JOE PENNY’S TV MOVIES

1977	DELTA COUNTY, USA (5/20/77 - ABC)
	Joe Penny as Joe Ed
	With Jim Antonio, Peter Donat, Robert Hays, Doney Oatman, Joanna Miles, Morgan Brittany, Jeff Conaway, Lola Albright, Michele Carey Writing credits: Thomas Rickman Director: Glenn Jordan
	Failed pilot about people and their problems in a small Southern town.

1978	DEATH MOON (5/31/78 - CBS)
	Joe Penny as Rick Bladen
	With Robert Foxworth, Barbara Trentham, France Nuyen, Joan Freeman, Richard Branscombe
	Writing edits: George Schenk Director: Bruce Kessler Filmed in Kauai, Hawaii
	An executive is overcome by a Hawaiian curse – every night he transforms into a werewolf and slays young women.

MOTHER, JUGGS AND SPEED (8/17/78 - ABC)

Joe Penny as Speed

With Ray Vitte, Joanne Nail, Harvey Lembeck, Shai Duffin

Teleplay: Tom Mankiewicz

Director: John Rich

A paramedic team is driving an ambulance for an almost bankrupt company.

Failed pilot. Remake of the feature movie of the same title.

1979	THE GIRLS IN THE OFFICE (2/2/79 - ABC)
	Joe Penny as Beau Galloway
	With Barbara Eden, Susan Saint James, Penny Peyser, David Wayne, Tony Roberts, Jonathan Goldsmith, Robyn Douglass Writing credits: Richard Danus Director: Ted Post Four women are involved in different ways in the opening of a big Houston department store.

SAMURAI (4/30/79 - ABC)

Joe Penny as Lee Toshido Cantrall

With Dana Elcar, James Shigeta, Beulah Quo, Norman Alden,
Morgan Brittany, Michael Pataki, James McEachin

Writig credits: Jerry Ludwig

Director: Lee H. Katzin

Filmed in San Francisco

Lee Cantrall, half-American/half-Asian, is a district attorny in
San Francisco – by day. By night he transforms into a sword-wielding
samurai warrior to fight against criminals he cannot nail by legal means.
Also a pilot that failed.

1980	LIFEPOD
	Joe Penny as J.W. Simmons
	With Christopher Cary, Kristine DeBell, Michael Chain, Writing credits: Bruce Bryant, Carol Johnson Director: Bruce Bryant On a space ship the main computer has taken command, forcing most of the crew and passengers to abandon the ship. Only a few people are trapped onboard.

THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST (3/21/80)

Joe Penny as Paul Cameron

With Kim Cattrall, Bobby Vinton, Robert Vaughn, Dick Sargent, Conrad Janis,
Martha Rye, Sylvia Sydney, Bobby Sherman, Lyle Waggoner, Steve Allen,
Betty White, Jim Backus

Writing credits: Michael Gleason

Director: James Sheldon

A political columnist is sent to Hollywood and has to write gossip.

THE HOME FRONT (10/9/80 - CBS)

Joe Penny as Rocco Spinelli

With Craig Stevens, Jean Simmons, Dane Witherspoon, Nicholas Hammond,

Writing credits: Rita Lakin

Director: Larry Harris

The life and the problems of a family in Massachusetts during World War II.

1983	SAVAGE: IN THE ORIENT (6/21/83 - CBS)
	Joe Penny as Peter Savage
	With John Saxon, Leif Erickson, Lew Ayres, Gayle Hunnicut, Heather McNair Director: Vincent Sherman Filmed in the Phillipines Peter Savage is a private detective in Manila.

1986	MATLOCK: THE DON (10/28/86 + 11/3/86 - NBC)
	Joe Penny as Paul Baron
	With Andy Griffith, Linda Purl, Keene Holiday, Jose Ferrer, Doran Clark, William Conrad, Alan Campbell, Leo Penn Writing credits: Anne Collins Director: Leo Penn Though everyone, especially Paul Baron, makes things difficult for Matlock, he helps a dying mafia boss, who is charged for having murdered his rival.

PERRY MASON: THE CASE OF THE SHOOTING STAR (11/9/86 - NBC)
Joe Penny as Robert McKaye
With Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, Jennifer O’Neill, Alan Thicke, William Katt, David Ogden Stiers, Ron Glass Writing credits: Anne Collins Director: Ron Satlof During a talk show the host is shot by actor Robert McKay. Its was meant as a gag but the blancs had been replaced.

1987	BLOOD VOWS: THE STORY OF A MAFIA WIFE (1/18/87 - NBC)
	Joe Penny as Edward Moran
	With Melissa Gilbert, Eileen Brennan, Talia Shire, Anthony Franciosa, Carmine Caridi, Rhoda Gemignani, John Aprea, Ron Karabatsos Writing credits: Guerdon Trueblood Director: Paul Wendkos
	Marian Winslow, a young fashion designer, meets lawyer Edward Moran and falls in love. After their wedding, however, she has to learn that she is married to the mafia and in deadly danger.

ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH (5/17/87 + 5/19/87 - CBS)

Joe Penny as Lloyd Murphy

With Lisa Hartman, Kate Mulgrew, Betty Buckley, Bruce Dern, Richard Masur,
Howard Duff, Morgan Stevens, Robert Picardo, John M.Jackson

Writing credits: Jonell Lawson (novel), Judith Paige Mitchell

Director: Michael Miller

Filmed in San Francisco

After a coal mining accident, Autumn tries everything to destroy the mine’s owner.

1988	WHISPER KILL (aka A WHISPER KILLS) (5/15/88 - ABC)
	Joe Penny as Dan Walker
	With Loni Anderson, Jeremy Slate, James Sutorius, June Lockhart, Martin Ponch, Bob Farnell Writing credits: John Robert Bensink Director: Christian I. Nyby II Filmed in Santa Cruz County and in Watsonville, California
	In a small Californian town a killer announces his murders by phone. Dan Walker, a journalist, is getting involved because one of the victims was his friend.

1990	THE OPERATION (aka BODILY HARM) (1/21/90 - CBS)
	Joe Penny as Dr. Ed Betters
	With Lisa Hartman, Kathleen Quinlan, Jason Beghe, Dori Brenner Writing credits: Douglas Stefen Borghi Director: Thomas J. Wright
	Dr. Betters, asked for divorce by his wife, Ginnie, has to sell the clinic to buy her out. At the last operation he has a mishap: Without the permission of the patient he performs a hysterectomy, and she is sueing him... What starts with a simple insurance fraud finally will end with murder.

1992	DANGER OF LOVE (10/4/92 - CBS)
	Joe Penny as Michael Carlin
	Photo credit: Tony Esparza
	With Jenny Robertson, Richard Lewis, Deborah Benson, Fairuza Balk, Joseph Bologna Writing credits: Sam Blackwell, Ara Watson Director: Joyce Chopra Filmed in Vancouver, B.C., Canada
	A teacher’s wife has been murdered, and it seems that no-one else than the husband could have comitted this crime. Based on the real-life Carolyn Warmus case.

1994	TERROR IN THE NIGHT (2/7/94 - CBS)
	Joe Penny as Lonnie Carter
	Photo Credit: Craig Blankenhorn
	With Justine Bateman, Matt Mulhern, Valerie Landsburg, Al Wiggins, John Bennes Director : Colin Bucksey Filmed in National Forests in North Carolina
	An outlaw terrorizes a young couple on a camp-ground, and, later on, is kidnapping the woman. Based on a real story.

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF VONNIE (9/27/94 - CBS)

Joe Penny as Ron Rickman

With Ann Jillian, Alexandra Purvis, Kim Zimmer, Graham Beckel,
Alicia Witt, Robert Wisden

Script: Ellen Weston

Director: Graeme Campbell

Filmed in Vancouver, B.C., Canada

After her sister’s disappearance, Corinne suspects her brother-in-law
to have murdered her. This movie, too, was based on facts.

1995	YOUNG AT HEART (3/12/95 - CBS)
	(working title: Hoboken)
	Joe Penny as Mike Garaventi
	With Olympia Dukakis, Louis Zorich, Philip Bosco, Yannick Bisson, Chelsea Altman, Audrey Landers, Tony Longo and Frank Sinatra in a cameo. Director: Allan Arkush Filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
	After her husband’s death a woman from Hoboken has to find a new sense in her life and is starting to open a restaurant. During all difficulties she gets strenght by the songs of Frank Sinatra. It was Frank Sinatra’s last appearance in a movie. Sinatra’s daughter, Tina, was co-producing.

1996	DOUBLE JEOPARDY (1/30/96 - CBS)
	Joe Penny as John Dubroski
	With Teri Garr, Brittany Murphy, Shawn Hatosi, Rutanya Alda, Frederic Forrest, Ken James, Mark Donato Writing credits: Deborah Dalton Director: Deborah Dalton Filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
	Fact-based movie about a police sergeant in Baltimore having an affair with a young girl who is murdered, just before a paternity hearing over their son.

SHE WOKE UP PREGNANT (aka CRIMES OF SILENCE)
(4/28/96 - CBS)

Joe Penny as Dr. Roger Nolten

With Michele Greene, William R. Moses, Lynda Carter, Theresa Saldana, John P. Connolly

Writing credits: Michael O’Hara

Director: James A. Contner

Filmed in Vancouver, B.C., Canada

A woman gets pregnant, but her husband can’t be the father because of a vasectomy.
She has no memory of who the father could be, only some vague nightmares of being raped.

1997	FAMILY OF COPS II: BREACH OF FAITH (2/2/97 - CBS)
	Joe Penny as Paul Fein
	Photo Credit: Tony Esparza
	With Charles Bronson, Kim Weeks, Sebastian Spence, Barbara Williams, Diane Ladd, Angela Featherstone, Mimi Kuzyk, Andrew Jackson, Cynthia Belliveau, David Hemblen, Mark Humphrey Script: Joel Blasberg Director: David Greene Filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
	When a priest is found shot to death, Paul Fein and his sons are getting in conflict with the Russian mafia.
	Joe Penny was replacing David Baldwin, who played the part of Ben Fein in the first Family of Cops movie.

STRANGER IN MY HOME (2/11/97 - CBS)

Joe Penny as Ned Covington

Photo Credit: Monty Brinton

With Veronica Hamel, David Hugh Kelly, Leigh Taylor Young

Script: Robert Hamilton

Director: Farhad Mann

Filmed in Phoenix, Arizona

Jennifer Richmond is convinced that Ned Covington is her long-lost brother. She invites him to stay in her house, but soon has to learn that something is terribly wrong.

1999	family of cops iii (1/12/99 - cbs)
	Joe Penny as Ben Fein
	With Charles Bronson, Kim Weeks, Sebastian Spence, Barbara Williams, Cynthia Belliveau, Nicole de Boer, Art Hindle, Mark Humphries Director: Sheldon Larry Filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
	A new movie about the cop family Fein, about the murders of a multimillionaire banker and his wife, about corruption in the police department and about money laundry.

2001	TWO AGAINST TIME (4/21/02 - CBS)
	Joe Penny as George
	With Marlo Thomas and Ellen Muth
	Director: David Anspaugh
	Filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

THE RED PHONE (TBA)

Two movie pilot for a possible series

MANHUNT - CHECKMATE

Joe Penny as Jack Darrow

With Arnold Vosloo, Michael Ironside, Ben Cross,

Alexandra Kamp, Michael Wincott, Gregor Toercz

Director: Jerry Jameson

Filmed in Cape Town, South Africa; Salzburg, Austria and Munich, Germany

JANE DOE: VANISHING ACT (01/21/2005 - Hallmark)

Joe Penny as Frank Darnell

With Lea Thompson, William R. Moses, Jessy Schram, Zack Shada, Jimmy Bridges

Director: James A. Contner

JANE DOE: NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON’T

(02/18/2005 – Hallmark)

Joe Penny as Frank Darnell

With Lea Thompson, William R. Moses, Jessy Schramm, Zack Shada,

Todd Bridges, Pamela Reed

Director: Armand Mastroianni

JANE DOE: TIL DEATH DO US PART (03/11/2005 - Hallmark)

Joe Penny as Frank Darnell

With Leah Thompson, William R. Moses, Jessy Schramm, Zack Shada,

Joseph Bologna, Antonio Sabato Jr

Director: Armand Mastroianni

JANE DOE: THE WRONG FACE (06/19/2005 - Hallmark)

Joe Penny as Frank Darnell

With Lea Thompson, William R.Moses, Jessy Schramm, Zack Shada,

John Rubinstein, Brynn Thayer, Ray Wise, Roxana Zal

Director: Mark Griffith

JANE DOE: YES, I REMEMBER IT WELL (01/14/2006 - Hallmark)

Joe Penny as Frank Darnell

With Lea Thompson, William R.Moses, Jessy Schramm, Zack Shada,

Donna Mills, Clement von Franckenstein, Nicholas Guilak

Director: Armand Mastroianni

JANE DOE: THE HARDER THEY FALL (03/04/2006 - Hallmark

Joe Penny as Frank Darnell

With Lea Thompson, William R.Moses, Jessy Schramm, Zack Shada,

Dorian Harewood, Helen Slater, Randy Vasquez

Director: Lea Thompson

JANE DOE: TIES THAT BIND (03/17/2007 - Hallmark)

Joe Penny as Frank Darnell

With Lea Thompson, William R.Moses, Jesy Schramm, Zack Shada,

Robert Carradine, Joana Miles

Director: James A. Contner

REIGN OF THE GARGOYLES (03/24/2007 - SciFi Channel)

Joe Penny as Gus

With Wes Ramsey, Sean Mahon, Julia Rose, Billy Lush, John Ashton, Brad Beyer

Director: Ayton Davis

Please, see more information about the Jane Doe - Movies, as well as photos, synopsis and interviews with the actors, at the Hallmark’s Mystery Movies site or in the Hallmark Library

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