Barbara Brownell Movies
- 1991
Billy Cohen appears as Billy MacDonald, a spoiled-rotten child star who runs roughshod over everyone while filming a TV pilot episode in the courtroom. The kid's coworkers are clearly unwilling to curb his obnoxious behavior, and Judge Harry T. Stone (Harry Anderson) isn't about to say anything either-- mainly because he's been cast in a bit role in the pilot. It falls to the outspoken Roz (Marsha Warfield) to bring Billy in line via a tense confrontation with the youngster's mother (Barbara Brownell). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1990
This is the series' fourth and final "Day in the Life" episode, in which the Night Court staff must process a huge number of cases before a predetermined deadline. On this occasion, the staffers must try a record 242 cases before midnight as workmen attempt to repair a hole in the courtroom ceiling. Judge Harry (Harry Anderson) is especially anxious to rush through one particular case, this one involving a nice young man (Andrew Hill Newman) who hopes to save his girlfriend (Eileen Seeley) from a forced marriage to a "pre-lab preppie" (Jonathan Emerson). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1989
Season Six of Night Court ends with the third of the series' "Day in the Life" episodes, in which the court staff is compelled to process a huge number of cases before a midnight deadline. On this go-round, the time limit is imposed when a water pipe bursts in the building's holding cells, forcing the handcuffed inmates to crowd into the courtroom. As the water rises and midnight approaches, Judge Harry (Harry Anderson) must convict as many inmates as humanly possible--a task made doubly difficult when several of the more dangerous criminals escape! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1981
Quincy (Jack Klugman) performs an autopsy on a truck driver who turns out to have died of hydrogen choloride poisoning. Enlisting the aid of the trucker's widow (Salome Jens), Quincy investigates the likelihood that the victim was involved in the illegal dumping of toxic waste. But he'd better hurry: Unless he finds the source of the poison, an upcoming heavy rain will create a huge toxic cloud which will contaminate thousands upon thousands of helpless citizens. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1978
An autopsy performed by Quincy (Jack Klugman) determines that Mrs. Martha Steele (Karen Philipp) died of a cerebral hemmorhage, supposedly caused by an encounter with a burglar. But Quincy is certain that the brain damage occurred long before the burglary--and he suspects that Mrs. Steele was the victim of an abusive husband (played by Robert Colbert). Unfortunately, his investigation is dead-ended by the refusal of the Steeles' friends to discuss the matter or cooperate with the authorities. Incidentally, this is the episode in which we finally find out Quincy's first name (or at least, his first initial). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1977
Just prior to her Three's Company superstardom, Suzanne Somers played the lead in the made-for-TV meller It Happened at Lakewood Manor. Boiled down to basics, this is a rehash of Jaws, with ants (!) substituting for sharks (the film's video release title, in fact, was Ants). A summer resort full of special-guest-star tourists is besieged by battalions of killer ants. Robert Foxworth, Myrna Loy, Lynda Day George, Bernie Casey, Barry Van Dyke and Brian Dennehy are among those on the little critters' menu. First telecast December 2, 1977, It Happened at Lakewood Manor was subsequently retitled Panic at Lakewood Manor. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1976
Yet another former female member of Fillmore High School's "Angora Debs" is getting married, inviting her ex-classmates Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) to the bridal shower. Upon arrival, our twentysomething heroines realizes that everyoone in the room is married except them, and they're none too happy about their "spinster" status. This episode marks the first appearance of Laverne and Shirley's irksome lifelong rival "Big Rosie" Greenbaum, played by Carole Ita White. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1974
A robbery committed by three men goes horribly awry: one thief is killed, the second escapes, and the third, a lifelong loser named Hardway (Paul Burke), is arrested. While languishing behind bars, Hardway learns that his daughter has been kidnapped--and that the only way he can ransom her is to reveal the whereabouts of the stolen money. Ironside (Raymond Burr) enters the scene in hopes of saving the girl, retrieving the money, capturing the villain--and, just possibly, redeeming the hapless Hardway. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1974
The terror begins when dewey-eyed Peggy O'Malley (Lynne Marta) enters the United States after a flight from Canada, her leg encased in a plaster cast. But Peggy has not broken or even sprained anything: she is using the phony cast to smuggle a 20-dollar plate, stolen from the Canadian mint, past US customs. All the while, the hapless girl is pursued by the man who killed her boyfriend, and who will leave a trail of death in his wake while tracking her down. By the time Kojak (Telly Savalas) picks up the villain's trail, a doltish innocent bystander (Chuck McCann) has been swept up in the intrigue. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1973
When a Chicago Bears football game is blacked out on the local TV station, Bob and Jerry book a hotel room in Peoria so they can see the contest. Sensing that Bob misses Emily, Jerry introduces him to a pleasant woman named Janine (Zohra Lampert) -- leaving out the vital information that Janine is a hooker. Thus it is that Bob suffers the pangs of conscience, mixed with a sense of awe, as Janine "inexplicably" makes the usual moves on him. Written by Tom Patchett and Jay Tarses, "Motel" originally aired on September 22, 1973. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, (more)
- 1973
The Rampart emergency staff must find bed space for its own members when Dr. Brackett (Robert Fuller) is trapped under a pile of fallen debris and Roy DeSoto (Kevin Tighe) comes down with tonsilitis--and even the station's doggie mascot Boot undergoes surgery. At the same time, famous actor Raymond Boyd (Robert Alda), an old flame of head nurse Dixie McCall (Julie London), checks in with a mysterious illness. And elsewhere, things get very ugly at a girl's college lacrosse game. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1972
Hawkeye (Alan Alda) is outraged when Sgt. Baker (Paul Jenkins) shows up at the 4077th, accompanied by his "Moose" -- a Korean girl named Young Hi (Virginia Anne Lee) who was sold to Baker as an indentured servant. Using every sneaky trick at his disposal, Hawkeye tries to free Young Hi from Baker's clutches. As it turns out, however, Young Hi wants to remain in bondage -- or at least she thinks she does. "The Moose" first aired on October 15, 1972. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1972
Company clerk Radar (Gary Burghoff) goes into a deep blue funk when he receives a Dear John letter from his hometown sweetheart. To lift Radar's spirits, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and Trapper (Wayne Rogers) try to set him up with another girl. Their selection is Louise (Kelly Jean Peters), a dreamy-eyed nurse who is "into" classical music and poetry. As the heroes prepare Radar for his date, Hot Lips (Loretta Swit), outraged that one of her nurses would be squired by a mere enlisted man, tries to sabotage the whole arrangement. "Love Story" first aired on January 7, 1973. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1971
- PG13
In this semi-autobiographical romantic comedy starring Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor (who also wrote the script together) two lonely hearts find each other in group therapy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1971
- PG
Robert Mitchum delivers a top-notch performance as Harry Graham, a lonely and tender lout of a father who, released from prison after having killed his wife many years ago, has to start anew but must deal with his embittered teenage son Jimmy (Jan-Michael Vincent). Jimmy, seeking vengeance upon his father, tracks him from the prison where he was incarcerated to the run-down seashore community where Harry is now eking out a living in a trailer park with his girlfriend Jenny (Brenda Vaccaro). When Jimmy at last confronts his father face to face, he finds he has to deal with many unresolved emotional barriers in their relationship. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Robert Mitchum, Brenda Vaccaro, (more)
- 1970
- PG
A college coed attends a class on the occult and ends up possessed by a 17th-century witch who seduces the girl's lover (who is also teaching the course) and sends her on a murderous rampage in this taut horror movie.. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
