Daniel Chodos Movies
- 1997
The rest of the "FYI" staff displays a variety of reactions--from shock to solace--when Murphy (Candice Bergen) reveals the results of her biopsy. Once this is done, Murphy must decide which of two painful surgical options to choose; she also spends much of the episode going through doctors like she goes through secretaries! And what effect does all this have on Murphy's love life? Welll, Kay (Lily Tomlin) thinks she knows the answer to that one--but she's wrong. This episode originally ended with Candice Bergen doing a PSA for the American Cancer Society. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1995
Season four of Mad About You opens on a supremely upbeat note, as Jamie (Helen Hunt) happily declares that she and husband Paul (Paul Reiser) have just had the best sex, ever. Paul would like to agree -- except that he slept through the whole experience. Gates McFadden makes her first series appearance as Allison Rourke, Paul's new boss at the Explorer Channel. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1991
Coin thief Jack Colefax (Patrick St. Esprit) is himself robbed of a rare coin by a pair of hookers. In his efforts to prevent Colefax from committing murder to retrieve the coin, Hunter (Fred Dryer) finds himself in a potentially explosive situation: one of the hookers turns out to be Jodi Prescott (Kimberley Neville)--the daughter of Hunter's longtime enemy, Councilman Henry Prescott (Alan Fudge). Meanwhile, Novak (Lauren Lane) tries to prevent her friend Pam Sutton (Denise Crosby) from exacting vengeance against the petty crook who robbed and mugged her. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1991
For her shakedown assignment with the Metro Division, Novak (Lauren Lane) investigates a series of bar burglaries. Unfortunately a flu epidemic has severely depleted the Division's manpower, which explains why Novak's "field partner" is nerdish computer expert Hawkins (Gregory Alan-Williams). And where's Hunter (Fred Dryer)? He's off on a mission of his own, racing against a ruthless bounty hunter (Brion James) to locate a missing murder witness. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1990
A serial killer has been preying upon women who have found success in professions previously limited to men. Hunter (Fred Dryer) and McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) investigate when John Skouros (Tom Villard), a self-styled psychic, claims to have forseen the first three murders. Things take a truly sinister turn when Skouros predicts that the killer's next victim will be McCall! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1988
A kiln explosion nearly wipes out an art class attended by Dee Dee McCall (Stepfanie Kramer). Though at first it looks like an accident, McCall receives a tape suggesting that the explosion was deliberately triggered. The subsequent murder of an EPA inspector who had been investigating reports of toxic waste dumping leads McCall and Hunter (Fred Dryer) to conclude that the intended victim of the explosion was elderly art student Emily Hill (Louise Latham)--who happens to be romantically linked with a powerful business mogul. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1987
Buddy Hackett and Steve Lawrence guest star as Murray Gruen and Mack Howard, a famous comedy team that has been dissolved for years because of a bitter feud between the two men. In a true "Romeo and Juliet" situation, Murray's daughter Corrie (Beth Windsor) and Mack's son Kip (a decidedly pre-ER George Clooney) fall in love. Jessica (Angela Lansbury) hopes to use the wedding of Corrie and Kip as an opportunity to patch up the differences between Gruen and Howard--but this proves rather difficult when one of the two aging comics is stabbed to death! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
In this actioner, a battle-hardened Marine sergeant finds himself faced with single-handedly rescuing his former colonel from Middle Eastern terrorist abductors. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Fred Dryer, Brian Keith, (more)
- 1986
Hunter (Fred Dryer) knows that the murder of a hooker is somehow connected with a huge pharamaceutical theft, but he can't figure out why the woman was killed. In order to get the answers and flush out the villains, McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) goes undercover as a "working girl." This strategy may ultimately prove fatal to both Hunter and McCall, thanks to the deadly persistence of sadistic soldier-of-fortune Johnny Zajak (Vernon Wells). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1985
A lunatic sniper has been targetting blonde women in the Griffith Park area. Since the assassin is obviously using highly sophisticated weaponry, it is only natural that departmental troubleshooter Hunter (Fred Dryer) be assigned to the case--and only logical that his partner McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) act as bait for the killer. The situation takes an unexpected twist when the Number One Suspect commits suicide, leaving McCall at the mercy of...who? This final episode of Hunter's first season was directed by series regular James Whitmore Jr.. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1985
Moonlighting's first Christmas episode involves, Mary, Joseph and the Three Kings--sort of. It all begins when a woman named Mary (Leslie Wing) hides her baby in the apartment of Blue Moon's secretary Agnes (Allyce Beasley) after Mary's husband Joseph is gunned down by the minions of an ill-tempered gangster. As for the Three Kings, they're actually the three King Brothers, Saul (Daniel Chodos), Jim (John Hostetter) and Reuben (James Avery)--and the possibility exists that they are not so much Wise Men as wise guys! Watch how the series' cast and crew cleverly plays for time when the episode abruptly runs out of script. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1984
Someone has been stealing valuable parts from an auto plant--and isn't above committed murder to hide his tracks. Hired by plant foreman Rudy Garcia (Joe Santos), the A-Team goes undercover, with several of our heroes posing as repairman in their own shop, "Otto's Auto Parts." While Hannibal (George Peppard) dons several disguises and Murdock (Dwight Schultz) hides inside a soda machine (!), Face (Dirk Benedict) uses the opportunity to get his hands on a flashy "pimp-mobile"--which of course figures prominently in the climax. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
