Women in Prison (1987) TV series 1987-1988

This comedy takes place in cell-bock J of the Bass Women's prison in Wisconsin. Very culty with charm. The star is cute, the premise is witty, interesting supporting cast, (Peggy Cass!) and all the nostalgia of the young upstart Fox Television Network.

AVAILABLE EPISODES

Season 1, Episode 1

Vickie Does Prison

11 October 1987

Women in Prison (1987) TV series 1987-1988
Cast: Antoinette Byron, Blake Clark, CCH Pounder, Denny Dillon, Julia Campbell, Peggy Cass, Wendie Jo Sperber

If Tomorrow Comes (1986) TV Movie

Not to be confused with the 1971 TV movie of the same name, the three-part CBS miniseries If Tomorrow Comes was based on the best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon. At the center of all the intrigue is an attractive pair of jewel thieves, rank amateur Tracy Whitney (Madolyn Smith), and slick professional Jeff Stevens (Tom Berenger). Having failed on their own to secure wealthy marriages, Tracy and Jeff bury their rivalry and turn to each other for romance -- provided that they're given a few moments to themselves by their great nemesis, the dangerously single-minded insurance investigator Daniel Cooper (David Keith). Standing out in the huge cast is Richard Kiley as international con artist Gunther Hartog, who endeavors to teach Tracy all the tricks of big-time larceny while passing herself off as a variety of different women. Presented in three installments, If Tomorrow Comes was originally telecast on 1986 on March 16, 17, and 18. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

If Tomorrow Comes (1986) TV Movie
Cast: CCH Pounder, David Keith, Jack Weston, Jeffrey Jones, Joseph Cortese, Lane Smith, Liam Neeson, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Richard Kiley, Tom Berenger

Third Degree Burn (1989) TV Movie

Third Degree Burn (1989) TV Movie
Cast: CCH Pounder, John Aylward, Mary Armstrong, Richard Masur, Treat Williams, Virginia Madsen

No Place Like Home (1989) TV Movie

Written with heartbreaking attention to detail by Ara Watson and Sam Blackwell, "No Place Like Home" was one of the first TV movies to direct itself to the plight of the homeless. Jeff Daniels plays a Pittsburgh apartment superintendent and aspiring electrician who loses his job - and his home - when the apartment building burns to the ground. Daniels, his wife Christine Lahti, and his two children (Lantz Landry and Kyndra Joy Casper) move in with Daniels' brother Scott Marlowe, but the resultant family hostilities render the situation impossible. As the family takes the downward journey from welfare hotel to homeless shelter, Daniels searches in vain for an electrician's job, Lahti takes a few stints as a waitress, and son Lantz Landry gets involved with a drug dealer. The film offers little hope or comfort, nor any pat solutions to the ever-growing homeless dilemma. The final shot in "No Place Like Home" is a stunner, grimly evocative of King Vidor's more upbeat finale in 1928's "The Crowd". Lee Grant, director of this numbingly realistic TV movie, had earlier directed a documentary on the same subject, "Down and Out in America". ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

No Place Like Home (1989) TV Movie

Cast: Anne Pitoniak, CCH Pounder, Christine Lahti, Jeff Daniels, Kathy Bates, Kyndra Joy Casper, Lantz Landry, Scott Marlowe