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Title Airdate
Network /
Length
Production Company Director Character

NIGHT CHASE

11/20/1970
CBS / 2 hrs.
Cinema Center 100 Jack Starrett Adrian Vico
O'HARA UNITED STATES TREASURY pilot "OPERATION: COBRA"
4/2/1971
CBS / 2 hrs.
Mark VII-Universal Jack Webb James O'Hara
THE LONGEST NIGHT
9/12/1972
ABC / 90 m.
Universal Jack Smight Alan Chambers
MOON OF THE WOLF
9/26/1972
ABC / 90 m.
Filmways Daniel Petrie Sheriff Aaron Whitaker
BIRDS OF PREY
1/30/1973
CBS / 90 m.
Tomorrow
Entertainment
Wm. A. Graham Harry Walker
HARRY O - pilot 1
"SUCH DUST AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON"
3/11/1973
ABC / 60 m.
Warner Bros. Jerry Thorpe Harry Orwell
HIJACK!
9/26/1973
ABC / 90 m.
Spelling-Goldberg /
Fox
Leonard Horn Jake Wilkenson
PIONEER WOMAN
12/19/1973
ABC / 90 m.
Filmways Buzz Kulik Robert Douglas
HARRY O - pilot 2
"SMILE JENNY, YOU'RE DEAD"
2/3/1974
ABC / 2 hrs.
Warner Bros Jerry Thorpe Harry Orwell
FER-DE-LANCE
10/18/1974
CBS / 2 hrs.
Leslie Stevens /
MGM
Russ Mayberry Russ Bogan
STALK THE WILD CHILD
11/3/1976
NBC / 90 m.
Chas. Fries Prods. William Hale Dr. James Hazard
MAYDAY AT 40,000 FEET!
11/12/1976
CBS / 2 hrs.
A.J. Fenady /
Warner Bros
Robert Butler Capt. Pete Douglass
A SENSITIVE PASSIONATE MAN
6/6/1977
NBC / 2 hrs.
Factor-Newland John Newland Michael Delaney
SUPERDOME
1/9/1978
ABC / 2 hrs.
ABC Circle Films Jerry Jameson Mike Shelley
NOWHERE TO RUN
1/16/1978
NBC / 2 hrs.
MTM Richard Lang Harry Adams
THE WORD
11/12/78-
11/15/78
(4 nights)
CBS / 8 hrs.
Chas. Fries /
Stonehenge
Richard Lang Steve Randall
CENTENNIAL (episodes 1 thru 11)
began 10/1/78
NBC / 26 1/2 hrs.
Universal various narrator
CENTENNIAL (episode 12)
"THE SCREAM OF EAGLES"
2/4/1979
NBC / 3 hrs.
Universal Virgil W. Vogel Paul Garrett
S.O.S. TITANIC
9/23/1979
ABC / 3 hrs.

Roger Gimble /
Argonaut / EMI

William Hale John Jacob Astor
THE GOLDEN GATE MURDERS
10/3/1979
CBS / 2 hrs.
Universal Walter Grauman Det. Sgt. Paul Silver
HIGH ICE
1/7/1980
NBC / 2 hrs.
ESJ Productions Eugene S. Jones Glencoe MacDonald
CITY IN FEAR
3/30/1980
ABC / 170 m.
Trans World Intl. Jud Taylor Vince Perrino
FATHER DAMIEN: THE LEPER PRIEST
10/27/1980
NBC / 2 hrs.
Tomorrow
Entertainment
Stephen Gethers Father Damien

Notes

NIGHT CHASE (1970) was shot as THE MAN IN THE BACK SEAT and was released on video as L.A. CAB.

The first Harry O pilot, SUCH DUST AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON (1973), was rebroadcast on 7/23/84 on CBS Late Night with 20 minutes of additional commercials. It was later syndicated as a 90-minute TV film in a longer alternate version utilizing additional footage shot at the time of the original production.

HIJACK! (1973) was shot as FAST FREIGHT.

PIONEER WOMAN (1973) was released on video as PIONEERS.

FER-DE-LANCE (1974) was released in the UK theatrically as DEATH DIVE and also had alternate title of OPERATION: SERPENT.

STALK THE WILD CHILD (1976) was shot as FARRELL.

SUPERDOME (1978) was shot as COUNTDOWN TO SUPERBOWL.

NOWHERE TO RUN (1978) was shot as THE BLACKJACK HIJACK and flirted with a release title of THE MAN WHO LIVED TWICE.

THE WORD (1978) had a much-abbreviated 185m. video cassette version.

S.O.S TITANIC (1979) also had an edited video cassette release.

THE GOLDEN GATE MURDERS (1979) had a foreign theatrical release title of SPECTER ON THE BRIDGE and a pre-production shooting title of SPECTRE.

CITY IN FEAR (1980) was also known as PANIC ON PAGE ONE. Director Jud Taylor took the pseudonym Alan Smithee due to a conflict on the final edit of the film.

Re-edited episodes of the O'HARA, UNITED STATES TREASURY TV series were released as two television movies for syndication only:
- LADIES OF CRIME was a 1978 re-edit of the two episodes OPERATION: GOOD CITIZEN and OPERATION: STOLEN BONDS.
- COUNTERFEIT GREEN combined the original episodes OPERATION: OFFSET and OPERATION: MR. FELIX.

David Janssen, at age 48, died 2 days into filming FATHER DAMIEN: THE LEPER PRIEST, a character who ironically died in his late 40’s. Production was suspended for a short time until Ken Howard was recast in the role. The film was dedicated to Janssen in its credits.


 

 

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