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Paul Lynch (director)
Paul Lynch (born June 11, 1946) is a Canadian film director and television director. Lynch came to Canada in 1960. He left school to become a cartoonist for the ''Toronto Star'' and then served as a photographer for a number of small-town newspapers. This led to work in film, including a 90-minute documentary on ''Penthouse'' magazine commissioned by its publisher, Bob Guccione. His first feature film was '' The Hard Part Begins''. This was followed by the box-office hit '' Prom Night'', a straightforward slasher film starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielsen. Lynch has only made movies periodically, pursuing instead a career directing for American television. Filmography Films *'' The Hard Part Begins'' (1973) *'' Blood & Guts'' (1978) *'' Prom Night'' (1980) *'' Humongous'' (1982) *'' Cross Country'' (1983) *''Mania'' (1986) *'' Flying'' (a.k.a. ''Dream to Believe'', 1986) *'' Bullies'' (1986) *''Blindside'' (1987) *''On the Prowl'' (1991) *''No Contest'' (1995) *'' No Cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liverpool
Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population of (in ), Liverpool is the administrative, cultural and economic centre of the Liverpool City Region, a combined authority, combined authority area with a population of over 1.5 million. Established as a borough in Lancashire in 1207, Liverpool became significant in the late 17th century when the Port of Liverpool was heavily involved in the Atlantic slave trade. The port also imported cotton for the Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution, Lancashire textile mills, and became a major departure point for English and Irish emigrants to North America. Liverpool rose to global economic importance at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century and was home to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Contest II
''No Contest II'' is a 1996 action film directed by Paul Lynch and written by Michael Stokes and Richard Beattie and starring Shannon Tweed, Bruce Payne and Lance Henriksen. It is a sequel to ''No Contest''. Plot Erich Dengler (Lance Henriksen), the son of Manferd Dengler (a prominent Nazi during the rule of Adolf Hitler in Germany), poses as an Art Collector, Eric Dane, in order to take over the Holman Museum to retrieve a shipment of nerve gas that has been hidden in some art work. He holds the occupants of the museum, including Sharon Bell (Shannon Tweed) and film director Jack Terry (Bruce Payne), who are looking for a good location to shoot a film, hostage. Dengler attempts to unleash a lethal nerve gas bomb which threatens the safety of the world. His plan is to sell the rest of the nerve gas to the highest bidder. Jack and Sharon make it their business to stop him. Cast *Lance Henriksen as Eric Dane / Erich Dengler *Shannon Tweed as Sharon Bell *Bruce Payne as Jack Ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blacke's Magic
''Blacke's Magic'' is an American crime drama television series that aired for 13 episodes on NBC, from January 5 to May 7, 1986. Reruns later aired during the fall of 1988, to fill scheduling gaps caused by the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike. Plot Hal Linden stars as magician Alexander Blacke who, with some help from his con-man father Leonard (Harry Morgan), solves mysteries that get in the way of his performances. The series aired for a total of thirteen episodes and featured crimes that tested logic against seemingly magical crimes. The stories were not so much whodunits as "how-he-do-its," for Alex Blacke often had to turn detective to solve the mysteries. Cast Main * Hal Linden as Alexander Blacke * Harry Morgan as Leonard Blacke Recurring * Paula Beyers as Gina * Claudia Christian as Laurie Blacke * Stephen Elliott as Senator Garity * Justin Gocke as Jamie Byrnes * Pippin Ingalls as Jill Byrnes * Mark Shera as Lt. Ted Byrnes Episodes Ratings The show ended t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Twilight Zone (1985 TV Series)
''The Twilight Zone'' is an American anthology series, anthology television series which aired from September 27, 1985, to April 15, 1989. It is the first of three Revival (television), revivals of Rod Serling's acclaimed The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series), 1959–64 television series, and like the original it featured a variety of speculative fiction, commonly containing characters from a seemingly normal world stumbling into paranormal circumstances. Unlike the original, however, most episodes contained multiple self-contained stories instead of just one. The voice-over narrations were still present, but were not a regular feature as they were in the original series; some episodes had only an opening narration, some had only a closing narration, and some had no narration at all. The multi-segment format liberated the series from the usual time constraints of episodic television, allowing stories ranging in length from 8-minutes to 40-minute mini-movies. The series ran for two se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ray Bradbury Theater
''The Ray Bradbury Theatre'' is an anthology series that ran for three seasons on Crave (TV network), First Choice Movie Central, Superchannel in Canada and HBO in the United States from 1985 to 1986, and then on USA Network, running for four additional seasons from 1988 to 1992; episodes aired on the Global Television Network in Canada from 1991 to 1994. It was shown in reruns on the Syfy, Sci Fi Channel and later on the Retro Television Network. It currently airs on Comet (TV network), Comet and can be streamed on IMDb TV, Peacock (streaming service), Peacock, Pluto TV and Roku#Roku TV, The Roku Channel. Overview All 65 episodes were written by Ray Bradbury, based on short stories or novels he wrote, including "A Sound of Thunder", "Marionettes, Inc.", "Banshee (short story), Banshee", "The Playground", "Mars is Heaven!, Mars is Heaven", "The Martian Chronicles#April 2005/2036: Usher II, Usher II", "The Jar", "The Long Rain", "The Veldt (short story), The Veldt", "The Small Ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moonlighting (TV Series)
''Moonlighting'' is an American comedy drama television series that aired on ABC from March 3, 1985, to May 14, 1989. The network aired a total of 67 episodes. Starring Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis as private detectives, Allyce Beasley as their quirky receptionist, and Curtis Armstrong as a temporary worker (and later junior detective), the show was a mixture of drama, comedy, mystery, and romance, and was considered to be one of the first successful and influential examples of comedy drama, or "dramedy", emerging as a distinct television genre. The show's theme song was co-written and performed by jazz singer Al Jarreau and became a hit. The show is also credited with making Willis a star and relaunching Shepherd's career after a string of lackluster projects. In 1997, the episode "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" was ranked number 34 on ''TV Guide''s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. In 2007, the series was listed as one of ''Time'' magazine's "100 Best TV Show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder, She Wrote
''Murder, She Wrote'' is an American crime drama television series, created by Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson and William Link, starring Angela Lansbury, and produced and distributed by Universal Television for the CBS network. The series focuses on the life of Jessica Fletcher, a mystery writer and amateur detective, who becomes involved in solving murders that take place in the fictional town of Cabot Cove, Maine, across the United States, and abroad. The program ran for 12 seasons from September 30, 1984, to May 19, 1996, for a total of 264 episodes and included amongst its recurring cast Tom Bosley, William Windom (actor), William Windom and Ron Masak, as well as a vast array of guest cast members including Mickey Rooney, Michael Horton (actor), Michael Horton, Keith Michell, Barbara Babcock, George Segal, Kevin McCarthy (actor), Kevin McCarthy, Gene Barry, Martin Milner, Earl Holliman, Pat Morita, Tom Wopat, John Astin, Loretta Swit, John Saxon, Ruth Roman, Kathryn Grays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voyagers!
''Voyagers!'' is an American science-fiction television series about time travel that aired on NBC from October 3, 1982, to July 10, 1983, during the 1982–1983 season. The series starred Jon-Erik Hexum and Meeno Peluce. Plot Phineas Bogg ( Jon-Erik Hexum) is one of a society of time travelers called Voyagers, who with the help of a young boy named Jeffrey Jones (played by Meeno Peluce) from 1982, uses a hand-held device called an Omni (which looks like a large pocket watch) that flashes red when history is wrong and green when the timeline is corrected, to travel in time and ensure that history unfolds correctly. Bogg and Jeffrey first met when Bogg's Omni malfunctioned and took him to 1982 (the device was not supposed to reach any later than 1970), landing him in the skyscraper apartment of Jeffrey's aunt and uncle, who were caring for him after his parents' deaths. Bogg's guidebook, which contained a detailed description of how history was supposed to unfold, was grabbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darkroom (TV Series)
''Darkroom'' is an American thriller anthology television series produced by Universal Television that aired on ABC from November 27, 1981, to July 8, 1982. Each 60-minute episode featured two or more stories of varying length with a new story and a new cast, but each of the episode wraparound segments was hosted by James Coburn. Among the performers who appeared on the series were Esther Rolle, Helen Hunt, Claude Akins, Richard Anderson, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Carole Cook, David Carradine, Billy Crystal, Pat Buttram, Brian Dennehy, Lawrence Pressman, Dub Taylor, Rue McClanahan, Lloyd Bochner, Ronny Cox, R. G. Armstrong, Jack Carter, and June Lockhart. Opening narration The title sequence featured a dolly-in through the corridors of a house to a safe-lighted darkroom in a crawlspace under the stairs. James Coburn's voice could be heard over this dolly-in, narrating it as follows: As Coburn's voiceover reached the point with "no escape... nowhere to turn," the camera turned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petrocelli
''Petrocelli'' is an American legal drama that ran for two seasons on NBC from September 11, 1974, to March 31, 1976. Plot Tony Petrocelli is an Italian-American, Harvard-educated lawyer, who grew up in South Boston and gave up the big money and frenetic pace of major-metropolitan life to practice in a sleepy city in Arizona named San Remo (filmed in Tucson, Arizona). His wife Maggie and he live in a house trailer in the country while waiting for their new home to be built (it never was completed over the course of the series). Tony drives an old pickup truck, always a little too fast. Petrocelli hired Pete Ritter, a local cowboy and ex-cop, as his investigator. Format Petrocelli works as a defense lawyer, and each episode follows a similar format, with the clients apparently certain to be convicted of a crime of which they were innocent until a late-emerging piece of evidence allows the protagonist to suggest to the jury an alternative possibility. These alternatives never were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How To Murder A Millionaire
''How to Murder a Millionaire'' is a 1990 American made-for-television comedy film directed by Paul Lynch and written by and starring Joan Rivers. The film aired on ABC on January 7, 1990. Plot Irma is a rich woman who likes to go shopping at high end stores. When she drives home one day, the brakes fail and she crashes through the garage door. She has a confidant and friend in Loretta, where they discuss their marriage issues. Loretta and Gilbert visit Irma and her husband Walter for dinner to celebrate their anniversary. Unfortunately, it ends with Irma and Walter complaining about each other. One night, Irma hears a prowler and calls the police for help. Investigating the noise, she gets locked in the garage with smoke coming out of a car. Police arrive and see Walter in the garden and conclude that it was a false alarm, that there really was no prowler. Walter surprises Irma with a new back massager in the bathtub. She throws a brush into the bathtub and electric sparks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder By Night
''Murder by Night'' is a 1989 American made-for-television directed by Paul Lynch and starring Robert Urich. The film's story is about a man with amnesia who is found at the scene of a murder. The film aired on USA Network. Background Alan B. McElroy wrote the script of the film, which was shot in Toronto. An Associated Press article that appeared in the ''Orlando Sentinel''wrote that the film was "part of a package of 24 original motion pictures for USA World Premiere Movie on the cable channel." Plot Allan Strong is out jogging one evening when he sees a brutal attack of a woman by a hammer-wielding serial killer. As the woman tries to escape in her car, she crashes into a construction site, and her car explodes. The murder is the third in a series of brutal slayings by the serial killer. The explosion knocks Strong, a wealthy and reclusive restaurant owner, unconscious, and he develops amnesia. As the only witness to the murder, Strong is a person of interest to police investi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
