Howard E. Rollins Jr.

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City. (imdb)

A black soldier is killed while returning to his base in the deep south. The white people of the area are suspected at first. A tough black army attorney is brought in to find out the truth. We find out a bit more about the dead soldier in flashbacks - and that he was unpopular. Will the attorney find the killer ? (imdb)

Quasisupernatural TV-movie, produced by the Children's TV Workshop, depicts the plight of young Walter when he and his family move into an old rural Ohio home once owned by a Dutchman who helped slaves escape through the pre-Civil War underground. The house's reputation for being haunted results in a spectral-like image scaring the black family half to death on a stormy night as well as the appearance of an old man., Pluto, who could be a ghost too. (John Stanley's Creature Features Movie Guide Strikes Again)

An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug dealers and pickpockets for a shady crime boss. (imdb)

Fact based story about real estate agent Gayle Wolfer who was shot and nearly killed by a man whom she was showing a house to. Even though she is physically and emotionally scarred from the incident, Gayle is determined to find her attacker. One day while she is at a county fair she recognizes the man who attacked her but she is shocked to find out he is a policeman. No one believes Gayle at first because the man is such an upstanding citizen but the case eventually goes to trial.

A physician (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.

Bill Gillespie is a police chief in a small town in the American South, and later becomes sheriff of the county. As Bill tries to solve crimes and catch criminals, aided by his capable investigator Virgil Tibbs and police lieutenant Bubba Skinner, he must navigate tricky small-town politics. Racial tensions often run high in the South and this theme is frequently explored. Bill's personal life is often portrayed in this TV drama, as well. (imdb)

"The Trial of the Moke" is about the first black man to graduates from West Point. Flipper is framed for embezzlement by his fellow cadets to drive him away. But Flipper wasn't going anywhere until he cleared his name. (imdb)

Follows a group of interns in a large teaching hospital. When Jo, Chief Resident, has a breakdown the interns are reluctantly placed under the tutelage of the senior resident known as The Fatman.

A neighborhood in Brooklyn reacts to the first black families moving into the community.

Fact-based drama about a US soldier who was the victim of torture by his own side, and was also administered drugs to him without his knowledge as part of an experiment. Starring Glynn Turman and Vincent Gardenia (tvguide.co.uk/detail/904854/110339198/conspiracy-exposed-the-james-thornwell-story-1981)

This drama focuses on young Martin Luther King Jr.'s early encounters with prejudice and how the love and courage of his family moved him to speak out against segregation and become a leader in the civil rights movement. (imdb)

Two years of sobriety are more than enough to suit Jim (Richard Lewis), a recovering hophead and lifelong elbow-bender. At an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in a dreary Times Square church cellar, his sponsor prods Jim to again recount his struggle with booze and smack -- which sends him out to find deliverance in his old demons. Meanwhile, his compatriots are left to continue with their tales of substance abuse and self-inflicted misery.