Mel Damski Filmography

Charmed: Show Ghouls

Crew: Director

Actors: Brian Krause, Dorian Gregory, Rebecca Balding, Billy Zane, Muttalib J. Ibrahim

Synopsis: Hoping to purge Daryl's (Dorian Gregory) friend Mike (Charles Robinson) of a ghostly possession, Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) and Drake (Billy Zane) travel back to 1899, arriving at the place where a cabaret is destined to be destroyed by a horrific fire. Alas, the duo is unable to return to their own Read More

Charmed: Spin City

Crew: Director

Actors: Brian Krause, Drew Fuller, Andy Stochansky, Kieren Hutchison, Gildart Jackson

Synopsis: The Spider Demon (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe), who appears once every century to feed upon the most magicially powerful being on earth, kidnaps and cocoons our gal Piper (Holly Marie Combs). In his efforts to protect his future mother, Whitelighter Chris (Drew Fuller) is himself infected by the Spider Read More

Charmed: Charrrmed!

Crew: Director

Actors: Brian Krause, Dorian Gregory, Kerr Smith, Harve Presnell, Bre Blair

Synopsis: Kerr Smith makes his first series appearance as Agent Kyle Brody, a handsome young government functionary who has taken a special interest in the Charmed Ones. A self-proclaimed expert on witchcraft, Brady has the curious feeling that the girls will be able to help him solve his current case Read More

Charmed: Nymphs Just Wanna Have Fun

Crew: Director

Actors: Brian Krause, Julian McMahon, Dorian Gregory, Adrian Loudermilk, Katherine Cunningham Eves

Synopsis: Three cute wood nymphs lose their satyr-protector to a demon who demands that the girls show him the "eternal spring" of immortality. In trying to help the enchanted threesome, Paige (Rose McGowan) is herself transformed into a nymph -- and she may not be allowed to reassume her human form. Read More

Charmed: Soul Survivor

Crew: Director

Actors: Brian Krause, Dorian Gregory, Drew Fuller, Balthazar Getty, Keith Szarabajka

Synopsis: When her new boss, Larry (Johnny Sneed), loses his soul to a demon, Paige (Rose McGowan) is forced into an unholy agreement, one that will undoubtedly cause far more harm than good. In other developments: baby Wyatt seems to be using his inherent magic skills to sabotage his mother Piper's (Holly Marie Combs Read More

Charmed: Womb Raider

Crew: Director

Actors: Brian Krause, Julian McMahon, Dorian Gregory, Debbi Morgan, Jeffrey Meek

Synopsis: Even in the womb, Phoebe's (Alyssa Milano) baby is showing signs of demonic powers. Anxious to rule the Underworld, The Seer (Debbi Morgan) schemes to steal the baby and plant it in her own body. Meanwhile, the malevolent infant is slowly but surely taking over the rest of Phoebe's body, with the Read More

Charmed: A Witch's Tail, Part 2

Crew: Director

Actors: Brian Krause, Julian McMahon, Judson Scott, Finola Hughes, David Reivers

Synopsis: In the concluding half of Charmed's fifth-season opener, Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) has elected to remain in the form of a mermaid -- partly because she wishes to escape her marriage to ex-demon Cole (Julian McMahon), partly because, well, she likes being a mermaid. Although she has vanquished the Read More

Ally McBeal: Lost and Found

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Greg Germann, Peter MacNicol, Jane Krakowski, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi, Regina Hall, Josh Hopkins, Julianne Nicholson, James Marsden

Charmed: Charmed Again, Part 2

Crew: Director

Actors: Brian Krause, Julian McMahon, Dorian Gregory, James Read, Finola Hughes

Synopsis: In the concluding half of Charmed's fourth-season opener (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Charmed Ones Piper and Phoebe Halliwell (Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano) adjust to the presence of the half sister they never knew they had: Paige Matthews (Rose McGowan), who like Piper Read More

Ally McBeal: Without a Net

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Peter MacNicol, Greg Germann, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi, Jane Krakowski, Lisa Nicole Carson, Vonda Shepard, Robert Downey, Jr., James LeGros

Ally McBeal: Buried Pleasures

Crew: Director

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

Ally McBeal: Angels and Blimps

Crew: Director

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

Charmed: Wicca Envy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This is the pivotal episode in which the Halliwells' hunky handyman, Leo (Brian Krause), reveals his true identity as a "Whitelighter." Without giving anything else away, it can be noted that the plotline involves a scheme by the duplicitous Rex Buckland (Neil Roberts) to use planted subliminal Read More

Ally McBeal: They Eat Horses, Don't They

Crew: Director

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

Their Second Chance

Crew: Director

Actors: Lindsay Wagner, Perry King, Tracy Griffith, Sheila Moore, Chris Owens

Synopsis: Based on actual events, this made-for-TV drama stars Lindsay Wagner as Barbara Colvin, a woman about to become a grandmother. The new birth stirs up her own interest in finding the love-child she gave up for adoption some 20-odd years ago. With the help of the courts, Colvin is reunited with her Read More

Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies

Crew: Director

The Care and Handling of Roses

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jean Townsend (Ann Jillian) is happily married to the dull but dependable Roger (Garrett M. Brown), who does not object to her evenings out to attend various classic-film festivals. On one of these occasions, Jean befriends Tom Doster (Lee Horsley), a fellow film enthusiast likewise mired in a Read More

Wildcard

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this action adventure, the mysterious Preacher, a "special forces" veteran, card sharp and ex-clergyman, is called to a town on the Texas-Mexico border to investigate a suspicious helicopter crash involving a Vietnam veteran pilot. His investigation reveals that the town is totally corrupt. Read More

Back to the Streets of San Francisco

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hard-boiled San Francisco police detective Captain Mike Stone returns to his old beat in order to find the crook who killed his partner (played during the 1972- 1977 series by Michael Douglas whose scenes are taken from clips of the original series) in this crime drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Wife, Mother, Murderer

Crew: Director

Actors: Judith Light, David Dukes, David Ogden Stiers, Kellie Overbey, Whip Hubley

Synopsis: Wife, Mother, Murderer stars Judith Light as all three of the above. She plays social-climbing Alabaman Marie Hilley, who between 1975 and 1987 schemed, lied, and killed her way to the top of the ladder. Her victims were her husband and daughter, whom she poisoned because they stood in the way of Read More

Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This police story chronicles the true story of two partners who started out as best friends and later became the bitterest of enemies when one of them becomes corrupted. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Blood River

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Rick Schroder, Wilford Brimley, John Ryan

Synopsis: This made-for-TV western stars Rick Schroder as a hotheaded cowboy who guns down the man responsible for the death of his parents. On the run from his victim's powerful father, Schroder is sheltered by old codger Wilford Brimley. Brimley seems to be operating out of friendship, but his reason for Read More

The Girl Who Came Between Them

Crew: Director

Actors: Anthony John Denison, Cheryl Ladd

Synopsis: The Girl Who Came Between Them is still another "torn from today's headlines" TV movie. Anthony John Denison plays a Vietnam veteran, who is happily married to Cheryl Ladd and comfortably settled in a medium-sized American town. One morning, 13-year-old Vietnamese girl Melissa Chan shows up on Denison Read More

Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure

Crew: Director

Actors: Pat Hingle

Synopsis: Those who think that you can't make a suspense movie out of a true-life story wherein everybody knows the outcome are referred to the made-for-TV Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure. Jessica, of course, was the 18-month-old Texas girl who fell down an abandoned well in October of 1987. Read More

Happy Together

Crew: Director

Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Helen Slater, Kevin Hardesty, Marius Weyers

Synopsis: A college student clashes with his co-ed roommate, then falls for her in this romantic comedy. Sheltered freshman Chris Wooden (Patrick Dempsey) arrives at his university ready to hone his writing skills. His hard-partying roommate, however, proves to be a distraction. Alex Page (Helen Slater) Read More

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this loose adaptation of Mark Twain's biting satire, a hip little girl from the 1980s somehow ends up in medieval England and there has many magical adventures. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder by the Book

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Hays

Synopsis: Robert Hays stars in Murder by the Book in the dual role of mild-mannered mystery writer D. H. Mercer and his creation, hard-boiled private eye Biff Deegan. While writing his latest book, Mercer becomes so immersed in his material that he inadvertently causes Biff to come to life. Mercer teams up Read More

The Three Kings

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Three Kings stars Jack Warden, Lou Diamond Phillips and Stan Shaw as three patients in a Los Angeles-area mental institution. Dressed as the Three Wise Men for a Christmas pageant, the trio is suddenly struck with the delusion that they are really their Biblical counterparts. As TV Read More

A Winner Never Quits

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Made for television, A Winner Never Quits is the true story of one-armed baseball player Pete Gray. Having lost his arm in a childhood accident, Pete (played by Steve Rees as a child, Keith Carradine as an adult) still insists upon pursuing an athletic career in emulation of his older brother Read More

Hero in the Family

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Even without observing the opening credits, or noting that the film was first shown on The Disney Sunday Movie, the casual viewer could tell in a minute that Hero in the Family was a Disney production. Cliff De Young plays an American astronaut who, through a freakish occurrence in space Read More

Mischief

Crew: Director

Actors: Doug McKeon, Catherine Stewart, Kelly Preston, Chris Nash, D.W. Brown

Synopsis: This entertaining teen comedy is set in the effervescent 1950s and involves the friendship of the introverted, clumsy Jonathan (Doug McKeon) and the nonconformist, extroverted Gene (Chris Nash). Jonathan's main objective is to win over the sexy Marilyn (Kelly Preston), in spite of his shyness Read More

Badge of the Assassin

Crew: Director

Actors: James Woods, Yaphet Kotto, Alex Rocco, David Harris

Synopsis: Based on the true story that took place in Harlem during 1971, this made-for-TV crime drama centers on assistant district attorney Robert Tanenbaum's desperate search for a trio of cop killers. Tanenbaum (James Woods) is assisted by an equally determined detective (Yaphet Lau Kotto). ~ Sandra Read More

Attack on Fear

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Attack on Fear was based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of newspaper articles by Dave and Cathy Mitchell. Paul Michael Glaser and Linda Kelsey play the Michaels, who labor away at a tiny California daily. Upon hearing of iniquities at the famed Santa Monica drug-rehab center Synanon, the Read More

Yellowbeard

Crew: Director

Actors: Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Tommy Chong, Eric Idle, Peter Cook

Synopsis: This colorful spoof of pirate movies had all the makings of a classic farce and yet sank straight to Davy Jones' locker at the box-office, for despite it's all-star international cast of famous comedians, and despite the fact that it was largely co-written by "Monty Python"-veteran Graham Chapman Read More

An Invasion of Privacy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Based on Joan Taylor's novel Asking for It, the made-for-TV An Invasion of Privacy stars Valerie Harper as recently divorced book illustrator Kate Bianchi. Moving into a remote, cloistered island community in Maine, Kate has barely arrived when she is raped by a local handyman. The hostile, inbred Read More

The Legend of Walks Far Woman

Crew: Director

Actors: Raquel Welch, Bradford Dillman, Nick Mancuso

Synopsis: Raquel Welch stars in this made-for-TV film about a 19th-century Native American woman who avenges her husband's death at the hands of the white man. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

American Dream

Crew: Director

Actors: Karen Carlson, Stephen Macht

Synopsis: Officially premiering April 27, 1981, the weekly TV drama American Dream was preceded by a 90-minute pilot film, telecast April 26. The six-member Novak family, headed by Marshall Field employee Danny Novak (Stephen Macht), moves from the comfort of suburban Arlington Heights to inner-city Chicago Read More

For Ladies Only

Crew: Director

Actors: Gregory Harrison, Lee Grant

Synopsis: Gregory Harrison breathes some humanity into his two-dimensional character in For Ladies Only. Harrison plays an unsuccessful actor who decides to bank on his awesome physique to survive. He becomes a $100-per-night exotic dancer at a ladies-only nightclub. For those female fans who can get past Read More

Word of Honor

Crew: Director

Actors: Karl Malden, Rue McClanahan, Ron Silver, Largo Woodruff, Alexa Kenin

Synopsis: Alex Karras and Susan Clark produced but did not star in the TV movie Word of Honor. Karl Malden plays a small-town newspaper reporter who receives a tip from a woman about the kidnap-murder of a teenaged girl. The woman implicates local banker Don Crane, but only on Malden's promise that he will Read More

A Perfect Match

Crew: Director, Screen Story

Actors: Colleen Dewhurst, Charles Durning

Synopsis: John Sayles, of Trial of the Catonsville 9 and Brother From Another Planet fame, wrote the teleplay for A Perfect Match from an original story by director Mel Damski and Andre Guttfruend. Fashion designer Linda Kelsey is diagnosed as suffering from a rare form of anemia. Kelsey's only hope is to Read More

The Child Stealer

Crew: Director

Actors: Tracey Gold

Synopsis: The child stealer of the title is Beau Bridges, the self-centered ex-husband of Blair Brown. She has custody of the kids, and he has been slapped with a restraining order. Bridges waits until Brown's guard is down and kidnaps his two daughters. Told by the authorities that there's little they can Read More

M*A*S*H: Out of Gas

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This week's crisis is a sudden shortage of sodium pentothal. The only available supply is in the hands of black marketeers, who demand a huge financial tribute before they'll deal with the 4077th. To everyone's surprise, it is the seemingly meek and mild Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) who Read More

Long Journey Back

Crew: Director

Actors: Stephanie Zimbalist

Synopsis: Stephanie Zimbalist stars as the brilliant, athletic teen-aged daughter of Cloris Leachman and Michael Connors. Stephanie's perfect world is shattered when she is caught in the middle of a bus-train collision. She survives, but suffers severe brain damage and the loss of a leg. Zimbalist must make Read More