Pat Corley Filmography

Tom Sawyer

Actors: Thom Adcox, Dee Bradley Baker, Sheryl Bernstein, Pat Corley

Synopsis: Mark Twain's classic novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is re-created here as an animated adventure movie. Featuring a country music soundtrack with songs by Hank Williams Jr., Waylon Jennings and Lee Ann Womack, the video is also accented with famous voices, like those of Don Knotts and Betty White Read More

Walking Across Egypt

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Mark Hamill, Judge Reinhold, Gail O'Grady

Synopsis: Ellen Burstyn stars in this warm family drama. Mattie (Burstyn) is an aging southern belle who realizes that she's getting too old to go on living in a house. After an odd encounter with the local dogcatcher Lamar (Mark Hamill), Mattie befriends Lamar's bad-egg nephew, Wesley (Jonathan Taylor Thomas Read More

Murphy Brown: Never Can Say Goodbye, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first part of Murphy Brown's series finale (originally telecast as a single 60-minute episode along with Part Two), Murphy's plans to retire from "FYI" are sidetracked when another mammogram shows a possible malignancy. Wishing that the late tavernkeeper Phil (Pat Corley) were around to Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 08

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: As Murphy Brown begins its eighth season, the titular heroine (played by Candice Bergen) has decided not to marry her current amour (and journalistic rival), Peter Hunt (Scott Bakula). Even so, wedding bells do ring at the outset for season eight -- but they're ringing for Murphy's fellow TV Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 07

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Few other TV sitcoms could boast Murphy Brown's distinction of opening its seventh season with an episode guest-starring both Senator Barbara Boxer and TV's "Captain Kangaroo." This initial episode also introduces Dyllan Christopher in the role of Avery, the son of TV reporter Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 06

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Season six of Murphy Brown gets under way with the first appearance of Scott Bakula as Peter Hunt, a dashing and rather arrogant international reporter who is hired to pep up the ratings of the TV newsmagazine "FYI." Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen), heretofore the series' star reporter, resents Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 05

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: In the weeks just prior to the opening episode of Murphy Brown's fifth season, the series, and its star Candice Bergen, were at the center of a controversy largely stirred up by then Vice President Dan Quayle. Commenting on the fact that season four had ended with an unmarried Murphy giving birth Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 04

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: What TV reporter Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) suspected at the end of season three of her eponymously titled sitcom has turned out to be true: Murphy is pregnant. Thus, season four of Murphy Brown begins with our heroine figuring out that her ex-husband, Jake (Robin Thomas), with whom she had a Read More

Mr. Destiny

Actors: James Belushi, Michael Caine, Linda Hamilton, Jon Lovitz, Hart Bochner

Synopsis: Businessman Larry Burrows (James Belushi) has a wife who ignores him, a screwball friend who won't leave him alone, and a car that continually breaks down. All that and more is enough to give him a mid-life crisis. After his car stalls once more, he enters a bar looking for help and encounters a Read More

In Defense of a Married Man

Actors: Judith Light, Michael Ontkean

Synopsis: This TV movie is not necessarily in defense of married man Michael Ontkean. That responsibility is taken by Judith Light, Ontkean's wife. When Ontkean is accused of murdering his mistress (Cynthia Sikes), his wife Light, a defense attorney, handles the case. Beyond the unavoidable emotional Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 03

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Season three of Murphy Brown opens with star TV reporter Murphy (Candice Bergen) and her co-workers balking at the "improvements" that executive producer Miles Silverberg (Grant Shaud) has made in the weekly newsmagazine "FYI." In subsequent episodes, a pre-Shield Michael Chiklis is cast as a Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 02

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Season two of Murphy Brown begins as the titular TV-reporter heroine (Candice Bergen) gets on the bad side of her neurotic producer, Miles Silverberg (Grant Shaud), by dating his brother Josh (Jon Tenney) in an episode which also introduces Christopher Rich in the role of vacuous pretty-boy Read More

Night Court: Another Day in the Life

Synopsis: This is the second of four "Day in the Life" episodes, in which the Night Court staff must process a huge number of cases before a midnight deadline. Upping the stakes on this occasion is a Texas millionaire (Pat Corley) who has agreed to finance an orphanage if the staff can successfully try 207 Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 01

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Fresh from a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic, hard-driving (but no longer hard-drinking) TV personality Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) launches the first season of the CBS sitcom bearing her name. Returning to her job as star reporter of the Washington-based TV magazine show "FYI," Murphy is none too Read More

Poker Alice

Actors: George Hamilton, Elizabeth Taylor, Susan Tyrrell

Synopsis: We've been told that Poker Alice, a Boston-bred lady of means who managed a wild-west gambling hall and bordello in the 1870s, was based on a real person. She certainly seems real as portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor in this made-for-TV film (Taylor's first). After winning her house of ill repute in a Read More

The Stepford Children

Actors: Barbara Eden, Don Murray, Richard Anderson, James Coco, Randall Batinkoff

Synopsis: This film takes place in that strange bastion of middle-class living, Stepford, CT. The trouble begins when a former resident returns with his new family and forces them to become as strangely contented as their neighbors. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Powder Keg

Synopsis: Somewhere in the Deep South, young singer Matt Burns (Brian L. Green) has been arrested for the murder of local bully Ed Bonner (Jeffrey Osterhage), son of the town's most influential citizen (Stuart Whitman). Innocent bystanders to this developing drama are Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) and Read More

Magnum, P.I.: A Little Bit of Luck, A Little Bit of Grief

Synopsis: Much to the amazement of one and all, Rick (Larry Manetti) returns from vacation with a million dollars and a new fiancee. The money is the result of Rick winning a lottery, and the girlfriend, presumably, is the result of the money. Inevitably, the burden of instant wealth has a negative effect Read More

The Christmas Gift

Actors: John Denver, Jane Kaczmarek, Gennie James

Synopsis: In this holiday drama, a widowed architect tries to mix business with pleasure when he takes his daughter on a business trip to a strange town in Colorado. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Stark: Mirror Image

Synopsis: In this sequel to the 1985 TV movie Stark, Nicholas Surovy once again assumes the role of no-nonsense Wichita cop Evan Stark. When his former partner Steve Graves (Ben Murphy) is murdered, Stark exceeds his authority by tracking the killer to Las Vegas. In addition to Surovy, Dennis Hopper, Pat Corley Read More

Stark

Actors: Nicholas Surovy, Marilu Henner, Dennis Hopper, Pat Corley, Seth Jaffe

Synopsis: This drama was originally made as a television pilot for a potential series. It centers on a police detective from Wichita who heads for Las Vegas to find his sister and ends up entangled with mobsters and crooked politicos. This film was followed by a sequel, Stark: Mirror Image in 1985. ~ Sandra Read More

Silent Witness

Synopsis: A young wife and her husband witness the brutal barroom rape of a young woman and now must decide whether or not to testify against the culprits or remain quiet in this made-for-TV drama that exploits an actual Massachusetts case. Compounding her difficulties is the fact that one of the rapists is Read More

Stormin' Home

Synopsis: In this drama, a divorced and irresponsible motocross racer grows up as he prepares to run the Big Race. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Moonlighting: Gunfight at the So-So Corral

Synopsis: Having been conned into keeping the Blue Moon Detective Agency alive, Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd) reluctantly agrees to team up with arrogant private eye David Addison (Bruce Willis) to solve their first "official" case. A man (Pat Corley) has come to the agency in hopes of locating his Read More

Scorned and Swindled

Actors: Tuesday Weld, Peter Coyote, Keith Carradine

Synopsis: In this crime drama, an antique dealer falls and marries a seemingly successful businessman who ends up conning her out of every penny and leaving her. Unlike the many others he has conned, this plucky lady decides to stop him once and for all. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Calendar Girl Murders

Actors: Sharon Stone

Synopsis: Just guess what this TV movie is about. Yes, that's right, someone is killing the centerfolds of a certain prominent girlie mag. Poor Miss March went out like a lion and now cops are trying to keep disaster from raining down on Miss April. One of the glamour girls in Calendar Girl Murders is none Read More

Against All Odds

Actors: Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges, James Woods, Alex Karras, Jane Greer, Richard Widmark, Pat Corley

Synopsis: A remake of Jacques Tourneur's noir classic Out of the Past (1947), in this version a labyrinthine web of corruption touches on the world of pro football. When an injury-riddled body causes pro football player Terry Brogan (Jeff Bridges) to be cut by his team, Jake Wise (James Woods), a shady Read More

Curse of the Pink Panther

Actors: Ted Wass, David Niven, Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, Joanna Lumley, Capucine

Synopsis: Curse of the Pink Panther was released just after Trail of the Pink Panther with a script that has someone looking for the inept Inspector Clousseau and the fabulous stolen Pink Panther diamond at the same time. In Curse, Clifton Sleigh (Ted Wass) is a New York retread of the bumbling Inspector Read More

Bay City Blues [TV Series]

Starflight One

Synopsis: In this taut, futuristic drama, the maiden voyage of a hypersonic passenger jet becomes a disaster when something goes terribly wrong and it gets stuck in orbit. The film is also known as Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I Want to Live

Synopsis: This drama is adapted from the true story of Barbara Graham, a woman sentenced to die in the mid-1950s after she allegedly committed a murder during a robbery. Graham pleaded innocent until the day she died in the San Quentin gas chamber. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Executioner's Song

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Rosanna Arquette, Eli Wallach, Christine Lahti, Steven Keats

Synopsis: Tommy Lee Jones won an Emmy for his searing performance as wanton killer Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song. The film covers the last nine months of Gilmore's life, beginning with his release from prison in 1976. Linking up with teen-age divorcee Nicole Baker (Rosanna Arquette), Gilmore makes Read More

Night Shift

Actors: Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, Shelley Long, Gina Hecht, Pat Corley

Synopsis: Straight-laced Henry Winkler takes a night-shift job as a morgue attendant. Winkler falls under the spell of wheeler-dealer coworker Michael Keaton, whose catchphrase "Is this a great country or what?" is the clarion call for his many get-rich-quick schemes. His latest plan is to turn the morgue Read More

Hanky Panky

Actors: Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Kathleen Quinlan, Richard Widmark, Robert Prosky

Synopsis: Gene Wilder stars as Michael Jordon, an architect on the run from false murder charges, who hooks up with Kate Hellman (Gilda Radner), the sister of a recent suicide victim. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Best Little Girl in the World

Actors: Charles Durning, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Eva Marie Saint, Melanie Mayron, Jason Miller

Synopsis: A young girl's dangerous dance with dieting leads to near disaster in this exceptional made-for-television drama. In one of the earliest treatments of the subject, Jennifer Jason Leigh stars as Casey Powell, the quiet daughter of an overbearing mother and milquetoast father. Feeling pressure to be Read More

True Confessions

Actors: Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Charles Durning, Ed Flanders, Burgess Meredith, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Adapted by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion from Dunne's novel, True Confessions uses the still-unsolved "Black Dahlia" murder as the foundation for a devastating attack on big-city corruption -- in which it appears that many of the perpetrators wear clerical collars. In, 1948 Los Angeles Read More

Of Mice and Men

Actors: Randy Quaid, Cassie Yates, Robert Blake

Synopsis: This TV movie adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men was a labor of love for producer-star Robert Blake, who utilized the screenplay from the 1939 Hollywood version as his guide--a screenplay personally presented to Blake by the original film's director, Lewis Milestone. Blake and Randy Quaid Read More

The Hand

Actors: Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Annie McEnroe, Bruce McGill, Viveca Lindfors, Mara Hobel

Synopsis: Oliver Stone's first directorial effort for a major studio (and his second horror film after the 1974 Seizure) came shortly after the phenomenal success of Midnight Express, which was based on Stone's Oscar-winning screenplay. The director turned to Mark Brandel's obscure thriller "The Lizard's Read More

Callie and Son

Synopsis: Lindsay Wagner stars as Callie, who battles her way up the ladder from waitress to fabulously wealthy Texas socialite. The price for her success is her son Randy, played by Jameson Parker. Though wielding great power, Callie is nearly powerless in her efforts to keep Randy away from beautiful Read More

The Waltons: The Idol

Synopsis: Elizabeth (Kami Cotler) finds a kindred spirit in the form of the Mountain's new schoolteacher, a brilliant young woman named Hazel (Susan Krebs). Conversely, Corabeth (Ronnie Claire Edwards) is shocked by Hazel's "progressive" ideas, especially her plans to conduct a sex-education class. As it Read More

Loving Couples

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, James Coburn, Susan Sarandon, Sally Kellerman, Stephen Collins

Synopsis: Susan Sarandon gives a sprightly performance in this sex farce involving couples swapping mates. Shirley MacLaine is Evelyn, a doctor, who is spending some quality time horseback riding when she is spotted by Greg (Stephen Collins), who is driving his sports car. Greg looks at her a bit too long Read More

Act of Love

Actors: Mickey Rourke, Ron Howard

Synopsis: The always-touchy issue of euthanasia has provided source material for films since the silent era. 1980's Act of Love stars Ron Howard as the brother of Mickey Rourke, who has been left paralyzed by a motorcycle accident. Howard kills Rourke with a shotgun, claiming his brother begged him to do Read More

On the Nickel

Actors: Ralph Waite, Donald Moffat, Hal Williams, Penelope Allen, Jack Kehoe, Dan Ades, Paul Weaver, Ina Gould, Jack O'Leary, Cano Graham, James Gammon, Arthur Space, Bert Conway, Jaime Sanchez

Synopsis: The Skid Row derelicts that occupy most of the screen time in this uneven drama about the effects of alcohol addiction do nothing to gain an audience's sympathy. Sam (Donald Moffat) has kicked his habit and picked himself up out of the gutter only to find that no avenues are open to take him away Read More

Mark, I Love You

Synopsis: Based on Hal W. Painter's autobiography, Mark, I Love You stars Kevin Dobson as Painter. Recently and suddenly widowed, Painter is so emotionally distraught that he permits his in-laws (James Whitmore and Peggy McCay) to gain custody of his son Mark (Justin Dana). Now that he has recovered, found Read More

City in Fear

Actors: David Janssen, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: In his last appearance before the cameras, David Janssen plays an alcoholic journalist desperate for a comeback. Janssen hitches his star to ruthless publisher Robert Vaughn, who is exploiting a rash of brutal murders to sell papers. The danger here is that the unknown serial killer, who preys Read More

The Onion Field

Actors: John Savage, James Woods, Ted Danson, Ronny Cox, Franklyn Seales

Synopsis: Joseph Wambaugh's The Onion Field is based on an actual 1963 case. L.A. plainclothesmen Karl Hattinger (John Savage) and Ian Campbell (Ted Danson) routinely investigate a pair of suspicious types, Greg Powell (James Woods) and Jimmy Smith (Franklin Seales). Unexpectedly, Powell pulls a gun on the Read More

The Black Marble

Actors: Robert Foxworth, Paula Prentiss, Harry Dean Stanton, Barbara Babcock, James Woods, John Hancock

Synopsis: Adapted for the screen by novelist Joseph Wambaugh himself, The Black Marble stars Robert Foxworth as a burned-out, hard-drinking cop who is teamed with idealistic lady officer Paula Prentiss. These two polar opposites wade their way through a seamy urban world of corruption and hopelessness. The Read More

Nightwing

Actors: Nick Mancuso, David Warner, Kathryn Harrold, Stephen Macht, Strother Martin

Synopsis: In this chiller, a trio of heroes must enter a black Southwestern cave and destroy an entire colony of plague-bearing bats, vampire bats. The story is based on a novel by Martin Cruz Smith. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Flesh and Blood

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by Pete Hamill, Flesh and Blood stars Tom Berenger as Bobby Fallon, a street punk who develops into a topnotch boxer while in prison. Upon his release, Bobby is taken under the wing of manager John Cassavetes. Outwardly tough and unmovable, Bobby is tortured with memories of Read More

The Gift

Synopsis: The Gift was a Christmas 1979 TV-movie offering based on the semi-autobiographical book written in 1973 by Pete Hammill. Gary Frank plays the Hammill counterpart, a Brooklyn-born sailor about to be shipped off to the Korean War. Frank decides to use his 3-day pass to discover if his girl friend Read More

The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan

Actors: Lindsay Wagner, Marc Singer, Alan Feinstein, Linda Gray, Henry Wilcoxon

Synopsis: When a woman moves into a Victorian home, she finds a dress that, when worn, delivers her back in time in this made-for-television adventure adapted from David William's novel, Second Sight. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Rose

Actors: Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Barry Primus

Synopsis: Bette Midler stars as Rose in this somber drama loosely based on the life of the late Janis Joplin. She plays an ill-fated singer who succumbs to the pressures of performing by indulging in drugs and alcohol. Her sweetheart Dyer (Frederic Forrest) is the former chauffeur who naively tries to save Read More

And I Alone Survived

Actors: Blair Brown, Maggie Cooper

Synopsis: This TV movie dramatizes a catastrophic event of April 26, 1976. A plane carrying Lauren Elder (Blair Brown), and two other passengers, crashes into Mount Bradley in the Sierra Nevadas.12,000 miles above sea level, the survivors are tortured by their injuries and battered by the elements. Read More

Coming Home

Actors: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Robert Ginty, Penelope Milford

Synopsis: Hal Ashby's 1978 melodrama examines the impact of the Vietnam War on the "war at home" among the men who fought it and the women in their lives. Left alone in Los Angeles when her gung-ho Marine husband Bob (Bruce Dern) heads to Vietnam in 1968, proper wife Sally Hyde (Jane Fonda) decides to Read More

A Death in Canaan

Actors: Paul Clemens, Stefanie Powers

Synopsis: Paul Clemens plays the real-life Peter Reilly, who in September of 1973 was charged with the mutilation and murder of his mother. The confused 18-year-old signs a confession after being told that he's flunked a lie detector test. Later renouncing the confession, Reilly demands a reopening of his Read More

Audrey Rose

Actors: Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck, Susan Swift, Norman Lloyd

Synopsis: Audrey Rose is a "thinking man's" horror film, which in a way is unfortunate, since it tended to be ignored amidst the many spell-it-all-out scarefests of the late '70s. Marsha Mason and John Beck play Janice and Bill Templeton, a happily married couple, the parents of well-adjusted preteen Ivy (Susan Swift Read More

The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training

Actors: William Devane, Clifton James, Jackie Earle Haley, Jimmy Baio, Chris Barnes

Synopsis: The misfit kiddie baseball team from the first film is given the opportunity to play in a Junior League match between double-header games at the Houston Astrodome. Two obstacles stand in their way: beloved teammate Timmy Lupus (Quinn Smith) has broken his leg, and the team has no adult coach. Read More

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

Actors: Eve Plumb

Synopsis: First telecast May 16, 1977, Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn is the gender-switch follow-up to the 1976 TV movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. While Dawn concentrated on the sordid descent of a young girl into crime and prostitution, Alexander devotes its time to the exploits of a Read More

Kojak: Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die

Synopsis: Suffering from psychotic depression, a woman named Lisa (Andrea Marcovicci) witnesses the murder of her boyfriend. Making matters worse, the killing was committed by one of Lisa's closest friends, who has always carried a torch for her. Kojak (Telly Savalas) tries to determine the name of the Read More

The Super Cops

Actors: David Greenberg, Robert Hantz, Joseph P. McCartney, Charles Turner, Ron Leibman, David Selby, Sheila Frazier, Pat Hingle, Dan Frazer

Synopsis: "Batman and Robin" are the principal characters in the fact-based The Super Cops. Well, not the real