Murder in Texas is a 1981 television film that starred Katharine Ross

Katharine Ross

Katharine Juliet Ross is an American film and stage actress. Trained at the San Francisco Workshop, she is perhaps best known for her role as Elaine Robinson in the 1967 film The Graduate, opposite Dustin Hoffman, which won her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and her role...

, Sam Elliott

Sam Elliott

Samuel Pack "Sam" Elliott is an American actor. His rangy physique, thick horseshoe moustache, and deep, resonant voice match the iconic image of a cowboy or rancher, and he has often been cast in such roles.-Early life:Sam Elliott was born in Sacramento, California, to a physical training...

, Farrah Fawcett

Farrah Fawcett

Farrah Fawcett was an American actress and artist. A multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she first appeared as private investigator Jill Munroe in the first season of the television series Charlie's Angels, in 1976...

, and Andy Griffith

Andy Griffith

Andy Samuel Griffith is an American actor, director, producer, Grammy Award-winning Southern-gospel singer, and writer. He gained prominence in the starring role in director Elia Kazan's epic film A Face in the Crowd before he became better known for his television roles, playing the lead...

. The film was directed by William Hale

William Hale

William Hale, the so-called "King of the Osage Hills," was a U.S. cattleman and convicted murderer.A power player in the Osage Indian Reservation in northern Oklahoma, Hale rose to local prominence in the late 19th century through years of bribery, intimidation, and extortion...

, and was based on a true story; that was written for the TV screen by John McGreevey.

Plot

Based on a true story, this film tells of a plastic surgeon who was a suspected of causing the death of his first wife, the daughter of a wealthy member of Houston society. The doctor then marries his mistress, who he had been seeing during his marriage. His former father-in-law, convinced that his daughter was murdered, determines to see that the doctor is punished.

Cast

• Katharine Ross
  Katharine Ross
  Katharine Juliet Ross is an American film and stage actress. Trained at the San Francisco Workshop, she is perhaps best known for her role as Elaine Robinson in the 1967 film The Graduate, opposite Dustin Hoffman, which won her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and her role...
  
   as Ann Kurth Hill
• Sam Elliott
  Sam Elliott
  Samuel Pack "Sam" Elliott is an American actor. His rangy physique, thick horseshoe moustache, and deep, resonant voice match the iconic image of a cowboy or rancher, and he has often been cast in such roles.-Early life:Sam Elliott was born in Sacramento, California, to a physical training...
  
   as Dr. John Hill
• Farrah Fawcett
  Farrah Fawcett
  Farrah Fawcett was an American actress and artist. A multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she first appeared as private investigator Jill Munroe in the first season of the television series Charlie's Angels, in 1976...
  
   as Joan Robinson Hill
• Andy Griffith
  Andy Griffith
  Andy Samuel Griffith is an American actor, director, producer, Grammy Award-winning Southern-gospel singer, and writer. He gained prominence in the starring role in director Elia Kazan's epic film A Face in the Crowd before he became better known for his television roles, playing the lead...
  
   as Ash Robinson
• G.W. Bailey as Richard "Racehorse" Haynes
• Barry Corbin
  Barry Corbin
  Leonard Barrie Corbin, known as Barry Corbin , is an American actor with more than one hundred film, television and video game credits.-Early life:...
  
   as Dist. Atty. McMasters
• Pamela Myers
  Pamela Myers
  Pamela Myers is an American actress who made her Broadway debut as Marta in Stephen Sondheim's musical Company. For this role, in which she introduced the show-stopping number, "Another Hundred People," she was nominated at the 1971 Tony awards for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical...
  
   as Mary
• Craig T. Nelson
  Craig T. Nelson
  Craig Theodore Nelson is an American actor. He is probably best known for his Emmy-winning roles as Hayden Fox on the TV series Coach, and as Steve Freeling in the 1982 film Poltergeist. He also starred in The Incredibles in 2004 as Mr...
  
   as Jack Ramsey
• Royce Wallace
  Royce Wallace
  Royce Wallace is an American veteran stage and screen actress who had a long distinguished career in films and television from the 1960s through the 1980s. She has appeared in mostly guest roles on shows such as Sanford and Son, Benson, Quincy, M.E. and in miniseries such as Roots: The Next...
  
   as Wilma
• Dimitra Arliss
  Dimitra Arliss
  Dimitra Arliss , sometimes credited as Dimitra Arlys, is an American actress.Arliss became noticed after appearing in Arthur L. Kopit's Broadway play Indians in the 1960s in which she played a Native American character who spoke with an Italian accent...
  
   as Gina Meier
• Jude Farese as Casselli
• Philip Sterling as Dr. Helpern
• Vernon Weddle as Dr. Joe
• Lesley Woods
  Lesley Woods
  Lesley Woods was an American stage and television actress.-Biography:She was born on August 22, 1910 and began her career in Broadway shows, including "A Case of Libel". She was married to Richard McMurray. Sam McMurray is her stepson. She was a member of Theatre West.She appeared in: Young Dr...
  
   as Reah Robinson

Reception

Murder in Texas was nominated for a 1982 Golden Globe Award for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV. In addition, Andy Griffith

Andy Griffith

Andy Samuel Griffith is an American actor, director, producer, Grammy Award-winning Southern-gospel singer, and writer. He gained prominence in the starring role in director Elia Kazan's epic film A Face in the Crowd before he became better known for his television roles, playing the lead...

received his only Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Ash Robinson.