1976-1981 GENERAL HOSPITAL
ABC Television Daytime Serial
Role: Dr. Jeff Webber
Richard first gained national recognition in this long-running daytime serial. He joined the cast from 1976 to 1981 as young resident and neurosurgeon Dr. Jeff Webber. His story lines included discovering that his wife, Monica, had slept with his brother, Rick. Depressed, he shot himself in the head, but later survived brain surgery. He also fathered Heather's baby, which was sold to the Taylor family. When his wife, Heather, was institutionalized, he left Port Charles for Carson City, to start a new life with his son P.J. Credits and Information |
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1980 DINAH!
Syndicated Television Talk Show
Guest/ Episode: "Sex Symbols in Daytime TV"
Airdate: Summer, 1980
Guest
Richard joins other stars of daytime television for a guest appearance on Dinah Shore's talk show, where he and his friend Carl Dante perform the song "You're Just a Runaway" with their band, "Ricky Dean and Dante." Audio File
1981 THE FACTS OF LIFE
NBC Television Series
Guest Role/ Episode: "Brian and Sylvia"
Airdate: March 25, 1981
Role: Brian Parker
This episode was an unsold spinoff pilot for the series The Parkers. Richard plays Tootie's uncle, married to her Aunt Sylvia. The pilot explores their happy inter-racial marriage, and deals with Sylvia's opportunity to pursue a TV-news career in New York City, and Brian's wish to remain in Buffalo as a hockey coach. Video Captures
1981 TODAY'S FBI
ABC Television Series
Guest Role/ Episode: "The Fugitive"
Airdate: November 29, 1981
Role: Andy McFey
Richard plays Andy McFey, a childhood friend of series regular Al Gordean, played by Richard Hill. Andy had been a dispatcher in a trucking company who helped to engineer an armored car robbery, had been caught, and sent to prison. In the episode, Andy and two other inmates escape and are hunted by the FBI. Al tries to convince his friend to surrender, but Andy, distraught over the direction his life has taken, would rather die than return to prison. Video Captures
1982 THE LOVE BOAT
ABC Television Series
Guest Role/ Episode: "Cold Feet"
Airdate: March 20, 1982
Role: Carter Randall
Carter Randall, Julie's cousin, is sailing on the cruise with his fiancée Muffy, played by Linda Blair. In a serious case of "cold feet", Carter begs Julie to help him back out of the wedding by getting Muffy to fall in love with another man. However, the "other man" ends up being Carter, in a cowboy disguise. Video Captures
1982 YOUNG DOCTORS IN LOVE
ABC Motion Pictures Production
Airdate: 1982
Guest Role: "Vanilla"
Produced and directed by Garry Marshall, and written by Michael Elias and Rich Eustis, this comedy is a frenzied sendup of the medical profession. Richard has a small uncredited cameo role as "Vanilla", a drug-dealing ice cream vendor.
1982-1983 SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS
CBS Television Series
Series Premiere Airdate: September 19, 1982
Role: Adam McFaddan
This musical series is based loosely on the 1954 MGM musical of the same name. Richard plays the eldest of seven orphaned brothers, who marries Hannah in the pilot episode, and brings her home to the family. Credits and Information
1982 $25,000 PYRAMID
CBS Television Game Show
Airdate: November 1st to 5th, 1982
Guest Contestant with Didi Conn
1983
$25,000 PYRAMID
CBS Television Game Show
Airdate: February 21st to 25th, 1983
Guest Contestant with Nancy Dussault
1983-1984 EMERALD POINT N.A.S.
CBS Television Series
Series Premiere Airdate: September 26, 1983
Role: Lt. Simon Adams
This prime time serial, in the tradition of Dynasty, centers around the interlocking relationships of two families at the Emerald Point Naval Air Station. Richard plays Lieutenant Simon Adams, a hot-shot Naval pilot. Credits and Information
1984 BATTLE OF THE NETWORK STARS
ABC Television Special
Guest/ Episode #16
Airdate: May 3, 1984
Guest Contestant
Representing Emerald Point N.A.S, Richard joins the CBS team in the 16th Battle of the Network Stars special. He participates in the swimming relay, touch football, baseball dunk, obstacle course, tandem bike relay, and tug of war, helping to lead CBS to a victory over the other two networks. Video Captures
1984/5 ODD JOBS
Silver Screen Partners Production
Airdate: 1985
Guest Role: Spud
In this comedy, produced by Keith Fox Rubinstein, written by Robert Conte and Peter Martin Wortmann, and directed by Mark Story, five college buddies on summer break team up to form a moving company despite local loan sharks and mobsters. Richard has a small guest role as "Spud", the conceited and self-absorbed boyfriend that Julianne Phillips uses to spark jealousy in her former boyfriend, played by Paul Reiser. Video Captures
1985/6 ORDINARY HEROES
Feature Movie Released to ABC Television
Airdate: October 19, 1986
Role: Tony Kaiser
In this updated remake of the 1945 movie Pride of the Marines, Tony Kaiser is drafted to serve in Vietnam, but three days before he is due to return home, he is blinded, and must face his loss of sight, and the girlfriend he left behind. Credits and Information
1985-1992 MACGYVER
ABC Television Series
Series Premiere Airdate: September 29, 1985
Role: Angus MacGyver
Described as a cross between Indiana Jones and Mr. Wizard, MacGyver spent seven seasons on television using his scientific knowledge and the objects around him to solve almost any problem. Credits and Information
1980s ABC WEEKEND SPECIALS WITH O.G. READMORE
ABC Children's Television Series
Airdate: 1980s
Repeated appearances as guest host
This Saturday morning children's program used Captain O.G. Readmore, a puppet cat character, to encourage children to read by introducing cartoon and live action stories based on classic children's literature. Richard made several appearances as a guest host who helped O.G. introduce the stories.
1992 IN THE EYES OF A STRANGER
CBS Television Movie
Airdate: April 7, 1992
Role: Jack Rourke
Justine Bateman plays the witness to a crime, and Richard is the cynical cop assigned to protect her. Their relationship leads to a passionate affair, and to numerous plot twists involving deception, betrayal, and two million dollars. Credits and Information
1992 THROUGH THE EYES OF A KILLER
CBS Television Movie
Airdate: December 15, 1992
Role: Ray Bellano
Richard plays a building contractor hired to renovate an apartment for Laurie, played by Marg Helgenberger. What follows is a passionate sexual affair, and a suspenseful blend of jealousy, stalking, mystery, and murder. Credits and Information
1993/4 MACGYVER: LOST TREASURE OF ATLANTIS
ABC Television Movie
Airdate: May 14, 1994
Role: Angus MacGyver
MacGyver returns for a new adventure in England, joining an eccentric archaeologist and a young female scholar in a quest through Europe for the treasure of the legendary Atlantis. Credits and Information
1993/4 MACGYVER: TRAIL TO DOOMSDAY
ABC Television Movie
Airdate: November 24, 1994
Role: Angus MacGyver
In MacGyver's last adventure, he investigates the death of his friend, which leads him to a mysterious plot involving international terrorists and a secret nuclear weapons facility. Credits and Information
1994 BEYOND BETRAYAL
CBS Television Movie
Airdate: October 11, 1994
Role: Bradley Matthews
Richard stars as a sociopathic cop searching for the estranged wife he has abused, played by Susan Dey. Although she has gone into hiding, she is unable to escape the threat he poses, both to her, and to the new man in her life. Credits and Information
1994 WORLD OF AUDUBON/ Tenth Anniversay Special
TBS Television Special
Airdate: November 20, 1994
Guest Host
Lauren Hutton and Richard Dean Anderson co-host a special retrospective that examines some of the most significant Audubon specials in the past ten years. Richard participates in a program for releasing wolves back into the wild, and a plan for cleaning up Long Island Sound.
1994 SPEED: HOLLYWOOD'S LOVE AFFAIR WITH RACING
ESPN Television Special
Airdate: 1994
Guest Host
Richard hosts a special look back at the important role auto racing has had in Hollywood movies, as actors and professional race car drivers share their stories, experiences, and film clips.
1995 LEGEND
UPN Television Series
Series Premiere Airdate: April 18, 1995
Role: Ernest Pratt/Nicodemus Legend
Set in the West of the 1870's, Richard plays Ernest Pratt, a dime novel writer, who reluctantly assumes the role of Nicodemus Legend, the heroic fictional character he created. Credits and Information
1995 PAST THE BLEACHERS
ABC Television Movie
Airdate: June 22, 1995
Role: Bill Parish
Richard plays a man haunted by the death of his son. When he agrees to coach a youth baseball team with the help of a lonely widower, he is drawn to the team's star player, a boy who is mute, and mysterious, yet reminds him of his son. As he searches for the boy's true identity, he slowly comes out of his grief and comes to terms with his son's death. Credits and Information
1996/7 FIREHOUSE
CBS Television Series
Unaired Pilot
Role: Lieutenant Michael Brooks
Richard leads a team of New York City firefighters as they deal with the addition of a female paramedic to the team, as well as a sniper who targets firefighters. The series was not picked up by the network, and the pilot as yet remains unaired in the US. Credits and Information |
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1996 PANDORA'S CLOCK
NBC Television Miniseries
Airdate: November 10-11, 1996
Role: Captain James Holland
In this four-hour miniseries, Richard is cast as the heroic pilot of a doomed airliner who must weave through a maze of biological warfare and international intrigue when his plane is suspected of carrying a virus so deadly that no airport will allow it to land. Credits and Information |
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1996/7 FALLOUT
Interplay Computer Role Playing Game
Release date: Autumn, 1997
Role: Mayor Killian Darkwater
In the fall of 1996 Richard joined celebrities including David Warner, Ron Perlman, Richard Moll, and Tony Shalub, to lend his voice to a "post nuclear role playing game." Set in the aftermath of a world-wide nuclear war, the game challenges you to take on the role of an underground Vault-dweller and to survive in an unknown and dangerous world. Richard takes the role of Killian, a character who "could be an ally. He could be an enemy. He could be mocking you." Fallout deals with adults themes, and is intended for mature audiences. Audio File
1996/7 NEWTON'S APPLE
PBS Television Series
Guest/ Episode #1508
Airdate: November 23, 1997
Guest Host
In a segment taped in December of 1996, Richard shares the physics of hockey with viewers of this PBS science program for young people. Through a series of on-ice demonstrations, Richard shows how direction, mass and acceleration affect the force one hockey player has on another.
1997- STARGATE SG-1
Showtime Television Series
Series Premiere Airdate: July 27, 1997
Role: Colonel Jack O'Neill
Based on the 1994 MGM movie StarGate, this science fiction adventure series stars Richard Dean Anderson as Colonel Jack O'Neill, a soldier who must lead a team of highly trained experts on a classified mission through an infinite corridor that slices across universes. The series debuted on the Showtime network and moved to the Sci Fi Channel for its sixth season, with syndication worldwide. It is currently in production in Vancouver, British Columbia. Credits and Information
2000 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER
CNBC Television Series
Guest/Episode: "Battle For Paradise"
Airdate: October 15, 2000
Guest Participant
National Geographic Explorer sets out to explore the magic of Headwall Canyon, a remarkable wilderness 60 miles outside Vancouver. Richard joins Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Kathy Francis, chief of the Klahoose First Nation, and host Boyd Matson for an exploration of North America's last true wilderness. Said Richard of the experience, "It was more than coming home. I never should have left in the first place. This is where I belong." Video Captures
GENERAL HOSPITAL
DINAH!
THE FACTS OF LIFE
TODAY'S FBI
THE LOVE BOAT
YOUNG DOCTORS IN LOVE
SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS
$25,000 PYRAMID
EMERALD POINT N.A.S. 
BATTLE OF THE NETWORK STARS
ODD JOBS
ORDINARY HEROES
MACGYVER
ABC WEEKEND SPECIALS WITH O.G. READMORE
IN THE EYES OF A STRANGER
THROUGH THE EYES OF A KILLER
MACGYVER: LOST TREASURE OF ATLANTIS
MACGYVER: TRAIL TO DOOMSDAY
BEYOND BETRAYAL
WORLD OF AUDUBON/ Tenth Anniversay Special
SPEED: HOLLYWOOD'S LOVE AFFAIR WITH RACING
LEGEND
PAST THE BLEACHERS
FIREHOUSE
PANDORA'S CLOCK
FALLOUT
NEWTON'S APPLE
STARGATE SG-1
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER