Linden ChilesFilmography

Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted

Actors: Chris Burke

Synopsis: This true story tells of the loving adoption of a Down Syndrome boy by a volunteer following the decision of the boy's parents to not allow a life-extending operation. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Forbidden Dance

Actors: Barbra Brighton, Laura Elena Harring, Jeff James, Sid Haig, Richard Lynch, Miranda Garrison

Synopsis: When the Brazilian rainforest home of young Princess Nisa (Laura Herring) is threatened by greedy American businesses, she travels to Los Angeles with Joa the shaman (Sid Haig). There Joa is thrown in jail, and Nisa must find a way to stop the rainforest destruction herself. When a young man who Read More

To Heal a Nation

Actors: Eric Roberts

Synopsis: To Heal a Nation is the true story of Jan Scruggs (Eric Roberts), a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. In 1979, Scruggs, employed by the US Department of Labor, becomes obsessed with the dream of erecting a monument to those who died in Vietnam. In pursuit of this dream, Scruggs and his fellow Read More

The A-Team: Alive at Five

Synopsis: Figuring that he'll never get a pardon from the mercurial Stockwell (Robert Vaughn), Face (Dirk Benedict) plans to escape during the A-Team's next mission. But things don't quite go as expected when Face falls in love with Sally Vogel (Valerie Wildman), a journalist whose pose as the girlfriend of Read More

Cloak and Dagger

Actors: Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman, Michael Murphy, Christina Nigra, John McIntire

Synopsis: Juvenile actor Henry Thomas, late of E.T., is the star of Cloak and Dagger. Given to telling whoppers, Thomas finds himself in a boy-who-cried-wolf dilemma when he overhears two spies plotting to smuggle valuable info out of the US. When he can't get his own father Dabney Coleman to believe him, Thomas Read More

Forbidden World

Actors: Jesse Vint, June Chadwick, Dawn Dunlap, Linden Chiles, Fox Harris

Synopsis: Fans of outrageously bad drive-in fare from New World Pictures will find much to love in this bargain-bin science fiction weirdness -- one of several Alien rip-offs foisted on defenseless audiences by Roger Corman's legendary B-movie factory. The plot -- which, of course, is irrelevant to the Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Slow Boat to Madness, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Quincy (Jack Klugman) and his lady friend Janet (Diana Muldaur) are enjoying a luxury cruise to Tahiti, when tragedy strikes. One man suddenly jumps overboard and drown, while another is murdered--and the murderer subsequently dies himself. It turns out Read More

Red Flag: The Ultimate Game

Synopsis: Purportedly based on a true story, this made-for-TV drama was filmed on location at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. The focus is on two highly competitive jet pilots, Major Jay Rivers (Barry Bostwick) and Major Phil Clark (William Devane). Unable to leave their rivalry on the ground, Rivers and Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Slow Boat to Madness, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Quincy (Jack Klugman) races against time to locate and neutralize the mysterious neurological disease that has already claimed three lives on a luxury liner. Though some of the pasengers have managed to escape to shore, the ship is now quarantined and Read More

Scared Straight! Another Story

Synopsis: Scared Straight! was a 1978 Oscar-winning documentary about the crime-deterring Juvenile Awareness Program set up by the Rahway (New Jersey) State Prison. In this program, incorrigible teenagers were escorted into the prison's maximum security facilities, where a team of "lifers," using the Read More

Where the Buffalo Roam

Actors: Peter Boyle, Bill Murray, Bruno Kirby, René Auberjonois, R.G. Armstrong

Synopsis: Based on the writings and experiences of "gonzo" journalist Hunter S. Thompson, Where the Buffalo Roam details the adventures of Thompson (Bill Murray) and his attorney (Peter Boyle), whose character is rewritten as Mexican-American rather than Samoan, as they pillage and plunder their way across Read More

Deadline Assault

Synopsis: The eternally victimized Elizabeth Montgomery is the star of Act of Violence. She plays a recently divorced newswoman whose world is shattered by a gang mugging (an astonishingly brutal sequence for a TV movie). The injuries subside, but Montgomery must heal her emotional wounds--and also reassess Read More

Act of Violence

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery

Synopsis: Elizabeth Montgomery stars in this made-for-television movie about a liberal reporter whose views are challenged after she becomes the victim of random crime. Montgomery stars as Katherine McSweeney, a divorced, single-mother news reporter assigned to cover crime in her lower-middle-class Read More

James at 15

Actors: Kate Jackson

Synopsis: Lawrence Kerwin stars as James Hunter, a gawky Oregon teenager who moves to Boston with his family. Suffering the requisite growing pains and insecurities, James has a few problems "fitting in" with his new crowd. The boy's sincerity and likability eventually wins the day, but the ending of the Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Sullied Be Thy Name

Synopsis: While heading an anti-obscenity campaign aimed at notorious porno publisher Carlo Dicassa (John Saxon), a prominent priest is found dead in the bedroom of a prostitute (E.J. Peaker). The police are satisfied by the hooker's explanation that the priest died of a heart attack while she was Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Interlude

Synopsis: After several weeks of pre-emptions and reruns, Streets of San Francisco returned to the ABC lineup in late April of 1977 for its final six episodes. This time, Stone (Karl Malden) and Robbins (Richard Hatch) put out an A.P.B. on a convicted killer who has escaped from an asylum. Refusing to Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Honorable Profession

Synopsis: Future Brady Bunch star Robert Reed appears in this episode as Martin Avery, self-proclaimed doctor who treats a fatally wounded policeman at a crime, only to vanish from sight. Stone and Keller want to locate the doctor, who is the only eyewitness to the killing, but they are stymied by the fact Read More

Helter Skelter

Actors: George DiCenzo, Steve Railsback, Nancy Wolfe, Marilyn Burns, Christina Hart, Cathey Paine

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling Vincent Bugliosi book of the same name, Helter Skelter is a made-for-TV account of the investigation and prosecution of Charles Manson (Steve Railsback), who was convicted of leading a group of followers (known as "The Family") to murder seven people in California Read More

Who Is the Black Dahlia?

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

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

Death Be Not Proud

Synopsis: A teenage boy battles courageously against brain cancer in this moving made-for-television drama that is based on John Gunther's 1949 autobiographical account of his son's terrible illness. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Adventures of the Queen

Synopsis: The Queen is a luxury cruise ship, "played" by the Queen Mary in this made-for-TV thriller. The villain has it in for one of the ship's millionaire passengers. Accordingly, he (or she-we're not telling) plans to destroy the vessel and everyone on board. The producer of this all-star disasterfest Read More

Banacek: Horse of a Slightly Different Color

Synopsis: This episode, filmed in part at the Hollywood Park racetrack, finds Banacek once again being called in to solve the unsolvable. This time it's the case of a 5,000,000-dollar racehorse that went out on its usual morning workout -- and returned as an entirely different horse. Among those questioned Read More

The Rockford Files: The Dark and Bloody Ground

Synopsis: This episode marks the first appearance of Gretchen Corbett as attorney Beth Davenport, erstwhile girlfriend of private eye Jim Rockford (James Garner). Characteristically, Beth has called upon Jim for a teeny-tiny favor: namely, to prove the innocence of her impoverished client Ann Calhoun Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Winterkill

Synopsis: Venerable character actor Paul Fix guests in this episode as Wade Tillman, a self-styled septugenarian Robin Hood. Outraged at the isurmountable medical bills facing himself and his fellow nursing-home residents, Tillman resorts to robbery and extortion to buck the system. Within its usual "cops Read More

Banacek: The Three Million Dollar Piracy

Synopsis: A 2,000 pound coach vanishes from a secured steel container, and it is up to Banacek to find the bejeweled treasure. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Banacek: No Stone Unturned

Synopsis: No Stone Unturned was the second-season opener of the Banacek TV series. George Peppard plays insurance investigator Banacek, whom the police call in whenever they're stumped. Banacek is assigned to find a 3 ton, 10 foot sculpture, that has apparently walked away by itself. Scott Brady, Gary Lockwood Read More

Banacek: The Two Million Clams of Cap'n Jack

Synopsis: The Two Million Clams of Cap'n Jack--actually $2 million dollars in engraved stock-certificate plates--are missing. The guard went into the special security elevator with the plates; moments later, the elevator arrived empty. Cap'n Jack (Andrew Duggan) is furious; detective Banacek (George Read More

The F.B.I.: Judas Goat

Synopsis: Young singer John Davidson is cast, appropriately enough, as young singer Tory Hughes. When his contract is taken over by a Mob loan shark, Tory discovers to his chagrin that his whole life is being taken over as well. Indeed, Tory is expected to lure other unwitting victims into the shark's Read More

Ironside: Moonlighting Means Money

Synopsis: Ed (Don Galloway) and fellow police officer Ray Leonard (Linden Chiles) are suspected of killing a dope peddler in cold blood. Even worse, Ray was driving the dead man's "business" car while moonlighting as a cabbie, suggesting that he himself was involved in drug-running. Though suspended from Read More

The F.B.I.: Target of Interest

Synopsis: The F.B.I. begins its fifth season as Federal Inspector Lew Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) persuades former counterespionage agent Anne Fraser (Diane Baker) to come out of retirement for one last assignment. Posing as lovers, Erkine and Anne hope to round up a spy ring specializing in blackmailing Read More

The F.B.I.: The Attorney

Synopsis: In a situation drenched with irony, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) must prevent the murder of attorney Richard Bender, who at present is defending Arnold Toby (Linden Chiles), a mob boss whom the FBI has been trying to nail for five years. Bender's would-be assassin is Dennis Holland, who Read More

Eye of the Cat

Actors: Michael Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Eleanor Parker, Tim Henry, Laurence Naismith

Synopsis: This offbeat potboiler from Psycho scripter Joseph Stefano involves a plot hatched by mod couple Wylie (Michael Sarrazin) and Kassia (Gayle Hunnicutt) to murder Wylie's wealthy, cat-loving aunt Danny (Eleanor Parker). There's only one hitch in their scheme, but it's a doozy: Wylie suffers from a Read More

Lost Flight

Actors: Andrew Prine

Synopsis: In 1966, producer Frank Price came up with a TV series concept about a group of people lost on an uncharted island who are forced to carve out their own civilization. No, it wasn't Gilligan's Island, but a more serious endeavor titled Stranded. When the pilot episode didn't sell, Price put Read More

Ironside: Force of Arms

Synopsis: There may be blood in the streets when the chief of staff of the "Second Force", a paramilitary vigilante group ostensibly set up to fight crime, is murdered. Despite his distaste for the group's racist rantings, Ironside dedicates himself to solving the man's murder before the vigilantes begin Read More

The F.B.I.: The Predators

Synopsis: Going undercover, and armed with plenty of James Bond-like paraphernalia, Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) investigates an illegal gambling operation on a Gulf Coast cruise ship. In the course of events, the Inspector unearths a Mafia plot to seize political control of a major American state. When it Read More

The Fugitive: The Breaking of the Habit

Synopsis: In the series' first and only "sequel" episode, Eileen Heckert returns as free-spirited nun Sister Veronica, a character she'd previously introduced in the Season One episode "Angels Travel on Lonely Wounds". Wounded in his last skirmish with the law, fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen) seeks Read More

Sullivan's Empire

Actors: Martin Milner, Linden Chiles, Don Quine, Clu Gulager, Arch Johnson

Synopsis: When wealthy landowner John Sullivan, Sr. Arch Johnson and his airplane pilot are reported missing in Brazil, Sullivan's three sons (Martin Milner, Linden Chiles, and Don Quine) begin to search for the missing men in the wilds of the Amazon jungle. They battle headhunters, jungle animals, and Read More

Counterpoint

Actors: Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Kathryn Hays, Leslie Nielsen, Anton Diffring

Synopsis: The beauty of classical music confronts the ugliness and treachery of war in this unusual drama. Lionel Evans (Charlton Heston) is the director of a well-respected symphony orchestra touring European concert halls in 1944. In the midst of one concert, the city where they are playing is attacked by Read More

Uccidi o Muori

Synopsis: In this spaghetti western, an undercover gunslinger accidently gets caught in a feud between two families. One of them forces him into a showdown and he kills him. He then must escape from the wrathful family. He is assisted by an old man, who helps him slaughter the rest of the clan. In the end Read More

The F.B.I.: The Contaminator

Synopsis: Turncoat scientist Lawrence Underwood (Linden Chiles) manages to steal some top-secret documents from an atomic lab in Idaho. Picking up Underwood's trail, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) methodically tracks the man down. What Erskine doesn't know is that Underwood has been exposed to Read More

Incident at Phantom Hill

Actors: Robert Fuller, Jocelyn Lane, Dan Duryea, Tom Simcox, Linden Chiles

Synopsis: In this western, set at the end of the Civil War, a group of rebels steal a million bucks from a Union shipment, and stash the gold in a cave near Phantom Hill, Texas. They are subsequently captured. The ring leader bargains with his captors offering to reveal the loot's location in exchange for Read More

Texas Across the River

Actors: Dean Martin, Alain Delon, Rosemary Forsyth, Joey Bishop, Tina Marquand

Synopsis: Dean Martin stars as an amiable gunrunner in the tongue-in-cheek western Texas Across the River. Martin teams up with fugitive from justice Alain Delon, a Spanish nobleman engaged to the beautiful Rosemary Forsyth. Amidst several Indian attacks, hairbreadth escapes and wild chases, Martin does his Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Tap

Synopsis: Accused by Vera Wynne (Jeanne Bal) of embezzling $200,000 from the So-Cal Investment Company, executive Clyde Darrell (Linden Chiles) hires Paul Drake (William Hopper) to expose the real crook, who is also suspected of leaking secret trading informaton to the firm's rival. Paul is able to identify Read More

A Rage to Live

Actors: Suzanne Pleshette, Bradford Dillman, Ben Gazzara, Peter Graves, Bethel Leslie

Synopsis: This soapy melodrama based on the novel by John O'Hara earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design. Suzanne Pleshette stars as Grace Caldwell, a newspaper heiress and nymphomaniac whose numerous dalliances threaten to destroy her wealthy Pennsylvania family's image. Taken on a Read More

The Munsters: Munster Masquerade

Synopsis: The debut episode of the mirthfully macabre sitcom The Munsters begins as Marilyn, the "normal" member of the monstrous Munster family of Mockingbird Heights (normal by our standards if not by theirs) is invited to a costume party held by the snobbish parents of her new boyfriend Tom Daly (Linden Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Surplus Suitor

Synopsis: This is the last of four consecutive episodes in which Perry Mason appears only briefly, while a "guest" lawyer handles the case at hand (Raymond Burr was at the time recovering from minor surgery). Walter Pigeon stars as corporation lawyer Sherman Hatfield, who in Perry's absence tackles his Read More

My Favorite Martian: The Matchmakers

Synopsis: Uncle Martin (Ray Walston) reads the mind of George, the dog owned by Tim's boss, and ascertains that the pooch is lovesick. The object of George's affections is Chloe, the dog next door, whose attractive owner Marsha Carson (Laura Shelton) despises all males thanks to an unhappy romance. In his Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Promoter's Pillbox

Synopsis: Druggist Herbert Simms (Linden Chiles) hopes to change careers and become a TV writer. To this end, he submits his first script to unscrupulous producer Charlie Cory (John Lasell)--who proceeds to steal Simms' story idea and pass it off as his own. The outraged Simms consults his family's Read More

The Twilight Zone: Four O'Clock

Actors: Theodore Bikel, Moyna MacGill, Phyllis Love, Linden Chiles

Synopsis: Rod Serling adapted the teleplay for this Twilight Zone episode from a short story by Price Day, which first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. Decked out in coke-bottle glasses and greased-down hair, Theodore Bikel is malevolence personified as Oliver Crangle, a self-appointed Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Journalist

Synopsis: Though originally identified by TV Guide as a departure from Perry Mason's fourth-season Summer rerun schedule, this is actually the first episode of the series' fifth season. There's skullduggery at the "Los Angeles Chronicle" following the death of the paper's top executive in a drowning Read More

Sanctuary

Actors: Lee Remick, Yves Montand, Bradford Dillman, Harry Townes, Odette

Synopsis: Combining elements from William Faulkner's novel Sanctuary, its sequel Requiem for a Nun, and a stage adaptation of Requiem for a Nun by Ruth Ford, director Tony Richardson's film is set in 1920s Mississippi and recounts the story of Temple Drake (Lee Remick), a young, lustful white woman who Read More