Kirby Furlong Movies
- 1975
Pole-vault champion Gil Robinson (Colby Chester), an old classmate of John Gage (Randolph Mantooth), becomes a paramedic trainee--and has a lot of trouble adjusting to the hectic pace. Tonight's emergency roster includes a stopover at an amusement park where a man has suffered a heart attack on one of the rides, and a burning kitchen which is rapidly filling with hydrogen sulfide. In the evening's tensest moment, Roy (Kevin Tighe) tends to a man who has been bitten by a snake--only to have deadly venom sprayed in his own face. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Lucille Ball stars in this film version of the hit Jerry Herman Broadway musical, which featured an electrifying performance by Angela Lansbury. As Patrick Dennis' plucky and resilient Auntie Mame, Ball's low-pitched, growling moan of a voice (a spine-chilling reminder of the sound of Linda Blair's demon-possession in The Exorcist) and her gaudy and lumbering fashion-horse gait turns Mame into an elderly cross-dresser. In this guise, Mame rehashes the plot from Dennis's novel and the previous non-musical Rosalind Russell film. During the Depression era 1930s, she enrolls her nephew into a liberal private school, tries a turn in show business (with the help of her friend Vera [Beatrice Arthur]), and marries a well-to-do Southern planter (Robert Preston). After her husband's death, Mame concerns herself with her now grown-up nephew, his girlfriend, and the girlfriend's intolerant parents. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Starring:
- Lucille Ball, Robert Preston, (more)
- 1974
In the second-season Adam-12 episode "Light Duty", Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) was assigned to the night desk after suffering a sprained wrist. Now it is Pete's partner Jim Reed (Kent McCord) who is similarly disabled, and now it's Jim who pulls night-desk duty. And, just as Malloy discovered that this "easy" assignment could be fraught with danger, so too does Jim find himself with a crisis on his hands as the result of an anonymous bomb threat. Meanwhile, Malloy does his best to break in his temporary partner, a rookie named Phillips (Kip Niven. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1972
It looks like it's going to be a "Dark Christmas" for the family of Richard Ghormley (John Lupton), former employee of smuggler William Shrack (Eugene Peterson). Though innocent of any wrongdoing himself, Ghormley knows too much about Shrack's operation for his own good. Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) races against time to prevent Ghormley from being killed by professional hitman Stuart Tilden (Don Gordon)--who has already shot down several people who've have the misfortune to get in his way. Appearing as Tilden's erstwhile girlfriend is Sondra Locke, future leading lady (both onscreen and off) of Clint Eastwood. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1972
In this crossover episode with Adam-12's "sister" series Emergency!, mobile officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) join forces with doctors of Rampart Hospital and the paramedics of Emergency Squad 51. Their most urgent assignment consists of locating two runaways: a dangerously diabetic 8-year-old boy (Kirby Furlong) and a suicidal teenage drug addict (Diane Sherry. In addition to guest appearances by Emergency! regulars Robert Fuller, Julie London, Bobby Troup, Kevin Tighe and Randolph Mantooth, this episode features Elaine Giftos as Malloy's latest girlfriend Kathy, and future Days of Our Lives leading lady Dierdre Hall as a nurse. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
