Paul WendkosFilmography

Nobody Lives Forever

Crew: Director

Actors: Greg Evigan, Kevin Dobson, Alexandra Powers, Brenda Bakke, Malcolm Stewart

Synopsis: The ad copy for this ABC TV movie (part of the network's "Crimes of Passion" series) pretty much says it all: "Lying. Manipulation. Murder. The Things We Do For Love." Police detective Rick Barrish (Greg Evigan) is enmeshed in a sordid love triangle with his female partner Dusty (Alexandra Powers) Read More

A Wing and a Prayer

Crew: Director

Actors: Claudia Christian, Christopher Cousins, Jessica Tuck, Jeff Yagher

Synopsis: In this tense made-for-cable drama, a passenger jet is struck by lightning during a terrible storm and now only the cool thinking of an air traffic controller can save it. Matters could easily become more complicated as the controller's husband, unbeknownst to her, is aboard that aircraft. Read More

A Match Made in Heaven

Crew: Director

Actors: Olympia Dukakis, John Stamos, Della Reese

Synopsis: Helen (Olympia Dukakis) is an elderly widow who lives a quiet but happy life with her friends and her housekeeper Katie (Della Reese). A dark cloud appears when Helen discovers she has cancer. While receiving treatment, Helen meets Jane (Kelly Rowan), an attractive nurse who happens to be single. Read More

Danielle Steel's 'Message From Nam'

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Another of several made-for-TV movies based on the best-selling novels of Danielle Steel, this one stars Jenny Robertson as Paxton Andrews, a sheltered Southern belle who falls for law student Peter Wilson (Steven Eckholdt) on the campus of Berkeley in the late '60s. After Peter is drafted and Read More

Bloodlines: Murder in the Family, Part 2

Crew: Director

Actors: Mimi Rogers, Elliott Gould, John Pleshette, Sam Wanamaker

Synopsis: The second of a two-part feature, this fact-based drama centers on the wife of one of two brothers accused of killing their parents. As the trial progresses and the accusations become increasingly plausible, the wife must decide what to do with her life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bloodlines: Murder in the Family, Part 1

Crew: Director

Actors: Mimi Rogers, Elliott Gould, John Pleshette, Sam Wanamaker

Synopsis: The first of two-parts, this courtroom drama chronicles the struggle of two upper-class brothers as they attempt to prove themselves innocent of killing their parents. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Trial: The Price of Passion, Part 1

Crew: Director

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Beverly D'Angelo, Peter Strauss

Synopsis: Based on Clifford Irving's novel Trial, this 2-part TV movie is set amongst the Texas elite. Peter Strauss plays Warren Blackburn, a brilliant but discredited trial lawyer. His career seems due for redemption when judge Louise Parker (Jill Clayburgh), formerly Blackburn's bitterest foe, appoints Read More

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Crew: Director

Actors: Martin Sheen, Caroline Kava, Brendan Fraser, Renée Estevez, Zachary Mott

Synopsis: Guilty Until Proven Innocent is a TV-movie dramatization of a an actual miscarriage of justice. Young Bobby McLaughlin (Brendan Fraser) is accused of murder when a teenager is killed during a Brooklyn drug deal. The arresting cop knows that Bobby didn't do it, but is so eager for a conviction in Read More

White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd

Crew: Director

Actors: Loni Anderson, Robert Davi, Lawrence Pressman

Synopsis: Based on the book Hot Toddy, by Andy Edmunds, this made-for-TV movie revolves around the mysterious death of '30s film star Thelma Todd (Loni Anderson). ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Chase

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This exciting chase-film originally aired on television and tells the true tale of the high-speed pursuit of a fleeing bank robber by a determined Denver policeman, and of the courageous local television news crew who captured it all on film and managed to play a big part in bringing the crook to Read More

Blind Faith

Crew: Director

Actors: Joanna Kerns, Robert Urich

Synopsis: Originally telecast in two parts, Blind Faith was adapted from a fact-based book by investigative author Joe McGinniss. The scene is Toms River, New Jersey; the year is 1984. Insurance salesman Rob Marshall (Robert Urich) informs the authorities that his wife Maria (Joanna Kerns) has been murdered Read More

Good Cops, Bad Cops

Crew: Director

Actors: Ed Asner, Ray Sharkey, George Kennedy

Synopsis: One of the largest crimes in history was the 1980 robbery of the Boston Depositors Trust by a group of policemen as related in this true story. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Cross of Fire

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The two-part TV movie Cross of Fire is set in the 1920s, when the Ku Klux Klan was at the height of its political power in Indiana. Part One, originally telecast November 5, 1989, details the resurgence of the Klan (which had been created during the Reconstruction era) under the leadership of Read More

From the Dead of Night

Crew: Director

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

The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Lindsay Wagner, Eli Danker, Sandy McPeak, Ray Wise, Leslie Easterbrook

Synopsis: In June of 1985, TWA Athens-to-Rome flight 847 was seized by two fanatical, grenade-wielding Hezbollah Moslems. The hijacking was dragged out for 17 days, during which time several of the terrified passengers were beaten and one was killed. Written by Norman Morrill, the made-for-TV The Taking of Read More

The Great Escape II: The Untold Story

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Originally shown on television in two parts, the second of which takes place after WWII. Surviving escapee Major John Dodge (Christopher Reeve) is sent back to Germany by Winston Churchill to capture the Gestapo officer who ordered the machine-gunning of 50 of the captured escapees, in direct Read More

Right to Die

Crew: Director

Actors: Raquel Welch, Michael Gross, Bonnie Bartlett, Peter Michael Goetz, Joanna Miles

Synopsis: Raquel Welch's astonishing performance in the made-for-TV Right to Die compensates for any number of script deficiencies. Ms. Welch plays a successful psychologist with a happy home life who is suddenly stricken with the dreaded neurological affliction ALS (aka "Lou Gehrig's Disease"). At first Read More

Six Against the Rock

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Dysart, Dennis Farina, Howard Hesseman, David Morse, Jan-Michael Vincent, David Carradine, Charles Haid

Synopsis: The "six" are played by David Carradine, Howard Hesseman, David Morse, Charles Haid, Jan-Michael Vincent and Richard Dysart. The "rock" is, of course, escape-proof Alcatraz Island. This TV movie dramatizes an actual 1946 breakout attempt--which was meticulously preplanned for eight years. And what Read More

Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife

Crew: Director

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Joe Penny

Synopsis: A blushing bride (Melissa Gilbert) doesn't catch on that something's fishy when her new husband (Joe Penny), last name "Moran", introduces her to his distinctly Italian family, who kiss each other's hands a lot. In fact, she doesn't tumble to the fact that her "perfect" spouse is a Mafiosa until Read More

Rage of Angels: The Story Continues

Crew: Director

Actors: Angela Lansbury, Michael Nouri, Jaclyn Smith, Ken Howard

Synopsis: This two-part TV movie was the sequel to the ratings-grabbing 1983 miniseries Rage of Angels; both were based on the best-seller by Sidney Sheldon. Jaclyn Smith returns as dynamic New York trial lawyer Jennifer Parker, while Ken Howard likewise reprises his role as Jennifer's married lover Read More

Sister Margaret and the Saturday Night Ladies

Crew: Director

Actors: Bonnie Franklin

Synopsis: A devoted nun endeavors to create a halfway house for female convicts on parole in this drama. To achieve her goal, she must face a daunting series of obstacles. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Celebrity

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After twenty-five years, a trio of old high school friends are held responsible for a rape incident they have, until now, kept secret in this television miniseries based on Thomas Thompson's novel. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Bad Seed

Crew: Director

Actors: Blair Brown, Lynn Redgrave, Carrie Wells, David Carradine

Synopsis: The 1985 TV movie The Bad Seed is the second film version of Maxwell Anderson's 1956 Broadway play. Carrie Wells plays Rachel Penmark, a 9-year-old girl who is perfection itself--unless she's crossed or challenged. Several disturbing recent incidents have led Rachel's mother Christine (Blair Read More

The Execution

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Five Holocaust survivors conspire to have revenge upon the Nazi doctor who tormented them in this taut made-for-TV drama. All five are women living in Los Angeles and all have vividly painful memories of the atrocities he performed upon them. The memories come flooding back when they find him Read More

Picking Up the Pieces

Crew: Director

Actors: Margot Kidder, David Ackroyd, James Farentino, Ari Meyers, Joyce Van Patten

Synopsis: Picking Up the Pieces is a TV movie firmly locked in mid-1980s sensibilities: beware your husband, ladies, he's pond scum. Margot Kidder, a high school guidance counselor and mother of two, is the wife of wealthy surgeon and all-around heel David Ackroyd. After 17 years of emotional abuse, Kidder Read More

Scorned and Swindled

Crew: Director

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

Intimate Agony

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This once-timely made-for-TV drama was originally titled Lovesick: The Herpes Story until wiser heads prevailed. Soap-opera favorites Anthony Geary and Judith Light starred as dedicated doctor Kyle Richardson and lovelorn tourist Marsha Sarno in this saga of a genital-herpes outbreak in a posh Read More

Cocaine: One Man's Seduction

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This made-for-TV message drama presents the dangers of cocaine addiction as it follows one man's descent from successful real estate salesman and father, to red-eyed, runny nosed, coke head. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Farrell for the People

Crew: Director

Actors: Valerie Harper

Synopsis: Sitcom stalwart Valerie Harper trades jokes for the judiciary in Farrell: For the People. Valerie stars as New York attorney Elizabeth Farrell ("All she wants to be is a DA", declared the TV Guide ad copy, "but her toughest case is being a woman!"), whose case load runs the gamut from rapists to Read More

The Five of Me

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Historically, most multiple-personality cases have been women. Based on the autobiographical book by Henry Hawksworth, The Five of Me centers on a rare male victim of this bizarre syndrome. David Birney plays Hawksworth, who for his first 36 years lived with four separate personalities. When a Read More

Golden Gate

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Kiley

Synopsis: Golden Gate revolves around a San Francisco-based newspaper empire run by a family named Kingsley (it could just as well have been "Kane," since the family was based on you-know-what Frisco-based publishing dynasty). Richard Kiley, the cold and commanding Kingsley patriarch, suffers a heart Read More

The Awakening of Candra

Crew: Director

Actors: Blanche Baker, Cliff De Young, Richard Jaeckel, Jeffrey Tambor, Paul Regina

Synopsis: This TV film is spawned by a true story where a marauding fisherman accosts a pair of newlyweds in the Northwest wilderness. He kills the young groom, rapes the bride, and then forces her to live with him as he attempts to convince her that it was just an unfortunate accident. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

A Cry for Love

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jill Robinson's Bed-Time-Story, inspired by actual events, was the source for the made-for-TV A Cry for Love. Divorcee Susan Blakely, with no alimony and two kids to support, begins turning to amphetamines. While at her lowest ebb, she meets Powers Boothe, an alcoholic and three-time loser in Read More

The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd

Crew: Director

Actors: Dennis Weaver, Susan Sullivan

Synopsis: The tragic story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who in 1865 was sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor at the American penal colony of Fort Jefferson, was previously filmed as Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) and Hellgate (1957). Made for television, The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd stars Dennis Weaver as the Read More

The Ordeal of Patty Hearst

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Made quickly on videotape to capitalize on celebrated kidnap victim Patty Hearst's recent rescue, Ordeal of Patty Hearst stars Lisa Eilbacher as the beleagured newspaper heiress. Hearst's secure existence is shattered when she is seized by a tiny terrorist group calling itself the Symbionese Read More

Deadline Assault

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The eternally victimized Elizabeth Montgomery is the star of Act of Violence. She plays a recently divorced newswoman whose world is shattered by a gang mugging (an astonishingly brutal sequence for a TV movie). The injuries subside, but Montgomery must heal her emotional wounds--and also reassess Read More

Act of Violence

Crew: Director

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery

Synopsis: Elizabeth Montgomery stars in this made-for-television movie about a liberal reporter whose views are challenged after she becomes the victim of random crime. Montgomery stars as Katherine McSweeney, a divorced, single-mother news reporter assigned to cover crime in her lower-middle-class Read More

A Woman Called Moses

Crew: Director

Actors: Orson Welles

Synopsis: The made-for-TV A Woman Called Moses stars Cicely Tyson as real-life escaped slave Harriet Tubman. A the risk of recapture, Tubman helped organize the underground railroad, which enabled hundreds of enslaved African Americans to make their way to the freedom of the Northern states. Adding to the Read More

Betrayal

Crew: Director

Actors: Rip Torn

Synopsis: The second TV-movie to bear the title Betrayal stars Lesley Ann Warren and Rip Torn. Warren plays Julie Roy, a sensitive young woman seeking solace through therapy. Torn co-stars as Julie's psychiatrist Dr. Hartogs. It turns out that the far-from-ethical Hartogs has a hidden agenda: while Read More

Good Against Evil

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Good Against Evil might not have existed had not The Exorcist shown the way three years earlier. Dack Rambo and Elyssa Davalos star as sweethearts Andy Stuart and Jessica Gordon. The course of true love is messed up when Satan claims Jessica as his own personal property. Read More

Richie

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This powerful made-for-television drama made a memorable impact on audiences in the late '70s and has earned a cult following as a result. The story focuses on Richie (Robby Benson), a well-meaning but emotionally confused teen who finds it all too easy to turn to drugs when he feels the world Read More

Secrets

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After several years of marriage, suburban housewife Andrea Fleming (Susan Blakely) realizes that she has never truly been happy. This is particularly galling in that Andrea's repressive mother (Joanne Linville) instilled within her the desire to find the "secret of happiness" before reaching Read More

The Death of Richie

Crew: Director

Actors: Ben Gazzara

79 Park Avenue

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Barbara Barrie

Synopsis: The formal title for this TV mini-series was Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue, just in case you might mistake it for William Makepeace Thackeray's 79 Park Avenue. Originally presented in three parts, this adaptation of the Robbins best-seller stars Lesley Ann Warren as Marja Fludjicki, a Read More

Special Delivery

Crew: Director

Actors: Bo Svenson, Cybill Shepherd, Tom Atkins, Sorrell Booke, Gerritt Graham

Synopsis: A botched robbery provides the basis of this romantic comedy. The caper was performed by three unemployed Vietnam vets desperate for cash. Unfortunately, two of them are captured during the getaway. The third vet continues to flee and stuffs the loot in a convenient mailbox. A dishonest barkeeper Read More

Stalk the Wild Child

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: An Americanized version of Truffaut's The Wild Child, this drama centers on the attempts of a behavioral psychologist to educate a boy, raised in the wilds by dogs, and teach him how to function in society. This film spawned a brief television series, Lucan. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Death Among Friends

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Canadian actress Kate Reid plays a lady p.i. in Death Among Friends. Kate is hired to solve the murder of a multimillionaire financier. As tipped off by the title, she need look no farther than the dead man's circle of friends. Refreshingly, both the heroine and her police contact, John Anderson Read More

The Legend of Lizzie Borden

Crew: Director

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery

Synopsis: "Lizzie Borden took an axe/And gave her mother forty whacks/When she saw what she had done/She gave her father forty-one". New England spinster Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the charge of murdering her father and stepmother in 1892, but this made-for-TV movie, like most recreations of the murders Read More

Mrs. R - Death Among Friends

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When an international financier is killed in a strange fashion, a female homicide detective investigates. (AKA Death Among Friends) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Underground Man

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The Underground Man was the pilot film for a series based on Ross MacDonald's private eye hero Lew Archer (the source of Paul Newman's film appearances as "Lew Harper"). Most of the elements of the factory-approved MacDonald formula are put into effect here: An old flame, a seemingly cut-and-dried Read More

Honor Thy Father

Crew: Director

Actors: Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Bologna, Raf Vallone, Richard S. Castellano, Joe de Santis

Synopsis: Gay Talese's bestseller Honor Thy Father is given a superb, albeit slightly expurgated, treatment in this made-for-TV movie. Joseph Bologna plays Bill Bonanno, the son of New York City Mafia-don Joe "Bananas" Bonanno (Raf Vallone). When his father disappears in 1964, Bill is compelled to take over Read More

Terror on the Beach

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Terror on the Beach stars Dennis Weaver and Estelle Parsons as the parents of a family vacationing on the shores of California. A gang of vicious, marauding teenagers invade the campsite and proceed to make the family's life hell. Weaver resists giving into violence until the fierce climax, where Read More

The Strangers in 7A

Crew: Director

Actors: Andy Griffith, Michael Brandon, Ida Lupino

Synopsis: Andy Griffith plays a philandering apartment house manager who picks up a pretty young girl (Suzanne Hildur) in a bar. He takes her home, whereupon the girl's male cronies show up armed with guns. Griffith and his wife Ida Lupino are held hostage by the crooks, led by Michael Brandon, who plan to Read More

Haunts of the Very Rich

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The old Outward Bound formula is pulled out of mothballs for the made-for-TV Haunts of the Very Rich. The scene is a gorgeous tropical resort, where seven very wealthy people have converged. These worthies have been lured to this spot by an anonymous host, who has promised them a vacation in a Read More

The Family Rico

Crew: Director

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Sal Mineo

Synopsis: Made for television, The Family Rico was adapted from the same Georges Simenon novel that served as the basis of the 1958 Columbia theatrical feature The Brothers Rico. Ben Gazzara plays a powerful mobster put in an embarrassing position by younger brother Sal Mineo. When Mineo refuses to carry Read More

The Delphi Bureau

Crew: Director

Actors: Celeste Holm

Synopsis: Delphi Bureau was the pilot film for a short-lived TV espionage series. Lawrence Luckinbill plays an operative for a secret agency that answers only to the US President. His current mission is to locate an entire fleet of obsolete Air Force planes that have vanished without a trace. Very ordinary Read More

Footsteps

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this sports drama, a small college, desperate for a grid iron win, hires an ultra tough new coach. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Tattered Web

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A Tattered Web starts out at a high level of tension which seldom flags during its lean 74 minutes. Lloyd Bridges stars as a police detective who finds out that his son-in-law Frank Converse is cheating on his daughter Sallie Shockley. Catching up with the "other woman," Bridges accidentally kills Read More

The Mephisto Waltz

Crew: Director

Actors: Terence Scammell, Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Parkins, Bradford Dillman, William Windom

Synopsis: Adapted from a Fred Mustard Stewart novel, this offbeat occult thriller stars Alan Alda (just prior to his eleven-year stint on M*A*S*H) as journalist and burgeoning musician Myles Clarkson, whose long-sought interview with ailing concert pianist (and closet Satanist) Duncan Ely (Curt Jurgens) Read More

A Death of Innocence

Crew: Director

Actors: John Randolph, Ann Sothern, Tisha Sterling

Synopsis: Shelly Winters and John Randolph star in Death of Innocence as distraught small-town parents who learn that their estranged daughter is on trial for murder. They journey to New York City and attend the girl's trial, where the mother learns several details of her daughter's recent life that she'd Read More

A Little Game

Crew: Director

Synopsis: 13-year-old Robert Mueller (Mark Gruner) is obsessed with guns and has a morbid fascination with death. He is also deeply resentful over the fact that his widowed mother Elaine (Diane Baker) has married Paul Hamilton (Ed Nelson). Despite all this, Elaine could never believe that her darling boy Read More

Travis Logan, D.A.

Crew: Director

Actors: Hal Holbrook, Vic Morrow

Synopsis: Travis Logan, D.A. is a TV pilot film, originally telecast in March of 1971. Vic Morrow heads the cast as Logan, while Hal Holbrook earns "special guest star" billing as a clever murderer. Logan is prepared to go around with Holbrook's defense team when they try to cop an insanity plea. But a Read More

Hell Boats

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this WW II actioner set in 1942, an American officer serving with the British Royal Navy attempts to blockade Malta and then destroy a German arsenal located in Sicily. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Brotherhood of the Bell

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Glenn Ford plays a man who joins a mysterious fraternity, "The Brotherhood of the Bell", while in college. Upon attaining wealth and prominence, Ford discovers that the Brotherhood has been keeping tabs on him, and expects certain favors from him in the private sector. It dawns on Ford that the Read More

Cannon for Cordoba

Crew: Director

Actors: George Peppard, Giovanna Ralli, Raf Vallone, Pete Duel, Don Gordon

Synopsis: In this limp western melodrama, when Mexican bandit Hector Cordoba (Raf Vallone) attacks a U.S. Army fort a few miles from the Mexican border, General John Pershing (John Russell) orders Captain Rod Douglas (George Peppard) to organize a group of soldiers to cross the border into Mexico to capture Read More

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

Crew: Director

Actors: George Kennedy, James Whitmore, Monte Markham, Bernie Casey, Joe Don Baker

Synopsis: Chris (George Kennedy) is the lone survivor of the original seven gunmen who is recruited to help in a peasant struggle in Mexico. Colonel Diego (Michael Ansara)is the ruthless military commandant of a Mexican prison holding the leader of the revolt. With knife expert Levi Morgon (James Whitmore) Read More

Fear No Evil

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Richard Alan Simmons, scriptwriter of Fear No Evil, evidently held fond memories of the old British chiller Dead of Night (a cornucopia of inspiration for programs like The Twilight Zone). The "Mirror Sequence" in the earlier film was gussied up for the basic plotline of this 1969 TV-movie. Bradford Dillman Read More

Attack on the Iron Coast

Crew: Director

Actors: Andrew Keir, Sue Lloyd, Mark Eden, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: Major James Wilson (Lloyd Bridges) must lead his troops across the English channel in the D-day invasion of Normandy. He trains his regulars for the invasion knowing that many, if not all, may never survive the assault. Wilson is plagued by memories of previous missions that turned out to be Read More

Hawaii Five-O [TV Series]

Crew: Director

I Spy: Lori

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In her TV dramatic debut, vocalist Nancy Wilson plays Lori, the sister of Jim Rogers (Greg Morris, an old school chum of agent Alexander Scott. Scotty and his partner Kelly are ordered to protect John Keegan (Malachi Throne), the sole surviving member of a seven-person team of nuclear Read More

I Spy: Sparrowhawk

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Handed another "Why me?" assignment, Kelly and Scotty must guard spoiled Arabian prince Bobby Seville (Walter Koenig). The task becomes doubly difficult when Bobby disappears in Las Vegas, eager to experience the town's wild and wooly nightlife without his bodyguards cramping his style. Featured Read More

I Spy: The Conquest of Maude Murdock

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Acting on orders from American embassy official Sanders (Philip Bourneuf, Kelly and Scotty are obliged to kidnap matronly US undersecretary Maude Murdock (Jeannette Nolan), ostensibly as a test of departmental security. Only after the dithery Ms. Murdock is in their clutches do the agents discover Read More

I Spy: So Coldly Sweet

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The second season of I Spy began on September 14, 1966 with the episode titled "So Coldly Sweet." Now assigned to the Palm Springs beat in California, agents Kelly and Scotty are ordered to extract information from the lovely Marisa Terezcu (Diana Hyland), a Soviet agent who insists that she wants Read More

I Spy: Turkish Delight

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Victor Buono guest-stars as Karafathma, a Turkish spy who specializes in abducting scientific geniuses and auctioning his prisoners' intellect to the highest bidder. To flush out the villain, Scotty poses as a world-renowned agronomist-and is promptly kidnapped by Karafathma's henchmen. Also Read More

I Spy: The Tiger

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Robert Culp doubled as writer and star of the I Spy episode "The Tiger." This time around, agents Kelly and Scotty must rescue famed American medical missionary Dr. Owen McLean (Lew Ayres) from a Southeast jungle. But McLeon refuses to leave with agents unless they save his daughter Sam-Than Read More

I Spy: One Thousand Fine

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Written by Eric Bercovici, "One Thousand Fine" features Dane Clark in the role of flight engineer Jack Gannon, a former high school rival of agent Scotty. Surving the crash of a plane carrying a fortune in gold, Gannon claims to be suffering from amnesia, and as such is unable to pinpoint the Read More

The F.B.I.: Vendetta

Crew: Director

Synopsis: John Van Dreelen is cast as a former Nazi concentration-camp officer named Schindler (!) Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) is anxious to capture Schindler, who is now working for the Reds, and bring him back to Washington for interrogation. Aiding and abetting Erskine is professional "Nazi Read More

I Spy: Little Boy Lost

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ronny Howard was still gainfully employed as Opie on The Andy Griffith Show when he guest-starred on the I Spy episode "Little Boy Lost." Howard is cast as Ronny Loden, the son of a prominent American scientist (Richard Anderson. Angry over being neglected and ignored by his father, Ronny runs Read More

The F.B.I.: The Contaminator

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Turncoat scientist Lawrence Underwood (Linden Chiles) manages to steal some top-secret documents from an atomic lab in Idaho. Picking up Underwood's trail, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) methodically tracks the man down. What Erskine doesn't know is that Underwood has been exposed to Read More

The F.B.I.: The Scourge

Crew: Director

Synopsis: An ongoing FBI effort to topple the Mafia empire headed by Mark Vincent (Johnny Albin) is complicated by the presence of eager young loan shark Johnny Albin (Robert Duvall), who will go to any lengths to join the "Organization." Vincent has assigned Johnny to seize control of a cash-strapped Read More

The F.B.I.: The Price of Death

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Season Two of The F.B.I gets under way as Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) receives an anonymous tip that teenager Paul Wallace (David Macklin) has been kidnapped and returned unharmed once the ransom was paid. But when Erskine interviews Wallace's father (John Larch), the man steadfastly Read More

Johnny Tiger

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Taylor, Geraldine Brooks, Chad Everett, Brenda Scott, Marc Lawrence

Synopsis: George Dean (Robert Taylor) and his three children relocate when he takes a teaching position at a Seminole Indian reservation in Florida. He is overwhelmed by the poverty of the tribe and their ability to interact in society without giving up their treasured tribal customs. Sam (Ford Rainey) is Read More

The F.B.I.: The Cave-In

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Determined that his grandson Ed (Buck Taylor) will attend school rather than follow family tradition and become a miner, old Tom Rule (John McIntire) decides to sabotage the New Mexico mine where Ed works. What Tom doesn't know is that the mine is located near a huge deposit of tungsten, a mineral Read More

I Spy: The Time of the Knife

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Agents Kelly and Scott head to Kyoto, Japan, where they are assigned to locate Kelly's old friend Michael Fane (Warren Stevens). The task is deceptively simple: Fane is merely to hand over the plans for a missile guidance system. But when Fane's girlfriend Jean (Marilyn Rhue) announces that he has Read More

I Spy: Weight of the World

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Kelly and Scott are ordered to attend a medical convention in Japan, where it is rumored that a deadly bubonic plague developed by Communist Chinese scientists is about to be unleashed. The agents' task is complicated by the presence of overanxious, novice spy Vicki (Marlyn Mason), whose Read More

I Spy: Three Hours on a Sunday

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sheldon Leonard, executive producer of I Spy, essays one of his traditional "heavy" roles as Sorge, an American traitor and jewel fence. Assigned to retrieve a valuable microfilm from Sorge, agent Kelly Robinson offers to trade the film for a diamond watch, which Kelly has been forced to steal Read More

Gidget Goes to Rome

Crew: Director

Actors: Cindy Carol, James Darren, Jesse Royce Landis, Cesare Danova, Danielle de Metz

Synopsis: Gidget Goes to Rome was the third film to be inspired by the beach-happy characters created by Frederick Kohner back in the mid-1950s. This time, surfer gal Francie "Gidget" Lawrence is played by newcomer Cindy Carol. Per the title, the film finds Gidget vacationing in the Eternal City with Read More

The Untouchables: Double Cross

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ubiquitous Untouchables guest star Nehemiah Persoff makes his final appearance as criminal mastermind Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik. Determined to drive Guzik out of the bootlegging business, Elliot Ness secretly begins supplying Jake's rivals with illegal booze. Ness hopes this heightened competition Read More

The Untouchables: Arsenal

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Once again, Frank Nitti (Bruce Gordon) crosses swords with rival gangster Bugs Moran (previously played by Lloyd Nolan, here enacted by Robert J. Wilke). To avoid an all-out gang war, Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) begin confiscating all the machine guns owned by the two mobsters' torpedoes. To keep Read More

The Untouchables: The Gang War

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Victor Buono, who skyrocketed to stardom by virtue of his work in the title role of the earlier Untouchables episode "Mr. Moon", returns to the series in a different characterization. This time Buono is cast as Parnise Surigao, whose booming bootlegging operation is cutting into the profits of Read More

The Untouchables: Mr. Moon

Crew: Director

Synopsis: 23-year-old Victor Buono appears in one of his first starring assignments as Melanthos Moon, a brilliant counterfeiter who uses a Chinatown curio shop as a front. In order to flood the country with $100,000,000 in "funny money", Mr. Moon arranges to steal an enormous supply of government currency Read More

The Untouchables: Jigsaw

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Following the example of his sworn enemy Elliot Ness (Robert Stack), Frank Nitti sets up his own team of "Untouchables" to root out informers within his criminal organization. The man brought in to head this unit is Walter Traeger (James Gregory), former "counteresponiage" agent for Al Capone. Read More

The Untouchables: City Without a Name

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The "Eastern Seaboard" city referenced in the title of this episode remains unnamed, but all evidence suggests that the story takes place in (or at least near) Baltimore. The local civic leaders are proud of the fact that their city is completely free of crime, thanks to the efforts of a band of Read More

The Untouchables: Junk Man

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Victor Salazar (Pat Hingle) is a "junk man" in every sense of the word, using his scrap-metal business as a front to distribute illegal drugs. In his efforts to get the goods on Salazar, Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) gets into a fracas with the junk man's torpedo Barney Howell (Pat Hingle), unaware Read More

The Untouchables: Loophole

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jack Klugman guest stars as Morton Halas, an unethical but supremely successful criminal lawyer whose services are highly coveted by the Underworld. Now Halas has taken Big Mike Probitch (George Tobias) on as a client--and Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) determined to put Probitch away, no matter how Read More

The Untouchables: Stranglehold

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The price of fish in New York City has gone up nearly fifty percent, and it's all because of mobster Frank Makouris (Ricardo Montalban), who wields control over Fulton's Fish Market with an iron hand, killing and maiming his enemies in broad daylight. With Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) collaborating Read More

The Untouchables: Power Play

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) joins forces with Willard Thornton (Wendell Corey), newly appointed Special Crime Commissioner of Chicago, to ferret out the brains behind a huge criminal combine. What Ness doesn't know (but the audience does) is that Thornton himself is a member of the combine, in Read More

The Untouchables: The Genna Brothers

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The six Genna brothers have figured out a clever method to make and distribute illegal whiskey right under the noses of Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) and the Untouchables. The Gennas smuggle illegal immigrants into Chicago's Little Italy district, then force them to manufacture whiskey in their Read More

Gidget Goes Hawaiian

Crew: Director

Actors: James Darren, Michael Callan, Deborah Walley, Carl Reiner, Peggy Cass

Synopsis: This second film in the "Gidget" series stars Deborah Walley as Francie Lawrence, better known as Gidget. After being disappointed in love by surfin' dude Moondoggie (James Darren), Gidge joins her parents (Carl Reiner, Jeff Donnell) on a Hawaiian vacation. Complications ensue when Moondoggie Read More

Angel Baby

Crew: Director

Actors: George Hamilton, Mercedes McCambridge, Joan Blondell, Henry Jones, Burt Reynolds, Salome Jens

Synopsis: Based on Jenny Angel, a novel by Elise Oaks Barber, Angel Baby is a gloves-off study of the faith-healing racket. The title character, played by Salome Jens, is a mute whose speech is ostensibly restored by Bible-thumper George Hamilton. Angel Baby is then exploited on the evangelical circuit by Read More

Naked City: The Hot Minerva

Crew: Director

The Untouchables: Testimony of Evil

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) would love to nail mobster Brian O'Malley (David Brian) on tax-evasion and interstate-smuggling charges; unfortunately, O'Malley has an irksome habit of murdering anyone who can testify against him. Worse still, O'Malley obviously has a number of corrupt officials in his Read More

Because They're Young

Crew: Director

Actors: Dick Clark, Michael Callan, Victoria Shaw, Roberta Shore

Synopsis: This fast-paced, entertaining drama set in a high school is directed by Paul Wendkos who has a talent for turning teen-oriented movies into hits, as proven just before this release (his 1959 Gidget). The ever-young Dick Clark plays Neil, a new, dedicated history teacher who becomes involved with Read More

Battle of the Coral Sea

Crew: Director

Actors: Cliff Robertson, Gia Scala, Teru Shimada, Patricia Cutts, Gene Blakely

Synopsis: Although the actual battle of the Coral Sea does not begin this standard wartime drama, there is plenty of action and suspense as the preparation stage of the battle is carried out. A submarine captained by Jeff Conway (Cliff Robertson) successfully scouts the location of enemy installations Read More

Face of a Fugitive

Crew: Director

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Lin McCarthy, Dorothy Green, Alan Baxter, Myrna Fahey

Synopsis: Even with the guiding hand of talented action director Paul Wendkos, and good performances by the cast, this routine western unconvincingly tries to develop complex relationships in a 24-hour period. Mark Riley (Fred MacMurray) is in the middle of robbing a bank when his younger brother guns his Read More

Gidget

Crew: Director

Actors: Sandra Dee, Cliff Robertson, James Darren, Arthur O'Connell, Mary Laroche, Joby Baker

Synopsis: Teenager Francie Lawrence (Sandra Dee) is known to her surfing friends as "Gidget" or a "girl midget" (she is kinda on the short side). Unable to compete with the curvaceous bikinied lasses at the local beach, Gidget is assured by her understanding parents (Arthur O'Connell, Mary LaRoche) that Read More

Tarawa Beachhead

Crew: Director

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Julie Adams, Ray Danton, Karen Sharpe, Onslow Stevens

Synopsis: A soldier is expected to never question the actions of his commanding officer, but when a Marine sees his CO breaking the law, he finds himself facing a difficult dilemma in this provocative war drama. The trouble begins when the officer kills another soldier during a battle. The Marine who Read More

The Case Against Brooklyn

Crew: Director

Actors: Darren McGavin, Maggie Hayes, Warren Stevens, Peggy McCay, Tol Avery

Synopsis: Case Against Brooklyn was based on an "expose" article by Ed Reid. Darren McGavin plays rookie cop Pete Harris, who goes undercover to help smash a Brooklyn bookie ring. The problem here as that the crooks have been bribing other cops to look the other way. As if Harris wasn't courting enough Read More

The Burglar

Crew: Director

Actors: Dan Duryea, Jayne Mansfield, Martha Vickers, Peter Capell, Mickey Shaughnessy

Synopsis: Professional burglar Nat Harbin (Dan Duryea) and his two associates, Baylock (Peter Capell) and Dohmer (Mickey Shaughnessy), set their sights on wealthy spiritualist Sister Sarah (Phoebe Mackay), who has inherited a fortune -- including a renowned emerald necklace -- from a Philadelphia financier. Read More