Jonathan Frakes Filmography

The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines

Crew: Director

Actors: Noah Wyle, Gabrielle Anwar, Jane Curtin, Robert Foxworth, Olympia Dukakis, Bob Newhart

Synopsis: An adventurous former librarian sets out in search of the legendary mines of King Solomon in this epic sequel to The Librarian: Quest for the Spear starring Noah Wyle, Gabrielle Anwar, Bob Newhart, and Olympia Dukakis. Flynn Carsen (Wyle) was a quiet bookworm whose 12 bachelor's degrees, six Read More

Family Guy: Peter's Got Woods

Synopsis: The title of this episode refers to actor James Woods, whom Peter Griffin befriends under unusual circumstances (what, exactly, would the USUAL circumstances be?). Before long, however, Peter regrets making the acquaintance of Woods, who refuses to leave the Griffin home despite all manner of Read More

Thunderbirds

Crew: Director

Actors: Bill Paxton, Anthony Edwards, Sophia Myles, Ben Kingsley, Brady Corbet

Synopsis: Directed by Jonathan Frakes and based on the '60s British television series of the same name, Thunderbirds chronicles the intergalactic exploits of the Tracy family. Set in 2010, the world looks toward the mysterious Tracy Island when mere international security is not enough; the remote South Read More

Star Trek: Nemesis

Actors: Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton, Brent Spiner, Jude Ciccolella, Jonathan Frakes, Shannon Cochran, Alan Dale

Synopsis: The tenth film in Paramount's highly lucrative sci-fi franchise is also positioned as the last for the entire original Next Generation crew. En route to the honeymoon of William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) to Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart Read More

Clockstoppers

Crew: Director

Actors: Jesse Bradford

Synopsis: Frequent Star Trek actor and director Jonathan Frakes gets behind the camera again for this teen-sci-fi/action-drama in the Back to the Future (1985) mold. Jesse Bradford stars as Zak Gibbs, a teenager who discovers the latest invention to spring from the mind of his scientist father (Robin Read More

The Lot

Actors: Jonathan Frakes, Allen Garfield, Linda Cardellini, Stephanie Faracy, Jeffrey Tambor

Dying to Live

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Jonathan Frakes is both star and producer of this made-for-TV fantasy, which originally aired as part of UPN's "Nightworld" movies series. Teenager Rachel Linden (Hayler DuMond) drowns as the end result of a nasty scheme hatched by Vanessa Cunningham (Shannon Elizabeth), Rachel's rival for the Read More

Roswell [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Star Trek: Insurrection

Crew: Director

Actors: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Synopsis: Star Trek: Insurrection manages to recall the original 1960s series' spirit of liberalism, while transcending it for sheer boldness, embracing issues that are on the political cutting edge in the 1990s and beyond. The fact that the first 30 minutes are presented as a mystery only makes the Read More

Roswell: Cover Ups and Close Encounters

Synopsis: Though many of the videos made regarding the possibility that UFOs have both landed or flown over this planet, this one provides a slightly different look at some of the theories by concentrating on "Area 51." This is the section of government property where some experts believe that the wreckage Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Prototype

Crew: Director

Brothers of the Frontier

Actors: Joey Lawrence, Matthew Lawrence, Andrew Lawrence, Carmen Moore, Jonathan Frakes

Synopsis: In this western adventure a young man heads off into the wilds to save his parents from their Indian captors. A lovely native woman befriends him and helps out with his search. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Death Wish

Star Trek: First Contact

Crew: Director

Actors: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Synopsis: The first "Trek" film to feature the cast of the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series without any of the members of the original series, this action-packed hit was well received at the box office. The Federation comes under attack by its ongoing enemy, the Borg, a cybernetics-enhanced race Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Parturition

Crew: Director

Star Trek: Voyager: Projections

Crew: Director

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 58: Past Tense, Part II

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In part one of this episode, a freak accident transported Sisko, Bashir, and Dax back to San Francisco in the year 2024. Their visit occurs a few days before the Bell Riots, the outcome of which will profoundly effect the future, specifically, their future. When legendary homeless advocate Gabriel Read More

Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction

Synopsis: Actor Jonathon Frakes narrates this exploration into a mysterious film of an alien autopsy and to determine if, as the title suggests, it is factual or otherwise. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 54: Meridian

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Brett Cullen guest stars as Deral, a resident of the newly discovered dimension-shifting planet Meridian. While trying to stabilize Meridian's path through space -- and, hopefully to save it from ultimately "shifting" out of existence -- Dax falls in love with Deral. Alas, he is predestined to Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Sub Rosa

Crew: Director

Synopsis: First telecast February 5, 1994, this episode is an emotional showcase for Dr. Beverly Crusher. Not long after attending the funeral of her grandmother Felisa Howard, Dr. Crusher begins to experience curious and bizarre happenings. All evidence indicates that she has fallen under the spell of Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 48: The Search, Part II

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In part one of this episode, Sisko and his officers had once more fallen into the hands of the Jem'hadar, soldiers of the Dominion, while Odo had left his comrades high and dry to embark upon a mysterious mission to the Omarion Nebula. In part two, Odo arrives on his home planet, which is now Read More

Wings: All's Fare

Synopsis: The habitually lovestruck Antonio (Tony Shalhoub) is currently carrying a torch for Casey (Amy Yasbeck). Thus, he's none too happy when Gavin Rutledge (played by Star Trek: The Next Generation's Jonathan Frakes), the real estate millionaire whom Antonio has been hired to chauffeur, makes a play Read More

Heaven and Hell: North and South, Book III

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 55: Defiant

Synopsis: Jonathan Frakes recreates his Next Generation role as Commander William Riker...or does he? Paying a visit to DS9, Riker is greeted by Kira, who gives him a guided tour of the Defiant. Suddenly, Riker reveals himself to be his renegade duplicate Thomas Riker, whereupon he steals the Read More

Star Trek Generations

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

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

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 07

Actors: Colm Meaney, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Chase

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After a two-week rerun cycle, Next Generation's sixth season resumed on May 1, 1993 with this first-run episode. The title refers to a competition involving the Enterprise, the Cardassians, the Klingons, and the Romulans. All four combatants race to solve a genetic puzzle that has Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Second Chances

Synopsis: LeVar Burton doubled as co-star and director of this episode, which originally aired on May 29, 1993. Returning to the site of a transport accident which occured eight years earlier, Riker comes face to face with an exact double of himself. Living alone for those many years, the "early" Riker Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Attached

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Next Generation regular Jonathan Frakes once again warmed the director's chair for this episode, which originally aired on November 13, 1993. Imprisoned together on the planet Kesprytt Three, Picard and Dr. Crusher are telepathically joined by their captors. As they plan their escape, the Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 06

Actors: Colm Meaney, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Cause and Effect

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This episode literally begins with a bang, as the Enterprise explodes with all hands on board. A few minutes into the episode, we see that the starship and its personnel are still safe, but not for long. Passing through a time warp in the unexplored Typhon expanse, the crew is doomed to Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Quality of Life

Crew: Director

Synopsis: On the planet of Tyra 7A, scientist Dr. Farallon (Ellen Bry) has created a race of robots known as exocomps. The visiting Enterprise crew members, like Farallon herself, regard these robots as nothing more than standard mechanical devices. But Data thinks differently, regarding the exocomps Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Drumhead

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The McCarthy era lives again when a Klingon spy is discovered on board the Enterprise. Suspecting that a sinister conspiracy is afoot, visiting Federation Admiral Norah Satie (Jean Simmons) embarks upon a witch hunt, turning everyone against each other. Things reach the hysteria stage when Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 05

Actors: Colm Meaney, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 04

Actors: Colm Meaney, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Offspring

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jonathan Frakes, Next Generation's Cmdr. Riker, made his series directorial debut with this March 17, 1990 episode. Yearning for the joys of parenthood, Data builds an android "child," which assumes human form as a girl named Lal (Hallie Todd). This unauthorized experiment takes a poignant turn Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Reunion

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Having previously met the brother he never knew he had in the second-season episode "Sins of the Father," Lt. Worf is further astonished to discover that he has a son named Alexander (Jon Steuer). This is brought to his attention by the boy's mother K'Ehleyr (Suzie Plakson), who Worf feels has Read More

Time Travel through the Bible, Part 2: The World of Jesus and John

Synopsis: This program, narrated by Jonathan Frakes, is part one of a two-part series that takes the viewer on a journey through time as recounted in the stories of the Bible. This episode turns to the stories of the New Testament, in which the prophecies of the Old Testament come to pass. A great one, in Read More

Time Travel through the Bible, Part 1: The Centuries Before Christ

Synopsis: This program, narrated by Jonathan Frakes, is part one of a two-part series that takes the viewer on a journey through time as recounted in the stories of the Bible. This episode puts its focus on the Old Testament and some of the characters whose lives are recounted there. In the centuries before Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 03

Actors: Colm Meaney, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton

The Cover Girl and the Cop

Actors: Julia Duffy

Synopsis: Julia Duffy is the cover girl and Dinah Manoff the cop in this made-for-TV contrivance. When dim-witted model Duffy witnesses a murder, short-fused officer Manhoff is assigned to protect her. Would you be shocked if we informed you that the ladies drive each other crazy? But never fear: they Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 02

Actors: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Diana Muldaur, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 01

Actors: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton

Dream West

Synopsis: A sprawling adaptation of the same-named novel by David Nevin, the three-part CBS miniseries Dream West starred Richard Chamberlain as colorful, controversial American explorer John Charles Fremont (1813-1890). The story detailed the visionary (and occasionally mercenary) Fremont's lifelong war Read More

North and South, Book II

Actors: Kirstie Alley

Synopsis: This six-part, 12-hour miniseries was a sequel to the 1985 "mini" North and South, and like its predecessor it was based on a novel by John Jakes (Love and War). In the tradition of The Birth of a Nation (but without the negative racist content), North and South, Book III followed the fortunes of Read More

North and South

Actors: Kirstie Alley

Synopsis: The expensively mounted miniseries North and South was originally telecast in six two-hour installments between November 3 and 10, 1985. Four screenwriters--Douglas Heyes, Paul F. Edwards, Kathleen A. Shelley, Patricia Green--were called upon to fashion a workable script from John Jakes' sprawling Read More

Paper Dolls [TV Series]

Actors: Nicollette Sheridan, Terry Farrell, Brenda Vaccaro, Jennifer Warren, Morgan Fairchild

Synopsis: This short-lived TV series was based on the 1982 television movie of the same name and focused on two young women and their mothers negotiating the New York modeling scene with the rich, the fashionable, and the powerful. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Highway to Heaven: A Divine Madness

Synopsis: Probationary angel Jonathan (Michael Landon) and his sidekick Mark (Victor French) to reconcile young construction-firm heir Arthur Krock Jr. (Jonathan Frakes) with his eccentric widowed father Arthur Sr. (Ron Moody). It seems that the elder Krock likes to fantasize that he is King Arthur -- and Read More

Quincy, M.E.: The Face of Fear

Synopsis: Venturing outside for the first time in years, Vicki Maguire (Carrie Snodgress), who suffers from severe agoraphobia, has no sooner begun walking along a beach when she sees what appears to be a murder in progress. Unfortunately, when Vicki alerts the authorities, no body is found, nor any other Read More

Quincy, M.E.: A Ghost of a Chance

Synopsis: After several deaths have occurred during routine surgical procedures, Quincy (Jack Klugman) begins an investigation of eminent surgeon Dr. Stanley Royce (Jose Ferrer), who had allegedly performed the fatal operations. It isn't that Royce has lost his touch--it's simply that he is signing off on Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Mrs. Daisy Hogg

Synopsis: Season Four of The Dukes of Hazzard begins with a guest appearance by a decidedly pre-Star Wars: The Next Generation Jonathan Frakes, cast as Jamie Lee Hogg, the wealthy, impeccably mannered nephew of all-purpose nemesis Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke). When Daisy Duke (Catherine Bach) falls in love Read More

Beulah Land

Actors: Lesley Ann Warren, Michael Sarrazin, Eddie Albert, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Hope Lange

Synopsis: Beulah Land is an edited, movie-length version of the three-part TV miniseries adaptation of Lonnie Coleman's multi-part novels. The film is set in the Old South, with a time span ranging from 1827 to the postwar Reconstruction Era. Lesley Ann Warren stars as Sarah Kendrick, young belle of the Read More

The Night the City Screamed

Actors: Raymond Burr, Robert Culp, Georg Stanford Brown

Synopsis: A big-city blackout galvanizes the plot of the made-for-TV The Night the City Screamed. Recreating recent events in New York City, the film details a crime spree that runs unchecked throughout the darkened metropolis. Mayor Raymond Burr tries to stem the tide of robberies and rapes, even as he Read More

The Waltons: The Legacy

Synopsis: Having spent a lifetime pining over her lost love Ashley Longworth, Miss Emily Baldwin (Mary Jackson) is ecstatic when it seems that Ashley has returned to Walton's Mountain -- and more miraculously, he hasn't aged one bit! Actually, the new arrival on the Mountain is not Ashley Longworth but Read More

Beach Patrol

Actors: Robin Strand, Jonathan Frakes, Christine de Lisle, Richard Hill, Michael Gregory

Synopsis: Robin Strand stars as a female narcotics cop transferred to an all-male police squad assigned to patrol the California beaches. Strand's assignment ends almost before it begins when she is targeted for assassination by the Mob. First telecast April 30, 1979, Beach Patrol was supposed to have been Read More

The Waltons: The Lost Sheep

Synopsis: Erin (Mary McDonough) wants to marry Ashley Longworth Jr. (Jonathan Frakes), but there is a major roadblock to their future happiness: unlike the deeply religious Waltons, Ashley is an atheist. His explanation that the War has soured him on the concept of God meets with shock and disappointment Read More

Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek - The Next Generation

Synopsis: There's probably never been a television series that has won so loyal a cult following as the original Star Trek, and in 1987, Star Trek: The Next Generation had the unenviable prospect of trying to follow in that show's footsteps. But Star Trek: The Next Generation rose to the occasion, not only Read More