Stephen J. Cannell Filmography

The Poker House

Crew: Producer

Actors: Selma Blair, Jennifer Lawrence, Bokeem Woodbine, David Alan Grier, Sophia Bairley

Synopsis: Actress-turned-director Lori Petty makes her feature directorial debut with this period drama set in 1976 and exploring a typical day in the life of a decidedly atypical teen named Agnes. Some folks have the luxury of living each day to the fullest, but for Agnes every day is a grueling struggle Read More

Left in Darkness

Crew: Producer

Actors: Monica Keena, David Anders, Tim Thomerson, Chris Engen

Synopsis: A life forged in tragedy leads to an afterlife filled with darkness as a young girl journeys through purgatory in search of salvation in director Stephen J. Cannell's supernatural tale of terror. Celia (Monica Keena)'s mother died during childbirth, and her father disappeared shortly thereafter. Read More

The Tooth Fairy

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: As maestro TV producer Stephen J. Cannell's latest foray into feature work, The Tooth Fairy represents the latest direct-to-video entry in an unofficial series of slasher films that resurrect friendly characters in a horrific vein -- from the 1997 Jack Frost to the 2005 Gingerdead Man. This Read More

Demon Hunter

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sean Patrick Flanery, Colleen Porch, Tania Deighton, William H. Bassett, Billy Drago

Synopsis: A demon has come to Earth to force possessed women to bear its children, and it's up to a half-human/half-demon hybrid to save the human race in Earth vs. the Spider director Scott Ziehl's dark tale of satanic terror. As possession sweeps the land and the population of the planet lies helpless to Read More

It Waits

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Imagine being trapped inside a forest ranger station with your loved ones - and praying for your life as a fearsome, carnivorous creature lurks outside, waiting to clean up. This is the fate that befalls the young Danielle St. Claire (Cerina Vincent) and her boyfriend, Justin(Dominic Zamprogna) Read More

The Garden

Crew: Producer

Actors: Claudia Christian, Lance Henriksen, Brian Wimmer, Sean Young, Adam Taylor Gordon

Synopsis: When a recently released mental patient and his recovering alcoholic father are forced to reside at a remote ranch, the nightmares that haunt the trouble boy's sleep soon begin bleeding into his waking hours in a terrifying journey into the unknown starring Lance Henriksen, Brian Wimmer, and Sean Young Read More

Threshold

Actors: Nicholas Lea, Jamie Luner, Steve Bacic, Teryl Rothery, David Lipper

Synopsis: Evidently inspired by the 1958 theatrical feature It! The Terror From Beyond Space (which, of course, was also the basis for the 1979 thriller Alien), this made-for-cable melodrama begins as the crew of the space shuttle Oklahoma returns to earth after a routine mission. Unbeknownst to Read More

Hunter: Back in Force

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The second made-for-TV "reunion" of the stars of the long-running NBC cop drama Hunter (1984-1990), Hunter: Back in Force was, like its predecessor (Hunter: Return to Justice), set in San Diego. Newly reactivated police detective Rick Hunter (Fred Dryer) and his recently widowed partner, Dee Dee Read More

Half Past Dead

Actors: Steven Seagal, Morris Chestnut, Ja Rule, Nia Peeples, Tony Plana, Bruce Weitz

Synopsis: Action hero Steven Seagal goes behind bars -- though don't worry, he isn't really a bad guy -- in this action thriller. Sascha Petrosevitch (Seagal) is an FBI agent working undercover to infiltrate a gangland kingpin's operations. While Petrosevitch is able to gain the trust of one of the Read More

Hunter: Return to Justice

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Hunter: Return to Justice is the second made-for-TV movie based on the popular cop series Hunter, which originally ran from 1984 to 1991. Fred Dryer returns to the role of LAPD detective Rick Hunter, whom, as we soon discover, may be older but is no mellower. In fact, the film begins with a burst Read More

Dawg

Crew: Producer

Actors: Denis Leary, Elizabeth Hurley

Synopsis: Doug "Dawg" Munford (Denis Leary) has had his way with the ladies since he was a boy. He's seduced and abandoned them. After losing his job due to one of his indiscreet assignations, Dawg has to attend his grandmother's funeral. He shows up late, and immediately begins hitting on a young woman Read More

The Contract

Actors: Camilla Overbye Roos, Jeff Fahey, Andrew Keegan, Amy Weber

Synopsis: A woman blowing off steam after a bad day inadvertently signs out a death warrant on a number of people close to her in this suspense drama. Anna (Camilla Overbye Roos) has not been having a good time of it lately: she's been chewed out by her boss, she's had an argument with her best friend, her Read More

The Rockford Files: If It Bleeds... It Leads

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: James Garner is reunited with several of his fellow cast members from the Rockford Files series in this made-for-TV sequel. It all begins when schoolteacher Ernie Landale (Hal Holbrook), the husband of private eye Jim Rockford's ex-prostitute friend Rita Kapkovic (Rita Moreno), is accused of child Read More

CHiPs '99

Actors: Larry Wilcox, Erik Estrada, Robert Pine, Paul Korver, David Ramsey

Synopsis: One of the quintessential family shows of the late '70s, CHiPs featured two handsome California Highway Patrolmen: Jon, the blonde uptight one, and Ponch, the free-wheeling Latin Lover. Prowling the L.A. freeways for wrong doers and the inattentive, the duo rode cool bikes, witnessed many Read More

Them

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the 1954 giant-insect film of the same name, the made-for-TV Them is more closely akin to the late-1960s television series The Invaders--and in fact, was produced as the pilot for an unsold sci-fi series of the 1990s. In order to save their own dying race, a band of aliens Read More

Posse

Actors: Mario Van Peebles, Stephen Baldwin, Charles Lane, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr., Big Daddy Kane

Synopsis: Writer, director, and star Mario Van Peebles tried to correct historical misconceptions about African-Americans on the frontier with this action-packed western that's also an homage to spaghetti Westerns. During the Spanish-American War, a squadron of black soldiers led by Jesse Lee (Van Peebles) Read More

Renegade [TV Series]

Crew: Show Creator

Actors: Lorenzo Lamas

The Commish [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Based on the life and career of Tony Schembri, police chief of Rye, NY, the weekly, hour-long ABC crime series The Commish starred Michael Chiklis as Tony Scali, police commissioner of the fictional New York community of Eastbridge. Although dedicated to his job and extremely tough on Read More

Silk Stalkings [TV Series]

Crew: Show Creator

Synopsis: Created by Stephen J. Cannell, the weekly, hour-long police drama Silk Stalkings dealt with unusual and frequently kinky crimes of passion amongst the wealthy elite of Palm Beach, FL. During the series' nine-season run, three different "dog and cat" teams of undercover cops pieced together the Read More

Hunter: Season 07

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Fred Dryer, Charles Hallahan

Synopsis: Several significant changes are wrought upon the long-running cop drama Hunter during its seventh and final season. Having spent six years in the LAPD's homicide division, Rick Hunter (Fred Dryer) is promoted to the department's new, elite Metro Division, a group designed to give special attention Read More

Identity Crisis

Actors: Mario Van Peebles, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Shelley Burch, Richard Fancy, Nicholas Kepros

Synopsis: This hip-hop comedy stars Mario Van Peebles as rapper Chilly D, who becomes possessed by the spirit of outrageous fashion designer Yves Malmaison (Richard Fancy). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Rousters

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Chad Everett, Hoyt Axton, Jim Varney

Synopsis: Originally shot as a television series pilot, the made-for-television Rousters is about Wyatt Earp's great-grandson (Chad Everett) who is a bouncer for Captain Jack Slade's carnival in Sladetown. The carnival is upset when a rascal named Clayton drops by, looking to cause some trouble. ~ Stephen Read More

Hunter: Season 06

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Fred Dryer, Stephanie Kramer, Charles Hallahan

Synopsis: Season Six of the cop drama Hunter gets under way with "On Air", with LAPD detective Rick Hunter (Fred Dryer) and Dee Dee McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) protecting a radio talk host (guest star Erin Gray from a homicidal fan. Hunter and McCall's mercurial superior officer Captain Devane (Charles Read More

Hunter: Season 05

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Fred Dryer, Stephanie Kramer, Charles Hallahan

Synopsis: Now executive-produced by George Geiger, who this year replaces the veteran Roy Huggins, the fifth season of the NBC cop drama Hunter opens with the episode "Heir of Neglect", in which LAPD homicide detectives Rick Hunter (Fred Dryer) and Dee Dee McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) come to the aid of a Read More

Hunter: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Fred Dryer, Stephanie Kramer, Charles Hallahan

Synopsis: Season Four of the cop drama Hunter brings back Fred Dryer as unorthodox LAPD homicide cop Rick Hunter, Stepfanie Kramer as his partner (and, it is hinted, his lover) Dee Dee McCall, and Charles Hallahan--promoted to star billing this year--as their bombastic superior Captain Devane. Among the Read More

Hunter: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Fred Dryer, Stephanie Kramer, Charles Hallahan

Synopsis: Season Three of the cop drama Hunter begins with "Overnight Sensation", in which Captain Wyler, longtime superior and chief antagonist of unorthodox LAPD homicide cops Rick Hunter (Fred Dryer) and Dee Dee McCall (Stepfanie Kramer), is promoted out of the department, to be replaced by Captain Read More

The A-Team: Cowboy George

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Acting as talent scout for the Floorem, a tough country-western bar in Dry Creek, Arizona, Face (Dirk Benedict) books what he thinks he is a C&W singer named Cowboy George. Imagine Face's shock and awe when he discovers that he's engaged the services of androgynous rock star Boy George, who shows Read More

Charley Hannah

Synopsis: In this drama a veteran cop takes in a problematic adolescent who might have seen several policemen murdered. The old cop sees his action as a way of regaining his self-respect. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Magnum, P.I.: A.A.P.I.

Synopsis: French detective Claude Fornier (Paul Verdier), whose exploits have inspired several of Robin Masters' novels, is murdered just after presenting Magnum (Tom Selleck) with the "PI of the Year" award. Though anxious to solve Fornier's murder, Magnum finds that he'll have to wait in line as every Read More

The A-Team: Dishpan Man

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The fifth and final season of The A-Team opens with a three-part story, as an injured Hannibal (George Peppard) is captured by the mysterious General Hunt Stockwell (Robert Vaughn). Threatening to put Hannibal on trial for his life if his demands aren't met, Stockwell orders the A-Team to rescue a Read More

The A-Team: Waiting for Insane Wayne

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The A-Team is mistaken for a group of vicious mercenaries, with Murdock (Dwight Schultz) being incorrectly identified as the notorious "Insane" Wayne (Jesse Vint). Hired by evil rancher Kincaid (Barry Corbin) to force young Bobby Sherman (Moosie Dryer) off his oil-rich land, the Team instead Read More

The A-Team: The Big Squeeze

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In order to bring loan shark Jack "The Ripper" Lane (Wings Hauser) out in the open, the A-Team opens its own Irish pub, The Naked Lady. Disguised as pub owner Sean O'Shay, Hannibal (George Peppard) is apparently killed on orders from Lane, but it's actually a clever ploy to get inside the head Read More

Brothers-In-Law

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this Stephen Cannell-produced pilot for a potential TV detective series, Mac Davis plays an ex-highway patrolman and Joseph Cortese an ex-trucker, related by marriage. Their wives were twin sisters--were, because in addition to all the other "ex" qualifications in their lives, Davis and Cortese Read More

The A-Team: Mind Games

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Face (Dirk Benedict) unexpectedly receives a pardon after "evidence" surfaces proving him innocent of the Vietnam bank robbery which landed the A-Team in prison. Hannibal (George Peppard) is convinced that there is something fishy about the pardon--especially since he knows darn well that Face was Read More

The A-Team: The Road to Hope

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Heavily disguised for a new assignment, Hannibal (George Peppard) is mistaken for a skid-row wino named Jim Beam (Elisha Cook Jr.)--and vice versa. It soon becomes obvious that someone is trying to murder Beam. . .but why? To solve this mystery, and to rescue Hannibal in the process, the A-Team Read More

The A-Team: Where is the Monster When You Need Him?

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: While playing the monster in the low-budget horror flick "Gatorella", Hannibal (George Peppard) scouts around for appropriate South American locations on behalf of his producer friend Jerry Isaacson (Michael Lerner). With the help of fellow A-Teamer Face (Dirk Benedict)--who is promised a leading Read More

Stingray

Crew: Executive Producer, Teleplay By

Actors: Nick Mancuso

Synopsis: Created by Stephen J. Cannell, the made-for-TV Stingray combines choice elements from such past successes as Knight Rider, The Lone Ranger, and (stylistically, at least) Miami Vice. Nick Mancuso stars as the title character, a mysterious good samaritan who has apparently named himself after his Read More

Hunter: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Fred Dryer, Stephanie Kramer, Bruce Davison

Synopsis: Having played to dismal ratings during its first season, the NBC cop drama Hunter increased its viewership dramatically during Season Two, thanks to several corporate and creative decisions. To begin with, the network removed the series from its "suicide" slot opposite CBS' Dallas and into a Read More

Hunter: The Hot Grounder

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Police Commissioner Larry Crenshaw (William Windom) is the primary suspect when his wife Connie (Rosemary Thomas) is murdered. This places Hunter (Fred Dryer) and McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) in a ticklish situation: they are ordered to investigate the one man who most desires to see them thrown off Read More

Hunter: Hard Contract

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) takes a sudden leave of absence to prevent her former partner, embittered renegade cop Gus Trancus (David Ackroyd), from fulfilling a contract as a professional hit man. Owing her life to Trancus, McCall hopes that she can stop him before he completely ruins his life--but Read More

The A-Team: The Bend in the River

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour "special"), Barry Van Dyke plays Brian Leftcourt, archaeologist boyfriend of journalist Tawnia Baker (Marla Heasley). When Brian disappears during an expedition through the Brazilian rain forest, Tawnia persuades Read More

The A-Team: The Bells of St. Mary's

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The "Bells" are an all-female singing group who once attended St. Mary's Orphanage with Face (Dirk Benedict; in fact, the lead singer is Face's sister. When the girls are threatened with violence by their former record label unless they sign a binding contract, the A-Team steps in to help out. Read More

Hunter: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Fred Dryer, Stephanie Kramer, James Whitmore, Jr.

Synopsis: The long-running NBC cop drama Hunter got under way in September of 1984 with the two-hour pilot, in which tough-as-nails LAPD homicide detective Rick Hunter (Fred Dryer) is teamed with the beautiful but equally hard-nosed Detective Sgt. Dee Dee McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) to trap a mad killer. Also Read More

The A-Team: The Taxicab Wars

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The A-Team comes to the rescue of the independent LoneStar cab company, which is being driven out of business by the monolithic Love Cab firm. The villains, led by Crane (Michael Ironside) and Ryder (Brion James), are of course using their own taxis for various illegal purposes. Before the Read More

The A-Team: Recipe for Heavy Bread

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Congregating at a French restaurant, the A-Team is reunited with Lin Duk Coo (Mako), formerly the cook at the Vietnamese POW camp where they'd been imprisoned during the war. Naturally, Lin is in desperate need of the team's help, thanks to the villainous machinations of the prison camp's sadistic Read More

The A-Team [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Synopsis: Making its first appearance as a two-hour TV movie on January 23, 1983, the weekly, hour-long NBC series The A-Team was one of several tongue-in-cheek adventure programs produced by Stephen J. Cannell. George Peppard starred as Col. John "Hannibal" Smith, cigar-chomping leader of a team of Read More

The A-Team: Mexican Slayride

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Originally telecast as a two-hour movie TV movie, the two-part A-Team pilot episode begins as Amy Allen (Melinda Culea), intrepid girl reporter for the "Los Angeles Courier", conducts an investigation to find out if the notorious A-Team, a group of Vietnam vets who'd been unjustly imprisoned after Read More

The A-Team: Pros and Cons

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: B.A. (Mr. T) persuades his fellow A-Teamers to help him rescue his pal from Strikersville, a brutal Florida prison farm where sadistic warden (Clifton James) forces the inmates to participate in to-the-death boxing matches--then orders his deputies to hunt down and kill the "winner" like an Read More

The A-Team: Children of Jamestown

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The A-Team is hired by a distraught father to rescue his daughter from a fanatical religious community. No sooner have Hannibal (George Peppard), B.A. (Mr. T) and Face (Dirk Benedict) caught up with the girl than they are kidnapped themselves. At this point, the cult's crazed leader Martin James Read More

The A-Team: West Coast Turnaround

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The A-Team shows up in rural California, where ruthless landowner Chuck Easterland (Stuart Whitman) is trying to drive Penhall Produce Farms out of business. Championing the cause of Joe Penhall (Robert Sampson) and his daughter Ellen (Devon Ericson), the team volunteers their services to deliver Read More

The Greatest American Hero [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Nightside

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Action star Doug McClure plays for light humor in Nightside. This turned out to be a wise move on McClure's part, because it's next to impossible to take this made-for-TV cop drama seriously. McClure and Michael Cornelison portray two graveyard-shift L.A. patrolmen who must deal with various Read More

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Ben Vereen

Synopsis: Tenspeed and Brown Shoe was a "cult" comedy adventure series created by Stephen J. Cannell, which ran from January to June of 1980. Ben Vereen played E. L. "Tenspeed" Turner, a silver tongued African-American con artist. Jeff Goldblum costarred as staid stockbroker Lionel Whitney, whom Tenspeed Read More

Stone

Crew: Executive Producer, Teleplay By

Synopsis: Dennis Weaver plays Daniel Stone, a Joe Wambaugh-style LA cop turned novelist. The pressures of his new career cause a rift between Stone and his superior officer Pat Hingle, and also puts additional barriers between Stone and his estranged wife Mariette Hartley. The fact that Stone's partner Roy Thinnes Read More

The Rockford Files: The Return of the Black Shadow

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: An angry John Cooper (Bo Hopkins) decides to take the law in his own hands when his pal Jim (James Garner) is beaten and his sister Gail (Laurie Jefferson) is raped by members of the Rattlers motorcycle gang. Harking back to his own leather-jacket days as a member of the Vincent Black Shadow gang Read More

The Rockford Files: Paradise Cove

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Season Six of The Rockford Files begins as Jim Rockford (James Garner) faces permanent expulsion from the community of Paradise Cove as the result of a damage suit instigated by vindictive neighbor C.C. Calloway (Leif Erickson). Court-appointed receiver Althea Morgan (Mariette Hartley) shows up at Read More

The Rockford Files: Season 06

Crew: Supervising Producer

Actors: James Garner, Noah Beery, Jr., Joe Santos, Stuart Margolin, Bo Hopkins

Synopsis: Season six of The Rockford Files marks the return of James Garner as wryly humorous ex-con turned private eye Jim Rockford -- but not for long. Weary of the role, fed up by constant quarrelling with the production staff over story values and working conditions, and racked with pain from a variety Read More

The Rockford Files: Nice Guys Finish Dead

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: It's a veritable Old Home Week on The Rockford Files, with return visits from Jim's fellow P.I. Vern St. Cloud (Simon Oakland), nerdish detective-wannabe Freddie Beamer (James Whitmore Jr.), and last but not least, the impossibly handsome and insufferably lucky private detective Lance White (Tom Read More

The Rockford Files: The Hawaiian Headache

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: When Rocky (Noah Beery Jr.) wins a free trip to Hawaii, Jim (James Garner) tags along, only to cross the path of his former Army commander John "Howling Mad" Smith (Ken Swofford). Before Jim quite knows what has happened, Smith has gotten him involved in a CIA operation designed to break up a spy Read More

The Night Rider

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this adventure, set in old New Orleans, a dashing man disguises himself with a mask and cape so that he can get revenge on those that murdered his family. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Gypsy Warriors

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Selleck, James Whitmore, Jr., Joseph Ruskin, Lina Raymond, Michael Lane, Ted Gehring

Synopsis: American soldiers (Tom Selleck and James Whitmore Jr.) must travel behind enemy lines to procure the formula for a deadly Nazi toxin in this World War II adventure. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Rockford Files: The House on Willis Avenue, Part 2

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Jim Rockford (James Garner) and rookie private eye Richie Brockelman (Dennis Dugan) continue to investigate the suspicious death of their mutual mentor Joe Tooley. When the trail of clues leads to crooked computer-company CEO Garth McGregor (Jackie Cooper) Read More

The Rockford Files: The House on Willis Avenue, Part 1

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In the first half of a two-part story, Jim (James Garner) investigates the mysterious death of his mentor Joe Tooley (Paul Fix) on the Ventura Freeway. Assisting Jim--in a manner of speaking--is greenhorn detective Richie Brockelman (Dennis Dugan), who likewise suspects that Tooley's demise was no Read More

The Rockford Files: White on White and Nearly Perfect

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Future Magnum,P.I. star Tom Selleck makes his first Rockford Files appearance in the role of the dazzlingly handsome and insufferably successful private eye Lance White. Reluctantly teamed with Lance, Jim tackles the case of Veronica Teasdale (Karen Austin), the allegedly kidnapped daughter of a Read More

The Rockford Files: Heartaches of a Fool

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In the opening episode of The Rockford Files' fifth season, Jim Rockford (James Garner) wants to know why his dad Rocky (Noah Beery Jr.), temporarily employed as a delivery driver, was forced off the road and his cargo--consisting of breakfast sausages--was hijacked. The main culprit would seem to Read More

The Rockford Files: The Prisoner of Rosemont Hall

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Jim heads to Rosemont College to investigate the disappearance of student Paul Douglas, the son of an old friend. At the same time, two middle-eastern types draw a bead on Jim and begin questioning him about the whereabouts of an Iranian prince. The key to the mystery lies somewhere within the Read More

The Rockford Files: The Attractive Nuisance

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Rocky (Noah Beery Jr.) decides to open up a roadside restaurant with a chance acquaintance named Vinnie Whithead (Ken Lynch). From the outset of this enterprise, Rocky can't help but notice that an elderly man is watching every move he and Vinnie make. . .and no sooner has the restaurant opened Read More

The Rockford Files: The Empty Frame

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The redoubtable Angel (Stuart Margolin) is prepared to take full advantage of the fact that his brother-in-law Aaron Kiel (Milt Kogan) becomes the new police commissioner. Assigned to provide security for Kiel's welcoming party, Lt. Chapman (James Luisi) is none too thrilled that he may have to Read More

The Rockford Files: Dwarf in a Helium Hat

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Jim (James Garner) picks up his phone and hears a threat against his life: the caller, it turns out, has dialed the wrong number. The intended recipient of the threat is self-absorbed social climber Jay Rockfelt (John Pleshette), who in his eagerness to make an impression on the world has Read More

The Rockford Files: The Paper Palace

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Rita Moreno makes her first series appearance as freewheeling prostitute Rita Capkovic, who is one of Dennis Becker's most reliable (but least welcome!) street informants. When Rita is attacked by a couple of shady French-speaking characters, she hires Jim (James Garner) to find out who is trying Read More

The Rockford Files: Season 05

Crew: Supervising Producer

Actors: James Garner, Noah Beery, Jr., Joe Santos, Stuart Margolin, Bo Hopkins

Synopsis: James Garner is back as Jim Rockford, an ex-con turned private eye with a penchant for righting old wrongs (and a predilection for getting beaten up by those who don't want those wrongs righted) in season five of The Rockford Files. Also returning are Noah Beery Jr. as Jim's dad Rocky, Joe Santos