William BoyettFilmography

Newsies

Actors: Christian Bale, David Moscow, Luke Edwards, Max Casella, Ann-Margret, Marty Belafsky, Ele Keats

Synopsis: A failed effort to revive the big-budget movie musical, Newsies attempted to create toe-tapping, song-and-dance excitement out of the true story of an 1899 strike by newspaper boys against publishing magnate Joseph Pulitzer. The "newsies" band together to protest a pay cut by Pulitzer (Robert Duvall Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Time's Arrow, Part II

Synopsis: When Next Generation kicked off its sixth season on September 26, 1992, it was with the resolution of the fifth-season cliffhanger "Time's Arrow." A quick recap apprises the viewer that, while investigating a curious archeological discovery, Lt. Cmdr. Data was sucked into a time vortex Read More

Murphy Brown: Send in the Clowns

Synopsis: In this broad but hilarious spoof of the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, Murphy is dragged before a Senate Committee after she files a story on the personal spending habits of government officials. Mercilessly grilled by a panel of fatuous politicians, Murphy does her best to defend her Read More

The Rocketeer

Actors: Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: After getting his start as a visual effects artist on the original Star Wars trilogy, Spielberg protege Joe Johnston found success as a director with his debut film, the blockbuster family adventure Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. For his sophomore outing, Johnston helmed this action-adventurer, set in Read More

Strays

Actors: Timothy Busfield, Kathleen Quinlan, Claudia Christian, William Boyett, Eve Brenner

Synopsis: In this made-for-television horror outing, a young married couple and their daughter are terrorized by a pride of ferocious feral felines. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Night Court: Day Court

Synopsis: A temporary personnel shortage requires the Night Court staff to take over the duties of Day Court. This has a strange effect on acerbic court matron Roz (Marsha Warfield), who transforms into the personification of effusive cheerfulness. Not quite so cheery is Christine (Markie Post) who in a Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Big Good-Bye

Synopsis: The Enterprise's Holodeck malfunctions, trapping Captain Picard in a recreation of 1941 San Francisco. In the tradition of the earlier Star Trek episode A Piece of the Action, Picard finds himself smack-dab in the middle of a film noir-style gangster melodrama, with familiar movie stereotypes Read More

The Hidden

Actors: Michael Nouri, Kyle MacLachlan, Ed O'Ross, Clu Gulager, Claudia Christian

Synopsis: A cop discovers that there's something unusual about his new partner in this unusual sci-fi thriller. A seemingly well-mannered stock broker one day snaps, robbing a bank, stealing a Ferrari, and driving straight into a police barricade without any thought for his own safety, and he's mowed down Read More

Native Son

Actors: Carroll Baker, Akosua Busia, Matt Dillon, Art Evans, John Karlen, Elizabeth McGovern, Oprah Winfrey

Synopsis: Previously filmed in Argentina in 1951, black author Richard Wright's powerful race-conscious novel Native Son was remade in this barely released 1986 version. The story involves Bigger Thomas (Victor Thomas), an angry Depression-era Chicago black who hopes to elevate himself through his Read More

The Deliberate Stranger

Actors: Mark Harmon, Glynnis O'Connor

Synopsis: Mark Harmon stars as baby-faced serial killer Ted Bundy in this sobering 2-part TV movie. Ostensibly the archetypal All-American boy, Bundy was, from 1974 onward, responsible for the rapes and murders of several young women in the Pacific Northwest. The clues begin to mount when one of Bundy's Read More

Getting Physical

Actors: Sandahl Bergman, Alexandra Paul, David Naughton, John Aprea, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: After being mugged by two men, aspiring actress Kendall Gibley (Alexandra Paul) vows that she'll be ready for any future attacks. Kendall decides to "beef up" by undergoing a body-building regimen that would kill a lesser woman. Her devotion to physical culture sorely threatens her personal Read More

The A-Team: Steel

Synopsis: Randy Stern (Mary-Margaret Humes) hires the A-Team to help her uncle Mickey (Norman Alden), the owner of a small construction firm. A group of mobsters is determined to sabotage Mickey to prevent his excavation of some rather incriminating evidence--namely, the murdered body of his former partner. Read More

Quincy, M.E.: To Kill in Plain Sight

Synopsis: The authorities are placed on high alert when Lane Garrison (Blake Marison), advance man for a notorious assassin, is accidentally killed in an explosion a few days before a major political convention in Los Angeles. Among those monitoring the situation is medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman) Read More

Bloody Birthday

Actors: Susan Strasberg, José Ferrer, Lori Lethin, Melinda Cordell, Julie Brown

Synopsis: Sort of a triple-threat Bad Seed with a more overtly violent streak, this film tells the tale of trio of cherubic youngsters whose births all coincided with a solar eclipse, which somehow initiated a kind of time-release evil reaction that reaches its climax on the kids' tenth birthday, causing Read More

The Golden Gate Murders

Actors: David Janssen, Susannah York

Synopsis: Because the producers couldn't get clearance to film on the real Golden Gate bridge, The Golden Gate Murders is enacted upon a distressingly unconvincing studio mock-up. The film itself is far better than its backdrop: David Janssen stars as a detective investigating the supposed suicide of a Read More

The Rockford Files: The Competitive Edge

Synopsis: While searching for an embezzler who disappeared after posting bail, Jim (James Garner) asks one question too many at an elite health club. As a result, he is knocked out, heavily sedated, and bundled off to a mental institution. Unable to convince anyone of his real identity and surrounded by 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

Emergency!: Loose Ends

Synopsis: After being involved in a fatal car accident, Dr. Brackett (Robert Fuller) is consumed by guilt over the fact that the father of a young girl has been killed--and the girl herself has seemingly gone into shock. Elsewhere, the emergency team is confronted by a raging ammonia fire, and a shootout in Read More

Emergency!: Insanity Epidemic

Synopsis: Captain Stanley (Michael Norell) confuses the emergency staff when he begins showing signs of uncharacteristic nervousness and paranoia. The reason? Stanley's former commanding officer Captain McConnike (William Boyett) is scheduled to make inspection of the Rampart team. Back on the job, Marco Read More

Emergency!: Upward and Onward

Synopsis: An upcoming Chief's examination has Captain Stanley (Michael Norell) more uptight than usual, due to the "bad blood" between himself and his former commander (William Boyett). Meanwhile, an actor (Leon Ames) who plays a doctor on a popular soap opera checks into Rampart as a patient, driving Read More

Emergency!: Hypochondri-Cap

Synopsis: Captain Stanley (Michael Norell) traces his grouchy behavior to his arm pains, prompting the staff to suggest that he have a medical checkup. But Stanley balks, worried that he may be suffering from arthritis, thus rendering him expendable. This week's emergency load includes a man who gets his Read More

Emergency!: Limelight

Synopsis: The insufferably rule-bound paramedic Craig Brice (James G. Richardson) makes himself even more obnoxious than usual when he gets his name in the newspapers. Brice's insatiable thirst for self-aggrandizing publicity drives John (Randolph Mantooth) and Roy (Kevin Tighe) crazy throughout the Read More

Adam-12: Follow Up

Synopsis: 1950s western star Rod Cameron appears in this episode as Martin Broule, the owner of a riding academy. Several horses have been stolen from Broule's establishment, and Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) investigate accusations that Broule himself is the thief. Read More

Adam-12: Operation Action

Synopsis: Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) is held hostage by a young self-styled revolutionary. The man wants his fellow "rebel", who has been arrested for killing a pimp, released from jail immediately--and is using Pete's life as a bargaining chip. Featured in the cast as a witness to Pete's Read More

Adam-12: Something Worth Dying For, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of Adam-12's two-part series finale, Officer Jim Reed (Kent McCord), frustrated that a heroin user he has placed in jail is now free and back on the streets, decides that the best way to handle druggies is through understanding and rehabiliation. With this in mind, Jim enrolls Read More

Adam-12: Something Worth Dying For, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Adam-12's two-part series finale, Officer Jim Reed has earned the Medal of Valor for putting his life on the line. Worried that Jim's luck is running out, his wife Jean (Kristin Nelson) urges him to give up his prowl-car duties and take the investigator's exam, which would Read More

Adam-12: Victim of the Crime

Synopsis: Amy Milner, the daughter of Adam-12 costar Martin Milner (Officer Pete Malloy), makes her dramatic TV debut in this episode. The younger Milner is cast as Debbie McMahon, the daughter of a storekeeper who is wounded in a robbery. Outraged that the perpetrator has managed to escape, Debbie holds Read More

Adam-12: Lady's Night

Synopsis: Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and his wife Jean go out on a dinner date with Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and his girlfriend Judy (Aneta Corsaut). Unfortunately, this pleasureable outing nearly ends before it begins when the Reeds witness a holdup. Further messing up the evening is an incident involving Read More

Adam-12: Pot Shot

Synopsis: While visiting a local laundromat, off-duty police officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) cannot help but notice that a shaggy-haired young man seems to be monopolizing all of the washing machines. It turns out that this busy customer is using those machines to dry his stash of marijuana. In case Read More

Adam-12: G.T.A.

Synopsis: The initials in the episode's title stand for "Grand Theft Auto", and that particular crime is what occupies the time of Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner). Several older automobiles have been stolen over a short period of time, and the two cops figure that the Read More

The Rockford Files: 2 into 5.56 Won't Go

Synopsis: Korean War veteran Jim Rockford (James Garner) is contacted by his former commanding officer Col. Daniel Hart-Bowie (Frank Maxwell), who turns up dead after leaving a very brief and uninformative message on Jim's answering machine. Before long, the Army is exerting pressure on Jim to reveal the Read More

Mobile Two

Synopsis: In this feature-length pilot film for a weekly Jack Webb-produced TV series, Jackie Cooper stars as Peter Campbell, a veteran news reporter whose career has been destroyed by booze. Hoping to redeem himself, Campbell signs on as the senior member of a mobile news team for TV station KONE in an Read More

Adam-12: Suicide

Synopsis: The Rampart police division swings into action after receiving a long-distance call from Omaha. A frantic woman reports that her husband, currently living in LA, has called her and threatened to commit suicide. As Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) search for the Read More

Adam-12: Suspect Number One

Synopsis: Former B-western leading man Donald Barry guest stars as Charlie Bishop, an ex-convict who has ended up on skid row. Relaying a message to Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner), Charlie begs to sent back to prison--and indicates that he will go to any lengths to land behind bars. Malloy and his Read More

Adam-12: Roll Call

Synopsis: The station house receives an urgent radio call from an unidentified officer--which is abruptly cut off after he says "shots fired." The radio dispatcher quickly sets up a roll call to determine the officer's identity, and by episode's end Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) is among the cops who have Read More

Adam-12: X-Force

Synopsis: Flying in the face of his police training, Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) takes an intensely personal interest in the search for a missing six-year-old girl. Catching up with a suspected child molester, Pete reacts violently when the prisoner makes a snide remark. Now Malloy is facing charges Read More

Adam-12: Team Work

Synopsis: Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) think that something fishy is going on where they're summoned to two different accident scenes. In both instances, the same tow truck pulls up to haul off the damaged vehicle--and the same witness comes forth to tell what he saw. Sure Read More

Adam-12: The Sweet Smell...

Synopsis: There's definitely something in the air when a pungent perfume bottle smashes in the back seat of Adam-12. Despite the all-pervading stench, Officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) valiantly remain on the job. Unforutnately, most of their calls turn out to be false alarms Read More

Adam-12: Christmas

Synopsis: In the last of Adam-12's Yuletide episodes, Officer Jim Reed (Kent McCord) wants to deliver a Christmas tree to a retirement home. Jim's partner Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) doesn't object to this gesture of generosity--but he does raise a howl at the notion of using Adam-12 for non-police Read More

Adam-12: Alcohol

Synopsis: Dick Van Patten guest stars as Harry Curtis, a lovable drunk whose hilarious wisecracks have arresting officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) in stitches. What isn't so funny is the desperation which Harry is hiding under his clownish veneer--in fact, it can be said that Read More

Adam-12: Point of View

Synopsis: The centerpiece of this tense episode is a hostage situation on the roof of a shopping center. Having bungled a robbery, two armed criminals grab a female hostage and head to the roof. In their efforts to rescue the woman, Officers Reed (Kent McCord) and Malloy (Martin Milner) finds themselves Read More

Adam-12: Lady Beware

Synopsis: Beth Brickell guest stars as female police sergeant Gloria Tyler, who temporarily joins forces with Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner). Their mission is to locate and capture a vicious rapist who has been preying on teenage girls. Meanwhile, the hills of LA begin to Read More

Adam-12: Routine Patrol

Synopsis: The title of this episode is something of a misnomer: It's anything but routine for Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) when they pursue four young car thieves. The quartet has stolen a vehicle full of weaponry and ammunition, and now they're taking advantage of this Read More

Adam-12: Season 07

Actors: Martin Milner, Kent McCord, William Boyett, Gary Crosby, William Elliott

Synopsis: The seventh and final season of Adam-12 spends a bit more time on the private lives of LAPD officers Malloy (Martin Milner) and Reed (Kent McCord) than in previous years. Reed was seen commiserating with his wife Jean, played by Kristin Harmon (replacing season two's Mikki Jamison). As for the Read More

Adam-12: Taking it Easy

Synopsis: In the second-season Adam-12 episode "Light Duty", Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) was assigned to the night desk after suffering a sprained wrist. Now it is Pete's partner Jim Reed (Kent McCord) who is similarly disabled, and now it's Jim who pulls night-desk duty. And, just as Malloy Read More

Adam-12: Krash

Synopsis: Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) doesn't get much opportunity to enjoy his new car before another driver smashes into it. This happens just after Pete and his partner Jim Reed (Kent McCord) are forced to abandon the vehicle in order to chase down a purse snatcher. Elsewhere, the two mobile cops Read More

Adam-12: Camp, Part 1

Synopsis: Adam-12 launches its seventh season with the first episode of a two-part story. When officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) haul in a pint-sized lawbreaker (Lee H. Montgomery, they assume it is the kid's first offense. Soon, however, they learn that the boy is really 14 Read More

Adam-12: Skywatch, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) continue their temporary assignment with an ASD helicopter unit. Assisted by airborne officers Walters (William Stevens) and Mills (Gavin James), the two normally "grounded" cops are able to hunt Read More

Adam-12: Sunburn

Synopsis: Officer Jim Reed (Kent McCord) suffers torture beyond endurance when he goes on his rounds while suffering from a severe sunburn. Though wracked with pain, Jim joins his partner Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) in breaking up a drug ring and rescuing a couple of kids from drowning in a lake. A Read More

Adam-12: Skywatch, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) temporarily take leave of Adam-12 to join an ASD helicopter unit. The plan is to expedite crime fighting by combining the force's mobile and airborne facilities--and it works beautifully. Read More

Adam-12: North Hollywood Division

Synopsis: Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) doesn't know whether to be flattered or annoyed when he becomes the subject of an article written by his partner Jim Reed (Kent McCord). Back on the job, the two cops are assigned to the North Hollywood Division, with assignments ranging from breaking up a Read More

Adam-12: Trouble in the Bank

Synopsis: Adam-12 moved from a Wednesday to a Tuesday-night timeslot with this episode, in which an out-of-uniform Jim Reed (Kent McCord) drops off a deposit at a bank--only to be taken hostage by a desperate pair of robbers. When the crooks find out that Reed is a cop, they hope to use him to bargain for Read More

Adam-12: Hot Shot

Synopsis: Tonight's case log for Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) includes their high-speed pursuit of a teenage robber. And elsewhere, the two cops confront a gun-wielding father (Raymond Mayo) who has held his daughter (Mia Bendixsen) a virtual prisoner for nearly all her Read More

Adam-12: Van Nuys Division

Synopsis: Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) is in for quite a drubbing from his partner Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and the rest of the police force when he decides to grow a mustache. But the kidding diminishes as the day wears on and the two mobile cops tackle a variety of tough cases during their brief Read More

Adam-12: The Beast

Synopsis: With Adam-12 temporarily out of commission, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) are temporarily assigned to "The Beast", the oldest and least reliable vehicle in the department. Not only does "The Beast" spew out dangerous pollutants wherever it travels, but the old Read More

Adam-12: Suspended

Synopsis: While off duty, Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) stops a robbery in progress and shoots down a holdup man who turns out to be unarmed. When the man later dies, Pete is suspended pending a departmental investigation--and it's as nerve-wracking a procedure as the shooting itself. This episode marks one Read More

Adam-12: Training Division: The Rookie

Synopsis: Arrogant rookie cop George Barrett (John Elerick) has trouble following orders during his probation period--and Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord), Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Ed Wells (Gary Crosby) bear the brunt of his insubordination. Messing up a variety of cases and forever jumping to the Read More

Adam-12: Keeping Tabs

Synopsis: Things get personal for Rampart Police Sergeant "Mac" MacDonald (William Boyett) when a rebellious young man is arrested for joyriding in a stolen car. The driver turns out to be Mac's own son Bill (Sean Kelly), prompting Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) to lend a Read More

Adam-12: Easy Rap

Synopsis: Thanks to the loopholes in the legal system, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) are frustrated in their efforts to bring a hardened drug dealer and a teenage car thief to justice. Inevitably, a tragedy results from these judicial inquities. Featured in the cast as one Read More

Adam-12: Harbor Division

Synopsis: Season Six of Adam-12 begins with the first of several "remote" assigments for LAPD mobile officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy ({$Martin Milner]). On this occasion, the two cops are assigned to the city's harbor and waterfront, where they run up against a credit-card forger and a Read More

Adam-12: Anatomy of a 415

Synopsis: In the police penal code, a "Misdemeanor 415" translates as "Disturbing the Peace"--and Officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) have a doozy of a "415" on their hands. The two cops are summoned time and again to the home of an unhappily married couple (Jed Allan, Jean Read More

Adam-12: West Valley Division

Synopsis: Working out of the West Valley Division in this episode, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) join forces with a police helicopter unit. In the course of events, the two cops take to the air to chase after a spectacularly reckless motorcyclist, as well as other assorted Read More

Adam-12: Foothill Division

Synopsis: Adam-12 takes on an "Old West" flavor in this episode, as Officers Pete Malloy (Kent McCord) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) investigate the theft of valuable riding equipment from a rancher. Later on, the two cops temporarily abandon Adam-12 and mount a pair of horses to pursue a gang of car thieves. Read More

Adam-12: A Fool and His Money

Synopsis: When Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) wins $5000 in a contest, everyone else at Rampart has a suggestion as to how he should spend the money. Unfortunately, Malloy does not heed the best advice, and suffers the consequences. In a less frivolous moment, Pete and his partner Jim Reed (Kent Read More

Adam-12: Capture

Synopsis: Hoping to solve a series of burglaries, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) set their sights on Reno West (Jed Allan), an ex-convict whom they'd confronted in the previous episode "Hot Shot". Elsewhere, the cops search high and low for a nasty marauding dog. And yet Read More

Adam-12: Season 06

Actors: Martin Milner, Kent McCord, William Boyett, Gary Crosby, Shaaron Claridge

Synopsis: Although Adam-12 slipped a bit in the ratings during its sixth season, ranking 23rd as opposed to the previous season's Number 11 slot, the series remained America's most popular half-hour dramatic series. In fact, by 1973 it was America's only half-hour dramatic series. In hopes of Read More

Adam-12: Hollywood Division

Synopsis: Officer Jim Reed (Kent McCord) is intrigued and Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) is irritated by the voice of the new police dispatcher. Though she comes across as sexy and alluring, the newcomer is also rather confusing: it seems that no one can understand what she's saying or where she's Read More

Adam-12: If the Shoe Fits

Synopsis: Officer Jim Reed (Kent McCord) drives his colleagues to distraction with his new squeaky shoes. Be that as it may, Jim and his partner Pete Malloy (Kent McCord) have plenty of other things to occupy their time, including a bank robbery which morphs into a hostage situation, and a youngster (Moosie Read More

Adam-12: Northeast Division

Synopsis: Assigned to the Northeast Division, Officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) try to trap a young cyclist who has been terrifying a suburban neighborhood. Other assignments involve a restaurant robbery, and an illegal attempt to bury a family pet in a residential area. The Read More

Adam-12: Clear with a Civilian, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, new police commissioner Edna Dixon (Juanita Moore) insists upon accompanying mobile officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) during a night shift. It's something of an ordeal by fire for all three persons, inasmuch as Jim and Peter are Read More

Adam-12: Citizen's Arrest-484

Synopsis: Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) are intrigued when an off-duty officer makes a citizen's arrest of a female shoplifter (Pamela Jones). The woman insists that she has resorted to stealing in order to feed her starving baby. As it turns out, the woman is indeed caring Read More

Adam-12: Clear with a Civilian, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, a flu epidemic has decimated the Rampart division, forcing Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) to take over an unusually large caseload. Admist the plethora of emergency calls, burglaries, and public disturbances, the two mobile Read More

Adam-12: O'Brien's Stand

Synopsis: The "O'Brien" of the title is Mrs. O'Brien (Lillian Bronson), the feisty old manager of the apartment building wherein resides Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner). Someone has stolen Mrs. O'Brien's purse, and she is determined that the police capture the thief--even if it means picketing the Read More

Adam-12: The Princess and the Pig

Synopsis: Officer Jim Reed (Kent McCord) goes undercover in hopes of smashing a particularly venal drug ring. He receives unexpected assistance from drug-addicted folksinger Kathy Royal, played by future General Hospital diva Leslie Charleson. Also in the cast is jazz musician-cum-actor Bobby Troup, who Read More

Adam-12: The Tip

Synopsis: Much to the embarrassment of Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner), their stakeout of a savings and loan comes a-cropper when the place is robbed right under their noses. Worse still, the thieves manage to smuggle in tear gas and make their escape without interference. Read More

Adam-12: Back-Up One L-20

Synopsis: This episode focuses on one of Adam-12's most stalwart supporting players, William Boyett as Sergeant "Mac" MacDonald. While on assignment, Mac knocks down a pedestrian in his squad car. Although Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) testifies that it was an unavoidable accident, Mac is accused of Read More

Adam-12: Mary Hong Loves Tommy Chen

Synopsis: A crime wave sweeps through Los Angeles' Chinatown district, and an undercover police officer is shot. Investigating, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) find that virtually the entire community has been intimidated into silence by a rampaging youth gang. And in a Read More

Adam-12: Harry Nobody

Synopsis: That grand old barnstormer Henry Jones guests in this episode as a garrulous wino named Harry Craig. While Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) are investigating a murder, Harry staggers forward to declare that he can identify the killer. There's only one problem: In Read More

Adam-12: Badge Heavy

Synopsis: Several years before he turned to screenwriting--and winning an Oscar for his contributions to the 1978 film The Deer Hunter in the process--Quinn Redeker appeared in a guest role in this Adam-12 episode. Redeker is cast as Officer Charlie Burnside, a rogue cop who uses excessive brutality when Read More

Adam-12: Vendetta

Synopsis: Israeli-born actor Nehemiah Persoff guests in this episode as Angelo Covelli, an immigrant Italian tailor. Signor Covelli has been acting strangely of late, arousing the interest of Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner). The two mobile cops are aware that Angelo's brother Read More

Adam-12: The Surprise

Synopsis: With his birthday rapidly approaching, Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) sternly informs his partner Jim Reed (Kent McCord)--and anyone else who will listen--that he does not, repeat, DOES NOT, want a surprise birthday party. So guess what happens. Elsewhere, the Rampart division is kept busy Read More

Adam-12: Dirt Duel

Synopsis: Season Five of Adam-12 gets under way with a typical Jack Webb-style scrutinization of the community-relations activities of the LA County Police Department. While going about their goodwill rounds, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) encounter some bad will from a gang Read More

Adam-12: Who Won?

Synopsis: This week, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) try to stem an epidemic of reckless drag-racing in the streets of LA. Their hotheaded colleague Ed Wells (Gary Crosby) is all for locking up the culprits and throwing away the key, but Jim and Pete are of the opinion that Read More

Adam-12: Training Wheels

Synopsis: Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) cover familiar ground when they climb into the front seat of Adam-12 to chase down a car thief. But they're in far less familiar surroundings when they are assigned to an experimental LAPD bicycle patrol. Doing their best to hide Read More

Adam-12: The Late Baby

Synopsis: This episode is distinguished by the presence in the cast of two of Frank Sinatra's offspring: Frank Sinatra Jr. is cast as Officer Tom Boyd, while his sister Christina Sinatra is seen as LAPD stenographer Marilyn Tate. Falling in love with Marilyn, Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) finds his Read More

Adam-12: Hot Spell

Synopsis: During a particularly oppressive heat wave, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) answer several "routine" calls which yield surprising results. In one instance, a report of a theft culminates in a drug bust--and in another, a neighbor's complaint results in the capture Read More

Adam-12: Gifts and Long Letters

Synopsis: Mark Miller plays a paranoid ex-convict named Tom and Leslie Parrish appears as a waitress named Sharon in a sad story of a star-crossed romance. Sharon fond of Tom, but he is more preoccupied with the fear that he is being stalked and pursued . When Sharon attempts suicide, Officers Jim Reed Read More

Mission: Impossible: Leona

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Robert Goulet

Synopsis: "Leona" was the name of the late wife of Syndicate chieftan Joe Epic (Robert Goulet). In order to rescue a captured undercover agent, the IMF must force a schism in the new partnership between Epic and his former gangland rival Mike Apollo (Mike Apollo). The Mission: to convince Epic that Apollo Read More

Adam-12: Season 05

Actors: Martin Milner, Kent McCord, William Boyett, Gary Crosby, Shaaron Claridge

Synopsis: Season five of Adam-12 boasts a number of fascinating guest stars, backing up series leads Martin Milner (as Officer Pete Malloy) and Kent McCord (as Officer Jim Reed). The season opener "Dirt Duel" features Micky Dolenz, late of The Monkees. "The Beast" offers an acting opportunity to Donna Douglas Read More

Adam-12: The Chaser

Synopsis: Bruce Gordon, best known to 1960s TV fans as Frank Nitti on the original Untouchables series, is no less menacing in the role of modern-day bounty hunter Mike Dehner. Having come to Los Angeles in search of a bail jumper, Dehner makes no secret of his willingness to resort to violence to get his Read More

Adam-12: Log 26: LEMRAS

Synopsis: The initials in the title stand for "Law Enforcement Manpower Resources Allocation System"--or more simply, the LAPD computer system (the 1971 edition, that is). LEMRAS arranges for dedicated police officers like Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) to fill in the departmental Read More

Adam-12: Log 36: Man Between

Synopsis: Cynical police officer Ed Wells (Gary Crosby) trusts no one, and holds fellow cop Jim Reed (Kent McCord) in contempt for Reed's more optimistic outlook on life. By episode's end, however, Wells learns the hard way that Reed may be a lot more on target about humanity than he is. Along the way Read More

Adam-12: Log 165: Once a Cop

Synopsis: Comedian Shelley Berman) guest stars as a crooked Hollywood agent who is running a scam with a sexy starlet (Katie O'Price). There is also a third player in this intrigue, a tough customer named Jack Donahue (Leo Gordon). Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) are Read More

Adam-12: Anniversary

Synopsis: Pro wrestler H.B. "Hardboiled" Haggerty is but one of many colorful characters appearing in this episode. Summoned to break up a disturbance in a bar, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) end up trying to subdue a patricularly violent patron (Haggerty, of course)--who Read More

Adam-12: Assassination

Synopsis: Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy are hunting for a prowler when they are suddenly besieged by a sniper. Things get dicier when it appears that the unseen gunman has a particular grudge against Jim Reed. Former Lost in Space regular Angela Cartwright appears in the role of "Cindy Read More

Adam-12: The Ferret

Synopsis: Steve Franken, best known to baby-boomers as the snotty Chatsworth Osborne Jr. on the old Dobie Gillis TV series, is here cast in a straight role as "The Ferret", a pro-environmental terrorist. Targetting manufacturers whom he regards as shameless polluters, the Ferret specializes in giving these Read More

Adam-12: Million Dollar Buff

Synopsis: Veteran movie heavy (and prolific screenwriter) Leo Gordon guest stars as Jennings Thornton, a wealthy "police buff" who proves to be a pain in the neck for Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner). Not only is Thornton convinced that he is better a catching crooks than the Read More

Adam-12: The Search

Synopsis: While pursuing a robbery suspect, Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) is seriously injured in a car accident. His partner Jim Reed (Kent McCord) rushes to Malloy's assistance, but Pete is nowhere to be found: he has disappeared somewhere in the hills of Griffith Park. The rest of the episode Read More

Adam-12: The Dinosaur

Synopsis: The titular "dinosaur" is veteran police officer Art McCall, played by prolific movie bad guy Warren Stevens. Sidelined by an injury, McCall returns to the LAPD after an eight-year absence. Unfortunately, he is unable to adjust to the changes made in law enforcement during those eight years, and Read More

Adam-12: Season 04

Actors: Martin Milner, Kent McCord, William Boyett, Gary Crosby, Claude Johnson

Synopsis: Just as L.A. cop Jim Reed (Kent McCord) was promoted from rookie to full officer during the third season of Adam-12, so too does Reed's older partner Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) enjoy a boost in pay and rank during the season's fourth season. Malloy is promoted to policeman three this year, one Read More

Adam-12: Pick-Up

Synopsis: This episode is something of a showcase for two former TV-series regulars: Perry Mason's Barbara Hale, and Family Affair's Kathy Garver. While searching for a rapist who preys on hitchhikers, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) do their best to reunite a drug-peddling Read More

Family Affair: The Inheritance

Synopsis: It's often been said that love flies out the door when money flies in the window. This proves to be painfully accurate when Buffy (Anissa Jones) and Jody (Johnnie Whitaker) receive an inheritance of 52 dollars. Dazzled by their "sudden wealth", the kids soon become uncharacteristically avaricious Read More

Ironside: Beware the Wiles of the Stranger

Synopsis: Tina Louise guest stars as Candy, a pretty cocktail waitress who hitches a ride from Ironside's aide Mark (Don Mitchell). What Mark doesn't know is that Candy is the accomplice of a wanted criminal, and that she is looking for a fall guy to take the rap for a recent robbery. The trouble really Read More

Family Affair: Marooned

Synopsis: Mr. French (Sebastian Cabot) takes Jody (Johnnie Whitaker) and Buffy (Anissa Jones) to Vermont to visit Uncle Bill (Brian Keith). En route, the butler and the kids are trapped in a blinding blizzard, and for a while things look pretty grim. Eventually, the "castaways" find a deserted cabin and Read More

Adam-12: Log 43: Hostage

Synopsis: Wounded and in a state of shock, Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) is held captive by two escaped convicts in a small café. Malloy's partner is told that unless he frees the convicts' comrade from jail, Pete will be killed. It is at this point that the department's S.W.A.T. team swings into 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

Adam-12: Season 03

Actors: Martin Milner, Kent McCord, William Boyett, Gary Crosby, Claude Johnson

Synopsis: As Adam-12 begins its third season, former rookie cop Jim Reed (Kent McCord) is promoted to full officer. No one is happier about this promotion than Jim's crusty veteran partner Pete Malloy (Martin Milner), who has regarded Reed as an equal all along. The supporting cast this season includes such Read More

Adam-12: Log 104: The Bomb

Synopsis: Among the assignments tackled by mobile officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) during today's shift is to stop a would-be suicide. Also, the duo goes after a gang of drag racers who've turned the streets of LA into their own personal racetrack, and a group of thieves who Read More

Adam-12: Log 74: Light Duty

Synopsis: Sidelined by a fractured wrist, Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) pulls what he regards as "light duty", a night-desk shift with attractive policewoman Doris Mills (Beth Brickell). But things go from light to dark in a hurry when the two officers are confronted by a armed sniper who demands that Read More

Adam-12: Log 114: The Hero

Synopsis: Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) are duly impressed when a young civilian, Lauro Perez (A Martinez), performs an act of heroism by rescuing a man from a warehouse fire. Curiously, however, Lauro balks at being awarded with a police citation; indeed, he seems Read More

Adam-12: Log 24: A Rare Occasion

Synopsis: Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and his date Ruth (Carla Borelli) hope to enjoy some quality "down time" at a backyard barbecue held by Pete's partner Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and his wife Jean (Mikki Jamison). But the evening is ruined when the party is crashed by a neighborhood youngster who is Read More

Adam-12: Log 14: S.W.A.T.

Synopsis: This episode focuses on the LAPD's Special Weapons and Tactics unit, which had made a "guest" appearance in the previous Adam-12 installment "Log 43: Hostage". The S.W.A.T. team is called in to help Officers Malloy (Martin Milner) and Reed (Kent McCord) locate and neutralize a sniper, who is holed Read More

Adam-12: Log 64: Bottom of the Bottle

Synopsis: Officers Reed (Kent McCord) and Malloy (Martin Milner) have their hands full with a boisterous female alcoholic named Mae Pilaf (Norma Crane). After breaking up a barroom brawl in which Mae is involved, the two cops are summoned to an apartment where a shooting has occurred--and run into old Mae Read More

Adam-12: Log 54: Impersonation

Synopsis: James McEachin appears as Mr. Rivers, who claims to be a police detective. A civilian fight promoter has accused Rivers of cheating him out of $350. It is up to Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) to determine Rivers' guilt or innocence--and to establish conclusively Read More

Adam-12: Log 65: Cigarettes, Cars and Wild, Wild Women

Synopsis: Officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) try to break up a gang of auto thieves who use pretty, miniskirted girls as decoys for unwary male drivers. Elsewhere, the two cops are summoned to a teenage pot party (this is, after all, a Jack Webb) production. And in another Read More

Adam-12: Log 75: Have a Nice Weekend

Synopsis: Several robberies have been committed in a prosperous neighborhood, and Officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) pull weekend duty to investigate. Also on this episode's case log is an attempted arson, and a feisty old lady with an inordinate fondness for firearms. And in a Read More

Adam-12: Log 85: Sign of the Times

Synopsis: Officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) break up a racket conducted by an elderly astrologer who moonlights (no pun intended) as a criminal. In other cases, the two cops provide words of comfort to a woman agonizing over her son's drug problems; and a zoning issue turns Read More

Adam-12: Log 35: Easy Bare Rider

Synopsis: Chasing down an erratic motorist, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) end up issuing a citation to a driver who is blind drunk--and stark naked. Elsewhere, the two cops try to determine the source of $12,000 found by a youngster. And finally, Jim and Pete clean up the Read More

Adam-12: Log 134: Child Stealer

Synopsis: Today's shift finds mobile officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) chasing after a man suspected of kidnapping a child. The two cops also deal with an escaped prisoner, and with a vicious gang of armored-car hijackers. Featured in the supporting cast is venerable character Read More

Adam-12: Log 173: Shoplift

Synopsis: Officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) have no idea what they're in for when they arrest a birdbrained socialite (Nina Shipman) on a shoplifting charge. Their pretty prisoner prompty escapes custody, leading the officers on a merry chase which culminates at the Read More

Adam-12: Log 174: Loan Sharks

Synopsis: The third season of Adam-12 begins as mobile police officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) set their sights on breaking up a gang of loan sharks. Each time the cops think they have the gang dead to rights, they are stymied by intimidated witnesses. Finally, one teenager Read More

Adam-12: Log 62: Grand Theft Horse?

Synopsis: Answering a call from two park rangers, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) conduct an A.P.B. search for a horse, stolen from a riding stable from alleged junkie. In turns out that the thief is a homesick Texan, who has gone to rather extreme measures to assuage his Read More

Adam-12: Log 31: Jimmy Eisley's Dealing Smack!

Synopsis: Acting on a tip, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) participate in a raid on a drug ring operating from the home of a middle-aged man (William Mims). The two cops also come to the aid of a bewildered young woman (Jenny Sullivan) who is lost in the middle of L.A. Read More

Adam-12: Log 112: You Blew It

Synopsis: In a rare dereliction of duty, veteran officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) allows a traffic violator to go free so that he and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) can answer an emergency call. This failure to follow proper procedure comes back to haunt Malloy when the freed violator turns out to be a prime Read More

Adam-12: Log 33: It All Happened So Fast

Synopsis: Just coming off his shift, rookie officer Jim Reed (Kent McCord) shoots and kills a teenage sniper. Even though he regards the incident as a clear-cut case of self-defense, Reed must follow procedure and undergo an intense investigation.from a police panel consisting of his superior officers. The Read More

Adam-12: Log 81

Synopsis: Among the civilians encountered by Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) in this episode is elderly Mr. Saulsberry (Richard Hale) who is determined to leave Los Angeles and walk back to his home town--Deadwood, South Dakota. Elsewhere, the two patrolmen investigate a Read More

Family Affair: A Lesson for Grown-Ups

Synopsis: Bill (Brian Keith) grimly assumes all responsibility when a bridge on which he was working collapses, costing millions of dollars. Overhearing Bill's financial woes, the kids conclude that the family is about to go broke. This explains why Cissy goes out and gets a part-time job, while Buffy and Read More

Family Affair: A Matter of Privacy

Synopsis: Goaded by their classmate Norman (Bobby Riha), Buffy (Anissa Jones) and Jody (Johnnie Whitaker) begin secretly tape-recording other peoples' conversation. The kids' electronic eavesdropping proves embarrassing for both Cissy (Kathy Garver) and Mr. French (Sebastian Cabot), leading to even more Read More

Sam Whiskey

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Clint Walker, Ossie Davis, Angie Dickinson, Rick Davis

Synopsis: This light western comedy finds the lovely widow Laura Breckenridge (Angie Dickenson) offering a $20,000 reward for the return of some gold her late husband had stolen from the Denver mint. She seduces the virginal Sam (Burt Reynolds) into leading a team to retrieve the gold, now lying at the Read More

Adam-12: Season 02

Actors: Martin Milner, Kent McCord, William Boyett, Gary Crosby, William Stevens

Synopsis: Officer Jim Reed (Kent McCord) is still on probationary status with the LAPD as Adam-12 begins its second season. However, Jim is lucky indeed that he has a partner as experienced and generous as Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) to show him the ropes. It is during this season that we meet Reed's wife Read More

Adam-12: Log 83: A Different Thing

Synopsis: Officers Malloy (Martin Milner) and Reed (Kent McCord) swing into action when suspicions arise that a hit-and-run accident was actually a case of cold-blooded murderer. Witnesses insist that a young man had a violent quarrel with the female "accident" victim on the night before the tragedy. The Read More

Adam-12: Log 23: Pig is a Three Letter Word

Synopsis: The LAPD dispatches several officers to a predominantly African American community when two punks kill a respected black couple in a holdup. The job proves particularly treacherous for Officers Reed (Kent McCord) and Malloy (Martin Milner) when they are subjected to a barrage of verbal abuse from Read More

Adam-12: Log 123: Courtroom

Synopsis: While making a routine arrest on a traffic warrant, Officers Reed (Kent McCord) and Malloy (Martin Milner) come upon a large staff of narcotics. Convicted on a drug charge on the strength of this evidence, the perp turns the table on the two cops and brings them to court, hoping to gain his own Read More

Adam-12: Log 63: The Baby

Synopsis: Not only is Jim Reed (Kent McCord) a rookie cop, but he's also about to become a rookie father--and he is extremely nervous as his wife Jean (Mikki Jamison) is wheeled into the maternity ward. Meanwhile, Reed's bachelor partner Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) hopes to make time with Margaret (Margaret Read More

Adam-12: Log 52: Good Cop: Handle with Care

Synopsis: Freelance photojournalists Gurney (Carl Reindel) and Bowen (Paul Darby) are determined to do an expose of police brutality. To this end, they dog the trail of Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner), hoping to catch the two cops in the act of exceeding their authority--and Read More

Adam-12: Log 102: We Can't Just Walk Away From It

Synopsis: Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) are summoned to the scene of a potential suicide, as young Larry Harris (Roger Garrett) threatens to end it all. Making this crisis even more dicey is the fact that Larry is heavily armed, and has threatened to "take out" anyone who Read More

Adam-12: Log 51: A Jumper-Code Two

Synopsis: In his efforts to talk a man out of committing suicide, Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) commits a serious breach of police protocol, whereupon Sgt. MacDonald (William Boyett) rakes the veteran patrolman over the coals. In a less traumatic moment, a woman (Katherine Squire) insists that Malloy Read More

Adam-12: Log 172: Boy...the Things You Do for the Job

Synopsis: Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) is in for a lot of ribbing from his fellow cops after he gives a traffic ticket to footloose young heiress Penelope Lang (Ahna Capri)--who immediately falls madly in love with him. For the next several days, Malloy is distracted from his duties as the persistent Read More

Adam-12: Log 15: Exactly One Hundred Yards

Synopsis: In the opening episode of Adam-12's second season, patrol officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) is none too thrilled when he and his partner Jim Reed (Kent McCord) are assigned to do community-relations work. Malloy is particularly uncomfortable when he is called upon to deliver a lecture at an Read More

Adam-12: Season 01

Actors: Kent McCord, Martin Milner, William Boyett, Gary Crosby, William Stevens, Shaaron Claridge

Synopsis: Season one of Adam-12 gets underway with admirable rapidity, with the episode "Log 1: The Impossible Mission," directed by series creator Jack Webb. The opener details the first day on the job for rookie LAPD cop Jim Reed (Kent McCord), who has been teamed with crusty veteran Pete Malloy (Marvin Miller Read More

Adam-12: Log 141

Synopsis: Officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) are kept on the move with a number of emergency police calls. In one of the evening's tenser moments, the two cops come to the rescue of a pair of youngsters who have swallowed a potentially fatal dose of pep pills. And throughout Read More

Adam-12: Log 1: The Impossible Mission

Synopsis: The premiere episode of Adam-12 finds veteran LAPD patrol officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner), on the verge of retirement, reluctantly agreeing to "break in" a new partner, rookie cop Jim Reed (Martin Milner). Still not completely recovered from the death of his former partner, Pete makes no Read More

Adam-12: Log 11: It's Just a Little Dent, Isn't It?

Synopsis: Still on probation, Officer Jim Reed (Kent McCord) obsesses over his involvement in a very minor fender-bender, much to the exasperation of his veteran partner Pete Malloy (Martin Milner). During the two officers' night-watch shift, they canvass a beat that takes them all the way from skid row to Read More

Adam-12: Log 61

Synopsis: What would a Jack Webb-produced TV series be without at least one narcotics-related episode per season? On this occasion, Officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) participate in a stakeout to trap a particularly vicious drug dealer, and also come to the rescue of a runaway Read More

Adam-12: Log 132: Producer

Synopsis: A pre-stardom Karen Black appears in this episode as a beautiful model whom Officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) endeavor to protect from an obsessed stalker. The two officers' other assignments this evening include extricating a youngster who has gotten his head stuck Read More

Family Affair: Hard Hat Jody

Synopsis: Aspiring to be a building engineer like his Uncle Bill (Brian Keith), Jody (Johnnie Whitaker) hangs around a construction site and befriends an affable middle-ager named Owny (Brian Donlevy), who wears the regulation hardhat and bib overalls. Impressed by Jody's enthusiasm, Owny sees to it that Read More

The F.B.I.: The Gold Card

Synopsis: The F.B.I. begins its third season as Federal Inspector Lew Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) enters a poker game where the stakes are literally life and death. Working undercover, Erskine is playing with several high-ranking Mafia officers. His purpose: to prevent the assassination of mob chieftan Read More

The F.B.I.: The Contaminator

Synopsis: Turncoat scientist Lawrence Underwood (Linden Chiles) manages to steal some top-secret documents from an atomic lab in Idaho. Picking up Underwood's trail, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) methodically tracks the man down. What Erskine doesn't know is that Underwood has been exposed to Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Candy Queen

Synopsis: The "Candy Queen" is Claire Armstrong (Nancy Gates), who has become quite wealthy after inheriting the famous candy-manufacturing formula that has been in her family for generations. But it is not so sweet when Claire's secretary is poisoned by a box of her boss' candy. And things really go sour Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Mischievous Doll

Synopsis: Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) is taken by surprise when a young woman (Mary Mitchell) sweeps into his office, begging him to "identify" her. Claiming to be Dorrie Ambler, the girl explains that she has been hired by private eye Joe Billings (Paul Lambert) to pose as her lookalike, heiress Minerva Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Ugly Duckling

Synopsis: A toy manufacturer bequeaths his company, and his fortune, to his unattractive daughter Alice (Anne Whitfield)--on condition that she be married or at least engaged within a year's time. Miraculously, a handsome artist claims to be in love with Alice, proving his ardor by painting her as a beauty. Read More

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Blizzard Makers

Synopsis: Bizarre weather patterns bring blizzards to the American southeast, and Nelson (Richard Basehart) seeks the help of a scientist (Milton Selzer) who may hold the answer. He doesn't know that the man has been kidnapped and brainwashed, and programmed to kill the admiral. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Dividing Wall

Actors: Chris Robinson, James Gregory, Katharine Ross, Norman Fell, Rusty Lane

Synopsis: Paroled from jail, Terry (Chris Robinson), Fred (James Gregory), and Al (Norman Fell) manage to find honest jobs at a garage. Unfortunately, once a thief, always a thief, and before long the trio has broken into a safe in the payroll office next door. Even more unfortunately, they have also Read More

The Untouchables: City Without a Name

Synopsis: The "Eastern Seaboard" city referenced in the title of this episode remains unnamed, but all evidence suggests that the story takes place in (or at least near) Baltimore. The local civic leaders are proud of the fact that their city is completely free of crime, thanks to the efforts of a band of Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Renegade Refugee

Synopsis: Journalist Lawrence Vander (Paul Lambert) is murdered during a weekend retreat for the employees of Space Associates Ltd, a major defense contractor. It turns out that Vander was trying to track down ex-Nazi Max Keinermann, who may be working for Space Associates under an alias.. Accused of the Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Larcenous Lady

Synopsis: Mayor Henderson (Arthur Franz) is up for an appointment to the state crime commission, but he is danger of being sabotaged by his overambitious wife Mona (Patricia Huston), who has been purloining city plans and passing them along to crooked real estate agent Tom Stratton (Edward Platt). Now Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Fragile

Synopsis: Werner Klemperer, best known to sitcom fans as bumbling Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heroes, here trades his German accent for a French one in the role of Gallic restauranteur Etienne Ledoux. Hoping to add a bit of class--and an extra layer of protection--to his eatery in the rough-and-tumble mining Read More

Maverick: The Third Rider

Synopsis: Good samaritan Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) offers assistance to two tired travellers with only one horse. They repay his generosity by stealing his horse--and then framing him for bank robbery and murder. When one of the thieves is killed, the other escapes with a posse hot on heels. . .while Bart Read More

Dragnet: The Big Bed

Synopsis: Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are off on another missing-persons case. While searching the missing man's apartment, the two detectives pull a Murphy bed from the wall. As a result of what they find wrapped in the bedsheets, the case suddenly becomes a murder investigation! This Read More

Dragnet: The Big Gent

Synopsis: This episode is a one-part adaptation of a two-part Dragnet radio broadcast, originally heard on July 20 and 27, 1950. Detectives Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) spend the better part of a year tracking down ex-convict Frank Cheney, also known as "The Gentleman Bandit" because of his Read More

Until They Sail

Actors: Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Charles Drake

Synopsis: Adapted by Robert Anderson from a story by James A. Michener, the Robert Wise-directed soaper Until They Sail is set in World-War-II New Zealand. Paul Newman plays been-there-done-that U.S. marine captain Jack Harding, assigned to investigate servicemen's requests to marry local girls. An Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Angry Mourner

Synopsis: While vacationing in Bear Valley, Perry (Raymond Burr) is pressed into service when wheelchair-bound water skiier Mark Cushing (Eric Sinclair). It seems that Belle Adrian (Sylvia Field) had sworn vengeance against Mark for assaulting her daughter Carla (played by a pre-I Dream of Jeannie Barbara Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Silent Witness

Synopsis: Although he is married, college professor Donald Mason (Donald Taylor) regularly carries on affairs with his prettier students. Attempting to break off his romance with coed Claudia Powell (Dolores Hart), Mason catches up with Claudia while she is working as a babysitter. One thing leads to Read More

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Actors: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer, Barbara Nichols, Philip Bourneuf, Shepperd Strudwick

Synopsis: Crusading publisher Austin Spenser (Sidney Blackmer) wants to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence. Spencer talks his prospective son-in-law Tom Garrett (Dana Andrews) into participating in a hoax, the better to expose the alleged ineptitude of conviction-happy DA (Philip Bourneuf Read More

Behind the High Wall

Actors: Tom Tully, Sylvia Sidney, Betty Lynn, John Gavin, Don Beddoe

Synopsis: Behind the High Wall is a remake of the 1937 Jackie Cooper-Victor McLaglen film The Big Guy. Tom Tully plays prison warden Frank Carmichael, who is kidnapped during a jail break in which a policeman is killed. In an ensuing car crash, all the escapees are killed except young Johnny Hutchins (John Gavin Read More

Fighting Trouble

Synopsis: In this entry in the long running Bowery Boys series, the boys begin working as free-lance photographers. Trouble ensues when they take a picture of a crime lord. They are in such a rush to get the picture back to the paper they work for that they accidently destroy the negative. To get another Read More

Forbidden Planet

Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly

Synopsis: MGM's first big-budget science fiction film, Forbidden Planet, combined state-of-the-art special effects with a storyline based on Shakespeare's The Tempest. In the 23rd century, Cmdr. J.J. Adams (Leslie Nielsen) guides United Planets cruiser C-57-D on a rescue mission to faraway planet Read More

Dragnet: The Big Bird

Synopsis: Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) respond to a call from the LAPD's San Fernando Valley division. Several new homes in the district have been robbed by a thief with a bizarre MO: he only targets people who own pet birds--which he brutally kills on every occasion. Following the grim Read More

Dragnet: The Big Key

Synopsis: A number of drugstores have been robbed of money and narcotics. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) step up their manhunt after the bandit vicious beats up his latest victim, an elderly pharmacist. The two detectives get a big break in the case when, while following up a Read More

Dragnet: The Big Escape

Synopsis: It's a personal matter for Joe Friday (Jack Webb) when his old army buddy Max Tyler (Harlan Warde) is arrested. Out of sympathy for Max's wife Dorothy (Elizabeth Fraser), Joe offers to look after the man's family while he is in prison. Dorothy returns the "favor" by helping Max escape just before Read More

Dragnet: The Big Market

Synopsis: Eleven food markets have been held up in the past three weeks; there's clearly a pattern, but the police have trouble figuring it out. A break in the case finally comes when a young thief is caught in the act. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) think they've gotten their man--but the Read More

Dragnet: The Big Guilt

Synopsis: Robbery victim Arthur McKinley is found strangled with his own necktie in a dingy alley. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) find it odd that the well-dressed and apparently well-off McKinley would be hanging around in such a disreputable neighborhood. Suspects include a drunk, a store Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Hateful Hero

Synopsis: Things get personal for Lt. Andy Anderson (Wesley Lau) when his cousin, partrol-car cop Jimmy Anderson (Dick Davalos), is accused of being the "inside man" for a burglary at the Wilsons Plastics Company. During a shootout with the thieves, Jimmy's partner Otto Norden (William Boyett) was killed Read More