Soundtrack: Patrick Williams

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Dennis Christopher · Dennis Quaid · Daniel Stern · Jackie Earle Haley

Plot BREAKING AWAY is a winning coming-of-age story with unusually well drawn characters, smart social commentary, and a terrific ensemble of fresh-faced actors soon to be famous. The rivalry between townies...

Direction James Frawley

Cast Peter Falk · Ruth Gordon · Mariette Hartley · G.D. Spradlin

Plot An aging but successful and wealthy crime fiction writer blames her nephew for the death of her niece. One night she invites her nephew up to the house to sign...

Direction James Frawley

Cast Peter Falk · Nicol Williamson · Kim Cattrall · Joel Fabiani

Plot Dr. Eric Mason is a self-controlled man and he teaches how to get control over one's own life. His wife died suddenly because of an inexplicable accident and his best...

Direction Quinn Martin · Virgil W. Vogel · Walter Grauman · William Hale

Cast Karl Malden · Michael Douglas · Richard Hatch · Darleen Carr

Plot TV Series (1972-1977). 5 Seasons. 120 Episodes. A pair of plainclothes homicide detectives, Lt. Mike Stone and Inspector Steve Keller, cruise the streets of San Francisco solving a variety of...

Direction James L. Brooks · Allan Burns · Gene Reynolds · Alexander Singer

Cast Ed Asner · Robert Walden · Linda Kelsey · Mason Adams

Plot TV Series (1977-1982). 5 Seasons. 114 Episodes. After everyone on the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" got fired, Lou Grant went to Los Angeles and became city editor of the L.A....

Direction James Frawley

Cast Peter Falk · Trish Van Devere · Laurence Luckinbill · James McEachin

Plot An Emmy-winning TV executive kills her lover (who is also her boss); Lt. Columbo is on the case.

Direction James Frawley

Cast Peter Falk · Patrick Bauchau · Fionnula Flanagan · Shera Danese

Plot Columbo investigates the apparent drowning of a famous painters first wife.

Direction James Frawley

Cast Peter Falk · Fisher Stevens · Molly Hagan · Nan Martin

Plot An egocentric wunderkind director murders a childhood friend who threatens to expose his negligent complicity in the death of his sister years earlier.

Direction Walter Grauman

Cast Peter Falk · Andrew Stevens · Brenda Vaccaro · Floyd Levine

Plot A successful writer of romance novels who is involved with a young, ambitious womanizer, is found shot to death in her Malibu home.

Direction Andrew Breckman · Randy Zisk · Jerry Levine · Andre Belgrader

Cast Tony Shalhoub · Ted Levine · Traylor Howard · Jason Gray-Stanford

Plot TV Series (2002-2009). 8 seasons. 125 episodes. Detective Adrian Monk used to have a minor case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Then, the murder of his wife and his inability to solve...

Direction James Frawley

Cast Peter Falk · Lindsay Crouse · Julie Montgomery · Peter Jurasik

Plot When a successful sex therapist with a best selling book and a hit TV show is crushed to learn her business partner/lover is cheating on her, she plots appropriate revenge.

Direction Richard Levinson · William Link · Patrick McGoohan · Ben Gazzara

Cast Peter Falk · J. P. Finnegan · Robert Culp · Michael Lally

Plot TV Series (1971-1978). 12 Seasons. 69 Episodes. Columbo is a scruffy-looking cop who is often underestimated by his fellow officers, and by the murderer du jour. Despite his appearance and...

Direction Leo Penn

Cast Peter Falk · Clive Revill · Jeanette Nolan · Bernard Behrens

Plot An IRA terrorist executes an arms dealer he considers traitorous; Lt. Columbo is on the case.

Direction Alan J. Levi

Cast Peter Falk · Joanna Going · Thomas Calabro · Dan Butler

Plot Columbo attends the wedding of his cousin, who is also with the LAPD. Suddenly it turns out that the bride is missing, possibly kidnapped. Columbo sets up the investigation to...

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast Jack Palance · Amy Irving · Patrick Bergin · James Earl Jones

Direction John Waters

Cast Johnny Depp · Traci Lords · Willem Dafoe · Amy Locane

Plot Cult director John Waters goes mainstream -- sort of -- in this send-up of 1950s teen melodramas. Heart-throb Johnny Depp stars in the title role as a glamorous delinquent who...

Direction James L. Brooks · Allan Burns · Jay Sandrich · Peter Baldwin

Cast Mary Tyler Moore · Ed Asner · Valerie Harper · Gavin MacLeod

Plot TV Series (1970-1977). 7 Seasons. 168 Episodes. Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis after a relationship goes bad. She finds work as an associate producer in a small television newsroom where...

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Joe Don Baker · Conny Van Dyke · Gabriel Dell · John Marley

Plot Gambler Ron Lewis wins the jackpot but is ambushed later on the street outside. In self defense he kills a cop and is sentenced to four years of prison. He...

Direction Jimmy Sangster · E. Arthur Kean · George McCowan · Lawrence Dobkin

Cast William Conrad · Patrick Culliton · Tom Pittman · Charles Bateman

Plot The weekly adventures of Frank Cannon, an overweight, balding ex-cop with a deep voice and expensive tastes in culinary pleasures, who becomes a high-priced private investigator. Since Cannon's girth didn't...

Direction Howard Morris

Cast Jackie Gleason · Estelle Parsons · Ted Bessel · Joan Delaney

Plot The Hollander family's European vacation is interrupted when their plane is forced to land in Vulgaria. The Hollanders leave the plane to take pictures which results in accusations of spying....