Darren McGavin

Framed for crimes they didn't commit, two small-timers are headed up the river without a paddle. Now, the only thing that can bail them out is a case of mistaken identity. It's the hysterical prison comedy that's so funny, it's criminal!

Billy é o filho irresponsável de Brian Madison, magnata de uma cadeia de hotéis. Ele tem 27 anos e só pensa em beber cerveja, ler revistas masculinas e se divertir com seus amigos tolos. O jovem espera herdar a fortuna da família, mas fica chocado ao saber que o pai determinou que ele não leva nada, a menos que conclua o segundo grau em 24 semanas. É uma missão bem difícil, já que Bill nunca passou da primeira série. Determinado a provar ao pai que é capaz, ele se matricula em uma escola.

A television movie based on "A Perfect Stranger," Danielle Steel's novel about an attorney who falls in love with the young wife of a wealthy man who is dying.

Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market crash of 1929. Lee, a college-age young man, who now faces no possibility of entering college, decides to go on the road to see what is happening to the rest of the country.

A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate hearings of 1972-1973.

Há 25 anos, Zachary Malius assassinou sete garotos e foi preso. Agora ele está em liberdade e volta para o local para cometer os mesmos crimes.

This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.

A dimwitted thug encounters a strung-out, suicidal young woman and an unlikely relationship develops as they work together to make a break for new horizons.

Um aluno de tradicional escola para meninos do Sul dos EUA faz amizade com um jovem negro que possui um extraordinário talento musical. O amor pela música une os dois amigos, fazendo-os vencer os preconceitos raciais.

Dramatizes a father’s repressed psyche and hidden prejudices at the scene of his daughter’s murder.

Durante a 2ª Guerra Mundial, o americano Steve Rogers se submete a uma experiência comandada por Therese Vaselli, uma cientista que fugiu da Itália por não aceitar os "métodos" utilizados. Steve se torna um super soldado, surgindo o Capitão América. Entretanto, Vaselli é morta e o segredo de transformar um simples humano em um soldado excepcional morre com ela, o que frustra o plano de criar vários super soldados. Ao se defrontar com o Caveira Vermelha, um hiper soldado criado pelos nazistas, o Capitão América é preso em um foguete, que tem como alvo a Casa Branca. O herói desvia a trajetória, no entanto vai parar no Alasca, onde fica congelado. Nos anos 1990 ele acorda e descobre que o Caveira é Tadzio de Santis, que quer sequestrar o presidente Tom Kimball e usar uma técnica revolucionária para tomar o lugar de Kimball e se tornar o novo presidente dos Estados Unidos.

A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race between American and Soviet politicians to prevent a nuclear holocaust. While the U.S. president feverishly works to keep the military and political machine from going into overdrive, various subordinates panic. When the president is believed to be killed in a helicopter crash, zealous advisers take over.

A child psychologist, Hollis who's marriage collapsed after she learned she was barren, bonds with Luke Winfield, who witnessed his father's murder at the hands of rain-slicker wearing killer with a cargo hook. Along the way she befriends Detective Bass as he investigates a series of homicides, each with the same M.O. As Hollis gets closer to Luke she discovers some trouble family secrets ensuring she is next to be slain.

After discovering the connection between a corrupt city commissioner and Colombian killers, Kojak is framed for the murder of a call girl and is prosecuted by former police detective Crocker, now an assistant D.A.

Detetive Bigelow e Detetive Mortis investigam uma misteriosa quadrilha de assaltantes que resiste a tiros e ferimentos - até descobrir que são bandidos-zumbis, ressuscitados por um vilão utilizando uma máquina criada para esta finalidade. Quando um dos policiais acaba morrendo, seu parceiro resolve ressuscitá-lo. Surge assim o primeiro policial morto-vivo da história e o único capaz de enfrentar a ameaça dos criminosos-zumbis.

Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

When streetwise Manhattan police detectives Rawlings (Howard Hesseman) and Brendan Thomas (Ed Marinaro) discover a major diamond heist is about to go down at a renowned gallery, they enlist one of their suspects, gallery employee Tara Holden (Brooke Shields). But an attempt to foil the robbery explodes with deadly consequences for Tara. Committed to break the case, Rawlings relentlessly pursues the clues through a twisted maze of deceit and danger that takes him to England, where he and Scotland Yard detecive Charlie Lawson expose the ultimate con and solve the crime.

Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a promotion in his firm, and he must now defend a college professor who is appearantly guilty of murder.

Um agente do FBI quer ter uma revanche com a organização da Máfia e envia um antigo agente do FBI (Arnold Schwarzenegger) para destruir a organização por dentro dela.

After New York City firefighter Terry Lynch is unable to receive any compensation for an injury incurred during the off-duty rescue of a young girl, he grows suicidal. Furious, his brother Jimmy attempts to have Mayor Tyler intervene, but the corrupt politician instead denounces Terry as a drunk. Determined to get justice, Jimmy begins a graffiti campaign of embarrassing slogans mocking the mayor, which soon captivates the city.

Marcus Welby is back, and he has a few problems. First he is trying to bridge the gap between an old friend of his who gave up practicing medicine in favor of being the hospital administrator, and his son who is now a doctor and who is currently treating and romancing a woman who has kidney problems. And one of his patients an expectant mother is in an accident along with her husband and her husband dies. She blames Mark and is refusing to bond with her new baby. And the hospital that he has been serving faithfully for years is considering letting some of their elderly staff members go and Mark is on top of the list.

Misterioso rebatedor de meia-idade surge do nada e conduz à glória um fracassado time de beisebol profissional. O passado deste homem guarda um drama que interrompeu precocemente uma carreira brilhante e agora tudo parece voltar à tona.

Nos anos 40, Ralphie é um garotinho que sonha em ganhar uma bela espingarda vermelha de presente de Natal. A todo custo, tenta convencer seus pais superprotetores que esse é o presente ideal, mas ninguém parece querer ouvi-lo, e por vários motivos a espingarda torna-se um presente cada vez mais distante para ele.

In 1930s Hollywood, a rising starlet is swept into a secret love affair.

In one of many unpopular and unsupported policy decisions, the US government of the near future outlaws vehicle petrol in an effort to curb the overuse of limited natural resources - except, of course, for official purposes. There are many renegades who oppose the authorities, and will stop at nothing to allow themselves the freedom of burning around the countryside.

Durante uma missão de rotina, um satélite colide com um OVNI, que faz um pouso de emergência no deserto do Arizona. O governo americano age rápido para encobrir o fato, pois a eleição se aproxima e o presidente teme que o pânico se espalhe e prejudique sua reeleição. Enquanto a nave é escondida no Hangar 18, dois astronautas, Bancroff e Price, recebem a culpa pelo incidente, e começam a investigar o caso para trazer a verdade à tona.

A couple of private eyes, a laid-back Californian and a streetwise New Yorker, team up to track down a killer in Hawaii known as "The Cane Field Murderer" in this unsuccessful pilot to a detective series.

Two small-town sisters go to Hollywood and find themselves seduced by the glamor of the big time and big money as high-priced professional escorts.

Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.

Timothy Donovan, a con-man, returns to San Francisco to see his wife and daughter. Realizing his family is under the control of his wife's domineering uncle, Timothy Donovan teams up with a fellow con-man to free them.

A beautiful girl from a small town with dreams of making it in Hollywood marries an actor whose career is fading, then schemes to get him back into the big time - and her with him.

Quando Jasper, fundador da cidade de Bloodshy, morre seus filhos gêmeos brigam para decidir quem herdará o seu legado. Billy é um pistoleiro selvagem enquanto Eli é um bem comportado e do tipo religioso. Para decidir o legítimo sucessor os irmãos duelam um com o outro em uma série de competições que culmina em uma corrida; entretanto, a luta real começa quando Billy e Eli tentam lutar contra o controle de Ragsdale, o prefeito corrupto de Bloodshy.

A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners.

A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners.

Em uma viagem para Palm Beach, onde vai inaugurar um museu composto de peças da sua coleção particular, o magnata Philip Stevens transporta em seu luxuoso Jumbo 747 a sua coleção de arte, tendo seus amigos como convidados. Mas o avião é sequestrado, sofre um acidente e cai no oceano, ficando submerso em águas rasas. Será que a tripulação e os passageiros conseguirão escapar antes que o avião seja invadido totalmente pela água do mar?

Story follows three generations of a family in the New York City Police Department.

The first of two Kolchak: The Night Stalker compilation TV films. It combines two episodes of the Kolchak TV series, Firefall (about the ghost of an arsonist that tries to take over a renowned conductor's body as his doppelgänger) and The Energy Eater (about a Native American bear-spirit haunting a newly built hospital) and adds new narration by Darren McGavin.

In this telling of the infamous 1950 robbery, James McNally is portrayed as the one gang member who maintains his silence in the face of extreme police pressure. When he is sent up to prison and sees the other gang members letting him take all the heat, he still doesn't come clean to the cops. He feels a loyalty to his best friend, who was also in on the crime. But what will his best friend choose to do?

The second of two Kolchak: The Night Stalker compilation TV films. It combines two episodes of the Kolchak TV series, Demon In Lace (about a succubus who murders young men to maintain her immortality) and Legacy of Terror (about an Aztec cult that seeks to resurrect their god by murdering physically perfect people) and adds new narration by Darren McGavin.

Dois vagabundos sequestram por acidente os netos do milionário J. W. Osborne, mas a medida que as crianças começam a usufruir dessa temporada de "férias" com esses atrapalhados criminosos o pedido de resgate é cada vez menor.

In a fictitious South American country there's lots of political tension, the labor-unions have all their members on strike. The public demands the return of politician B. from exile. However private trucker Pal can't afford to strike, so he's beaten up and his truck burned. In the headlines he's described as strike-breaker. This is only part of an intrigue which shall get him to murder B.

An adopted teen who runs away to what he believes to be his birth town and mother, in the hopes of putting together the missing pieces of his sense of identity. He arrives during a wave of disappearances and murders, only to encounter New England aloofness and some very eccentric relatives.

Colonel Steve Austin, astronaut and test pilot, is badly injured when he crashes while testing an experimental aircraft. A covert government agency (OSI) is willing to pay for special prosthetics to replace the eye, arm and both legs he lost in the crash. Highly advanced technology (bionics) built into them will make him faster, stronger and more resilient than normal. In return they want him to become a covert agent for the OSI. It will cost $6,000,000 to rebuild Steve Austin.

O repórter Carl Kolchak está agora em Seattle, Wahington, tentando resolver o mistério de vários estrangulamentos que se repetem sempre em um certo período de vários anos, em que as vítimas tem drenados os fluidos na base do cérebro. Continuação de Pânico e Morte na Cidade, deu origem a série Kolchak e os Demônios da Noite.

The story of how Petty Enterprises started and how Richard Petty became "The King" as told from his father Lee's point of view.

Maggie Cole is a research scientist who, after the sudden death of her husband, takes a position as an on-call doctor in an inner-city clinic. There, she must fight a battle on two fronts: against the medical conditions endangering her patients and against sexism toward a female doctor.

A widowed judge tries to balance the trials of his occupation along with those of his family life.

Three new officers in a large metropolitan police department adjust to their new jobs and way of life. This is another TV-pilot that was first aired as an ABC Movie of the Week before becoming a TV-series.

Casal de Nova Iorque decide se mudar para uma fazenda na área rural da Pensilvânia para viver longe da metrópole com os dois filhos pequenos. Mas a mulher não demora a descobrir que um diabólico ser invisível vive naquela casa e foi o responsável pela morte do habitante anterior. Agora, ela precisa enfrentar o sobrenatural para garantir a sobrevivência dos filhos.

Carl Kolchak é um repórter que investiga estranhos assassinatos de coristas em Las Vegas. Ele descobre que Janos Skorzeny, um vampiro, está por trás dos crimes. Kolchak tenta convencer seu editor sobre a natureza vampírica do assassino mas ninguém o leva a sério. Ele se vê obrigado a combater o mal sozinho.

Sam Cade was the first feature-length "movie" put together from episodes of Cade's County, the early '70s series starring Glenn Ford as a modern-day sheriff in Madrid County, CA. In the first half, directed by Marvin Chomsky, Cade finds himself targeted for assassination when he's scheduled to testify in the trial of a mob kingpin -- what he doesn't know is that the assassin is one of his oldest friends (Darren McGavin), who is romancing another old friend (Loretta Swit) with a troubled past and using Cade's determination and his investigative skills to set him up for a hit. In the second half, directed by Richard Donner, Cade gets a tip that the mob has planned an assassination on a retired crime boss (Edward Asner) living in the county, who is so bull-headed and distrustful of the law that he won't accept any help or provide any information on who the killers might be, even though he's putting his own daughter (Shelley Fabares) at risk.

A dog tries to become a canine star with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor.

The editor of a small-town newspaper has his past unexpectedly catch up with him: he finds out that a Soviet agent who knew him when he was a spy has been sent to the U.S. to kill him.

Miles C. Banyon is a private investigator in 1930s Los Angeles. In this TV movie—which served as the pilot episode for the short-lived TV show—Banyon's new client, a young woman, is found dead in his office...shot with his own gun.

Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and she's widowed. And being just what the department needed (someone who looks and acts completely unlike a spy), she's assigned to simple courier duty to pick up a book in Mexico City. But when the pickup doesn't go as planned, Mrs. Pollifax finds herself handcuffed to a handsome stranger on a plane bound for an Albanian prison. And it's up to her to get them out.

A Marine Corps drill instructor who is disgusted by the fact that the Corps now accepts draftees finds himself pitted against a hippie who has been drafted but refuses to accept the military's way of doing things.

Racers compete in the Grand Prix.

Spy suspense drama set in 1960's Berlin. Intrigue and double-cross lead Killian on a twisting path through love and loss.

All-out war between the United States and an Asian country is averted when the two sides agree to settle their differences by each choosing a single soldier as champion and having the two men fight to the death on an isolated island.

Private detective David Ross has two apparently unconnected cases to investigate in the same day. In the first he is hired by a millionaire who paid a large ransom for his kidnapped daughter twelve years before, but she was never seen again. Now a woman has come forward who claims the young girl she raised is the millionaire's missing daughter. Later, Ross is contacted by a retired burlesque dancer who's about to publish her memoirs and possibly reveal the secrets of some important people, but someone is determined to stop her.

Three American astronauts who land on Mars discover the body of a frozen Russian cosmonaut and a mysterious talking orb.

Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies start dropping and the savvy P.I. is the primary suspect in an attractive woman's death. This NBC TV movie served as a pilot for the later series.

The sky lights up and the desert comes alive on this desperate search for hidden millions.

Colonel Custer (Philip Carey), an outspoken believer in fair treatment for the Indians, is ousted from his post and forced into retirement. Fueled by ambition when a Senator Blaine (Don Haggerty) convinces him to run for President, Custer decides to upstage General Terry (Frank Ferguson) at Little Big Horn.

Ex-Texas Rangers Sam Ward e Logan Keliher se tornam inimigos quando Sam se transforma em ladrão de banco e Logan se casa com a ex-mulher de Sam.

Madame Tirelou is a witch who will not allow her daughter Marie to marry her true love Louis. The witch puts a curse on Louis should he ever set eyes on Marie again. Louis enlists the help of his old friend Fred to break the witch's spell so the young lovers may finally marry. However, Madame Tirelou proves more powerful than non-believer Fred bargained for.

Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail, and the Submarine Voyage, a project so massive that it was called "The Second Opening of Disneyland". Highlights include a mammoth, star-studded parade and the official launching of the Disneyland submarines by U.S. Navy officers. Among the guests are then-Vice-President Richard Nixon and family, Clint Eastwood, and Meredith Willson, who leads the Disneyland band in his own "76 Trombones." Sponsored by Kodak, the commercial spokespersons include Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.

A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket.

The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s.

Sidney L. Pythias (Jerry Lewis) é um jovem que trabalha como zelador e é confundido como membro de uma gangue constituída por delinqüentes juvenis, sendo preso por ordem do capitão Riley (Horace McMahon). Seu chefe, Mike Damon (Darren McGavin), um policial honesto, pretende salvá-lo da criminalidade tentando transformá-lo também em um policial. Martha Henshaw (Martha Hyer), uma moça que é a representante da Câmara dos Vereadores e que tem como missão investigar os bairros cheios de criminalidade, considera Sidney uma pessoa muito perigosa. A visão de Martha é muito diferente em relação à visão de Mike, fazendo com que os dois entrem em desacordos sobre qual é a melhor maneira de fazer de Sidney um cidadão "comum".

A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.

Um jogador que sonha em se tornar baterista de uma banda de jazz sai da prisão e retorna à sua cidade. Enquanto tenta se livrar da dependência das drogas e administra a complicada relação com sua esposa inválida, também se envolve com uma bela mulher, que lhe empresta o apartamento para praticar música.

The story of two women and how they trick a husband into renovating a kitchen.

Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she does, she uses her savings to finance a summer in romantic Venice, where she finally meets the man of her dreams, the elegant Renato Di Rossi.

Adapted from the TV and radio series of the same name, the producer of said show reads letters from three woman providing the framing story for this melodrama anthology film. The tales focus on parenting and family struggles.

In this documentary short film, a U.S. Army lieutenant instructs soldiers in how to prepare for new and interesting jobs in civilian life after the war. He leads the soldiers through a number of checklists to determine what their interests are and how to make decisions and plans for future employment. One of the soldiers, T-5 Dailey, worries about his options, until his mirror-image self appears to talk him through a plan of action.

Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem, but frowning on the impulsive, as represented by a favorite comic strip called "The Nixie." She bumps into Michael Kent, an officer and the comic strip's author. He likes her instantly and she dislikes him. He's headed to the Pacific, sees her on the train, gets off in Chicago, and with her father's help, pursues her and hatches a plan to marry her. Meanwhile, she has her own plan to get rid of him with the help of a blond patient. Will the Nixie get into her psyche?

Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.

When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the museum.