John Gerstad

Alors que sévit depuis plusieurs jours une forte canicule, les détectives et policiers du commissariat du 87e District, au centre d'une mégalopole américaine, tentent de mettre la main au collet d'un serial killer qui semble frapper ses victimes au hasard.

Dans une banlieue chic du Connecticut, Ned Merrill, absent depuis longtemps, réapparaît lors d’un après-midi ensoleillé et s’invite chez de vieux amis pour profiter de leur piscine. Frappé d’une idée à la mesure de sa folie, il décide de rejoindre sa propre villa à la nage, en suivant le cours des bassins du voisinage. Une métaphore de la vie d'un homme à travers sa volonté de traverser la vallée en nageant de piscines en piscines...

Maddalena quitte son travail en Italie pour rejoindre son fiancé aux États-Unis. Mais elle est retenue à la douane à cause d'un morceau de mortadelle.

Gourmet Nero Wolfe interrupts his orchid-tending to take on the case of a lady tycoon who wants to know why she's under investigation by the FBI, only to find himself enmeshed in a puzzling murder-mystery. TV movie based on Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series.

A precocious young girl and her younger brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Joe Boyd, an aging Washington Senators fan, would sell his soul for the Senators to beat the New York Yankees and win the pennant. Enter Mr. Applegate, who offers to turn Boyd into Joe Hardy, a powerful young baseball player, in exchange for his soul. When Boyd agrees, he becomes Hardy and leads the Senators on a winning streak. When he starts to miss his wife, though, and questions the deal, Applegate sends temptress Lola into the mix.

A television dramatization based on the life and work of Florence Nightingale. The story, set in 1856, relates the incidents in her life following the war in the Crimea, where she had gained such fame that her name was virtually a household word.

While touring a museum, Rodney Hatch, an unremarkable barber, places an engagement ring intended for his girlfriend on the hand of a statue of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. From Mount Olympus, Venus witnesses the event and decides to visit Rodney on Earth by magically inhabiting the statue. Hilarity ensues when she starts to fall in love with Rodney and competes with his girlfriend for his attentions. This television version of Kurt Weill's successful Broadway musical is much more faithful to the stage version than the 1948 Ava Gardner film, which changed the story considerably and cut most of the songs.