Direction: William Asher

Direction William Asher · James V. Kern · Ralph Levy · Marc Daniels

Cast Lucille Ball · Desi Arnaz · Vivian Vance · William Frawley

Synopsis TV Series (1951-1957). 6 Seasons. 181 Episodes. A daffy woman constantly strives to become a star along with her bandleader husband and gets herself in the strangest situations. Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would...

Direction David Victor · Marc Daniels · Leo Penn · Russ Mayberry

Cast Robert Young · James Brolin · Elena Verdugo · Pamela Hensley

Synopsis (TV Series). 1969-1976. 7 Seasons. 169 Episodes. The show is about doctors Marcus Welby, a general practitioner and Steven Kiley, Welby's young assistant. The two try to treat people as individuals in an age of specialized medicine and uncaring doctors.

Direction William Asher

Cast Henry Silva · Elizabeth Montgomery · Richard Anderson · Jim Backus

Synopsis Colini, an exiled American gangster living in Sicily, rescues Giordano, a young Sicilian outlaw, from the police. After Giordano is groomed, polished, and renamed "Johnny Cool," Colini sends him on a vengeance mission to the United States to assassinate the...

Direction Sol Saks · William Asher · Richard Michaels · R. Robert Rosenbaum

Cast Elizabeth Montgomery · Dick York · Agnes Moorehead · Dick Sargent

Synopsis TV Series (1964-1972). 8 Seasons. 254 Episodes. In every way, Samantha and Darrin Stephens are a perfectly normal, all-American couple, except for one small detail...Samantha's a witch! And although she promised her husband on their wedding night never to use...

Direction William Asher

Cast Gene Barry · Valerie French · George Voskovec · Arnold Moss

Synopsis Five Earthlings are abducted by aliens and are each given a capsule which can release a weapon so deadly that all of human-kind will be destroyed. This is a test of sorts: if all 5 can resist using the weapon...

Direction William Asher

Cast Orson Bean · Henry Jones · Charles Lane · Horace McMahon

Synopsis James B.W. Bevis is, by almost any definition, eccentric. He drives a car that once was Henry Ford's dream, he likes zither music and makes model ships. He's a bookkeeper by profession and his desk at work is always cluttered....

Direction Robert Getchell · Marc Daniels · William Asher · John Pasquin

Cast Linda Lavin · Beth Howland · Vic Tayback · Philip McKeon

Synopsis A greasy-spoon diner in Phoenix, Arizona is the setting for this long-running series. The title character, Alice Hyatt, is an aspiring singer who arrives in Phoenix with her teenaged son, Tommy, after the death of her truck-driver husband. Alice is...

Direction William Asher

Cast Robert Cummings · Dorothy Malone · Frankie Avalon · Annette Funicello

Synopsis The first of the five official American-International "Beach Party" movies. Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but...

Direction William Asher

Cast Frankie Avalon · Annette Funicello · Deborah Walley · Harvey Lembeck

Synopsis In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for...

Direction William Asher

Cast Jimmy McNichol · Susan Tyrrell · Bo Svenson · Marcia Lewis

Synopsis An orphaned teenager finds himself being dominated by his aunt who's hell-bent on keeping him with her...at all costs.

Direction William Asher

Cast Frankie Avalon · Annette Funicello · Martha Hyer · Don Rickles

Synopsis A millionaire sets out to prove his theory that his pet chimpanzee is as intelligent as the teenagers who hang out on the local beach, where he is intending to build a retirement home.

Direction William Asher

Cast Walter Matthau · Charles Grodin · Vincent Gardenia · Tyne Daly

Synopsis Joe Mulholland, Head of Production at a Hollywood studio, makes a rather fool-hardy promise to a dying friend. He undertakes to make a major movie using the title - if not the content - of a best-selling sex manual "Love...

Direction William Asher · E.W. Swackhamer

Cast Barry Bostwick · Mary Jo Catlett · Deborah Raffin · Richard Romanus

Direction Oscar Rudolph · Roger Duchowny · William Asher · Herbert Kenwith

Cast James Whitmore · Cleavon Little · Nancy Fox · Joan Van Ark

Synopsis Set at the Capital General Hospital in Washington D.C., follows the adventures of the no-nonsense chief of surgery Dr. Vincent Campanelli and his all-nonsense staff.

Direction William Asher

Cast Joan Caulfield · Marion Lorne · Johnny Desmond · Gale Gordon

Synopsis TV Series (1957-1958). 1 season. 26 episodes. Salesgirl, Sally Truesdale becomes traveling companion to a wealthy matron.

Direction William Asher

Cast Phil Carey · Betty Garrett · John Drew Barrymore · Corey Allen

Synopsis Three teenagers, led by psychopathic Jess Reber, break into an isolated farmhouse and murder its prosperous owner whose secretary, Linda Atlas, witnesses the crime. The three thugs decide to hold her hostage. Detective Tony Atlas, perplexed by the sudden disappearance...

Direction Jerry Thorpe · Frederick de Cordova · William Asher

Cast Spring Byington · Frances Rafferty · Dean Miller · Harry Morgan

Synopsis TV Series (1954-1959). Charming and wise Lily Ruskin lives with her daughter and son-in-law who, along with her close friend Hilda Crocker, are always trying to find suitable older marriageable companionship for her.

Direction William Asher

Cast Frankie Avalon · Annette Funicello · Dwayne Hickman · Brian Donlevy

Synopsis Frankie, on naval-reserve duty in Tahiti, doesn't trust Dee Dee to stay faithful, so he hires Bwana, a witch doctor, to help. Bwana conjures up a floating bikini, "stuffs" it with Cassandra, and sends her to distract advertising executive Ricky...

Direction William Asher

Cast Frankie Avalon · Annette Funicello · Luciana Paluzzi · John Ashley

Synopsis Julie, a wealthy contessa managed by S.Z. Matts, wants muscle-man Flex Martin, trained by Jack Fanny, for her own - until she meets Frankie. Frankie's girl Dee Dee gets rightfully jealous and plans to avenge the Frankie-stealing contessa. Mr. Strangdour...

Direction William Asher · Hollingsworth Morse · Harold D. Schuster · Earl Bellamy

Cast Warner Anderson · Tom Tully · Marshall Reed · Ruta Lee

Synopsis The show focuses on the procedural work of the San Francisco Police Department in solving various crimes. Heading the investigations were Det. Lt. Ben Guthrie (played by Warner Anderson), Inspector Matt Grebb and support from Inspector Fred Asher.