To Kill a Cop (1978) TV Movie

Joe Don Baker stars as chief of detectives, Eischeid, in the 4-hour, 2-part TV film "To Kill A Cop". Eischeid must contend with a series of seemingly unrelated bank robberies and the vicious murders of two police officers. Eischeid deduces that the culprits are members of a violent African-American revolutionary movement, but he is blocked in his investigation by the politically ambitious chief of police. As time runs out, Eischeid must prevent the planned wholesale slaughter of civilians at the hands of the revolutionaries. Scripted by Ernest Tidyman (The French Connection), "To Kill a Cop" served as the pilot for the TV series "Eischeid", which ran from September 1979 to January 1980. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

To Kill A Cop (1978) TV Movie

Cast: Joe Don Baker, Desi Arnaz Jr., Scott Brady, Joe Cirillo, Rod Colbin, Heshimu Cumbuka, Bill Deiz, Kim Delgado, Fil Formicola, Nathan George, Maxwell Glanville, Roosevelt Grier, Sonny Grosso, Hettie Lynne Hurtes, Leon Issacs, Randy Jurgensen, Eartha Kitt, Maurice Kowaleski, Ric Mancini, Joe Maross, Walter Mathews, Terrence E. McNally, Rosalind Miles, Diana Muldaur, Rob Narke, Patrick O'Neal, Alan Oppenheimer, Allen Price, James Purcell, Arthur Rosenberg, Borah Silver, James Veres, Vernon Weddle, Christine Belford, Alan Fudge, Louis Gossett Jr., Julius Harris, Robert Hooks, Chip McAllister, Milton Selzer, Ken Swofford, David Toma, Joyce Van Patten

Night the Bridge Fell Down, The (1983) TV Movie

Movies' "disaster master", Irwin Allen, was the man behind this adventure yarn that strands a group of motorists and fleeing bank robber, Desi Arnaz, Jr., and his girlfriend, Char Fontane, on a bridge that is collapsing because of shifting sands near the pylons. Its unique history is more interesting than its premise: made in 1979 as a two-part four-hour film called "The Night the Bridge Collapsed", it was set to premiere in early January 1980. Pulled from the schedule at the last minute, it was given its first showing in this form in Australia several months later. Subsequently cut to three hours as a single-part film, it was re-scheduled for a mid-October 1980 showing but was pre-empted by the World Series. It then went into limbo until finally being dragged off the shelf for its ultimate U.S. premiere in early 1983. Its star, James MacArthur, hot off "Hawaii Five-0", at the time the film was shot long had been in semi-retirement from acting.

The Night the Bridge Fell Down (1983) TV Movie

Cast: Char Fontane, Desi Arnaz Jr., Eve Plumb, Gregory Sierra, James MacArthur, Leslie Nielsen, Philip Baker Hall