Tom BosleyFilmography

Charlie and Me

Actors: Tom Bosley, Jordy Benattar, James Gallanders, Barclay Hope, Cara Pifko

Synopsis: A young girl learns some important lessons about life, love, friendship, and death from her ailing grandfather in this affectionate family drama starring Tom Bosley and Jordy Benattar. 12-year-old Casey Baker (Benattar) may be generations removed from her loving grandfather Charlie (Bosley), but Read More

Hidden Places

Actors: Sydney Penny, Jason Gedrick, Shirley Jones, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: Robert Tate Miller adapts Lynn Austin's best-selling, Christy Award-winning 2001 novel for the screen in the family-friendly drama Hidden Places. Sydney Penny (All My Children) stars as Eliza Wyatt, a Christian widow and mother of two grappling with a loss of faith, and forced to pull in the Read More

Family Guy: The Father, The Son, and The Holy Fonz

Synopsis: Once again, the Griffin household is invaded by Peter's crabby father Francis, an old-line Catholic who hates anyone who doesn't adhere to his own peculiar set of religious values. In his efforts to re-convert the family, Francis causes little Stewie to become a "bubble boy." As a result Read More

The Fallen Ones

Synopsis: Kevin VanHook's horror film The Fallen Ones concerns an archeologist who must battle a fallen angel who has come to Earth in order to reanimate a mummified giant and use him to take over the world. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Paper Clips

Actors: Linda Hooper, David Smith, Sandra Roberts, Dagmar Schindel-Hildebrand

Synopsis: Directed by Joe Fab and Elliot Berlin, this documentary chronicles a rural Tennessee middle school's unique class project: finding a meaningful way to honor Holocaust victims. Brought up in a heavily fundamentalist Christian environment, most of the students had never seen, let alone spoken with Read More

Felix the Cat Saves Christmas

Synopsis: Felix the Cat Saves Christmas features the animated feline, voiced by Dave Coulier, attempting to stop a professor from creating the biggest blizzard of all time and thereby canceling Christmas. With the assistance of best friend Poindexter, Felix and his magic bag team up with Santa (voiced by Tom Bosley Read More

Christmas at Water's Edge

Actors: Keshia Knight Pulliam, Pooch Hall, Tom Bosley, Earl Billings, Richard Lawson

Synopsis: An angel from above arrives on a mission to transform a spoiled college girl into a caring young woman in this contemporary variation on the Christmas Carol story starring Keshia Knight Pulliam, Tom Bosley, and Pooch Hall. To wealthy college girl Layla Turner (Knight-Pulliam), Christmas is all Read More

Returning Mickey Stern

Actors: Joseph Bologna, Tom Bosley, Kylie Delre, Joshua Fishbein, Michael Oberlander

Synopsis: Mickey Stern (Joseph Bologna) is living in the past. When he was still in high school, Mickey (played as a young man by Joshua Fishbein) was a baseball phenom, signed by his beloved Yankees. He was on his way to Korea, proud to fight for his country. Then, visiting Fire Island with his best Read More

Mary Christmas

Actors: John Schneider, Cynthia Gibb, Tom Bosley, Jenna Boyd, Benton Jennings

Synopsis: John Schneider serves as both director and star of this heartwarming made-for-TV film. It all begins when a cute little girl named Felicia Wallace (Jenna Boyd) writes a letter to Santa asking for a "new mommy" as a Christmas present. No-nonsense TV reporter Mary Maloney (Cynthia Gibb) is assigned Read More

Mothers and Daughters

Actors: Sally Kirkland, Sheri Hellard, Heidi Marnhout, Tom Bosley, Morgan Brittany

Synopsis: Sally Kirkland produced and starred in this lighthearted family drama about three generations of women. Priscilla (Sheri Hellard) and her mother (Kirkland) couldn't more more different. The younger woman is a hardworking housewife who has always had trouble seeing eye to eye with the elder of the Read More

Touched by an Angel: The Blue Angel

Synopsis: Ernest Borgnine guest stars as veteran televsion director Max Blandish, a once-idealistic media pioneer who has become jaded and disillusioned during his 50 years in the business. If bitterness doesn't kill Max, his heavy smoking will, and thus there isn't a whole lot of time left for Monica (Roma Read More

Legend of the Candy Cane

Actors: Florence Henderson, Tom Bosley, Bruce Marchiano

Synopsis: In this animated story based on the book for children by Lori Walburg VandenBosch, the holiday season has come to the small Western town of West Sage, and a mysterious stranger rides into town. As the good people of West Sage try to find out who he is and why he's come to their community, he Read More

ER: Fear of Commitment

Synopsis: Abby's (Maura Tierney) bipolar mother, Maggie (Sally Field), testifies in court as to her competency, with surprising results. Back at the ER, Weaver (Laura Innes) is shocked to learn that her latest patient, a homeless derelict (Bette Ford), is actually "Princess Taffeta," Weaver's favorite Read More

ER: Surrender

Synopsis: Patients brought into the ER include pugnacious retirement-community residents Walter (Tom Bosley) and Earl (Tom Poston), each of whom regards himself as God's gift to women. Elsewhere, Weaver (Laura Innes) and Legaspi (Elizabeth Mitchell) reconfirm their romantic relationship. Back at work Read More

Tangerine Bear: Home in Time for Christmas

Synopsis: Jenna Elfman, Trisha Yearwood, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, and other luminaries contribute vocals to this animated children's holiday special featuring the inimitable Tangerine Bear. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

The Drew Carey Show: The Mimi's Day Parade

Synopsis: Just in time to wreck everybody's Thanksgiving, Mr. Wick (Craig Ferguson) declares that Winfred-Louder is to have a Thanksgiving Day Parade--and participation is compulsory. Drew is put in charge of the parade, with orders to fire a bunch of people if the event fails to improve business. He soon Read More

Boy Meets World: I Was a Teenage Spy

Synopsis: Any resemblance that Boy Meets World ever had with the REAL world was smashed to bits in this episode, wherein a microwave accident transports Cory (Ben Savage) back to the year 1957. Because of his foreknowledge of Russia's Sputnik space satellite, Cory is suspected of being a Soviet spy by Read More

The Father Dowling Mysteries: Season 02

Actors: Tom Bosley, Tracy Nelson

Love Boat: A Valentine Voyage

Actors: Steve Bond, Tom Bosley, Julia Duffy, Bernie Kopell, Ted Lange, Roddy Piper, Shanna Reed, Joe Regalbuto, Jill Whelan

Synopsis: Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water again, along came the "retro" TV movie The Love Boat: A Valentine Voyage. Four regulars of the original Love Boat series are back on board: Gavin McLeod ($Capt Stubbing), Bernie Kopell (Doc), Ted Lange (Isaac) and Jill Whelan (Vicki). Filmed Read More

The Father Dowling Mysteries: Season 03

Actors: Tom Bosley, Tracy Nelson

Wicked Stepmother

Actors: Bette Davis, Barbara Carrera, Colleen Camp, David Rasche, Lionel Stander

Synopsis: In this film, Steve (David Rasche) and Jenny's (Colleen Camp) new stepmother, Miranda (Bette Davis), is truly a witch in every sense of the word. With their father (Lionel Stander) happily deceived by his new wife, it is up to the kids to stop Miranda's dastardly plans, before it is too late. This Read More

Father Dowling Mysteries: The Missing Body Mystery

Synopsis: A murder case ignites the curiosity of Fr. Dowling and a nun who set out to solve the mystery against the wishes of his bishop and the FBI. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Fire and Rain

Actors: Charles Haid, Angie Dickinson, Tom Bosley, Robert Guillaume, Dean Jones

Synopsis: The terrible crash of Delta Airlines Flight 191 provides the basis of this made-for-TV drama-in-real life. The disaster occurred at Dallas in 1985 and during that fateful night many of the ordinary passengers, crew, and rescue workers became true heroes as they worked together to save lives. Read More

The Father Dowling Mysteries: Season 01

Actors: Tom Bosley, Tracy Nelson

Murder, She Wrote: Who Threw the Barbitals in Mrs. Fletcher's Chowder?

Synopsis: Cabot Cove's sheriff Amos Tupper (Tom Bosley) certainly has his hands full when his sister Winnie (Anne Meara) shows up on his doorstep, announcing that she has walked out on her husband. Before long, Amos is besieged by Winnie's ill-tempered Kentucky in-laws, who don't cotton to such matters as Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Benedict Arnold Slipped Here

Synopsis: It is said that the infamous Revolutionary War traitor Bendedict Arnold once stayed in a now-dilapidated Cabot Cove house. When the house's owner dies, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is named executor of the will. This proves to be a formidable task when rumors begin spreading that a valuable Read More

Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night

Actors: Ed Asner, Tom Bosley, Lana Beeson, Jonathan Harris

Synopsis: In this animated version of the classic children's tale, the marionette who wanted to become a real boy gets into trouble when he loses his father Gepetto's favorite jewelry box. At first, Pinnochio tries to conceal his wrongdoing but eventually, thanks to the promptings of his insect pal "Gee Read More

Million Dollar Mystery

Actors: Eddie Deezen, Wendy Sherman, Rick Overton, Mona Lyden, Douglas Emerson

Synopsis: A government worker (Tom Bosley) informs several diner patrons of a $4 million treasure he stole from a group of Libyans and then hid, but dies before uttering more than a few clues. What follows is a mad dash for the cash. As part of the film's promotion, the sponsors offered $1 million to the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: When Thieves Fall Out

Synopsis: Paroled after 20 years, a convicted murderer (John Glover) returns to his home town of Cabot Cove to find the man whom he thinks actually committed the crime for which he was imprisoned. The trail leads to a local high-school coach (Kenneth MacMillan) on the verge of retirement, and to another man Read More

Murder, She Wrote: If It's Thursday, It Must be Beverly

Synopsis: Sheriff Amos Tupper (Tom Bosley) is understandably distressed when Audrey Martin (Antoinette Bower), the wife of Amos' bucolic deputy Jonathan Martin (Rick Lenz), apparently commits suicide. Further investigation reveals that Audrey was murdered, at which point Amos discovers that the seemingly Read More

The Gnomes' Great Adventure

Synopsis: The animated gnomes are featured in this adventure of one gnome's fantastic journey to collect stolen gold from mischievous trolls. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Money Mania

Murder, She Wrote: Simon Says, Color Me Dead

Synopsis: Comedian Foster Brooks curtails his "lovable lush" routine to play Simon Thane, a celebrated artist living in Cabot Cove. For the last several years, Thane has jealously guarded his favorite painting, which he has never allowed to be seen publicly. Jessica (Angela Lansbury) becomes involved in the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Indian Giver

Synopsis: Native American George Longbow (Bernie White), a member of the Algonquin tribe, shows up in Cabot Cove bearing a seemingly authentic land grant which states that Longbow owns the entire community. One of the locals is displeased by George's presence, threatening dire consequences if the Indian Read More

World of David the Gnome: Young Doctor Gnome

Synopsis: Part of the World of David the Gnome video series, which features exciting adventure stories starring David the Gnome, World of David the Gnome: Young Doctor Gnome journeys inside the Enchanted Forest for fun and storytelling. There, a proficient young doctor and wizard solves problems and helps Read More

World of David the Gnome: Magic Spoon

Synopsis: Part of the World of David the Gnome: Magic Spoon video series, which features exciting adventure stories starring David the Gnome, World of David the Gnome: Magic Spoon tells an imaginative story involving magic and mayhem. Kids follow David the Gnome as he makes his way through the Enchanted Read More

World of David the Gnome: Rabbits... Everywhere

Synopsis: Part of the World of David the Gnome video series, which features exciting adventure stories starring David the Gnome, World of David the Gnome: Rabbits, Rabbits Everywhere! tells the tale of a pack of none-too-bright bunnies who can't seem to find their way home. It's up to David the Gnome and Read More

World of David the Gnome: Siberian Bear

Synopsis: Part of the World of David the Gnome: Siberian Bear video series, which features exciting adventure stories starring David the Gnome, World of David the Gnome: Siberian Bear follows David the Gnome to wintry Russia. In the land of icy cold, the gnome meets a Siberian bear and encounters plenty of Read More

World of David the Gnome: Kangaroo Adventure

Synopsis: Part of the World of David the Gnome video series, which features exciting adventure stories starring David the Gnome, World of David the Gnome: Kangaroo Adventure transports kids to Australia. When David the Gnome journeys down under to visit a friend in need, he realizes his trip might involve Read More

Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery

Actors: Tom Bosley, Tracy Nelson

Synopsis: This TV pilot film was based on the "Father Dowling" character created (in the tradition of G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown) by Ralph McInery. Tom Bosley plays the good Father, who whiles away his off-hours by reading mystery novels. When a young millionaire entrepreneur turns up dead, the official Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Crossed Up

Synopsis: Murder She Wrote meets "Sorry Wrong Number" in this chilling episode, set on a dark and stormy night. When the storm causes the telephone wires to get crossed, several persons receive calls that they shouldn't be hearing. One such person is Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), who is stuck in her Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Unfinished Business

Synopsis: Retired police lieutenant Barney Kale (Pat Hingle) insists upon reopening a 10-year-old murder case which he had never been able to solve. Heading to the murder scene, a lakeside mountain resort, Kale gathers together all of the likely suspects--including Dr. Seth Hazlitt (William Windom), an old Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun

Actors: Raymond Burr, William Katt

Synopsis: Following the excellent ratings response to the 1985 "reunion" special Perry Mason Returns, producers Fred Silverman and Dean Hargrove quickly assembled a second two-hour Mason TV movie in 1986. Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun finds Mason (Raymond Burr), now a judge, briefly stepping Read More

Murder, She Wrote: If a Body Meet a Body

Synopsis: All of Cabot Cove turns out for the funeral of Henry Vernon, the town's chief financial advisor. The ceremony is halted by the arrival of a woman claiming that Henry was murdered. Investigating, the local authorities open the coffin--only to find out that the occupant isn't Henry! Before the story Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Keep the Home Fries Burning

Synopsis: Along with her friends Amos (Tom Bosley) and Seth (William Windom), Jessica (Angela Lansbury) decides to sample the cooking at Cabot Cove's newest tourist attraction, the Joshua Peabody Inn. Casting a pall over the evening is a batch of spoiled strawberry preserves, causing several patrons to Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Dead Man's Gold

Synopsis: This episode reunites Jessica (Angela Lansbury) with her former sweetheart David Everett (Leslie Nielsen), a man of great charm--and a great capacity for causing trouble. This time, Everett has spearheaded a search for buried treasure off the coast of Cabot Cove. When one of the divers is Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Obituary for a Dead Anchor

Synopsis: Vituperative TV news anchor Kevin Keats (Chad Everett) descends upon Cabot Cove with a full camera crew and retinue in tow, there to produce an investigative report on a long-ranging crime ring. Though Jessica (Angela Lansbury) dislikes Kevin, she agrees to an on-camera interview as a favor to an Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Joshua Peabody Died Here...Possibly.

Synopsis: Over the protests of several local residents, shady tycoon Henderson Wheatley (John Ericson) intends to build a high-rise hotel in Cabot Cove. During excavation, a set of bones comes to surface, supposedly belonging to Revolutionary war hero Joshua Peabody. Almost immediately, those who oppose the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder Takes the Bus

Synopsis: In one of the series' best episodes, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) and Sheriff Tupper (Tom Bosley) are taking a bus trip from Cabot Cove to Portland, Maine, when the vehicle makes a stopover at a roadside inn. Before long, one of the other passengers--a bank robber recently released from prison--turns Read More

Murder, She Wrote: A Lady in the Lake

Synopsis: Retreating to a placid Maine lake resort in order to finish her latest novel without distractions, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) decides to go birdwatching one fine morning. During this pursuit, Jessica witnesses what seems to be a struggle between a man and a woman in a boat on the lake, ending with Read More

Private Sessions

Synopsis: In this drama, the failed pilot for a TV series, a psychologist endeavors to balance his turbulent personal life, with those of his troubled patients. Unfortunately, he tends to get equally personally involved in both and trouble ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Sticks and Stones

Synopsis: When Cabot Cove resident Beverly Garrett is electrocuted in her own bathtub in a locked bathroom, Sheriff Amos Tupper (Tom Bosley) is willing to write the tragedy off as an accident; Tupper, you see, is thinking about retirement, and has already hand-picked his successor. But Jessica (Angela Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Hit, Run and Homicide

Synopsis: Angela Lansbury's former MGM colleagues Van Johnson and June Allyson are prominently featured in this episode. A double-dealing businessman is killed when he is run over by a remote-controlled station wagon. Suspicion immediately falls upon the victim's disgruntled former partner, an oddball Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Deadly Lady

Synopsis: In the first hour-long episode of Murder She Wrote (the debut episode had run two hours), mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is back in her home town of Cabot Cove, Maine, where she makes the acquaintance of a seedy-looking gentleman named Ralph (Howard Duff), who has shown up in Read More

Happy Days: Season 11

Actors: Henry Winkler, Ted McGinley, Scott Baio, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Erin Moran, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita

Murder, She Wrote: Death Takes a Curtain Call

Synopsis: Angela Lansbury is reunited with her onetime The Picture of Dorian Gray costar Hurd Hatfield in this episode, in which Jessica Fletcher (Lansbury) attends a special performance by a Soviet ballet troupe. Just as two of the dancers decide to defect, the KGB official assigned to the troupe is Read More

That's Singing: The Best of Broadway

Synopsis: This performance video is a tribute to the American musical theatre. Includes a collection of memorable songs from various Broadway shows. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Jesse Owens Story

Synopsis: Dorian Harewood stars as the legendary black athlete in this made-for-TV biography that follows Jesse Owens from his collegiate career, to his pinnacle at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he won four gold medals--much to the dismay of Adolf Hitler and his squad of Aryan super-athletes. ~ Jason Read More

Happy Days: Season 10

Actors: Henry Winkler, Ted McGinley, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Anson Williams, Linda Purl, Cathy Silvers, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita

Happy Days: Season 09

Actors: Henry Winkler, Scott Baio, Marion Ross, Tom Bosley, Erin Moran, Anson Williams, Al Molinaro

O'Hara's Wife

Actors: Ed Asner, Mariette Hartley, Jodie Foster, Perry Lang, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: This ghostly made-for-television romance tells the story of a struggling widower who finds that life becomes easier once his beloved comes back from the grave to assist him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Happy Days: Season 08

Actors: Henry Winkler, Scott Baio, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Erin Moran, Anson Williams, Al Molinaro

Happy Days: Season 07

Actors: Henry Winkler, Scott Baio, Marion Ross, Tom Bosley, Erin Moran, Anson Williams, Al Molinaro

For the Love of It

Synopsis: Veteran comedy specialist Hal Kanter milks every chuckle, chortle and guffaw of Stanley Ralph Ross' teleplay for For the Love of It. The story gets under way when the bad guys surreptitiously plant top-secret documents on a model (Deborah Raffin) and a med student (Jeff Conaway). He's crazy about Read More

Happy Days: Season 06

Actors: Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Scott Baio, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Erin Moran, Anson Williams, Don Most, Al Molinaro

The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal

Synopsis: This made-for-television drama tells of an actual event in 1911 where 145 workers in the Triangle garment factory were killed in a huge industrial fire. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Rebels

Synopsis: The Rebels was the second "Operation Prime Time" miniseries to be based on author John Jakes' Kent Family Chronicles (the first was The Bastard). The saga of Philip Kent (Andrew Stevens), illegitimate son of a British blueblood, picks up with Kent fighting in the Continental Army during the Read More

The Castaways on Gilligan's Island

Actors: Jim Backus, Bob Denver, Russell Johnson, Tina Louise, Natalie Schafer, Dawn Wells

Synopsis: Following the astonishing (and, to some, appalling) success of the 1978 TV movie Rescue From Gilligan's Island, most of the cast of the popular 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island were hired for two additional "reunion" films. The second, Castaways on Gilligan's Island, finds Gilligan (Bob Denver), the Read More

With This Ring

Actors: John Forsythe, Scott Hylands, Betty White, Diana Canova

Synopsis: In this drama three contemporary couples prepare for their upcoming nuptials. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Bastard

Synopsis: Produced for the syndicated "Operation Prime Time" series, The Bastard is the first of John Jakes' "Kent Family Chronicles" (followed by The Rebels and The Seekers). Presented in two parts, the story begins in 1771, with 17-year-old French commoner Philippe Charboneau (Andrew Stevens) discovering Read More

The Stingiest Man in Town

Synopsis: Walter Matthau gives voice to Scrooge in this animated version of A Christmas Carol. Other noted voices include Tom Bosley, Theodore Bikel, Robert Morse and Dennis Day. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Happy Days: Season 05

Actors: Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Scott Baio, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Erin Moran, Anson Williams, Don Most, Al Molinaro

Black Market Baby

Actors: Linda Purl, Desi Arnaz, Jr., Jessica Walter, David F. Doyle, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: Elizabeth Christman's novel A Nice Italian Girl was the source for the TV-movie Black Market Baby. Desi Arnaz Jr. plays a slick lothario who is paid by an illicit adoption agency to impregnate impressionable college student Linda Purl. The racketeers stand to make $50,000 by selling the baby to an Read More

Testimony of Two Men

Synopsis: The inaugural presentation of the syndicated "Operation Prime Time" anthology, the three-part, six-hour miniseries Testimony of Two Men was based on the 1968 best-seller by Taylor Caldwell; it originally aired in three separate two-hour installments. Sprawled over the course of several generations Read More

Happy Days: Season 04

Actors: Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Erin Moran, Anson Williams, Don Most, Al Molinaro

Gus

Actors: Ed Asner, Don Knotts, Gary Grimes, Tim Conway, Liberty Williams

Synopsis: In this Disney film, Hank Cooper (Ed Asner) the owner of a losing professional football team, recruits Gus, a Yugoslavian soccer player, to his team. Even though Gus is a mule, he figures the animal can be taught to make field-goal kicks. Despite the outrage of his team, and sabotage efforts by Read More

Captain & Tennille: The Christmas Show

Synopsis: The musical variety series The Captain and Tennille ran from September 1976 to March 1977 on ABC, and featured the titular performers (keyboardist/arranger Daryl Dragon and his wife, Toni Tennille - best known for their massive hit singles "Love Will Keep Us Together" and "The Way I Want to Touch Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Dead or Alive

Synopsis: With this episode, Richard Hatch "officially" becomes a series regular in the role of Dan Robbins, the brash new partner of veteran SFPD homicide detective Mike Stone (Karl Malden). The case at hand involves Larry Dobbs (Howard Duff), the wealthy father of a girl who has been raped and murdered. Read More

The Love Boat

Actors: Don Adams, Tom Bosley, Ted Hamilton, Sandy Helberg, Florence Henderson, Gabe Kaplan, Hal Linden, Dick Van Patten, Theodore Wilson, Teri O'Mara

Synopsis: Originally telecast September 17, 1976, Love Boat was the first of two pilot films for the long-running TV series of the same name. On this maiden voyage of the Pacific Princess (from California to Mexico), we zero in on four separate sets of passengers. Gabe Kaplan plays a goofy salesman who Read More

Happy Days: Season 03

Actors: Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Erin Moran, Anson Williams, Don Most, Al Molinaro

Skim Money

Synopsis: In this drama, a television reporter begins looking for the arsonist who has been forcing tiny salvage companies out of business by burning down their buildings. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Happy Days: Season 02

Actors: Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Erin Moran, Anson Williams, Don Most, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita

The Night That Panicked America

Actors: Eileen Brennan, Paul Shenar

Synopsis: The Night That Panicked America is centered around Orson Welles' notorious "War of the Worlds" broadcast of October 30, 1938. Welles (Paul Shenar) arrives at CBS studios just in time to assume his directing post for the radio adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic, which has been updated and 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 Last Survivors

Actors: Martin Sheen, Diane Baker, Tom Bosley, Christopher George, Bruce Davison

Synopsis: Though not officially acknowleged at the time of its telecast, the made-for-TV movie The Last Survivors was a rehash of the 1957 theatrical feature Abandon Ship; both in fact were based on the same true story. A typhoon at sea has sunk a ship, leaving Alexander Holmes (Martin Sheen) as the highest Read More

Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: Season 03

Actors: Tom Bosley

The Girl Who Came Gift-Wrapped

Synopsis: This TV movie opens with a Hefner-like magazine publisher (Richard Long), who's just turned forty, answering his doorbell. Into his bachelor pad pops a young, bikini-clad girl (Karen Valentine) with a bow fastened around her waist; she sings "Happy Birthday", then plants a kiss on the startled Read More

Mixed Company

Actors: Bob G. Anthony, Darell L. Garretson, Stephen Honanie, Rodney Hundley, Ron McIlwain, Charles J. Samsill, Jina Tan

Synopsis: In this sentimental comedy, the coach of the struggling Phoenix Suns basketball team finds his already heavy load increased when his wife decides to adopt three more children, a Vietnamese, a black and a Native American. They already have three kids of their own. Now in addition to trying to Read More

Happy Days: Season 01

Actors: Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Erin Moran, Anson Williams, Don Most, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita

Death Cruise

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, six persons have won a cruise-ship vacation, but they find that the awards were just a trick to begin a killing game. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Going Home

Synopsis: Just before assuming his "Howard Cunningham" duties on Happy Days, Tom Bosley guests in this episode as two-bit thief Eddie Coughlin. The hapless Eddie makes a potentially fatal mistake when he burglarizes a business that is being used as a front by The Syndicate. Sheree Northcostars as Eddie's Read More

Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: Season 02

Actors: Tom Bosley

Miracle on 34th Street

Actors: Sebastian Cabot

Synopsis: The 1947 film comedy Miracle on 34th Street starred Edmund Gwenn as a bearded gentleman named Kris Kringle, who was convinced that he was the genuine Santa Claus. The earlier Miracle was good enough as it stood, so why remake it? Still, the full-color 1973 Miracle on 34th Street has the Read More

Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: Season 01

Actors: Tom Bosley

The Streets of San Francisco

Actors: Kim Darby

Synopsis: The 2-hour pilot film for the long-running (1972-77) TV detective series first aired on September 16, 1972. Veteran police detective lieutenant Mike Stone (Karl Malden) and his young partner Steve Keller (Michael Douglas) try to solve the murder of runaway Holly Jean Berry (Kim Darby). By Read More

No Place to Run

Actors: Herschel Bernardi, Scott Jacoby

Synopsis: The made-for-television No Place to Run stars Herschel Bernardi as a seriously ill 73-year-old grandparent. Despite his many ailments, Bernardi is roused into action when he is denied custody of his orphaned grandson (Scott Jacoby). Grandpa and grandson decide to skip town together, with the Read More

To Find a Man

Actors: Schell Rasten

Synopsis: Screen newcomers Darren O'Connor (the brother of Glynnis O'Connor) and Pamela Sue Martin (billed here as Pamela Martin) play a pair of 16-year-olds, former childhood sweethearts and playmates from Manhattan's Upper East Side, who find their lives thrust back together when she becomes pregnant by Read More

Congratulations, It's a Boy!

Synopsis: We know that Bill Bixby plays a swinging bachelor because he wears bell-bottoms. Opening the door of his bachelor pad one evening, Bixby is surprised to meet a personable young man claiming to be his son. He is further surprised that the young man is fully grown, the result of an indiscretion some Read More

Mission: Impossible: Blind

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Jason Evers

Synopsis: Lynda Day George joins the Mission:Impossible cast as agent Lisa Casey in the episode entitled "Blind." Guest star Tom Bosley is cast as government undercover operative Henry Matula, who has been infiltrated into the criminal empire of John Lawton (Harold J. Stone), and is in line for a Syndicate Read More

Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones

Synopsis: Veteran director King Vidor had long harbored hopes of directing a filmization of Ann Head's novel Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones, but couldn't get backing from a major studio. The book was finally filmed in 1971 but as a TV movie rather than a theatrical feature and with Robert Day in the director's Read More

Bewitched: Samantha's Magic Mirror

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Sargent, Alice Ghostley, David White, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: Esmerelda is in another funk and Samantha takes it upon herself to restore the maid/witch's confidence. To this end, Sam creates a magic mirror that makes Esmerelda seem younger and more attractive -- but only to herself. Even so, the results are quite surprising when Esmerelda is reunited with Read More

Vanished

Actors: Chet Huntley

Synopsis: Vanished earned a niche in video history as the first two-part TV movie. Based on Fletcher Knebel's novel, the story concerns the sudden disappearance of a top Presidential adviser. Grilled by the media, the President's press secretary (James Farentino) reveals very little, simply because he Read More

A Step Out of Line

Synopsis: A Step Out of Line stars Peter Falk, Vic Morrow, and Peter Lawford, a fairly lustrous lineup for a humble TV movie. The trio of leading men portray average Joes, all Korean war buddies, plagued by a string of bad luck. With creditors hounded them at their very fireside (so to speak), Falk, Morrow Read More

Night Gallery [TV Series]

Actors: Tom Bosley, Joan Crawford, Richard Kiley

Synopsis: In the two-hour pilot film for the subsequent TV "occult" anthology, series creator Rod Serling hosts three macabre short stories, introducing each with a framed portrait in a nocturnal art gallery. The first story stars Roddy MacDowall as a covetous nephew who murders his uncle, suffering the Read More

Bonanza: A Lawman's Lot is Not a Happy One

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: While Sheriff Coffee testifies at a trial in San Francisco, Hoss Cartwright serves as temporary sheriff of Virginia City. Before long, Hoss has outraged and astonished the townsfolk by locking up millionaire Paul Forbes (Robert Emhardt) and his valet Fairfax (Jay Novello), for reasons which remain Read More

Yours, Mine and Ours

Actors: Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson, Tom Bosley, Louise Troy

Synopsis: This story is taken from the real-life marriage of two people in the early 1960s. Helen North (Lucille Ball) is a widow with eight children who falls in love with Naval officer Frank Beardsley (Henry Fonda), a widower with ten children of his own. The two marry as comedy ensues from the sheer Read More

The F.B.I.: Ring of Steel

Synopsis: Most of this episode was filmed on location at California's Riverside Raceway. Having financed his racing activities by selling his garage business to the Mob, John Stanton (Tom Bosley is now under pressure to do the Mob's bidding--or else. FBI agent Colby (Stephen Elliott) goes undercover as a Read More

The Secret War of Harry Frigg

Actors: Paul Newman, Sylva Koscina, Tom Bosley, Andrew Duggan, John Williams

Synopsis: This World War II comedy finds Harry Frigg (Paul Newman) as the unwilling volunteer slated to rescue five generals from the clutches of the Germans and Italians. Frigg would rather spend his time goofing off than fighting the war, but his superiors make him a fake general and pack him off to Read More

Bonanza: The Last Vote

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Tom Bosley, Wally Cox

Synopsis: As a result of a wager, Hoss and Joe Cartwright decide to enter politics, each supporting an opposing mayor candidate for the upcoming Virginia City election. Comic chaos ensues when both brothers become campaign managers for their respective candidates, and are thus forced to suck up to the man Read More

Marcus Welby, M.D. [TV Series]

Synopsis: The launching pad for the long-running ABC medical series Marcus Welby, M.D. was this feature-length pilot film, first aired March 26, 1969. Robert Young of course stars as Dr. Welby, a crusty but golden-hearted general practitioner forced by a mild coronary to take on a partner. At first, Welby Read More

The Bang Bang Kid

Actors: Guy Madison, Sandra Milo, Tom Bosley, Riccardo Garrone

Synopsis: Guy Madison has a high old time as a would-be feudal baron in the Wild West. No one is willing to stand up to Madison and his henchmen-no one, that is, except mild-mannered inventor Tom Bosley. It seems that Bosley has welded together a robot gunslinger, whom he calls "The Bang Bang Kid". Only Read More

Divorce American Style

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jason Robards, Jr., Jean Simmons, Van Johnson

Synopsis: An unhappy couple discover breaking up really is hard to do in this satiric comedy. Richard Harmon (Dick Van Dyke) and his wife, Barbara (Debbie Reynolds), are a typical married couple in American Suburbia -- which is to say they're not very happy with each other. After 15 years together, Richard Read More

The World of Henry Orient

Actors: Peter Sellers, Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury, Tippy Walker, Merrie Spaeth, Phyllis Thaxter, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: Decked out with another of his American accents, Peter Sellers plays self-centered concert pianist Henry Orient. While Henry's active libido sends him off on pursuit of married woman Paula Prentiss, a pair of preteen boarding-school chums, played by Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth, worship Orient Read More

Love with the Proper Stranger

Actors: Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Herschel Bernardi, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: Taken for granted by her Italian family, New Yorker Natalie Wood seeks solace in the arms of irresponsible jazz musician Steve McQueen. She becomes pregnant, but doesn't expect McQueen to marry her; all she wants is enough money to pay for an illegal abortion (this is ten years before Roe v. Read More

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