William Shatner Filmography |
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 Sole Survivor (1970) (TV) - Starring as Lt. Col. Josef Gronke |
| CBS’ first made-for-TV movie, Sole Survivor is a fantasy yarn founded on fact. In 1960, the ruins of an American bomber were found in the Libyan desert...but the remains of the crew were never located. In Guerdon Trueblood’s teleplay, the ghosts of a bomber crew hang around their derelict plane, awaiting the day that their bones will be recovered and given a decent burial. The sole survivor, navigator Russell Hamner (Richard Basehart), has in the intervening 25 years become a general. He joins an investigation team that has come across the wreckage, while the ghosts, headed by Major Devlin (Vince Edwards), plot to expose Hamner as a coward who deserted his post and left his crew mates to die. |
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| Ironside (March 1970) (TV) - Starring as Marty Jessup in "Little Jerry Jessup" |
| Ironside (Raymond Burr) is confined to a wheel chair (an attempted assassination left him paralyzed). He combats crime for the San Francisco police from his mobile office (a van). |
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| Mission: Impossible (1971 and 1972) (TV) - Starring as Joseph Conrad in "Cocaine" and as Thomas Kroll in "Encore" |
The show ran on CBS from the 60's to the early 70's. It was about a team of government spies and specialists (the I.M.F. or Impossible Missions Force), who were assigned by an unseen secretary. The series was best known for its opening scene where a pre-recorded tape would self destruct in 5 seconds.
In "Cocaine" the IMF have 72 hours to intercept a huge shipment of synthetic cocaine manufactured by a new computerized machine.
-Joseph Conrad is Reid's second-in-command.
In "Encore" the IMF has to solve a 34-year-old mob murder and stage a perfect re-enactment of the crime and of 1937 Chicago. They also had to convince Kroll that he is nearly forty years younger.
- Thomas Kroll was a hoodlum and was was responsible for the murder. |
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| The Sixth Sense (1972) (TV) - Starring as Edwin Danbury in "Can a Dead Man Strike from the Grave?" |
| Dr. Michael Rhodes (Gary Collins) is a college professor with an interest in the paranormal. He and his assistant Nancy spend much of their time investigating mysteries involving extra-sensory perception, spirits, possessions, and other such experiences. |
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| Hawaii Five-O (1972) (TV) - Starring as Sam Tollivar in "You Don't Have to Kill to Get Rich, but It Helps" |
Hawaii Five-O aired from September 1968 to April 1980. Filmed almost entirely on location in Hawaii, it was about Steve McGarrett (Jack Lord), the head of an elite state police unit investigating organized crime, murder, assassinations, foreign agents and those sorts of crimes. Famous for the catch phrase"Book 'em Danno."
In this episode aseries of deaths of well-to-do businessmen gets Five-O involved in the investigation of a lucrative blackmail operation. Texas private investigator Sam Tolliver visits Hawaii to help his friend Wallace Shuster get free of the blackmail scheme, but ends up wanting to get in on the operation himself. |
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| The Magician (1974) (TV) - Starring as Ed Cassidy in "The Illusion of the Queen's Gambit" |
| This is a crime drama series about a rich magician who uses his magical talents to help people out of their problems with criminals. |
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| The Six Million Dollar Man (April 1974) (TV) - Starring as Josh Lang in "Burning Bright" |
Lee Majors starred as Steve Austin, an ex-astronaut that was injured so badly in a crash that he had to have several body parts replaced with cybernetic organisms. The tag line was - We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first Bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better . . . stronger . . . faster.
In this episode, Steve's astronaut friend Josh Lang, is impaired after being exposed to an electrical field while in space, and his condition deteriorates. Steve has to find him and take him to a facility so he can/t hurt himself. |
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| Big Bad Mama (1974) - Starring as William J. Baxter |
After the death of her lover, Wilma (Angie Dickinson) takes over his bootlegging business, but without much success. She soon meets up with bank robber Fred, who convinces her and her daughters to join him for his next big heist. In the meantime, Wilma also kidnaps the daughter of a millionaire in the hopes of getting rich off the ransom.
- William J. Baxter is an upper-class hustler. He meets Wilma at the race track she was going to rob with her partner Fred. The meeting results in another partnership between William and Wilma, and eventually the two sleep together. |
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| Impulse (1974) - Starring as Matt Stone |
This is supposedly the Absolute Best Terrible Movie Ever Made. A paranoid, leisure-suit-wearing conman/gigolo named Matt Stone seduces lonely women, steals their savings via an investment scam, then kills them. The story opens with a sepia flashback – a young boy witnesses the rape of his mother and subsequently samurai-swords the nasty man in the stomach on impulse.
- Matt Stone is the leisure-suit-wearing smooth chain-smoking devil and con-man. He’s a nasty piece of work with serious issues. |
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| The Devil's Rain (1975) - Starring as Mark Preston |
A horror film with veteran actors telling the story of devil worship, possession and other evil practices. A curse hovers over the Preston family, caused by their betrayal of the Satanic priest John Corbis (Ernest Borgnine). Now he's looking for a Satanic book through which he can obtain great power. The source of Corbis' power is a porcelain container known as The Devil's Rain, which contains the souls of Corbis' converts. John Travolta is in a bit part as a devil worshipper with a melting face.
- Mark Preston takes the book from Steve Preston after he melts into a waxy substance. Mark meet with Corbis in a ghost town in the desert and tries to defeat him. |
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