Ty Miller Movies
A highly trained fighting force of Navy SEALs goes after a band of modern-day pirates, who retaliate with a bombing that takes the life of the wife of the SEALs leader. ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jim Fitzpatrick, Greg Collins, (more)
- 1995
When the nefarious Lord Caliban and his wicked henchman start acting up again, its up to future cop Jack Deth and his intrepid Tunnel Rats to try to stop him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tim Thomerson, Stacie Randall, (more)
- 1993
- R
Trancers 4: Jack of Swords follows the time-traveling policeman Jack Deth into another dimension, where aliens called the Trancers are keeping the natives as food. Deth's mission is to save the population from the Trancers. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tim Thomerson, Stacie Randall, (more)
- 1991
Leathery old stationmaster Teaspoon Hunter moves his Pony Express way-station from Sweetwater, Wyoming to the larger, more urbanized community of Rock Creek, Nebraska, as The Young Riders begins its third and final season. Now a US marshal, Teaspoon has left the care and maintenance of his station in the hands of his loyal young riders, including The Kid (Ty Miller), Billy Cody (Stephen Baldwin), Jimmy Hickok (Josh Brolin), Ike McSwain (Travis Fine), Buck Cross (Gregg Rainwater), Noah Dixon (Don Franklin) and "token female" Lou McCloud (Yvonne Suhor). Also making the big move to Rock Creek are the station's secretive cook Rachel (Claire Wren) and enterprising storekeeper Tompkins (Don Collier). And in the second episode of the season, a brash 14-year-old Missouri refugee named Jesse James (Christopher Pettiet) signs on with the Pony Express. The most startling event of the season is the sudden death of the taciturn Ike McSwain, who dies while protecting the only woman he has ever loved. Less startling but definitely out of the ordinary is one of the few episodes built around the half-Kiowan Buck Cross, in which he is reunited with the woman of his tribe who'd been promised to him in marriage years earlier--and who now is apparently possessed by an evil-spirit. In the not uneventful series finale, Cody signs up as an Army scout (he's getting closer and closer to those Buffalo!), life turns sour for Noah when he is denied entry in an all-white military regiments, Lou and the Kid finally get married, and hotheaded Jesse James is inveigled into joining his brother Frank in a new and less reputable line of work. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anthony Zerbe, Ty Miller, (more)
- 1990
Season Two of The Young Riders finds a few changes of personnel around and about the Pony Express station run by crusty old Teaspoon Hunter (Anthony Zerbe in pre-Civil War Sweetwater, Wyoming. Youthful riders The Kid (Ty Miller, Billy Cody (Stephen Baldwin, Jimmy Hickok (Josh Brolin, Ike McSawain (Travis Fine), and Buck Cross (Gregg Rainwater) are still delivering the mail despite obstacles far more daunting that sleet, snow and hail; likewise, the service's sole female member Lou McCloud (Yvonne Suhor) is still disguising herself as a boy for the sake of convenience, though by this time The Kid has tumbled to her secret and has fallen in love with her. New to the service is a freeborn black teenager named Noah Dixon (Don Franklin); also joining the cast is the station's enigmatic new cook Rachel Dunn (Claire Wren), replacing the previous season's Emma Shannon, who has run off with amorous Marshal Sam Cain. Highlight this season include revelations about Teaspoon's unsavory past; the Riders' efforts to fight a cholera epidemic, and to save an innocent man from lynching in the process; Jimmy Hickok's brief tenure as sheriff in a wide-open town, where he half-hopes to be killed for accidentally causing the death of a young woman; and the end of the trail for local storekeeper William Tompkins' (Don Collier) search for his wife and child, kidnapped years earlier by the Sioux. In an intriguing bit of casting, onetime Bonanza regular Pernell Roberts appears as the burned-out idol of the impressionable Billy Cody; and later on, Richard Roundtree of Shaft fame shows up as the mentor of Noah Dixon, determined to save his former pupil from being sold into slavery. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anthony Zerbe, Ty Miller, (more)
- 1990
Made for television, To My Daughter stars Rue McClanahan as a well-to-do matron whose oldest daughter (Michelle Greene) dies. The girl was always McClanahan's favorite; the remaining children (Samantha Mathis and Ty Miller), though not unaffected by the loss, hope that now their mother will pay some attention to them. Instead, McClanahan's grief threatens to shatter her already shaky relationship with her younger offspring. She virtually shuts the kids out of her life in order to finish her older daughter's uncompleted book. To My Daughter was unofficially based on the career of real-life writer Nancy Lynn Schwartz, who did indeed die before completing her history of the Screen Actors' Guild, obliging her mother to finish the job. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Season One of The Young Riders begins in 1860, as a rambunctious teenaged hothead known only as The Kid (Ty Miller) signs on as a rider for the Central Overland Express mail service in Sweetwater, Wyoming. This particular branch of the service is overseen by stationmaster Teaspoon Hunter (Anthony Zerbe, a grizzled-old-codger type who is doing his best to live down his past as a gunslinger. Before long, several other youthful buckaroos have joined up as riders, including natural-born scout Billy Cody (Stephen Baldwin), straight-shooter Jimmy Hickok (Josh Brolin), taciturn mute Ike McSwain (Travis Fine), half-Kiowa Indian Buck Cross (Gregg Rainwater), and short-tempered Lou McCloud (Yvonne Suhor)--who, unbeknownst to anyone (at least at first), is a girl in male disguise. Emma Shannon (Melissa Leo) is the station's cook and resident "earth mother", while local lawkeeper Marshall Cain (Brett Cullen) is Emma's would-be beau. This season, Don Collier makes the first of many recurring appearances as versatile general store keeper William Tompkins, who hopes to one day be reunited with the wife and daughter who'd been stolen by the Sioux years earlier; the taciturn Ike demonstrates time and again that it would take a bolt from Heaven to persuade him to abandon his curious set of values; and the Riders come to the defense of runaway slaves, abandoned and abused children and wrongly persecuted Native Americans, and overall demonstrate a stronger sympathy for the abolitionist North than the slaveholding South in the months leading to the Civil War. As for historical accuracy. . .well, you can't have everything. The season ends with a two-hour finale, involving the Young Riders' dangerous encounter with a vigilante character clearly based on the infamous "Kansas Raider" Quantrill. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anthony Zerbe, Ty Miller, (more)
- 1988
- R
This blood-soaked shocker seems to waver between standard horror and black comedy as it tells the tale of a young man who is so plagued by terrifying nightmares of a haunted prison that he is unable to function normally during the day. To understand the dreams, he goes to a dream interpreter who tells him the prison is the abandoned Alcatraz and that to stop the dreams, he must go there to face his fear. The young man brings a few skeptical friends with him. Once in the notorious, empty prison, the visage of a late rock star appears and explains the situation. Apparently the place is being haunted by the vile ghost of a US cavalry officer who enjoyed eating human flesh. The dead rocker then explains that the young man needs to destroy the demon before it kills again. Unfortunately, the creature has already begun possessing and killing the fellow's friends one-by-one. The soundtrack features music from Devo. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Nick Celozzi, Tom Reilly, (more)
- 1987
In the conclusion of Growing Pains' two-part Season Three opener (originally telecast as a single one-hour special), the Seaver family continues vacationing in beautiful Hawaii. Whether or not they're enjoying the vacation is something else again: Jason (Alan Thicke) still feels neglected by his family; Maggie (Joanna Kerns) is feverishly trying to complete an important writing assignment; and Mike (Kirk Cameron) and Carol (Tracey Gold) are mortified to discover that their summertime romances have been captured on videotape by pesky younger brother Ben (Jeremy Miller). This episode was largely taped on location at the island of Maui. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1987
Growing Pains launches its third season with a two-hour Hawaiian adventure (originally telecast as a single one-hour special), taped on location on the island of Maui. Somewhat miffed that he's been tricked into going to Hawaii instead of Florida for his vacation, Jason gets an opportunity to retribution--and a chance to convince his family that they've been neglecting him--when the Seavers' rented houseboat is marooned off the Maui coast. Elsewhere, both Mike (Kirk Cameron) and Carol (Tracey Gold) launch romances, he with a pretty "local" named Melia (Kelly Ann Hu), she with handsome tourist Hadley Barnes (Ty Miller); and Maggie goes into full workaholic mode to finish a crucial writing assignment. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
