William WindomFilmography

Boy Meets World: Ain't College Great?

Synopsis: Having overloaded himself with tough courses for his freshman year at Pennbrook, Cory (Ben Savage) soon buckles under the pressure and runs off to Wyoming, there to seek advice and solace from his retired high school teacher Mr. Feeny (William Daniels). The visit has a profound effect on Feeny Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder in Tempo

Synopsis: Seth Hazlitt (William Windom arranges for Cabot Cove to stage a rock concert benefit to save a local patch of woods. The star of the concert is Tommy Vaughn (eith Coulouris), a popular singer who is anything but popular to the people who work for him. Inevitably, a murder occurs, with an electric Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Evidence of Malice

Synopsis: This episode is a showcase for semi-regular Louis Herthum, here essaying his usual role as Cabot Cove's deputy sheriff Andy Bloom. Having just purchased a house, Andy realizes that there are several things wrong with the structure, and he vents his anger upon the former owner. Not long afterward Read More

Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering

Actors: Naomi Watts, Karen Black, William Windom, Brent Jennings, Jamie Renee Smith

Synopsis: This fourth installment in the horror saga bears little resemblance to Stephen King's original tale. Unlike the third episode, which was set in Chicago, this one is again set in a small Nebraska town where a medical student notices that the local kids are all ears when it comes to the words of a Read More

Murder, She Wrote: What You Don't Know Can Kill You

Synopsis: Seth's niece Amy (Cari Shayne) arrives in Cabot Cove, where she plans to hold her wedding. Alas, the happy event is postponed permanently when both a landscaper and attorney die under mysterious circumstances--and one of the two was Amy's fiancé. Another interested party begins asking a few Read More

Reading Rainbow: Hot-Air Henry

Actors: LeVar Burton

Synopsis: When Henry the Siamese cat hops on board a hot-air balloon, he is in for the time of his life. Henry's flight inspires LeVar Burton to try the experience himself, and he takes off in a colorful balloon too. In Reading Rainbow: Hot-Air Henry, he also goes to National Space Camp to find out what is Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Scent of Murder

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) and Seth (William Windom) are invited to the South Carolina plantation owned by Seth's cousin, a wealthy botanist. The visit becomes somewhat less than pleasant when the cousin turns up murdered. Evidently there are several people who would have benefited from this death Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Dream Team

Synopsis: Jessica's enterprising nephew Grady (Michael Horton) has become the partner of a pair of high-pressure land developers (John D'Aquino, Mary Gordon Murray) who have swept into Cabot Cove with grandiose plans of building an elaborate resort/marina complex. As local investors eagerly line up to get Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Home Care

Synopsis: Megan Follows leaves her Anne of Green Gables TV persona behind to portray Lila Nolan, a young Boston-based nurse who is suspected of mercy killing. Two of Lila's elderly patients have died under mysterious circumstances, and now she has arrived in Cabot Cove to provide home care for ailing Maggie Read More

Murphy Brown: Be Careful What You Wish For

Synopsis: Corky (Faith Ford) finally gets the chance to conduct her first truly hard-hitting interview when she goes one-on-one with ruthless retail mogul Ross Bowen (William Windom). Though she acquits herself quite well, Corky suffers the usual professional consequences when she is deluged with hate mail. Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Wheel of Death

Synopsis: Season Ten of Murder, She Wrote concludes as a small-time carnival pitches its tents just outside Cabot Cove. The troupe's arrival coincides with a series of mysterious burglaries which plagued the town. Then, the carnival's larcenous magician Carl Dorner (Bradford Dillman) is murdered--and that's Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder by Twos

Synopsis: A murder has been committed in Cabot Cove, and the body is found in the garage of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). Actually, two murders take place, and the cause of it all is the illicit affair between a married woman and the town bully. All the members of the couple's bowling league are Read More

Miracle on 34th Street

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Elizabeth Perkins, Dylan McDermott, Mara Wilson, Robert Prosky

Synopsis: The 1947 holiday classic Miracle on 34th Street is transplanted to the 1990s with few changes in this family-oriented remake. The screenplay by the prolific John Hughes sticks close to the original outline, centering on Macy's executive Dorey Walker (Elizabeth Perkins) and her young daughter Susan Read More

Murder, She Wrote: To Kill a Legend

Synopsis: A motion picture crew descends upon Cabot Cove to film a historical documentary. In the course of production, the crew unearths an old document signed by George Washington, which claims that the town's most venerated Revolutionary War hero, Joshua Peabody, was actually a traitorous scoundrel. Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Deadly Assets

Synopsis: A Chicago mobster is ticked off when he loses $900,000 to a petty burglar. In fact, the mobster is so angry that he dispatches a hit man to bump off the thief--except that the hit man is himself killed. Suspected in this murder is a friend of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), who in turn joins Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Trouble with Seth

Synopsis: The people of Cabot Cove are thrown for a loop when Seth Hazlitt (William Windom) suddenly disappears. Making matters all the more disturbing are the blood stains in his office, and the evidence that Seth's body was dragged somewhere by parties unknown. All the same, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) Read More

Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman

Actors: Daryl Hannah, Daniel Baldwin, William Windom, Frances Fisher, Cristi Conaway

Synopsis: This made-for-cable remake of the cult favorite 1957 film of the same name is updated with an even more feminist slant and has a more thoughtful (and clever) script. Nancy Archer (Darryl Hannah) is a rich but troubled young woman married to a cheating lowlife who only stays with her for her money. Read More

Sommersby

Actors: Richard Gere, Jodie Foster, Lanny Flaherty, James Earl Jones, Wendell Wellman, William Windom, Bill Pullman

Synopsis: This Americanized remake of the French classic The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) transports the story's setting from the 16th century Gallic countryside to 19th century Tennessee at the conclusion of the U.S. Civil War. Richard Gere stars as Jack Sommersby, a wealthy landowner who returns to his Read More

Dennis the Menace: Dinosaur Hunter!

Synopsis: Impudent Dennis plagues the ever-irascible Mr. Wilson in this full-length, live-action adventure comedy, which finds everyone's favorite troublemaker digging in the sandbox for some forgotten fossils. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Final Curtain

Synopsis: Cabot Cove has been chosen as the location for the pre-Broadway staging of a new play starring David North (Peter Donat), a prominent actor who is emerging from a 10-year retirement. No sooner have rehearsals started than a murder occurs, with North's business manager Eric Benderson (Bradford Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Big Kill

Synopsis: Two men, a fisherman and banker, have both died of carbon monoxide poisoning while sailing in the waters around Cabot Cove. At first this seems to be merely a coincidence--but then the fisherman's daughter gains access to her father's logbooks and charts. Suddenly, a link develops between the two Read More

Murder, She Wrote: A Virtual Murder

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) agrees to write a mystery scenario for a new interactive video game created by an eccentric electronics genius. While sampling the game's "virtual reality" mode, Jessica witnesses what appears to be a murder. Sure enough, the game's inventor has been killed is "real" Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Love and Hate in Cabot Cove

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) returns home from New York when she finds out that her accountant Samuel Bennett (Wings Hauser) hasn't been paying her bills in Cabot Cove. It turns out that Bennett is deeply in debt to a local illicict gambling casino. Soon after, a crooked deputy (Matthew Flint) is Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Legacy of Borbey House

Synopsis: A mysterious gentleman named Lawrence Baker (David Birney) moves into Cabot Cove and takes possession of a Victorian mansion that is regarded as a local landmark. Baker's curious behavior causes rumors to fly that there is something supernatural, even vampiric about him. And then, Baker is found Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Love's Deadly Desire

Synopsis: Season nine of Murder She Wrote comes to an end as famous romance novelist Sibella Stone (Carroll Baker) descends upon Cabot Cove, home turf of mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). It isn't long before Sibella's assistant is murdered, and at first it appears that the novelist herself Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Badge of Honor

Synopsis: Gerald S. O'Loughlin guest stars as Ben Oliver, a former Army buddy of Cabot Cove physician Seth Hazlitt (William Windom). Arriving in town to pay Seth a visit, Ben is clearly carrying around a great deal of emotional baggage. Subsequently, Ben's new boss is murdered, and Ben is implicated in the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Programmed for Murder

Synopsis: We're back in Cabot Cove for this episode, in which Jessica's friend Dr. Seth Hazlitt (William Windom) is facing a malpractice suit. It seems that the family of the late owner of Cabot Cove's computer company died of bleeding ulcers while under Seth's care. However, there is something about this Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Witch's Curse

Synopsis: The community players of Cabot Cove have chosen to stage a play about a 17th century witch who had placed a curse on the town just before her execution. Cast in the lead role is Mariah Osborne (Mary Crosby), a newcomer to the town. Before long, strange things begin happening, convincing the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: A Christmas Secret

Synopsis: Taciturn Gulf War veteran Charles McComber (Sean O'Bryan) returns to his home town of Cabot Cove in hopes of being reunited with his fiancee Beth Forsythe (Eileen Seeley). Instead, a murder occurs at a Christmas party where McComber has shown up uninvited. Hoping to clear McComber of suspicion Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Family Secrets

Synopsis: Randall Sloan (Brian McNamara), a former student of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), returns to Cabot Cove to research his new book. Despite several ominous warnings to drop the project, Randall is determined to complete his volume, a searing expose of a 30-year-old scandal involving two of the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Bite the Big Apple

Synopsis: Murder She Wrote enters its eighth season with a revised production staff and a new central location (New York City rather than fictional Cabot Cove, Maine), but with the same popular star, Angela Lansbury, as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher. Having been contracted to teach a college criminology Read More

Chance of a Lifetime

Synopsis: In this romance, a widowed businesswoman, believing she has an incurable disease begins a series of romantic encounters only to discover that she has been misdiagnosed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Committed

Actors: Jennifer O'Neill

Synopsis: Accidentally committing herself to a mental institution instead of applying for a job, a nurse (Jennifer O'Neill) must face hellish treatment from workers and unstable patients to remain sane. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Family Doctor

Synopsis: While dining out in Boston, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) and Seth (William Windom) are witness to a mob "hit." The victim is a member of the powerful Abruzzi crime family, who despite Seth's efforts to save him does not survive. Enter the dead man's vengeful son Michael (Vincent Irizarry), who Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Thicker Than Water

Synopsis: Jessica's return to Cabot Cove coincides with the arrival of Wayne Metzger (Bruce Abbott), the "black sheep" brother of town sheriff Mort Metzger (Ron Masak). Recently released from prison, Wayne wants to mend fences with his brother, but the uncharacteristically bitter Mort refuses to have Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Szechuan Dragon

Synopsis: While Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is off vacationing somewhere, her nephew Grady (Michael Horton) and his pregnant wife Donna (Debbie Zipp) agree to take care of Jessica's house. Unfortunately, in past episodes Grady could barely take a breath without getting mixed up in murder, and this Read More

Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

Actors: Mitchell Anderson, Ned Beatty, Megan Follows, Raphael Sbarge, Paul Winfield

Synopsis: First telecast October 21, 1990 on the Disney Channel cable service, Back to Hannibal: The Return of Huckleberry Finn is set 20 years after the Mark Twain novel. Tom Sawyer (Mitchell Anderson) is now a budding lawyer, while Huck Finn (Raphael Sbarge) is a reporter. They descend upon their old home Read More

Murder, She Wrote: If the Shoe Fits

Synopsis: Single mother Maria Bryce (Season Hubley) moves into Cabot Cove with her son Kevin (Jonathan Brandis), where she lands a steady but low-paying job. While struggling to make financial ends meet, Maria must also contend with her lecherous landlord. When the landlord is murdered, Maria is accused of Read More

Uncle Buck

Actors: John Candy, Amy Madigan, Jean Louisa Kelly, Gaby Hoffmann, Macaulay Culkin

Synopsis: In this cheerful, lightweight comedy, excruciatingly clumsy, disorganized, and messy Uncle Buck Russell (John Candy) becomes the screens most unlikely babysitter since Clifton Webb in Sitting Pretty. While their parents are away, eight-year old Miles (Macaulay Culkin), six-year old Maizy (Gaby Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Weave a Tangled Web

Synopsis: Sheriff Metzger (Ron Masak) investigates when Vivian Proctor (Pamela Bellwood), one of Cabot Cove's best-liked and busiest housewives, is implicated in the murder of a well-known womanizer who has been found dead in a cheap motel. Although Vivian is widely regarded as the "perfect" wife and Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Three Strikes, You're Out

Synopsis: Jessica heads to the baseball stadium to visit her nephew, up-and-coming ballplayer Johnny Eaton (Todd Bryant). Soon afterward, the team's new TV pre-game hostess is murdered, and a startled burglar is arrested for the crime. So what has this to do with Jessica? Well, it seems that the hapless Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble

Synopsis: The citizens of Cabot Cove are terrified by the arrival of young Irene Terhune (Julian Donald), an apparent practitioner of black magic. Rumors are rife that Irene is actually the ghost of Annie Gorman, a local witch who had supposedly died centuries ago. Inevitably, murder rears it ugly head and Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Sins of Castle Cove

Synopsis: In an episode clearly inspired by Peyton Place, a former student of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) scandalizes the town of Cabot Cove when she publishes a thinly-disguised "roman a clef" titled "The Sins of Castle Cove." The locals aren't too happy that their personalities and peccadilloes Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall, Part One

Synopsis: In the first episode of Murder She Wrote's two-part Season Five finale, Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) crosses swords with rival mystery writer Eudora McVeigh Shipton (Jean Simmons). Envious that Jessica's star has risen while hers has fallen, Eudora publicly declares that she intends to Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Town Father

Synopsis: Up for re-election as mayor of Cabot Cove, Sam Booth (Richard Paul) figures that his staunch anti-development platform will enable him to easily defeat his pro-development opponent. Unfortunately, Sam's campaign is seriously compromised when a strange woman shows up in town and accuses the Read More

Street Justice

Actors: Michael Ontkean, Joanna Kerns, Catherine Bach, J.D. Cannon, Jeanette Nolan

Synopsis: In this convoluted drama, a CIA agent is finally released after spending the past thirteen years imprisoned in the Soviet Union. The joy of his homecoming is shattered when he discovers his wife married to another and that his daughter has grown up. When he learns that his wife's new husband is Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Dead Letter

Synopsis: Purchasing an antique bureau at a furniture store rummage sale, Jessica finds an old, undelivered letter in one of the drawers. For reasons made clear in the episode, she turns the letter over to a local volunteer fireman (Jonathan Goldsmith)--who later perishes in a blaze that was deliberately Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall, Part Two

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Murder She Wrote's two-part Season Five finale, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is still contending with her witchy rival mystery writer Eudora McVeigh Shipton (Jean Simmons). Although the duplicitous Eudora confesses that she has stolen the notes for Jessica's latest novel, she Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Seal of the Confessional

Synopsis: Father Barnes (Hunt Block), a young Cabot Cove priest, refuses to reveal the words spoken by a parishioner during Confessional. It doesn't matter that the parishioner has confessed to killing a person in self-defense: Father Barnes is bound by the rules of his order, and remains mum. The situation Read More

She's Having a Baby

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Baldwin, Isabel Lorca, William Windom

Synopsis: An aspiring writer faces up to the responsibilities of marriage and family in this romantic comedy from writer, director, and producer John Hughes. Despite the misgivings he pours out to best friend Davis McDonald (Alec Baldwin), Jake Briggs (Kevin Bacon) marries high-school sweetheart Kristy Read More

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

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

Murder, She Wrote: Mr. Penroy's Vacation

Synopsis: In this droll derivation of "Arsenic and Old Lace", former 1940s film ingénues Teresa Wright and Joan Leslie are cast as the spinsterish Appletree sisters, Cabot Cove's resident eccentrics. With the annual flower show coming up, it looks as though dear old Helen and Lillian Appletree are going to Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Benedict Arnold Slipped Here

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

Dead Aim

Synopsis: A New York cop takes on drug-smuggling Soviet agents in this action-espionage thriller. The trouble starts when the rebellious agents disobey orders and begin glutting the Big Apple black market with illegal drugs. The cops become alerted to the problem after four topless dancers die of heroin Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Curse of the Daanau

Synopsis: It seems there is this cursed ruby, the Danaau, that for decades has been the scourge of the family of Cabot Cove physician Seth Hazlitt (William Windom). Many people who have owned the Daanau Ruby in the past have come to a violent end, at it looks as though the next victim of the curse will be Read More

Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night

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

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

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Actors: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, William Windom, Michael McKean, Kevin Bacon

Synopsis: Were it not for its profanity-laden opening scenes, John Hughes' Planes, Trains and Automobiles might have been suitable family entertainment: certainly it's heaps less violent and mean-spirited than Hughes' Home Alone. En route to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his family, easily annoyed Read More

Funland

Actors: William Windom, David L. Lander, Bruce Mahler, Clark Brandon, Robert Sacchi

Synopsis: In this black comedy, the mysterious death of the owner of an amusement park prompts his widow to sell the property to a group of mobsters, the DiMaurios. When the DiMaurios take over, they lower everyone's salary and fire the park's clown mascot, Bruce Burger (David Lander). With his job taken Read More

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

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

Murder, She Wrote: Simon Says, Color Me Dead

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

Mace

Actors: Ed Marinaro, Darrell Larson, Cassandra Gava, Isaac Hayes, John Hancock

Synopsis: Malcolm "Mace" Douglas (Ed Marinaro) is a vice squad detective who investigates the drug-related murders of strippers in this uneven, low-budget crime drama. The former homicide lieutenant was demoted when he earned his nickname for spraying mace down the throat of a suspect. He and Mark Cain (Darrell Larson Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Crossed Up

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

Dennis the Menace

Synopsis: In this children's comedy, Hank Ketcham's enduring comic-strip character and his pals discover mysterious bones in their neighborhood. Paleontologists soon come to investigate and mayhem ensues. On video the film is titled: "Dennis the Menace: Dinosaur Hunter." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Indian Giver

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

Murder, She Wrote: Keep the Home Fries Burning

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

Murder, She Wrote: If a Body Meet a Body

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

Murder, She Wrote: Dead Man's Gold

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

Murder, She Wrote: Obituary for a Dead Anchor

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

Magnum, P.I.: All Thieves on Deck

Synopsis: In order to flush out the person or persons who have attempted to steal a valuable statuette of the Hawaiian god Amakua, Magnum stage-manages a luxury cruise in which all the passenger roster consists of the principal suspects. Sure enough, murder and mayhem quickly ensue, and it soon becomes Read More

There Must Be a Pony

Synopsis: In this drama, a formerly famous star returns from an insane asylum and tries to make a comeback. Despite the objections of her teen-age son, the woman embarks upon a risky romance with a dashing stranger. The story is based on a novel by James Kirkwood. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Unfinished Business

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

Space Rage

Actors: Richard Farnsworth, Michael Paré, John Laughlin, Lee Purcell, William Windom

Synopsis: In this sci-fi/western film set two hundred years from now, a bank robber, Grange is captured and sentenced to the penal colony on the mining planet Proxima Centauri 3 where he meets bounty-hunter Walker, and the Colonel, a retired policeman from LA who was considered the best of his kind. Grange Read More

Murder, She Wrote: A Lady in the Lake

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

Surviving

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Len Cariou, Zach Galligan, Marsha Mason

Synopsis: Originally telecast in a three-hour network slot, Surviving is virtually two films in one. In the first 90 minutes, we see the identity crises and outside pressures that propel a "normal" teenaged boy (Zach Galligan) and a "disturbed" teenaged girl (Mollie Ringwald) into committing suicide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder Digs Deep

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) and Seth (William Windom) are collecting research for her latest novel at the New Mexico site of an archeological dig. The scientists believe that they are about to uncover Coronado's fabled "City of Gold"; instead, they unearth a corpse of more recent vintage. The victim Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Funeral at Fifty-Mile

Synopsis: In the final first-season episode of Murder She Wrote, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) travels to Wyoming to attend the funeral of an old family friend. At the same time, a wealthy Wyoming rancher draws up papers leaving his entire estate to a somewhat nasty stranger, completely disinheriting his Read More

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

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

Murder, She Wrote: Sticks and Stones

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

Highway to Heaven: A Child of God

Synopsis: William Windom guest stars as Reverend Stearns, an otherwise above-board minister who has let his personal feelings nearly ruin his life. Because his daughter Marsha (Colleen Maloney) has engaged in an extramarital affair that resulted in an out-of-wedlock baby, Stearns refuses to extend either Read More

Means and Ends

Actors: Cyril O'Reilly, Ken Michelman, Reed Birney, William Windom, Lori Lethin

Synopsis: In this thought-provoking exploration of the values, ethics and moral responsibility involved in filmmaking, a group of young Hollywood filmmakers flimflam a small conservative town into believing that they are making a screwball comedy when in reality they are making a porno flick. ~ Sandra Read More

Side Show

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, a teenage boy runs away from home and joins a circus, discovering that his new life is not exactly what he thought it would be. When the boy is the witness to a murder, he must struggle to keep himself out of the killer's way. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Hunter: The Hot Grounder

Synopsis: Police Commissioner Larry Crenshaw (William Windom) is the primary suspect when his wife Connie (Rosemary Thomas) is murdered. This places Hunter (Fred Dryer) and McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) in a ticklish situation: they are ordered to investigate the one man who most desires to see them thrown off Read More

Velvet

Synopsis: In this espionage adventure, four beautiful aerobics instructors (government spies in disguise) try to stop villains from stealing the newest nuclear weapon. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Why Me?

Actors: Glynnis O'Connor, Armand Assante

Synopsis: Made for television, Why Me? is the true story of Air Force nurse Leola Mae Harmon (Glynnis O'Connor), whose face is all but destroyed in a head-on automobile accident. As Leola recuperates in a military hospital, her will to live is seriously tested, not only by her shattered face, but also by Read More

Off Sides

Synopsis: Hippies and policemen seek to settle their differences on the gridiron in this comedy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Grandview, U.S.A.

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze, Troy Donahue, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Synopsis: The Saroyanesque Grandview USA focuses on a sleepy Midwestern town and its younger denizens. Bored out of his gourd, recent high-school graduate Tim (C. Thomas Howell), befriends the much-older Michelle (Jamie Lee Curtis), who runs the local demolition derby. Michelle's top driver is "Slam" (Patrick Swayze Read More

Last Plane Out

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, Julie Carmen, Mary Crosby, David Huffman, William Windom

Synopsis: Controversial Nicaraguan leader Somoza is treated with inordinate kindness in the propagandistic adventure The Last Plane Out. As played by Lloyd Battista, Somoza is a pussycat compared to those "nasty" insurgents. The story is based on the somewhat slanted memoirs of former journalist Jack Cox Read More

Prince Jack

Actors: Robert Hogan, James F. Kelly, Kenneth Mars, Lloyd Nolan, Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis: This pseudo-documentary on the life of President John F. Kennedy stars Robert Hogan as the President, James F. Kelly as Robert Kennedy, and Kenneth Mars as Lyndon Johnson, and includes some actual documentary footage intercut with the major dramatic events in Kennedy's Presidential career. Because Read More

The A-Team: Mexican Slayride

Synopsis: Originally telecast as a two-hour movie TV movie, the two-part A-Team pilot episode begins as Amy Allen (Melinda Culea), intrepid girl reporter for the "Los Angeles Courier", conducts an investigation to find out if the notorious A-Team, a group of Vietnam vets who'd been unjustly imprisoned after Read More

Desperate Lives

Actors: Helen Hunt

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV film, a high-school counselor (Joyce Brothers) faces ineffectual help from administration in combating drugs, so she recruits several students to help in the battle. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Separate Ways

Actors: Karen Black, Tony Lo Bianco, Arlene Golonka, David Naughton, Sharon Farrell

Synopsis: In this standard romantic drama slated for TV movie channels, Valentine (Karen Black) is dissatisfied in her marriage to a racecar driver (Tony Lo Bianco) and begins a romantic liaison with a student at the community college she attends. Her husband has also been unfaithful, and his indiscretions Read More

The Rules of Marriage

Synopsis: In this domestic drama, a the marriage of a suburban couple crumbles on the eve of their 15th anniversary. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Leave 'em Laughing

Actors: Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Mickey Rooney stars in this made-for-TV docudrama as circus clown Jack Thum, who aids his wife (Anne Jackson) in raising dozens of orphans; despite learning he is dying, Jack still struggles to earn money to support his growing brood. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger

Synopsis: Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger was written by Blanche Hanalis, a specialist in turning out quality teleplays with a feminist slant. Bonnie Franklin stars as pioneering birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger, who in the early part of the 20th century conducted a 25-year battle to Read More

Blind Ambition

Actors: Martin Sheen, Theresa Russell, Michael Callan, Lonny Chapman, William Daniels

Synopsis: The 8-hour TV miniseries Blind Ambition was originally telecast May 20 through 23, 1979. This 105-minute feature-film version, prepared in 1982, seems a bit rushed at times, but overall does a credible and coherent job of storytelling. Based on John Dean's book Blind Ambition, with elements of Read More

Hunters of the Reef

Synopsis: Intended as the pilot for the proposed weekly series "Peter Benchley's Mystery of the Deep," the made-for-TV Hunters of the Reef bears traces of such best-selling Peter Benchley novels as Jaws and The Deep. Much of the action is devoted to a race between two salvage-boat captains -- one poor, one Read More

Goodbye Franklin High

Synopsis: Goodbye Franklin High is one of the most elusive of baseball pictures, even harder to locate than Ty Cobb's Somewhere in Georgia. The film stars Lane Caudell as a high school athlete who must choose between the certainty of college or the possibility of a baseball career. Everyone associated with Read More

Mean Dog Blues

Actors: Gregg Henry, Kay Lenz, George Kennedy, Scatman Crothers, Tina Louise

Synopsis: Former TV documentary filmmaker Mel Stuart tries to inject an acceptable degree of verisimilitude in Mean Dog Blues. A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey (Gregg Henry) finds himself on a Southern chain gang. Captain Omar Kinsman (George Kennedy) snarls a lot as the Read More

Kojak: Once More from Birdland

Synopsis: Nightclub singer Francesca Milano (Andrea Marcovicci) is reunited with her father K.C. (William Windom), paroled after serving 14 years for a murder he didn't commit. Worried that her dad will wreak a terrible vengeance against the men who set him up, Francesca goes to Kojak (Telly Savalas) Read More

The Wonderful World of Disney: The Bluegrass Special

Actors: William Windom, Celeste Holm, Devon Ericson

Synopsis: This 1977 installment in the Wonderful World of Disney anthology series tells the story of Penny, a teenage girl who was raised on a horse farm, and dreams of becoming a jockey herself. But the world of racing rarely includes women, and nobody accepts Penny's aspirations until one fateful day Read More

Quincy, M.E.: The Hot Dog Murder

Synopsis: Posing as a prison pathologist, Quincy (Jack Klugman) conducts an investigation of the death of a convicted embezzler who was about to provide testimony against his mob bosses. The man's death has been ruled accidental, but Quincy doesn't believe it. The trick now is to figure out how a murder was Read More

Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours

Synopsis: In this thriller, an amnesiac woman hires a young detective to investigate the two men who seem to be trying to kill her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bridger

Actors: John Anderson

Synopsis: Based on the exploits of real-life 1830s frontiersman James Bridger, this TV movie was supposed to have graduated to a weekly series, but the fates were against it. James Wainwright plays the title role with Gary Cooper-like stoicism. John Anderson guest stars as President Andrew Jackson, who Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Requiem for Murder

Synopsis: Richard Basehart heads an impressive guest cast as Bishop Tim Farrow, who has fallen victim to a would-be murderer. When Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) question the Bishop, he steadfastly refuses to identify his assailant. Is the guilty party a fanatical atheist who has Read More

Echoes of a Summer

Actors: Richard Harris, Lois Nettleton, Geraldine Fitzgerald, William Windom, Brad Savage

Synopsis: 14-year-old Jodie Foster portrays Deirdre Striden, an 11-year-old cancer victim in Echoes of a Summer. Eugene (Richard Harris) and Ruth (Lois Nettleton), her parents, are consumed by grief over the imminent demise of their daughter. It is Deirdre herself who, during a summer vacation in Nova Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Letters from the Grave

Synopsis: As is customary, Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) are faced with a baffling mystery which they must unravel in the episode's alotted sixty minutes. The game is afoot the moment that the skeleton of a former convict is found during an excavation on Alcatraz Island. There's only one Read More

Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case

Synopsis: Long before Dr. Richard Kimble's one-armed man, there was Dr. Sam Sheppard's "curly-headed man." On July 4, 1954, Dr. Sheppard's wife was found murdered in their Cleveland home. Sheppard, the prime suspect, insisted that he'd seen a man with curly hair fleeing from his home. No matter: he was Read More

The Abduction of St. Anne - They've Kidnapped Anne Benedict

Actors: E.G. Marshall, Kathleen Quinlan, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: They've Kidnapped Anne Benedict is the rerun title for the made-for-TV movie The Abduction of St. Anne. Robert Wagner stars as detective who is hired by Vatican for $100,000. It's his job to find out if it's true that a mobster's 17-year-old daughter (Kathleen Quinlan) has miraculous and healing Read More

S.W.A.T.: A Coven of Killers

Actors: Steve Forrest, Rod Perry, Robert Urich, Mark Shera, James Coleman

Synopsis: Sal Mineo guest stars as Joey Hopper, the Manson-like head of a Satanist cult known as the Butcher Brigade. Escaping from a prison hospital ward with the help of his "family," Hopper swears vengeance against all the jury members that found him guilty of murder. The SWAT team's efforts to track Read More

Journey from Darkness

Synopsis: Made for television, Journey From Darkness is based on the true story of medical student David Hartman. Marc Singer plays David, a brilliant scholar who under normal circumstances would be accepted into medical school without a hitch. But David has been blind since birth, a fact that has been Read More

The Day the Earth Moved

Actors: Cleavon Little

Synopsis: Jackie Cooper and Cleavon Little star as aerial photographers who spot a few threatening cracks in the San Andreas fault. Will anyone listen? No. Do they suffer in the subsequent quake? Yes, but not as expensively as the all-star cast in Earthquake. Still, The Day the Earth Moved doesn't aspire to Read More

Murder in the First Person Singular

Synopsis: A terminally ill teacher schemes to get the money from the double-indemnity clause in his life insurance policy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

A Life for a Life

Synopsis: Life for a Life was first aired as an episode of the 1973-74 Jimmy Stewart TV detective series Hawkins. William Windom plays an extremely neurotic individual accused of murder. The DA believes that the crime was committed to avenge the killing of Windom's son. Hawkins (Jimmy Stewart) is hired to Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Fighter

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, William Windom

Synopsis: The IMF again invades the world of professional boxing to get the goods on crooked sports promoter Paul Mitchell (William Windom) and his Syndicate boss Jay Braddock (Joe Braddock). Terrified by Braddock's homicidal tendencies, Mitchell is on the verge of turning informer, but he needs a little Read More

The Partridge Family: Bedknobs and Drumsticks

Synopsis: William Windom does his best "Colonel Sanders" imitation as Uncle Erwin Tully, the flamboyant owner of a chain of chicken restaurants. Hiring the Partridges to appear in one of his TV commercials, Uncle Erwin insists that the family dress up in chicken costumes--much to the dismay of both the Read More

The Girls of Huntington House

Synopsis: Made for television, Girls of Huntington House stars Shirley Jones as schoolteacher Anne Baldwin. Working at a school for unwed mothers, Anne finds she can't keep her professional life and personal life separate. With no children of her own, she becomes deeply involved in the trials and Read More

A Great American Tragedy

Synopsis: The Great American Tragedy is a melodrama about an aerospace engineer and his family who struggle to survive after he suddenly loses his job. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: 45 Minutes from Home

Synopsis: William Windom delivers a compelling performance as Russ Rankin, an out-of-town salesman attending a convention in San Francisco. Targeted as the patsy in a badger game by a sexy female hitchhiker, Rankin is lured to a tiny houseboat, where he lapses into unconsciousness -- just before the girl is Read More

Ironside: Achilles' Heel

Synopsis: Ironside star Raymond Burr makes his TV directorial debut in this episode, in which Chief Ironside comes to the aid of a troubled Federal judge and the judge's son. Slated to preside over a well-publicized fraud case, Judge Van Buren (William Windom) is approached by "certain parties" and told to Read More

The Man

Actors: Elizabeth Ross, James Earl Jones, Martin Balsam, Burgess Meredith, Lew Ayres, William Windom

Synopsis: Rod Serling, a master of speculative scriptwriting, penned the screenplay of The Man. Set a few days into the future, the story contrives to kill off the President, the vice president, and virtually everyone in line of succession in a bizarre accident. This turn of events elevates Read More

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

Actors: Joyce Menges, Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, Jim Backus, William Windom

Synopsis: If anyone is interested in seeing what Kurt Russell used to do before transforming into Snake Plissken in Escape From New York, they can look no further than this labored Disney slapstick marzipan sequel to The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes. Kurt Russell, once again, is Dexter Riley, a science major Read More

Pursuit

Actors: Ben Gazzara

Synopsis: In this thriller, adapted from the novel Binary by John Lange and directed by Michael Crichton, a federal agent played by Ben Gazzara must stop a madman before he can unleash a toxic nerve gas upon an unwitting political convention. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Banacek: Project Phoenix

Synopsis: In this crime drama, corporate thieves, plan to steal an experimental car that is being sent to Boston via rail. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The F.B.I.: The Jug Marker

Synopsis: William Windom guest stars as Elias Devon, a criminal mastermind whose activities have aroused the attention of the FBI. Thanks to some clever subversion by the Feds, Devon begins to lose control of his gang members. Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) hopes that he can sow enough seeds of Read More

Second Chance

Synopsis: Brian Keith plays a wealthy stockbroker who purchases dusty Nevada ghost town. Remembering his own humble roots, Keith sets up the town as a community where life's losers can congregate. Here these unfortunates are afforded a "second chance"-which also happens to be the name of the town. If this Read More

Now You See It, Now You Don't

Columbo: Short Fuse

Synopsis: Short Fuse was one of the first installments in the TV series Columbo. Roddy McDowell is the murderer-of-the-week, a spoiled-rotten heir who does in his hated (but rich) uncle with a box of exploding cigars. Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) dogs McDowell's trail, both indoors and out. Several of the Read More

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter

Synopsis: Escape From the Planet of the Apes is the third in the series of films based upon the Planet of the Apes characters created by novelist Pierre Boulle. At the end of the second film, the centuries-in-the-future world colonized by simians was destroyed, but apes Cornelius (Roddy McDowall) and Zira (Kim Hunter Read More

Assault on the Wayne

Synopsis: This made-for-television feature (which premiered on the ABC Movie Of The Week) attracted slightly more interest than usual, due in part to the presence an unusually recognizable supporting cast (including several players, such as Joseph Cotten, Keenan Wynn and Dewey Martin, who'd had real film Read More

Mission: Impossible: Blues

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, William Windom

Synopsis: William Windom makes a return visit to Mission: Impossible, again in a villainous characterization. This time, Windom is cast as Stu Gorman, a music-industry executive fronting for the Syndicate. To get the goods on Gorman, IMF agents Barney and Casey pose as blues singers--with Casey taking her Read More

All in the Family: Success Story

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, William Windom

Synopsis: Archie's old army buddies prepare a reception for the most successful of their ranks, self-made millionaire Eddie Frazier (William Windom). Figuring that Eddie will purge Mike of some of his "pinko" anti-capitalist notions, Archie invites Eddie home for dinner. Not unexpectedly, it is Archie who Read More

The Mephisto Waltz

Actors: Terence Scammell, Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Parkins, Bradford Dillman, William Windom

Synopsis: Adapted from a Fred Mustard Stewart novel, this offbeat occult thriller stars Alan Alda (just prior to his eleven-year stint on M*A*S*H) as journalist and burgeoning musician Myles Clarkson, whose long-sought interview with ailing concert pianist (and closet Satanist) Duncan Ely (Curt Jurgens) Read More

The Homecoming

Actors: Patricia Neal

Synopsis: This made-for-TV drama, based on the book by Earl Hamner Jr., was the basis for the popular long-running television series The Waltons. In this opening installment, the Waltons, led by matriarch Olivia Walton (Patricia Neal), spend an anxious 1933 Christmas Eve together as they await the arrival Read More

A Taste of Evil

Actors: Barbara Parkins, Bing Russell, Barbara Stanwyck, William Windom

Synopsis: Screenwriter Jimmy Sangster and John Llewellyn Moxey, longtime collaborators in the field of British psychological-horror efforts, once more combined their skills for the American TV movie Taste of Evil. Barbara Parkins plays a young rape victim, recently released from a mental institution. She Read More

Marriage: Year One

Synopsis: Sally Field and Robert Pratt star as newlyweds Jane and L.T. in this feature-length pilot for an unsold weekly series. Born into wealth, Jane is quite unprepared for her life with farm-bred medical student L.T., especially when the couple move into what may be the tiniest apartment in the least Read More

Escape

Actors: Christopher George, Marlyn Mason, Avery Schreiber, John Vernon, William Windom

Synopsis: The first of two TV movies bearing the title Escape, this 1971 film was the pilot for a potential series. Christopher George stars as Cameron Steele, a famous escape artist who solves crimes on the side. Steele and his faithful assistant Nicholas Slye (Avery Schreiber) tackle the case of a Read More

Fools' Parade

Actors: James Stewart, George Kennedy, Anne Baxter

Synopsis: Just as they did for 1965's Shenandoah and 1968's Bandolero!, director Andrew V. McLaglen and screenwriter James Lee Barrett team up with actor James Stewart for this Western about a band of ex-convicts trying to go straight. Stewart stars as Mattie Appleyard, the leader of the group. After Read More

The Forty-Eight Hour Mile

Synopsis: The 48 Hour Mile is a "feature film" in terms of length only. In fact, it is comprised of two hour-long episodes from the 1968 TV series The Outsider. Darren McGavin stars as private eye David Ross, who after serving six years in prison on a trumped-up charge devotes the rest of his life to Read More

The House on Greenapple Road

Synopsis: House on Greenapple Road was an off-length TV movie (135 minutes instead of the usual 100), first telecast on The ABC Sunday Night Movie on January 11, 1970. Christopher George heads a stellar cast as Lt. Dan August, probing a homicide case in suburbia. The accused, a meek clerk (Tim O'Connor) Read More

Brewster McCloud

Actors: Bud Cort, Sally Kellerman, Michael Murphy, William Windom, Shelley Duvall

Synopsis: A boy yearns to fly in Robert Altman's whimsical youthquake parable. With the aid of seraphic Louise (Sally Kellerman), owlish Brewster (Bud Cort) constructs a pair of human-size wings in his Houston Astrodome nest to realize his dream. Meanwhile, conservative creeps, including a witchy Read More

U.M.C.

Synopsis: The initials stand for University Medical Center, where this TV movie was set (the University was actually UCLA, though not so named). The heads of the institution are Dr. Joseph Gannon (Richard Bradford), and Gannon's mentor and best friend Dr. Lee Forestman (Edward G. Robinson). Gannon performs Read More

The Gypsy Moths

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson

Synopsis: John Frankenheimer directed this low-key drama about three men who stage a sky-diving thrill show and what happens when they roll into a small town in Kansas. Mike Rettig (Burt Lancaster) is the oldest of the group and more than a bit jaded; Joe Browdy (Gene Hackman) is the fast-talking MC who Read More

The F.B.I.: The Nightmare

Synopsis: William Windom guest stars as Frank Converse, an embezzler who hopes to elude the FBI by crossing the Canadian border. Unfortunately, Virgil Phipps (Bruce Dern), Converse's driver, knows about the stolen money and demands a piece of the action, thereby setting the stage for a deadly showdown. The Read More

The Detective

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra gives a gritty performance in the crime thriller The Detective. When Teddy Leikman, the homosexual son of a politically connected department-store magnate, is murdered, detective Joe Leland (Frank Sinatra) is sent in to investigate. Leland drags in Teddy's psychotic former roommate Read More

Ironside: Trip to Hashbury

Synopsis: What would a late-1960s detective series be without the obligatory "flower child" episode? After Detective Ed Brown (Don Galloway) busts a Haight-Ashbury drug house, he is accused of beating a hippie to death. To clear Ed's name, Ironside (Raymond Burr) follows a trail of clues to a group of Read More

Bonanza: Star Crossed

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Tisha Sterling

Synopsis: Candy comes to the aid of down-and-out Laura Jean Pollard (Tisha Sterling), offering the bedraggled young woman the shelter and hospitality of the Ponderosa. Before long, however, an ex-marshal named Passmore (William Windom) has arrived on the scene to blackmail poor Laura. What is her secret-and Read More

The Angry Breed

Actors: Jan Sterling, James MacArthur, William Windom, Jan Murray

Synopsis: Johnny Taylor (Murray MacLeod) makes the rounds in Hollywood trying to peddle a screenplay given to him by his American army buddy in Vietnam. His attempts prove to be fruitless as he drifts into the life of a hermit on a Malibu beach. Johnny saves Diane (Lori Martin) from a motorcycle gang and Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Widow

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Jim Phelps (Peter Graves) takes over as head of the Impossible Missions Force in "The Widow." This time, the target is Alex Cresnic (William Cresnic), the world's largest heroin dealer. The IMF's mission is to persuade Cresnic's buyers that he has double-crossed them. First step: to convince Read More

The Fugitive: The Ivy Maze

Synopsis: On an Indiana college campus, Professor Fritz Simpson is conducting a psychological experiment to determine the significance of dreams. Recognizing the man who has volunteered for this experiment as Fred Johnson (Bill Raisch), aka "The One-Armed Man", Simpson contacts his old friend, fugitive Read More

The F.B.I.: By Force and Violence, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) steps up his search for kidnap victim Bob Griswold (Dave Macklin). Meanwhile, Bob's ex-convict father Max (Arthur Hill) reluctantly launches the final stage of an elaborate robbery that will net the kidnapper a cool Read More

The F.B.I.: By Force and Violence, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) investigates the kidnapping of Bob Griswold (Dave Macklin), the long-estranged son of ex-convict Max Griswold (Arthur Hill). What Erskine doesn't know is that the boy has been abducted by one of Max's former prison Read More

Columbo: Prescription Murder

Actors: Gene Barry, Nina Foch, Katherine Justice, Peter Falk

Synopsis: Prescription: Murder, a 1967 TV movie, represents the first appearance of Peter Falk as the rumpled but crafty detective Columbo. Gene Barry plays a distinguished doctor whose happiness is thwarted by his drunken wife (Nina Foch). Barry is in love with a pretty actress (Katherine Justice), and to Read More

Star Trek: The Doomsday Machine

Synopsis: Star Trek 35: The Doomsday Machine centers on the conflict between the Enterprise and the titular machine, a gigantic alien vessel that consumes entire solar systems during its march across the galaxy. The trouble begins when the Enterprise encounters the starship Constellation, now a ruined hulk Read More

Hour of the Gun

Actors: James Garner, Jason Robards, Jr., Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi, Charles Aidman

Synopsis: John Sturges directed this sequel to his Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which is more of a melancholy character study than an action Western. The Edward Anhalt screenplay (based on Douglas D. Martin's Tombstone's Epitaph) traces Wyatt Earp's (James Garner) moral decline from a lawman with high Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Train

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The scene is the tiny European republic of Svardia. Dying prime minister Laryra (Rhys Williams) has arranged to be succeeded by his protégé Milos Pavel (William Windom), little realizing that Pavel intends to set up a Communist dictatorship. In concert with an Oscar-winning Hollywood art director Read More

The F.B.I.: The Assassin

Synopsis: Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) learns that Bishop John Atwood (Dean Jagger), a peace envoy to the US, has been targetted for assassination. Unfortunately, the trigger man, known only to the FBI as "Anton Christopher", has never been photographed or fingerprinted, making it virtually impossible to Read More

The Farmer's Daughter: Season 03

Actors: Inger Stevens, William Windom, Cathleen Nesbitt, Mickey Sholdar, Rory O'Brien

The Farmer's Daughter: Season 02

Actors: Inger Stevens, William Windom, Cathleen Nesbitt, Mickey Sholdar, Rory O'Brien

The Americanization of Emily

Actors: James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, James Coburn, Joyce Grenfell

Synopsis: The lively but somehow slightly distasteful The Americanization of Emily stars James Garner as a WWII naval officer who happens to be a craven coward. While his comrades sail off to their deaths, Garner makes himself scarce, generally hiding out in the London flat of his lothario navy buddy James Coburn Read More

One Man's Way

Actors: Don Murray, Diana Hyland, William Windom, Virginia Christine, Carol Ohmart

Synopsis: From at least the 1930s on to the 1970s, the upbeat protestant minister, Reverend Norman Vincent Peale, ministered to the well-heeled and upwardly mobile of the United States from his pulpit at the Riverside church on Fifth Avenue in New York City. At least as positive-thinking as the similarly Read More

The Twilight Zone: Miniature

Actors: Robert Duvall, Pert Kelton, Barbara Barrie, William Windom

Synopsis: Robert Duvall stars as Charley Parkes, a shy and lonely man who spends his spare time at the museum, even though his domineering mother (Pert Kelton) would prefer that Charley seek out a suitable girlfriend. But as far Charley is concerned, he already has a sweetheart -- a tiny but lifelike Read More

For Love or Money

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Mitzi Gaynor, Gig Young, Thelma Ritter, Julie Newmar

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, Deke Gentry (Kirk Douglas) is a lawyer who gets an unusual assignment from Chloe Brasher (Thelma Ritter), a wealthy widow, owner of a successful hotel chain, and one of his most prominent clients. Chloe has three daughters, sensible Kate (Mitzi Gaynor), bohemian Jan (Leslie Parrish Read More

Cattle King

Actors: Larry Gates, William Windom, Robert Taylor, Joan Caulfield, Robert Loggia, Robert Middleton, Virginia Christine

Synopsis: Robert Taylor closed out his MGM contract with the 1963 western Cattle King. Taylor plays a Wyoming rancher at odds with cattle baron Robert Middleton, who is dead set against barbed wire being erected on "his" land. Just so we know the film isn't kidding around, leading lady Joan Caulfield is Read More

The Farmer's Daughter: Season 01

Actors: Inger Stevens, William Windom, Cathleen Nesbitt, Mickey Sholdar, Rory O'Brien

Combat!: Off Limits

Synopsis: When he is unexpectedly reunited with his wife Amelia (Peggy Ann Garner), an Army nurse, Cpl. Andy March (Jeremy Slate) begs Saunders (Vic Morrow) to give him a 48-hour pass. Unfortunately, military bureaucracy prohibits Andy from his long-awaited conjugal visit. But that isn't the worst of it Read More

To Kill a Mockingbird

Actors: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford, Robert Duvall, Frank Overton, Brock Peters

Synopsis: Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel was translated to film in 1962 by Horton Foote and the producer/director team of Robert Mulligan and Alan J. Pakula. Set a small Alabama town in the 1930s, the story focuses on scrupulously honest, highly respected lawyer Atticus Finch Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Digs Up a Date

Actors: Dick Martin, William Windom, Donald Briggs, Robert Rockwell, Vito Scotti

Synopsis: Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Viv (Vivian Vance) would like to go out on a date with a couple of eligible bachelors, but no one seems to be eligible at the moment. Impressed by the handsomeness of her son Jerry's math teacher Mr. Taylor (William Windom), Lucy's "borrows" the man's drivers license to Read More

The Twilight Zone: Five Characters in Search of An Exit

Actors: William Windom, Murray Matheson, Susan Harrison, Kelton Garwood

Synopsis: This episode was adapted by Rod Serling from Marvin Petal's short story "The Depository," but it could easily have been inspired by Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit. Five people from various and assorted walks of life -- an Army major (William Windom), a clown (Murray Matheson), a ballerina (Susan Harrison Read More