Ellen Burstyn Show, The (1986) TV Series 1986-1987

An ABC weekly situation comedy, produced by Ron Frazier for Walt Disney. This series premiered September 20, 1986. Burstyn plays Ellen Brewer, the head of a multi-generational household. Brewer is an iconclastic writer-in-residence at a Baltimore college. She holds seminars in the brownstone she shares with her hyperactive mother Sydney (Elaine Strich), her divorced 25-year-old daughter Molly (Megan Mullally) and her 5-year-old grandson, Nick (Jesse R. Tendler). The theme song was "Nothing In The World Like Love" (lyrics by John Bettis and music by Artie Butler).

AVAILABLE EPISODES

Season 1, Episode 2
Monkey Business
27 September 1986

Season 1, Episode 4
The Guest Lecturer
18 October 1986

Season 1, Episode 7
Reading Between the Lines
8 November 1986

Season 1, Episode 8
Family Affair
15 November 1986

Season 1, Episode 12
The Guest Lecturer
5 September 1987

The Ellen Burstyn Show (1986) TV Series 1986-1987

Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Megan Mullally, Jesse R. Tendler, Barry Sobel, Elaine Stritch

Surviving: A Family in Crisis (1985) TV Movie

Rick is a 17 year old golden boy whose father wants him to became a doctor like himself. Lonnie is a problematic 16 year old girl.

Decent TV movie, good casting and acting all around. Hard to wrap a smile around subject matter this somber.

Surviving: A Family in Crisis (1985) TV Movie

Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Heather O'Rourke, Len Cariou, Marsha Mason, Molly Ringwald, Paul Sorvino, River Phoenix, William Windom, Zach Galligan

Trick of the Eye (1994) TV Movie

Trick of the Eye (1994) TV Movie
Cast: Alastair Duncan, Barnard Hughes, Ellen Burstyn, Meg Tilly, Paxton Whitehead, Romy Rosemont, Vicki Walker

Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story (1992) TV Movie

An Iowa housewife uses her name and her rage to bring the crime of rape out of the shadows. Based on a true story.

Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story (1992)TV Movie
Cast: Eileen Brennan, Ellen Burstyn, Gina Hecht, Joanna Cassidy, Patricia Wettig, Shelley Hack, Stephen Lang

Grand Isle (1991)

She was young, beautiful and happily married until one summer at Grand Isle when a casual friendship with a handsome young Creole awakens passions she had long ago abandoned. As their relationship heats up, they must decide whether to risk everything and be together, or bow to social pressure and separate.

Grand Isle (1991)

Cast: Adrian Pasdar, Anthony DeSando, Ellen Burstyn, Glenne Headly, Jon DeVries, Julian Sands, Kelly McGillis