Stephen Brooks Movies
- 1972
In this drama, two private investigators must find a serial killer after the 12-year investigation of the police fails miserably. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1966
Despite the formidable competiton of CBS' The Ed Sullivan Show and NBC's Walt Disney anthology, the ABC series The F.B.I. proved popular enough with action fans to warrant a second season in the same Sunday-evening timeslot. But while fans enjoyed the show and were fond of series star Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Inspector Lew Erskine, they had not responded well to the decision during Season One to provide the hard-working Erskine with a home life, replete with a pretty daughter named Barbara (Lynn Loring). Apparently, the viewers preferred to see Erskine on the job rather than at home, so Barbara was written out of the show--an act which would eventually result in the elimination of Erskine's young assistant Agent Jim Rhodes (Stephen Brooks), whose primary function was to have been as Barbara's love interest. But though Rhodes would exit the series at the end of Season Two, his slightly more mature colleague, Agent Arthur Ward (Philip Abbott), remained with the show until its cancellation in 1974. The Season Two opener "The Price of Death" provides a juicy role for young Robert Blake as a neurotic kidnapper. Other guests stars this season include Dean Jagger, William Windom and Ted Knight in "The Assassin"; Jack Lord in "Collision Course"; Fritz Weaver in "The Camel's Nose"; Suzanne Pleshette in "List for a Firing Squad"; Gene Hackman in "The Courier"; Michael Rennie and Phyllis Thaxter in "The Conspirators"; Jessica Walter, Louis Jourdan and Peter Graves in "Rope of Gold"; Charles Grodin in "Sky on Fire"; James Franciscus in "Force of Nature"; and Robert Duvall, Telly Savalas, Walter Pigeon, Susan Strasberg and Celeste Holm in the two-part "The Executioners". One prescient episode, "Anatomy of a Prison Break", features William Reynolds as Special Agent Kendall Lisbon, one year before he joined the regular F.B.I. cast in the role of Agent Tom Colby. The F.B.I closed out its second season as the 29th most-watched program in America, sharing this honor in a three-way tie with The CBS Thursday Night Movie, I Spy and My Three Sons. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Stephen Brooks, (more)
- 1965
The first season of ABC's longest-running adventure series The F.B.I is slightly different in content from future seasons, in that viewers were permitted a few glimpses of the personal life of hard-working F.B.I. Inspector Lew Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.). It is explained that Erskine's wife was killed in a shootout with a felon, leaving Lew to raise his pretty daughter Barbara (Lynn Loring) all by himself. In several of the earliest episodes, it is established that Barbara is the girlfriend of Erskine's handsome young coworker, Agent Jim Rhodes (Stephen Brooks). Also introduced during Season One is another of Erskine's frequent sidekicks, Agent Arthur Ward (Philip Abbott). The first of the season's 31 episodes is "The Monster", guest starring Jeffrey Hunter as escaped Federal Prisoner Francis Jerome. Subsequent guest stars of note include Jack Klugman in "Image in a Cracked Mirror", Dabney Coleman and Lee Meriwether in "Slow March Up a Steep Hill", Robert Duvall in "The Giant Killer", Beau Bridges in "An Elephant is Like a Rope", Leslie Nielsen in "Pound of Flesh", Kevin McCarthy in "The Spy Master", Colleen Dewhurst in "The Baby Sitter", Wayne Rogers and Kurt Russell in "The Tormentors", Charles Bronson and James Doohan in "The Animal", and Dana Wynter and Paul Lukas in the two-part "The Defector". Closing out Season One is "The Bomb That Walked Like a Man", directed by Christian Nyby of The Thing fame. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Stephen Brooks, (more)
