Robert Butler

Robert Butler (November 17, 1927 - November 3, 2023), the revered director known for steering the debut episodes of iconic series like Batman, Star Trek, Hill Street Blues, and Moonlighting, passed away on November 3 in Los Angeles at the age of 95. Butler also played a role in co-creating Remington Steele, featuring Pierce Brosnan, and directed its inaugural episode. His legacy extends to directing the premiere of Hogan’s Heroes in 1965, setting the stage and directing pivotal episodes for Glenn Gordon Caron’s Moonlighting, Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Sisters, and The Division.

Works

The Division
7.0

The Division

The Division is an American crime drama television series created by Deborah Joy LeVine and starring Bonnie Bedelia. The series focused on a team of women police officers in the San Francisco Police Department. The series premiered on Lifetime on January 7, 2001 and ended on June 28, 2004 after 88 episodes.

Release Date: 2001-01-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 13

5.3

Turbulence

On a flight transporting dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver manages to break free and cause complete chaos throughout the plane. As various people on board fall victim to Weaver, it is ultimately down to flight attendant Teri Halloran to keep the aircraft from crashing, with on-ground support from an air traffic controller. While Halloran struggles to pilot the plane, Weaver continues to terrorize the surviving members of the crew.

Release Date: 1997-01-09

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 247

5.6

White Mile

An ad-agency boss (Alan Alda) leads a white-water-rafting trip into danger.

Release Date: 1994-05-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 18

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
7.0

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man of Steel's early adult years in Metropolis. With the unknowing help of Lois Lane, Clark Kent created Superman there in Metropolis after finding work at the world-famous Daily Planet newspaper, where he meets fellow reporter Lois Lane.

Release Date: 1993-09-12

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 451

Sirens
6.0

Sirens

Sirens focused on the work and lives of three rookie female Pittsburgh Police officers. Officer Sarah Berkezchuk is dealing with her failing marriage, Officer Lynn Stanton is a single mom, and second-generation cop Officer Molly Whelan has a bad attitude which starts to interfere with her job. Each rookie officer worked under a veteran cop, and each grows and becomes more focused as a result.

Release Date: 1993-03-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 1

Sisters
7.3

Sisters

The Reed sisters of Winnetka, Illinois, are a close-knit group. Alex, Georgie, Teddy, and Frankie navigate the waters of life's triumphs and tragedies with the help of their mom, Bea. And no matter what befalls them, they know they can count on their sisters to help pull them through. (Sisters is an Emmy Award-winning television drama.)

Release Date: 1991-05-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 9

Midnight Caller
7.4

Midnight Caller

Midnight Caller is a dramatic NBC television series created by Richard DiLello, which ran from 1988 to 1991. It was one of the first television series to address the dramatic possibilities of the then-growing phenomenon of talk radio. Except for a brief stint on Lifetime in the 1990s, the series has not been rerun or issued on DVD.

Release Date: 1988-10-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 20

4.0

Out of Time

A cop from the future goes back in time to Los Angeles and teams up with his grandfather to capture a master criminal.

Release Date: 1988-07-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2

Out on a Limb
5.3

Out on a Limb

An intense, clandestine love affair with a prominent politician sparks Shirley MacLaine's quest of self-discovery. From Stockholm to Hawaii, to the mountainous vastness of Peru, from disbelief to radiant affirmation, she discovers the roots of her very existence... and the infinite possibilities of life.

Release Date: 1987-01-18

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 3

Long Time Gone

A "world-class screw-up" private eye finds his world and his attention changed when he is reunited with his estranged 11-year old son.

Release Date: 1986-05-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Our Family Honor
5.0

Our Family Honor

Launched as a two-hour TV-movie, Our Family Honor is about two New York City families who had known each other since their childhoods and who were involved in competing "family businesses" – the McKay family mostly worked for the New York City Police Department, where Patrick was Commissioner, while the Danzigs were deeply involved in organized crime, with patriarch Vincent filling the role of "godfather". Barbara Stuart played Vincent's wife, Marianne Danzig. Detective Sergeant Frank McKay was Patrick's often hot-headed son, while Vincent's cruel but inept son, Augie, was nonetheless his heir apparent. Liz McKay, Patrick's niece, was a newly-graduated officer now partnered with Officer Ed Santini. She was romantically involved with Vincent's other son, Jerry, who wanted out of his father's business and used the name "Jerry Cole" in order to minimize any connection with his father's family. Another story line involved Vincent's murder of his wife's lover, carried out by Augie; when Frank came to arrest Augie for this crime, Augie died in the ensuing fight. The effect of Augie's death was not revealed.

Release Date: 1985-09-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

Moonlighting
7.5

Moonlighting

After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.

Release Date: 1985-03-03

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 350

Star Trek: The Menagerie

Spock hijacks the Enterprise and risks death to help his former Captain, Christopher Pike who has been paralyzed and disfigured in a horrible accident. Spock sets a course for Talos IV, knowing that any contact with this forbidden planet will automatically bring a death penalty! What could motivate him to do such a thing? Kirk, forced to convict his First Officer, and best friend, wonders if Spock could have gone mad! In his defense, Spock uses the illusionary powers of Talosians to recall Captain Pike's original visit to Talos IV, almost 13 years ago. It was a surrealistic planet of mind games and mysticism inhabited by eerie telepathic creatures. Kirk is both stunned and amazed as he learns the story of Captain Pike's kidnapping and mental torture at the hands of the Talosians, and how even a young Spock and the original Enterprise crew could not save him! In the tension-filled climax, Kirk must decide to uphold Federation law ... or do what he knows is morally just!

Release Date: 1985-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

4.0

Concrete Beat

A newspaper columnist becomes determined to clear a woman who is blamed for the death of her child in a tragic fire.

Release Date: 1984-07-09

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2

5.7

Up the Creek

Bob McGraw is in his 12th year of college, goofing his way through life. Bob, Irwing, Gonzer and Max are the four losers forced and bribed to represent their university in an intercollegiate raft race. Forced and bribed into this role, they make some friends, the lovely Heather Merriweather, but mostly enemies, among others a whole team of marines, and preppy IVY-leaguers determined to win.

Release Date: 1984-04-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 84

Remington Steele
7.1

Remington Steele

Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.

Release Date: 1982-10-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 127

Hill Street Blues
7.6

Hill Street Blues

A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

Release Date: 1981-01-15

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 107

4.9

Underground Aces

The escapades of a crew of zany parking lot attendants.

Release Date: 1981-01-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 7

5.9

Night of the Juggler

An ex New York cop is desperate to find his kidnapped daughter.

Release Date: 1980-06-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 19

6.0

Hot Lead & Cold Feet

Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father's fortune.

Release Date: 1978-07-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 29

Lacy and the Mississippi Queen

This lighthearted Western was an unsuccessful series pilot in which two sisters -- a gun-toting tomboy and a beauty with an engaging smile -- team up to track down a pair of train robbers, suspects in the shooting of their father.

Release Date: 1978-05-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

6.2

A Question of Guilt

A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child.

Release Date: 1978-02-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 4

6.5

Mayday at 40,000 Feet

The co-pilot and engineer of a passenger jet struggle to keep the plane airborne after a marshal onboard, transporting a murderer to prison, has a heart attack and the killer uses his gun to shoot the captain and blow out the hydraulics.

Release Date: 1977-04-29

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 4

3.5

In the Glitter Palace

The ex-girlfriend of a lawyer, who left him for a lesbian lover, asks him to defend her lover in a murder case.

Release Date: 1977-02-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2

4.7

James Dean

A dramatization of the story of legendary movie actor James Dean. The film's writer, William Bast, had roomed with Dean in the early '50s, when both were trying to break into films as actors, and was his lover for a time.

Release Date: 1976-02-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 7

Dark Victory

A TV producer with a terminal illness is given the strength to keep going by her love for her doctor.

Release Date: 1976-02-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

3.5

Strange New World

In the near future, a group of scientists living in a space ship wake up from a hibernation state and come back to an apocalyptic Earth.

Release Date: 1975-07-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 9

3.7

Black Bart

A television series titled Black Bart was produced for CBS based on Andrew Bergman's original story for Blazing Saddles (Black Bart was the movie's original title). It featured Lou Gossett, Jr. as Bart and Steve Landesberg as his drunkard sidekick, a former Confederate officer named "Reb Jordan". The Humour was much more toned down than it's feature film predecessor Other cast members included Millie Slavin and Noble Willingham. Bergman is listed as the sole creator. CBS aired the pilot once on April 4, 1975 as a CBS Special Presentation. The pilot featured guest appearances by Gerrit Graham and Brooke Adams and was written by Michael Elias and Rich Eustis. Elias and Eutis later created and executive produced the ABC sitcom Head of the Class (1986-1991).

Release Date: 1975-01-01

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 9

4.5

The Ultimate Thrill

At a Colorado ski resort, a jealous man's paranoia results in murder.

Release Date: 1974-10-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2

5.8

The Blue Knight

Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after 20 years on the job, but is not letting up on the criminal element on his beat.

Release Date: 1973-11-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 12

Kung Fu
7.6

Kung Fu

The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.

Release Date: 1972-10-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 211

The Waltons
7.1

The Waltons

The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.

Release Date: 1972-09-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 94

6.3

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible. Before Dexter and his friends, Debbie and Richard Schuyler, can even enjoy their spectacular discovery, corrupt businessman A.J. Arno plots to get his greedy hands on it. Slapstick hijinks ensue as Dexter and his pals try to thwart the evil Arno before he can use the invisibility spray to rob a bank.

Release Date: 1972-07-12

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 61

5.2

Death Takes a Holiday

Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman.

Release Date: 1971-10-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 4

Nichols
5.0

Nichols

Nichols is an American Western television series starring James Garner broadcast in the United States on NBC during the 1971-72 season. Set the fictional town of Nichols, Arizona, in 1914, Nichols differed from traditional Western series of the era. The main character, a sheriff, rode on a motorcycle and in an automobile rather than on the traditional horse. The hero did not carry a firearm and was generally opposed to the use of violence to solve problems, preferring other means. Margot Kidder portrayed Ruth, the love interest/barmaid of Nichols.

Release Date: 1971-09-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Columbo
8.1

Columbo

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.

Release Date: 1971-09-15

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 711

6.3

Scandalous John

A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.

Release Date: 1971-06-22

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6

5.6

The Barefoot Executive

In the great Disney tradition of wild family fun, a young Kurt Russell stars as Steven Post - an ambitious mailroom clerk at a second-rate TV network. With his eye on the boardroom, and getting nowhere with the studio's top dog, he makes a career-changing discovery. His girlfriend's lovable pet chimp can pick a hit show every time! His secret for success turns into a madcap monkey business when he makes vice president and jealous rivals want in on the act. Ride along with narrow escapes and a classic cast featuring Joe Flynn and Harry Morgan in a comedic climb up the corporate ladder that will leave you howling for more!

Release Date: 1971-03-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 39

6.0

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, he gets an electric shock and his brain turns to a computer; now he remembers everything he reads. Unfortunately, he also remembers information which was in the computer's memory, like Arno's illegal businesses..

Release Date: 1969-12-29

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 149

Then Came Bronson
4.8

Then Came Bronson

Then Came Bronson is an American adventure/drama television series starring Michael Parks that aired on NBC from 1969 to 1970, and was produced by MGM Television. The series, created by Denne Bart Petitclerc, began with a movie pilot on Monday, March 24, 1969. The series was approved for one year and began its first run on September 17, 1969. The pilot was also released in Europe as a feature film.

Release Date: 1969-09-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 4

4.5

Guns in the Heather

An American foreign exchange student in Ireland, Rich Evans (Kurt Russell), gets caught up in espionage when a dying man gives him a message to pass to his older brother, who is an American intelligence agent unbeknownst to Rich. Rich and his friend are then kidnapped by an Eastern Bloc agent pretending to be from the American Embassy in the hopes that they will lead him to a scientist who is attempting to defect to the West. Originally aired in 3 parts on 'Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color' TV series, then re-edited into a theatrical feature in Europe under the title, 'The Secret of Boyne Castle.'

Release Date: 1969-07-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 3

Lancer
4.7

Lancer

Lancer is an American Western series that aired on CBS from September 1968, to May 1970. The series stars Andrew Duggan, James Stacy, and Wayne Maunder as a father with two half-brother sons, an arrangement similar to the more successful Bonanza on NBC.

Release Date: 1968-09-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 5

The Outcasts
5.3

The Outcasts

A bounty hunter who was a Confederate Officer teams up with an ex-slave who was a Union Soldier during the Civil War… An American Western genre television series, appearing on ABC in the 1968-69 season. The series stars Don Murray and Otis Young. It is most notable for being the first television Western with an African American co-star.

Release Date: 1968-09-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3

Hawaii Five-O
7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".

Release Date: 1968-09-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 138

Judd for the Defense
7.5

Judd for the Defense

High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases throughout the U.S.

Release Date: 1967-09-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 2

Cimarron Strip
5.0

Cimarron Strip

Cimarron Strip is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from September 1967 to March 1968. Starring Stuart Whitman as Marshal Jim Crown, the series was produced by the creators of Gunsmoke. Reruns of the original show were aired in the summer of 1971. Cimarron Strip was one of only three 90-minute weekly Western series that aired during the 1960s, and the only 90-minute series of any kind to be centered primarily around one lead character. Cimarron Strip was set in the Oklahoma Panhandle, which comprises, east to west, Beaver, Texas, and Cimarron counties in Oklahoma. The show is set in 1888, just as the continuous frontier of the West, which once ran from the Canadian to the Mexican border, was closing. In less than five years there would no longer be that "continuous frontier," only pockets of undeveloped land. This was the late "Wild West" that Marshall Jim Crown was called to defend.

Release Date: 1967-09-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 11

N.Y.P.D.
5.8

N.Y.P.D.

N.Y.P.D. is the title of a half-hour American television crime drama of the 1960s set in the context of the New York City Police Department. The program appeared on the ABC network during the 1967-68 and 1968-69 television seasons. In both seasons, the program appeared in the evening, 9:30 p.m. time slot. During the second season, N.Y.P.D was joined by The Mod Squad and It Takes a Thief to form a 2½ hour block of crime dramas.

Release Date: 1967-09-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 4

Ironside
6.9

Ironside

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.

Release Date: 1967-03-28

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 63

The Invaders
6.8

The Invaders

The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for him it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Now, David Vincent knows that the Invaders are here, that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun.

Release Date: 1967-01-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 58

Mission: Impossible
7.6

Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. In the first season, the team is led by Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill; Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, takes charge for the remaining seasons. A hallmark of the series shows Briggs or Phelps receiving his instructions on a recording that then self-destructs, followed by the theme music composed by Lalo Schifrin. The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973, then returned to television for two seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1990, retaining only Graves in the cast. It later inspired a popular series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise, beginning in 1996.

Release Date: 1966-09-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 277

Felony Squad
6.4

Felony Squad

Twenty-year veteran Detective Sergeant Sam Stone is paired with rookie Briggs in a large Western metropolis.

Release Date: 1966-09-12

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 5

Shane
6.0

Shane

Shane works for the Starett family, a young widow, her son, and her aging father-in-law, protecting them against the anti-sodbuster rancher Ryker and other perils plaguing the Old West.

Release Date: 1966-09-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 4

Star Trek
8.0

Star Trek

Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk with First Officer Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. With a determined crew, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen led by Khan Noonian Singh. Their mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before.

Release Date: 1966-09-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 1312

Batman
7.3

Batman

Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.

Release Date: 1966-01-12

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 546

Blue Light
5.0

Blue Light

A U.S. double agent in WWII Germany infiltrates Nazi councils while evading Allied intelligence (publicly, he was a foreign correspondent who had renounced his American citizenship). Three episodes of the series were stitched together into the 1966 theatrical movie 'I Deal in Danger.'

Release Date: 1966-01-12

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

Mister Roberts
7.5

Mister Roberts

Mister Roberts is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 17, 1965 to April 8, 1966. Based on the best selling novel, 1948 play, and the 1955 film of the same name, the series stars Roger Smith in the title role and Richard X. Slattery as the ship's captain.

Release Date: 1965-09-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 2

Hogan's Heroes
7.5

Hogan's Heroes

Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the commandant of the camp, and John Banner was the inept sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz. The series was popular during its six-season run. In 2013, creators Bernard Fein through his estate and Albert S. Ruddy acquired the sequel and other separate rights to Hogan's Heroes from Mark Cuban through arbitration and a movie based on the show has been planned.

Release Date: 1965-09-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 161

I Spy
6.3

I Spy

A pair of intelligence agents posing as a tennis pro and his coach go on secret missions around the world.

Release Date: 1965-09-15

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 28

Kilroy

Just discharged from the Marine Corps, Oscar Kilroy arrives in the small town of Wilton Junction. Befriending the young Bill Fuller, he gets involved in the affairs of the town and hilarity ensues. The mayor of the city, fearing Oscar Kilroy's popularity, schemes to discredit him by entrusting the management of the city dog pound to him. However, against all odds, Oscar Kilroy takes his work to heart at the pound and implements a plan to save the condemned dogs.

Release Date: 1965-03-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

5.2

Star Trek: The Cage

The first pilot episode of Star Trek. Led by Captain Christopher Pike, the crew of the starship Enterprise investigates of a far-off planet which was the site of a shipwreck eighteen years earlier. They encounter telepathic aliens who seek a human male specimen for their menagerie.

Release Date: 1965-02-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 4

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
5.5

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.

Release Date: 1963-10-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 6

Espionage

Espionage

Espionage is a 1963 Associated Television series, distributed outside the UK by ITC Entertainment and networked in the United States by NBC.

Release Date: 1963-10-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

The Richard Boone Show
7.0

The Richard Boone Show

The Richard Boone Show is a short-lived, award-winning anthology television series. It aired on NBC during the 1963-64 season.

Release Date: 1963-09-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

The Fugitive
7.2

The Fugitive

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.

Release Date: 1963-09-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 56

The Lieutenant
6.0

The Lieutenant

The Lieutenant is an American television series, the first created by Gene Roddenberry. It aired on NBC on Saturday evenings in the 1963–1964 television schedule. It was produced by Arena Productions, one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most successful in-house production companies of the 1960s. Situated at Camp Pendleton, the West Coast base of the U.S. Marine Corps, The Lieutenant focuses on the men of the Corps in peace time with a Cold War backdrop. The title character is Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice, a rifle platoon leader and one of the training instructors at Camp Pendleton. An hour-long drama, The Lieutenant explores the lives of enlisted Marines and general officers alike. The series was released on DVD in two half-season sets by the Warner Archive Collection on August 14, 2012.

Release Date: 1963-09-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 3

Stoney Burke
5.7

Stoney Burke

Stoney Burke is an American western television series broadcast on ABC from October 1, 1962 until May 20, 1963. Six years before the premiere of his CBS crime drama, Hawaii Five-0, Jack Lord starred in the title role.

Release Date: 1962-10-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 4

The Virginian
6.4

The Virginian

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.

Release Date: 1962-09-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 28

The Dick Van Dyke Show
7.4

The Dick Van Dyke Show

The Dick Van Dyke Show centers around the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie. The plots generally revolve around problems at work, where Rob got into various comedic jams with fellow writers Buddy Sorrell, Sally Rogers and producer Mel Cooley.

Release Date: 1961-10-03

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 91

Ben Casey
5.6

Ben Casey

Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.

Release Date: 1961-10-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 14

Dr. Kildare
5.3

Dr. Kildare

The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.

Release Date: 1961-09-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 17

The Dick Powell Show
5.0

The Dick Powell Show

The Dick Powell Show is an American anthology series that ran on NBC from 1961- 1963, primarily sponsored by the Reynolds Metals Company. It was hosted by longtime film star Dick Powell until his death from lymphatic cancer on January 2, 1963, then by a series of guest hosts until the series ended. The first of these was Gregory Peck, who began the January 8 program with a tribute to Powell, recognizing him as "a great and good friend to our industry." Peck was followed by fellow actors such as Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Glenn Ford, Charles Boyer, Jackie Cooper, Rock Hudson, Milton Berle, Jack Lemmon, Dean Martin, Robert Taylor, Steve McQueen, David Niven, Danny Thomas, Robert Wagner and John Wayne.

Release Date: 1961-09-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 5

The Wonderful World of Disney
8.0

The Wonderful World of Disney

Release Date: 1961-09-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 2

The Defenders
6.2

The Defenders

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.

Release Date: 1961-09-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 9

Peter Loves Mary
5.0

Peter Loves Mary

Peter Loves Mary is a one-season American situation comedy, starring real-life husband and wife Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, that aired on NBC from October 12, 1960 to May 31, 1961.

Release Date: 1960-10-12

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 1

Happy
5.5

Happy

Happy is an American sitcom that aired on NBC. The series stars Ronnie Burns, the adopted son of George Burns and Gracie Allen, which aired from June 8 to September 28, 1960.

Release Date: 1960-06-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

The Detectives
5.6

The Detectives

The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The series, starring motion picture star Robert Taylor, was produced by Four Star Television.

Release Date: 1959-10-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 7

The Twilight Zone
8.4

The Twilight Zone

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

Release Date: 1959-10-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 914

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
5.8

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The series and several episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 collection of short stories of the same name, written by Max Shulman, who had also written a feature film adaptation of his short stories for MGM in 1953, The Affairs of Dobie Gillis. The series revolved around the life of teenager/young adult Dobie Gillis, who, along with his best friend, beatnik Maynard G. Krebs, struggles against the forces of his life - high school, the military, college, and his parents - as he aspires to attain both wealth and dates with girls. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was produced by Martin Manulis Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Creator Shulman also wrote the theme song in collaboration with Lionel Newman.

Release Date: 1959-09-29

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 14

Heart of Darkness

A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.

Release Date: 1958-11-06

Department: Directing

Job: Assistant Director

The Rifleman
7.0

The Rifleman

The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.

Release Date: 1958-09-30

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 46

Have Gun, Will Travel
7.4

Have Gun, Will Travel

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.

Release Date: 1957-09-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 40

No Right to Kill

This is a special series of lost classic programs from the Golden Age of TV. The series has been restored by SabuCat Productions from the best archival film elements available in high definition, some of the programs have not been seen since they were originally broadcast. Volume One features 2 one-hour dramatic programs that feature John Cassavetes. Climax! ran for four years - This was an anthology series that presented a different story and different set of characters on each episode. It ran from 1954 to 1958 and featured Casino Royale of James Bond fame that lead to a feature film of the same titles. On August 9th, 1956 - they showed No Right to Kill directed by Buzz Kulik and starring John Cassavetes, Robert H. Harris, Joe Mantell and Terry Moore.

Release Date: 1956-08-09

Department: Directing

Job: Assistant Director

Gunsmoke
6.6

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.

Release Date: 1955-09-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 101

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