Parley Baer Filmography

Roswell

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Martin Sheen, Dwight Yoakam, Kim Greist

Synopsis: Originally made for cable television, Roswell is an entertaining mix of purported actual events and science fiction. The narrative unfolds primarily in flashbacks as retired Army officer Jesse Marcel (Kyle MacLachlan) attends a reunion of the 509th Bomber Group and tries to come to closure on Read More

Mad About You: Weekend Getaway

Synopsis: Jamie (Helen Hunt) is down in the dumps, so Paul (Paul Reiser) takes her for a weekend trip to the country. At first, nothing goes right (indeed, how could anything go right when all the cable channels carry Barnaby Jones?). Eventually, however, Jamie is so enchanted by the country that she Read More

Dave

Actors: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, Ving Rhames, Ben Kingsley, Charles Grodin

Synopsis: The ghost of Frank Capra must have smiled when he saw Dave, an amusing and effective update of one of Capra's favorite themes -- the scrupulously honest little guy who becomes a force for good against a corrupt system. Dave Kovic (Kevin Kline) runs an employment agency and seems to genuinely enjoy Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: You Bet Your Life

Synopsis: While scouting out potential colleges, Will (Will Smith) and Carlton (Alfonso Ribeiro) are detoured in Nevada, with an uninvited Jazz along for the ride. Ending up in a café-casino, our heroes are consumed by gambling fever--leading into a potentially lethal run-in with some rather tough Read More

Almost an Angel

Actors: Paul Hogan, Elias Koteas, Linda Kozlowski, Charlton Heston, Doreen Lang

Synopsis: Australian star Paul Hogan just couldn't seem to come up with a hit comparable to his 1986 international hit Crocodile Dundee. Hogan's Almost an Angel was a nice try, but no cigar. The star plays a lifelong thief who suffers a potentially fatal accident. While "in limbo", Hogan is visited by God Read More

Time Trackers

Actors: Ned Beatty, Wil Shriner, Kathleen Beller, Bridget Hoffman, Alex Hyde-White

Synopsis: In this time bending sci-fi film, three scientists living in the year 2033 must find the evil doctor who has purloined a time machine and is using it to go back in time to insure that his rivals are never born. During their travels the scientists make stops in 1990s New York and merry old medieval Read More

License to Drive

Actors: Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Carol Kane, Richard Masur, Heather Graham

Synopsis: Les (Corey Haim) is embarrassed when he fails his driving test in this routine teen comedy. His buddies are depending on him to provide the wheels for the weekend, but Les is more interested in his Saturday date with Mercedes (Heather Graham). Les secretly steals his grandfather's immaculate 1972 Read More

Night Court: Top Judge

Synopsis: Harry's status as the youngest judge in New York City--not to mention his reputation as the town's premiere courtroom prankster--is challenged by the arrival of a brash young jurist named Jimmy Cleaver (played by former Saturday Night Live regular Gary Kroeger). The Night Court gang demands that Read More

Breaking Home Ties

Synopsis: Based on an illustration by Norman Rockwell and set in a tiny Texas town during the 1950s, this touching made-for-television domestic drama tells the tale of a hard-working father who dreams of sending his boy to college. The lad, anxious to spread his wings, is happy to go. Unfortunately his Read More

Hunter: Night on Bald Mountain

Synopsis: In a modern twist on the classic "old-dark house" genre, Hunter (Fred Dryer) and McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) are trapped by a raging storm in the mountain home of a murdered financier. Every member of the dead man's family had good reason to see him dead--and accordingly, every member is under Read More

Flag

Synopsis: The 90-minute TV movie Flag was meant to be a joint spoof of the nighttime serials Dallas and Knots Landing. In this instance, it was "bite the hand that feeds you time": Flag was produced by David Jacobs, creator of both Dallas and Knots, and distributed by Lorimar-Telepictures, which also Read More

Pray for Death

Actors: Sho Kosugi, Donna Kei Benz, James Booth, Norman Burton, Michael Constantine

Synopsis: In this martial-arts actioner, a gentle Japanese immigrant endeavors to quietly run a business in America. Unfortunately, gangsters refuse to leave them alone. Finally the quiet storekeeper has enough and reveals that he is in reality, a highly skilled Ninja master. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Cale Yarborough Comes to Hazzard

Synopsis: NASCAR legend Cale Yarborough makes a return visit to Hazzard county, this time to provide words of comfort to a seriously ill youngster who is about to undergo surgery. Unfortunately, Yarborough somehow gets involved with bank robbers, who manage to frame both him and the Duke cousins for a Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Duke

Synopsis: Luke Duke (Tom Wopat) unknowingly drinks pond water that has been contaminated by a genetic-drug spill. As a result, Luke undergoes a total change in personality: He's unbelievably nasty to friends and family alike--and even worse, he becomes a "rat" with women. But the limit is reached when Bad Read More

Chattanooga Choo Choo

Synopsis: The owner of a professional football team must restore the titular train and run it from Tennessee to NYC in 24 hours if he is to inherit $1 million in this comedy. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Dead and Alive

Synopsis: Bo (John Schneider) and Luke (Tom Wopat) chase a band of armored-truck robbers into the jurisdiction of Sheriff "Big" Ed Little (Don Pedro Colley), only to be accused of being the robbers themselves and locked up in Little's jail. The only witness who can clear the Duke boys is rustic painter Read More

The A-Team: It's a Desert Out There

Synopsis: On the outskirts of Las Vegas, a gang of mercenaries called the Scorpions have been utilizing sophisticated commando tactics and high-tech weaponry to commit a series of minor crimes. Clearly, the Scorpions are merely rehearsing for Something Big--namely, the murder of their ex-comrade Al Driscoll Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Too May Roscoes

Synopsis: James Best plays a dual role in this episode, as bumbling Sheriff Roscoe and a lookalike criminal named Woody. Having undergone plastic surgery to make himself Roscoe's exact double, Woody kidnaps the sheriff and takes his place. It's all part of a scheme to steal a million dollars from an armored Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: A Boy's Best Friend

Synopsis: Prolific voiceover actor Danny Cooksey appears in this episode as Terry Lee, a dewey-eyed orphan who is anxious to spring a stray basset hound from the local dog pound. The Dukes come to Terry's aid, little realizing that the hound is actually quite valuable, and in fact had previously been Read More

Doctor Detroit

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, T.K. Carter, Donna Dixon, Lynn Whitfield

Synopsis: A college professor (Dan Aykroyd is forced to go undercover as a Chicago pimp disguised by a bushy wig -- the height of hairlarity in this anemic comedy. When Smooth Walker (Howard Hesseman) is hunted by his gangster rival, Mom (Kate Murtagh), he foists his bevy of hookers on the professor -- and Read More

Cry for the Strangers

Synopsis: In this mystery a psychiatrist and his wife are surprised to find that the quiet seaside town they just moved to is plagued by strange deaths that occur during mysterious storms. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

White Dog

Actors: Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Burl Ives, Jameson Parker, Lynne Moody

Synopsis: A little-seen film, suppressed by Paramount studio executives and never released theatrically in the U.S., this drama is a powerful saga about racism. Julie Sawyer (Kristy McNichol) hits a handsome white dog with her car one night and then nurses it back to health. One day, the theretofore Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Coltrane vs. Duke

Synopsis: Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) has struck a deal with a beer distributor who wants to purchase the Duke farm. Since he can't get the property through honest means, Boss resorts to trickery (surprise!), arranging a fake accident on the property and having Sheriff Roscoe (James Best) sue the Dukes for Read More

Carbon Copy

Actors: George Segal, Susan Saint James, Jack Warden, Denzel Washington, Paul Winfield

Synopsis: George Segal plays rich and surly California executive Walter Whitney, who learns out-of-the-blue that he has a 17-year-old black son, in Michael Schultz's lightweight Carbon Copy. When his son Roger Porter (Denzel Washington) arrives, Walter tries to pass him off to his neighbors in the Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Sweet Sixteen

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

Synopsis: Newly certified as a schoolteacher, 16-year-old Laura (Melissa Gilbert) accepts a temporary teaching job in a nearby town. Almanzo (Dean Butler) offers to drive Laura to her new assignment -- a gesture made strictly out of friendship for the girl. But in the course of the journey, Almanzo suddenly Read More

Rodeo Girl

Actors: Katharine Ross, Bo Hopkins, Candy Clark

Synopsis: The Rodeo Girl is 26-year-old Sammy Garrett (Katherine Ross). Despite opposition from the good-ole-boy network, Sammy is determined to succeed as a bronco buster. But her plans may be thwarted when Sammy becomes pregnant. Even if she doesn't lose the baby, it's likely that she'll lose the love of Read More

The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race

Synopsis: The cast of the sitcom F-Troop stars in this comic western about the people of St. Joseph, Missouri and their exasperation with the community's most famous resident--Mark Twain (Christopher Connelly). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Runaway Caboose

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

Synopsis: While visiting a train station with their families, Ingalls sisters Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) and Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and the Edwards' adopted son, Carl (Brian Part), sneak into an empty caboose. Carl accidentally discouples the car from the rest of the train, thereby propelling himself and Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Clown of Death

Synopsis: In an intriguing change of pace, gimlet-eyed SFPD detective Mike Stone (Karl Malden) dons the greasepaint, red nose and floppy shoes of a circus clown. It's all part of an undercover assignment to ferret out the murderer of two retired circus riggers whose deaths occur just before a gala Big Top Read More

The Amazing Dobermans

Actors: Fred Astaire, James Franciscus, Barbara Eden, Jack Carter, Billy Barty

Synopsis: A circus goes to the dogs (or, more accurately, the dogs come to the circus) in this light-hearted action-adventure tale. Lucky Vincent (James Franciscus) is a gambler who, after a stretch of bad luck, owes over $12,000 to mobster Solly Kramer (Jack Carter). Lucky is rescued from Solly's goons by Read More

Bewitched: The Truth, Nothing But the Truth, So Help Me

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, David White, Parley Baer

Synopsis: Endora casts a spell on a unicorn-shaped pin, causing all mortals who come within the pin's vicinity to speak nothing but the truth. Not unexpectedly, this hex wreaks havoc on Samantha and Darrin's dinner party for Darrin's new client, Ed Franklin (Parley Baer) and Ed's wife, Cora Mae (Sara Read More

Skin Game

Actors: Susan Clark, James Garner

Synopsis: Skin Game was historically significant as the 2000th film produced by Warner Bros. studios. The film is a comedy western starring James Garner and Louis Gossett Jr. as a pair of clever Antebellum con men. Garner regularly "sells" the black Gossett into slavery for an exalted price, then Read More

Bewitched: The Eight Year Itch Witch

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, David White, Julie Newmar

Synopsis: Hoping to show Samantha that Darrin is a potentially unfaithful spouse, Endora enlists the aid of Ophelia (Julie Newmar), a glamorous witch who turns into a cat now and then. Coincidentally, Darrin and Larry are seeking out a spokeswoman for Tomcat Tractors. This little comedy of misunderstanding Read More

Green Acres: Son of Drobney

Actors: Parley Baer, Gordon Connell, Albert Szabo, Vincent VanLynn, Chris Anders

Synopsis: The citizens of Hooterville are thrilled when Lisa (Eva Gabor) announces the eminent arrival of the son of a WWII war hero. What Lisa has failed to mention is that the distinguished visitor is a duck named Drobney. However, she hasn't misrepresented the situation: Drobney's feathered father was Read More

Petticoat Junction: Last Train to Pixley

Synopsis: When Floyd (Rufe Davis) retires as conductor-engineer of the Hooterville Cannonball, his successor turns out to be the notoriously lazy Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan). To the surprise of one and all, Joe proves to be super-efficient at his new assignment; unfortunately, he also drives everyone crazy Read More

Bewitched: Paul Revere Rides Again

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, David White, Alice Ghostley

Synopsis: In the sixth episode of an eight-part story arc, the Stephenses and the Tates continue their sightseeing tour of Salem, MA, where most of the episode was filmed. When she accidentally causes Larry's expensive Paul Revere teapot to vanish, she tries to make amends, only to conjure up the spirit of Read More

Bewitched: Sisters At Heart

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, David White, Don Marshall

Synopsis: This "very special" Christmas episode of Bewitched was adapted by Barbara Avedon and William Asher from a story submitted by the fifth-period English class at Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles, CA (the story had been written at the behest of teacher Marcella Saunders as a thank-you for Read More

The F.B.I.: The Quest

Synopsis: Though he has been accused of killing his wife, mental patient Walter Carr (Earl Holliman)--who has no memory of the crime--is certain that she is still alive and that he has been framed for her murder. Escaping custody, Walter goes on a tortuous odyssey to find the truth, committing various small Read More

Bewitched: Tabitha's Very Own Samantha

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: Tired of sharing her mother with baby brother Adam, Tabitha creates a duplicate of Samantha, who then takes her on a delightful outing the park. Spotting Tabitha and her "mom," Gladys Kravitz is thoroughly perplexed by the cloned Samantha's bizarre behavior, sparking yet another series of riotous Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Empty Parachute

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

Synopsis: To foil a new German plan to distribute counterfeit money, Hogan must steal the counterfeit plates -- which rest in a briefcase handcuffed to the wrist of an enemy courier. The only solution is to create a diversion by convincing the Germans that an Allied agent has parachuted into Stalag 13. Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Glen Tinker Caper

Synopsis: Popular singer-comedian Glenn Ash appears in this episode as aspiring entertainer Glen Tinker. Recently returned from Vietnam, Glen has smuggled a cute little orphan named Tami (Sharann Hisamoto) the country. Now Dr. Janet Craig (June Lockhart) must choose between leaving well enough alone or Read More

Young Billy Young

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Robert Walker, Jr., David Carradine, Jack Kelly

Synopsis: Veteran western director Burt Kennedy wrote the screenplay for this tale, based on the novel Who Rides with Wyatt? and also released under the title Who Rides with Kane? Robert Mitchum, who sings the title song, stars as Ben Kane, an ex-sheriff hunting for Frank Boone (John Anderson), the man who Read More

Wake Me When the War Is Over

Synopsis: In this post WW II comedy, a Nazi-hating German baroness takes care of a deluded American officer who thinks he is still at war. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready

Actors: Edward Andrews, Soupy Sales, Avery Schreiber

Synopsis: Filmed in 1969, Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready remained on the shelf until December 18, 1977. On that evening, it was discreetly offered as an NBC Sunday Night Movie presentation. If the film resembles an old Bob Hope comedy, it may be because it was put together by Hope's son-in-law Read More

Green Acres: Guess Who's Not Going to the Luau?

Actors: Craig Huebing, Parley Baer, Hank Worden, Leslie McRae, Jack Wagner

Synopsis: Everyone in Hooterville -- including Oliver (Eddie Albert) and Lisa (Eva Gabor) has entered a national contest with hopes of winning a trip to Hawaii as Green Acres begins its fourth season. Eventually, the applications are tallied and the winner is announced: none other than Arnold the pig! Read More

Day of the Evil Gun

Actors: Glenn Ford, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, John Anderson, Paul Fix

Synopsis: Warfield (Glenn Ford) is the dispassionate ex-gunslinger who joins forces with peaceful neighbor Forbes (Arthur Kennedy) to help him track down the Apache Indians who have kidnapped Warfield's wife and children two months prior. In searching for the abductees, the hardened gunslinger eventually Read More

Ironside: The Kill a Cop

Synopsis: Vicious, cop-hating Frank Vincent (Pernell Roberts) threatens dire consequences when he is arrested on a drunk driving charge by Ed Brown (Don Galloway) and two other officers (one of whom is played by director-stuntman Hal Needham, the other by Bing Russell, father of film star Kurt Russell)). Read More

Ironside: Due Process of the Law

Synopsis: When his girlfriend is murdered in Golden Gate Park, Mark (Don Mitchell) is bound and determined to take the law in his own hands to catch the killer. As a result, Mark is himself held for murder when the chief suspect turns up dead. In his efforts to clear, Mark, Ironside (Raymond Burr) instills Read More

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

Actors: Doris Day, Robert Morse, Terry-Thomas, Patrick O'Neal, Lola Albright

Synopsis: This light romantic comedy is set during the November 9th power outage of 1965 that darkened New York and much of the East Coast. Margaret (Doris Day) is a theater actress who storms out on her architect husband, Peter (Patrick O'Neal), when a pretty female reporter spends too much time Read More

Ironside: I, the People

Synopsis: Milton Berle is both guest star and cowriter of this episode, which was clearly inspired by the rantings of provocative TV talkshow host Joe Pyne. Playing completely straight, Berle is cast as vituperative TV personality Ross Howard, who hopes to parlay both his war record and his media notoreity Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Sues Mooney

Actors: Jack Carter, Mary Jane Croft, Parley Baer, Lew Parker, Irwin Charone

Synopsis: While working overtime in the home of boss Mooney (Gale Gordon), Lucy (Lucille Ball) falls down and incurs a leg injury. At the insistence of her pal Mary Jane Lewis (Mary Jane Croft), Lucy hires Mary Jane's lawyer cousin, Willy Wiley (Jack Carter). Smelling out a huge financial turnover, Willy Read More

Petticoat Junction: Kate's Day in Court

Synopsis: Kate (Bea Benaderet) is outraged when she is given a jaywalking ticket in Pixley. Rather than "pay the two dollars", Kate decides to fight the ticket in court. Unfortunately, not only does the legal system seem to be stacked against her, but also the local citizens are demanding that she pay up Read More

The Fugitive: The Other Side of the Coin

Synopsis: Travelling to California under the alias "Jim Parker", Kimble (David Janssen) is trapped by a sheriff named Corby (John Larch), who unexpectedly strikes a bargain with the fugitive. It seems that Corby's estranged son Larry (Beau Bridges), in desperate need of money for himself and his pregnant Read More

The Gnome-Mobile

Actors: Walter Brennan, Tom Lowell, Matthew Garber, Karen Dotrice, Ed Wynn, Richard Deacon

Synopsis: The Gnome-Mobile was Walt Disney's first all-out fantasy since Mary Poppins. Walter Brennan stars in a dual role, as kindly lumber tycoon D. J. Mulrooney and the irascible (and much tinier) 943-year-old gnome Knobby. Mulrooney likes Knobby and his fellow gnomes, but the feeling isn't reciprocal 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

Hogan's Heroes: Killer Klink

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

Synopsis: Hogan plans to use Schultz as an unwitting go-between in a plan to smuggle radio components to the Underground. The plan's success relies upon the possibility of Schultz being granted a week's furlough in Heidelberg. But several problems arise: Not only does Klink refuse to give Schultz a Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: Fly Me to the Moon

Synopsis: In this first episode of I Dream of Jeannie's third season, soft-hearted Jeannie (Barbara Eden) feels sorry for the chimpanzee who is slated to go on a NASA moon shot. To save the simian from this fate, Jeannie transforms him into a human being (hilariously portrayed by Larry Storch). Read More

Bewitched: Cheap, Cheap!

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: Hoping to prove a point to Samantha, Endora transforms Darrin into a complete and utter tightwad. To stem Darrin's radical "austerity" program at both the office and at home, Sam attempts to counter Endora's spell. Alas, she succeeds only in converting Darrin's frugal client, Bigelow (Parley Read More

The F.B.I.: False Witness

Synopsis: Carol Lynley guest stars as Lynn Hallett, a troubled young woman mistakenly identified as a bank robber. Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) is certain that Lynn is innocent, but before he can prove anything the frightened girl escapes custody. Now she is the travelling companion of Mike James Read More

The Money Trap

Actors: Glenn Ford, Elke Sommer, Rita Hayworth, Ricardo Montalban, Joseph Cotten

Synopsis: In this well-regarded film noir thriller, Joe Barron (Glenn Ford) is a police detective whose wife Lisa (Elke Sommer) has inherited a stock portfolio from her father. Joe and Lisa go on a spending spree, but when their new holdings fail to pay dividends, Joe finds himself deep in debt. Dr. Read More

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette, Karl Malden, Harry Guardino, Bryan Russell, Richard Haydn

Synopsis: This rambunctious Disney comedy was based on the novel By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman. Roddy McDowall plays Griffin, the very proper butler of Bostonian Bryan Russell. When Russell runs off to California during the 1849 gold rush, Griffin dutifully tags along. Master and butler team up Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Positive Negative

Synopsis: Sleazy George Emory (Ted DeCorsia) presents retired general Roger Brandon with an offer he may not be able to refuse: Unless Brandon steps down as head of an anti-crime commission, Emory will make public several compromising photographs of Brandon's wife Laura (Bettye Ackerman). Much to Emory's Read More

Bewitched: I'd Rather Twitch Than Fight

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: Written by James Henerson, this episode gets under way with a quarrel between Samantha and Darrin. Helpful Larry and Louise Tate try to patch up the Stephenses' differences, but only succeed in making things worse. When all else fails, Endora takes a hand in matters by summoning the spirit of Read More

Bewitched: The Leprechaun

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Henry Jones, Jess Kirkpatrick

Synopsis: Henry Jones guest stars as Brian O'Brien, a leprechaun who has lost his pot of gold. Hoping to snap Brian out of his doldrums, Samantha embarks on a se