ABC Movie of the Week

Notable exceptions who appeared in three or more films as different characters include Doug McClure, Darren McGavin, Dennis Weaver, Clint Walker, Earl Holliman, Leonard Nimoy, Robert Culp, Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman, Elizabeth Montgomery, Donna Mills, Ed Nelson, Ken Berry, Connie Stevens, Lee Majors, James Brolin, Lloyd Bridges, Cloris Leachman, Ricardo Montalbán, Richard Anderson, Lesley Anne Warren, Janet Leigh, John Marley, William Schallert, Ted Bessell Karen Valentine, Ben Murphy, Lee Grant, Barra Grant, Myrna Loy, Carl Betz, Henry Jones and William Windom.

Their first case is to defend two Black men accused of robbing and beating a cab driver.Starring: Jason Evers, Judy Pace, Zalman King, Tom Fielding, Anjanette Comer*, Keenan Wynn*, James Shigeta*, Richard Pryor*, Dick Bass*, Michael Parks**, George Macready***, Louise Latham***, Barry Atwater***, Georg Stanford Brown*** Former government assassin turned private investigator John Smith finds himself caught in a web of deceit involving a notebook containing a list of names of spies.Starring: Robert Horton, Jill St. John, Sebastian Cabot, Lee Montague, Eleanor Summerfield, Barbara Shelley Struggling wedding consultants desperately try to get three couples legally married after finding out they accidentally had an actor officiate the original weddings.

Starring: Michael Callan, Ann Prentiss, Eve Arden**, Ruth Buzzi**, Christopher Connelly,** Bill Daily**, Elinor Donahue**, Herb Edelman**, Paul Ford,** Elsa Lanchester** After nearly shooting an innocent, a famed gunslinger gives up violence but has to find a way to save a frontier town.

Starring: Lloyd Bridges, John Beck, Ed Begley, Sr., Edd Byrnes, Pernell Roberts, Susan Howard After breaking up with Moondoggie, Gidget becomes a United Nations tour guide and begins a love affair with an older Australian agriculture consultant.

Starring: Gary Collins, John Dehner, Susan Howard, Gordon Pinsent, Dan Ferrone, Wally Cox*, Sam Jaffe*, Terry Moore*, Sharon Farrell** Suave con artist Dudley Jerico and his sidekick scheme to steal a $2 million diamond from a tycoon, but they find they have competition.Starring: Patrick Macnee, Connie Stevens, Herbert Lom, Marty Allen Double-crosses abound as various people try to get $38,000 that was embezzled from a Santa Fe bank.

Starring: James Franciscus, Martine Beswick*, Bradford Dillman*, John McIntire*, Jeanette Nolan*, Barry Russo A college dropout convinces his parents and grandmother to join him in an old bus converted into a motorhome on a journey of self-discovery to a hippie music festival, where he falls in love with gravely ill girl.Starring: Carl Betz, Vera Miles, Jeff Bridges, Ruth McDevitt, Michael Anderson, Jr.*, Howard Duff*, Kim Hunter*, Renne Jarrett*, Sal Mineo*, Tyne Daly An African American sheriff tries to prove that a racist raped a young black girl.

Starring: Ossie Davis, Kaz Garas, Kyle Johnson, John Marley*, Edward Binns*, Lynda Day George*, Ruby Dee*, Moses Gunn*, Ross Martin*, Brenda Sykes* A famed escape artist has to find a kidnapped scientist who has developed a biological agent that can turn humanity into mindless slaves.

Starring: James Caan, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Warden, Shelley Fabares After a kidnapper dials the wrong number and calls his phone, a B movie actor secretly impersonates the victim's father in order to steal a cut of the ransom.

Starring: Monie Ellis, Michael Burns, Don Ameche**, Joan Bennett**, Corinne Camacho**, MacDonald Carey**, Elinor Donahue**, Paul Lynde**, Roger Perry** When the first astronaut on Mars mysteriously dies, the space agency tries to save the program by hiring an impersonator to fool the President, the public – and his wife.

Starring: Jackie Cooper, Monte Markham, Susan Clark**, Richard Anderson, Robert Lansing, James Sikking Newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak tries to convince the authorities in Las Vegas that a series of murders was committed by a vampire.

Starring: Bette Davis, Robert Wagner, Denholm Elliott, Gordon Jackson, Dudley Sutton, Catherine Schell A soldier presumed dead who returns from the Moro Rebellion kidnaps the Mexican Revolutionary leader who married his wife, seeking ransom and revenge.

Starring: David Carradine, Keye Luke, Philip Ahn, Barry Sullivan*, Albert Salmi*, Wayne Maunder*, Benson Fong, James Hong, Robert Ito, Radames Pera Two ex-cops starting out as private eyes take their first case – to find a wily young man who murdered a family twelve years earlier then vanished without a trace.

Starring: Eve Arden, James Gregory, Julie Newmar*, Ray Danton, Pay Morita, Skye Aubrey A wealthy father and the FBI urgently try to save his kidnapped daughter, buried in a box with only a seven day supply of air.

Starring: David Janssen, James Farentino, Phyllis Thaxter, Skye Aubrey, Mike Farrell, Sallie Shockley, Joel Fabiani, Richard Anderson, Jason Bernard (uncredited) A farmer convinces a prostitute, a con artist and a pickpocket to pose as his daughters in order to fend off a rival who is trying to steal his land using the homesteading law.

Starring: Buddy Ebsen, Karen Valentine, Lesley Ann Warren, Sandra Dee**, Jack Elam, Leif Erickson**, Don Stroud, Henry Jones A recently widowed research doctor joins a Chicago clinic to try to escape her grief, where she befriends a young girl dying of leukemia.

Starring: Susan Hayward, Darren McGavin, Michael Constantine, Michele Nichols, Dane Clark**, Beverly Garland**, Jeanette Nolan**, Richard Anderson A woman is paralyzed and pursued by enforcers for a crime syndicate who are looking for an unknown item left in her possession.

Starring: Connie Stevens, Ken Berry**, Gail Fisher*, Steve Franken*, Henry Gibson*, Jerry Paris*, Louise Sorel*, Nancy Walker* (voice only), Carol Wayne*, Stanley Adams A cloistered nun has her eyes opened when she enters the outside world to work as a juvenile probation officer during the week.

Starring: Shelley Winters, Belinda Montgomery*, Robert Foxworth*, Jonathan Frid*, Martha Scott*, Joseph Cotten**, Ian Wolfe Carl Kolchak investigates killings in Seattle that seem to be tied to an immortal who needs blood for an elixir to rejuvenate himself every 21 years.

A wrongly accused man chased off by his girlfriend's mother dies after writing of his intent to clear his name.Starring: John Forsythe, Pamela Franklin, Ida Lupino, Dina Merrill, Ben Murphy, Leslie Nielsen, Jane Powell, Barbara Stanwyck, Lesley Ann Warren, Henry Jones Former astronaut Steve Austin is critically injured in the crash of an experimental aircraft and is given bionic body parts as replacements.

Starring: Stockard Channing, Ed Asner**, Jim Backus**, Joe Flynn**, Chuck McCann**, Fred Grandy, Ruth McDevitt, Warren Berlinger, Larry Wilcox Two American pilots in a P-40 with a damaged wing are pursued across the desert by an obsessed Nazi general in a commandeered Panzer tank.

Starring: Doug McClure**, Roy Thinnes, Lloyd Bridges, Eric Braeden Bionic man Steve Austin is assigned to find an important treaty negotiator who has been kidnapped for $1 billion in gold bullion.Starring: Lee Majors, Richard Anderson, Alan Oppenheimer, Elizabeth Ashley*, Terry Carter*, John Vernon**, Maurice Evans**, Luciana Paluzzi**, Leif Erickson** A doctor in an idyllic suburb takes extreme action when nobody wants to stand up to uncontrollable young residents terrorizing the community.

Starring: Robert Culp, Marlyn Mason, Beah Richards, Jacqueline Scott, Ramon Bieri, Mark Lenard, Nicholas Hammond An Egyptology professor helps investigate feline-tinged deaths that stalk everyone who comes in contact with a cursed amulet.

Starring: Bobby Sherman, Ross Martin, Stefanie Powers, Tige Andrews, John Astin**, Joseph Campanella, Ruth McDevitt, Severn Darden An undercover female police detective tries to stop a huge drug empire.

Starring: Richard Long**, Karen Valentine, Louise Sorel, Tom Bosley, Dave Madden, Reta Shaw, Farrah Fawcett A man takes his girlfriend home to his disapproving mother, who has unusual control over a swarm of "killer bees" that reside in her vineyard.

Starring: Marjoe Gortner, Slim Pickens, David Huddleston, Geoffrey Lewis, Pamela Sue Martin, Estelle Parsons**, Jeff Corey Sensationalized story of FBI agent Melvin Purvis's pursuit of Machine Gun Kelly.

Starring: Dale Robertson, Harris Yulin, Margaret Blye*, Matt Clark, Elliott Street, John Karlen, David Canary, Steve Kanaly, Woodrow Parfrey, Dick Sargent** 20th-century man Dylan Hunt, awakened from suspended animation in a post-apocalyptic world, visits a female-dominated society to find a missing surgeon.

Starring: Richard Boone, Michael Sacks, Randy Quaid, Jennifer Salt, Burt Young When a sailor's car is pushed over a cliff by a sadistic sheriff at a speed trap, his hot rodder brother comes to town to investigate and to get revenge.

Starring: Lee J. Cobb, Joshua Bryant*, Paul Michael Glaser*, Barra Grant*, Warren Kemmerling*, Cliff Potts*, Laurie Prange*, Martin Balsam**, Howard K. Smith (voiceover narration) Don Diego, returning from Madrid, secretly takes up the mantle of Zorro after finding that his father has been usurped as alcalde of Los Angeles by an oppressive despot.

Starring: Richard Long, Polly Bergen, Edward Albert, Kate Jackson, Tom Bosley, Celeste Holm, Michael Constantine, Cesare Danova A pistol passes from frightened homeowner to potential workplace shooter, barrio family, theater robbery, police disposal and, finally, a child's accident.

Starring: Tim Conway, Barra Grant, Jan Murray, Scott Brady, Robert Hogan, Henry Jones, Ruta Lee The "daughters" settle down to life on the Cabe farm, but the real father of one of the women – a treacherous deserter – arrives with a scheme to use her.Starring: Dan Dailey, Dub Taylor, Ronne Troup, Christina Hart, Brooke Adams, Kathleen Freeman, Carl Betz** The story of the only Naval chaplain and officer ever court-martialed on charges of adultery after accusations by two Navy wives.Starring: James Franciscus, Joanna Miles, Lynda Day George, Dorothy Tristan, Harris Yulin, Charles Durning** The shipwrecked Robinsons are endangered when a greedy Englishman leads a pirate expedition to the island, in search of a priceless golden idol.