Katey Sagal Movies
A versatile entertainer who first shot to fame as redheaded housewife Peg Bundy on the long-running television sitcom Married with Children, Katey Sagal has since established herself as one of the small screen's most reliable and prolific actresses.It was at the tender age of five that the talented youngster first began to show promise as a singer, and after honing her talent with years of practice, Sagal went on to perform as a Harlette opposite future superstar Bette Midler. After performing as a backup singer for the likes of Etta James, Olivia Newton-John, and Tanya Tucker in the mid-'80s, Sagal made her television debut on the Mary Tyler Moore sitcom Mary. Though that particular show didn't make it past the one-season mark, it did open up a world of opportunity for the aspiring young actress, who would subsequently earn three Golden Globe nominations as gaudily attired suburbanite Peg Bundy on the raunchy Fox Television sitcom Married with Children. A stinging satire of suburban dysfunction, Married with Children's gleefully lowbrow humor earned it as many fans as detractors over the course of the show's impressive ten-year run. When the plug was finally pulled on Married with Children in 1998, Sagal teamed with former Three's Company star John Ritter in the made-for-television romance Chance of a Lifetime before making appearances on such series as That '70s Show and Disney's animated show Recess.
While performances in a number of made-for-television movies hinted at dramatic abilities that had never been tapped during her extended stint on Married with Children, it was cartoon voice-over work that would soon prove the bread and butter of her career during the millennial crossover. Despite the fact that it never achieved the popularity of The Simpsons, Matt Groening's animated sci-fi comedy series Futurama did gain a fairly devoted fan base during its four-year run, with Sagal in particular getting a fair amount of laughs in her role as voluptuous one-eyed alien Leela. In 2002, Sagal partnered with former Chance of a Lifetime star Ritter for the Emmy Award-winning sitcom 8 Simple Rules...for Dating My Teenage Daughter, though the tragic and unexpected death of star Ritter -- who collapsed on-set at the beginning of the second season -- brought the show to an untimely end in 2005. A pair of appearances on the phenomenally successful small-screen thriller Lost followed in 2005, and in 2006 Sagal traded barbs with William Shatner and James Spader on Boston Legal. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 2000
In this take on Raging Bull, the episode "Raging Bender" starts with the Planet Express crew going out to the movies. Bender gets into a fight with another robot in the theater and knocks him out, only to find out that the robot was the champion of the Robot Fighting League. Bender immediately joins the league and wins a lot of matches because he's popular. When he starts to lose his public appeal, he asks Leela to coach him for the big match against the giant robot Destructor. She agrees because she has a grudge against Destructor's coach, Phnog, who is also her old martial arts instructor. Leela figures out the secret behind Destructor's power and she saves the day, but Bender still loses and gets kicked out of the league. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Billy West, Katey Sagal, (more)
Ryan Merriman, Katey Sagal and Kevin Kilner star in this comedy from Disney about a single father and his two children who win an unusual prize in a sweepstakes -- a state-of-the-art computer controlled house in which everything can be easily controlled with the touch of a keypad. Directed by LaVar Burton. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ryan Merriman, Katey Sagal, (more)
Based on a true story, the made-for-TV God's New Plan essentially begins at the end, as Ellen Young (Katey Sagal) prepares to die from cancer. While Ellen is more or less resigned to her fate, she worries about what will happen afterward to her husband Brian (Tom Irwin) and her children. Luckily, Ellen has become close to Claire Hutton (Annabeth Gish), the nurse hired to care for Ellen's premature infant. Even from the grave, Ellen seems to be pulling the strings of the situation, as Claire slowly, cautiously falls in love with the grieving Tom, and vice versa. Ultimately it falls to the children to stage-manage the happy ending. Blessed with a marvelously feeling of time and place, not to mention the superlative performances by the principal players, God's New Plan debuted February 16, 1999, and has since become a fixture of cable TV under the title No Higher Love. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1999
Bender becomes addicted to jolts of electricity at a "jacking-on" party. He goes on a jolt spree and almost kills the rest of the crew. A robot priest offers him the Good Book 3.0 and he kicks his addiction by finding religion. Fry and Leela want the old Bender back, so they take him out for a night of corruption and he ends up paying for his sins in robot hell. In the tradition of the song "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," Fry and Leela try to win back his soul by battling the robot devil Beelzebot (voice of Dan Castellaneta) in a fiddle contest. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Billy West, Katey Sagal, (more)
- 1999
Fry has a dream with a commercial in it, and everyone develops a strange urge to go shopping. Bender gets arrested for shoplifting, but the crew doesn't have enough money to bail him out of jail. Fry decides to look up his old bank account, which has since accrued billions of dollars in interest over the last thousand years. He spends his money frivolously and goes to a 20th century-style auction. He bids on a can of extinct anchovies and wins over the corporate tycoon Mom (voice of Tress MacNeille), known as "the world's most huggable industrialist." Needing the anchovy oil to run her robot oil business, Mom comes up with a scam to rob Fry by making him think it's really the year 2000. Pamela Anderson guest stars. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Billy West, Katey Sagal, (more)
- 1999
During a "blernsball" game, Bender gets upset about the mistreatment of robots, while Fry struggles to understand the rules of blernsball. The Planet Express crew gets a delivery request to Chapek 9, a planet ran by robots where humans are routinely killed. Bender tries to get out of it by claiming it's the robot holiday of Robannukah. He makes the delivery anyway, but he gets busted for working for humans. In order to save him, Fry and Leela dress up like robots and find Bender in a robot adult bookstore. The planet's rulers capture Fry and Leela, while Bender is ordered to kill them. The rulers eventually agree that humans are harmless, and killing them is only a way to distract the robot population from their real problems. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Billy West, Katey Sagal, (more)
- 1999
Professor Farnsworth submits his Death Clock in the Academy of Inventors ceremony, but his old rival Wernstrom tells him that he already submitted it last year. The Professor quickly comes up with another invention called the Smell-O-Scope, a device which can smell any object in space. He doesn't win any awards, but he builds it anyway. Fry uses the Smell-O-Scope to detect a big piece of garbage left over from the 20th century. It seems to be hurling through space and headed right for New York City. The Professor comes up with an idea to knock out the garbage ball with another big piece of garbage. Since the year 3000 is trashless, it's up to Fry to teach the crew about the value of throwing things away. Ron Popeil guest stars. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Billy West, Katey Sagal, (more)
- 1999
When Hermes threatens to stop paying him if he doesn't get to work, Bender becomes the ship's cook. The crew has to make a delivery on Trisol 3 in the Galaxy of Terror. When Fry has to walk through the heat of the three suns in order to deliver a package, he gets thirsty and drinks a strange blue liquid. The liquid turns out to be the leader of a race of liquid aliens who make Fry their new leader and force him to recite an oath. That evening, the leader in Fry's stomach commands that they kill Fry in order to get him out. Leela comes up with a plan to beat him up until he cries, thereby draining out the liquid alien leader. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Billy West, Katey Sagal, (more)
- 1999
Everyone in the Planet Express offices is tired of sloppy Fry hanging around all the time and making messes. He tries to stay at Bender's place in Robot Arms Apartments, but it doesn't work out. He makes Bender look for a better apartment but his robotic characteristics keep ruining things. After a slight reenactment of The Odd Couple, Fry ends up living in the closet. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Billy West, Katey Sagal, (more)
- 1999
While trying to save the animals on the dying planet Vergon 6, the Planet Express crew meet arrogant Zapp Brannigan (voice of Billy West), captain of the Nimbus. He tries to seduce Leela by taking her to his bedroom (called "the Lovenasium") while Fry and Bender go to jail. After spending a night with Zapp, Leela is disgusted and leaves with Fry and Bender. Zapp's underling Kif Kroker (voice of Maurice LaMarche) becomes Amy's boyfriend. They save all the animals on Vergon 6, where Leela meets her new pet, Nibbler. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Billy West, Katey Sagal, (more)
- 1999
On December 31, 1999, deadbeat pizza delivery boy Fry (voice of Billy West) gets accidentally cryogenically frozen until the year 3000. When he emerges, cyclops alien Leela (voice of Katey Sagal) is ordered to implant a chip in his hand for a life assignment. When he finds out that he's ordered to be a delivery boy again, he escapes. He is rightfully baffled by the future world and mistakes a suicide booth for a phone booth, where he meets the lovably debauched robot, Bender (voice of John DiMaggio). Fry and Bender go underground to the ruins of old New York, but Leela catches up with them. When Fry gives himself up, Leela decides to take out her life assignment chip and join them. They find Fry's only living relative, Professor Farnsworth (voice of Billy West), and get new jobs making deliveries with the Planet Express company in the Professor's space ship. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Billy West, Katey Sagal, (more)
- 1999
Fry, Leela, and Bender meet the rest of the Planet Express crew: boss man Hermes Conrad (voice of Phil LaMarr), intern Amy Wong (voice of Lauren Tom), and doctor John Zoidberg (voice of Billy West). With Leela as their captain, the first assignment is a delivery to the moon. Fry is really excited about his first trip to the moon, but everyone else thinks it's no big deal. The only thing on the moon is a big amusement park called Luna Park and it's all very commercial. They go on some carnival rides after they make the delivery, and Amy loses the keys to the ship. Leela and Fry take off on a rover ride to explore the other parts of the moon's surface away from the tourist traps. After hiding out at an oxygen farm, Amy rescues them. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Billy West, Katey Sagal, (more)
- 1999
While trying to relax on the beach, the Planet Express crew gets involved in an alien attack from the planet Omicron Persei 8. Zapp Brannigan leads the counterattack to destroy the mothership, but he destroys the Hubble telescope instead. It turns out that all the aliens want is the season finale of the television show "Single Female Lawyer." Unfortunately, when the show was supposed to air back in 1999, Fry delivered a pizza to FOX and accidentally knocked the station off the air. To appease the aliens, the crew decides to re-create the final episode with Leela playing Jenny McNeal, the "Single Female Lawyer." ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Billy West, Katey Sagal, (more)
- 1999
The Planet Express crew makes a delivery to the Professor's office at Mars University. Realizing that he's just a high school dropout, Fry decides to enroll in school and become a college dropout. He ends up sharing a room with the Professor's super-intelligent experimental monkey, Guenter. Guenter competes with Fry in social activities and academic performance while struggling with whether to rejoin his species in the wild. Meanwhile, Bender hangs out with the robot fraternity of his college days (when he majored in Bending and minored in Robo-American Studies). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Billy West, Katey Sagal, (more)
- 1999
The first episode of the second season of Futurama is a take on the Hollywood blockbuster romance Titanic. During the Planet Express company vacation, the whole crew goes on a luxury space cruise. Leela pretends that Fry is her boyfriend in order to thwart the advances of the ship's captain, Zapp Brannigan. Amy also pretends that Fry is her boyfriend, so that her parents will stop trying to find her a husband. Meanwhile, Bender romances the rich old robot lady Countess De La Roca. This episode marked the first appearance of Hermes' wife, LaBarbara (voice of Dawnn Lewis), as well as Amy's parents, Leo (voice of Billy West) and Inez Wong (voice of Lauren Tom). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Billy West, Katey Sagal, (more)
- 1999
Titanium becomes worth a lot of money, so Bender sells his body and tries to live as just a head. After he visits the head museum and has a binary number nightmare, he decides he wants his body back. Unfortunately, the head of a crazed Richard Nixon bought it so he can run for president against Jack Johnson and John Jackson. Fry and Leela help Bender sneak into Nixon's hotel room to steal back his body. Bender ends up having to blackmail Nixon with an incriminating video tape, but he still wins the election with a new cyborg body. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Billy West, Katey Sagal, (more)
- 1999
Zapp Brannigan accidentally explodes the Democratic Order of Planets (DOOP) and he loses his rank in a court sentence after Leela testifies against him. He and his assistant, Kif Kroker, become homeless vagrants, so Professor Farnsworth hires them to work for Planet Express. While delivering pillows to a high-gravity planet, Zapp convinces Fry and Bender to overthrow Leela so that he can be captain. When they eagerly comply, Zapp takes over and leads the crew into an attack on the Neutral Planet. Scared of dying, Fry and Bender turn on Zapp and make Leela captain again. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Billy West, Katey Sagal, (more)
- 1999
On Nibbler's birthday, Bender gets jealous because nobody is paying attention to him. Even when he tries to get noticed for baking a cake, Nibbler eats the whole thing. Angry, Bender flushes him down the toilet and Leela is heartbroken. Because the uncaring Bender feels no remorse, the Professor installs an empathy chip in him so he can understand how bad Leela is feeling about the loss of her pet. He is overcome with emotion and flushes himself down the toilet to try and save Nibbler. Fry and Leela try to find him, but they end up finding a race of underground sewer mutants. They all save Nibbler and have to fight the sewer monster "El Chupanibre." ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Billy West, Katey Sagal, (more)
- 1999
In this parody of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Fry tries to find a golden bottle cap in his favorite beverage, Slurm. He tries using the professor's latest invention that can see through metal, but he ends up swallowing a golden bottle cap and winning the contest. The crew gets to go on a tour of the Slurm factory and party with Slurms McKenzie, the party slug mascot who is sick and tired of constantly partying. Fry gets thirsty on the tour and falls into the Slurm river, so Leela and Bender try to save him. They all go down a drain and discover that Slurm is really made from the secretions of a giant queen slug. They are captured, but Slurms saves them. Pamela Anderson guest stars as the voice of blonde "Slurm Babe" Dixie. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Billy West, Katey Sagal, (more)
- 1999
Fry is sad about his first Christmas away from his family and Leela is sad because she's the only one of her species in the galaxy. Fry wants to comfort her, but he just ends up making her feel worse. To make up for it he goes out to buy her a present, despite warnings that an evil Robot Santa Claus (voice of John Goodman) is on a killing spree to judge the naughty from the nice. Fry gets Leela a parrot at a pet store, but it flies away out the window of a tall building and she ends up having to save his life again. Meanwhile, Bender pretends to be a hobo so he can get free alcohol at the liquor kitchen for homeless robots. Conan O'Brien guest stars. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Billy West, Katey Sagal, (more)
- 1998
Harland Williams stars in this comedy as a confidence man who is trying to outrun the bill collectors. Posing as a woman, he gets a job as the headmistress at an exclusive private girl's school, but now he has a whole new set of problems -- namely, fooling everyone into thinking he's a woman for the next several months, and dealing with Harriet Magnum (Katey Sagal), the no-nonsense assistant headmistress known around the school as "Dirty Harriet." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Harland Williams, Katey Sagal, (more)
- 1998
Can a severe back injury bring two lonely people together? Tom (John Ritter) is a respected journalist who makes the serious mistake of becoming involved with a married woman -- the wife of his publisher. Tom's editor, Irene (Katey Sagal), is forced to give him his pink slip, but when Tom sees Irene one day with her car stuck in a ditch, he decides to let bygones be bygones and help push the car back onto the road. Tom manages to do some serious damage to his back in the process, and with no job and no health insurance, he's not sure what to do about it. Irene feels awful about the situation, and makes Tom an offer -- she'll agree to an "in name only" marriage so Tom would be eligible under her insurance benefits. Tom agrees, but what started as a marriage of convenience starts taking a more romantic turn than either of them expected. Chance of a Lifetime also stars Jean Stapleton and David Naughton. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- John Ritter, Katey Sagal, (more)
- 1996
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Having clocked in eleven seasons, Married...With Children was Fox's longest-lasting series of the 1996-1997 TV season. Unfortunately, the 11th season was the last, due in part to the network's decision to change the series' timeslot three times within a single year. Al Bundy Ed O'Neill is still Chicago's most frustrated shoe clerk, all the more so because his boss, "Gary" -- actually a woman, and a none-too-pleasant one -- is seen for the first time in several episodes. Al's wife, Peg (Katey Sagal), is still lazy as a sloth and still dresses like a Rush Street "working girl." Daughter Kelly (Christina Applegate) is still pursuing a show-business career, and son Bud (David Faustino) is still drawing a paycheck from the motor vehicle bureau. If anything, the individual episodes are more outrageously "out there" than ever before. Highlights include Al making a deal with the Devil (played by Nightmare on Elm Street's Robert Englund) so the Chicago Bears can win a crucial game, a crossover episode with the Fox reality series Cops (one wonders how the Bundys have avoided being on Cops in past seasons!), and series regular Amanda Bearse showing up in the dual role of the Bundys' neighbor Marcy and her lesbian cousin (this, reportedly, was done so that actress Bearse could "out" herself on the series Ellen DeGeneres-style without compromising Marcy's heterosexuality). The saga of Married...With Children comes to an end as Al stops the wedding of his daughter, Kelly, who has become engaged to a guy who tried to rob the Bundy house. (This series finale was supposed to have been the pilot episode for a sitcom starring Christina Applegate as Kelly Bundy, but the actress decided to bypass the opportunity). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, (more)
- 1995
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With the launching of the 1995-1996 TV season, Married...With Children became the first Fox network show to remain on the air for ten years. It is clear, however, that age has not withered the ability of the boorish Bundy family to make fools of themselves in a variety of situations, many of them sexual. The cast remains as ever: Ed O'Neill as oafish shoe clerk Al Bundy; Katey Sagal as Al's lazy, self-indulgent wife, Peg; Christina Applegate as hot-to-trot daughter Kelly, now a TV commercial spokeswoman; David Faustino as scheming son Bud, who this season defies all logic by graduating from Trumaine University; and next-door neighbors Marcy and Jefferson D'Arcy (Amanda Bearse, Ted McGinley). New developments this season include the demise of the Bundy family's dog, Buck, though the opportunity for a saccharine "very special moment" is deftly avoided when Buck is immediately (and reluctantly) reincarnated in the form of a cute little puppy named Lucky. Also, legendary character actress Kathleen Freeman -- or her voice, at any rate -- is added to the cast as Peg's obese, never-seen mother, Mrs. Wanker, who moves into Bud's old room after walking out on her husband (and, no, Bud has not left the nest -- he had merely relocated to the Bundy family basement). If Peg Bundy seems conspicuous by her absence towards the end of season ten, it is because actress Katey Sagal was on brief pregnancy leave. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, (more)
