John RitterFilmography

Bad Santa

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Lauren Graham, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: The Christmas season just got a lot less joyous in this very dark comedy. Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton) is a con man and a thief who teams up with his friend Marcus (Tony Cox), a midget, for a very special scam each year during the holiday season. Willie gets a job as Santa Claus at a Read More

Manhood

Actors: Nestor Carbonell, Janeane Garofalo, John Ritter, Tom Arnold

Synopsis: When Jill (Janeane Garofalo), the sister of reformed womanizer and former high-profile fashion photographer Jack (Nestor Carbonell), leaves her 17-year-old son with his uncle in an unstable bid to find herself, her brother and sister face an increasingly uncertain future in this dark drama from Read More

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

Actors: Carroll Baker, Ernest Borgnine, Bruce Dern, Ricardo Montalban, John Ritter

Man of the Year

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: John Ritter

Synopsis: The brain-child of director and executive producer Straw Weisman, Man of the Year is billed as a reality/surveillance/improv/drama. In fact, the film was shot in one night, with no script and a cast of about 20 being followed around by an equal number of cameras. The story centers on Bill, a Read More

8 Simple Rules: Season 02

Actors: John Ritter, Katey Sagal, Kaley Cuoco, Amy Davidson, Martin Spanjers

Tadpole

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Aaron Stanford, John Ritter, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Iler

Synopsis: Most 15-year-old boys are obsessed with the opposite sex, but this may be the only area in which Oscar Grubman (Aaron Stanford) could be called typical. An honor student at an exclusive prep school, Oscar is confident, keenly intelligent, speaks fluent French, and is well versed in the work of a Read More

8 Simple Rules: Season 01

Actors: John Ritter, Katey Sagal, Kaley Cuoco, Amy Davidson, Martin Spanjers

Clifford the Big Red Dog: Stormy Weather

Nuncrackers

Actors: Rue McClanahan, John Ritter, Semina DeLaurentis, Deborah Del Mastro, Jackson Donalds

Synopsis: Rue McClanahan stars as Mother Superior in this Nunsense Christmas special, playing the musical nun with a cable access show and a taste for comedy. Joined by special guest John Ritter, the convent performs musical numbers such as Santa Ain't Comin' to Our House and Twelve Days Prior to Christmas. Read More

Clifford the Big Red Dog: Circus Stars

Clifford the Big Red Dog: Islander of the Year

Clifford the Big Red Dog: Clifford on Parade

Clifford the Big Red Dog [Animated TV Series]

Actors: John Ritter, Grey DeLisle

Lost In The Pershing Point Hotel

Actors: Leslie Jordan, Erin Chandler, Mark Pellegrino, Carlos Gomez, Luke Eberl

Synopsis: Leslie Jordan writes and stars in this autobiographical account of being gay and drug-addled in 1970s Atlanta. The film opens with the protagonist known only as Storyteller (Jordan) meeting his maker after a drug overdose and trying to explain the sorry state of his former life. Rewind 20 years Read More

Panic

Actors: William H. Macy, John Ritter, Neve Campbell, Donald Sutherland, Tracey Ullman

Synopsis: A middle-aged man finds love in the last place he was looking -- his psychiatrist's waiting room -- in this dark comedy drama. Alex (William H. Macy) is a man in his mid-forties who is having something of a midlife crisis; he's unhappy with his life; his marriage to Martha (Tracey Ullman) is going Read More

TripFall

Synopsis: In a sterling example of heeding your mother's warning about not talking to strangers, soft-bellied yuppie Tom Williams (John Ritter), his striking wife Gina (Rachel Hunter), and their kids are abducted while on vacation at a Southern California amusement park by the unctuous Mr. Eddie (Eric Read More

Terror Tract

Actors: John Ritter, Bryan Cranston, Carmine Giovinazzo

Synopsis: John Ritter stars in this three-part horror anthology as Bob Carter, a real estate salesman trying to sell a home to a pair of young newlyweds. But each of the three available houses has been the site of a grisly murder, and Bob insists on recalling the grim details of each case for his potential Read More

Lethal Vows

Synopsis: When years of medical treatment fail to offer any concrete reasons for her struggle to survive, a sickly woman finds that her ex-husband may be responsible for her mysterious malady in director Paul Schneider's dark psychological thriller. For 15 years, Ellen Farris (Marg Helgenberger) has been Read More

Touched By an Angel: Black Like Monica

Synopsis: On the eve of the "Civil Rights Day" celebration in Aynesville, Illinois, Monica (Roma Downey) stumbles across the dead body of an elderly black man, apparently the victim of a hate crime. Over the protests of Sheriff McKinsley (John Ritter) and his black deputy James (Rick Worthy), the organizers Read More

It Came From the Sky

Actors: Yasmine Bleeth, Christopher Lloyd, John Ritter, JoBeth Williams, Kevin Zegers

Synopsis: John Ritter, JoBeth Williams, Christopher Lloyd, and Yasmine Bleeth star in this comedy-drama about a couple having serious problems with their marriage. Help, however, arrives in the least expected way when a small plane crashes into their roof and they are suddenly introduced to a pair of Read More

Holy Joe

Actors: John Ritter, Meredith Baxter

Synopsis: Can a man who doesn't believe in miracles possess the power to heal? This is the question posed to the protagonist -- and the audience -- of the made-for-TV Holy Joe. John Ritter stars as Joe Cass, a small-town Episcopal rector who preaches the gospel of pragmatism and logic. Things take an Read More

Bride of Chucky

Actors: Jennifer Tilly, Katherine Heigl, Nick Stabile, John Ritter, Alexis Arquette

Synopsis: This horror film, directed by Ronnie Yu, marked a return (after an eight-year lapse) of Chucky and the Child's Play series that began in 1988. At the moment of his death, the spirit of former serial killer Charles Lee Ray was mystically relocated in the doll Chucky (voice of Brad Dourif). After Read More

Chance of a Lifetime

Actors: John Ritter, Katey Sagal, David Naughton

Synopsis: Can a severe back injury bring two lonely people together? Tom (John Ritter) is a respected journalist who makes the serious mistake of becoming involved with a married woman -- the wife of his publisher. Tom's editor, Irene (Katey Sagal), is forced to give him his pink slip, but when Tom sees Read More

I Woke Up Early The Day I Died

Actors: Billy Zane, Sandra Bernhard, Ron Perlman, Tippi Hedren, Andrew McCarthy

Synopsis: Aris Iliopulos directed this campy comedy utilizing schlock filmmaker Ed Wood's last unproduced screenplay. Stock footage and old hygiene films are intercut with this near-silent story following a cross-dresser (Billy Zane), who escapes from the Casa de la Loco Sanitarium, manages to acquire some Read More

Shadow of Doubt

Actors: Nina Foch, John Ritter, Huey Lewis, Wade Dominguez, Melanie Griffith, Tom Berenger, Craig Sheffer

Synopsis: In this taut thriller, a determined defense attorney (Melanie Griffith) launches an investigation to prove her latest client, a popular rap singer, is innocent of killing his girlfriend. Her search leads the lawyer to another murder victim, this time a member of a politically powerful family. Her Read More

The Truth About Lying

Actors: John Ritter, Michele Scarabelli, Daphne Zuniga

Synopsis: Burned-out, boozing crime novelist Bruce Simon Barker (John Ritter) emerges from his doldrums long enough to involve himself in a bizarre missing-persons case. At the urging of his police inspector sister (Samantha Eggar), Bruce investigates the disappearance of a baby. There have been no ransom Read More

Ally McBeal: Story of Love

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Montana

Actors: Kyra Sedgwick, Stanley Tucci, Robbie Coltrane, Robin Tunney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Ritter

Synopsis: Jennifer Leitzes made her directorial debut with this gangster comedy. Claire (Kyra Sedgwick) and terminally ill Nick (Stanley Tucci) kidnap an Asian man, put him in the trunk, and drive away. Realizing they've got the wrong person, they pull off a second kidnapping and then dump their first Read More

Dead Husbands

Actors: John Ritter, Nicollette Sheridan

Synopsis: Fed up with her dissatisfying marriage, a woman joins a support group dedicated to the purpose of helping wives kill their husbands. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide Read More

Nowhere

Actors: James Duval, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton, Chiara Mastroianni, Guillermo Diaz, Debi Mazar, Jeremy Jordan

Synopsis: Described by director Gregg Araki as "A Beverly Hills 90210 episode on acid" (with no suggestions of what it might be cut with), Nowhere is a companion piece with Araki's previous meditations on youth gone wild in the 1990s, Totally F***ed Up and The Doom Generation -- Araki's self-described "teen Read More

Sink or Swim

Actors: Stephen Rea, Illeana Douglas, John Ritter, Dave Foley, Richard Kind

Synopsis: In this satirical "inside" look at the world of TV scripters, agent Danny (Tom Arnold) gives a 22-episode assignment to depressed, self-destructive writer-producer Brian (Stephen Rea), creatively spent and bereft of ideas. At his weekly poker game, Brian sees a romantic couple on a hotel balcony. Read More

Mercenary

Actors: Olivier Gruner, John Ritter, Robert Culp, Ed Lauter, Martin Kove

Synopsis: When kidnappers murder his wife, business tycoon Jonas Ambler vows to get revenge. He then hires a soldier-of-fortune to find them. Trouble brews when he insists on going with them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Ted

Synopsis: Three's a crowd as Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) finds her mom making out with John Ritter in her house. Ritter plays Ted, a man who Buffy's mom has apparently been seeing for a while. Ted's demeanor lies somewhere between Ward Cleaver and Herman Georing. Even though he bakes delicious cookies and Read More

A Child's Wish

Synopsis: This fact-based TV movie stars John Ritter as Ed Chandler, whose life is torn asunder when his daughter Missy (Anna Chlumsky) is diagnosed with cancer. The nature of Missy's illness obliges Ed to spend many hours away from his job as a car salesman to commiserate with her daughter's doctors at the Read More

King of the Hill: The Son That Got Away

Unforgivable

Synopsis: John Ritter brilliantly breaks loose from his lovable "Jack Tripper" characterization in the role of the seriously disturbed Paul Hegstrom. An abusive husband and father, not to mention a serial philanderer, Paul draws his "courage" from a whisky bottle. On one fateful evening, his violent Read More

Sling Blade

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter, Lucas Black, Natalie Canerday

Synopsis: Sling Blade marked the directorial debut of country singer turned actor Billy Bob Thornton, who also authored the script (expanding George Hickenlooper's acclaimed short Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade) and stars in the picture. Thornton plays Karl Childers, a mildly retarded man who spent most Read More

Touched By an Angel: Random Acts

Synopsis: On the eve of his 20th anniversary as a teacher, Mike O'Connor (John Ritter) feels only a sense of profound disillusionment, convinced that his career has had no significance whatsoever. The situation worsens when Mike's ex-student Danielle Dawson (Aimee Graham) conspires with her no-good Read More

Wings: Love Overboard

Synopsis: John Ritter, real-life husband of Wings costar Amy Yasbeck, guests in this episode as Stuart Davenport, the "perfect" husband who ran out on Yasbeck's character Casey at the beginning of Season Six. While watching a TV show, Casey spots the elusive Stuart, then tracks him down for a confrontation. Read More

The Colony

Actors: John Ritter, Hal Linden, Mary Page Keller

Synopsis: Entranced by his boss's persuasive vision of a suburban community that is completely safeguarded from the world's ugly realities, an executive eagerly buys a home within the enclave. But soon after his arrival, he realizes that the price of safety is paid with something more precious than money Read More

Gramps

Actors: Andy Griffith, John Ritter, Mary-Margaret Humes

Synopsis: Andy Griffith shed a bit of his nice-guy image in this made-for-TV movie, in which he plays Jack McGruder, the elderly father of Clarke McGruder (John Ritter), a successful lawyer. Jack has been missing for years, and Clarke has spent some time trying to track down his father's whereabouts; after Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: Fourteenth Floor

Synopsis: Larry (Garry Shandling) was already skating on thin ice with the network following his departure from the show, and now the suits upstairs are quickly tiring of Larry's constant on-air barbs made at their expense. Despite Artie's (Rip Torn) persistent pleas for him to let up, Larry's venom only Read More

Hearts Afire: Season 03

Actors: John Ritter, Markie Post, Billy Bob Thornton, Conchata Ferrell, J. Skylar Testa

Synopsis: Season three of Hearts Afire finds conservative political functionary John Hartman (John Ritter) still living in his hometown with his worldly, liberal journalist wife Georgie Anne (Markie Post), where they continue to churn out the local newspaper, "The Daily Beacon," with the help of John's Read More

North

Actors: Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis, Jon Lovitz, Matthew McCurley, Alan Arkin, Richard Belzer

Synopsis: A boy divorces his parents in this comic fantasy for the family. North (Elijah Wood) is the sort of kid most parents dream of -- he's bright, well-behaved, a good student, and a great baseball player. But North's Mom and Dad (Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander) are so busy with their lives Read More

Hearts Afire: Season 02

Actors: John Ritter, Markie Post, Billy Bob Thornton, Conchata Ferrell, Justin Burnette

Synopsis: Having given in to network pressure by having the two hot-to-trot leading characters of the CBS sitcom Hearts Afire consummate their romance with marriage rather than merely a roll in the hay during the series' first season, producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason also gritted her teeth and went along Read More

Prison for Children

Synopsis: Made for television, Prison for Children is set in a brutal boys' reformatory. New superintendent John Ritter tries to improve conditions, but finds himself up against a wall of indifference and red tape. The film shows how a supposedly "beneficial" system of incarceration and detention can Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: Off Camera

Synopsis: There's certainly no shortage of behind-the-scenes conflict when it comes to television, and this episode of HBO's Emmy award-winning late-night talk show satire exposes the gritty backstage battles that have become the stuff of legend among television fanatics. In addition to Artie's (Rip Torn) Read More

Danielle Steel's 'Heartbeat'

Synopsis: As indicated by its title, this made-for-TV weeper was inspired by one of author Danielle Steel's innumerable best-sellers. The beautiful and talented Adrian (Polly Draper) is a writer for one of America's most popular TV soap operas. She is also pregnant, and when she refuses to abort her baby Read More

The Only Way Out

Actors: John Ritter, Henry Winkler, Julianne Phillips, Stephanie Faracy, Sam Mancuso

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, an woman unwittingly endangers her ex-husband's life after she becomes involved with a sociopath. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Stay Tuned

Actors: John Ritter, Pam Dawber, Jeffrey Jones, David Tom, Heather McComb

Synopsis: John Ritter and Pam Dawber star as Roy and Helen Knable, a suburban American couple having marital problems. Roy has become a couch potato, and a resentful Helen wants him to ditch the remote. When the demonic Spike (Jeffrey Jones) offers Roy a deal on the ultimate satellite TV system, Roy doesn't Read More

Noises Off

Actors: Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott, Julie Hagerty, Marilu Henner, Mark Linn-Baker

Synopsis: Michael Frayn's frantic West End and Broadway farce makes a literal transformation to the screen in Peter Bogdanoch's faithful adaptation, which is transplanted from the London suburbs to Des Moines, Iowa to accommodate the (mostly) American cast. Michael Caine stars as director Lloyd Fellowes Read More

The Real Story of Christmas Tree

Synopsis: How does a pine tree manage to stay green all year and who thought up the idea of using a tree to celebrate Christmas? The answers to these questions are explored in Real Story of the Christmas Tree. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Hearts Afire: Season 01

Actors: John Ritter, Markie Post, Billy Bob Thornton, Wendie Jo Sperber, Justin Burnette

Synopsis: Season one of Hearts Afire takes place in Washington D.C., where transplanted Southerner John Hartman (John Ritter) has relocated as chief of staff to ultra-conservative Senator Strobe Smithers. Recently divorced and the father of two sons, Ben (Justin Burnette) and Elliott (Clark Duke), Hartman Read More

Heartbeat

Actors: John Ritter, Polly Draper, Nancy Morgan, Kevin Kilner, Michael Lembeck

Synopsis: A man violates his premarital agreement when he leaves his newly pregnant TV-news producer wife. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Problem Child 2

Actors: John Ritter, Michael Oliver, Amy Yasbeck, Ivyann Schwan, Laraine Newman, Jack Warden

Synopsis: Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the adoption agency, along comes this sequel to the 1990 comedy hit Problem Child. Ben Healy (John Ritter) and his sociopathically unruly son Junior (Michael Oliver) move out of town after Ben and his wife split up. Ben discovers that his new city is Read More

The Summer My Father Grew Up

Actors: John Ritter, Margaret Whitton, Joe Spano, Karen Young, Matthew Lawrence

Synopsis: Matthew Lawrence plays an 11-year-old boy whose life is torn asunder by the divorce of his parents. John Ritter plays Lawrence's doctor father, who finds himself with only one day to make amends to his estranged son. Complicating matters are the divergent emotions of Lawrence's mother's new Read More

The Cosby Show: Total Control

Synopsis: John Ritter and his future wife Amy Yasbeck show up in this episode as high school coach Ray Evans and his pregnant spouse Alicia. A lifelong control freak on the job and at home, Ray has prepared meticulously for the moment that Alicia gives birth, carefully rehearsing every possible scenario. Read More

Problem Child

Actors: John Ritter, Michael Oliver, Amy Yasbeck, Gilbert Gottfried, Jack Warden

Synopsis: An adoptive parent discovers that some children are given up by their biological parents for very good reasons in this dark comedy. Ben Healy (John Ritter) is a pleasant but brow-beaten yuppie working for his father Big Ben (Jack Warden), a tyrannical sporting goods dealer. Ben would love to have Read More

The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story

Actors: Annette O'Toole, John Ritter, Charles Haid, Jerry Maren

Synopsis: This sentimentalized biography of Oz creator L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) stars John Ritter in the title role. Richard Matheson's teleplay accurately depicts Baum as a business failure with the singular gift of being able to communicate with children. In keeping with Matheson's grounding in fantasy Read More

American Red Cross Emergency Test

Synopsis: This medical instructional video is produced by the American Red Cross. Taking the viewer first through a twenty-question test on proper procedures for life-threatening medical emergencies, with an included test score card, the video then shows the recommended medical procedures for each depicted Read More

Help Save Planet Earth: Easy Ways to Make a Difference

Actors: Ted Danson

It

Actors: John Ritter, Richard Thomas, Annette O'Toole, Tim Curry, Harry Anderson

Synopsis: Originally titled Stephen King's It, this two-part TV movie first aired on November 18 and 20, 1990. The story starts in Maine, where a small child is lured into the hands of what audiences everywhere can be assured is one mean clown. The 30-year struggle against an evil supernatural force that Read More

Skin Deep

Actors: John Ritter, Vincent Gardenia, Alyson Reed, Joel Brooks, Julianne Phillips

Synopsis: Blake Edwards, mining the same territory as in his 10, Micki and Maude, The Man Who Loved Women, and That's Life, (not to mention Blind Date), once again deals with male mid-life menopausal angst. Zach (John Ritter) is a novelist suffering from writer's block, spiraling downward in a sea of women Read More

My Brother's Wife

Actors: Mel Harris, John Ritter

Synopsis: My Brother's Wife was adapted from A. R. Gurney's off-Broadway play The Middle Ages, but if you dig back a little you'll find a kernel of the plotline in Phillip Barry's 1928 play Holiday. John Ritter plays the flamboyantly nonconformist member of a staid Boston family. When he sees his future Read More

Tricks of the Trade

Actors: Markie Post, Cindy Williams

Synopsis: A prim and proper housewife from Beverly Hills sets off with a Hollywood prostitute to nab the party responsible for murdering her husband in the hooker's apartment. Cindy Williams and Markie Post star in this light comedy. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Real Men

Actors: James Belushi, John Ritter, Barbara Barrie, Bill Morey, Iva Andersen

Synopsis: A CIA agent recruits a meek family man for a secret mission involving interstellar communication and copious violence in this tongue-in-cheek buddy flick from the writer/producer of The Golden Child. Insurance salesman Bob Wilson (John Ritter) is the kind of guy who stands by while suburban punks Read More

The Last Fling

Actors: John Ritter, Connie Sellecca

Synopsis: John Ritter stars in this made-for-television comedy as a lonely philanderer who falls in love with a one-night-stand (Connie Sellecca) who is about to marry another man. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Unnatural Causes

Synopsis: Based on several actual case histories, Unnatural Causes stars John Ritter as a Vietnam veteran dying of Agent Orange poisoning. Alfre Woodard co-stars as real-life V.A. administration benefits counselor Maude DeVictor. Battling against official denials and bureaucratic red tape, Ms. DeVictor is Read More

Letting Go

Synopsis: Letting Go stars John Ritter as a widower and Sharon Gless as a lonely unmarried woman. They meet during a group-therapy session. Romance is inevitable, but the road to true happiness is pockmarked by a series of comic complications. Advertised as a straight romantic drama, Letting Go is actually Read More

Strong Kids, Safe Kids

Synopsis: Strong Kids, Safe Kids is an educational general interest video that teaches children and their parents important safety skills. In an attempt to make serious subject matter accessible, the program uses a friendly, open voice, and takes a somewhat light approach. Viewers learn key steps to take to Read More

Love Thy Neighbor

Actors: John Ritter, Bert Convy, Penny Marshall

Synopsis: See if you can predict the ending of this one. John Ritter and Cassie Yates are the next-door neighbors of Penny Marshall and Bert Convy. Ritter and Marshall can't stand each other. But presto! Ritters' wife Yates runs off with Marshall's husband Convy. The two spurned spouses meet to bemoan their Read More

Sunset Limousine

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV comedy an unemployed stand-up comedian is tossed out by his girl friend and so gets a job driving a limo. He is still determined to win her back, and nothing, not even his inadvertent involvement with two hit men, will stop him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Three's Company: Season 08

Actors: John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, Priscilla Barnes, Don Knotts, Richard Kline

Synopsis: The eighth and final season of Three's Company finds most of the cast intact (though it's not entirely the original line-up): John Ritter as restauranteur Jack Tripper, Joyce DeWitt as Jack's florist roommate Janet Wood, and Priscilla Barnes as his other roommate, nurse Terri Alden. Also on hand Read More

Three's Company: Season 07

Actors: John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, Priscilla Barnes, Don Knotts, Richard Kline

Synopsis: After all the backstage intrigues and cast changes that had weighed down the previous two seasons of Three's Company, the series regained its former popularity (and comic momentum) during season seven. While no longer the second highest-rated series in America, the show managed to remain Read More

Pray TV

Actors: Ned Beatty, Richard Kiley, John Ritter

Synopsis: The made-for-television Pray TV was the subject for hot debate long before its February 1, 1982 debut. This even-handed exploration of the televangelism business stars Ned Beatty as the Reverend Freddy Stone, whose religious empire nets $3 million annually. John Ritter co-stars as Rev. Tom Read More

The Flight of Dragons

Synopsis: This animated fantasy film, from the creators of The Last Unicorn, unfolds in an age when magic and science coexist uneasily, and humans still walk the earth alongside wizards, unicorns, and dragons. One of the four most powerful mages on the planet, Carolinus the Green Wizard (voice of Harry Morgan Read More

In Love with an Older Woman

Synopsis: Jack Bender directed this made-for-TV romance about an attorney (John Ritter) who falls for his firm's latest hire, a woman 15 years older than he. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Three's Company: Season 06

Actors: John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, Priscilla Barnes, Don Knotts, Richard Kline

Synopsis: Now that the problems with former series regular Suzanne Somers were behind them, the producers and stars of Three's Company moved into the series' sixth season with renewed confidence and a sense of relaxation. Back on the job were John Ritter as aspiring chef Jack Tripper, Joyce DeWitt as his Read More

They All Laughed

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, Dorothy Stratten, Colleen Camp, John Ritter

Synopsis: Peter Bogdanovich wrote and directed this quirky romantic comedy that was shelved by Twentieth Century-Fox for a year, until Bogdanovich purchased the film from Fox and tried to distribute it himself, with limited success. Suave John Russo (Ben Gazzara), inept Charles Rutledge (John Ritter), and Read More

Three's Company: Season 05

Actors: John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, Suzanne Somers, Don Knotts, Richard Kline

Synopsis: Although Three's Company was still one of America's most popular sitcoms during its fifth season, there was little reason to celebrate on the set of the program. Having incurred a lot of negative publicity because of her salary hassles with the series' producers, Suzanne Somers (Chrissy Snow) Read More

John Ritter: Being of Sound Mind and Body

Actors: John Ritter

Synopsis: In this variety show featuring Three's Company star John Ritter, an all-star cast including Joyce DeWitt, Suzanne Somers, Howard Hesseman, and Vincent Price perform a hodgepodge of hilarious comedy sketches. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Comeback Kid

Synopsis: Made for television, a former professional baseball player (John Ritter) coaches a team of misfits to the little-league crown. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Wholly Moses!

Actors: Dudley Moore, Laraine Newman, James Coco, Paul Sand, Jack Gilford

Synopsis: A broadly farcical comedy that attempts to ape the wickedly funny, Bible-spoofing humor of the previous year's Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), this all-star rib-tickler top-lines Dudley Moore as Herschel, a historical also-ran whose life so closely parallels that of Moses that Herschel begins Read More

Hero at Large

Actors: John Ritter, Anne Archer, Bert Convy, Kevin McCarthy, Harry Bellaver

Synopsis: John Ritter plays an unsuccessful actor who takes a job posing as comic-book hero Captain Avenger at comics stores and conventions. While thus garbed, Ritter foils a grocery store robbery. He skedaddles from the scene when the cops show up, leading witnesses to assume that he is a genuine costumed Read More

Americathon

Actors: Peter Riegert, Harvey Korman, Fred Willard, Zane Buzby, Nancy Morgan

Synopsis: In the future (the distant year of 1997), the United States of America is in crisis. The oil shortage has grown to epic proportions, leading to people living in their cars and bicycling to work. Cigarettes and meat have been outlawed, gold coins are needed to operate common household appliances Read More

Three's Company: Season 04

Actors: John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, Suzanne Somers, Don Knotts, Richard Kline

Synopsis: TV's second most popular series, and its single most popular sitcom, Three's Company returned in 1979 for its fourth successful season. As before, the titular trio consists of aspiring chef Jack Tripper (John Ritter), florist Janet Wood (Joyce DeWitt), and receptionist Chrissy Snow (Suzanne Read More

Leave Yesterday Behind

Synopsis: At the height of his Three's Company popularity, John Ritter accepted an intensely dramatic role in the made-for-TV Leave Yesterday Behind. The carefree life of college athlete and veterinary student Paul Stallings (John Ritter) is grotesquely altered when he is paralyzed in an accident during a Read More

Breakfast in Bed

Synopsis: Breaking up is hard to do as this drama makes painfully clear. The story is set in Hollywood and examines the impending separation of a young couple. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Three's Company: Season 03

Actors: John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, Suzanne Somers, Norman Fell, Audra Lindley, Richard Kline

Synopsis: As the third most popular program on network television, Three's Company entered its third season on ABC with the greatest of ease in the fall of 1978. No major changes had been made in the format or premise: Jack (John Ritter) still shared a Santa Monica apartment with Janet (Joyce DeWitt) and Read More

Three's Company: Season 02

Actors: John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, Suzanne Somers, Norman Fell, Audra Lindley, Richard Kline

Synopsis: Having quickly climbed to 11th place during its six-week tryout in the spring of 1977, Three's Company was assured a full-season run by ABC beginning in the fall of that same year. Sensing the series' excellent potential, network boss Fred Silverman moved Three's Company to ABC's powerhouse Read More

Three's Company: Season 01

Actors: John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, Suzanne Somers, Norman Fell, Audra Lindley, Richard Kline

Synopsis: Based on the British sitcom Man About the House, Three's Company was given a six-week trial run on ABC's Thursday-night schedule in the spring of 1977. In the first episode, aspiring chef Jack Tripper (John Ritter) was found sleeping in the bathtub of the Santa Monica apartment shared by Read More

The Waltons: The Firestorm

Synopsis: Hoping to alert the people of Walton's Mountain of the threat of Nazism, John-Boy prints excerpts from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf in his newspaper. In so doing, John-Boy incurs the anger of Rev. Fordwick (John Ritter), who worries that Hitler's rantings will "disturb" his flock. Even more opposed Read More

The Waltons: The Burnout, Part 1

Synopsis: Disaster strikes the Walton family when their house is gutted by a raging fire. While the neighbors help John (Ralph Waite) rebuild, Olivia (Michael Learned) arranges for several neighbors to shelter her children in the interim, causing a great deal of friction between the younger Waltons and Read More

The Waltons: The Wedding, Part 1

Synopsis: The Walton family is startled (to say the least!) when Mary Ellen (Judy-Norton) announces her engagement to wealthy medical intern David Spencer (Robert Merritt Woods). Even more startling is Mary Ellen's insistence that the wedding take place immediately so that David can join his father's Read More

The Waltons: The Cloudburst

Synopsis: Newly married to Dr. Curt Willard (Tom Bower), Mary Ellen (Judy Norton-Taylor) begins to doubt that she is worthy of her husband--especially when she faints dead away while helping him during surgery. Elsewhere, John-Boy (Richard Thomas) comes to regret selling land entrusted to him by Grandpa Read More

The Waltons: The Best Christmas

Synopsis: A heavy snowstorm may prevent the Walton family from gathering on the Mountain for Christmas Eve. No one is more upset by this than Olivia (Michael Learned), who has convinced herself that this will be the last Christmas in which the whole family will be able to get together. A plethora of Read More

The Waltons: The Baptism

Synopsis: When celebrated evangelist Ezekial Henshaw (John Karlen) comes to the Mountain, Olivia (Michael Learned) insists that every member of the Walton family be baptized--including those notorious "hold-outs", John (Ralph Waite) and Ben (Eric Scott). Turned off by Rev. Henshaw's hellfire-and-brimstone Read More

The Waltons: The Rebellion

Synopsis: Hoping to get out of her rut, Olivia (Michael Learned) allows Corabeth (Ronnie Claire Edwards) to give her a brand-new hairstyle--which ends up as a source of ridicule from the rest of the family. Meanwhile, Grandma Walton is ticked off over the news that Rev. Fordwick (John Ritter) will allow Read More

The Waltons: The Burnout, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), the Waltons struggle to put their lives back in order in the wake of the fire that has gutted their house. John-Boy (Richard Thomas) is guilt-ridden over the likelihood that he was responsible for the blaze Read More

Nickelodeon

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, Tatum O'Neal, Brian Keith, Stella Stevens

Synopsis: Peter Bogdanovich's early career as a film writer stood him in good stead for this comedy drama about the early days of the motion-picture industry, based in part on his interviews with pioneering directors Raoul Walsh and Allan Dwan. Leo Harrigan (Ryan O'Neal) is a lawyer and Buck Greenway (Burt Reynolds Read More

The Waltons: The Wedding, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), the Waltons have no sooner adjusted to the news that Mary Ellen (Judy Norton-Taylor) has become engaged to wealthy medical intern David Spencer (Robert Merritt Woods) than the entire community must adjust to Read More

The Waltons: The Sermon

Synopsis: As The Waltons begins its fourth season, Rev. Matthew Fordwick (John Ritter) and schoolteacher Rosemary Hunter (Mariclare Costello) are about to leave Walton's Mountain for their wedding and honeymoon. In their absence, John-Boy Walton (Richard Thomas) agrees to deliver the Sunday sermon, while Read More

The Night That Panicked America

Actors: Eileen Brennan, Paul Shenar

Synopsis: The Night That Panicked America is centered around Orson Welles' notorious "War of the Worlds" broadcast of October 30, 1938. Welles (Paul Shenar) arrives at CBS studios just in time to assume his directing post for the radio adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic, which has been updated and Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Murder By Proxy

Synopsis: This time, Stone (Michael Douglas) and Keller (Michael Douglas) comes up against a ruthless international executive determined to force several stubborn homeowners off their property. Carefully keeping his name out of the proceedings, the executive hires several sinister minions to get what he Read More

The Waltons: The Matchmakers

Synopsis: Ronnie Claire Edwards makes her first series appearance as John's insufferably "proper" cousin Corabeth. Hoping to get the woman out of his house, John (Ralph Waite) attempts to play matchmaker between Corabeth and local storekeeper Ike Godsey (Joe Conley)--but will these two opposites attract? Read More

The Waltons: The Woman

Synopsis: Assigned to escort visiting poet Madeline Bennett (Laura Campbell) during her visit to Boatwright University, John-Boy (Richard Thomas) ends up falling in love with her--and despite the fact that she is several years older, he seriously considers dropping out of college in order to marry her. And Read More

Kojak: Deliver Us Some Evil

Synopsis: Light-years removed from his comic escapades on Three's Company, John Ritter delivers a topnotch dramatic performance as Kenny Soames, a delivery boy who moonlights as a burglar. Accidentally killing one of his victims, Kenny plots a big-time heist in order to earn enough money to finance his Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Sorry, Wrong Mother

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

Synopsis: Howard is worried that his son, Howie, will not accept Ellen as his new mother. In his usual bumbling fashion, Howard does a "Vertigo," attempting to mold Ellen into a perfect parent. Despite Howard's concerted efforts, Howie seems to take an automatic dislike to Ellen. Bob, as usual, is stuck in Read More

The Waltons: The Graduation

Synopsis: The Walton family spends a great deal of money to purchase a new suit of clothes for John-Boy's high school graduation. But when their cow suddenly dies, the Waltons desperately need ready cash to replace the bovine. Will John-Boy (Richard Thomas) stubbornly hold on to his graduation suit, or will Read More

The Waltons: The Thanksgiving Story, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), John-Boy (Richard Thomas) is afforded the opportunity to qualify for a scholarship at Boatwright University--and, as icing on the cake, his former girlfriend Jenny (Sian Barbara Allen) is paying a return Read More

The Waltons: An Easter Story, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of The Waltons' two-part Season One finale (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), the outlook is bleak for Olivia Walton (Michael Learned), who has been stricken with polio and may never walk again. Refusing to accept this prognosis, John-Boy (Richard Thomas) puts Read More

The Waltons: The Thanksgiving Story, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-part episode), John-Boy (Richard Thomas) refuses to reveal the seriousness of his accident, terrified that he will no longer qualify for a scholarship at Boatwright University. As John-Boy's eyesight grows weaker with each Read More

The Waltons: The Triangle

Synopsis: John-Boy (Richard Thomas) develops a crush on his teacher Miss Hunter (Mariclare Costello), whom he regards as his literary inspiration. But when Reverend Fordwick ({$John Ritter]) begins courting Miss Hunter, the envious John-Boy may nip his writing career in the bud just out of spite! Meanwhile Read More

The Waltons: An Easter Story, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of The Waltons' two-part Season One finale (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Mary Ellen (Judy Norton-Taylor) nervously looks forward to her first Easter dance. But her anticpation of this momentous event is eclipsed by a potential tragedy in the Walton Read More

The Waltons: The Courtship

Synopsis: Having lost his job in Cincinnati, Olivia's 64-year-old uncle Cody Nelson (Eduard Franz) relocates to Walton's Mountain. Hoping to alleviate Cody's loneliness, John-Boy (Richard Thomas) tries to play matchmaker between his uncle and local resident Cordelia Hunnicutt (Danna Hansen). But Olivia and Read More

The Waltons: The Bequest

Synopsis: Grandma Walton (Ellen Corby) is pleasantly surprised when she receives a huge bequest--a whole $250!--from a casual acquaintance. Naturally, everybody in the Walton household has a special plan on how best to spend the money, and just as naturally, Grandma intends to be generous with her windfall Read More

The Stone Killer

Actors: Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, David Sheiner, Norman Fell, Ralph Waite

Synopsis: The John Gardner novel A Complete State of Death became this bloody crime flick that united frequent action genre collaborators Charles Bronson and director Michael Winner. Bronson stars as Detective Lieutenant Lou Torry, a grizzled undercover New York City cop who ruins his career when he is Read More

The Waltons: The Sinner

Synopsis: John Ritter makes his first appearance as Matthew Fordwick, the new minister on Walton's Mountain. No sooner has the sober, upright Rev. Fordwick arrived than he pays a visit to his distant relatives, the Baldwin sisters. Innocently consuming far too much of the Baldwins' special "recipe," the Read More

The Other

Actors: Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky, Martin Udvarnoky, Norma Connolly

Synopsis: This crime thriller with occult overtones puts a spine-tingling twist on the Jungian psychological notion of "the shadow." In the '30s, Holland and Niles Perry are 10-year-old twins growing up on an idyllic farm in the Connecticut countryside. Niles is a wholesome, outgoing lad, loved by the whole Read More

The Barefoot Executive

Actors: Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Harry Morgan, Wally Cox, Heather North

Synopsis: At last the secret has been revealed! Prime-time network programming is determined by a chimpanzee! That's the premise of Disney's The Barefoot Executive, a highly amusing spoof of the TV bizz. Kurt Russell plays a page boy at a bottom-rated TV network. Stuck with his girl friend's (Heather North) Read More

Evil Roy Slade

Actors: Edie Adams, John Astin, Pamela Austin, Henry Gibson, John Ritter, Dick Shawn, Milton Berle, Dom DeLuise, Penny Marshall, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Overlooked when it first aired February 18, 1972, the made-for-TV Evil Roy Slade has gained a loyal and protective cult following in the past 20 years. The film was the second pilot for a never-sold TV western spoof created by Garry Marshall and Jerry Belson, Sheriff Who?. Actually, it was the Read More

Scandalous John

Actors: Freddie Hernandez, Brian Keith

Synopsis: The Old West is just not the same, what with so few cattle being run, and law-abiding folk running around like they own everything. In this family comedy drama, it's too much for John McCanless (Brian Keith). He is a cranky old rancher and former gunslinger who has no intention of selling his Read More