Michael O'Hara the Fourth (1972 TV Movie) User Reviews

A really great family movie with lot's of side splitting humor

[janarie8 · 10/10 · 24 November 2009]

Our family recorded this movie from Disney in 1983 on beta and it has always been a family favorite of our 3 daughters (now married) we copied it onto VHS and now DVD. We wish we could obtain a better copy. This is such a great family movie, we wish they had made it an ongoing series.

We hope other families have similar experiences with this movie, if so we'd love to hear from them.

We especially like the interplay between "Mike" and Norman. He seems like such a dork but we think there is more beneath the surface that might have surfaced if the movie had worked into a series.

We love the scene in the drug store where Mike and Norman are trying to find evidence in the safe.

Another great Disney TV movie from the 70's. Jo Ann Harris and Michael Mcgreevey

[RogerMooreTheBestBond · 10/10 · 2 November 2020]

I have found some of these great Disney TV Movies on ebay and sell over the past few years. I love everything Disney from the 50's thru the early 80's. There was nothing like Disney and there will never be anything like it again. There was magic and wonderful writing. I'm turning 50 this month and still enjoy classic Disney as much as I did as a kid. Michael O' Hara the Fourth also has the Disney charm. I had never seen this film before. Jo Ann Harris is wonderful and funny as Mike O' Hara the Fourth. Michael Mcgreevey is also great as her boyfriend. I've been a big fan of his because of the Disney films he did with Kurt Russell. I saw a Kurt Russel Biograpy years ago and found Michael was Kurt's business manager. I thought that was great. Anyway the film follows Jo Ann as the daughter of her Policeman father. and the other O'hara's were all policeman. So Jo Ann is wanting to investigate crimes that happen in their town. Michael reluctantly helps her in and out of some tight and some funny situations. It's hard to explain the charm of Disney. It had to be the people behind the scenes that molded these films. And you have to credit Walt Disney with creating it all. Disney films now days are nothing special. And they are not totally clean and kid friendly like they should. Even the Star Wars films are not the same. Thankfully we have all these wonderful films to watch. I wish Disney would officially release all of the TV movies they produced. Also, I would love to see them finish releasing their big screem films on Blu Ray. They have released quite a few, but there are 20 or more titles that still need a release. Blackbeard's Ghost was a horrible transfer on DVD. Thankfuly the Blu Ray looked beautiful.

Movies like this one are what made Disney great when I was a kid

[Mccadoo · 10/10 · 1 April 2010]

I first saw this movie in 1972 when it aired on two parts on the Wonderful World of Disney, Sunday night, 7:00 pm. I immediately fell in love with JoAnn Harris (I was fourteen)and have never forgotten the movie. In the early 80's I, like the other reviewer, found it on the Disney channel and taped it onto VHS. Unfortunately I then forgot all about it and the tape vanished somewhere over the years. I think this movie represents what made Disney so great back then (my adolescent crush on Ms. Harris aside). It was well done, fun family entertainment. It had humor and a good story and wholesome characters that kids could hopefully relate to. It was something the whole family could watch together without anyone cringing over something on screen. How many television shows can claim that today. I've always remembered this movie along with several others, "Inky the Crow" was one, and the series of Kurt Russell as Dexter Riley movies from the same time period. I miss this kind of entertainment.