Tom Selleck Filmography

Las Vegas: Season 05

Actors: Tom Selleck, Josh Duhamel, James Lesure, Vanessa Marcil, Molly Sims, Camille Guaty

Jesse Stone: Sea Change

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tom Selleck, Viola Davis, Kohl Sudduth, Stephen McHattie, Vito Rezza

Synopsis: The fourth installment of the Jesse Stone series finds restless New England police chief Stone (Tom Selleck) fighting boredom by attempting to solve a twelve year-old cold case involving a murdered bank teller. Jesse Stone is a transplanted L.A. cop who thrived on big city adrenaline, but Read More

Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise

Actors: Tom Selleck

Synopsis: Transplanted L.A. cop Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck) attempts to solve the murder of a teenage girl while simultaneously dealing with a deadly case of domestic violence in this mystery that marks the third cinematic outing for novelist Robert B. Parker's eponymous detective. Having recently settled Read More

Jesse Stone: Night Passage

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tom Selleck

Synopsis: Tom Selleck returns to the role of small-town police chief Jesse Stone in this prequel to the CBS TV movie Stone Cold. Having been booted from the LAPD for drunkenness (brought on by his grief over his wife's death), Stone heads to tiny Paradise, Massachussetts, where through the auspices of local Read More

Jesse Stone: Stone Cold

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tom Selleck, Jane Adams, Reg Rogers, Viola Davis, Mimi Rogers

Synopsis: A tough cop must deal with some ugly crimes in a small New England town in this made-for-TV mystery. Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck) is the thick-skinned chief of police in the small town of Paradise, MA; while Stone has a good heart, he's not the sort of man who wears his emotions on his sleeve, and Read More

Ike: Countdown to D-Day

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Gerald McRaney, James Remar, Tom Selleck

Synopsis: Tom Selleck stars as General Dwight D. Eisenhower in the television film Ike: Countdown to D-Day. The film follows the General in the three months leading up to the decisive invasion that would turn the tide of World War II toward the Allied powers. The film opens with Winston Churchill (Ian Mune) Read More

Reversible Errors

Actors: William H. Macy, Tom Selleck, Monica Potter, Felicity Huffman, James Rebhorn

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by author Scott Turow, this four-hour miniseries tells the tale of a lawyer determined to find the evidence that will deliver the potentially innocent convicted murderer from a grim walk down the silent halls of death row. The date of execution is drawing ever Read More

Television: The First 50 Years

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

Actors: Carroll Baker, Ernest Borgnine, Bruce Dern, Ricardo Montalban, John Ritter

Monte Walsh

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tom Selleck, Keith Carradine, George Eads, Wallace Shawn, Barry Corbin

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Jack Schaefer (writer of Shane), and previously filmed theatrically in 1970, the made-for-cable Monte Walsh is the still-timely saga of a dying way of life. Monte Walsh (Tom Selleck) and his friends are cowboys and bronco busters, plying their trade in the Wyoming Territory of Read More

12 Mile Road

Actors: Tom Selleck, Maggie Grace, Wendy Crewson, Anna Gunn, Tegan Moss

Synopsis: After several rocky years, divorced farmer Stephen Landis (Tom Selleck) seems to have gotten his life together: His business is thriving, and his personal life has found stability and support in the form of his current girlfriend, Leah (Anna Gunn), and her teenaged daughter, Roxanne (Tegan Moss). Read More

Crossfire Trail

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tom Selleck, Virginia Madsen, Wilford Brimley, Brad Johnson, Mark Harmon

Synopsis: Tom Selleck plays the drifter Rafe Covington in this respectful adaptation of the Louis L'Amour novel Crossfire Trail, presented by Turner Network Television. A romantic Western, Crossfire Trail follows Rafe as he struggles to honor his vow to a dying friend to protect his wife and daughter and Read More

Friends: The One With the Proposal, Part 2

Actors: Tom Selleck, Alexandra Margulies

Synopsis: Friends opens its seventh season with two prime episodes, originally telecast back-to-back. In the premiere episode, Monica (Courteney Cox) is dancing on air after announcing her engagement to Chandler (Matthew Perry). But just as she is planning a champagne party to celebrate the occasion, Monica Read More

Friends: The One With the Proposal, Part 1

Actors: Tom Selleck, Alexandra Holden, Steve Hytner, John Apicella, Natasha Pearce

Synopsis: In the first half of Friends' sixth-season finale (originally telecast as a single, one-hour episode), Chandler (Matthew Perry) meticulously stage-manages his planned proposal to Monica (Courteney Cox), choosing just the right time at just the right restaurant to present her with the ring. Alas Read More

Running Mates

Actors: Tom Selleck, Laura Linney, Nancy Travis, Teri Hatcher, Bruce McGill, Bob Gunton, Faye Dunaway

Synopsis: Tom Selleck stretches his dramatic range by playing a liberal Democrat in this comedy-drama satirizing the underside of party politics. Governor James Pryce (Tom Selleck) is a well-respected politician with a strong reformist streak who is a shoo-in for the Democratic Party's presidential Read More

The Love Letter

Actors: Kate Capshaw, Blythe Danner, Tom Selleck, Tom Everett Scott, Ellen DeGeneres, Geraldine McEwan, Julianne Nicholson

Synopsis: Helen (Kate Capshaw) runs a bookstore in Loblolly By The Sea, a small fishing community in New England where everyone seems to know everyone else's business. A 42-year-old single mother, she is emotionally distant and fearful of getting too close to anyone. George (Tom Selleck) has known Helen Read More

The Closer

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tom Selleck, Ed Asner, Penelope Ann Miller, David Krumholtz, Hedy Burress

Synopsis: This TV sitcom series centers around Denver advertising man Jack McLaren (Tom Selleck), such a powerhouse that he's nicknamed "The Legend." In the opening episode, his agency's biggest client is the U.S. Army, but after Jack beats the President of the United States on the golf course, he's out of Read More

Practical Guide to the Universe [Video Series]

Actors: Tom Selleck

Friends: The One Where Monica and Richard are Just Friends

Synopsis: Tom Selleck returns as Dr. Richard Burke, ex-beau of the much-younger Monica (Courteney Cox). Chancing to meet Richard at the video store, Monica is determined to keep all future encounters on a platonic basis. Meanwhile, Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) girds up her courage to read The Shining (provided Read More

Last Stand at Saber River

Actors: Tom Selleck, Keith Carradine, David Carradine, Suzy Amis, David Dukes

Synopsis: Tom Selleck stars as a Confederate soldier who finds himself at a crossroads, in this made-for-television adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel. Paul Cable (Selleck) who returns to his Arizona homestead after the end of the Civil War, only to find it taken over by Union-sympathizing pioneers. Cable Read More

In & Out

Actors: Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon, Debbie Reynolds, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: Life is sweet for high-school English teacher and sports coach Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline); he's still living where he grew up, he has a good relationship with his father (Wilford Brimley) and mother (Debbie Reynolds), he's respected by his community, and he's about to marry Emily (Joan Cusack) Read More

Friends: The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies

Synopsis: Joey's (Matt LeBlanc) hubris over being cast as Dr. Ramoray on Days of Our Lives evaporates when his character is abruptly killed off (and, truth be told, it's all because of Joey's big mouth). Monica (Courteney Cox) and Richard (Tom Selleck) have an intimate discussion with Ross (David Schwimmer) Read More

Friends: The One Where Old Yeller Dies

Synopsis: Up until now, Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) was the only person on earth who didn't know the ending to the old Disney picture Old Yeller. Now that she knows, she's prostrate with grief. Meanwhile, Monica (Courteney Cox) resents the fact that Joey (Matt LeBlanc) and Chandler (Matthew Perry) are taking up Read More

Friends: The One Where Ross and Rachel... You Know

Synopsis: Tom Selleck makes his first series appearance as Dr. Richard Burke, the optometrist with whom the much-younger Monica (Courteney Cox) has a fling. Elsewhere, Joey's (Matt LeBlanc) soap opera salary enables him to buy such creature comforts as a big-screen TV and a pair of leather recliners Read More

Friends: The One Where Joey Moves Out

Synopsis: Chandler (Matthew Perry) is disappointed when his roommate, Joey (Matt LeBlanc), accepts an offer from an actor friend to move into another apartment. Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) and Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) visit a tattoo parlor. And news of Dr. Richard Burke's (Tom Selleck) romance with "twinkie in Read More

Friends: The One with the Chicken Pox

Synopsis: Phoebe's (Lisa Kudrow) anticipated reunion with her sailor boyfriend, Ryan (guest star Charlie Sheen), is scuttled by a case of chicken pox. Despite Phoebe's condition, Ryan will not be stopped -- or will he? Meanwhile, Joey (Matt LeBlanc) applies his acting skills to a temporary job at Chandler's Read More

Ruby Jean and Joe

Actors: Tom Selleck, Rebekah Johnson, JoBeth Williams, Ben Johnson, Eileen Seeley

Synopsis: Sensing that his rodeo career is waning, rangy Joe Wade increasingly seeks solace with booze. His life is rapidly going down the chutes until the day he picks up teenage hitcher Ruby Jean. During the brief time they are together, the two form a lasting friendship and discover the possibilities of Read More

The Magic of Flight

Synopsis: How do birds and airplanes fly? Quite often we take this unique ability for granted without truly understanding what makes such an amazing feat possible. Magic of Flight does a wonderful job of explaining the basic principles of flight in a concise and entertaining style. Originally created for Read More

Friends: The One with Barry and Mindy's Wedding

Synopsis: The long-delayed wedding between Rachel's friend Mindy (Jana Marie Hupp) and her ex-fiancé, Barry (Mitchell Whitfield), promises to be quite an occasion, especially since Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) is to be maid of honor (Egad! That wedding outfit!). Other developments: Joey (Matt LeBlanc) lands a Read More

Open Season

Actors: Robert Wuhl, Rod Taylor, Gailard Sartain, Helen Shaver, Maggie Han

Synopsis: Big business dealings, competition, and TV ratings wars are satirized in this biting comedy. Stuart Sain is an egotistical, over-ambitious Jewish executive. He works for Fielding, a company like Nielsen which uses small boxes to garner TV ratings statistics. Stuart is married to Cary, a Read More

Broken Trust

Actors: Tom Selleck, Elizabeth McGovern, Marsha Mason, William Atherton, Fritz Weaver

Synopsis: Tom Selleck stars in this made-for-television movie about a judicial sting operation. Selleck stars as Judge Timothy Nash, a respected judge who's approached by special agents to take part in an undercover sting to expose a fellow judge's corrupt activities. At first Judge Nash is willing, but as Read More

Mr. Baseball

Actors: Tom Selleck, Ken Takakura, Ava Takanashi, Dennis Haysbert, Toshi Shioya

Synopsis: When has-been baseball player Jack Elliot (Tom Selleck) is signed by a Japanese team, he is initially reluctant to take the game seriously. Elliot is very successful, though, as he teaches the team about American chutzpah, and they remind him of the value of respect. He must fight his way out from Read More

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery

Actors: Marlon Brando, Tom Selleck, Georges Corraface, Rachel Ward, Robert Davi

Synopsis: John Glen directed this throwback to the costume dramas of the 1930s and 1940s, but without a smidgen of their energy and verve. George Corraface plays Christopher Columbus as a dynamic and muscular comic-book hero. He has a dream to set sail to find a new passageway to India, but he needs the Read More

Folks!

Actors: Tom Selleck, Don Ameche, Anne Jackson, Christine Ebersole, Wendy Crewson

Synopsis: In this comedy, stockbroker Jon Aldrich (Tom Selleck) is the man who has it all, until his ill, aging parents (Don Ameche and Anne Jackson) move in with him. As his perfect life begins to disintegrate bit by bit, Jon becomes more and more depressed and disillusioned. Finally, broke and friendless Read More

Three Men and a Little Lady

Actors: Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Nancy Travis, Robin Weisman

Synopsis: Emile Ardolino directed this treacly sequel to Three Men and a Baby. The middle-aged trio of doting fathers -- Peter the architect (Tom Selleck), Michael the cartoonist (Steve Guttenberg) and Jack the actor (Ted Danson) -- have returned, sublimating their swinging bachelor instincts in order to Read More

Quigley Down Under

Actors: Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman, Chris Haywood, Ron Haddrick

Synopsis: Tom Selleck stars as American cowboy archetype Matthew Quigley in Simon Wincer's outback western Quigley Down Under. Answering an advertisement placed by Australian cattle baron Elliot Marston (Alan Rickman) to come to the rugged and uncivilized Australian countryside and shoot dingoes, Quigley Read More

Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In this romantic drama set on the Hawaiian Islands, a police detective pursues both some ruthless criminal and a comely prosecuting attorney. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

An Innocent Man

Actors: Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins, David Rasche, Richard Young

Synopsis: In Peter Yates' crime drama An Innocent Man, Tom Selleck plays Jimmie Rainwood, a stock figure airline maintenance supervisor with a perfect family. Then, one day, Jimmie decides to take a shower. While scrubbing himself clean, two crooked cops are getting themselves dirtier. Mike Parnell (David Rasche Read More

Her Alibi

Actors: Tom Selleck, Paulina Porizkova, William Daniels, James Farentino, Hurd Hatfield

Synopsis: A frustrated writer helps save a woman being railroaded by the law -- or is she? -- in this comic mystery with romantic overtones. Phil Blackwood (Tom Selleck) is a best-selling mystery novelist who has run into a bad case of writer's block. Hoping to find inspiration for his next book, Phil goes Read More

See Dick and Jane Lie, Cheat and Steal: Teaching Morality to Kids

Three Men and a Baby

Actors: Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Nancy Travis, Margaret Colin

Synopsis: Three Men and a Baby is an Americanized remake of the 1985 French comedy hit Three Men and a Cradle. Tom Selleck, Ted Danson and Steve Guttenberg play three upwardly mobile New York bachelors who share an apartment. Their even-keel lifestyle is thrown out of whack when a young woman leaves a baby Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Limbo

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Season Seven of Magnum, P.I comes to spectacular conclusion--one that was originally intended to be the series' final episode. Wounded in a violent shootout, the comatose Magnum (Tom Selleck) hovers between life and death. From his vantage point in "Limbo", Magnum tries to communicate with his Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Season 08

Actors: Tom Selleck, John Hillerman, Roger E. Mosley, Larry Manetti, Gillian Dobb

Synopsis: It had been assumed by the producers of Magnum, P.I. that the series would be canceled at the end of its seventh season, thus a two-part finale was written in which the hero, Hawaii-based private eye Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck), was shot and killed, his soul ascending to heaven. However, the Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Novel Connection

Synopsis: Angela Lansbury guest stars as crime novelist and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher in this crossover episode with Lansbury's own series Murder, She Wrote. When one of Robin Master's guests (Dorothy Loudon) is marked for murder, Magnum finds himself working with--and against--the redoubtable Ms. Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Season 07

Actors: Tom Selleck, John Hillerman, Roger E. Mosley, Larry Manetti, Gillian Dobb

Synopsis: Having moved from Thursdays to Saturdays to Tuesdays in previous seasons, Magnum, P.I. settles upon a Wednesday-night CBS slot for its seventh season on the air. While the show itself has been shifting about quite a bit of late, several things remain constant. Private eye Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Magnum on Ice

Synopsis: This episode is the conclusion of a two-part "crossover" story, which began as "Novel Connection", an episode of Magnum PI. While in Hawaii to help one of her myriad of friends, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) crosses paths with freewheeling private detective Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck) and Magnum's Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Season 06

Actors: Tom Selleck, John Hillerman, Roger E. Mosley, Larry Manetti, Gillian Dobb

Synopsis: Normally based in Hawaii, Magnum, P.I. launches its sixth season with a jaunt to Merrie Old England, where private detective Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck) and his boss-by-proxy Higgins (John Hillerman) have been assigned to oversee the London estate owned by their mutual employer, the celebrated Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Deja Vu, Part 1

Synopsis: Filmed on location, this first episode of Magnum, P.I.'s two-part Season Six opener (originally telecast in a single two-hour timeslot) finds Magnum (Tom Selleck) and Higgins (John Hillerman) journeying to London at the behest of their boss, novelist Robin Masters. As Higgins explains the duties Read More

Runaway

Actors: Tom Selleck, Cynthia Rhodes, Gene Simmons, Kirstie Alley, Stan Shaw

Synopsis: Best-selling author Michael Crichton wrote and directed this science fiction thriller that combined the influences of Blade Runner (1982), comic books, and Crichton's ongoing fascination with the dangers of high technology. Tom Selleck stars as Sergeant Jack Ramsey, a single father in the near Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Season 05

Actors: Tom Selleck, John Hillerman, Roger E. Mosley, Larry Manetti, Gillian Dobb

Synopsis: Season five of Magnum, P.I. opens with the two-part episode "Echoes of the Mind," in which Hawaii-based private eye Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck), tackles a decade-old missing-persons case; this episode features an early guest appearance by Sharon Stone, and also serves to strengthen the Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Murder 101

Synopsis: While teaching a college investigation class, Magnum (Tom Selleck) tries to stem the alarming dropout rate by agreeing to take a case from one of his students on a pro-bono basis. At first, it appears that all Magnum has to do is locate the student's missing fiancee--but as the plot thickens, our Read More

Lassiter

Actors: Tom Selleck, Jane Seymour, Lauren Hutton, Bob Hoskins, Joe Regalbuto

Synopsis: This feature-length story about the heist of $10 million in Nazi diamonds primarily rides on star Tom Selleck's popularity as TV's Magnum, P.I., (a 1980s show), since the plot turnarounds, slighted character development, and stock situations are not that engaging on their own. The setting is 1934 Read More

Magnum, P.I.: A Sense of Debt

Synopsis: Owing his life to washed-up pugilist Leon Platt (Denny Miller), T.C. (Roger E. Mosley) enters a bare-knuckle boxing match, intending to use the prize money to save Leon and his daughter Ima (a pre-Beverly Hills 90210 Shannen Doherty) from being tossed into the street. Figuring that T.C. hasn't got Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Season 04

Actors: Tom Selleck, John Hillerman, Roger E. Mosley, Larry Manetti, Gillian Dobb

Synopsis: Tom Selleck returns as the title character in Magnum, P.I. as the Hawaii-based detective series enters its fourth season. The opening episode is the now-legendary "Home From the Sea," in which Magnum, stranded on the remnants of a surf ski in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, helplessly witnesses Read More

The High Road to China

Actors: Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong, Jack Weston, Wilford Brimley, Robert Morley

Synopsis: O'Malley (Tom Selleck) is a heavy-drinking, tough biplane pilot flying the skies of China for fun and profit when Eve (Bess Armstrong) seeks him out to help her find her father before he is declared dead and she loses an inheritance to the evil Bentik (Robert Morley). O'Malley does not really want Read More

The Shadow Riders

Actors: Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Katharine Ross, Ben Johnson, Geoffrey Lewis

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, two brothers who battled on opposing sides of the Civil War return home at the end of the war to discover that their family has been kidnapped by Confederate forces. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Season 03

Actors: Tom Selleck, John Hillerman, Roger E. Mosley, Larry Manetti, Gillian Dobb

Synopsis: Season three of Magnum, P.I. finds former Navy Intelligence officer Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck) continuing to live the good life on the Hawaiian estate of reclusive mystery writer Robin Masters, who has hired Magnum to handle security. Likewise still in attendance are Magnum's "friendly enemy," Read More

Divorce Wars: A Love Story

Synopsis: This superior ABC Theatre of the Month presentation is not so much about the reasons for divorce as it is about the tensions surrounding the actual litigation. Tom Selleck plays a topnotch Seattle divorce lawyer, juggling several delicate cases at once. Arrogantly secure in his legal prowess Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Season 02

Actors: Tom Selleck, John Hillerman, Roger E. Mosley, Larry Manetti

Synopsis: Private eye Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck) continues to enjoy the hospitality of his wealthy (and never-seen) benefactor, author Robin Masters, on Masters' lavish Oahu estate as Magnum P.I. enters its second season. Our hero must also endure the verbal slings and arrows of Masters' snobbish Read More

Magnum, P.I. [TV Series]

Actors: Tom Selleck, John Hillerman, Roger E. Mosley, Larry Manetti, Gillian Dobb

Synopsis: With the cancellation of the long-running Hawaii Five-O, CBS was stuck with two valuable commodities: the series' choice Thursday-night time slot, and the series' filming facilities on the island of Oahu. The solution? Commission another Hawaii-based detective show and schedule it in the old Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Season 01