Ted Gehring Filmography

Murphy's Romance

Actors: Sally Field, James Garner, Brian Kerwin, Corey Haim, Dennis Burkley, Georgann Johnson

Synopsis: Newly divorced Emma Moriarty (Sally Field) moves herself and her young son to a small Arizona town, hoping to establish a horse farm. Town pharmacist Murphy Jones (James Garner), the town's most eligible bachelor, develops a platonic friendship with Emma, but he decides to keep his distance when Read More

Hunter: A Long Way From L.A.

Synopsis: Assigned custody of a squirrely pickpocket (Paul Eiding), Rick Hunter (Fred Dryer) and DeeDee McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) are forced to temporarily stash their prisoner in a small town jail presided over by Sheriff Jake Cutter (Bo Svenson). Neither detective had counted upon the presence of a Read More

Highway to Heaven: Highway to Heaven, Part 1

Synopsis: Having gone to his Heavenly reward in 1948, lawyer Arthur Morton is "reborn" in 1987 as Jonathan Smith (Michael Landon), a probationary angel who in order to earn his wings must return to Earth and offer help and support to unfortunate mortals. In this debut episode of Highway to Heaven, Jonathan Read More

Highway to Heaven: Highway to Heaven, Part 2

Synopsis: Originally broadcast as a two-hour TV movie, this opening episode of Highway to Heaven has since been divided into two one-hour installments for syndication. In part two, probationary angel Jonathan Smith (Michael Landon), adopting the guise of an earthly handyman, continues in his efforts to Read More

Magnum, P.I.: By Its Cover

Synopsis: Stuart Margolin guest-stars "Hot" Rod Crysler, an old Naval Academy buddy of Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck). A hard-luck case if there ever was one, Crysler has only recently been released from prison, and is scratching out an existence as a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman. Unfortunately, corrupt Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: A Baby for the Dukes

Synopsis: In an episode reminiscent of Smokey and the Bandit, young widowed mother Mary Lou Tomkins --played by Janeen Best, daughter of series regular James Best (Sheriff Roscoe)--hides her baby in the General Lee. It is now up to Bo (John Schneider) and Luke (Tom Wopat) to prevent the child from falling Read More

The A-Team: Black Day at Bad Rock

Synopsis: In Black Rock, California, a seriously wounded B.A. (Mr. T) is tended to by Dr. Maggie Sullivan (Tricia O'Neil), who suspects that her patient is a member of a biker gang that is poised to raid the town and release its leader from prison. As a result, Black Rock's sheriff Hank Thompson (Ed Lauter) Read More

Alice: Jolene Hunnicutt, Dynamite Trucker

Synopsis: Robert Carnegie returns as Burt, former trucking partner of waitress Jolene (Celia Weston). Realizing that the worn-out Burt is on the verge of collapse, Alice (Linda Lavin) and Vera (Beth Howland) volunteer to help Jolene haul her former partner's rig on an important delivery to a mining town. Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Sleeping Dogs

Synopsis: After literally getting away with murder, sadistic small-town bully Harry Moeller (Brion James) is himself shot to death. Six of Moeller's longtime victims step forward and confesses to the crime, which each man claiming to have taken one shot at the man with the same gun. With no way to determine Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Smoke Screen

Synopsis: When several people are killed in a hotel blaze, the authorities pin the blame on a known pyromaniac. But after a careful forensic examination, Quincy (Jack Klugman) is convinced that the wrong man is behind bars. To help prove this theory, Quincy persuades his old pal, insurance investigator Jake Read More

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning, Jim Nabors

Synopsis: In this filmization of the hit Broadway musical, a popular brothel is threatened with a shutdown by Texas authorities. Burt Reynolds plays the Sheriff, while Dolly Parton portrays the Chicken Ranch madam. While this film has its moments, it never reaches the entertainment heights of its stage Read More

Alice: Bet a Million, Mel!

Synopsis: In the opening episode of Alice's sixth season, diner owner Mel (Vic Tayback) once again allows his judgment to be clouded by his mania for gambling. Specifically, Mel plans to make a 90-to-1 bet on a horse race, using $10,000 borrowed against his diner. To save Mel from himself--and to save their Read More

Alice: The Great Escape

Synopsis: Celia Weston joins the cast as Jolene Hunnicutt, a tough-talking female trucker. During a stopover at Mel's Diner, Jolene escapes her rapacious male driving partner by hiding in the ladies' room--at which point her partner leaves her stranded. With no other recourse, Jolene accepts a job as Mel's Read More

Alice: The Jerry Reed Fish Story

Synopsis: Country singer Jerry Reed makes a return appearance to Mel's diner in this episode. At the invitation of Mel (Vic Tayback), Jerry deposits a large fish that he has caught in the restaurant refrigerator until he has time to get it stuffed and mounted. But Alice (Linda Lavin) and the girls don't Read More

Alice: Vera Goes Out On a Limb

Synopsis: Nature-loving Vera (Beth Howland) is outraged when the local Parks Department decides to cut down a 100-year-old tree in the front of the diner. Protesting this move, Vera chains herself to the tree and refuses to budge when the chainsaws and bulldozers arive. Ultimately, however, there is a Read More

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

Actors: Klinton Spilsbury, Michael Horse, Christopher Lloyd, Matt Clark, Juanin Clay, Jason Robards, Jr.

Synopsis: In this latter-day big-screen revival, the masked man (Klinton Spilsbury) and Tonto (Michael Horse) attempt to stop an assassin from murdering President Ulysses S. Grant. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Alice: Flo's Farewell

Synopsis: Polly Holliday makes her final regular Alice appearance in this episode, designed as a lead-in for the actress' new spinoff series Flo (which debuted exactly one month later, on March 24, 1980). When a wealthy Houston restauranteur offers Flo a terrific new job, the "Kiss Mah Grits" girl bids Read More

Alice: Auld Acquaintances Should Be Forgot

Synopsis: Eddie Barth guest stars as "Rocky" Rockwell, an old buddy of diner owner Mel (Vic Tayback). Paying Mel and extended visit, Rocky arrives bearing news that his wife Mildred (Reva Rose) has walked out on him. Naturally, this places Mel in an awkward position--which gets akwarder and akwarder as the Read More

Alice: Vera, the Vamp

Synopsis: The up-and-down romance between Vera (Beth Howland) and Brian (Alan Haufrect) has taken yet another downward swing. Though Vera is still eager and willing, Brian seems to have lost all interest in her. Desperately, Vera turns to the enticing Belle (Diane Ladd) to transform her into an object of Read More

Alice: For Whom the Belle Tolls

Synopsis: Diane Ladd makes her Alice debut in this episode as Belle Dupree, the waitress hired by Mel to replace the departed Flo (ironically, Ms. Ladd had created the role of Flo in the series' feature-film prototype Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore). The Mississippi-born Belle had worked for Mel in the Read More

Alice: Vera's Aunt Agatha

Synopsis: Mildred Natwick guest stars as Agatha, the elderly, freewheeling aunt of waitress Vera (Beth Howland). While motorcycling her way to Mexico, Aunt Agatha makes a stopover at Mel's Diner. The old lady's footloose-and-fancy-free outlook on life prompts Vera to experience an epiphany--and to join Read More

Alice: The New Improved Mel

Synopsis: Paying his respects at the funeral of an old acquaintance, Mel (Vic Tayback) is taken aback by the realization that he is virtually the only mourner in attendance. Worried that the same thing will happen when he himself cashes in his chips, Mel figures it's about time to change his ways. Thus, the Read More

Alice: One Too Many Girls

Synopsis: Mel (Vic Tayback) couldn't be happier to have his favorite waitress Belle (Diane Ladd) working for him again. Alice (Linda Lavin) and Vera (Beth Howland) aren't quite so happy: In fact, they're getting REALLY ticked off by Belle's irritatingly "helpful" suggestions as to how they can improve their Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Baa, Baa, White Sheep

Synopsis: Sorrell Booke plays a dual role as the flamboyantly larcenous Boss Hogg and Boss' scrupulously honest and virtuous twin brother Abe. Arriving in Hazzard County after a long absence, Abe Hogg hopes to claim some valuable land willed to him by his aunt--only to find out that Boss has declared Abe Read More

The Waltons: The Last Straw

Synopsis: Already having great difficulty meeting his business deadlines, John Walton (Ralph Waite) is further stymied by a total breakdown of equipment at the lumberyard. Accordingly, John himself "breaks down"and announces his retirement, celebrating his new-found freedom in the company of his friend Ike Read More

When Time Ran Out

Actors: Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Edward Albert, Red Buttons

Synopsis: After producer Irwin Allen highlighted the dangers of fire in the Towering Inferno and the dangers of water in the Poseidon Adventure, he is back to fire again but this time it is within the earth, at least for awhile. This fairly routine disaster film is set on a resort island with a volcano that Read More

Alice: Alice Beats the Clock

Synopsis: To improve the efficiency of his staff--and to discourage their chronic lateness--Mel (Vic Tayback) installs a timeclock. Alice (Linda Lavin) and the other waitresses respond by demanding to be paid overtime for their Sunday cleanup, which they previously did for free. Mel refuses, sparking a Read More

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again

Actors: Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Ruth Buzzi, Tim Matheson, Kenneth Mars, Elyssa Davalos

Synopsis: Tim Conway and Don Knotts, mere supporting characters in the original Apple Dumpling Gang, are promoted to starring roles in the 1979 sequel The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again. Once more cast as clumsy, soft-hearted western outlaws, Conway and Knotts come to the rescue of cavalry private Tim Matheson Read More

Alice: Mel, the Magi

Synopsis: The classic O. Henry yarn "The Gift of the Magi" is given the Alice treatment in this Christmas episode. With the Holidays approaching, everybody at Mel's Diner wants to buy everyone else an expensive present. Unfortunately, there isn't enough money to go around, resulting in some surprising Read More

Alice: Carrie Sharples Strikes Again

Synopsis: Martha Raye returns as Mel's overbearing mother Carrie Sharples. With Mel (Vic Tayback) laid up by another bad injury, Carrie insists upon helping out in the diner's kitchen. This "can it get any worse?" situation soon does get worse--and how!--when it turns out that Carrie's chicken pies are Read More

Alice: Flo's Chili Reception

Synopsis: Richard B. Schull appears as Barney of Barney's Burger Barn, the much-maligned (but hitherto unseen) chief competitor of Mel's Diner. Barney glides into Mel's and sweeps Flo (Polly Holliday) off her feet, declaring his undying love. But Mel (Vic Tayback) smells a rat: His chili has just been named Read More

Jennifer: A Woman's Story

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery

Synopsis: Apparently weary of playing victim-of-the-week, Elizabeth Montgomery goes the Joan Crawford route playing a fabulously wealthy and stupendously bored matron who is about to be divorced by her wealthy husband. Hubby conveniently expires while dallying with his mistress. The upshot is that Ms. Read More

On the Air Live with Captain Midnight

Synopsis: In this low-budget adventure a teen-aged dweeb becomes a success when he starts up a subversive rolling radio station and plays music banned by the FCC. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Are You in the House Alone?

Synopsis: This is an average made-for-TV thriller about a high-school student (Kathleen Beller) with a psychotic secret admirer. The usual stalking and false scares pad the 96 minutes between commercials, until Beller finally confronts her assailant. On a positive note, there is a good supporting cast, with Blythe Danner Read More

Battlestar Galactica: The Long Patrol

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: When a long-range recon mission in a new, computer-equipped Viper goes awry, Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) is captured and shipped off to a forgotten prison planet. Starbuck's fellow inmates are all descendants of the planet's original criminal population, condemned to a lifetime of blind obedience to Read More

M*A*S*H: None Like It Hot

Synopsis: A hellish Korean hot spell has everyone at the 4077th sweltering. Resourceful Klinger (Jamie Farr) tries to exploit the blistering weather by claiming to be crazy with the heat, thereby (hopefully) securing himself a Section 8. Meanwhile, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and B.J. (Mike Farrell) attempt to hide Read More

The Gypsy Warriors

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 Streets of San Francisco: Monkey is Back

Synopsis: Several adult members of the same high-school graduating class have turned up dead, killed by an assailant who wields a zip gun and leaves the word "Monkey" scrawled at each crime scene. The viewer is soon apprised of the fact that the murderer is one Charley Belasco (Gary Lockwood), fresh out of Read More

Gray Lady Down

Actors: Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty, Stephen McHattie

Synopsis: When the nuclear submarine he captains is rammed by a freighter while surfacing in Atlantic waters just off the coast of Rhode Island, Navy Captain Paul Blanchard (Charlton Heston) is able to radio for help. However, his sub's condition calls for urgent attention. Downed in extremely deep water Read More

Emergency!: The Boat

Synopsis: Richard Bakalyan returns as Charlie, Squad 51's trouble-prone mechanic. The paramedics decides to purchase a boat from Charlie, intendig to sail it on their days off and rent it to others when they're on duty. Of course, things don't quite go as planned, thanks to a wide variety of emergency Read More

The Domino Principle

Actors: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark, Mickey Rooney, Edward Albert

Synopsis: Stanley Kramer directed this paranoid thriller involving a murderer who is inexplicably released from prison by a mysterious organization. Gene Hackman is Roy Tucker, serving time in San Quentin when he's busted out by a secret organization in return for having to assassinate an unnamed person. Read More

The Rockford Files: The Battle of Canoga Park

Synopsis: Not long after Jim (James Garner) hides his .38 in a cookie jar, he is charged with murder when the weapon is used in a gas station holdup. Can the pilfering of the pistol have anything to do with Viola Wenke (Nora Marlowe), the new cleaning lady that Rocky (Noah Beery Jr.) talked Jim into hiring? Read More

Nickelodeon

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, Tatum O'Neal, Brian Keith, Stella Stevens

Synopsis: Peter Bogdanovich's early career as a film writer stood him in good stead for this comedy drama about the early days of the motion-picture industry, based in part on his interviews with pioneering directors Raoul Walsh and Allan Dwan. Leo Harrigan (Ryan O'Neal) is a lawyer and Buck Greenway (Burt Reynolds Read More

Little House on the Prairie: For My Lady

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Mariette Hartley guest stars as the Widow Thurman, for whom Charles (Michael Landon) does some carpentry work. As previously agreed upon, the widow pays Charles with a set of expensive china, intended as a surprise gift for Charles' wife, Caroline (Karen Grassle). In order to keep the surprise Read More

Captains and the Kings

Synopsis: One of four dramatic miniseries carried by NBC under the blanket title Best Sellers, Captains and the Kings was adapted from a novel by Taylor Caldwell. Covering a time span from 1857 to 1912, this was the saga of the Irish-immigrant Armagh clan, with emphasis on the rags-to-riches career of Read More

Emergency!: The Tycoons

Synopsis: While conducting an inspection of a ramshackle fast-food stand, John (Randolph Mantooth) takes a liking to the establishment's delicious chili dogs--so much so that he talks everyone at the station (except Roy [Kevin Tighe]) into setting up "Station 51 Enterprises" in order to market the tasty Read More

The Rockford Files: So Help Me God

Synopsis: This episode is a sobering lesson in civil liberties--or rather, the lack of those liberties when an innocent citizen is brought before a Federal Grand Jury. Much to his dismay, Jim Rockford (James Garner) is repeatedly subpoenaed and harrassed by zealous Federal prosecutor Gary Bevins (William Read More

Emergency!: Computer Terror

Synopsis: A computer error on John's paycheck results in his receiving several thousand dollars that he doesn't deserves. Dutifully, John (Randolph Mantooth) tries to report the error and return the extra cash, only to run up against the brick wall of departmental bureaucracy and butt-covering. This week's Read More

Bound for Glory

Actors: David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, John Lehne

Synopsis: Adapted by Robert Getchell from Woody Guthrie's autobiography, Hal Ashby's biopic portrays a few pivotal years in the life of the celebrated folk singer and social activist. In the Depression 1930s, Midwesterner Guthrie (David Carradine) plays music locally but cannot make enough as a sign painter Read More

The Rockford Files: Gearjammers, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Jim (James Garner) wants to find out why his dad Rocky (Noah Beery Jr.) is being harrassed by hoodlums. It turns out that Rocky has inadvertently eavesdropped on a hijacking scheme involving his friend Johnny LoSalvo (Ted Gehring). The title of this Read More

Emergency!: Communications

Synopsis: Airline stewardess Diane Kenner (Barbara George) o.d.'s on sleeping pills but refuses treatment from the Squad 51 paramedics. In other emergencies, a man is pinned under a car, a teenager's arm is trapped in a pressing machine, and two wild drivers--and their car--somehow end up on the roof of a Read More

Mackintosh and T.J.

Actors: Roy Rogers, Clay O'Brien, Billy Green Bush, Andrew Robinson, Joan Hackett

Synopsis: After sixteen years of cinematic retirement, Roy Rogers made a surprise return before the cameras in Mackintosh & T. J. Rogers plays Mackintosh, an ageing, tale-spinning ranch hand who befriends T.J., a sullen young boy (Clay O'Brien). The film is low-key, like Rogers himself, and Rogers' faithful Read More

Farewell, My Lovely

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles, Jack O'Halloran

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1942 as The Falcon Takes Over and in 1944 as Murder, My Sweet, Raymond Chandler's Farewell My Lovely was given its third cinematic go-round under its original title in 1975. Spouting the Chandlerish prose as if it were second nature, Robert Mitchum stars as 1940s private eye Read More

The Hindenburg

Actors: George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young

Synopsis: "The German Air Force is not at all what it used to be," says Anne Bancroft's Countess, about 16 minutes into The Hindenburg, pausing and then adding, "But then, nothing is these days." That seems to sum up the ponderous, irony-laden script and plot of Robert Wise's movie, which is posited -- in Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Money Crop

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: The farmers of Walnut Grove place their faith -- and their future -- in the hands of Joseph Coulter (Alan Fudge), a college-educated agronomist. Coulter has told the farmers of a new hybrid that would yield rich crops, and he has been sent to Minneapolis, with a large sum of cash, to purchase Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Ebenezer Sprague

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Ted Gehring makes his first series appearance as Ebenezer Sprague, Walnut Grove's hard-hearted, tight-fisted banker. Although Charles (Michael Landon) was instrumental in setting up the town's bank, he finds that Sprague is hardly amenable to extending a loan to the Ingalls family. When Charles' Read More

Who Is the Black Dahlia?

Actors: Lucie Arnaz, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Ronny Cox, MacDonald Carey, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: The still-unsolved Black Dahlia murder case, fictionalized in the 1981 theatrical feature True Confessions, is handled on a more factual level in this made-for-TV movie. Lucie Arnaz plays Elizabeth Short, an aspiring starlet of questionable morals, who in 1947 was murdered by person or persons Read More

The Parallax View

Actors: Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Paula Prentiss, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: While the Watergate scandal filled the headlines, Alan J. Pakula's 1974 thriller took its inspiration from the conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination. Journalist Joe Frady (Warren Beatty) misses witnessing the assassination of a senator at Seattle's Space Needle, but his Read More

Ironside: Trial of Terror

Synopsis: Everett Ward (Andrew Duggan), longtime accountant for drug-dealing businessman Mike Martine (Harold J. Stone), decides to step forward and testify against his boss after witnessing a murder. Unfortunately, Ward's act of defiance proves to be his undoing when he becomes Martine's next victim. Now Read More

The Rockford Files

Actors: Robert Donley, James Garner

Synopsis: James Garner first assumed the bethumped mantle of Private Investigator Jim Rockford on March 27, 1974. The original Rockford Files TV movie, like the long running series that followed, starred Garner as an ex-con who only takes cases that the people have been unable to solve. Future Bionic Woman Lindsay Wagner Read More

Betrayal

Actors: Amanda Blake, Sam Groom, Dick Haymes, Tisha Sterling

Synopsis: In her first non-Gunsmoke appearance in two decades, Amanda Blake plays Helen Mercer, a lonely, middle-aged widow. Helen hires the deceptively sweet Adele Murphy (Tisha Sterling) as her companion. What she doesn't know (but we do, thanks to a rather violent prologue) is that "Adele" is really an Read More

Willie Dynamite

Actors: Roscoe Orman, Diana Sands

Synopsis: Willie Dynamite (Roscoe Orman) is a Manhattan pimp whose life and career are documented in this blaxploitation flick. Willie makes it to the top of his precarious profession, only to hit rock bottom again in record time. In her last movie role, Diana Sands plays an ex-hooker who becomes a social Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Runaways

Synopsis: With the child-welfare authorities breathing down his neck, orphaned teenager George Morgan (played by future ChiPs costar Larry Wilcox) desperately tries to hold his family together. Going on the run with his younger siblings, George is forced to steal medicine for his ailing sister--and as a Read More

Oklahoma Crude

Actors: George C. Scott, Faye Dunaway, John Mills, Jack Palance, William Lucking

Synopsis: Taciturn Faye Dunaway insists upon drilling for oil in her small, unpromising patch of Oklahoma land. Drifter George C. Scott signs on to work the derrick, but only after Dunaway, who for unspecified reasons hates all men, warns him to stay at arm's length. Jack Palance, the strong-arm Read More

Emergency!: The Promise

Synopsis: Paula Slayton, the woman who saddled John (Randolph Mantooth) with a dog named Bonnie in Emergency!'s premiere episode, returns with another surprise for the guys at the station house (Patricia Hindy is cast as Paula, replacing the earlier episode's Pat McAnery). The on-duty assignment roster Read More

The Culpepper Cattle Company

Actors: Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Luke Askew, Bo Hopkins, Geoffrey Lewis

Synopsis: Gary Grimes stars in this revisionist western as Ben Mockridge, a 16-year-old boy who has long dreamed of living the life of a cowboy. Wanting adventure, he persuades Frank Culpepper (Billy Green Bush) to take him along on a cattle drive, and Ben learns the hard way just how lonesome, exhausting Read More

Bonanza: The Younger Brothers' Younger Brother

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Strother Martin

Synopsis: Written and directed by Bonanza star Michael Landon, "The Younger Brothers' Younger Brother" is one of the series' zaniest episodes. It all begins when Hoss Cartwright is mistaken for one of the notorious Younger Brothers, who have recently resumed their criminal activitie