Valerie HarperFilmography

Dancing at the Harvest Moon

Synopsis: Jacqueline Bisset stars as Maggie, a Keats-quoting professor of English literature, on the verge of celebrating her 25th anniversary. But Maggie's euphoria evaporates when she discovers that her husband Tom has been flagrantly cheating on her for these many years. Dispirited, she returns to her Read More

Mary and Rhoda

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Valerie Harper, Marisa Ryan, Elon Gold

Synopsis: Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore) and Rhoda Morgenstern (Valerie Harper) from The Mary Tyler Moore Show reunite in this made-for-TV movie. In this go around, both Mary and Rhoda find themselves alone after the death of Mary's husband and Rhoda's divorce. Both try to jumpstart their dormant careers Read More

Touched by an Angel: Full Circle

Synopsis: In this sequel to the second-season Touched by an Angel episode "Flesh and Blood", the prayers of Monica's former "client" Kate Prescott (Valerie Harper) have been answered, and her wayward son Tom (Anthony Michael Hall) has returned home after seven years. But though innocent of the murder Read More

Touched By an Angel: Flesh and Blood

Synopsis: Although young Tom Prescott (Anthony Michael Hall) has been acquitted of murdering a female college student, the victim's vengeful father Leonard Page (Norman Parker) succeeds in driving both Tom and his mother Kate (Valerie Harper) out of town. As Tess (Della Reese) attends to her assignment of Read More

The Great Mom Swap

Actors: Valerie Harper, Shelley Fabares, Sid Caesar, Hillary Tuck, Mary Kate Schellhardt

Synopsis: A pair of teenage girls decide to switch families for a while to prove that each of their own clans likes the other girl better. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Death of a Cheerleader

Actors: Tori Spelling, Kellie Martin

Synopsis: A recently transferred high-school student finds herself walking a double-edged sword in her attempt to court friendship with the powerfully popular but frighteningly unpredictable head cheerleader in a disturbing look at the adolescent social hierarchy starring Tori Spelling and Kellie Martin. Read More

Poetry Hall of Fame, Vol. Two

Synopsis: Produced by Monterey Home Video, Poetry Hall of Fame 2 is the second volume of a four-part video series hosted by actress Valerie Harper. Verse written by some of the world's most famous poets are recited by well-known performers who eloquently bring alive the poets' words of wisdom, joy, hope and Read More

Poetry Hall of Fame, Vol. One

Synopsis: This PBS video is one of a four-part series that presents some of the greatest poets in the annals of literature. Selections from their works are read by Hollywood actors. In this volume, the readings are performed by William Shatner, Vincent Price, Valerie Harper, and LeVar Burton. Among the Read More

Poetry Hall of Fame, Vol. Three

Synopsis: Produced by Monterey Home Video, Poetry Hall of Fame 3 is the third volume of a four-part video series hosted by actress Valerie Harper. Verse written by some of the world's most famous poets are recited by well-known performers who eloquently bring alive the poets' words of wisdom, joy, hope Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion

Actors: Scott Baio, Raymond Burr, Valerie Harper, Diana Muldaur

Synopsis: Raymond Burr once more takes on a murder case and once more reveals the genuine killer at the very last moment in Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion. The setting is the world of high fashion, but that doesn't stop the writers from throwing in a few mobsters for good measure. The victim Read More

Stolen: One Husband

Actors: Valerie Harper, Elliott Gould, Brenda Vaccaro, Brenda Bakke, Bruce Davison

Synopsis: A husband goes middle-age bonkers and leaves his wife in this comedy. Now she is determined to show him that she doesn't need him anyway. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Happy Birthday, Bugs: 50 Looney Years

Synopsis: Happy Birthday, Bugs: 50 Looney Years is a television special celebrating 50 years of Bugs Bunny cartoons, complete with testimonials from various celebrities and a terrific end-piece "50 Years of Bugs in 3 Minutes," which features a manic collection of highlights compiled by Academy Award-winner Chuck Workman Read More

The Heritage Collection: With a Feminine Touch

Synopsis: This performance features dramatic reading of poetry and prose from women writers of our time. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The People Across the Lake

Actors: Valerie Harper, Gerald McRaney, Tammy Lauren, Dorothy Lyman, Barry Corbin

Synopsis: In this thriller, city slickers chuck their careers, pull up stakes and take up residence at a peaceful lakeside community to escape the urban rat race. Unfortunately, they soon discover that things are not as peaceful as they seem when the husband finds a mutilated corpse floating in the lake. Read More

Drop-Out Mother

Actors: Danny Gerard, Valerie Harper, Carol Kane, Wayne Rogers, Alyson Court

Synopsis: The first new TV-movie of 1988 (it debuted January 1st), Drop-Out Mother is a belated follow-up to the 1983 Dick Van Dyke vehicle Drop-Out Father. Valerie Harper plays a busy executive who decides one day to turn her back on the business world to become a full-time mom. Problem is, her husband and Read More

Strange Voices

Actors: Valerie Harper, Stephen Macht

Synopsis: College girl Nancy McKeon, up until recently the picture of normality, suddenly displays signs of schizophrenia. She hears voices, commits sudden acts of violence, and switches moods without warning. McKeon's parents Valerie Harper and Stephen Macht are at a loss to contend with the sudden change Read More

The Execution

Synopsis: Five Holocaust survivors conspire to have revenge upon the Nazi doctor who tormented them in this taut made-for-TV drama. All five are women living in Los Angeles and all have vividly painful memories of the atrocities he performed upon them. The memories come flooding back when they find him Read More

Blame It on Rio

Actors: Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Valerie Harper, Michelle Johnson, Jose Lewgoy

Synopsis: This attempt to remake the clever 1977 French farce Un Moment d'Egarement stars 50-film-a-year man Michael Caine as an executive named Matthew Hollis, who, together with friend Victor Lyons (Joseph Bologna), travels to Rio de Janeiro on business. Victor sets out on the town in search of a lambada Read More

An Invasion of Privacy

Synopsis: Based on Joan Taylor's novel Asking for It, the made-for-TV An Invasion of Privacy stars Valerie Harper as recently divorced book illustrator Kate Bianchi. Moving into a remote, cloistered island community in Maine, Kate has barely arrived when she is raped by a local handyman. The hostile, inbred Read More

Don't Go to Sleep

Synopsis: Little Mary (Robin Ignico) is haunted by the guilty memory of her sister Jennifer, who died in an auto accident not long ago. Jennifer had always been more adored by their parents, and Mary can't help thinking that her jealousy was behind Jennifer's death. Soon, Mary begins to imagine that there's Read More

Farrell for the People

Actors: Valerie Harper

Synopsis: Sitcom stalwart Valerie Harper trades jokes for the judiciary in Farrell: For the People. Valerie stars as New York attorney Elizabeth Farrell ("All she wants to be is a DA", declared the TV Guide ad copy, "but her toughest case is being a woman!"), whose case load runs the gamut from rapists to Read More

The Day the Loving Stopped

Actors: Dominique Dunne, Valerie Harper, Ally Sheedy, Dennis Weaver

Synopsis: Dennis Weaver and Valerie Harper play a married couple on the brink of divorce in The Day the Loving Stopped. Ally Sheedy plays the younger of the couple's two daughters; the story of the breakup is told primarily from her point of view. The dissolution of Weaver and Harper's marriage is Read More

The Shadow Box

Synopsis: Advertised as "Paul Newman's First Film for Television," Shadow Box was more specifically the first TV movie to be directed by Newman. Moving in a slow, deliberate fashion, the film concerns three terminally ill people. Their stories intertwine as the unfortunate spend their last days with their Read More

The Last Married Couple in America

Actors: George Segal, Natalie Wood, Richard Benjamin, Dom DeLuise, Arlene Golonka, Valerie Harper, Allan Arbus

Synopsis: Natalie Wood and George Segal star in this labored and old-fashioned sex farce, directed by Gilbert Cates. Wood and Segal play Mari and Jeff Thompson, a happily married couple who are thunderstruck when they see all their friends and acquaintances are headed for divorce court. Eventually their own Read More

Fun and Games

Synopsis: In Fun and Games, a professional career woman is harassed by her boss, who then rejects her for promotion. The woman then sues her boss for sexual harassment ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Chapter Two

Actors: James Caan, Marsha Mason, Joseph Bologna, Valerie Harper, Judy Farrell

Synopsis: Neil Simon's bright, autobiographical romantic comedy, a big Broadway success, has been adapted to the screen in a screenplay by Simon, directed by Robert Moore, that subtly shifts the emphasis from the play. In the stage version, recently widowed writer George Schneider (James Caan) and his Read More

Rhoda: Season 05

Actors: Valerie Harper, Julie Kavner, Nancy Walker, Harold Gould

Rhoda: Season 04

Actors: Valerie Harper, Julie Kavner, Nancy Walker, Harold Gould

Rhoda: Season 03

Actors: Valerie Harper, Julie Kavner, David Groh

Night Terror

Synopsis: In this made-for-television thriller, a beautiful young woman is driving home on the freeway late one night and inadvertently witnesses the murder of a police officer. Soon afterward, she finds herself pursued by the crazed killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rhoda: Season 02

Actors: Valerie Harper, Julie Kavner, David Groh, Nancy Walker, Harold Gould

Freebie and the Bean

Actors: Alan Arkin, James Caan, Loretta Swit, Jack Kruschen, Mike Kellin

Synopsis: Freebie (James Caan) and the Bean (Alan Arkin) are a pair of San Francisco cops. Red Meyers (Jack Kruschen) is the mobster whom Freebie and the Bean would like to see behind bars -- or, failing that, six feet under. Nothing stands in the way of the cops' pursuit of Meyers, meaning that private Read More

Thursday's Game

Actors: Bob Newhart, Gene Wilder

Synopsis: James L. Brooks' Thursday's Game is a witty made-for-television comedy about two businessmen (Bob Newhart and Gene Wilder) who meet every Thursday night to play poker and discuss their professional and personal problems. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Rhoda: Season 01

Actors: Valerie Harper, Julie Kavner, David Groh, Nancy Walker, Harold Gould

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 04

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Ted Knight, Gavin MacLeod, Valerie Harper

Synopsis: The big news of The Mary Tyler Moore Show's fourth season is the introduction of a new regular: Betty White as Sue Ann Nivens, the host of WJM-TV's "Happy Homemaker" household-hints show. Outwardly sweet and Pollyanna-ish, Sue Ann is actually the most predatory female in all of Minneapolis Read More

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 03

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Ted Knight, Gavin MacLeod, Valerie Harper

Synopsis: The eponymous star of The Mary Tyler Moore Show launches her third season in the role of Mary Richards, the still lovable, still unmarried associate producer of "The Six O'Clock News" on Minneapolis TV station WJM-TV. Also returning are the familiar supporting characters: irascible producer Lou Read More

Columbo: The Most Crucial Game

Synopsis: Peter Falk is as shrewd and sloppy as ever as Lt. Columbo in the made-for-TV Most Crucial Game. Columbo's quarry this time is oh-so-clever murderer Robert Culp. The lieutenant is certain that Culp is the guilty party, but the suspect has an foolproof alibi that places him miles from the murder Read More

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 02

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Ted Knight, Gavin MacLeod, Valerie Harper

Synopsis: Like the series' heroine, Mary Richards, The Mary Tyler Moore Show is a lot more confident and secure with itself as the program enters its second season. After a full year in Minneapolis, our Mary is handling her duties as associate producer of WJM-TV's nightly news broadcast with admirable Read More

Thursday's Game

Synopsis: Gene Wilder and Bob Newhart star as husbands who have some explaining to do in this made-for-television comedy. Wilder stars as Harry Evers and Newhart as Marvin Ellison, two friends who decide to keep up their Thursday night escapades after their weekly poker game breaks up. When their wives find Read More

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 01

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Ted Knight, Gavin MacLeod, Valerie Harper

Synopsis: "How will you make it on your own?" These lyrics from the original version of the Mary Tyler Moore Show's theme song, "Love Is All Around" were the first words heard by the viewers as 30-year-old Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore) left her hometown and drove into Minneapolis in the opening episode Read More

Rock, Rock, Rock!

Actors: Tuesday Weld, Connie Francis, Teddy Randazzo, Alan Freed, Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, Chuck Berry, Johnny Burnette

Synopsis: Rock, Rock, Rock stars 13-year-old Tuesday Weld, who looks 11 if she's a day. Even so, Weld's Dori is trying to get together enough money to buy a strapless gown (she's far more self-confident than she should be at this biological stage of the game). Daddy has cut off Dori's allowance, but gee Read More