Deborah Harmon Movies

Cory (Ben Savage) is hailed as a hero for triggering a fire alarm that saved both Adams High and the school janitor. Noticing that Cory seems a bit too eager to accept all the adulation, Mr. Feeny (William Daniels) suspects that there's something very wrong. And as usual, Feeny is right: Cory and Shawn had accidentally set off the alarm (and the fire!) during a nocturnal foray into the school to turn in their overdue chemistry papers. The trick is to get the "hero" to tell the truth before the Big Lie overwhelms him. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In the first episode of a two-part story, Mike and Boner attempt to casually "drop in" at the home of Coach Lubbock (Bill Kirchenbauer), the better to meet Coach's three daughters Cindy (Jamie Luner), Connie (Jo Ann Willette and Marie (Heather Langerkamp). This is how the boys find out that Lubbock will be terminated from his job when his contract runs out. Determined not to let this happen, the Seaver children organize a public protest--with unexpected results. This episode and its follow-up were intended to segue into the Growing Pains spinoff series Just the Ten of Us, a vehicle for costar Bill Kirchenbauer. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In this racy made-for-TV comedy, a handsome hunk (Mark Harmon) does more than merely plumb the pools of beauteous Bel Air housewives and lonely women. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Jonathan Kellerman's Edgar Allan Poe Award-winning novel When the Bough Breaks was evocatively adapted for the TV screen in 1986. Ted Danson plays a clinical psychologist, brought in to tend to an emotionally withdrawn little girl (Rachel Ticotin). There's a possibility that the child may have witnessed an unsolved double murder. As Danson and the girl draw closer, he becomes enmeshed in a homicidal conspiracy sparked by a clique of wealthy, well-connected men. Ted Danson also coproduced When the Bough Breaks. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Contemporary high schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) doesn't have the most pleasant of lives. Browbeaten by his principal at school, Marty must also endure the acrimonious relationship between his nerdy father (Crispin Glover) and his lovely mother (Lea Thompson), who in turn suffer the bullying of middle-aged jerk Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), Marty's dad's supervisor. The one balm in Marty's life is his friendship with eccentric scientist Doc (Christopher Lloyd), who at present is working on a time machine. Accidentally zapped back into the 1950s, Marty inadvertently interferes with the budding romance of his now-teenaged parents. Our hero must now reunite his parents-to-be, lest he cease to exist in the 1980s. It won't be easy, especially with the loutish Biff, now also a teenager, complicating matters. Beyond its dazzling special effects, the best element of Back to the Future is the performance of Michael J. Fox, who finds himself in the quagmire of surviving the white-bread 1950s with a hip 1980s mindset. Back to the Future cemented the box-office bankability of both Fox and the film's director, Robert Zemeckis, who went on to helm two equally exhilarating sequels. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Tom Hanks stars in this raunchy teen comedy from veteran screenwriters Pat Proft and Neil Israel, who had previously collaborated on the amusing sketch film Tunnelvision (1976) and the disappointing Americathon (1980). Bus-driver Rick Gasko (Hanks) is engaged to wealthy Debbie Thompson (Tawny Kitaen), much to the chagrin of her father (George Grizzard), who considers Rick a loser. To keep an eye on her future groom, Debbie and her friends dress as prostitutes to attend his bachelor party, which quickly turns into a bacchanal of smutty debauchery. Familiar faces in the cast include action stars Michael Dudikoff and Ji-Tu Cimbuka, pin-ups Monique Gabrielle and Rosanne Katon, and teen-movie regulars Adrian Zmed and Wendie Jo Sperber. It's an occasionally hilarious excursion into bad taste, although one which two-time Oscar winner Hanks would probably like to forget. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

It is up to Charles (David Ogden Stiers), Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and B.J. (Mike Farrell) to do determine who among the 4077th's enlisted men is due a promotion. As everyone in camp jockeys for approval from the three-headed promotion board, Colonel Potter (Harry Morgan) is profoundly affected by the plight of a wounded soldier. Without saying any more, this is the episode in which a certain corporal becomes a certain sergeant. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

After a four-year relationship, Quincy (Jack Klugman) still cannot summon the courage to propose to his lady friend Lynne (Sharon Acker), and in fact seems to be deliberately neglected her in favor of his work. During a particularly difficult forensic procedure in which he must clean up after an incompetent colleague, Quincy reflects on his current romantic crisis--and flashes back to the events leading up to the death of his late wife Helen. Appearing as the former Mrs. Quincy is Anita Gillette), who ironically later joined the series as Quincy's second wife Emily. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) are none too happy as they watch the guys at the Pizza Bowl ogle a bevy of gorgeous models. With this in mind, it is hardly surprising that our heroines are susceptible to the allure of a correspondence-school modelling course. Nor is it surprising that L&S's bid at entering the world of high fashion is doomed to come acropper. Featured in the supporting cast is Billy Sands, best known for his comic-foil work as Papparelli on The Phil Silvers Show and "Tinker" Bell on McHale's Navy. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide