Mike FarrellFilmography

Out at the Wedding

Actors: Andrea Marcellus, Desi Lydic, Charlie Schlatter, Mike Farrell, Mink Stole

Synopsis: Lee Friedlander's comedy Out at the Wedding concerns a woman named Alex who takes efforts to hide the fact she is engaged to a bi-racial man from her judgmental family. After a series of misunderstandings, many people think Alex is a lesbian, but the issue gets complicated when Alex's newlywed Read More

Justice League Unlimited: For the Man Who Has Everything

Actors: Eric Roberts, Dana Delany, Christopher McDonald, Josh Hutcherson, Mike Farrell

Synopsis: Based on a comic-book story by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, "For the Man Who Has Everything" is that rarest of rare Justice League Unlimited episodes, giving center stage to the series' three biggest stars. It's Superman's birthday, so Batman and Wonder Woman head to the Fortress of Solitude to Read More

The Clinic

Justice League: Comfort and Joy

Actors: Mike Farrell, Shelley Fabares, Ian Buchanan

Synopsis: This Christmas show is the only single-part episode of Justice League's second season. With Yuletide approaching, the various League members go their separate ways to celebrate the holiday. Superman invites Martian Manhunter J'onn J'onnz (here seen in one of his many earthly aliases) to Christmas Read More

The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Shannon Elizabeth, Christian Kane, Cameron Bancroft, Nancy Sakovich

Synopsis: Based on Brian Cruver's first-person book, Anatomy of Greed, this strident TV movie chronicles the rise and fall of the notorious Houston-based Enron Corporation in the early years of the 21st century. The film is related from the perspective of Cruver himself (played by Christian Kane), here Read More

Providence: Season 01

Actors: Melina Kanakaredes, Mike Farrell, Paula Cale, Seth Peterson, Leslie Silva

Patch Adams

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton

Synopsis: The fact-based story of an unconventional physician who attempted to heal patients with laughter, based on his own book and mixing equal doses of scatological humor and pathos. Robin Williams stars as Hunter Adams, a troubled young man who commits himself to a mental institution in the late 1960s. Read More

On a Collision Course with Earth

Synopsis: This documentary, which was originally made for the Sci-Fi Channel, uses computer animation and time-lapse photography to tell audiences that they know shockingly little about asteroids or the probability of one ever hitting the Earth. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide Read More

Sins of the Mind

Actors: Missy Crider, Mike Farrell, Jill Clayburgh, Cyia Batten, Michael Mantell

Synopsis: A once loving, devoted mother changes dramatically after suffering major head trauma during an auto accident. This made-for-television drama is based on a true story and follows the family as they try to cope with their mother's drastic transformation -- caused by severe damage to the area of the Read More

Vows of Deception

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Mike Farrell, Nick Mancuso, Nancy Cartwright

Synopsis: Also known as A Deadly Seduction and A Tangled Web, this made-for-TV melodrama stars Cheryl Ladd as Lucinda, a convict paroled in the custody of a hardboiled detective. Ladling on the charm in buckets, Lucinda inveigles the detective's brother, a wealthy widowed attorney, into falling in love with Read More

Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie inspired by the popular series Hart to Hart, jet-setting Jennifer and Jonathan Hart (Stephanie Powers and Robert Wagner) are attending a party for a successful publisher on his private island resort. Jennifer happens to overhear two men discussing a murder they plan to Read More

Southeast Asia: Spirits of the Yellow Leaf (Thailand)

Children at Risk: Ritual Abuse in America

Actors: Mike Farrell

Synopsis: Narrated by Mike Farrell, this film takes a hard look at the problem of ritual child abuse in America. As different cults continue to take root across this country, the instances of the use of children in their rituals grow. This film talks with parents, therapists, children, and law enforcement Read More

Silent Motive

Actors: Mike Farrell

Synopsis: The made-for-television thriller Silent Motive is about a screenwriter (Patricia Wettig) whose recent script is being used for a series of murders of film-industry executives. Consequently, a police detective (Mike Farrell) immediately assumes that she is the chief suspect behind these gruesome Read More

The Whereabouts of Jenny

Actors: Ed O'Neill, Mike Farrell, Debrah Farentino, Cassy Friel, Michael Crabtree

Synopsis: In this drama, a divorced dad fights for visitation rights with his daughter after she and her mother are relocated to an unknown locale as part of the Federal Witness Protection program. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lockdown

Synopsis: Framed for a murder he did not commit, a detective is sent to a prison where each day's survival is a victory. Sickened by the brutality he encounters there, he plans his escape, knowing that only on the outside will he be able to prove his innocence. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Family Jewels

Synopsis: Brenda Vaccaro is featured as Sheila Kowalski Finley, a freewheeling society matron who has the cute habit of taking jewelry that doesn't belong to her. When her husband's chauffeur is murdered during a political fundraiser, Sheila is among the suspects, if for no other reason than she was Read More

The Price of the Bride

Synopsis: In this espionage thriller, American and British operatives team up to learn the real reason behind a KGB officer's defection. The two sides suspect that it's all part of an elaborate assassination conspiracy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

UFO ... The Unsolved Mystery

Incident at Dark River

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: The made-for-cable Incident at Dark River stars Mike Farrell as a working-stiff family man. When his daughter falls ill, Farrell discovers to his horror that the girl is suffering from toxic poisoning. A local battery factory has been polluting the area with its deadly waste, but when Farrell Read More

A Deadly Silence

Actors: Heather Fairfield, Charles Haid

Synopsis: Made for TV, A Deadly Silence was based on the book by New York Times reporter Dena Kleiman. It is the doleful story of Long Island teenager Cheryl Pierson (Heather Fairfield), who in February of 1986 orchestrated the murder of her electrician father James Pierson (Charles Haid). The film does not Read More

Dominick and Eugene

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Tom Hulce, Ray Liotta, Jamie Lee Curtis, Todd Graff, Mimi Cecchini

Synopsis: Dominick Luciano (Thomas Hulce) is the moderately retarded twin brother of highly intelligent young intern Eugene (Ray Liotta). Anxious to become a successful doctor, Eugene finds he must devote most of his time to caring for Dominick. For his part, Dominick has been contributing to the family Read More

Run Till You Fall

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this detective drama, a private gumshoe takes so many little cases that he can barely afford to support his wife and kids. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Vanishing Act

Actors: Margot Kidder, Mike Farrell

Synopsis: Someone in the upper echelons of network television must have been enamored of or obsessed with French playwright Robert Thomas' Trap for a Lonely Man, since the property was adapted to television no fewer than three times. The 1986 version, Vanishing Act, stars Mike Farrell as a honeymooning Read More

The Leading Edge

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mark Whetu

Synopsis: Fans of outdoor adventures amid breathtaking scenery and, in particular, fans of dangerous athletic stunts and skiing will particularly enjoy this straightforward New Zealand film. In the story, a world-class skier from Telluride, Colorado accepts an invitation to ski the uncrowded slopes of New Read More

Private Sessions

Synopsis: In this drama, the failed pilot for a TV series, a psychologist endeavors to balance his turbulent personal life, with those of his troubled patients. Unfortunately, he tends to get equally personally involved in both and trouble ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

M*A*S*H: Strange Bedfellows

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: Charles' (David Ogden Stiers) keeps Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and B.J. (Mike Farrell) awake all night. Alas, when they can't sleep, neither can the rest of the camp. But Colonel Potter (Harry Morgan) has a more serious matter on his hands, when he discovers that his son-in-law Bob (Dennis Dugan) has Read More

Memorial Day

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV film, Mike Farrell stars as an attorney who finds himself at the center of a surprise reunion with the veterans of his platoon from Vietnam, including Robert Walden and Edward Herrmann. The reunion stirs up painful memories and disturbing secrets for all involved. ~ Jason Read More

Citizen: The Political Life of Allard K. Lowenstein

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: As in the title of this documentary, the political career of Allard Lowenstein is illustrated from the time he first made headlines testifying about the abysmal situation in southwest Africa to the loss he suffered in trying for a second term as congressman in 1972. Lowenstein seemed to Read More

Choices of the Heart

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Martin Sheen, Mike Farrell, Rene Enriquez, Pamela Bellwood

Synopsis: Choices of the Heart (aka In December the Roses Will Bloom Again) recounts the life and death of Irish lay missionary Jean Donovan. Together with three American nuns, the 27-year-old Donovan (here played by Melissa Gilbert) was murdered in El Salvador in 1980. Constructed in a complex Read More

Sex and the Single Parent

Synopsis: Based on Jane Adams' book of the same name, the made-for-TV Sex and the Single Parent stars Susan Saint James as Sally and Mike Farrell as George. Newly divorced from their respective spouses, both Sally and George intend to celebrate their independence by throwing sexual caution to the wind. But Read More

M*A*S*H: Run For the Money

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: It's the 4077th MASH unit vs. the 8063rd in a big footrace. To improve their respective odds, both camps have arranged for trained Olympic runners to compete. But when the 4077th's star runner fails to show up, it is up to a home-grown athlete--namely, Father Mulcahy (William Christopher)--to Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 11

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: As the 11th season of M*A*S*H* got under way in the fall of 1982, everyone involved with the series knew it would be their last (the program had already lasted eight years longer than the actual Korean War!) Looking back, the cast and crew could take pride in the series' many accomplishments, not Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 10

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Its ninth season shortened to a mere 20 episodes thanks to a Hollywood writers' strike, M*A*S*H returned to a full 24-episode manifest for its tenth season, which began in October of 1981. With the defection of series regular Gary Burghoff two seasons earlier, the starring-cast lineup was now Read More

El Salvador: Another Vietnam

Synopsis: This political documentary illustrates the turbulent history of El Salvador from the1920s-1970s, and the role of the U.S. government in that history. As the title suggests, the presence of U.S. military advisors in a military dictatorship fighting guerrilla factions that are labeled communist is Read More

Prime Suspect

Synopsis: In this thriller, a snoopy and ambitious television news reporter causes an average citizen to become suspected of being a serial killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

M*A*S*H: Heal Thyself

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Col. Potter (Harry Morgan) and Charles (David Ogden Stiers) prove to be difficult patients when both are quarantined with the mumps. It is particularly irksome for Charles, who fears that his temporary replacement Newsome (Edward Herrman), who has toted up an impressive combat surgery record, will Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 09

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: After a late start thanks to a Hollywood writer's strike, M*A*S*H launched its ninth season on November 17, 1980. With the past defections of Wayne Rogers, Maclean Stevenson, Larry Linville and Gary Burghoff, Alan Alda (as Hawkeye), Loretta Swit (as Margaret Houlihan), Jamie Farr (as Klinger) and Read More

M*A*S*H: War Co-Respondent

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Synopsis: Susan Saint James guest stars as Aggie O'Shea, a beautiful and energetic war correspondent. Upon arriving at the 4077th, Aggie immediately strikes up a friendship with B.J. (Mike Farrell). The plot thickens when the relationship between these two attractive people threatens to deepen into a Read More

Damien: The Leper Priest

Synopsis: More formally known as Father Damien: The Leper Priest, this made-for-TV biopic stars a heavily-wigged Ken Howard in the title role. Father Damien was a Belgian priest who, in 1873, was assigned a far-from-desirable congregation: the leper colony of Molokai in the Hawaiian islands. At first Read More

M*A*S*H: Death Takes a Holiday

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Synopsis: It looks like the 4077th won't get the Christmas turkey dinner they'd been promised. The only staffer not feeling sorry for himself is Father Mulcahy (William Christopher), who is more concerned that a group of local youngsters will not be properly fed. Mulcahy takes up a collection for the kids Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 08

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Season eight of M*A*S*H was marked by the last of the series' major regular-cast defections. As the quietly resourceful and eerily clairvoyant company clerk, Cpl. Walter "Radar" O'Reilly, Gary Burghoff had been the only actor from the 1970 movie version of M*A*S*H* to carry over his role into the Read More

Letters from Frank

Synopsis: Frank is Frank Miller (Art Carney), a 65 year old newspaper man. His letters are to his oldest son Richard (Mike Farrell), and they're decidedly on the vitriolic side. Frank, you see, was involuntarily retired from his job and replaced by a computer. But with the help and support of his wife Betty Read More

M*A*S*H: Ain't Love Grand

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sometimes, Cupid's arrows land in the wrong targets. How else can one explain why the high-born Charles (David Ogden Stiers) has fallen in love with low-born Korean bar girl Sooni (Sylvia Chang)? And what other compelling reason would cause fashionable nurse Debbie Clarke (Kit McDonough) to enter Read More

M*A*S*H: The Yalu Brick Road

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: As a result of Klinger's Thanksgiving dinner, the 4077th is laid low with food poisoning. The only healthy staffers are Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and B.J. (Mike Farrell), who volunteer to pick up some much-needed antibiotics. On their way back to camp, the two doctors become hopelessly lost in what Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 07

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Now in its seventh season on the air, the irreverent military comedy series M*A*S*H continued to roll along like a well-oiled machine. The most significant change during season six, the introduction of the insufferable but brilliant surgeon Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester (David Ogden Stiers), had Read More

Battered

Actors: Karen Grassle, LeVar Burton, Mike Farrell, Chip Fields, Joan Blondell

Synopsis: Battered concentrates upon three female victims of spousal abuse. Chip Fields is the new wife of struggling young Levar Burton. Joan Blondell is the alcoholic middle-aged spouse of the equally bibilous Howard Duff. And Karen Grassle (who cowrote the screenplay) is married to Ivy leaguer Mike Farrell Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 06

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Season six of M*A*S*H was noteworthy for yet another defection from its regular-cast ranks. Long dissatisfied with the artistic limitations of the role of obnoxious Major Frank Burns, actor Larry Linville followed the lead of his former M*A*S*H colleagues Wayne Rogers and Maclean Stevenson by Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 05

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville

Synopsis: Although M*A*S*H entered its fifth season with the cast from season four intact--including relative newcomers Mike Farrell as B.J. Hunnicut and Harry Morgan as Col. Sherman Potter--the production roster was short one significant name. Producer and co-creator Larry Gelbart had exited the series at Read More

Try to Catch a Saint

Synopsis: This courtroom drama was originally the pilot for the TV series McNaughton's Daughter and centers upon two attorneys, a father and his daughter, as they try a philanthropist charged with murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 04

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville

Synopsis: Everybody knew that Maclean Stevenson would not return to M*A*S*H when the series inaugurated its fourth season in the fall of 1975; after all, Stevenson's character, Col. Henry Blake, had been abruptly killed off at the end of season three, so any sort of return was out of the question. It did Read More

Ironside: Cross Doublecross

Synopsis: Policewoman Fran Belding (Elizabeth Baur) has a new man in her life: Jim Marshall (Gary Lockwood), a police detective who is long on charm but dangerously short on temper. Marshall's well-known propensity for violence catches up with him when he is suspected of two murders. Ironside (Raymond Burr) Read More

Live Again, Die Again

Synopsis: The science of "cryogenics" forms the basis of the made-for-TV Live Again, Die Again. Donna Mills plays a young woman who dies of rheumatic fever. At her deathbed request, Mills' body is frozen, in hopes of reviving her in the future. Thirty years later, Mills awakens, returning to the not-so-open Read More

Banacek: The Greatest Collection of Them All

The Nightmare Step

Synopsis: Louise Sorel plays a mild-mannered young woman saddled with a cruel and overbearing husband (John Vernon). Her slow, methodical solution to the problem is anything but mild. In hopes of permanently eliminating her domestic irritation, the harried Ms. Sorel creates far deeper problems for herself Read More

The Questor Tapes

Synopsis: This sci-fi film chronicles the exploits of an incredibly strong android that is totally devoid of emotion. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

She Cried Murder

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, a young model saw the crime, but is unable to get the authorities to believe her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Longest Night

Synopsis: The Longest Night is a harrowing made-for-TV movie based on a real-life kidnapping. Sallie Shockley is abducted from the home of her parents and held for ransom. Her captors entomb her in a box buried several feet underground, with an air hose as her only conduit to the outside world. As the Read More

Bonanza: The Hidden Enemy

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Mike Farrell, Melissa Murphy

Synopsis: Circuitously commenting upon the drug culture of the 1970s, this Bonanza episode probes the dangers of the onetime "wonder drug" morphine. Future MASH regular Mike Farrell is cast as Dr. Will Agar, who is revealed to be a morphine addict after he inadvertently causes the death of a young patient Read More

Destiny of a Woman

Synopsis: Destiny of a Woman is comprised of vignettes from the Man and the City TV series, which ran for 13 weeks in the fall of 1971. Anthony Quinn plays Thomas Jefferson Alcala, the Mexican-American mayor of a large southwestern city (possibly Albuquerque). The bulk of Destiny of a Woman concerns a Read More

Panic in the City

Actors: Howard Duff, Linda Cristal, Stephen McNally, Nehemiah Persoff

Synopsis: A murder investigation uncovers a plot that could destroy the world as we know it in this thriller. When a scientist doing research on nuclear weapons is murdered during a hospital stay, federal investigator Dave Pomeroy (Howard Duff) is called in to find out who killed him and why. With the help Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: Genie, Genie, Who's Got the Genie?, Part 3

Synopsis: In the third episode of a four-part story, Jeannie (Barbara Eden) is still locked in a safe that is destined to be sent to the moon. Her lookalike sister Jeannie II (also Barbara Eden) shows up, intending to use the situation at hand in order to ensnare Jeannie's master Tony (Larry Hagman) for Read More

Targets

Actors: Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly, Nancy Hsueh, James Brown, Sandy Baron

Synopsis: Together with Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and John Singleton's Boyz 'n the Hood, director Peter Bogdanovich's Targets is among the most impressive first features ever made. When Bogdanovich's cinematic mentor Roger Corman suggested that Bogdanovich might want to make his directorial debut, he Read More

The Graduate

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels, Elizabeth Wilson, Murray Hamilton

Synopsis: "Just one word: plastic." "Are you here for an affair?" These lines and others became cultural touchstones, as 1960s youth rebellion seeped into the California upper middle-class in Mike Nichols' landmark hit. Mentally adrift the summer after graduating from college, suburbanite Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman Read More

Escape from Planet Earth

Synopsis: This sci-fi drama is set aboard a nearly derelict spaceship about to fail. With little remaining supplies and little oxygen, only a few of the crew will survive to make it back to Earth, leaving them to decide which of them must die. The film is also known as The Doomsday Machine. ~ Sandra Read More

The Monkees: Monkees Chow Mein

Actors: Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith

Synopsis: Joey Forman, who previously appeared as the title character in the Monkees episode "Captain Crocodile," returns as the villainous Dragonman in "Monkees Chow Mein." While dining at a Chinese restaurant, Davy inadvertently picks up a fortune cookie containing a top-secret message. Captured by the Read More

Combat!: The Bankroll

Synopsis: Kirby (Jack Hogan) begins to question his priorities when he risks life and limb to make certain that a deadbeat soldier pays off a poker debt of several hundred dollars. The situation worsens when it becomes obvious that Kirby's debtor is willing to let his "buddies" die so that he can stay Read More