Robert PicardoFilmography

Universal Signs

Actors: Margot Kidder, Robert Picardo, Sabrina Lloyd

P.J.

Actors: John Heard, Howard Nash, Vincent Pastore, Patricia Rae, Glynnis O'Connor

Synopsis: Retreating into himself after witnessing a tragic accident, a man who goes by the name P.J. (Howard Nash) is taken to a state-run hospital in Brooklyn, New York and placed under the care of the resident graveyard shift psychiatrist (John Heard). With the help of his assistant and his new patient's Read More

Universal Remote

Actors: Charlie Murphy

Synopsis: Chappelle's Show and The Boondocks star Charlie Murphy takes the lead for this comedy concerning two best friends sent hurtling through a politically incorrect television landscape thanks to a magical remote control that redefines the concept of interactive entertainment. Now, with each change of Read More

Masters of Horror: Homecoming

Actors: Jon Tenney

Synopsis: Director Joe Dante stirred up a great deal of interest in Showtime's Masters of Horror series with his bluntly anti-Operation Iraqi Freedom political satire, Homecoming, scripted by Sam Hamm. An unnamed president is running for reelection during a divisive war, and one of his speechwriters, David Read More

Shockwave

Actors: Joe Lando, Lisa Locicero, Josh Coxx, Michael Dorn, Robert Picardo

Synopsis: The wildly prolific cult exploitation director and Roger Corman vet Jim Wynorski (Big Bad Mama 2, Not of This Earth) returns to the thematic territory of his 1986 Chopping Mall with the direct-to-video sci-fi actioner Shockwave (2005). The premise concerns a series of top-grade, covert "Shock Read More

Justice League Unlimited: The Return

Actors: Robert Picardo, Clancy Brown, John C. McGinley, Nicholle Tom, Will Friedle

Synopsis: In this followup to the second-season episode "Tabula Rasa," Superman's perennial nemesis Lex Luthor returns, claming to have completely reformed. Willing to give their former foe the benefit of the doubt, the Justice Leaguers try to protect Luthor from the evil android AMAZO, who seems determined Read More

Justice League Unlimited: Wake the Dead

Actors: Scott Rummel, Oded Fehr, Gina Torres, Robert Picardo

Synopsis: A trio of nerdish students accidentally invoke a supernatural spell -- and presto! Familiar Justice League nemesis Solomon Grundy is revived from his "sleep of death." Going on a rampage, Grundy cannot be stopped by the Leaguers. Their only hopes lie in the only person who'd ever befriended the Read More

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin, Timothy Dalton, Heather Locklear, Joan Cusack

Synopsis: In a land where cartoon characters and flesh-and-blood people work side by side, one little black duck lands in a big pot of trouble in this comedy, which brings the beloved Looney Tunes characters into the real world. Daffy Duck (voice of Joe Alaskey) has grown tired of his status as Warner Read More

The Dead Zone: The Storm

Actors: John L. Adams, Nicole deBoer, Chris Bruno, Kristen Dalton

Synopsis: Still recovering from the death of a close friend, Johnny (Anthony Michael Hall) goes on a vacation with the Bannermans and Bruce (John L. Adams). Before long, Johnny experiences another of his disturbing psychic visions -- this one of a tornado that bids fair to be the storm of the century. Read More

The Lyon's Den [TV Series]

Actors: Rob Lowe, Matt Craven, Kyle Chandler, Frances Fisher, David Krumholtz

Synopsis: Having exited his role on The West Wing in a flurry of largely negative publicity, Rob Lowe quickly resurfaced as the star of the NBC legal drama The Lyon's Den. Lowe was cast as Jack Turner, an idealistic attorney who hoped to make a name for himself separate from that of his prestigious Read More

Hollywood Hospital

Actors: Robert Picardo, John Billingsley, Brannon Braga, Robin Cook

Synopsis: This cable TV special spotlights people who aren't doctors, but who play doctors on TV. Actors from General Hospital, Scrubs, and the various incarnations of Star Trek discuss their experiences as fictional members of the medical profession, noting the intense research necessary for such roles Read More

Justice League: Tabula Rasa, Part 1

Actors: Clancy Brown, Lisa Edelstein, Robert Picardo

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, perennial Superman foe Lex Luthor manages to escape incarceration, though his life-saving armor has been damaged in the process. Hoping to wreak vengeance against the Justice League, Luthor activates one of his many sinister creations: AMAZO, an android Read More

Justice League: Tabula Rasa, Part 2

Actors: Clancy Brown, Lisa Edelstein, Robert Picardo

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Lex Luthor continues his campaign of revenge against the Justice League with the help of the android AMAZO, which is capable of mirroring the likenesses and special skills of the League members. Once AMAZO takes on the powers of Superman -- albeit with an Read More

Justice League: The Savage Time, Part 3

Actors: Patrick Duffy, Phil Morris, Fred Dryer, Robert Picardo

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a three-part story, the Justice Leaguers, teamed with an alternate-reality Vandal Savage, have gone back in time to World War 2 in hopes of preventing the present from being horribly altered by despotic dictator Vandal Savage. Assisting the League in its efforts are such Read More

Justice League: The Savage Time, Part 2

Actors: Patrick Duffy, Phil Morris, Fred Dryer, Robert Picardo

Synopsis: In the second episode of a three-part story (originally telecast as a single "feature film"), the Justice Leaguers have gone back in time to World War 2, the better to prevent the despotic Vandal Savage from becoming ruler of the world in "The Present." In pursuit of this goal, the Green Lantern Read More

The Amati Girls

Actors: Mercedes Ruehl, Paul Sorvino, Cloris Leachman, Sean Young, Dinah Manoff

Synopsis: This family drama by actress and first-time director Anne DeSalvo centers around four adult sisters who are forced to re-evaluate their situations after tragedy strikes. The oldest of the clan, Grace (Mercedes Ruehl), is called upon to be the tower of strength, even though she is widely perceived Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Season 07

Actors: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips

Synopsis: The seventh and final season of Star Trek: Voyager opens with the resolution of the previous season's cliffhanger, in which the loyalties of Voyager crew member Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) perilously vacillate between Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and the evil Borg Queen (Susanna Thompson Read More

Frasier: Bully for Martin

Synopsis: Normally a man who does not back down from a confrontation, Martin (John Mahoney) just stands and takes it when his new boss Rich (M. Emmet Walsh) bullies him on the job. Sympathizing with his dad's frustration, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) decides to intervene -- the last thing in the world that Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Season 06

Actors: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan

Synopsis: The opening episode of Star Trek: Voyager's sixth season neatly resolves the cliffhanger set up at the end of season five -- and once the crew of the Voyager has rescued the ship's technology from the wrong hands, they resume their efforts to return to Starfleet Command in the Alpha Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Life Line

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Roxann Dawson

Synopsis: In this follow-up to the earlier episode "Pathfinder," Robert Picardo plays the dual role of the holographic Doctor and the Doctor's creator, Lewis Zimmerman. With the help of a transmitter rigged by Reginald Barclay (Dwight Schultz), the Doctor is transported to the Alpha Quandrant, in hopes of Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: One Small Step

Crew: Director

Actors: Roxann Dawson

Synopsis: In a huge rolling energy ball called the Graviton Ellipse, Janeway and the crew try to rescue a trapped U.S. spacecraft. Originally the vanguard of the first manned mission to Mars, the American vessel -- and its skipper, Lt. John Kelly (Phil Morris) -- has been in a state of suspended animation Read More

Ally McBeal: Love's Illusions

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi

Star Trek: Voyager: Season 05

Actors: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan

Synopsis: As the crew of the Voyager eagerly looks forward to their imminent return to their home base in the Alpha Quadrant, the fifth-season opener of Star Trek: Voyager finds the ship's captain, Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), in seclusion, grimly questioning her past judgments of command. As it Read More

Small Soldiers

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Gregory Smith, Jay Mohr, Phil Hartman, Kevin Dunn

Synopsis: Joe Dante directed this satirical action-comedy about talking tech toys accidentally juiced-up with military microchips. After the defense industry firm Globotech takes over a small toy company, Heartland Play Systems' CEO Gil Mars (Denis Leary) gives the green light to develop a new line of Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Season 04

Actors: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan

Synopsis: With the cliffhanger finale of Star Trek: Voyager's third season efficiently resolved in the opening salvo of season four, the crew of the Voyager finds itself with a new member: Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan), an earthling who in childhood had been assimilated into a Borg collective, forsaking Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Season 03

Actors: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang

Synopsis: Season three of Star Trek: Voyager begins with the titular space vessel still in the hands of the enemy Kazon, and Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and most of her crew still stranded on Hanon IV, a desolate planet that closely resembles a prehistoric Earth. Eventually extricating themselves from Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Doctor Bashir, I Presume?

Synopsis: Dr. Bashir is selected as the model for Starfleet's holographic doctor program. As part of the process, program head Dr. Zimmerman (Robert Picardo) must learn everything about Bashir, warts and all. In the course of his investigation, Zimmerman uncovers a dark family secret that threatens to ruin Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Alter Ego

Crew: Director

Actors: Roxann Dawson

Synopsis: In this episode of the popular sci-fi series Star Trek: Voyager, Ensign Kim (Garrett Wang) makes a surprising confession to Tuvok (Tim Russ) -- he's fallen in love with someone on board the U.S.S. Voyager. However, the apple of Kim's eye isn't the sort of person cut out for a long-term Read More

Menno's Mind

Actors: Bill Campbell, Corbin Bernsen

Synopsis: In this sci-fi thriller a computer expert's mind is enhanced by that of a slain revolutionary. The trouble comes when the rebel's mind sets him off on a vendetta against a prominent, corrupt politician. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Star Trek: First Contact

Actors: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Synopsis: The first "Trek" film to feature the cast of the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series without any of the members of the original series, this action-packed hit was well received at the box office. The Federation comes under attack by its ongoing enemy, the Borg, a cybernetics-enhanced race Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Season 02

Actors: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang

Synopsis: Season two of Star Trek: Voyager opens on a hopeful note, as Voyager captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) comes upon evidence that she is close to escaping the void of the Gamma Quadrant and returning herself and her crew to Starfleet Command in the Alpha Quadrant. But alas! This hope is Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: The Swarm

Synopsis: Two crises threaten the safety of the Starship Enterprise in this episode from the sci-fi series Star Trek: Voyager. While Paris (Robert Duncan) and Torres (Roxann Biggs-Dawson) are on a routine mission the shuttle, they're ambushed by a group of mysterious aliens who travel in large swarms, and Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Season 01

Actors: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang

Synopsis: While tracking down a group of Maquis terrorists, the crew of the starship Voyager is caught in a freak plasma storm and hurtled some 75,000 light years from Starfleet Command -- and thus begins the first episode, and the seven-season saga, of Star Trek: Voyager. Upon realizing her plight Read More

ER: Days Like This

Synopsis: Greene's (Anthony Edwards) miserable personal life continues to spill over into his professional one. Ultimately, he risks dismissal by admitting a patient (Michael Galeota) for observation against the orders of Pediatrics chief Dr. Neil Bernstein (David Spielberg). Meanwhile, Ross (George Read More

White Mile

Actors: Alan Alda, Peter Gallagher, Robert Loggia, Bruce Altman, Dakin Matthews

Synopsis: When a company-sponsored white-water rafting expedition turns into a nightmare, an advertising executive finds himself faced with a moral dilemma and an extremely guilty conscience. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Pagemaster

Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Ed Begley, Jr., Mel Harris, Patrick Stewart

Synopsis: A young boy overcomes his obsessive fears by discovering a love for books in this animated fantasy adventure. In a live action wraparound, Macaulay Culkin stars as Richard Tyler, an easily bullied, nervous wreck of a kid who's an expert on safety statistics. His mother and father (Mel Harris and Ed Begley, Jr. Read More

Revenge of the Nerds 4: Nerds in Love

Actors: Curtis Armstrong

Synopsis: The silly spirit of Revenge of the Nerds lives on in this made-for-television sequel. Curtis Armstrong returns as Booger, and this time around the nerds are gathering for his wedding to a wealthy upper-class girl. As the nerds plan a wild bachelor party, the girl's father is busy hiring an Read More

Wagons East!

Actors: John Candy, Richard Lewis, John C. McGinley, Ellen Greene, Robert Picardo

Synopsis: Comedian John Candy, who died during the making of this poorly received comic western, plays James Harlow, a 19th century wagon master who is heading back east with a wagon train full of oddball characters who have had their fill of Western life. They include ex-doctor Phil Taylor (Richard Lewis) Read More

Runaway Daughters

Actors: Paul Rudd, Julie Bowen, Dee Wallace, Jenny Lewis, Holly Fields

Synopsis: Some teen girls take to the road in this made-for-cable remake of the 1956 original. Set in 1957, three guy-crazy friends take to the road in a stolen car, trying to track down one of their ex-lovers before he goes off into the Navy. The film is part of Showtime's "Rebel Highways" series of Read More

Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald

Actors: Helena Bonham Carter, Frank Whaley, Robert Picardo, Bill Bolender, Brandon Smith

Synopsis: In this drama, the wife of alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald offers her viewpoint on the day of the deadly shooting of President John F. Kennedy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Matinee

Actors: John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz, Lisa Jakub

Synopsis: John Goodman's full-throttle performance as a William Castle-inspired schlockmeister propels Joe Dante's delightful and charming comedy Matinee. The film takes place during the fall 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, a time when America's innocence began to crumble. Goodman plays film producer Lawrence Read More

Samantha

Actors: Martha Plimpton, Dermot Mulroney, Hector Elizondo, Mary Kay Place, Ione Skye

Synopsis: When an adopted 21-year-old finds that she was adopted, she forsakes her adopted parents and goes on a crazed hunt to discover her real parents. When at last she finds them, she is disappointed to discover that they are very empty and shallow people; her adoptive parents earn a new respect in her Read More

Deadly Matrimony

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Lisa Eilbacher, Treat Williams, Embeth Davidtz, John M. Jackson

Synopsis: Brian Dennehy makes one of his many TV-movie appearances as Chicago homicide cop John Reed in the two-part Deadly Matrimony. Reed's quarry this time is mob lawyer Treat Williams, who murders his wife and then effectively covers his tracks. The closer Reed comes to the truth, the more he's in Read More

A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this is the case of Carolyn Warmus, a teacher from Westchester County who was convicted of the murder of her lover's wife. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Motorama

Actors: Martha Quinn, Jordan Christopher Michael, John Diehl, Mary Woronov, Garrett Morris, Drew Barrymore, Meat Loaf, Flea

Synopsis: This black comedy offers a rather twisted version of the classic road movie, as it tells the story of a ten-year-old boy who is determined to win the "Motorama" road game, a promotional effort by a major gas station that promises winners 500 million dollars. In order to win, one simply has to Read More

She Says She's Innocent

Actors: Katey Sagal, David Lascher, Charlotte Ross

Synopsis: She Says She's Innocent stars off as a standard "legal issue of the week" TV movie. Katey Sagal refuses to believe that her daughter Charlotte Ross is guilty as charged of murder. Usually this is a cue for a feature-length fight against the legal system: Not so here. Instead, Sagal spends the last Read More

Frame Up

Synopsis: A young mens' hazing turns to murder in this crime drama set in a small town run by a powerful businessman. The victim was beaten to death with a monogrammed baseball bat, and later the head-killer tried to make it seem as if the young man was run down by the car of Frank Govers, a traveling Read More

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Actors: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Robert Picardo

Synopsis: Where the original Gremlins was a horror film spiked with comedy, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is essentially a black comedy, with a couple of horrifying touches. As the film starts, the fantastical trinket shop in Chinatown, which sold the Mogwai in the first film, is demolished by a crazed Read More

Total Recall

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: In Paul Verhoeven's wild sci-fi action movie Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a 21st-century construction worker who discovers that his entire memory of the past derives from a memory chip implanted in his brain. Schwarzenegger learns that he's actually a secret agent who had become a Read More

Loverboy

Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Kate Jackson, Robert Ginty, Nancy Valen, Barbara Carrera, Kirstie Alley, Carrie Fisher

Synopsis: Joan Micklin Silver's farce stars Patrick Dempsey as a pizza delivery boy who begins satisfying the romantic needs of a group of bored Beverly Hills housewives. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

976-Evil

Actors: Stephen Geoffreys, Jim Metzler, Patrick O'Bryan, Maria Rubell, Sandy Dennis

Synopsis: This underrated teen-revenge horror film starring Stephen Geoffreys (Fright Night) was the directorial debut of Robert Englund, best known as Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street series. Geoffreys plays Hoax, a picked-on nerd who lives with his religious-nut mother Lucy (the marvelous Sandy Dennis Read More

The 'Burbs

Actors: Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, Corey Feldman

Synopsis: Ward and June Cleaver have nothing on suburban couple Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher. Together with their perfect son, Hanks and Fisher are so clean that they squeak. Thus, when new neighbors Henry Gibson, Brother Theodore and Courtney Gains begin evincing bizarre behavior, Hanks is slightly put out. Fisher Read More

The Cover Girl and the Cop

Actors: Julia Duffy

Synopsis: Julia Duffy is the cover girl and Dinah Manoff the cop in this made-for-TV contrivance. When dim-witted model Duffy witnesses a murder, short-fused officer Manhoff is assigned to protect her. Would you be shocked if we informed you that the ladies drive each other crazy? But never fear: they Read More

Dead Heat

Actors: Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Lindsay Frost, Darren McGavin, Vincent Price

Synopsis: Although many genre filmmakers have managed to blend horror and humor with great success, movies employing this formula often run the risk of both elements canceling each other out, resulting in a horror comedy that is neither scary nor funny. Alas, Dead Heat is a textbook example of this kind of Read More

China Beach [TV Series]

Actors: Dana Delany, Marg Helgenberger, Concetta Tomei

Synopsis: China Beach was the second and more successful of two Vietnam-era TV dramas of 1987-88 (the other was Tour of Duty). Set at a Da Nang r-and-r center in 1967, China Beach recounts the era as seen through eyes of several women who served. The distaff stars are Dana Delany (the nurse), Nacy Giles Read More

Amazon Women on the Moon

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Ralph Bellamy, Carrie Fisher, Griffin Dunne, Steve Guttenberg

Synopsis: The 1987 portmanteau comedy feature Amazon Women on the Moon lampoons several film genres in general and the 1954 sci-fi cheapie Cat Women of the Moon in particular. Other sketches in Amazon Women include an opening bit with Arsenio Hall; a vignette titled "Son of the Invisible Man" wherein a Read More

Innerspace

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, Fiona Lewis

Synopsis: Director Joe Dante infuses this science fiction comedy with the visual razzle-dazzle and manic, goofball performances typical of his cartoon-inspired sensibilities. Navy test pilot Lt. Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) has volunteered for a highly dangerous medical experiment. A submersible craft Read More

Munchies

Actors: Harvey Korman, Charles Stratton, Nadine Van Der Velde, Alix Elias, Charlie Phillips

Synopsis: While on a dig in Peru, a shady archaeologist uncovers a strange creature, which he dubs a "Munchie." He brings the animal home, but it begins to mutate and procreate--with disastrous results--soon after a con artist kidnaps it. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Roses Are for the Rich

Synopsis: In this drama, the daughter of an Appalachian miner is determined to get revenge against the cruel mine owner who destroyed her family with his greed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film, actually a television pilot inspired by Nicolas Roeg's provocative 1976 film, chronicles the exploits of an alien marooned on Earth. All he wants is to go back to his dying planet. He is hindered by military forces determined to find him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Jack's Back

Actors: James Spader, Cynthia Gibb, Roi Loomis, Rex Ryon, Robert Picardo

Synopsis: The "Jack" who's "back" in this contemporary chiller is none other than Jack the Ripper. The scene is Los Angeles: the time is August of 1988, exactly 100 years after the Ripper's original reign of terror in Whitechapel. When several LA prostitutes turn up murdered and disemboweled, young Read More

Bates Motel

Actors: Bud Cort, Jason Bateman, Moses Gunn

Synopsis: This busted TV pilot film is set in the sinister family-operated motel made infamous by Hitchcock's Psycho. Former mental patient Bud Cort inherits the motel from its cross-dressing owner Norman Bates (played in Psycho by Anthony Perkins, who wisely passed up this TV film). With the help of Read More

Back to School

Actors: Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Keith Gordon, Robert Downey, Jr., M. Emmet Walsh

Synopsis: Self-made wealthy guy Rodney Dangerfield decides he needs a better education--and also to spend some time away from his cheating new wife. Dangerfield joins his son Keith Gordon at college. Dad hopes to gain his son's respect (isn't that always Dangerfield's motivation?), while son tries to fit in Read More

Legend

Actors: Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, David Bennent, Alice Playten

Synopsis: This beautifully staged and costumed fantasy is about young Jack (Tom Cruise) and his lady love Princess Lili (Mia Sara), and how Jack battles Darkness (Tim Curry) to save both the Princess and the world. When the peasant Jack takes Princess Lili to see the unicorns, the strongest animals around Read More

Explorers

Actors: Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson, Amanda Peterson, Dick Miller

Synopsis: Explorers turns out to be much ado about nothing, but it's so sublimely assembled we're willing to overlook the sappy climax. Young sci-fi geek Ben Crandall (Ethan Hawke) (could he possibly be based on director Joe Dante?) would give anything to travel in space. Thanks to his computer-happy pal Read More

Alice: Vera, the Horse Thief

Synopsis: While attending a circus, Vera (Beth Howland) is enchanted by a miniature performing horse. She is also shocked to discover that the horse is being maltreated by its abusive trainer. This explains why Vera has smuggled the horse into the diner--and why the authorities are hot on her hoofs. The Read More

Alice: Undercover Mel

Synopsis: Vera's police-officer husband Elliot (Charles Levin) would love to nab the rustlers who've been stealing cattle in the vicinity, but he hasn't got the evidence. Turning to Mel (Vic Tayback), Elliot suggests that the diner owner go undercover to help trap the criminals. Motivated less by civic Read More

Oh, God! You Devil

Actors: George Burns, Ted Wass, Ron Silver, Roxanne Hart, Eugene Roche

Synopsis: In the third and final film in the Oh, God! franchise, Bobby Shelton (Ted Wass) is a struggling musician who can't get a break, which bothers him all the more now that his wife, Wendy (Roxanne Hart), is about to have a baby. Desperate and depressed, Bobby announces that he'd sell his soul to get Read More

Alice: Vera's Wedding

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Vera (Beth Howland) has decided to marry Elliot (Charles Levin), the cop who gave her a jaywalking ticket. That is, she decides to marry him, then doesn't. Then she does...then she doesn't...then she does...and then the episode runs out of both time and Read More

Alice: Vera Gets Engaged

Synopsis: Charles Levin makes his debut appearance as traffic cop Elliot Novak in this, the first episode of a two-part story. Officer Novak is introduced to the diner gang when he tickets Vera (Beth Howland) for jaywalking. As for Vera, she is not at all dismayed over that ticket; in fact, she's fallen in Read More

Star 80

Actors: Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Carroll Baker, Roger Rees

Synopsis: Director Bob Fosse's fact-based tale of Playboy centerfold Dorothy Stratten's short life and gruesome death focuses less on Stratten (played by Mariel Hemingway) than on her husband/manager, sleazoid pornographer and all-around failure Paul Snider (Eric Roberts, ideally cast). He sees the young Read More

Alice: 'Tis the Season to Be Jealous

Synopsis: Vera (Beth Howland) must relinquish her new policeman husband Elliot (Charles Levin) for a few hours during the Holidays when he goes undercover as a department store Santa. Unfortunately, the disguised Elliot spots Vera locking lips with her ex-fiance Steve (Kip Niven), and it looks like it'll be Read More

The Other Woman

Actors: Hal Linden, Anne Meara, Madolyn Smith

Synopsis: Directed by seasoned comedy man Melville Shavelson, The Other Woman is a "menage a trois" TV movie with a twist. The stars are middle-aged Anne Meara and Hal Linden, and youngish Madolyn Smith. The twist? Linden, a book publisher, is married to half-his-age Smith, a fashion designer. It is Anne Meara Read More

Get Crazy

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Daniel Stern, Gail Edwards, Miles Chapin

Synopsis: Director Allan Arkush knew whereof he spoke in Get Crazy. A longtime employee of Fillmore East, a popular rock-concert locale of the 1960s and 1970s, Arkush brought a great deal of insider's savvy to this comedy about the concert circuit and its denizens. Malcolm McDowell stars as a Mick Read More

Alice: Tommy, the Jailbird

Synopsis: College freshman Tommy (Philip McKeon) is now living away from home for the first time--and loving it. Alice (Linda Lavin) worries that Tommy is turning into a party animal, at the expense of his studies. Ultimately, Alice's fears are confirmed when Tommy lands in jail after a pizza-parlor food Read More

Alice: Vera, the Torch

Synopsis: When her crabby landlady evicts her pets, an outraged Vera (Beth Howland) predicts dire consequence for the old woman. Shortly thereafter, the landlady's apartment catches fire, and Vera thinks that she is somehow responsible. Unfortunately, so do the police! This is the first of several episodes Read More

Dixie Changing Habits

Synopsis: In this crime comedy, Dixie's life changes completely after the prostitution ring she runs is raided. She too is arrested and ends up sentenced to spend time in a convent. Though she is there to learn, she ends up teaching the Mother Superior and the others a thing or two about running a Read More

Alice: Vera's Reunion Romance

Synopsis: Vera (Beth Howland) attends her high school reunion, where she meets her former flame Steve (Kip Niven). Those with good memories will recall that this is the same Steve who, a few episodes back, talked Vera into cashing a personal check--which promptly bounced. Apparently Vera's memory isn't Read More

The Howling

Actors: Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone, Belinda Balaski

Synopsis: This groundbreaking, darkly-comic horror film from director Joe Dante changed the look and feel of werewolf movies in ways light-years distant from Universal's horror classic The Wolf Man. The story begins with television reporter/anchor Karen White (Dee Wallace) taking part in a dangerous police Read More

The Dream Merchants

Actors: Vincent Gardenia, Robert Goulet, Mark Harmon

Synopsis: Old-time Hollywood director Vincent Sherman brings a glossy studio-bound look to The Dream Merchants, a two-part, four-hour adaptation of Harold Robbins' novel. The story follows the career of a pioneer filmmaker (Mark Harmon), who comes to Hollywood in the early 20th century with a pocketful of Read More

Taxi: Nardo Loses Her Marbles

Actors: Tom Ewell, Mary Woronov, Robert Picardo, William Callaway

Synopsis: Stressed out from juggling her job as a cabbie with her responsibilities as a single mother and her burgeoning art-curator career, poor Elaine (Marilu Henner) finally snaps during a major art-gallery event. Reliable old Alex (Judd Hirsch) offers to drive Elaine home and help her calm down -- a Read More

Kojak: Kojak's Days, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Kojak (Telly Savalas) is all set to spend a romantic day off with his current lady love Laura Martinson (Maud Adams). Alas, the detective is persistently interrupted by the demands of his job. For starters, a stolen Rolls Royce is recovered with a corpse Read More

Kojak: Kojak's Days, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, any hopes of Kojak (Telly Savalas) enjoying a day off are dashed when a dead body is found in the trunk of a white Rolls Royce. Now the overworked detective must tear Manhattan apart in search of a woman (Kitty Winn) who has killed her husband, abandoned her Read More