
Donald "Don" Porter (September 24, 1912 –February 11, 1997) was an American actor who appeared in a number of films since the 1940s, including Top Sergeant and Eagle Squadron. On television, he portrayed the widowed father of 15-year-old Frances "Gidget" Lawrence (Sally Field) in the 1965 ABC sitcom Gidget. Besides his work in film and television, Porter was active on stage, as he acted in more...
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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.

Ghosts and a young cadet try to save a military academy from being closed.

A twentieth century TV journalist conducts an exclusive first century interview with Pontius Pilate thirty years after Christ's death. Go back in time to 64 A.D. with interviewer newsman Theodore Michael (Don Porter). As he speaks with Pontius Pilate (Guy Stockwell) and his wife Claudia Procula (Lesley Woods), Pilate reveals his innermost thoughts about Jesus' trial and the Good Friday judgment.

An aspiring singer unwittingly comes into possession of several tapes for which her engineer husband and his partner, in their electronic eavesdropping business, were murdered, and discovers that she and her daughter are now being stalked by the killers.

A male hustler drifts into Key West, where he becomes involved in a series of steamy interludes with disreputable locals intertwined in various political intrigues.

A government courier is caught in a deadly cover-up after discovering that his murdered sister was not only the mistress of a U.S. president, but also a Soviet spy.

Based on the true story of coal miners who became trapped underground in a cave-in on Christmas Eve, 1951.

An independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for.

An ex-cop, now a private detective, investigating a gambler's murder finds that there may be a connection between that crime and the jewel robbery at a beautiful movie star's home.

A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.
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