John Hillerman

John Hillerman

Born: December 20, 1932
Died: November 9, 2017
in Denison, Texas, USA
John Hillerman (1932-2017) was an American actor, best known for his role as Higgins in the TV series Magnum, P.I. his film credits included Chinatown, High Plains Drifter, The Day of the Locust, Paper Moon, What's Up, Doc?, The Last Picture Show and Blazing Saddles.

Movies for John Hillerman...

Back in the Saddle
Title: Back in the Saddle
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 19, 2001
Type: Movie
The cast of "Blazing Saddles" discusses salient points of the movie and its place in modern culture.
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A Very Brady Sequel
Title: A Very Brady Sequel
Character: Dr. Whitehead
Released: August 23, 1996
Type: Movie
A man claiming to be Carol Brady's long-lost first husband, Roy Martin, shows up at the suburban Brady residence one evening. An impostor, the man is actually determined to steal the Bradys' familiar horse statue, a $20-million ancient Asian artifact.
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Sink the Bismarck!
Title: Sink the Bismarck!
Character: Narrator (Voice)
Released: February 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Detailed and fascinating documentary telling the history of the famous German battleship of World War II. The urgent British hunt and the German ship's efforts to escape are described through vintage film and recollections of both British and German veterans of the battles.
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Title: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Released: May 25, 1992
Type: TV
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is an American late-night talk show hosted by Jay Leno that initially aired from May 25, 1992 to May 29, 2009, and resumed production on March 1, 2010. The fourth incarnation of the Tonight Show franchise made its debut on May 25, 1992, three days following Johnny Carson's retirement as host of the program. The program originates from NBC Studios in Burbank, California, and is broadcast Monday through Friday at 11:35 PM in the Eastern and Pacific time zones. Unlike Carson or his predecessor Jack Paar, Leno only once utilized a guest host, preferring to host the series by himself. On April 26, 1999, the show began broadcasting in 1080i HDTV, becoming the first American nightly talk show to be shot in high definition. The show is shot in 16:9 aspect ratio. The series, which followed the same basic format as that of his predecessors, ran until May 29, 2009, after which Leno was succeeded by Conan O'Brien. NBC signed Leno to a new deal for a nightly talk show in the 10:00 pm ET timeslot. The primetime series, titled The Jay Leno Show, debuted on September 14, 2009, following a similar format to the Leno incarnation of Tonight.
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Hands of a Murderer
Title: Hands of a Murderer
Character: Dr. John Watson
Released: May 16, 1990
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes must track down his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, after the villain kidnaps Holmes' brother, Mycroft. The evil doctor is forcing his captive to decode highly classified military documents.
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Real Men Don't Eat Gummi Bears
Title: Real Men Don't Eat Gummi Bears
Character: Pfarrer
Released: August 17, 1989
Type: Movie
In this wacky comedy, teen-aged Tony (Bentley C. Mitchum) has never known who is father is. Together with his best buddies Peter and Susan, he tracks down the clues he has as well as he can.
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Title: Around the World in 80 Days
Character: Sir Francis Commarty
Released: April 16, 1989
Type: TV
Around the World in 80 Days is a 1989 three-part television Eastmancolor miniseries originally broadcast on NBC. The production garnered three nominations for Emmy awards that year. The teleplay by John Gay is based on the Jules Verne novel of the same title. Starring Pierce Brosnan as Phileas Fogg, Eric Idle as Passepartout, Julia Nickson as Princess Aouda, and Peter Ustinov as Detective Fix, the miniseries featured multiple cameo appearances, including Patrick Macnee, Simon Ward, and Christopher Lee as members of the Reform Club, and Robert Morley, who had a cameo in the 1956 film adaptation, and Roddy McDowall appear as officials of the Bank of England. Other familiar faces, credited as guest stars and in more substantial roles, include John Hillerman, Jack Klugman, Darren McGavin, Henry Gibson and John Mills. The heroes travel a slightly different route than in the book, and the script makes several contemporary celebrities part of the story who were not mentioned in the book, such as Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Pasteur, Jesse James, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Queen Victoria.
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Assault and Matrimony
Title: Assault and Matrimony
Character: Cyril
Released: September 27, 1987
Type: Movie
Silvia and Edgar have been married for a long time, but can't stand each other now. But a divorce would mean having to sell their dream house, which both of them want to keep. Instead they both secretly decide the answer is to kill the other.
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Title: The Hogan Family
Character: Lloyd Hogan
Released: March 1, 1986
Type: TV
The Hogan Family is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from March 1, 1986 to May 7, 1990, and on CBS from September 15, 1990 until July 20, 1991. It was produced by Miller-Boyett Productions, along with Tal Productions, Inc., and in association with Lorimar Productions, Lorimar-Telepictures and Lorimar Television. The show was originally titled Valerie and starred Valerie Harper as a mother trying to juggle her career with raising her three sons by her often-absent airline-pilot husband. Harper was written out of the series after the second season because of a dispute with the show's producers. Sandy Duncan joined the cast as the boys' aunt, who moved in and became their surrogate mom. During the show's third season, the series was known as Valerie's Family: The Hogans, then simply as The Hogan Family.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Edgar Greenstreet
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Jonathan Higgins
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Up the Creek
Title: Up the Creek
Character: Dean Burch
Released: April 6, 1984
Type: Movie
Bob McGraw is in his 12th year of college, goofing his way through life. Bob, Irwing, Gonzer and Max are the four losers forced and bribed to represent their university in an intercollegiate raft race. Forced and bribed into this role, they make some friends, the lovely Heather Merriweather, but mostly enemies, among others a whole team of marines, and preppy IVY-leaguers determined to win.
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Money Hunt: The Mystery of the Missing Link
Title: Money Hunt: The Mystery of the Missing Link
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
In this film noir comedy, detective Cash Hunt follows clues to solve a difficult puzzle. The producers offered a prize of $100,000 for the first viewer who could find the solution.
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Title: Little Gloria... Happy at Last
Character: Maury Paul
Released: October 24, 1982
Type: TV
The story deals with Gloria Vanderbilt's difficult coming-of-age when, at eleven, she was a pawn in a custody battle between her sybaritic mother and her aunt.
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Title: Tales of the Gold Monkey
Released: September 22, 1982
Type: TV
In a backwater corner of the South Pacific in 1938, a young American adventurer and his ragtag group of friends become involved in death-defying hi-jinx, transporting people-on-the-run in a well-worn Grumman Goose seaplane.
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Title: Simon & Simon
Released: November 24, 1981
Type: TV
Simon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from November 24, 1981 to January 21, 1989. The series was broadcast on CBS and starred Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker as two brothers who run a private detective agency together.
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History of the World: Part I
Title: History of the World: Part I
Character: Rich Man - The French Revolution
Released: June 12, 1981
Type: Movie
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
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Title: Magnum, P.I.
Character: Jonathan Higgins
Released: December 11, 1980
Type: TV
A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.
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The Murder That Wouldn't Die
Title: The Murder That Wouldn't Die
Character: Paul Harrison
Released: March 9, 1980
Type: Movie
William Conrad stars as a retired L.A.P.D. detective who has moved to Hawaii and taken a job as a college security chief and assistant football coach in this pilot to a post-"Cannon" series to have been called "Battles." With the aid of his niece, the school's star football player, a local tough-turned-college student, and the college dean, he investigates two related murders that occurred nearly 40 years apart.
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Marathon
Title: Marathon
Character: Greg Previn
Released: January 30, 1980
Type: Movie
A bemused, mild-mannered accountant takes up jogging and a lithesome, young woman sprints into his life, inspiring him to enter a marathon, to the annoyance of his non-running wife.
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Title: Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
Released: January 27, 1980
Type: TV
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe is an American detective/comedy series originally broadcast by the ABC network between January and June 1980. The series was created and executive produced by Stephen J. Cannell.
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Title: Hart to Hart
Released: September 22, 1979
Type: TV
Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.
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Sunburn
Title: Sunburn
Character: Webb
Released: August 10, 1979
Type: Movie
A model and a private eye help a New York insurance investigator on a deadly case in Acapulco.
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Beane's of Boston
Title: Beane's of Boston
Character: John Peacock
Released: May 5, 1979
Type: Movie
To keep from being fired by his father, Franklin Beane has a bright idea for a theme week for the Mens and Ladies Wear department of Beane's of Boston department store. Pilot episode for a US remake of "Are You Being Served?"
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Institute for Revenge
Title: Institute for Revenge
Character: Voice of I.F.R. (voice)
Released: January 22, 1979
Type: Movie
A sophisticated computer named IFR (the film's title is its nickname) supervises an organization dedicated to correcting wrongs against the defenseless and assigns human operatives to track down the evildoers and bring them to justice non-violently.
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Betrayal
Title: Betrayal
Character: Victor Slavin
Released: November 13, 1978
Type: Movie
Dramatization of the 1971 case involving a young woman who sued her psychiatrist for luring her into a sexual relationship with him under the guise of therapy.
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A Guide for the Married Woman
Title: A Guide for the Married Woman
Character: Marvin
Released: October 13, 1978
Type: Movie
A seriocomic look at the life of Julie Walker. Bored with her marriage, and encouraged by her friends, she contemplates an affair. Fantasy and reality mix often, leading to complications and headaches.
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Title: Flying High
Released: September 29, 1978
Type: TV
Flying High is an American comedy-drama series that aired on CBS from August 28, 1978 until January 23, 1979. Created by Dawn Aldredge and Martin Cohan, the series stars Connie Sellecca, Pat Klous, and Kathryn Witt.
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Kill Me If You Can
Title: Kill Me If You Can
Character: George Davis
Released: September 25, 1977
Type: Movie
The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before finally being executed.
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Title: The Love Boat
Character: Ed Hartnett
Released: September 24, 1977
Type: TV
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
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Title: Lou Grant
Released: September 20, 1977
Type: TV
The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff.
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Relentless
Title: Relentless
Character: Major Leo Hargit
Released: September 14, 1977
Type: Movie
An Arizona state trooper, who is also an Indian, pursues a gang of paramilitary-type robbers into the mountains. The gang has killed the trooper's uncle and taken a woman hostage, and the trooper must use his tracking and hunting skills to find the gang and rescue the hostage.
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Title: The Betty White Show
Character: John Elliot
Released: September 12, 1977
Type: TV
The Betty White Show is an American sitcom which aired on CBS from September 12, 1977, to January 2, 1978. Fourteen episodes were broadcast. The series was produced by MTM Enterprises.
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Audrey Rose
Title: Audrey Rose
Character: Scott Velle
Released: April 6, 1977
Type: Movie
A man is convinced that a young girl is the reincarnation of his own daughter Audrey Rose, who died in a fiery car accident, along with his wife, two minutes before the girl was born.
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Title: Delvecchio
Character: Dr. Augustus Hamilton
Released: September 9, 1976
Type: TV
Delvecchio is an American television series that aired on CBS during the 1976-77 season. It starred Judd Hirsch as the title character, Dominick Delvecchio, an Italian-American detective who worked for the LAPD and also studied to become a lawyer. A writer of eight episodes of the series, Stephen Bochco, would later import cast members Charles Haid and Michael Conrad, along with guest-stars James B. Sikking and George Wyner, to his masterpiece Hill Street Blues. One episode of the Delvecchio series was made available on the 2006 DVD release, "Brilliant But Cancelled TV Dramas," along with an episode each of Gideon Oliver, Johnny Staccato, and Touching Evil.
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The Invasion of Johnson County
Title: The Invasion of Johnson County
Character: Major Walcott
Released: July 31, 1976
Type: Movie
A free-spirited Bostonian recently arrived in the West teams up with a crusty Wyoming cowboy to stop a land baron's attempts to drive out a group of small ranchers and take over their property.
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Lucky Lady
Title: Lucky Lady
Character: Christy McTeague
Released: December 25, 1975
Type: Movie
When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub singer, joins forces with her lover and a desperate loner to become rum-runners to the U.S.
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Title: Wonder Woman
Character: Conrad Steigler
Released: November 7, 1975
Type: TV
With the strength of Hercules, the wisdom of Athena, the speed of Mercury and the beauty of Aphrodite, she’s Wonder Woman. Beautiful Amazon princess Wonder Woman travels to 1940s America disguised as Diana Prince, assistant to handsome but trouble-prone Major Steve Trevor. Using her golden belt, which imbues her with astonishing strength, her bullet-deflecting bracelets, a golden lasso that dispels dishonesty and an invisible supersonic plane, Wonder Woman combats evil.
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Title: Ellery Queen
Released: September 11, 1975
Type: TV
Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character Ellery Queen. It aired on NBC during the 1975-76 television season and stars Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen, and Tom Reese as Sgt. Velie. Created by the writing/producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, the title character "breaks" the fourth wall to ask the audience to consider their solution.
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The Day of the Locust
Title: The Day of the Locust
Character: Ned Grote
Released: May 7, 1975
Type: Movie
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
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Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
Title: Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
Character: Simon Brimmer
Released: March 23, 1975
Type: Movie
When a famous fashion designer is found murdered, Inspector Richard Queen of the NYPD is baffled by her dying clue, prompting him to bring in his son, mystery writer Ellery Queen, to help in the investigation. This was the pilot film for the short-lived TV series.
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Title: The Bob Crane Show
Released: March 6, 1975
Type: TV
The Bob Crane Show is an American situation comedy that aired on NBC. The series starred Bob Crane as Bob Wilcox, a man in his 40s who quits his job as an insurance salesman to return to medical school. The series co-starred Patricia Harty as his wife Ellie Wilcox, who becomes the family's breadwinner while Bob is in school. After initial delays, the series debuted on March 6, 1975. The Bob Crane Show performed poorly in the Nielsen ratings and was canceled after 13 weeks.
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At Long Last Love
Title: At Long Last Love
Character: Rodney James
Released: March 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Four socialites unexpectedly clash: heiress Brooke Carter runs into gambler Johnny Spanish at the race track while playboy Michael O. Pritchard nearly runs into stage star Kitty O'Kelly with his car. Backstage at Kitty's show, it turns out she and Brooke are old friends who attended public school together. The foursome do the town, accompanied by Brooke's companion Elizabeth, who throws herself at Michael's butler and chauffeur Rodney James.
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The Nickel Ride
Title: The Nickel Ride
Character: Carl
Released: January 15, 1975
Type: Movie
A world-weary crime boss is losing his grip on his organization.
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The Law
Title: The Law
Character: Thomas Q. Rachel
Released: October 22, 1974
Type: Movie
An examination of the workings of a big city's legal system as seen through the eyes of people involved in a sensational murder trial.
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Title: Dinah!
Character: Self
Released: October 21, 1974
Type: TV
Dinah's show premiered 9 September 1974 and continued through to 4 September 1981. She started out the 70's with Dinah's Place which usually featured one guest and was more of a home oriented show about cooking, crafts and occasionally music. This format lasted until May of 1974. When the show came back in October of 1974 the format had changed drastically to a variety talk show which was called Dinah. and went on until 1981. This show was also known as "Dinah and Friends" during the summer of 1976.
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Title: Little House on the Prairie
Released: September 11, 1974
Type: TV
Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.
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Chinatown
Title: Chinatown
Character: Russ Yelburton
Released: June 20, 1974
Type: Movie
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
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The Last Angry Man
Title: The Last Angry Man
Character: Tree Inspector
Released: April 16, 1974
Type: Movie
In the midst of the Depression, a crotchety doctor, whose practice is in the Brooklyn slums, takes an interest in a local teenager, whose hostility and erratic behavior the doctor believes is due to more than just his environment.
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Blazing Saddles
Title: Blazing Saddles
Character: Howard Johnson
Released: February 7, 1974
Type: Movie
A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.
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Title: Kojak
Character: Mark Gallant
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: TV
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
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The Naked Ape
Title: The Naked Ape
Character: Psychiatrist
Released: August 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Somewhat based on Desmond Morris's fascinating book of pop anthropology, this partially animated satirical docudrama produced by Playboy Magazine publisher Hugh Hefner, traces the evolution of human kind and offers insight into the reasons why we behave the way we do. Though often dealing with sexuality, nothing in the film is terribly offensive or graphic. A prime example of mainstream experimental film-making from the early 70's featuring a young and breathtakingly lovely Victoria Principal.
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Paper Moon
Title: Paper Moon
Character: Deputy Hardin / Jess Hardin
Released: May 9, 1973
Type: Movie
A bible salesman finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership as a money-making con team in Depression-era Kansas.
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High Plains Drifter
Title: High Plains Drifter
Character: Bootmaker
Released: April 19, 1973
Type: Movie
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
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The Thief Who Came to Dinner
Title: The Thief Who Came to Dinner
Character: Edmund Lasker
Released: March 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves, an insurance investigator hounds him. He also meets a woman who becomes his accomplice.
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The Outside Man
Title: The Outside Man
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: Movie
A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apart when the boss who hired him is killed.
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Title: The Sandy Duncan Show
Released: September 17, 1972
Type: TV
Funny Face and The Sandy Duncan Show are two American sitcoms aired by CBS starring Sandy Duncan as part of its 1971 and 1972 fall lineups, respectively. Both series were created and produced by Carl Kleinschmitt. In the spring of 1971, after having appeared in numerous television commercials and having a great success on Broadway in the 1970 revival of The Boy Friend, Sandy Duncan's show business career was quickly ascending. She had just completed her first major motion picture - The Million Dollar Duck for Walt Disney and was about to start on her second film - the screen adaptation of the Neil Simon play Star Spangled Girl which was to be produced and released by Paramount Pictures. Duncan was also signed by Paramount to film a television pilot loosely based on the 1957 film musical Funny Face which they hoped would be picked up by CBS to be part of their 1971–1972 fall television schedule. A pilot was filmed in the spring of 1971 and CBS executives were very enthusiastic. As a result, Duncan was already being touted by the network as the brightest new star of the 1971 fall season.
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Skyjacked
Title: Skyjacked
Character: Air flight controller
Released: May 24, 1972
Type: Movie
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.
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The Great Man's Whiskers
Title: The Great Man's Whiskers
Character: Major Underwood
Released: May 2, 1972
Type: Movie
A young girl writes to President Abraham Lincoln to advise him to grow a beard.
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The Carey Treatment
Title: The Carey Treatment
Character: Jenkins
Released: March 29, 1972
Type: Movie
A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge.
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What's Up, Doc?
Title: What's Up, Doc?
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: March 9, 1972
Type: Movie
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
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Title: The Sixth Sense
Released: January 15, 1972
Type: TV
The Sixth Sense is an American paranormal thriller television
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Honky
Title: Honky
Character: Bus Ticket Salesman
Released: November 26, 1971
Type: Movie
Black girl from rich family loves white boy from poor family.
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The Last Picture Show
Title: The Last Picture Show
Character: English teacher
Released: October 3, 1971
Type: Movie
High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.
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Lawman
Title: Lawman
Character: Totts
Released: March 11, 1971
Type: Movie
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
Title: They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
Released: July 10, 1970
Type: Movie
A police detective's investigation of a prostitute's murder points to his best friend.
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Title: Hawaii Five-O
Character: Nelson Bodine
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
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Title: Hawaii Five-O
Character: Donald Blair
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
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Title: Mannix
Released: September 16, 1967
Type: TV
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.
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Title: The F.B.I.
Character: Morris Ridley
Released: September 19, 1965
Type: TV
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.
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Title: The Mike Douglas Show
Character: Self
Released: December 11, 1961
Type: TV
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.