Looking like a high-school junior, Michael Douglas plays a college professor in Adam at 6 AM. Tired of academia, Douglas opts for the supposed tranquility of rural Missouri. After working as farm hand for a few weeks, he realizes that his "normal" neighbors are as screwed up as any of his more sophisticated friends. To punch up the film's ...
Mary Mapes Dodges' children's classic Hans Brinker: Or the Silver Skates was adapted as a TV musical, 104 years after its original publication, by Moose Charlap. Robin Askwith plays Hans, an Amsterdam teenager devoted to ice skating. When his father (John Gregson) is injured, the subsequent financial deprivations deny Hans the opportunity to ...
One of the best of the early-1970s Disney farces, The World's Greatest Athlete stars Jan-Michael Vincent in the title role. A "wild boy" living off the land in the jungles of Africa, Vincent is discovered by coaches Tim Conway and John Amos. Cursed with a last-place college athletic lineup, Conway and Amos hope that Vincent will pull them out of ...
Jane Curtin and Susan Saint James share star-billing with Jessica Lange in this uninspired comedy about three women who need a cash infusion. (Curtin and Saint James would later co-star in the popular sitcom Kate and Allie.) Jane (Saint James) is divorced and financially pressed to raise her children in the manner to which they were accustomed. ...
Commander Maddox (Brian Brophy), the officer presiding over Starbase 173 demands that Data be taken apart for study. The argument is that Data is merely "property" and not a living being. This assertion is particularly painful to Guinan, who equates Maddox's attitude with that of Southern slaveholders during the Civil War; it is on this base that ...
Data embarks upon a routine mission to save the planet Atrea Four from destruction. En route to his destination, he makes the acquaintance of one of the resident scientists, Dr. Juliana Tainer (Fionulla Flanagan). Data is thrown for a loop (to put it mildly) when Tainer insists that she is really Juliana Soong, ex-wife of scientist Noonian Soong, ...
Just in time for the 1992 Christmas season, Next Generation offered the first installment of this two part episode. The story gets under way during a breakdown in the hostile relationship between the Federation and the Cardassians. In order to participate in a dangerous commando raid on a Cardassian stronghold, Picard resigns his command, ...
James J. Sloyan stars as Setal, a Romulan defector. Taking refuge on the Enterprise , Setal warns Picard of an impending major Romulan offensive designed to regain control of the Neutral Zone. Since any resistance to this offensive would spark a full-scale war, Captain Picard cannot help but question Setal's reliability, as well as his motives. A ...
One of several third season Next Generation episodes to earn an Emmy nomination (this one for Special Visual Effects), this was first telecast April 28, 1990. The Enterprise is assigned to provide safe passage for Tam Elbrun (Harry Groener), an emissary from the Betazoid Federation. Elbrun's mission: To established contact with a newly ...
The titular figure in this episode is Soren (Melinda Cullen, a member of the androgynous J'naii race. In defiance of her race's ban on male/female relationships, Soren has a sexual relationship and is promptly ostracized. Her plight becomes even more poignant -- and potentially deadly -- when she falls in love with Riker, whose presence amongst ...
Counselor Troi falls in love again, this time with handsome Chrysalian delegate Devinioni Ral (Matt McCoy). Alas, the object of Troi's affections is a double-dyed deceiver, intending to employ underhanded methods to gain control of a galactic shortcut called a wormhole. The shock of this discovery has profound long-ranging effects on both Troi and ...
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 ...
Picard's perennial nemesis Q (John DeLancie) makes his first sixth-season appearance in this episode. On this occasion, Q sets forth to test Enterprise medical intern Amanda Rogers (Olivia d'Abo), whose parents were originally from the Q continuum. The testing process reaches its peak when Amanda begins displaying Q-like tendencies, leading to a ...
Following up a series of strange sensor readings, Odo and Dax are drawn to an unknown planet. Here they are taken prisoner by a Yaderan colony, where several inhabitants have disappeared without explanation. As Odo and Dax endeavor to solve the mystery (and to plan their escape), back at DS9, Kira becomes more closely acquainted with Vedek Bareil ...
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