Frank Evans Movies
- 1969
Among the civilians encountered by Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) in this episode is elderly Mr. Saulsberry (Richard Hale) who is determined to leave Los Angeles and walk back to his home town--Deadwood, South Dakota. Elsewhere, the two patrolmen investigate a holdup at a service station, and shoot it out with three desperate criminals. Future Emergency! regular Marco Lopez appears unbilled. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1965
Martin (Ray Walton) is worried that the upcoming telecast of a vintage silent film will reveal his previous existence as a movie "sheik"--and thus tip off the fact that he's a space traveller. To avoid this, Martin and Tim activate the "CCTBS" time machine to return to the Hollywood of 1925, there to scuttle the filming of Martin's starring epic. Alas, history threatens to repeat itself, largely due to the blossoming romance between Tim and silent leading lady Viola Normandy (Arlene Martel). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1965
A crisis develops when Martin (Ray Walston) develops an allergy to his brain-power pills, breaking out in embarrassing green blotches. Thinking quickly, Martin feeds the pills to Tim (Bill Bixby), figuring this will make Tim smart enough to discover a cure for the allergy. Trouble ensues when "super-genius" Tim ends up working on a top-secret government space project, an assignment that could end in disaster literally with the snap of the fingers! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1965
When Eddie (Butch Patrick) brings home a tape recorder he has borrowed from friendly disc jockey Dick Willet (Gary Owens), Herman (Fred Gwynne) amuses himself by recording his own rendition of "Dry Bones." Upon hearing Herman's vocal histrionics, Willet declares publicly that the "unknown"singer is on the verge of stardom. Predictably, Herman's ego swells to ridiculous proportions, forcing Grandpa (Al Lewis) to take drastic measures involving "Nothin' Muffins" (a gag apparently lifted from one of Al Capp's "Li'l Abner" comic strips). This episode was originally telecast December 2, 1965; one week later, The Munsters was pre-empted for a little animated special called A Charlie Brown Christmas. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1959
What can a blackmailer do when his victim can no longer afford to pay up? In this case, he apparently has no option other than to beat up the victim (a cocktail lounge proprietor) and then rob and shoot the poor fellow. Luckily, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are on hand to see that the guilty party is punished to the full extent of the law. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1959
Los Angeles is being terrorized by the "rattlesnake bandit", who preys upon young couples, pointlessly beating them up after robbing them (one of his female victims is now permanently blind). Descriptions of the bandit are fragmentary, but Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) have one palpable clue to go on: the criminal is occasionally seen in the company of a blonde female. Though the bandit manages to elude the cops for several nights running, he finally outsmarts himself when he holds up his girlfriend's ex-boss. This episode is based on the Dragnet radio broadcast of January 4, 1951. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1958
Dorothy Provine gives her all to the title role in The Bonnie Parker Story. Billed in the picture's ad campaign as "the cigar-smoking she-devil of the thirties", the tommy-gun wielding Bonnie cuts quite a swath across the South after her husband (Richard Bakalyan) is sent to jail for life . Teaming up with a young bucko named Guy--not Clyde!--Barrow (Jack Hogan), Bonnie robs banks, kills people, and broods about the pointlessness of her existence. Put as charitably as possible, this isn't Bonnie and Clyde, not by a long shot. The Bonnie Parker Story was originally released on a double bill with Machine Gun Kelly. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dorothy Provine, Jack Hogan, (more)
- 1958
Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are on the trail of escaped convicts Powell and Selby, who after busting out of San Quentin have embarked upon a 24-hour crime spree in Los Angeles. The detectives end up heading south of the border to the Mexican fishing village of Encinada--where the local police officers have some surprising information about the two fugitives. This episode is based on the Dragnet radio broadcast of March 20, 1952. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
