E.W. Swackhamer Trailers
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E.W. Swackhamer was an American television and film director with an extensive career spanning several decades. His credits include directing episodes of popular TV series such as MASH*, L.A. Law, Murder, She Wrote, Bewitched, and Law & Order. Notably, he directed 27 pilots for television series, 18 of which went into regular production, including Eight Is Enough, Quincy, M.E., and S.W.A.T.. Swackhamer received an Emmy Award for directing the miniseries The Dain Curse during the 1977–78 season. He was married to actress Bridget Hanley and had two daughters.
Most Popular E.W. Swackhamer Trailers
Total trailers found: 34
24 May 1984
A small town sheriff and an astronaut strike up a romance as they attempt to solve crimes in this unsold pilot/CBS Thursday night movie.
04 June 1992
The new DA of a small town is given the job of prosecuting the alleged murderer of a stripper. Unfortunately, his own father is in charge of the defense.
19 October 1979
A group of celebrants find themselves trapped in an amusement park that is being torn apart by a hurricane during a Fourth of July holiday.
11 November 1992
Maggie, a recent widower, hires a housekeeper, Janice, to help her with chores taking care of her two young daughters.
01 January 1994
MacShayne is a gambler and small time con-man. After serving a short stretch in jail, he goes to Las Vegas to see his son, but when he gets there, his ex-wife is no longer where she use to live and work and left no forwarding address.
17 December 1978
The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
23 May 1980
A dispirited cop chucks his job on the force and, with the help of a college co-ed, sets out to solve the murder of a police colleague who had been his best friend.
01 January 1976
Detective goes after drug-dealers in Manhattan.
29 April 1994
Reformed con man Jack MacShayne is back, this time as the head of security at the Las Vegas hotel he stayed at in MacShayne: Winner Takes All.
23 June 1971
At the beginning of the 19th century a man and his son settle in Arizona which used to be a frontier state and full of criminals at that time.
22 January 1992
A desperate socialite seeks her missing husband, troubled by bad investments and debts, with help from a private eye and the high-priced call girl hubby had been seeing.
02 October 1974
A juror on a murder trial begins to believe that the man charged with the crime is innocent — and that the real killer is her own husband.
17 December 1989
Alex McArthur returns as cowboy Duell McCall, who wanders the wide frontier in search of the one man who will clear him of a murder charge (What price Fugitive?) Once more, McCall finds himself in a corruption-ridden mining town.
05 August 1985
A team of special military forces has to save a small town which has been taken hostage by an organization called the Brotherhood.
23 January 1983
A young couple from Milwaukee moves into the fabled, high-society Malibu beach community and becomes involved with the lives of the various people living in the community.
01 January 1981
When one of the foosball team members is injured, a 14-year-old girl takes the champion's place.
10 October 1989
Duell McCall visits his old girlfriend, Nora, and learns that she gave birth to his child. He wants to stay but he is still a wanted man.
17 March 1972
A race car driver and his friend, a motorcycle racer and former POW, join forces to tour the U.S. in search of competition.
14 September 1977
When an extortionist threatens to force a multi-suicide unless a huge ransom is paid, only Peter Parker can stop him with his new powers as Spider-Man.
16 January 1982
A remake of the 1975 feature film. Donavan arrives in town and soon finds he is the legal guardian to two kids, Clovis and Celia.
28 July 1991
The former star of a cancelled cop TV show solves crimes. The pilot was broadcast on NBC in July 1991 but was not picked up as a series despite being a "personal favorite" of NBC chairman Brandon Tartikoff.
05 October 1983
Four strangers are thrown together in a carpool when a bag of money, almost a million dollars, falls from a Brinks truck into their path.
23 January 1981
Susan Blakey plays Sally Jo Purkey, a factory worker who leads a rebellion among her co-workers for equal rights by forming a company football team for women and hires a down-on-his-luck coach (Eddie Albert) to make them winners.
25 November 1969
In this romantic comedy, an unwed couple who run a wedding planning business discover, to their horror, that the Justice of the Peace who had officiated their first three weddings was only an actor.
27 August 1982
Syndicated TV movie about an American who falls in love in China, shot in Peking.
22 November 1985
London Bridge, London, England, 1888: Jack the Ripper dies in the Thames river. London Bridge, Lake Havasu, Arizona, 1985: the last original stone used to rebuild London Bridge is laid and all the city is happy.
07 February 1977
A housewife flees from a policeman's killer on the road between Phoenix and Denver.
03 September 1976
Donna and Joel Gregory are staying at the estate of Lorna Love while researching a book about the long dead Hollywood goddess.
04 January 1972
Gidget finally gets married and rebels against the social caste system in her new husband's company.
07 October 1979
Vampire Anton Voytek's lair is disturbed by the ground breaking for a new church. Anton attempts to start a modern life using his hoarded wealth, but finds it's been confiscated by the authorities.
02 January 1983
Michael Brennen, a San Francisco private eye gets dragged into a drug-smuggling operation while searching for the girlfriend of a deal client, leading Brennen to a politically prominent family.
19 August 1970
When an opportunity to buy a tourist hotel in Tahiti arises, three friends decide to chuck the American lifestyle and move to the South Seas.
28 April 1985
T.K. Kenny and Mickey Gubiacci are a highway patrolman and a trucker respectively. Now the two of them don't get along and have nothing in common except for the fact that they are both married to the daughters of Winston Goodhue, and that they don't like him.
15 February 1988
Duell McCall is in New Mexico running afoul of local land baron.
McCall pauses long enough in his escape flight to come to the aid of black homesteader who is being victimized by the diabolical Foxworth.
