John Patterson
1940 - 2005A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
John Patterson
Alfre Woodard, AJ Johnson
The story of Mary Thomas, the mother of basketball star Isiah Thomas, and how she fought to keep her family together and her sons out of trouble despite the surroundings of poverty, drugs, crime and violence of their ghetto neighborhood.
A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling
John Patterson
Tyne Daly, Sharon Gless
Cagney and Lacey work a case involving police corruption and document forgery. Chris seeks a prestigious promotion, while Mary Beth has to deal with the return of her sickly, aged father.
Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling
Taken Away
John Patterson
Valerie Bertinelli, Anna Maria Horsford
A young single mother has to work late one night. Her daughter begs her to allow her to stay alone instead of going to a babysitter. The mother finally agrees. When the girl falls and is injured, police are called and she is taken to a hospital, the courts decide that the mother is unfit and take her daughter away. She must fight to all ends to get her back.
Taken Away
Step Into the Third Dimension
John Patterson
Vincent Price, Jim McDonald
Nishika 3D cameras were the inexpensive cousins to the Nimslo 3D cameras made in the mid to late 1980's (the Nimslo cameras used glass lenses, while the Nishika ones used plastic lenses). The cameras used regular 35mm film that captured 4 simultaneous images onto 2 frames of film. These images were printed onto photo stock with a lenticular surface bonded to it which allowed 3D to be seen without glasses, like the old kids story books with the 3D covers. The basic 3D camera kit came with this VHS instructional video that was hosted by Vincent Price. It was one of the last things he did.
Step Into the Third Dimension
Sins of the Mother
John Patterson
Elizabeth Montgomery, Dale Midkiff
A charismatic Real Estate agent, Kevin Coe, is publicly proud of his mother, a prominent socialite, but privately he must put up with her constant belittlements and taunts. And while his latest girlfriend starts discovering the depths of his anguish, no one connects him with a long series of violent rapes that have been troubling the area.
Sins of the Mother
She Said No
John Patterson
Veronica Hamel, Lee Grant
A successful career woman is raped by a prominent lawyer. However, when she takes the case to court, it results in a hung jury. When the DA's office declines to retry the case, the lawyer opts to sue the woman for malicious prosecution and slander leaving her feeling raped again. - Written by John Sacksteder jsackste@bellsouth.net
She Said No
Never Say Never: The Deidre Hall Story
John Patterson
Deidre Hall, Annette Azcuy
Days of Our Lives star Deidre Hall realized that there was something missing from her life, a family. After endless months of trying, Deidre discovered that she was unable to conceive, and out of desperation, decided to try invitro fertilization. Despite more failed attempts, the collapse of her marriage and a strained career, Deidre wanted a child more than ever. With the support of her new fiancée, Steve Sohmer (Daniel Hugh Kelly), she decided to try the controversial option of using a surrogate mother.
Never Say Never: The Deidre Hall Story
Independence
John Patterson
John Bennett Perry, Isabella Hofmann
A dedicated sheriff in the 1880s who, after his first family is ravaged by a gang of renegades, gets a chance for revenge years later when the same outlaws threaten his new family and the frontier town he single handedly tamed.
Independence
See Jane Run
John Patterson
Joanna Kerns, John Shea
Jane Ravenson finds herself in the middle of a grocery store with $10,000 in her coat pockets and no memory of her life or who she is. Her husband eventually finds her and she starts to believe that her family life is fine until she feels a deep, nightmarish paranoia that something is horribly and terribly wrong.
See Jane Run
Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive
John Patterson
Patty Duke, David Selby
Jean and Shag Williams locate a newly built house and decide it's perfect for them to buy. One thing the developers forgot to tell them about was that it is built on a graveyard. Within days toilets start to flush by themselves and the garage door moves up and down by its own accord. Will Jean and Shag realize that the place may be haunted by ghosts before it's too late?
Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive
