Michael DurrellFilmography

Law & Order: Harvest

Synopsis: A young mother is the victim of a drive-by shooting. The ensuing investigation is complicated by a discrepancy in establishing time of death. By the time this matter has been sorted out, the DA's office is presented with two prime perpetrators: the person who fired the gun, and the doctor who Read More

Illegal in Blue

Actors: Stacey Dash, Dan Gauthier

Synopsis: In the erotic thriller Illegal in Blue, Chris Morgan (Dan Gauthier) is a young policeman who confronts the harsh reality that he must compromise his ideals to get along in a world of moral ambiguity. When police officers split a large sum of confiscated illegal gambling money among themselves Read More

Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills

Actors: Edward James Olmos, Beverly D'Angelo, Damian Chapa, Travis Fine, Julio Oscar Mechoso

Synopsis: We'd rather not rehash the sordied Menendez murder case in this space; besides, it isn't necessary, inasmuch as no fewer than two TV movies were produced on the subject in 1994. The first was Fox's Honor Thy Father and Mother; the second, telecast less than a month later, was Menendez: A Killing Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Sanctuary

Synopsis: A group of destitute aliens led by Haneek (Deborah May), arrive at DS9. The group insists that it is en route to its fabled "promised land," which turns out to be the planet Bajor. Persuaded that the aliens are indeed the chosen people of Bajor, Kira is once more torn between loyalty to her Read More

Sister Act

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes

Synopsis: A sleeper hit that received a lukewarm reception from critics but was a success with audiences, Sister Act (1992) was star Whoopi Golberg's first bona fide smash after her Oscar victory for Ghost (1990). Goldberg stars as Deloris Van Cartier, a Reno lounge singer who accidentally witnesses a Read More

Defending Your Life

Actors: Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Lee Grant, Buck Henry

Synopsis: Albert Brooks wrote, directed, and stars in this philosophical comedy about a man having a hard time making a case for himself in the afterlife. When advertising executive Daniel Miller (Albert Brooks) finds himself in a fatal car crash minutes after taking delivery on a new BMW, he's whisked away Read More

From the Dead of Night

Actors: Lindsay Wagner, Rita Zohar

Synopsis: From the Dead of Night has an acceptable two-hour premise; unfortunately, the producers saw fit to drag things out to four hours. Lindsay Wagner stars as an LA fashion designer who, when she nearly drowns, has an out-of-body experience. Haunted by this, Wagner seeks out a spiritualist (Rita Read More

Hunter: Boomerang

Synopsis: Defense attorney Mike Snow (Martin E. Brooks), longtime nemesis of police detective Hunter (Fred Dryer), is the first person contacted by a distraught woman (Wendie Malick) whose husband has just been killed in an "accidental" boat explosion. Though Snow is certain that he'll be able to clear the Read More

Family Sins

Actors: Thomas Wilson Brown, Jill Eikenberry, Brent Spiner

Synopsis: Family Sins stars James Farentino as the old-fashioned, disciplinarian patriarch of a large family. Jill Eikenberry co-stars as Farentino's wife, who believes in standing by silently during her husband's tirades. The story's catalyst is Thomas Wilson Brown, the 11-year-old youngest son who is Read More

The Last Innocent Man

Actors: Ed Harris, Roxanne Hart, David Suchet, Bruce McGill, Darrell Larson

Synopsis: Filmed in Portland, Oregon, The Last Innocent Man stars Ed Harris as an adroit criminal lawyer. Having gotten several obviously guilty clients off the hook, Harris suffers a conscience attack and takes a few months off to get his act together. He is pulled out of his sabbatical by his girl friend Roxanna Hart Read More

Alice: Alice Doesn't Work Here Anymore, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Kip Niven returns to the series, but not in his familiar role as Vera's duplicitous ex-fiance Steve Marsh. Instead, he shows up as Steve's cousin Travis Marsh, a heavily bewhiskered country-western singer. After hearing Alice (Linda Lavin) warble a tune Read More

Alice: Alice Doesn't Work Here Anymore, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Alice (Linda Lavin) has joined the travelling band fronted by country singer Travis Marsh (Kip Niven). At Travis' insistence, a reluctant Alice performs a solo number, which enchants the audience--and entrances Travis, who has obviously fallen in love with Read More

Highway to Heaven: The Right Thing

Synopsis: This episode of Highway to Heaven reunites star-writer Michael Landon with his former Little House on the Prairie co-star Matthew Laborteaux. Be that as it may, the episode's emphasis is on guest performer Lew Ayres, cast as elderly widower Harry Haynes. Placed in a retirement home by his Read More

Alice: Romancing Mister Stone

Synopsis: The ninth and final season of Alice gets under way as Jolene (Celia Weston) and Vera (Beth Howland) take pity on fellow waitress Alice (Linda Lavin), who has endured several dateless weekends of late. Without Alice's knowledge, the girls place an ad on her behalf in a magazine's personal column Read More

Alice: Season 09

Actors: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Beth Howland, Celia Weston, Philip McKeon

Synopsis: It has taken nine seasons, but waitress Alice Hyatt (Linda Lavin, widowed protagonist of the popular sitcom Alice, has finally landed a permanent boyfriend, one Nicholas Stone (Michael Durrell). And just in cast Alice had any doubts about her newest beau, Nicholas proves his mettle when he helps Read More

Alice: Tommy's Lost Weekend

Synopsis: This episode makes it hard to believe that Tommy Hyatt (Philip McKeon) was only eleven years old when Alice began. Now, Tommy is nearly twenty, a college student--and on the verge of becoming a problem drinker! Mom Alice (Linda Lavin) frets over the possibility that Tommy's excessive partying will Read More

Access Code

Synopsis: This disjointed action film concerns a renegade security company which takes over the United States' computer defense system. CIA agent Barnes (Michael Durrell) and his sister must avoid World War III by defusing the plot. Mark Sobel's direction is lacklustre, and entire scenes appear to be Read More

V: The Final Battle

Synopsis: The story which began with the mini-series V comes to a stunning conclusion in this made-for-TV sci-fi adventure. A race of reptilian creatures from another planet arrive on Earth, disguised as humanoids and claiming to come in peace in a search for needed water and food. However, their true Read More

Hotel

Actors: Bette Davis, Morgan Fairchild, Shirley Jones, Erin Moran, Mel Tormé

Synopsis: Arthur Hailey's novel Hotel had already served as the inspiration for a 1967 theatrical film when this TV pilot came along on September 21, 1983. Bette Davis stars as Laura Trent, the entrenched owner of the Hotel St. Gregory (moved from the novel's New Orleans to San Francisco, to allow for Read More

V

Actors: Jane Badler, Marc Singer, Peter Nelson, Faye Grant

Synopsis: In this sprawling television miniseries, originally aired in May 1983 on NBC, a race of seemingly human-like aliens arrive en masse on Earth. These "Visitors" promise cooperation and friendship -- then launch a clandestine takeover of the planet by accusing the entire scientific and medical Read More

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Actors: Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, Debra Winger

Synopsis: Both a classic movie for kids and a remarkable portrait of childhood, E.T. is a sci-fi adventure that captures that strange moment in youth when the world is a place of mysterious possibilities (some wonderful, some awful), and the universe seems somehow separate from the one inhabited by Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Stolen Tears

Synopsis: Chaim Sigerski (Martin Balsam), an Auschwitz survivor who runs a Holocaust museum, is convinced that his old friend Isaac (Than Wyenn) did not die in a traffic accident, but was instead deliberately murdered by a fugitive Nazi war criminal. Finding the authorities indifferent to his suspicions Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Cover-Up

Synopsis: An incompetent ER doctor (Michael Durrell) panics under pressure, causing the death of a heart attack victim. Though she knows what really happened, nurse Margaret Alldred (Margaret Ladd) is pressured by the doctor and her boss to help them cover up the details of the tragedy--intimating that she Read More

The American Success Company

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Belinda Bauer, Ned Beatty, Bianca Jagger, Steven Keats

Synopsis: In mid-1978, the cult fantasy guru and comic book illustrator Bill Richert -- after months directing Jeff Bridges and Belinda Bauer in the scattergun carnival of a political satire, Winter Kills -- faced a real head-scratcher. With Winter yet to be completed, Richert's backer, Avco-Embassy, lopped Read More

The Two-Five

Synopsis: This 1978 TV movie was the first of two pilots for a cop series titled--yes--Two-Five The title refers to a woebegone Big City precinct where all the malcontents and misfits on the force are transferred. The latest arrivals at Two-Five are undercover cops Don Johnson ("introduced" in the ad copy Read More

The Dark Secret of Harvest Home

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Bette Davis

Synopsis: This television miniseries is based on Thomas Tryon's complex and suspenseful occult thriller Harvest Home, delving into the forbidden rituals of the small New England township Cornwall Combe, whose residents offer annual human sacrifices to pagan gods in return for a bountiful corn harvest. The Read More

Kojak: Laid Off

Synopsis: Even though he holds down two "civilian" jobs, rookie cop Kenny Murray (Michael Durrell) can't afford to be laid off. Not only are his debts are mounting astronomically with every passing day, but he must also pour more money into psychiatric treatment for his mentally disturbed wife Ann (Jenny Read More

A Killing Affair

Actors: Dean Stockwell, Elizabeth Montgomery, O.J. Simpson, John Mahon

Synopsis: Ingredients essential to this made-for-TV movie are a famous former pro football player, an interracial romance, and a brutal murder. Yes, the football player is O.J. Simpson, but the film was made a full 17 years before the death of Nicole Brown Simpson. In A Killing Affair, Simpson is cast as Read More

Kojak: Birthday Party

Synopsis: The fourth season of Kojak begins as Lt. Theo Kojak (Telly Savalas) of the NYPD is faced with a truly daunting personal crisis. Just before her birthday celebration Kojak's niece Lina (Donna Mitchell) is kidnapped by the friends of a man who has been jailed for killing a cop. Their demands are as Read More