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
After his aunt dies of a heart attack while fighting the IRS, Harry Johnson decides to take up the cause.
Director: Kieth Merrill
Actors: Edward Herrmann, Geraldine Page, Karen Grassle, David Ogden Stiers
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
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
THE LORD IS NOT ON TRIAL HERE TODAY tells the compelling personal story behind one of the most important and landmark First Amendment cases in U.S. Supreme Court history, the case that set the foundation for the separation of church and state in public schools.
Director: Jay Rosenstein
Actors: David Ogden Stiers
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
As Stitch, a runaway genetic experiment from a faraway planet, wreaks havoc on the Hawaiian Islands, he becomes the mischievous adopted alien "puppy" of an independent little girl named Lilo and learns about loyalty, friendship, and 'ohana, the Hawaiian tradition of family.
Director: Chris Sanders
Actors: Chris Sanders, Daveigh Chase, Tia Carrere, David Ogden Stiers, Kevin McDonald
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
As if the Penguin wasn't enough to contend with, a new vigilante has surfaced in Gotham City, and her strong-arm tactics give Batman cause for concern.
Director: Curt Geda
Actors: Kevin Conroy, Tara Strong, HĂ©ctor Elizondo, Kyra Sedgwick, David Ogden Stiers
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
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
Lane Meyer is obsessed with his girlfriend Beth and is crushed when she falls for the new captain of the ski team, Roy. After several failed suicide attempts, narrow escapes from the relentless paper boy, and nearly unbearable dinners at home with his crazy family, Lane finds a new love in French exchange student Monique Junot. Meanwhile, he must beat Roy on the slopes to regain his honor.
Director: Savage Steve Holland
Actors: John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Kim Darby, Demian Slade, Amanda Wyss
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
An actor rigs a fake shooting on TV with the connivance of his friend, the show's host, but the practical joke goes wrong when the gun turns out to contain a live round.
Director: Ron Satlof
Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Katt, Joe Penny, Ron Glass
A fascinating account of the presidency of Andrew Jackson, who was both one of America's great presidents and a borderline tyrant. The seventh president shook up the glossy world of Washington, DC with his "common-man" methods and ideals, but also oversaw one of the most controversial events in American history: the forced removal of Indian tribes, including the Cherokees, from their homes.
Director: Carl Byker
Actors: Martin Sheen, Daniel Feller, Jon Meacham, Kathryn Braund, Richard Blackett
Against orders and with no help of relief Texas patriots led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett defend the Alamo against overwhelming Mexican forces.
Director: Burt Kennedy
Actors: James Arness, Brian Keith, Alec Baldwin, David Ogden Stiers, Jim Metzler
The true story of Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant who was dismissed from the Air Force for being gay and the story of his fight to be reinstated.
Director: Paul Leaf
Actors: Brad Dourif, Frank Converse, William Daniels, Stephen Elliott, Rue McClanahan
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
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
Perry must defend the husband of an old flame from a murder charge.
Director: Ron Satlof
Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, Jean Simmons, William Katt, Robert Mandan
The Final Days concerns itself with the final months of the Richard Nixon presidency.
Director: Richard Pearce
Actors: Lane Smith, Richard Kiley, David Ogden Stiers, Ed Flanders, Theodore Bikel
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
Director: Frank Darabont
Actors: Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Laurie Holden, David Ogden Stiers, Hal Holbrook
The story of Ishi, the last survivor of the Yahi Indians of California. Befriended by an Anthropologist (Jon Voight) who is able to speak Ishi's language, he is a gold mine of information about his tribe's way of life. A doctor (David Ogden Stiers) broadens Ishi's horizons and is another friend in a largely unfriendly world.
Director: Harry Hook
Actors: Jon Voight, Graham Greene, David Ogden Stiers, Jack Blessing, Anne Archer
Director: Alan Alda
Actors: Alan Alda, Loretta Swit, Harry Morgan, David Ogden Stiers, G. W. Bailey
After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife is having similar problems. They separate, and Macon meets a strange, outgoing woman who brings him 'back down to earth', but his wife soon thinks their marriage is still worth another try.
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Actors: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis, Amy Wright, David Ogden Stiers
Little Red Riding Hood: A classic story, but there's more to every tale than meets the eye. Before you judge a book by its cover, you've got to flip through the pages. In the re-telling of this classic fable, the story begins at the end of the tale and winds its way back. Chief Grizzly and Detective Bill Stork investigate a domestic disturbance at Granny's cottage, involving a karate-kicking Red Riding Hood, a sarcastic wolf and an oafish Woodsman.
Director: Cory Edwards
Actors: David Ogden Stiers, Anne Hathaway, Glenn Close, Jim Belushi, Patrick Warburton
Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, Gabriel, who may have dropped out from school and become a protestor, wants desperately not to get drafted for Vietnam.
Director: Jack Nicholson
Actors: William Tepper, Karen Black, Michael Margotta, Bruce Dern, Robert Towne
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.
Director: Austin Hoyt
Actors: David Ogden Stiers
Uptight New York City executive, Michael Cromwell, pursues his soon-to-be ex-wife to South America and returns home with the son he never knew he had -- a boy raised in a tribal village in Brazil. Armed with only his blowgun, the 13-year-old Mimi-Siku discovers that the world outside his jungle home is indeed a strange place.
Director: John Pasquin
Actors: Tim Allen, Martin Short, JoBeth Williams, Lolita Davidovich, Sam Huntington
City of the Century chronicles Chicago's dramatic transformation from a swampy frontier town of fur traders and Native Americans to a massive metropolis that was the quintessential American city of the nineteenth century. The film tells how innovation, ingenuity, determination and ruthlessness created empires in what was a marshy wasteland and describes the hardships endured by millions of working men and women whose labor helped a capitalist class reinvent the way America did business. Along the way, this program revels in Chicago's triumphs -- among them the architectural experimentation that gave the city one of the world's most distinctive skylines -- and delves into the heart of Chicago's painful struggles. Bringing to life the Windy City's rich mixture of cultures, its writers and journalists, its political corruption and labor upheavals, this film bears witness to the creation of one of the most dynamic and vibrant cities in the world.
Director: Austin Hoyt
Actors: David Ogden Stiers