LEE MAJORS WEEK: A Smoky Mountain Christmas (1986)
Originally airing on ABC on December 14, 1986, this Henry Winkler-directed made-for-TV movie has pretty much everything you want out of a holiday film: Dolly Parton as a disillusioned country star. Dan Hedaya as a sleazeball. Bo Hopkins as a lawman. David Ackroyd! John Ritter as a judge. A witch! Rance Howard! René Auberjonois! And […]
Lee Majors Week: The Norseman (1978)
Editor’s Note: We originally ran this review on January 30, 2019, as part of our “Viking Week” of film reviews. We’re rerunning it as part of our “Lee Majors Week” of reviews. Look, I can hear you laughing. An 11th-century Viking prince — played by Lee Majors of all people — sets sails for North America […]
Lee Majors Week: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976)
Many tried to bring this tale of American Airforce pilot and CIA operative Francis Gary Powers to the big screen — an incident that occurred on May 1, 1960. The single-jet engine plane of the title, the U-2, was nicknamed “Dragon Lady” by its maker, Lockheed Aircraft, to work as a high-altitude reconnaissance craft for […]
LEE MAJORS WEEK: Jean (2016)
Sure, the IMDB description says, “A young girl and her dog make a daring journey into the wilderness where she discovers the true meaning of nature, sacrifice and life.” The truth is that this movie feels like it was shot cinéma vérité style, with no one cluing the grandfather that he was in an actual […]
LEE MAJORS WEEK: The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
William Wyler is the most nominated director in Academy Awards history, as well as the only director in Academy history to direct three Best Picture-winning films (for which he also won Best Director*), for directing thirty-six Oscar-nomimated performers and for being the director of more Best Picture nominees than anyone else. For his final movie, […]
Lee Majors Week: The Six Million Dollar Man (1973)
Well, this TV sci-fi’er really is the whole enchilada when discussing the career of Lee Majors, isn’t it? Colon’d and suffixed as “The Moon and the Desert” when it aired as a two-part episode during its syndication run (and served as its overseas title in some quarters), we meet Steve Austin, an astronaut that’s made […]
Lee Majors Week: Weekend of Terror (1970)
Lionel E. Seigel (who wrote many-a-episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman) provided Lee with his third TV movie leading-man role (after 1970’s The Liberation of L.B Jones). Produced by Paramount Pictures for ABC-TV, this is Lee in one of his rare appearances as a heavy, despicable character (that, in my […]
LEE MAJORS WEEK: Ben 10 Race Against Time (2007)
Based on the Cartoon Network series and directed by Alex Winter — yes, that Alex Winter — Ben 10 Race Against Time is a great live-action version of a kid-friendly series that you may have slept on. Ben Tennyson has the power of the Omnitrix, which allows him to transform into a multitude of super-powered different […]
LEE MAJORS WEEK: High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane (1980)
You know, it takes some balls to make a sequel to High Noon. But hey — Elmore Leonard is a heck of a writer and Jerry Jameson made The Bat People and Airport ’77, so he’s OK in my book. And if you’re going to replace Gary Cooper, I guess Lee Majors will do for a TV movie. […]
Lee Majors Week: The Ballad of Andy Crocker (1969)
After his 112-episode, 4-year run as Heath Barkley on ABC-TV’s The Big Valley, it was time to see if Lee Majors could carry a feature film. And he did, with this, the screenwriting debut by familiar ’60s and ’70s TV actor Stuart Margolin (we know him best from his support role as Angel Martin, James […]
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