia?

Actors: Lucie Arnaz, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Ronny Cox, MacDonald Carey, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: The still-unsolved Black Dahlia murder case, fictionalized in the 1981 theatrical feature True Confessions, is handled on a more factual level in this made-for-TV movie. Lucie Arnaz plays Elizabeth Short, an aspiring starlet of questionable morals, who in 1947 was murdered by person or persons Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Death of a Fruitman

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

Synopsis: Bob's plans to hold a surprise party for his therapy group are messed up by the non-arrival of one patient, Mr. Gianini. Somewhat miffed, Bob exiles Gianini in absentia. Expressing long-withheld hostility towards the missing member, the rest of the group applauds Bob's action, but they Read More

The Fortune

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Stockard Channing, Florence Stanley, Scatman Crothers, Richard B. Shull

Synopsis: Three's a crowd in Mike Nichols's period caper comedy -- or is it? To dodge the 1920s Mann Act barring the transport of women across state lines for "immoral purposes," not-yet-divorced Nicky (Warren Beatty) has felonious buddy Oscar (Jack Nicholson) marry Nicky's runaway heiress sweetheart Freddy Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: The Battle of the Groups

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

Synopsis: Filmed as the opening episode of The Bob Newhart Show's third season, "The Battle of the Groups" ended up as the season's second installment, on September 21, 1974. Stuck with two contentious therapy groups, Bob does not relish the notion of taking both groups to a mountain retreat for a marathon Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Mask of Death

Synopsis: In an acting tour de force that earned him critical acclaim back in 1974, John Davidson guest stars as professional female impersonator Ken Scott. The highlight of Scott's nightclub act is his dead-on imitation of legendary 1930s movie star Carol Marlowe. Unfortunately, the entertainer's Read More

Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!

Synopsis: This third entry in Disney's animated-featurette series based on A. A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh tales was also the first directed by someone other than Wolfgang Reithermann. The story involves the efforts made by the other denizens of the Hundred Acre Forest to take some of the "bounce" out of Read More

Bad Ronald

Actors: Scott Jacoby, Pippa Scott, John Larch, Dabney Coleman, Kim Hunter

Synopsis: "Bad" Ronald (Scott Jacoby) has been in hiding in a secret room ever since going off the deep end and killing a teenaged girl who'd made fun of him. Ronald's mother (Kim Hunter) helps her son to remain hidden, even when the house in which he is sequestered is rented by a family. As luck would have Read More

Double Indemnity

Synopsis: It goes without saying that the 1973 TV-movie version of Double Indemnity doesn't come within shouting distance of the classic 1944 theatrical-movie version. Still, the basic story is a solid one, and the actors are eager to please. Richard Crenna plays the old Fred MacMurray role of Walter Neff Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas

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

Synopsis: Bob and Emily are looking forward to their first Christmas Eve "alone together." Unfortunately, they'll have to continue looking; Bob has been trapped in his office by a power failure, capping a long and daunting list of frustrations. Gene Blakely appears as Dr. Ralph Tetzi. Appropriately making Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Mutiny On the Hartley

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

Synopsis: The ever-rising cost of living has forced Bob to increase his rates. Unfortunately, he chooses the worst possible time to inform his therapy group that he's raising their fees. The group rebels en masse -- and that's hardly the end of Bob's dilemma. In addition to the usual aggregation of Read More

Robin Hood

Actors: Brian Bedford, Andy Devine, Peter Ustinov, Roger Miller, George Lindsey, Phil Harris, Terry-Thomas

Synopsis: Robin Hood is one of the first animated films produced by the Walt Disney Company after Walt Disney's death in 1967. For the film, the studio's animators took the Disney tradition of adding human-like animal sidekicks to established tales (Cinderella, Pinnochio) a step further by making Robin Read More

The Deathmaster

Synopsis: A charismatic long-haired vampire finds himself becoming a guru for a gang of Southern California flower children in this hippie-dippy horror movie. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Skyjacked

Actors: Kelley Miles, Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin, Claude Akins, Jeanne Crain

Synopsis: Sky Terror is the reissue title for Skyjacked, a 1972 MGM all-star adventure based on a novel by David Harper. Charlton Heston mans the controls of a Los Angeles-bound commercial airliner which is hijacked to Russia by an unknown miscreant. Even when the skyjacker, revealed to be passenger James Brolin Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Come Live With Me

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

Synopsis: Bob's secretary, Carol, wants to move in with her new boyfriend, Roger Dixon (Eugene Troobnick), who has recently separated from his wife. All Carol needs for her own peace of mind is Bob's approval -- but that approval is not forthcoming. As a result, Carol's work performance suffers Read More

Banacek: Project Phoenix

Synopsis: In this crime drama, corporate thieves, plan to steal an experimental car that is being sent to Boston via rail. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cannon

Actors: William Conrad

Synopsis: William Conrad stars as corpulent private eye Frank Cannon in this 2-hour pilot for the subsequent Cannon series. He responds to a plea for assistance from ex-flame Vera Miles (an actress who was in practically every pilot film made between 1965 and 1975). She is the prime suspect in the murder of Read More

Making it

Actors: Kristoffer Tabori, Joyce Van Patten

Synopsis: In the life of sexually successful young high-school student Phil Fuller (Kristoffer Tabori) the episodes in this story enable him to gain increased maturity and understanding. Phil is attracted to his gym teacher's beautiful wife who has a phobia about growing old and who eventually takes him to Read More

Honky

Actors: Brenda Sykes

Synopsis: Honky chronicles the public outcry that greets an interracial relationship between a white teen (John Nielson) and an affluent black woman (Brenda Sykes). Also titled Sheila. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Bewitched: Turn On the Old Charm

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

Synopsis: Samantha gives Darrin a magic amulet, which, when worn, forces Endora to be nice to him. When Endora discovers the source of her uncharacteristic good nature, she spitefully turns the tables on Sam and Darrin. Naturally, this fit of pique occurs just when Darrin is trying to curry favor with his Read More

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

Actors: Brian Keith, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Ivan Dixon, Suzanne Pleshette

Synopsis: War Games is the streamlined reissue title for the satirical Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? The story is set in a sleepy Southern town, the site of a tranquil army base. Commanding officer Col. Flanders (Don Ameche), anxious to win the hearts and minds of the locals, invites the populace Read More

True Grit

Actors: John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Jeremy Slate, Robert Duvall

Synopsis: In fine Hollywood tradition, John Wayne had to play a "one-eyed fat man" before the Motion Picture Academy considered him worthy of an Oscar. In True Grit, Wayne plays grumpy, pot-bellied U.S. marshal "Rooster" Cogburn, hired by 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) to find Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) Read More

Bewitched: Marriage, Witch's Style

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

Synopsis: Hoping to match her cousin Samantha's happiness by marrying a mortal, Serena subscribes to The Human Equation, a computer-dating service run by Mr. Beams (John Fiedler). Constitutionally incapable of telling the truth on her application form, Serena is paired up with sophisticated Franklyn Read More

Rascal

Actors: Steve Forrest, Bill Mumy, Pamela Toll, Elsa Lanchester

Synopsis: Rascal, the Sterling North novel that has been a longtime fixture of Scholastic Magazine book clubs, was given Tiffany treatment by the Disney studios in 1969. Bill Mumy plays young Sterling North, whose Wisconsin childhood is enriched through his friendship with a stray raccoon. Though lacking Read More

Bewitched: Darrin the Warlock

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

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, an enchanted pocket watch has endowed Darrin with the powers of a warlock. Alas, Darrin's newfound magical skills have gone to his head, delighting Endora and Maurice, while devastating Samantha. Clearly, Sam's parents will have to be convinced that Darrin Read More

Bewitched: Daddy Comes to Visit

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

Synopsis: In this first episode of a two-part story, Samantha's father, Maurice, gives Darrin a most unusual birthday present: a pocket watch, which endows Darrin with the powers of a warlock. Mired in another troublesome ad campaign, Darrin figures that it wouldn't hurt to try out his new magical skills Read More

The Great Bank Robbery

Actors: Zero Mostel, Kim Novak, Clint Walker, Claude Akins, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: In this western comedy, a bogus evangelist and his assistant travel to the town of Friendly and endeavor to rob the West's purportedly most unrobbable bank. Unfortunately, they are not the only bandits planning to rob the bank. Their rivals in robbery include a Mexican bandido and his dullard son. Read More

The Ballad of Josie

Actors: Peter Graves, Doris Day, George Kennedy, Andy Devine, William Talman

Synopsis: Doris Day peers through layers of camera gauze to star in The Ballad of Josie, a second-rate variation of Cat Ballou. For openers, Day is arrested for the billiard-cue bludgeoning of her late husband. Upon her acquittal, she takes up sheep ranching in Wyoming. To prove herself as good as any man, Day Read More

The Odd Couple

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Herb Edelman, David Sheiner

Synopsis: Compulsive neatnik Felix Unger (Jack Lemmon) is thrown out of his house by his divorce-bound wife. He wanders aimlessly through the streets of New York, toying with the idea of suicide, before gravitating to the apartment of his best friend, incorrigibly sloppy sportswriter Oscar Madison (Walter Matthau Read More

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day

Synopsis: Winnie The Pooh & the Blustery Day was the second Disney animated featurette based on characters created by A. A. Milne. It was released December 20, 1968, two years and ten months after the first Disney "Pooh Corner" tales, Winnie the Pooh & the Honey Tree. As in the earlier film, Sterling Read More

Bewitched: Nobody But a Frog Knows How to Live

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

Synopsis: John Fiedler guest stars as Fergus F. Finglehoff, a frog who has been transformed into man. Having fallen in love with a female amphibian, Fergus demands that Samantha return him to his original frog form, but only the witch who cast the spell in first place can do that. Sam's solution is to Read More

Star Trek: Wolf in the Fold

Synopsis: After suffering a minor head injury, the Enterprise's chief engineer, Scotty, is ordered by Dr. McCoy to take a brief leave -- as part of his recovery process, of course -- in this episode of the popular sci-fi television series. Reluctantly, Scotty puts aside his workaholic tendencies and joins Read More

Fitzwilly

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Feldon, Edith Evans, John McGiver, Harry Townes

Synopsis: When an aging philanthropist falls on hard times, her butler starts to rob the rich so that she can keep on giving to the poor in this comedy. Claude Fitzwilliam (Dick Van Dyke), known to his friends as "Fitzwilly," works as a butler for Victoria Woodworth (Edith Evans), who -- ever since the Read More

A Fine Madness

Actors: Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg, Patrick O'Neal, Colleen Dewhurst

Synopsis: Sean Connery attempted to make a clean break from his "James Bond" image in the boisterous comedy A Fine Madness. Connery plays Samson Shillitoe, a Brendan Behan-like poet with a mile-wide misogynistic streak. Try as he might to complete his latest masterpiece, Shillitoe is constantly interrupted 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

Kiss Me, Stupid!

Actors: Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston, Felicia Farr, Cliff Osmond

Synopsis: The Catholic League of Decency gave Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid! a "condemned" rating. The Moral Majority charged the picture with debauchery and movie theaters across the nation discontinued its run. The bed-trick comedy had America's panties tied in a knot; one could not imagine a story so Read More

The Munsters: My Fair Munster

Synopsis: After another of Marilyn's boyfriends runs away in horror upon seeing the monstrous Munsters, Grandpa Munster (Al Lewis) concludes that Marilyn (Beverly Owen) will never land a beau without his help. Dutifully, Grandpa repairs to his laboratory to cook up a love potion, which Lily (Yvonne DeCarlo) Read More

Guns of Diablo

Actors: Charles Bronson, Susan Oliver

Synopsis: Guns of Diablo was cobbled together from two episodes of the TV series The Travels of Jamie McPheeters. 14-year-old Kurt Russell plays Jamie, an orphaned boy heading westward with a wagon train. Charles Bronson tops the cast as wagon scout Linc Murdock, who runs into difficulties when he meets old Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Tragic Trophy

Synopsis: Sleazy movie producer Tony Fry (Richard Carlson) plans to raise money for his next picture by threatening to reveal the sordid past of Joanne Pennington (Constance Towers), the wife of millionaire J.J. Pennington (Paul Stewart). What Tony doesn't know is that his fiancee Kathy (Mimsy Farmer) is Read More

The World of Henry Orient

Actors: Peter Sellers, Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury, Tippy Walker, Merrie Spaeth, Phyllis Thaxter, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: Decked out with another of his American accents, Peter Sellers plays self-centered concert pianist Henry Orient. While Henry's active libido sends him off on pursuit of married woman Paula Prentiss, a pair of preteen boarding-school chums, played by Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth, worship Orient Read More

The Fugitive: The End Game

Synopsis: Recognizing the man in a picture snapped by a sidewalk photographer as Richard Kimble (David Janssen), Lt. Gerard (Barry Morse) rushes to Chicago in hopes of finally capturing the fugitive. Seeking a hideout, Kimble takes refuge in the home of two crotchety middle-agers named Jake (John McGiver) Read More

My Favorite Martian: Man or Amoeba

Synopsis: Mrs. Brown's daughter Angela (Ann Marshall), in her final series appearance) is assigned to write a school paper on the theories of Professor Newton Jennings (John Fiedler), who believes that Mars is inhabited only by primitive amoebae and inverterbrates. Hoping to get the facts straight, Martin 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

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Last Remains

Synopsis: Business has been bad of late for mortician Amos Duff (John Fiedler), and things don't brighten up much when Marvin Foley (Ed Gardner) arranges the cheapest funeral possible for his late partner, Robert Kessler. Luckily for Duff, he figures out that Foley murdered Kessler, and is thus able to Read More

The Twilight Zone: Cavender is Coming

Actors: Carol Burnett, Jesse White, Howard I. Smith, John Fiedler, Frank Behrens

Synopsis: A reworking of the first-season Twilight Zone episode "Mr. Bevis," "Cavender Is Coming" was, like its predecessor, the pilot for a proposed comedy-fantasy TV series. Carol Burnett stars as klutzy Agnes Grep, whose combination of overeagerness and ineptitude costs her job after job. Enter Agnes' Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: I Saw the Whole Thing

Synopsis: The only episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour directed by Hitchcock himself (though he'd previously helmed several of the anthology's half-hour installments), "I Saw the Whole Thing" draws its suspense from the reliability -- or lack of reliability -- of eyewitness testimony. Arrested on Read More

That Touch of Mink

Actors: Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young, Audrey Meadows, John Astin, Dick Sargent

Synopsis: When people refer to Doris Day as "the world's oldest professional virgin," they generally have the 1962 comedy That Touch of Mink in mind. It isn't that Cathy Timberlake (Day) is above a bit of hanky-panky; it's just that she wants such tangibles as a marriage license and wedding ring first. Read More

A Raisin in the Sun

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon

Synopsis: While this original movie version of Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning play may have dated somewhat, it was groundbreaking when first released in 1961, and a wealth of future plays, films, and TV productions have taken their lead from this socially conscious drama about a struggling Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Gold Bar

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired by a bombastic banker named Throckton (Val Avery) who wants to find out who has stolen a gold bar. On the trail, Paladin is met by Mr. Turner (John Fiedler) meek bank teller who swiped the gold in hopes of pursuing a life of carefree luxury. Now disillusioned and Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Incident in a Small Jail

Synopsis: While traveling through the tiny community of Bugletown, traveling salesman Leon Gorwald (John Fiedler) is arrested for jaywalking. A little later, Leon finds himself with a cellmate: a local mechanic (Richard Jaeckel) who is suspected of murdering a young girl. As a lynch mob gathers outside the Read More

The Twilight Zone: Night of the Meek

Actors: Art Carney, John Fiedler, Burt Mustin, Robert Lieb, Meg Wylie

Synopsis: Twilight Zone's Yuletide offering for the 1960-61 season was this videotaped episode. Art Carney stars as Henry Corwin, a philosophical, booze-guzzling department store Santa Claus. Dismissed from his job, the disgruntled Corwin stumbles across a strange-looking bag, one that profoundly changes Read More

Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates

Actors: Tab Hunter, Peggy King, Basil Rathbone, Jarmila Novotna, Carmen Mathews

Synopsis: Adapted by Sally Benson (Meet Me in St. Louis) from the novel by Mary Mapes Dodge, this dazzling musical version of Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates) stars 1950s Hollywood heartthrob Tab Hunter in the title role (as Hans, not the Skates). Living in a small Dutch village, Hans yearns to compete Read More

12 Angry Men

Actors: John Fiedler, Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, Sr., E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Edward Binns, Joseph Sweeney, George Voskovec, Robert Webber

Synopsis: A Puerto Rican youth is on trial for murder, accused of knifing his father to death. The twelve jurors retire to the jury room, having been admonished that the defendant is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Eleven of the jurors vote for conviction, each for reasons of his Read More

Stage Struck

Actors: Henry Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Joan Greenwood, Herbert Marshall, Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: This remake of Zoe Akins' Morning Glory stars Susan Strasberg as Eva Lovelace, the role that won Katharine Hepburn her first Oscar back in 1933. Fresh from the midwest, the starry-eyed Eva arrives in New York, convinced that she has what it takes to be Broadway's greatest actress. Armed with more Read More