Showing posts with label Suzanne Pleshette. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Suzanne Pleshette. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Bob Newhart Show 19th Anniversary Special, The (1991) (TV)

As Bob explains in the opening monologue, the show had it's first broadcast in 1972 BUT the pilot was in 1971. Fun show especially for the fans. Bob Newhart is a long time hero, a man who can do no wrong. Always brings the funny.

The Bob Newhart Show 19th Anniversary Special (1991) (TV)
Cast: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace, Jack Riley, Tony Papenfuss, William Sanderson, John Voldstad

Monday, October 4, 2010

Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid (1978) TV Movie

Comedy-Western about a turn-of-the-century lady investigator named Kate Bliss who goes to the wide-open spaces of the wild west to capture a gang of outlaws led by a charming Robin Hood criminal of the plains. His mission is leading a band of dispossessed ranchers against a stuffy English land baron who has cheated them out of their property. Dandy Don passed away last week, his lights are out, his party is over, his good thing has come to end.

Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid (1978) TV Movie
Cast: Suzanne Pleshette, Don Meredith, Harry Morgan, Tony Randall, Burgess Meredith, Harry Carey Jr., Richard Herd

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

For Love or Money (1984) TV Movie

It's "The Dating Game" and "The Bachelorette" but more charming.

Very believable behind the scenes footage of a game show circa early 80s. Great movie.




For Love or Money (1984) TV Movie
Cast: Suzanne Pleshette, Gil Gerard, Jamie Farr, Ray Walston, Lawrence Pressman, Barney Martin, Lori Lethin, Ray Buktenica, Mary Kay Place, Michael Pasternak, Squire Fridell, Nedra Volz

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Stranger Waits, A (1987) TV Movie

Suspense thriller. Frankly, didn't hold my attention. More for mystery fans than casual viewing. Suzanne Pleshette is beautiful as usual.






A Stranger Waits (1987) TV Movie
Cast: Ann Wedgeworth, Justin Deas, Kenneth Welsh, Paul Benjamin, Suzanne Pleshette, Tom Atkins

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Boys Are Back, The (1994) TV series

Fred and Jackie Hansen are a middle-aged couple who have to deal with the reverse of "empty nest syndrome" when their two adult sons move back in with them, one with his family in tow.





AVAILABLE EPISODES
Season 1, Episode 15
Bad Hair Day
15 January 1995

The Boys Are Back (1994) TV series
Cast: Bess Meyer, George Newbern, Hal Linden, Kevin Crowley, Suzanne Pleshette

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Power, The (1968)

A 1968 film based on the science fiction novel "The Power" by Frank M. Robinson. Its protagonist, a researcher named Tanner, discovers evidence of a person with psychic abilities among his coworkers. As he tries to uncover the superhuman, his existence is erased and his associates murdered, until he faces a showdown with an apparently undefeatable opponent.

Produced by George Pal and directed by Byron Haskin, it was substantially changed in the John Gay screenplay, moving the location to San Marino, California, changing most of the characters' names (although retaining the surnames of Tanner, Nordlund, and department head Professor Van Zandt), and eliminating several subplots and characters, presumably to fit the story into a 108-minute film. George Hamilton starred as Professor Jim Tanner, Suzanne Pleshette as his teammate and romantic interest Margery Lansing (Marge Hanson in the novel), and Michael Rennie (famous among science fiction movie fans as Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still) as new government liaison Mr. Nordlund. Otherwise, the story proceeds in a fashion similar to the novel, except for a somewhat different twist to the conclusion.

This somewhat obscure movie is memorable for a number of intriguing scenes, including murder by centrifuge, a seemingly possessed "Walk / Don't Walk" sign, toy soldiers firing with real gunpowder, and winking inanimate objects (the last two also in the novel). The soundtrack also memorably features a beating heart to signal the mind-control attempts and eerie music from a cymbalum (a hammered dulcimer-like instrument) accompanying the more suspenseful moments. The music, written by Oscar-winning composer Miklós Rózsa, actually contributes an amusing fourth wall-breaking moment when Tanner, hearing the haunting tune, seems to expect a new disaster, only to be visibly relieved when he finds a cymbalum-violin duet being performed in the hotel lobby.

The Power (1968)
Cast: Aldo Ray, Earl Holliman, George Hamilton, Ken Murray, Michael Rennie, Nehemiah Persoff, Suzanne Pleshette, Yvonne De Carlo