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Little House on the Prairie: The Stranger

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The Oleson family is saddled with Mr. Oleson's obnoxious nephew Peter (Michael Sharrett), who has been sent to Walnut Grove in hopes that he will learn the proper values in life. Somehow or other, Peter ends up on the Ingalls farm, where he rapidly proceeds to rub everyone the wrong way. Even so Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Inheritance

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: When Charles (Michael Landon) comes into an unexpected inheritance, everyone tries to tell him how best to spend the money -- including the troublesome Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor). Only after getting deeply into debt with the Olesons does Charles discover that his windfall consists of Read More

Little House on the Prairie: A Most Precious Gift

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Charles (Michael Landon) and Caroline (Karen Grassle) are thrilled to learn that she is expecting another child. But will Charles be disappointed if the baby turns out to be another girl? To find out what is in store, Caroline goes against her better judgment and consults a gypsy fortune teller Read More

Little House on the Prairie: There's No Place Like Home, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, the Ingalls, Olesons, and Garveys, disillusioned with life in the "big city" of Winoka, have packed up and returned to Walnut Grove. Alas, the community has fallen into an appalling state of disrepair in their absence. With nowhere else to go, the returning Read More

Little House on the Prairie: I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In this first episode of Little House on the Prairie's two-part season four finale, Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) is diverted from her blossoming romance with Seth (Robert Kenneally) by her rapidly failing eyesight. What Mary doesn't yet know, but her father Charles does, is that she will Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Rivals

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Actually, there are two sets of rivals in this episode. While farmers Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) and Jonathan Garvey (Merlin Olsen) must square off against some tough professional competitors in a freight-hauling contest, Charles' daughter Laura (Melissa Gilbert) finds herself battling with Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Whisper Country

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) lands a teaching job in an isolated rural community ruled by religious zealot Miss Peel (Anita Dangler). Declaring that education is the tool of Satan, Miss Peel rallies the townsfolk in opposing the school, going so far as to spread malicious lies about Mary. As it Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Season 04

Synopsis: Season four of Little House on the Prairie finds the Ingalls' household increased from five to six after Caroline Ingalls (Karen Grassle), wife of series protagonist Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon), gives birth to another daughter, named Grace. At the same time, the Ingalls' farmer friend Isaiah Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Injun Kid

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Young Joseph Stokes (Caesar Ramirez), the son of a Sioux Indian father and a white mother, arrives in Walnut Grove to live with his maternal grandfather, Jeremy (George Murdock). Unfortunately, Jeremy is still bitter over the fact that his daughter married an Indian, and treats his grandson with Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Little Women

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The Walnut Grove schoolchildren put together a stage production in which snooty Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) lands the leading role. Meanwhile, another student, Ginny Clark (Rachel Lonaker), hopes to use the play to help her widow mother, Della (Kay Peters), a faded debutante, get back into the Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Quarantine

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: After helping Doc Baker (Kevin Hagen) tend to a mountain fever epidemic in another town, Mr. Edwards (Victor French) returns to Walnut Grove, which has already been quarantined. Unwittingly, Edwards has brought the fever virus into town, and as a result, his adopted daughter falls seriously ill. Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Here Come the Brides

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: A newcomer to Walnut Grove, hog farmer Adam Simms (Joshua Bryant) falls head over heels in love with local schoolmarm Miss Beadle (Charlotte Stewart). At the same time, Adam's hulking son, Luke (Bob Marsic), is smitten by (of all people!) spoiled brat Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim). Sneaking off Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Freedom Flight

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The townsfolk of Walnut Grove are in an uproar when a local Indian chief, Spotted Wolf (Guillermo San Juan), jumps his reservation to lead his people out of town. When Spotted Wolf suffers a stroke, his son Little Crow (Nick Ramus) seeks out help from the white townspeople -- but to no avail. It Read More

Little House on the Prairie: I'll Ride the Wind

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: John Jr. (Radames Pera), the adopted son of Mr. Edwards (Victor French), astonishes 13-year-old Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) by proposing marriage. Naturally, John expects Mary to wait for him until she comes of age -- but then he is offered a colleague scholarship that will keep him away Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Blizzard

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Just before the Christmas vacation, Walnut Grove is threatened by a driving snowstorm. Schoolteacher Miss Beadle (Charlotte Stewart) decides to let her students go home earlier than usual so that they can avoid the impending blizzard; only the Oleson children remain behind to help their teacher Read More

Little House on the Prairie: My Ellen

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: While skinny-dipping with Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson), little Ellen Taylor (Mia Bendixsen) accidentally drowns. Arriving at the Taylor home after the funeral to offer her condolences, Laura is kidnapped by Ellen's grieving mother, Eloise (Corinne Michaels), who is Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Fighter

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In this special 90-minute episode, Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) replaces the injured Jonathan Garvey (Merlin Olsen) in a high-stakes boxing match. Charles wins with astonishing ease -- only to discover that his opponent, a black man named Joe Kagan (Moses Gunn), is in no condition to be in the Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Times of Change

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Called to attend the Grange convention in Chicago as a representative of Walnut Grove, Charles (Michael Landon) offers to take his daughter Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson). At first, the two visitors are in awe of the beauty and glamour of the "big city" -- especially Mary, who is reunited with her Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Handyman

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: With Charles (Michael Landon) in Mankato on business for two weeks, Caroline (Karen Grassle) must find someone to complete the new kitchen in the Ingalls house. She hires a handsome handyman named Chris Nelson (Gil Gerard) to do the job. Outraged at the apparent too-friendly relationship between Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Aftermath

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Two worldly "land speculators" calling themselves Dankworth (Dennis Rucker) and Hobbs (John Bennett Perry) arrive in Walnut Grove. There is something decidedly strange about these two newcomers, especially since Hobbs is apparently suffering from a recent wound. By the time "Dankworth" and "Hobbs" Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Wolves

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) takes charge of the Ingalls household while her parents are away. Unfortunately, Mary's well-meaning sister Laura (Melissa Gilbert) has joined forces with the equally idealistic Andy Garvey (Patrick Laborteaux) in providing shelter for an injured wolf and her pups Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The High Cost of Being Right

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: When Jonathan Garvey's crops burn, leaving his family destitute, his wife, Alice (Hersha Parady), decides to take a job at the local post office. But the stubbornly proud Jonathan (Merlin Olsen) is outraged that his wife must support his family, and threatens to divorce her if she doesn't quit her Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Gold Country

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the two-hour finale of Little House on the Prairie's third season, the Ingalls family faces yet another crisis when their crops are destroyed. In desperation, Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) packs up his brood and heads to the nearby gold mines, hoping for better luck. Surprisingly, the family Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Music Box

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Laura (Melissa Gilbert) befriends a new schoolmate named Anna (Katy Kurtzman), who has a pronounced stutter. Hoping to humiliate Anna, bratty Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) agrees not to snitch on Laura when the latter "borrows" and breaks one of the Olesons' precious music boxes -- but in return Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Election

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The classroom rivalry between Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) and Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) reaches its peak when both girls run for school president. Also in the electoral race is nerdy, unpopular student Elmer Dobkins (Eric Olson), who was nominated as a cruel practical joke. Things Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Castoffs

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the opening episode of Little House on the Prairie's fourth season, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert), grieving over the death of her beloved dog Jack, rejects the efforts by her father, Charles (Michael Landon), to replace her pet with a scruffy cast-off pooch named Bandit. Ultimately, however Read More

Little House on the Prairie: To Live With Fear, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) is in dire need of a life-saving operation. Lacking the necessary funds, Mary's father, Charles (Michael Landon), signs up for a high-paying -- and highly-dangerous -- new job. Working shoulder to shoulder with his neighbor Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Meet Me at the Fair

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The Ingalls and the Olesons attend the fair at Mankato, MN (though the episode was actually filmed near Tucson, AZ). Losing her money in a crooked shell game, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) accepts a temporary sideshow job that requires her to be periodically dunked in a tub of water -- much to Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Wisdom of Solomon

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Tired of his family's grinding poverty and of being treated as a freak by the local white bigots, 11-year-old black youngster Solomon Henry (played by future Diff'rent Strokes co-star Todd Bridges) runs away from home. Showing up at the Ingalls home, Solomon offers to sell himself as their slave Read More

Little House on the Prairie: For My Lady

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Mariette Hartley guest stars as the Widow Thurman, for whom Charles (Michael Landon) does some carpentry work. As previously agreed upon, the widow pays Charles with a set of expensive china, intended as a surprise gift for Charles' wife, Caroline (Karen Grassle). In order to keep the surprise Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Centennial

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Walnut Grove's upcoming centennial celebration is threatened by a sudden upsurge in taxes and road assessments. Angry over having to dig deeper into their pockets, the citizens seriously consider cancelling the celebration altogether. It takes the humble words of a recent Russian immigrant (Theodore Bikel Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Talking Machine

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) vie for the attentions of Jason (Eric Shea), a would-be scientist. Using the Olesons' new-fangled phonograph machine, Nellie and her brother, Willie (Jonathan Gilbert), conspire to record a conversation guaranteed to humiliate Laura in Read More

Little House on the Prairie: His Father's Son

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Mr. Edwards (Victor French) is disappointed that his eldest adopted son, John Jr. (Radames Pera), would rather read books than go hunting. When Edwards gives John a gun as a birthday gift, the boy writes a letter explaining his reluctance to kill any living creature. Despite the letter, Edwards is Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Journey in the Spring, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Arthur Hill guest stars as Lansford Ingalls, the father of farmer Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon). Sensing that his dad has lost the will to live since the death of his wife, Charles invites Lansford to move in with his family at Walnut Grove. At first Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Troublemaker

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Thanks to the interference of Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor), Walnut Grove's schoolteacher Miss Beadle (Charlotte Stewart) is replaced by Mr. Applewood (Richard Basehart), a harsh disciplinarian. Wrongfully convinced that Laura (Melissa Gilbert) is a troublemaker, Applewood (or "Crabapple," as Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Pride of Walnut Grove

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The Walnut Grove town council agrees to bankroll Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) when she has a chance to participate in statewide mathematics competition. Armed with confidence of her friends and neighbors, Mary, accompanied by her parents, heads to Minneapolis with the certainty that she will win Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Journey in the Spring, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, an embittered Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) holds her widowed grandfather, Lansford (Arthur Hill), responsible for injuries sustained by her beloved horse Bunny. Sadly concluding that moving in with his son Charles (Michael Landon) was a mistake, Lansford Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Monsters of Walnut Grove

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: While passing the Oleson home on Halloween night, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) thinks she witnesses a murder -- specifically, Mr. Oleson (Richard Bull) decapitating Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) with a long sword. Fully aware that their mother is merely out of town, the Oleson kids -- Nellie (Alison Arngrim Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Fred

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Laura (Melissa Gilbert) is hoodwinked into bringing a billy goat named Fred into the Ingalls household. Alas, Fred is not only cantankerous but voracious as well, eating everything in sight -- including the family's crops. Sadly, Laura agrees with her father, Charles (Michael Landon), that the Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Season 03

Synopsis: Victor French and Bonnie Bartlett, heretofore guest stars in the roles of Isaiah and Grace Edwards, graduate to regular status as Little House on the Prairie enters its third season. The opening episode, "The Collection," features country legend Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, in the Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Bully Boys

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Walnut Grove is held in the grip of terror when the three Galender brothers move into town. Before long, the bullying brothers have run up enormous bills that they refuse to pay, spread malicious and injurious lies, and beaten up anyone who gets in their way. The limit comes when the brothers try Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Going Home

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Having endured any number of setbacks, Charles (Michael Landon) can stand no more when a tornado wipes out his crops. Thoroughly discouraged, Charles decides to sell the farm and return to Wisconsin -- but he doesn't tell his family about this decision. On a happier note, Charles' daughter Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Soldier's Return

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Seriously wounded at the battle of Shiloh 12 years earlier, former army bugler Granville Whipple (Richard Mulligan) returns to his home town of Walnut Grove and to the house of his mother, Mrs. Whipple (Queenie Smith). Frustrated in his efforts to forget his past and become a music teacher Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Bunny

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In this first episode of a two-part story, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) is given a wonderful horse named Bunny -- which of course is great source of envy for spoiled-brat Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim). While being permitted to ride Bunny, Nellie falls off the horse, whereupon she pretends to Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Little Girl Lost

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) are outraged when their little sister, Carrie (played by twin actresses Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush), lets loose a collection of bugs that the girls have been gathering for a classroom project. But their anger gives way to terror when, while Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Race

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) wants to enter her horse Bunny in an upcoming race, but is short the money to have the horse properly shod. Meanwhile, Laura's nemesis, Nellie (Alison Arngrim), cajoles her snobbish mother, Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Ebenezer Sprague

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Ted Gehring makes his first series appearance as Ebenezer Sprague, Walnut Grove's hard-hearted, tight-fisted banker. Although Charles (Michael Landon) was instrumental in setting up the town's bank, he finds that Sprague is hardly amenable to extending a loan to the Ingalls family. When Charles' Read More

Little House on the Prairie: In the Big Inning

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: At last year's annual baseball game with the Sleepy Eye Greenstockings, the Walnut Grove team lost 36 to nothing. Determined to avenge this humiliation, the men of Walnut Grove have placed their hopes in the hands of ace pitcher Jebediah Mumfort (Karl Lukas). The town goes so far as to plunk down Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Four Eyes

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The Ingalls family cannot understand why the hard-working Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) is falling behind in school. In turns out that Mary's eyesight is failing and she needs glasses. When she is teased as "four-eyes" by the other students, Mary contrives to lose her new spectacles, but then learns Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Founder's Day

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Walnut Grove's annual Founder's Day celebration brings a host of visitors to compete in a wide variety of contests. As the Ingalls' and the Olesons' jealously squares off elsewhere (Mrs. Olesen [Katherine MacGregor] is quite a sight at the three-legged race), elderly but proud logger Jim Tyler (Forrest Tucker Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Richest Man in Walnut Grove

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: In the first episode of Little House on the Prairie's second season, the main customer of Charles Ingalls' (Michael Landon) employer goes bankrupt. Denied two months' back wages, Charles and his wife, Mary (Karen Grassle), are forced to take several jobs to pay their mounting bills. Meanwhile, the Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Haunted House

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) dares Laura (Melissa Gilbert) to venture into a "haunted" house, reputed to be occupied by a maniac. As it turns out, the house's owner, old Mr. Pike (John Anderson) is more befuddled than insane; he has stubbornly remained locked up in his home awaiting the return Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Campout

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) is determined that the Ingalls children will not get the better of her own kids during a school leaf-gathering competition. To that end, Mrs. Oleson packs up her family and her precious tea set and joins the Ingalls for a weekend camping trip. The presence of the Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Gift

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The children of Walnut Grove pool their Sunday school funds to purchase an expensive Bible for Reverend Alden's (Dabbs Greer) birthday present. Entrusted with the money, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) attempt to double the amount by purchasing, then selling, a supply of Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Remember Me, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Charles (Michael Landon) continues seeking out good homes for the orphaned Sanderson children. Mr. Edwards (Victor French) would like to adopt all three kids, but there's one hitch: He's a bachelor. Undaunted, Edwards solves the problem by proposing to the Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Spring Dance

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Laura (Melissa Gilbert) hopes that Henry Henderson (Clay O'Brien) will take her to the spring dance. Similarly, Grace Snider (Bonnie Bartlett) is waiting for Mr. Edwards (Victor French) to ask her to the big event. But when neither man extends an invitation, Laura and Grace conspire to make their Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Remember Me, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Patricia Neal guest stars as Julie Sanderson, a terminally ill widow. On the threshold of death, Julia asks Charles (Michael Landon) to find good homes for her three children. In his efforts to honor Julia's wishes, Charles is faced with the depressing Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Money Crop

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: The farmers of Walnut Grove place their faith -- and their future -- in the hands of Joseph Coulter (Alan Fudge), a college-educated agronomist. Coulter has told the farmers of a new hybrid that would yield rich crops, and he has been sent to Minneapolis, with a large sum of cash, to purchase Read More

Little House on the Prairie: At the End of the Rainbow

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and her friend Jonah (Shane Sinutko) find some shiny metal particles during a fishing expedition. Convinced that they've struck gold, the youngsters begin to imagine what it would be like to be rich beyond their wildest dreams. Before long, several others in town have Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Creeper of Walnut Grove

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Who is the mysterious marauder that is going around stealing food -- but nothing else -- throughout Walnut Grove? Their minds filled with dime-novel mysteries, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) and Andy Garvey (Patrick Laborteaux) decide to play detective, hoping to capture the elusive Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Season 02

Synopsis: Season two of Little House on the Prairie opens with Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) losing his "outside" job when Lars Hanson (Karl Swenson) is forced to close Walnut Grove's mill. Back at home, Charles' daughter Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) begins to notice signs that her eyesight is fading (she Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Family Quarrel

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Things have come to an impasse in the home of the eternally bickering Nels and Harriet Oleson (Richard Bull, Katherine MacGregor). The couple decides to split up, and nothing will convince either one of them to try mending their differences. The entire community bands together to bring Nels and Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Plague

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: A new supply of expensive cornmeal, infested with rats, sparks a typhus outbreak in the town of Walnut Grove. Unaware of the source of the scourge, the townsfolk converge at the church, which has been converted into an emergency hospital. By the time Mr. Edwards (Victor French) reveals that his Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Circus Man

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Red Buttons guest stars as charismatic traveling circus man Mr. O'Hara. While performing magic tricks for the Walnut Grove citizenry, O'Hara leads his audience to believe that his "special" powders have marvelous healing powers. Falling for the circus man's blarney hook, line, and sinker, Mrs. Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Doctor's Lady

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: The focus in this episode is on Dr. Baker (Kevin Hagen), Walnut Grove's unmarried, middle-aged general practitioner. Despite the considerable difference in their ages, Dr. Baker falls in love with Kate Thorvald (Anne Archer), the visiting niece of Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor). It takes a Read More

Little House on the Prairie: A Harvest of Friends

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Introduced as a made-for-TV movie on March 30, 1974, the popular family series Little House on the Prairie, inspired by the autobiographical works of Laura Ingalls Wilder, began its regular weekly run on September 11 of that same year. In the opening episode, the Ingalls family has moved to the Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Country Girls

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: On their first day at school, Laura and Mary Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson) run smack dab into the snooty snobbery of Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim), who haughtily refers to the sisters as "country girls." Assigned to write an essay, Laura is unable to finish the assignment. But Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Award

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Preparing for a special scholarship exam, Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) squirrels herself away in the family barn overnight. When she accidentally sets a fire in the barn, Mary is punished by Caroline (Karen Grassle), who tells her that she can't take the exam. But how will Mary break this news to Read More

Emergency!: Messin' Around

Synopsis: Victimized by one of Chet's (Tim Donnelly) practical jokes, John (Randolph Mantooth) maps out a sweet revenge. The rest of the Rampart team is kept busy with Old Bill, a chronic "faker" who continually figures out ways to get checked into the hospital in order to entertain the kiddie patients--and Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Blockade

Synopsis: With only fragmentary evidence at their disposal, Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) search for the person who raped and murdered a young waitress. Meanwhile, the killer (Don Stroud) and his reluctant accomplice (Charles Martin Smith) are holed up in the home of two innocent Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Season 01

Synopsis: Its premise established by a two-hour TV movie in March of 1974, Little House on the Prairie begins its first season with Wisconsin farmer Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon), his wife, Caroline (Karen Grassle), and daughters Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson), Laura (Melissa Gilbert), and Carrie (Lindsay Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Raccoon

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: When Laura (Melissa Gilbert) adopts a baby raccoon whom she names Jasper, Charles (Michael Landon) gently warns her that the animal may not ever be domesticated. Things take a perilous turn when Jacob bites both Laura and another child and escapes into the woods. With the animal nowhere to be Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Voice of Tinker Jones

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Chuck McCann guest stars as Tinker Jones, a mute, itinerant coppersmith. When he wanders into Walnut Grove, Tinker also finds himself in the middle of a community tiff over purchasing a bell for the church. Haughty Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) offers to purchase the bell, but only if it is Read More

Little House on the Prairie: School Mom

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: With Mrs. Beadle sidelined by a sprained ankle, Caroline (Karen Grassle) volunteers as substitute teacher. She immediately focuses on the tribulations of 15-year-old Abel Makay (played by Dirk Blocker, the son of Michael Landon's former Bonanza co-star Dan Blocker), who is too embarrassed to Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Town Party, Country Party

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Little Olga Nordstrom (Kim Richards) is left out of her classmates' gangs because one of her legs is shorter than the other. After twisting her own ankle, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) awakens to Olga's plight and befriends the lonely girl. Convinced that Olga would have a happier time of it if she Read More

Little House on the Prairie: If I Should Die Before I Wake

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: With her 80th birthday approaching, Miss Amy Hearn (Josephine Hutchinson) begins to brood over her mortality, especially after the death of a close friend. She also frets over the possibility that her family has forgotten all about her. With the help of the Ingalls family, Miss Amy fakes her own Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Love of Johnny Johnson

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Mitch Vogel, who previously co-starred with Michael Landon in Bonanza, joins the cast as Johnny Johnson, the shy new schoolmate of Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert). Developing a crush on the much-older Johnny, Laura does everything she can to capture his attention. Imagine her dismay when Johnny Read More

Little House on the Prairie: 100 Mile Walk

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: The Ingalls' first wheat crop is wiped out by a hailstorm, which also devastates the neighboring farms. This catastrophe forces Charles (Michael Landon) and his fellow farmers to leave town and seek out other work. While the menfolk of Walnut Grove are all laboring at a faraway quarry, it is up to Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Christmas at Plum Creek

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: In the series' first holiday episode, the Ingalls family tries to purchase Christmas gifts with what little money they have on hand. Working in secret, the individual family members rely upon their own ingenuity to put together a proper Yuletide. In the end, it is Laura (Melissa Gilbert) who best Read More

Ulzana's Raid

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Jorge Luke, Richard Jaeckel, Joaquin Martinez

Synopsis: One of the best films by often-underrated director Robert Aldrich, this stark, brutal Western is also an effective allegory of America's involvement in the Vietnam War. Set in Arizona during the late 1880s, the film begins with experienced scout McIntosh (Burt Lancaster) and idealistic U.S. Read More

Ironside: A Killing at the Track

Synopsis: Broadway musical star Joel Grey appears in this episode as jockey Eddie Yeager, who is suspected of throwing several horse races. Ironside (Raymond Burr) wonders if Eddie is the real culprit, or if the brains of the operation is a certain Scott Bradley (played by TV's former "Tarzan" Ron Ely). Read More

Vanishing Point

Actors: Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger, Victoria Medlin

Synopsis: Richard Sarafian directed this minimalist chase film, starring Barry Newman as ex-marine, ex-race car driver and cop named Kowalski. He drives into Denver to deliver a car and pick up another vehicle to drive to San Francisco. To make the fifteen-hour drive to San Francisco bearable he pops a load Read More

The Wild Country

Actors: Frank de Kova, Jack Elam, Steve Forrest, Vera Miles, Ron Howard

Synopsis: Fires and tornados add to the difficulties of the Tanners, a Pittsburgh family of three which has pulled up stakes and moved to what they thought would be a fully functional ranch in Wyoming. Instead they find a broken down ruin. In addition to having to rebuild and battle the elements, they have Read More

Tick, Tick, Tick

Actors: Jim Brown, George Kennedy, Fredric March, Lynn Carlin, Don Stroud

Synopsis: When Jimmy Price (Jim Brown) wins an upset victory for sheriff, he becomes the first black man ever to hold the job (or any elective office) in anyone's memory in his rural southern county. He also sets off an ominous rumblings as the entire county seems split apart by his presence -- Mayor Parks Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Collection

Actors: Lindsay Greenbush

Synopsis: In this episode of the popular television series Little House on the Prairie, Johnny Cash and June Carter guest star as Caleb Hodgkiss and his wife, Mattie. Rev. Alden (Dabbs Greer) falls ill while soliciting donations in Walnut Grove, and travelers Caleb and Mattie come to his aid. But as Mattie Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Numbers Game

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, May Britt

Synopsis: Guest stars Torin Thatcher and May Britt are cast as Rados and Eva Gollan, respectively the exiled dictator of a South American nation and his ambitious wife. In preparation for regaining power, Gollan has deposited millions in a Swiss bank account. In order to get the account's number, the IMF Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Spy

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Beautiful but dangerous enemy agent Felicia Vabar (Kate Woodville) engineers the theft of valuable NATO missile-defense plans. Fortunately, only half of the plans are in Vabar's possession: It is up to the IMF to protect the other half--and, of course, to recover the already stolen documents. Read More

Hogan's Heroes: How to Win Friends and Influence Nazis

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Karl Swenson is appropriately cast as Dr. Karl Svenson, a neutral Swedish scientist working for the Germans. To win Svenson over to the Allied cause, Hogan arranges a romance between the good doctor and an attractive chanteuse named Magda Tischler (Doris Singleton). But he'd better hurry: Svenson Read More

Bonanza: Showdown at Tahoe

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Richard Anderson

Synopsis: Jamison Fillmore (Richard Anderson), the crooked owner of a paddle-wheel steamboat, plans an aquatic escape after robbing the Ponderosa timber supplies and stealing a shipment of currency. Fillmore proves he's not kidding when he murders steamboat skipper Captain Larson (Karl Swenson), a friend of Read More

Hour of the Gun

Actors: James Garner, Jason Robards, Jr., Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi, Charles Aidman

Synopsis: John Sturges directed this sequel to his Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which is more of a melancholy character study than an action Western. The Edward Anhalt screenplay (based on Douglas D. Martin's Tombstone's Epitaph) traces Wyatt Earp's (James Garner) moral decline from a lawman with high Read More

Brighty of the Grand Canyon

Actors: Joseph Cotten

Synopsis: A meandering mule and an old prospector find gold and adventure in the Grand Canyon in this family programmer. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Seconds

Actors: Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, Will Geer, Jeff Corey

Synopsis: Arthur Hamilton ({$John Randolph) is a listless Manhattan businessman who lives with his wife in the New York suburbs. One day, he runs into an old friend (Murray Hamilton) whom he thought had died. The friend leads him to The Company, a secretive operation run by The Old Man (Will Geer). The Read More

The Sons of Katie Elder

Actors: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer, Michael Anderson, Jr., Earl Holliman

Synopsis: Henry Hathaway directs the 1965 psychological Western The Sons of Katie Elder. Four sons reunite in their Texas hometown to attend their mother's funeral. John (John Wayne) is the gunfighter, Tom (Dean Martin) is the gambler, Matt (Earl Holliman) is the quiet one, and Bud (Michael Anderson Jr.) is Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the 12th Wildcat

Synopsis: Unsuccessful football coach Burt Payne (Bill Williams) wants to sell his share of the Wildcats pro football team to a cartel of investors, but his wealthy wife Ellen (Mona Freeman) vetoes the deal. Even so, Ellen arranges a meeting with one of the investors--just before Burt is killed in a Read More

Bonanza: A Natural Wizard

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Eddie Hodges, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Former child star Eddie Hodges is cast as Skeeter Dexter, who has the acute ability to communicate with animals. After releasing the furry victims of the traps set by his drunken lout of a stepfather, Skeeter is soundly beaten. Rescued from his stepdad's wrath by Hoss Cartwright, the boy is taken Read More

The Cincinnati Kid

Actors: Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis: Steve McQueen stars as the Cincinnati Kid, a crackerjack New Orleans stud poker player. Tired of chicken feed, the Kid decides to challenge The Man (Edward G. Robinson), the reigning poker champ, who is in town for a private game. The Shooter (Karl Malden), another gambling pro, arranges a game Read More

The Fugitive: Tug of War

Synopsis: While working as a farmhand, Kimble (David Janssen) is recognized from a wanted poster, and finds himself pursued by local sheriff Morgan Fallon (Don Gordon). Meanwhile, aging Samuel Cole (Arthur O'Connell), the town's former sheriff, is determined to make up for the tragic blunder of allowing a Read More

The Fugitive: Brass Ring

Synopsis: While posing as "Ben Horton", Kimble (David Janssen) is hired by Norma Sessions (Angie Dickinson) to look after her brother Leslie (Robert Duvall), a reclusive, embittered invalid. Someone getting through to the truculent Leslie, Kimble wins the man's trust and friendship. Meanwhile, Norma and her Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Sleepy Slayer

Synopsis: Lifelong parasite Rachel Gordon (Phyllis Hill) will be cut off without a cent by her rich Uncle Abner (Richard Hale) unless she immediately returns all the money she has syphoned from his bank account. Out of desperation, Rachel takes a shot at Albert while the man is sleeping. It turns out she Read More

The Birds

Actors: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright, Ethel Griffies

Synopsis: The story begins as an innocuous romantic triangle involving wealthy, spoiled Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), handsome Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), and schoolteacher Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette). The human story begins in a San Francisco pet shop and culminates at the home of Mitch's mother (Jessica Tandy Read More

The Prize

Actors: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer, Diane Baker, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Irving Wallace, The Prize takes place in Stockholm, where several laureates gather to accept their Nobel Prizes. At first, the film concentrates on iconoclastic novelist Paul Newman, but he is temporarily shunted to the background when physics expert Edward G. Robinson is Read More

The Sword in the Stone

Synopsis: 1963's The Sword in the Stone is Disney's animated take on Arthurian legend. In the midst of the Dark Ages, when England has no rightful ruler, a sword imbedded in a stone mysteriously appears in a London churchyard, bearing the inscription "Whoso pulleth out the sword of this stone and anvil is Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Bigamous Spouse

Synopsis: Since her husband Felton (Michael Conrad) always seems to be out of town on business, nervous Nell Grimes (Jackie Loughery) asks her best friend, door-to-door salesperson Gwynn Ellison (Pippa Scott), to temporarily move in with her--which Gwynn does, despite the fact that she hates Felton with a Read More

The Man from Galveston

Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, Preston S. Foster, James Coburn, Joanna Moore, Edward Andrews

Synopsis: This western served as the pilot film for Warner Bros.' Temple Houston television series. It is the tale of a young, brash attorney (Jeffrey Hunter) in the Texas circuit court system. His old flame (Joanna Moore) is accused of murder. The case is resolved when Hunter reveals the real killer in Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Tarnished Trademark

Synopsis: The spokesman for a highly respected group of Danish artisans, cabinetmaker Axel Norstaad (Karl Swenson) is talked into selling the group's famous trademark to Martin Somers (Dennis Patrick), who claims that the money will be donated to charity. Only when several pieces of inferior furniture are Read More

Walk on the Wild Side

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Anne Baxter, Barbara Stanwyck

Synopsis: This moody and controversial drama takes place in Depression-era New Orleans. Dove (Laurence Harvey) has traveled by bus from Texas to find his wayward lover Hallie (Capucine). He meets young Kitty Twist (Jane Fonda) as the two get off in the crescent city. Teresina (Anne Baxter) gives him a job Read More

The Spiral Road

Actors: Rock Hudson, Burl Ives, Gena Rowlands, Geoffrey Keen, Neva Patterson

Synopsis: Since it was released in the same year as his masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), it is ironic that this drama was probably the least liked of director Robert Mulligan's films. A stiff adaptation of a novel by Dutch author Jan DeHartog, the film stars Rock Hudson as Dr. Anton Drager, an Read More

How the West Was Won

Actors: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds, Richard Widmark, George Peppard, Karl Malden, John Wayne

Synopsis: Filmed in panoramic Cinerama, this star-studded, epic Western adventure is a true cinematic classic. Three legendary directors (Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall) combine their skills to tell the story of three families and their travels from the Erie Canal to California between 1839 Read More

Lonely Are the Brave

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, Mike Kane, Carroll O'Connor

Synopsis: Although it never quite escapes the pitfalls of pretension, this film was Kirk Douglas's bid for the affections of the art house crowd, and it remains one of his best efforts. The star plays unreconstructed "rugged individual" Jack Burns, who rides throughout the modern west knocking down man-made Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Mr. McBeevee

Actors: Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Although "Mr. McBeevee" was filmed as the third episode of The Andy Griffith Show's third season, it was chosen to air as the season opener on October 1, 1962. Having raised his son Opie to never tell a lie, Andy is understandably worried when Opie arrives home with wild stories about meeting a Read More

The Untouchables: Arsenal

Synopsis: Once again, Frank Nitti (Bruce Gordon) crosses swords with rival gangster Bugs Moran (previously played by Lloyd Nolan, here enacted by Robert J. Wilke). To avoid an all-out gang war, Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) begin confiscating all the machine guns owned by the two mobsters' torpedoes. To keep Read More

Judgment at Nuremberg

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, Werner Klemperer

Synopsis: After the end of World War II, the world gradually became aware of the full extent of the war crimes perpetrated by the Third Reich. In 1948, a series of trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany, by an international tribunal, headed by American legal and military officials, with the intent of Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Fandango

Synopsis: Slated to be hanged for murder, Texas teenagers Bobby Olson (Andrew Prine) and James Horton (Jerry Summers) manage to escape. After an unexpected confrontation with Olson in the desert, Paladin (Richard Boone) offers to help Sheriff Backwater (Robert Gist) bring the two young fugitives in. What Read More

Maverick: Family Pride

Synopsis: A pair of con artists named Warren (Karl Swenson) and Cruppen (Robert Cornwaithe) sells some worthless land to Beau Maverick (Roger Moore). This is particular painful for Beau inasmuch as he has lost the $4000 which had been entrusted to him by his friend Jerry O'Brien (Denver Pyle). Since the Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Brother's Keeper

Synopsis: Journeying through the mountains, Paladin (Richard Boone) is mauled by a cougar. Seeking the aid of two men named Cull (Wright King) and Boggs (Ben Wright), the injured Paladin is instead robbed of everything he owns--and then left for dead. Painfully making his way to a nearby town, Paladin Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: El Paso Stage

Synopsis: Those familiar with Buddy Ebsen via his amiable portrayals of Jed Clampett and Barnaby Jones will be shocked by this episode, wherein Ebsen is cast as Elmo Crane, the corrupt, psychotic and thoroughly detestable marshal of El Paso. After years of being victimized and extorted by the venal Crane Read More

The Untouchables: Mr. Moon

Synopsis: 23-year-old Victor Buono appears in one of his first starring assignments as Melanthos Moon, a brilliant counterfeiter who uses a Chinatown curio shop as a front. In order to flood the country with $100,000,000 in "funny money", Mr. Moon arranges to steal an enormous supply of government currency Read More

Ice Palace

Actors: Richard Burton, Robert Ryan, Carolyn Jones, Martha Hyer, Jim Backus

Synopsis: Based on the Edna Ferber novel, this engrossing period piece covers the triumphs, tragedies, loves, and sorrows of a few generations of Alaskan settlers between the first World War and the granting of statehood in 1959. Zeb (Richard Burton) is a local despot whose tough personality dominates the Read More

North to Alaska

Actors: John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Ernie Kovacs, Fabian, Capucine

Synopsis: Those familiar only with Johnny Horton's song hit North to Alaska might not be aware that the song came equipped with a movie. John Wayne and Stewart Granger star as a couple of lucky miners in Alaska Territory during the '98 gold rush. Since the Duke is the only man he can trust, Granger sends Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Very Moral Theft

Synopsis: In love with Harry Wade (Walter Matthau), the impressionable Helen (Betty Field) is willing to do anything to protect her man from harm. Thus, when Harry tells her that his lumber business is in deep financial trouble, she dutifully embezzles 8,000 dollars from her realtor employer to help Harry Read More

One Foot in Hell

Actors: Alan Ladd, Don Murray, Dan O'Herlihy, Dolores Michaels, Barry Coe

Synopsis: TV producer Aaron Spelling first came up with the story for this standard western set in a small town just after the American Civil War. Mitch (Alan Ladd) has tragically lost his wife during a problem in her pregnancy because he could not come up with $1.87 for the medicine she needed. A little Read More

Bonanza: Day of Reckoning

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Ricardo Montalban

Synopsis: As a reward for saving Ben Cartwright's life, an Indian named Matsou (Ricardo Montalban) is given a small parcel of Ponderosa land. Ben's Indian-hating neighbor Ike Daggett (Karl Swenson) violently objects to Matsou's presence. When his wife is killed in a raid, Daggett, holding Matsou Read More

The Gallant Hours

Actors: James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello, Richard Jaeckel, Les Tremayne, James T. Goto

Synopsis: The "mutual admiration society" consisting of actor James Cagney and actor/director Robert Montgomery culminated in the 1960 film The Gallant Hours. Cagney stars as war hero Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey. On the verge of retirement, Halsey recalls his most fateful wartime experience: his Read More

Flaming Star

Actors: Elvis Presley, Steve Forrest, Barbara Eden, Rodopho (Rudy) Acosta, Dolores Del Rio, John McIntire, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Tensely directed by Don Siegel, Flaming Star is the grittiest of Elvis Presley's post-Army films. Elvis plays Pacer Burton, a half-breed youth in the old West, torn between loyalty to the whites, as represented by his father (John McIntyre), and the Indians, represented by his mother (Dolores Del Rio Read More

Bonanza: Death on Sun Mountain

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Barry Sullivan

Synopsis: Ben Cartwright finds out that Mark Burdette (Barry Sullivan) and Early Thorne (Leo Gordon) have been illegally slaughtering the antelope on the Paiute Indians' property, then selling the meat to the miners at an exorbitant price. To thwart the two poachers and protect the Indians' food supply, Ben Read More

The Hanging Tree

Actors: Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden, Ben Piazza, George C. Scott

Synopsis: Gary Cooper plays a frontier doctor with a checkered past who works in a rowdy Montana mining camp. Cooper falls in love with Maria Schell, a young Swiss girl whom he has treated for shock after she was the victim of a holdup. He finances Schell's grubstake, which makes her rich. When Schell's Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Alaska

Synopsis: This is one of several TV-series episodes filmed in 1959 that were inspired by Alaska's upcoming promotion to statehood. Not long after the Alaska territory is purchased by William Seward on behalf of the U.S., Paladin (Richard Boone) receives an urgent message from Boris Tosheff, an old Russian Read More

No Name on the Bullet

Synopsis: John Gant (Audie Murphy) rides into the town of Lordsburg and quietly checks into the hotel. He doesn't say much, nor does he need to -- his mere presence does the talking. Gant is a killer, a hired assassin, a gunman with 23 dead men to his credit, but he is not a murderer or a criminal; all of Read More

The Badlanders

Actors: Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine, Katy Jurado, Claire Kelly, Nehemiah Persoff, Kent Smith

Synopsis: Peter Van Hook (Alan Ladd), alias The Dutchman, is nearing the end of a stretch in Yuma Territorial Prison for a gold robbery that he didn't commit. Released early with the unwitting -- and unwilling -- help of fellow inmate John McBain (Ernest Borgnine), he sets about getting even with the men Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: On the Nose

Synopsis: The husband of compulsive gambler Fran Holland (Jan Sterling) has threatened to leave her if she ever places another bet. At the same time, Fran's bookie demands that she make good a 25-dollar debt, or he'll go to her husband. In desperation, Fran turns to shoplifting -- thereby setting off a Read More

Kings Go Forth

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Leora Dana, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Adapted by Merle Miller from the novel by Joe David Brown, Kings Go Forth stars Frank Sinatra and Tony Curtis as, respectively, a tough army lieutenant and a cocky radio operator. Serving in Southern France during World War II, Sinatra and Curtis vie for the affections of mademoiselle Natalie Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: 24 Hours at North Fork

Synopsis: A recent plague has decimated virtually all the crops in a farming community. The only rancher whose crops were spared is Max Bruckner (Morris Ankrum), a wealthy, peace-loving Mennonite. When Bruckner is threatened by ill-tempered merchant Milo Culligan (Karl Swenson), he turns to Paladin (Richard Read More

Maverick: Shady Deal at Sunny Acres

Synopsis: In one of Maverick's all-time greatest episodes, Bret (James Garner) is cheated out of $15,000 by "respectable" banker John Bates (John Dehner). Since Bret is unable to reclaim the money through legal means, his brother Bart (Jack Kelly) devises an elaborate sting operation to beat Bates at his Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: A Sense of Justice

Synopsis: Bing Russell, the father of film star Kurt Russell, is here cast as Andy Dawes, a mentally retarded man who is accused of murder. Hoping to save Andy from a lynching, the town's sheriff (Kurt Swenson) turns to Paladin (Richard Boone) from help. It soon develops that Andy has little idea why he has Read More

Four Boys and a Gun

Actors: Frank Sutton, James Franciscus, Otto Hulett

Synopsis: Long before he became entrenched in the public's consciousness as Sgt. Carter on Gomer Pyle USMC, Frank Sutton topped the cast of the minor juvenile-delinquent melodrama Four Boys and a Gun. Sutton plays Ollie Denker, a runner for a gang of bookies who gets into deep doo-doo when he rips off his Read More

Maverick: The Wrecker

Synopsis: Bret and Bart Maverick (James Garner, Jack Kelly) bid on the salvage rights to a derelict cargo ship, the Apolonia. It turns out that someone is willing to commit murder to steal those rights away--which naturally arouses the curiosity of the Mavericks. In their efforts to determine why the sunken Read More

Leave It to Beaver: Train Trip

Actors: Karl Swenson, Madge Kennedy, Ken Osmond, Joseph Crehan, Alan Reynolds

Synopsis: After visiting their Aunt Martha (Madge Kennedy), Beaver (Jerry Mathers) and Wally (Tony Dow) were supposed to use the money given them by their dad to purchase two train tickets home. Alas, their train is delayed, and in the interim the boys spend all their cash on hot dogs and ice cream. How are Read More

Leave It to Beaver: Voodoo Magic

Actors: Ken Osmond, Ann Doran, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Defying their parents' orders, Beaver (Jerry Mathers) and Wally (Tony Dow) sneak out to the local movie house to watch the horror-thriller "Voodoo Curse." Scared witless by what he has seen, Beaver gets sore at Eddie Haskell (Tony Dow), who talked the boys into seeing the flick. Accordingly, Beav Read More