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- A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
- The adventures of a secret Agent armed with almost infinite scientific resourcefulness.
- Los Angeles private investigator Harry Moseby is hired by a client to find her runaway teenage daughter. Moseby tracks the daughter down, only to stumble upon something much more intriguing and sinister.
- A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
- A social misfit uses his only friends, his pet rats, to exact revenge on his tormentors.
- Photographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble finding time to do them both without his bosses finding out.
- A gang of crooks has kidnapped a rich heiress come up against a beautiful, but lethal alien who has crash-landed her spaceship on Earth.
- Paula Parkins is the teenage daughter of wealthy parents who can't seem to make time for her, so she looks for thrills as the leader of her all girl-gang who rob and rape young men.
- Earth's civilization of the future sends a cyborg back to the 1960s to change the future.
- Centred around a former tennis champ who swings with the girls and volleying straight sets with the rich and famous while set on owning his own tennis court.
- A bank teller is suspected of embezzlement and goes on the run with his seven children.
- In contemporary Hollywood, private investigator Sam Marlow gets plastic surgery to look like Humphrey Bogart and solves various cases just like Bogart's silver-screen detective characters from the 1940s.
- A Los Angeles taxi driver picks up a woman in his cab, not knowing that she's on a suicidal revenge mission. He manages to escape with her before getting killed, but deranged gangsters are searching for them.
- A crazed female scientist uses nerve gas to turn local teenagers into her unquestioning slaves.
- L.A. detective Sgt. Castle and his two partners investigate the theft of a valuable Fragonard painting by a thief who pilots a helicopter.
- Wheeler and Woolsey play two unemployed vaudevillians who get involved in helping an old lady save her moribund drug store. Problems and laughs begin when the villain spikes the Lemon Sodas they are selling.
- A young architect finds himself being stalked by a gang of criminals who believe he knows something that could expose their activities.
- A con man seeks lonely women pretending to be "mister right" and seduces them, stealing their hearts and their assets. He finally meets his match when he rips off a savvy single mother and finds out the true meaning of a woman scorned.
- Episodic look at married life and in-law problems. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live turkey, a wild spin in a new auto with the in-laws in tow, and a sequence in which Hubby accidentally chloroforms his mother-in-law and is convinced that he has killed her. When she begins sleep-walking, he thinks that she has returned to haunt him.
- Teenage skater Elliott searches for clarity and identity amid a shift in her relationship with her best friend.
- In Highland Park, it's Agnes Fisher and Harold Hope's wedding day. Mishaps almost keep them from getting hitched: he goes to the wrong church, then, one of the guests, Professor McGlumm, convinces him that the bride only wants him to collect his life insurance. Finally they marry and her family moves in with them. Harold is now convinced that he'll be poisoned at dinner. When further mishaps give him stomach problems, McGlumm rushes him toward the hospital. On the trip, all is revealed and it takes a bride's kiss to set things right.
- Over the hill film starlet Gaye Roman lounges around her rundown Hollywood home and ekes out a living coercing innocent young men into taking her carnal acting courses. Meanwhile, smarmy con artist photographer Rodney Lecoq manipulates lovely and naive hippie girls into doing revealing poses for him.
- Relentless Rudolph blackmails Belinda's father for her hand in marriage, but she is in love with handsome Harry, who will do anything to save his girl from the villain's clutches.
- Henpecked husband Harry is coerced by a good time pal to go on a clandestine double date. Of course, no good will come of this, as they encounter streetwalkers, bumpy roads, and a couple of toughs previously jilted by their dates.
- Poodles helps a woman extricate her high heel from a storm grate, and she returns the favor by offering him a ride. This is true love, distracting Poodles from his job, with disastrous results.
- Roommates unable to pay the rent take to the streets in search of easy cash and free food. They pull a staged pedestrian accident on a wealthy man, but go too far trying it on his daughter, too.
- A baby is dumped on a couple's doorstep, neither knows how to take care of the child, and funny situations arise. But things get more complicated when the husband receives a letter informing him that his mother is sick.
- Physical comedy drives this vehicle for then-famous clown Poodles Hanneford, part of a legendary British circus family. Already pushing forty but impeccably nimble, he plays suitor to beauteous, heavily daddy-guarded Betty (Betty Walsh) and the duo try their hardest to elope. This is an essentially plotless series of gags but they're good ones, well above the producing Weiss Brothers' average at the time. While "Poodles" never quite parlayed his big-top celebrity into screen stardom, he occasionally appeared in movies as late as circus-themed Hollywood spectacular BILLY ROSE'S JUMBO. He passed away five years later in the Catskills, no doubt surrounded by a diehard old-school showbiz community to the end. - Dennis Harvey
- A bum and an escaped convict find a kidnapped boy and try to bring him home.
- Fat and Snub are a reporter and photographer who try to track down a reclusive Scotsman for an interview and photo.
- A new comedy series that reveals the sometimes unusual and truthful situations that occur to those trying to make it big in Los Angeles. Includes live performances, behind-the-scenes footage, outdoor sketch improv, and an ensemble cast of real life actors, musicians, comedians, and industry professionals. Hustle & Bustle takes place all over Los Angeles, and uses the entire city and its daily happenings as a central character. Landmark locations, famous celebrity guests, real life events, and "situational improv" help make Hustle & Bustle both entertaining and unpredictable. A live performance takes place in each episode (at a real L.A. venue) with top notch talent playing over the top versions of their already recognizable celebrity.
- Part of a short-lived "Izzie and Lizzie" series named after the male and female ingénues in two comically contrasted families living next door to one another, this slapstick adventure finds Lizzie Murphy (Bess True) "going Hollywood." Having won a beauty contest, she's invited to travel west for a film test. Both Izzie Cohen and the Murphy menfolk are soon in hot pursuit, having belatedly realized that (according to a lurid tell-all book) Tinsel Town is the ruin of many a virtuous maiden. When they arrive, Lizzie is already starring in a movie and the wide-eyed family folk are fast wreaking havoc on the lot at "Paramet Studio." The gimmick of clashing Irish and Jewish stereotypes was a popular one for decades, most famously in long-running Broadway plays like ABIE'S IRISH ROSE and films like many-sequel-ed THE COHENS AND THE KELLYS. - Dennis Harvey
- Raechel Roslin Randemann (portrayed by Camille Montgomery), a young female songwriter, keyboard player and music programmer, is teamed with Kylie Westheimer Waites (portrayed by Skylar Ripp), an actress who found success as a child star in a family-themed sitcom, for a record deal with a major label under which Kylie will sing a song-length version of a popular bank jingle composed by Raechel. Kylie has ambitions to make the deal into a long-term band project with Raechel.
- A recent college graduate goes to a job interview after getting her wisdom teeth out.
- A girls' night that takes an unexpected turn.
- A French cousin arrives in America, causing chaos everywhere he goes. On a visit to Coney Island, the cousin claims to be a prizefighter and enters a high-stakes boxing match.
- A surgeon has an ingenious plan for murdering his partner in a research project, but a nurse catches onto the scheme.
- 1971–20031h 38mTV-PG7.2 (1.8K)TV EpisodeLt. Columbo investigates a self-proclaimed security expert turned crime show host for the murder of a rival with incriminating evidence of pornography.
- The team goes after the crooked car dealer who stole B.A.'s van.
- The shift starts with the officers pulling over a vehicle for a traffic violation. When Reed spots one of the men pulling a gun, they arrest them after learning the car is stolen. They find the body of a young woman which the men planned to dump in the ocean in the trunk of the car. The girl had stolen the car and the men who escaped from a mental institution killed her for seven dollars and the car. Later the officers are called to a home where a teenage girl's friends accidentally break a small window while toilet papering the house. The girl tells the officers the boys are planning to return but she refuses to name them. The officers roll by the house as the boys are in a fight with the father resulting in him being seriously stabbed.
- Thugs hijack a drug shipment in Mexico, killing a guard and loading it onto trucks en route to Los Angeles. Baretta realizes that the drugs are destined for an old mobster and puts him under constant -- and obvious -- surveillance. It's so obvious that the mobster gets to know Baretta and even to create a semblance of friendship with him. By the end of Act Four, the mobster has served up his nephew (who was the driving force behind the robbery) to Baretta for arrest. Baretta is grateful, but in the tag he and the mobster sit on the mobster's front porch -- jointly waiting as the trucks roar up Interstate 5, getting ever closer to the mobster's imminent doom.
- A detective friend of Barnaby who is intent on catching a murderer, has been receiving letters from the man who is taunting him. But when he gave him too much information the man kills him and Barnaby sets out to find him.
- Barnaby is hired by a woman from Missouri, Angie McClaine, to locate her husband who disappeared along with her jewelry. The man, now calling himself "Dr. Charles Kohlmeyer", a devious conman with a decided capacity for violence, has moved on to his next and very lucrative but somewhat naive mark, Vanessa Stevenson. However, one of his former victims, Lisa Howard, has tracked him down, confronts him, calls him "Ben", and threatens to reveal all to his latest mark, so he kills her during a struggle and stuffs her body in a steamer trunk, sending it to parts unknown, although we later learn she was buried in Sun Valley. Around the same time, a friend and associate inside the conman-now turned murderer's new milieu catches him in a lie, begins questioning the behavior of "Kohlmeyer" and becomes a bit too inquisitive for his own good.
- Barnaby looks into the suicide of a woman who was married to a famous writer. Digging deeper into the case he discovers that the writers worst critic may actually be his biggest fan, and that his wife's suicide is looking more like murder.
- Blake and Jeff's suspicions about Peter's involvement in Allegre's abduction prove founded; Tracy orchestrates a press campaign to ruin Krystle; Fallon is warned against marrying Peter; emotions run high and result in a bad accident.
- Krystle makes a surprise visit to Sammy Jo in New York; Adam follows Claudia to San Francisco; Constance awards nephew Jeff 50% of Colby Enterprises; Dominique is paid a visit by a mysterious man from her past.