David Ogden Stiers
Jordan White, a publisher friend of Perry, is called to a hotel where a guest, famous horror writer David Hall, has cleared out the hotel for a weekend and has called his "friends" - an actress, a fortune-teller, David's private assistant and the two remaining staff at the hotel to discuss business. They have come to the hotel as all of them are going to sue David over his new book - "The Resort" which characters are obviously based on Jordan and the guests. A practical joker, David plays tricks on them until he is thrown from the high tower of the hotel where Susan Warrenfield, the manager and owner of the hotel sees the fall and then Jordan at the tower causing the police to arrest Jordan. While Perry and Della try to solve the main mystery, Paul tries to find out who is trying to scare Susan away from the hotel. Could it really be a ghost or a more earthy visitor?
Director: Richard Lang
Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Katt, Robert Stack, Kim Delaney
The "two guys" are Berg and Pete who share an apartment and support themselves by delivering pizza from Beacon Street Pizza run by Bill. In the first years of medical school, Berg had a cavalier approach to life and women but now finds himself with Ashley, a fellow med student. Berg is generally happy about this relationship, but it has its ups and downs - that's what makes it so much fun. Pete has abandoned his plans to become an architect and is searching for a career Sharon is "the girl" - the upstairs neighbor who hates being a chemical saleswoman although she can't complain about the benefits, including a hefty salary and a shining "Beemer." Sharon's boyfriend Johnny adores her, but she's not sure what she wants... maybe it's because she's already met the ideal man but doesn't know it. For now, she enjoys being part of a special threesome enjoying life no matter how unbelievable it can really be.
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Actors: Traylor Howard, Suzanne Cryer, Richard Ruccolo, Nathan Fillion, Ryan Reynolds
This two part mini-series shows the trials and tribulations all the participants endured to be a part of the very first Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. It focuses on the individuals from the many countries around the world that joined together to lay the foundation of the modern Summer Olympic Games.
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"Swoosie Kurtz, David Ogden Stiers, Paget Brewster, Brian Doyle Murray, Brian Van Holt, Judy Greer, and John Livingston star in this ensemble comedy about romance in a swanky New York City apartment tower. The building's earnest young handyman, who lives in the basement, loves the shy heiress who lives in the penthouse. Separating this couple, more than just 20 stories of plush co-ops, is a slew of oddball relatives and millions of dollars in social prestige." "Eamon Roach (Van Holt) is the building's cellar-dwelling superintendent, who rooms with his dad, Finn (Murray), the doorman. Allison Conklin (Brewster), his heartthrob, is a kindergarten teacher who resides high above with her father, the belligerent billionaire Nicholas Conklin (Stiers), and her champagne-swilling mom, Effie (Kurtz). Allison's hilarious family includes her empty-headed sister, Puff (Greer), and her sarcastic younger brother, Nicky (Livingston)." (CBS press release) This low-key spin on Upstairs, Downs
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Actors: John Livingston, Brian Doyle-Murray, Paget Brewster, Brian Van Holt, David Ogden Stiers
Based on the book by historian Donald L. Miller, City of the Century tells how in just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most explosively alive cities in the world. It's the story of the wealthy and the indigent, the heralded and the forgotten, the shop assistants and the millionaire retail barons who together created Chicago. It describes how through innovation, ingenuity, determination and sheer ruthlessness, the captains of industry created empires in a marshy wasteland. And it explores the hardships endured by the millions of working men and women -- most of them immigrants from Ireland and Northern Europe -- whose labor helped a capitalist class reinvent the way America did business.
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Actors: Patricia Garcia Rios, Austin Hoyt, Austin Hoyt, David Ogden Stiers
This saga chronicles a nation divided and two families,the Hazards of Pennsylvania and the Mains of South Carolina,caught on opposite sides when the Civil War erupts in May 1861. As war is raged on one battlefield after another, lives on the home front drastically change. The hatred, prejudice and greed that tear the fabric of a nation, also threatens the very foundation of love and friendship between these two families.
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Actors: Patrick Swayze, James Read, Kirstie Alley, David Carradine, Genie Francis
The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable.
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Actors: Alan Alda, David Ogden Stiers, Mike Farrell, McLean Stevenson, Harry Morgan
House of Mouse is the former but even better Mickey Mouse Works. "House of Mouse" is a nightclub-type theater, where Mickey himself emcees nightly. Stars of every Disney film ever made are seated in the audience, often becoming part of the show themselves, as Mickey and his friends entertain.
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Actors: Michael Welch, Jerry Orbach, Jason Alexander, Ming-Na Wen, Tate Donovan
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.
Director: Michael Engler
Actors: Tim Reid, Marcia Strassman, Buck Henry, Richard Kiley, Ed Begley Jr.
Hosted by one-time M*A*S*H guest star Shelley Long, “Memories of M*A*S*H” included brand-new interviews with the cast as well as producers, creators and guest-stars. The 90-minute retrospective aired on November 25th, 1991 on CBS as part of its “Classic Weekend II,” which also included “The Bob Newhart 19th Anniversary Special” and “The Best of Ed Sullivan II.” Dozens of clips from over over sixty different episodes were shown. It was the brain-child of Michael Hirsh (also responsible for “Making M*A*S*H”) and coincided with the 20th anniversary of M*A*S*H.
Director: Michael Hirsch
Actors: Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, Shelley Long, Larry Linville
A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Julia Roberts, Alan Alda, Woody Allen, Drew Barrymore, Lukas Haas
Mason defends a man he had sentenced to prison when he was an appellate-court judge. Now, 18 months after the sentencing, a new witness turns up to prove the man's innocence. Mason steps in to defend the man.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Katt, Patty Duke, Erin Gray
This program tells the story of a hustler and self-promoter, a man who had never designed or overseen the building of a suspension bridge. Joseph Strauss spent thirteen years wrangling with politicians, arguing over designs and fighting lawsuits from opponents before he was able to break ground. By completion, Strauss, his designers and his construction crews had built what has since been called one of the "Seven Wonders of the Modern World."
Director: Ben Loeterman
Actors: David Ogden Stiers
American Experience presents Summer of Love, a striking picture of San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district during the summer of 1967 -- from the utopian beginnings, when peace and love prevailed, to the chaos, unsanitary conditions, and widespread drug use that ultimately signaled the end. Academy Award-nominated filmmakers Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco (Daughter from Danang) examine the social and cultural forces that sparked the largest migration of young people in America's history.
Director: Gail Dolgin
Actors: Martine Algier, Edward Beggs, Peter Coyote, Ronnie Davis, Debbie Dunlap
Part II of PBS' American Experience: Reagan
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Actors: David Ogden Stiers
Belle, the Beast, Lumiere, Cogsworth and the rest of those zany castle residents use their imaginations to embark on three magical, storybook adventures. This direct-to-video anthology serves as a "sequel" to Disney's animated hit film. In "The Perfect World," Belle and the Beast learn about forgiveness. In "Fifi's Folly," Lumiere's girlfriend is jealous of his bond with Belle. And in "Broken Wing," the Beast learns to be kind to an injured bird.
Director: Cullen Blaine
Actors: Robby Benson, Paige O'Hara, David Ogden Stiers, Jerry Orbach, Kimmy Robertson
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, Kathy Bates, John Cusack, Mia Farrow, Jodie Foster
Part 2 (of three) of "Chicago: City of the Century" covers the 1870s and '80s, when the city's can-do business leaders found themselves increasingly at odds with labor. The episode profiles meatpacker Augustus Swift; sleeping-car magnate George Pullman, who established what he hoped would become a utopian workers community; and merchant prince Marshall Field, who had no such notions. Then there were the anarchists. Based on the book by historian Donald L. Miller.
Director: Austin Hoyt
Actors: David Ogden Stiers
Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective, Peter Falk plays Lou Pekinpaugh, a San Francisco private detective accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress, the partner's wife, Georgia Merkle.
Director: Robert Moore
Actors: Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Sid Caesar, Stockard Channing
In a madcap future era, the world's greatest secret agent struggles to rescue his young son from the clutches of his infamous former mentor.
Director: Rob Taylor
Actors: Rob Taylor, David Ogden Stiers, Walter Koenig, Nick Costa, Matt Zak
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow, Ian Holm, Blythe Danner, Gene Hackman
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
Director: Carl Reiner
Actors: John Denver, George Burns, Teri Garr, Donald Pleasence, Ralph Bellamy
Newlyweds Matthew and Rebecca realize their relationship is in trouble when their obsession with technology and social media causes them to lose out on their dream home. After a blackout in the city forces the couple to go without their electronic devices, they have the best night they’ve had together in a while. Determined to get their marriage back on track and bring back the romance, the Joneses decide to go unplugged.
Director: Bradford May
Actors: Mischa Barton, Sean Faris, Markie Post, David Ogden Stiers, B.J. Mitchell
Perry is sueing a gutter trash newspaper that is running a story about a love affair between him and Della. The editor also has "dirt" files on an Army General, his banker and other "clients". All of them make little-concealed verbal threats to him at a party but the person that hated him most is a female reporter who the editor had just fired from the paper for attempting to write a serious story. She threatens him and soon after the editor is found, floating in his pool, shot. The reporter is arrested for the crime and Perry, who has a personal stake in this matter, with the aid of Della and Paul set out to solve the mystery. But the other suspects just want the case over with and will go to any lengths to protect their pasts and their secrets
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Katt, Dan Kopper, Robert Guillaume
Rachel is a 9-year-old girl who is perfection itself - unless she's crossed or challenged. Several disturbing recent incidents have led Rachel's mother Christine to suspect that her child is a latent murderess. Upon discovering that she herself is the daughter of a convicted killer, Christine becomes convinced that sweet little Rachel is a "bad seed" - an inherent killer who feels no remorse because she doesn't know any better.
Director: Paul Wendkos
Actors: Blair Brown, Christa Denton, Lynn Redgrave, David Carradine, Carrie Wells
A woman suddenly disappears after an early morning walk, and her husband is accused of murder.
Director: Ron Satlof
Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Katt, David Hasselhoff, John Beck
Beth Bradfield (Patty Duke) is a housewife with what appears to be a stable life in an American village. One day, her 24-year-old daughter Lori (Tracey Gold), who is married to Jesse Molina (Maurice Benard) and recently gave birth to his daughter Molly (Laura and Megan Jaime), unexpectedly collapses and is hospitalized. After several tests, she is diagnosed with leukemia. Her doctor (Erick Avari) reveals to Beth that Lori is in urgent need of a donor, though her rare blood type makes finding one a difficult task.
Director: Steven Schachter
Actors: Patty Duke, Tracey Gold, David Ogden Stiers, Gabrielle Carteris, James Brolin
This short film is a combination of live-action and animation. It is done in the style of the chalk drawings seen in the original "Mary Poppins" film and was produced exclusively for the 40th Anniversary Special Edition DVD released in December of 2004. Julie Andrews and two children magically enter the animated world of the chalk drawings to experience this whimsical tale based on one of the chapters from the original series of "Mary Poppins" books.
Director: Dave Bossert
Actors: Julie Andrews, Dylan Cash, Olivia DeLaurentis, Sarah Ferguson, David Ogden Stiers
Director: Alan Alda
Actors: Alan Alda, Loretta Swit, Harry Morgan, David Ogden Stiers, G. W. Bailey
Spring has sprung, and baby Roo is excited to get out and explore and make new friends. But Rabbit seems preoccupied with spring cleaning, instead of embracing his usual role of playing Easter Bunny. Leave it to Roo to show Rabbit -- through love -- that it's more important who you love and not who's in charge.
Director: Saul Blinkoff
Actors: Jim Cummings, Ken Sansom, Jimmy Bennett, David Ogden Stiers, John Fiedler