Will MacKenzieFilmography

Everybody Loves Raymond: Working Late Again

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Debra (Patricia Heaton) reads an article about the happiness and contentment brought about by working at home. When Ray comes home late and stressed out (again!), Debra helpfully suggests that he transform a room in the house into his office--complete with fax machine, computer modem and Read More

Everybody Loves Raymond: The Children's Book

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Debra (Patricia Heaton) doesn't care for the quality of children's books that Ally (Madlyn Sweeten) insists she read over and over again, night after night. Hoping to elevate the literature level in her household, Debra begins writing her own book--and persuades hubby Raymond (Ray Romano) to Read More

Perfect Harmony

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Music bridges a gap between two cultures in this made-for-TV drama. In 1957, Derek Sanders (Peter Scolari) is hired to teach music and direct the choir at Blanton Academy, a private school in South Carolina. Integration has not yet come to Blanton, and a number of students display an open Read More

Stormy Weathers

Crew: Director

Actors: Cybill Shepherd, Robert Beltran, Charlie Schlatter, Kurt Fuller, Diane Salinger

Synopsis: When a private detective takes on a missing person assignment trying to find an Italian aristocrat's uncle, she discovers a conspiracy of murder and drugs. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Worth Winning

Crew: Director

Actors: Mark Harmon, Madeleine Stowe, Lesley Ann Warren, Maria Holvoe, Mark Blum

Synopsis: A self-centered womanizer makes a wager that he will be able to propose to three women in a three month time and have each one accept in this romantic Philadelphia-set comedy. His three victims are an icy concert pianist, an innocent blonde receptionist for the Philadelphia Eagles, and a rich Read More

A Hobo's Christmas

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The hobo in the made-for-TV A Hobo's Christmas is played by Barnard Hughes. Drifting from place to place, Hughes finds himself in his hometown of Salt Lake City at Christmastime. Here he hopes to close old wounds and be reunited with his unforgiving son Gerald McRaney, and get to know the Read More

Moonlighting: In God We Strongly Suspect

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This episode opens with the grave announcement that it has NOT been filmed in 3-D (the glasses didn't show up in the mail). Once this is established, we segue into the curious tale of the Great Kandinski, a famous escape artist who has recently died. Inasmuch as Kandinski had threatened to come Read More

Moonlighting: Atomic Shakespeare

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This classic episode begins when a youngster tunes into his favorite TV series Moonlighting, only to be ordered to switch off that "trash" and return to his homework. Inasmuch as the kid is studying William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew", he soon dreams up a wild scenario wherein all of Read More

Moonlighting: The Bride of Tupperman

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This time out, the services of Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) and David (Bruce Willis) are engaged by the deceptively mild-mannerd Alan Tupperman (Guy Boyd). It seems that lonely Alan is in search of the "perfect mate", and he expects the detectives to find this elusive woman--or at the very least Read More

Moonlighting: My Fair David

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Fed up with David's childish behavior, Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) bets him that he can't act in a mature manner throughout their next case. David (Bruce Willis) does his best, even though the case at hand--delivering the ransom money for a kidnapped concert pianist--offers ample temptation for him Read More

Family Ties Vacation

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers

Synopsis: All the main characters from the popular TV sitcom Family Ties were carried over into this made-for-TV feature. Michael J. Fox heads the cast as insufferable/lovable young conservative Alex Keaton, who this time around is attending Oxford on a summer scholarship. The Keaton family--ex-hippie Read More

Taxi: Zen and the Art of Cab Driving

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The cabbies are astonished when Jim (Christopher Lloyd), a burned-out relic of the 1960s whose appearance and lifestyle can be charitably described as "unkempt" abruptly turns over a new leaf. Virtually overnight, Jim has brought perfection, order, and expensive creature comforts into his Read More

Too Close for Comfort: The Bag Lady

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Henry (Ted Knight) is decidedly nervous about hiring a couple of ex-convicts from a local rehabilitation center to do a plastering job in the Rushes' apartment. That said, imagine Henry's reaction when Jackie (Deborah Van Valkenburgh) comes home from her bank job with a grocery bag containing Read More

Too Close for Comfort: Pilot

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Its premiere delayed two months by an actors' strike, Too Close for Comfort finally made its debut on November 11, 1980, with an airing of the series' pilot episode. Newspaper cartoonist Henry Rush (Ted Knight) and his wife, Muriel (Nancy Dussault), have missed their daughters, Jackie (Deborah Van Valkenburgh Read More

Too Close for Comfort: It Didn't Happen One Night

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Normally seen on Tuesdays during its first ABC season, Too Close for Comfort was given a rare Sunday showing when this episode originally aired. Henry Rush (Ted Knight) goes ballistic when he learns that a sailor plans to spend his shore leave with his attractive daughter Sara (Lydia Cornell). It Read More

Too Close for Comfort: Sara's Monroe Doctrine

Crew: Director

Synopsis: With this episode, J.M. J. Bullock becomes a series regular in the role of Monroe Ficus, nerdy fellow student of Jackie Rush (Lydia Cornell). Overwhelmed by a small act of kindness from Sara (Lydia Cornell), Monroe insists upon thanking her. Then he follows her from school to thank her again. Then Read More

Too Close for Comfort: Que Sara Sara

Crew: Director

Synopsis: College student Sara (Lydia Cornell) gets a part-time job as a waitress. The uniform she is required to wear leaves very little to the imagination. Taking one look at the skimpy outfit, Sara's overprotective dad, Henry (Ted Knight), blows his stack. Fed up with her husband's bombastic behavior Read More

WKRP in Cincinnati: I Do, I Do...For Now

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When she was a little girl back in Rock Throw, West Virginia, Jennfer (Loni Anderson) promised to marry her childhood sweetheart T.J. Watson. Now T.J. is all grown up (and played by country singer Hoyt Axton), and he has come to Cincinnati to see Jennifer. Worried that T.J. will demand that she Read More

WKRP in Cincinnati: Young Master Carlson

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When Mr. Carlson's 11-year-old son Arthur Jr. (Sparky Marcus) is booted out of Valley Forge Military Academy, the kid's grandmother Mrs. Carlson (Carol Bruce) demands that the boy be given a job at WKRP. Before long, the entire staff is on the verge of insanity thanks to Arthur Jr.'s fascistic Read More

WKRP in Cincinnati: Tornado

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A series of tornadoes hits the Cincinnati area just as a pair of Japanese radio executives are being given a guided tour of WKRP. A bad situation gets worse when a window blown loose by the heavy winds knocks Andy (Gary Sandy) unconscious--but fortunately, Jennifer (Loni Anderson) is at the ready Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Love Is the Blindest

Crew: Director

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: Mr. Carlin is in love again; this time the lucky (?) woman is one Andrea Duff (Mary Ann Chin). Hoping to appear more exciting to the new woman in his life, Carlin enlists Bob's aid in fabricating a spectacular "life story." The result is a wide-ranging farrago of a resumé which claims, among other Read More

All in the Family: Unequal Partners

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Ian Wolfe, Will MacKenzie

Synopsis: Generous Edith offers the Bunker living room as the site for the wedding between Mr. Hooper (Ian Wolfe) and Florence Talley (Merie Earle), two octogenarian residents of the Sunshine Rest House. Unfortunately, the ceremony coincides with Archie's long-anticipated fishing trip. As the wedding plods Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Taxation Without Celebration

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: Though other time-frames have been offered in past episodes, the Hartleys have been married seven years according to Sy Rosen's script for "Taxation Without Celebration." Their anniversary is April 15th, a date that has completely slipped Bob's mind. Not only must he face the wrath of wife Emily Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: The Mentor

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: Once again breaking his self-imposed rule of never consulting his friends, Bob offers advice to Carol's husband, Larry Bondurant (Will Mackenzie). Suggesting that the discouraged Larry open his own travel agency, Bob never dreamed that his advice would be acted upon so quickly. Nor did he imagine Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Guaranteed Not to Shrink

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: Carol decides to go to night school in pursuit of a degree in psychology. Not only does this upset the routine in Bob's building, but it also drives the inhabitants to distraction as Carol insists upon analyzing everyone in her immediate vicinity. But, as usual, Bob has problems that go far beyond Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Caged Fury

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: In anticipation of Howard's big Fourth of July Bicentennial celebration, Bob and Emily scurry down to the basement storage locker to get supplies. Alas, Emily locks both herself and Bob into the locker -- and there they remain until July 5th. This minor mishap has major repercussions on the Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Carol at 6:01

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: There is no question that Carol is deeply and sincerely loved by her new husband, Larry Bondurant (Will Mackenzie). Only one problem: Larry is smothering Carol with affection, and she's having a lot of trouble coming up for air. Meanwhile, Bob tries to convince a patient that a weekly bingo game Read More

Baretta: Dear Tony

Actors: Robert Blake, Edward Grover, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: Most of this episode is related in flashbacks, as undercover cop Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) reads a suicide note left behind by a close friend. The bulk of the story concerns policewoman Pat Harley (Anjanette Comer), who had teamed up with Baretta to investigate the death of her husband, likewise Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Making Up Is the Thing to Do

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story arc, Bob is still fretting over the breakup of his parents' marriage. Counting on the holiday spirit to heal old wounds, Bob invites both his mother and father to Christmas dinner at the Hartley apartment, hoping to bring them back together (provided, of Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Carol's Wedding

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: Will Mackenzie makes the first of several series appearances as mercurial travel agent Larry Bondurant. The office is abuzz with speculation and trepidation when Carol announces her engagement to a man whom she met on a blind date -- 12 hours earlier. Others in the cast are Robert Casper as Judge Read More

The Landlord

Actors: Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Marki Bey, Pearl Bailey, Louis Gossett, Jr.

Synopsis: Wealthy, insensitive young Beau Bridges buys an inner-city tenement, planning to evict the present occupants and construct a luxury home for himself. But once he ventures into the tenement, he grows quite fond of the low-income ethnic types who dwell within. He even kicks over the traces of his Read More

Harvey Middleman, Fireman

Actors: Eugene Troobnick, Hermione Gingold, Patricia Harty, Arlene Golonka, Will MacKenzie

Synopsis: In this comedy, an even-tempered fireman with a happily tepid life, finds his peaceful world disrupted when he becomes infatuated with the woman he saved from a burning building. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More