Richard Roat Filmography

Seinfeld: The Package

Synopsis: Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) goes to great lengths to peek at her diagnosis after visiting a doctor about a rash. Refusing delivery of a package with no return address, Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) is faced with a charge of mail fraud -- and worse still, a "basic instinct" moment with Newman (Wayne Knight Read More

Murphy Brown: A Rat's Tale

Synopsis: The "FYI" studio is moved to a ground-floor office, the better to accommodate a new weekly feature called "Window on America." As it turns out, the show's first guest is a rat that has invaded the studio. Plucky Murphy (Candice Bergen) catches the rat in full view of a crowd of Read More

Heart and Souls

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Charles Grodin, Alfre Woodard, Kyra Sedgwick, Tom Sizemore

Synopsis: Director Ron Underwood follows up his crowd-pleasing hit City Slickers (1991) with this likable, feel-good comedy drama about a selfish businessman who discovers that he's permanently being followed by a group of ghosts. In 1959, a bus accident links the spirits of four fatally injured passengers Read More

Mad About You: Sofa's Choice

Synopsis: It's high time for the newly married Buchmans to make their first major purchase together, which is why Jamie (Helen Hunt) insists that Paul (Paul Reiser) go along with her when she picks out a couch. Confused by the myriad of choices (tea-dipped Irish linen or antique?), and by the very thought Read More

Dynasty: The Reunion

Actors: Joan Collins, Linda Evans, John Forsythe

Synopsis: When the two-part Dynasty: The Reunion first aired, it rated a cover on TV Guide. The photo depicted Dynasty regulars Linda Evans (Krystal) and Joan Collins (Alexis) grinning at one another, while their true feelings were conveyed in comic-strip thought balloons reading "Hussy" and "Hag." This Read More

Sins of the Mother

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dale Midkiff, Talia Balsam, Heather Fairfield

Synopsis: The bizarre relationship between an overbearing mother and her son, a convicted rapist, forms the basis of this dark drama based on a novel by Jack Olsen, which is in turn based on a true story. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Marilyn and Me

Actors: Joel Grey, Susan Griffiths, Terry Moore

Synopsis: With Marilyn Monroe permanently unavailable for comment, everybody and his uncle has come out of the woodwork since 1962 claiming an intimate relationship with the legendary film star (how did she ever find the time to be a film star?) Marilyn and Me is based on the reminiscences of one Robert Read More

I'll Take Romance

Actors: Linda Evans, Tom Skerritt, DeLane Matthews, Larry Poindexter, Heather Tom, Kenneth Mars, Michael McGrady, Alan Blumenfeld

Synopsis: I'll Take Romance has nothing to do with the old Grace Moore musical film of the same name. Rather, this 1990 TV movie is about a publicity contest. Dressed in Joan Crawford Chic, Linda Evans plays a Seattle TV meteorologist, assigned to host a contest to find the most romantic man in Puget Sound. Evans Read More

Parker Kane

Actors: Jeff Fahey

Synopsis: Most TV movie reference books have given up mentioning the hundreds of unsold pilots that dot the video landscape. Parker Kane, originally telecast in 1990 and then rerun in 1992, is one of those orphans that has fallen through the research cracks. It's possible the film is due for a revival Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Deck the Halls

Synopsis: Will (Will Smith) tries to bring a touch of the old 'hood to Bel-Air on the occasion of his first Christmas with the Banks family. Unfortunately, our hero's garish Yuletide decorations (including lights so bright they can be seen from the freeway!) incurs the wrath of each and every one of the Read More

Night Court: The Blues of the Birth

Synopsis: In this final episode of Night Court's seventh season, pregnant public defender Christine (Markie Post) suddenly goes into labor. This being a 1990s sitcom, it is virtually a requirement that her labor pains must occur at the least opportune moment and under the direst circumstances. In this Read More

Murder by Numbers

Actors: Sam Behrens, Shari Belafonte

Synopsis: When a wealthy homosexual man (Wlad Cembrowicz) turns up missing, his sister (Debra Sandlund) convinces her ex-husband (Sam Behrens) to investigate the legion of suspects. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Night Court: Educating Rhoda

Synopsis: Denny Dillon makes her first appearance as klutzy bailiff trainee Rhoda Wasserman. Smitten by Rhoda, Bull (Richard Moll) is willing to overlook her incompetence until she loses her gun to a dangerously disturbed defendant named Valerie Sanders (Nana Visitor). Things get worse when an unwitting Dan Read More

Growing Pains: A Reason to Live

Synopsis: A troubled student named Jill (Kellie Overbey) volunteers to work on a school project with Mike (Kirk Cameron) and Boner (Josh Andrew Koenig). This, however, is a subterfuge: Jill has been contemplating suicide due to some very serious problems at home, and she hopes to get some free counseling Read More

ALF: Some Enchanted Evening

Synopsis: A squirrelly ALF decides to make his presence known to the neighborhood by crashing the Tanners' Halloween party. Fortunately, everyone is in costume, so ALF is assumed to be one of the guests, dressed up in an alien outfit. Although ALF is the hit of the evening, Willie (Max Wright) worries that Read More

Cheers: The Executive's Executioner

Synopsis: Norm (George Wendt) lands a job as a corporate hatchet man, whose task it is to fire "dead weight." Because of his unique dismissal methods, Norm soon becomes a celebrity -- and a pariah at Cheers. Meanwhile, Cliff (John Ratzenberger) goes head to head with a contentious new neighbor. This was the Read More

Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home!

Actors: Paul Michael Glaser, Dee Wallace

Synopsis: When his wife becomes the new family breadwinner, a football coach must learn the ins and outs of child care and housecleaning. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Take Your Best Shot

Actors: Robert Urich

Synopsis: Actor Robert Urich cannot find work in Hollywood and his marriage is falling apart in this fictitious comedy. Can he turn his life around? Richard Levinson and William Link teams up again for made-for-TV Take Your Best Shot. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Fun and Games

Synopsis: In Fun and Games, a professional career woman is harassed by her boss, who then rejects her for promotion. The woman then sues her boss for sexual harassment ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

And Baby Makes Six

Actors: Colleen Dewhurst, Timothy Hutton

Synopsis: Middle-aged Colleen Dewhurst shocks her family-and herself-when she announces she is pregnant. Partly out of concern for her health, and partly out of selfishness, the family argues over whether or not she should go to term. Husband Pat Hingle is indecisive until he witness the baby's development Read More

Backstairs at the White House

Actors: Leslie Uggams, Olivia Cole, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Hooks, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling memoirs of Lillian Rogers Parks, the NBC miniseries Backstairs at the White House traces over five decades of American political history as witnessed from the vantage point of the servants' quarters. Played by Tania Johnson as a teenager and by Leslie Uggams as an adult, Lillian Rogers Parks Read More

American Hot Wax

Actors: Tim McIntire, Fran Drescher, Jay Leno, Laraine Newman, Carl Earl Weaver

Synopsis: This lively musical comedy pays tribute to the birth of rock & roll in the late 1950s and the instrumental role played by disc jockey Alan Freed who helped bring the new sound into vogue. Much of the story centers on the daring deejay's attempts to put on the very first live rock & roll stage show Read More

Kojak: Chain of Custody

Synopsis: Kojak (Telly Savalas) vows to avenge the death of his friend, a garment manufacturer who is killed when he stands up to the Mob. After the killer escapes police custody, Kojak makes a public statement, blaming a shady district attorney for the blunder. As a result, the detective is suspended from Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: You're Fired, Mr. Chips

Synopsis: Hoping to lighten his workload, Bob interviews several candidates for the job of his assistant. When his efforts fail to yield fruit (most of the candidates, alas, are unable to diagnose a hangnail, much less a neurosis), Bob turns to his former college professor, Alan Dreesen (guest star Ralph Bellamy Read More

Westworld

Actors: Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, Alan Oppenheimer, Victoria Shaw

Synopsis: Welcome to Westworld, where nothing can go wrong...go wrong...go wrong....Writer/director Michael Crichton has concocted a futuristic "Disneyland for adults", a remote resort island where, for a hefty fee, one can indulge in one's wildest fantasies. Businessmen James Brolin and Richard Benjamin Read More

Family Flight

Synopsis: The family in "flight" is played by Rod Taylor, Dina Merrill and Kristoffer Tabori. While taking an airborne vacation to Mexico, the family crash-lands somewhere in the Baja peninsula. Having taken the vacation as a means to patch up a variety of differences, the family is forced to pull together Read More

The F.B.I.: The Break-Up

Synopsis: Donna Mills guest stars as Bernice Rawson, a small-time crook with big-time aspirations. Latching onto an ex-convict who wants to go straight, Bernice talks him into pulling off one last heist--a jewelry robbery that is all but guaranteed to bring down the full wrath of the FBI. In the original TV Read More

Deadly Harvest

Actors: Murray Hamilton

Synopsis: Richard Boone stars as Anton Solca, an Iron Curtain defector living contentedly in California's Napa Valley. Now a successful wine grower, Solca finds himself targetted by a mysterious assailant. Someone from his East European past wants him dead, and by mid-film we find out why. Patty Duke Read More

All My Darling Daughters

Actors: Sharon Gless, Robert Young

Synopsis: Robert Young stars as Judge Charles Raleigh in the made-for-television All My Darling Daughters. The Judge happens to have four daughters, played by Darleen Carr, Judy Strangis, Sharon Gless, and Fawne Harriman (what did all the detective shows and sitcoms do for ingenues while these four ladies Read More

Columbo: Ransom for a Dead Man

Actors: Peter Falk, Lee Grant

Synopsis: Peter Falk revived his Lieutenant Columbo characterization, first seen in 1967's Prescription: Murder, for the made-for-TV Ransom for a Dead Man. Lee Grant plays a wily lawyer who murders her husband, then arranges to make it appear that he's been kidnapped. The plan is to allow the body to be Read More

The F.B.I.: Eye of the Needle

Synopsis: Generally cast as a villain in such series as the F.B.I., Richard Kiley is herein seen as the victim. Kidnapped by three homicidal extortionists, pediatrician Herbert Barth (Kiley) manages to break free and escapes into the wilderness. The rest of the episode is a variation on the old "Most Read More

The F.B.I.: A Life in the Balance

Synopsis: A young James Caan heads the guest cast in this episode, wherein the heir to a plastics fortune is kidnapped. Investigating, the FBI finds blood stains at the suspected abduction site, but their labs are unable to determine whose blood it is. In order to solve this mystery--and by extension, save Read More