Jackie Joseph Movies

In the third sequel to the hit comedy Police Academy, Commandant Lassard (George Gaynes) decides that the police force is overworked and understaffed, and he comes up with the idea of recruiting civilian volunteers to work side-by-side with his officers. Of course, with the hapless Carey Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg) in charge of training the new Neighborhood Watch groups, one might reasonably expect things will not go smoothly; meanwhile, the duplicitous Capt. Harris (G.W. Bailey) sets his sights on Lassard's job, and he schemes to get his aging boss out of the way. Series regulars Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow, Bob Goldthwait, and Tim Kazurinsky are on board, as is Sharon Stone, who moved on to bigger and better things a few years later. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

In this weak, undistinguished sequel to the successful Police Academy, Mahoney and his cohorts have now graduated from their police training and are ready to tackle real criminals. The first assignment for the enthusiastic former cadets is to halt the graffiti-scribbling antics of a local gang of marauding toughs. The new lieutenant at the station (Art Metrano) is not anxious to see them succeed -- and begins to roadblock their efforts against the graffiti artists. Not to be easily outmaneuvered, Mahoney and friends plot an appropriate revenge. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

In this drama, a mother and daughter become rivals for a single man's affections. The mother is a widowed movie star and the daughter is recently divorced. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

At the height of a four-day torrential downpour, a mudslide unearths a body in a mountaintop cemetary. Peforming lab tests on the corpse, Quincy (Jack Klugman) discovers that the death may have been due to typhoid--and that this body and several others were buried illegally. In his frantic efforts to determine the truth behind this mystery, and to avoid a widespread epidemic, Quincy once again runs up against the brick wall of bureaucracy (to say nothing of that old municipal ritual popularly known as "C.Y.A.") ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

By the time The Doris Day Show had entered its fourth season, the series had already undergone two format changes. In the earliest episodes, widow Doris Martin (Doris Day) and her two sons Toby and Billy lived on the rural California farm owned by Doris' Uncle Buck. In season two, Doris began dividing her time between the farm and her new secretarial job at San Francisco-based "Today's World" magazine, where her co-workers included editor Michael Nicholson, assistant editor Ron Harvey and fellow secretary Myrna Gibbons. And in season three, Doris and her sons moved off the farm and into a San Francisco apartment, located above the Italian restaurant owned by Angie and Louie Palucci. All this changed radically as the series swung into season four. Gone are Doris' sons, her uncle Buck, her magazine compadres Michael, Ron, and Myrna, and the Paluccis. As a nod to the popularity of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Doris Martin has been redefined as a slightly more sophisticated Mary Richards type; a swinging bachelorette who is now a full-fledged writer for "Today's World." John Dehner has been installed as Doris' new editor, Cy Bennett; also added to the cast is Jackie Joseph as Bennett's ditzy secretary Jackie Parker. Although the ratings for The Doris Day Show were the lowest ever during season four, the powers-that-be decided to stick with the series' fourth format for its fifth (and final) season. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

A young widow with three children and a sheepdog marries a widowed man with a young daughter and a French poodle in this amusing comedy. Abby (Doris Day) is the owner of a lumberyard who falls for Jake (Brian Keith) when her sister Maxine (Pat Carroll) introduce the two at a party. The couple is initially reluctant and somewhat embarrassed over the blatant matchmaking attempt but meet later at an all-night store. The two marry and deal with constant canine and sassy sibling rivalries. Jake falls out of the family trailer on vacation, leading Abby to recruit a group of hippies to find her lost husband. Jamie Farr is the far out hippie, Barbara Hershey is Jake's daughter Stacey, comedian George Carlin plays Herbie Fleck, owner of a local hamburger stand, and Alice Ghostley is the harried housekeeper in this engaging romp. The Grass Roots provide some of the music in this feature. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

Ed Stander (Robert Morse), with the help of an all-star cast, teaches Paul Manning (Walter Matthau) the fine art of philandering in A Guide for the Married Man. Paul, happily married to sexy Ruth (Inger Stevens), has no burning desire to cheat, but Ed makes the prospect sound very attractive. Finally taking the "big step" with a glamorous brunette after months of careful preparation, Paul finds that he loves his wife way too much to betray her -- while the ever-careful Ed ends up in divorce court. Among the myriad of "advisors" peppered throughout Guide for the Married Man are Art Carney, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Jayne Mansfield, Terry-Thomas, and Carl Reiner. The best guest-star vignette features Joey Bishop as a man caught in bed with another woman by his wife -- whereupon he calmly puts on his clothes, straightens up the room, and quietly responds to his wife's outrage by saying "What bed? What girl?" Adapted by Frank Tarloff from his book of the same name, Guide for the Married Man was directed by Gene Kelly, who makes a cameo "appearance" of his own as a voice on a TV set. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Harry Lucas (Jim Hutton) is a U.S. Mint employee who scrambles to recover $50,000 he accidentally destroyed in this underrated comedy of errors. After he mistakenly throws the money down the garbage disposal, a frantic Harry recruits retired mint employee Pop Gillis (Walter Brennan) to cook up a hot new batch of cold cash. The two have to hire a bunch of colorful crooks to pull off the caper. Soon the money paid out far exceeds the total of the original loss. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

Hogan wants to find out why three female American USO entertainers are being held by the Gestapo. He learns that the girls accidentally stumbled upon a secret Nazi V-2 rocket site, thus need desperately to be smuggled into England. Complicating matters are a collapsed escape tunnel and the amorous inclinations of Col. Klink and Sgt. Schultz. The solution: An elaborate masquerade, with Hogan's heroes posing as Hogan's heroines. Jean Hale, Jayne Massey, and Jackie Joseph appear respectively as Kathy, Ginger, and Charlene. Written by Arthur Julian, "I Look Better in Basic Black" was first telecast on April 1, 1966. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) is so enthusiastic about her art class that she coerces Rob (Dick Van Dyke) into signing up himself. Before long, however, Laura has ample reason to regret talking Rob into participating in the class. The reason? Well, it so happens that the art teacher, an attractive young woman named Valerie Ware (Ina Balin), has drawn a bead on Rob -- and desires to make our hero "teacher's pet" both in and out of the classroom! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Rock-throwing Ernest T. Bass returns to Mayberry, again bound and determined to find a sweetheart. To help Ernest T. along-and to prevent damage to the town's windows and storefronts-Andy and Barney take it upon themselves to transform the rambunctious hillbilly into a gentleman. The acid test comes when Andy passes Ernest T. off as his "cousin from Boston" at a fancy soiree held by local social arbiter Mrs. Wiley (Doris Packer). "How dew you dew, Mis-sus Wahh-lee?" First telecast on February 3, 1964, "My Fair Ernest T. Bass" was written by Jim Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Perhaps the greatest movie ever shot in two days, Little Shop of Horrors was originally conceived as a followup to Roger Corman's black comedy A Bucket of Blood (1959). Jonathan Haze plays Seymour Krelboin, a schlemiel's schlemiel who works at the Skid Row flower shop of Mr. Mushnick (Mel Welles). Experimenting in his spare time, Seymour develops a new plant species that he hopes will lead him to fame and fortune. Unfortunately, the mutated plant -- named Audrey Junior, in honor of Seymour's girlfriend Audrey (Jackie Joseph) -- subsists on blood and human flesh. It also talks, or rather, commands: "Feed Me! FEEEEED ME!" Before long, the luckless Seymour has fed his plant the bodies of a railroad detective, a sadistic dentist, and a flashy trollop. Meanwhile, Mr. Mushnik, who has stumbled onto Seymour's secret, has inadvertently offered up a burglar (played by Charles Griffith, who also wrote the script and supplied the plant's voice) as a midnight snack for the voracious, ever-growing Audrey Junior. (When the plant blooms, the faces of its various victims are reproduced in its flowers.) Ignored on its initial release, Little Shop of Horrors began building up a cult following via repeated TV exposure in the 1960s. By the mid-1970s, it had attained classic status, spawning a big-budget Broadway musical (and followup feature film) in the 1980s and a Saturday morning cartoon series in the 1990s. Enhancing the original Little Shop's reputation was the brief appearance by star-in-the-making Jack Nicholson as a masochistic dental patient (Nicholson is often incorrectly referred to as the star of the film, though in fact he barely receives billing). Much as we love Nicholson, our vote for the most memorable Little Shop cast member goes to the ubiquitous Dick Miller ("No thanks, I'll eat it here"). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide