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In this made-for-cable television horror thriller, a travel writer visits a historic hotel to write a story about it and inadvertently finds herself on the 13th floor where she witnesses a Satanic rite and tangles with an axe-wielding killer. She escapes, but no one believes her story because the hotel has no 13th floor.
Release Date: 1990-10-31
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 21
Ambitious police sergeant, Charles Stoker, takes on prostitution in 1948 Los Angeles to make a name for himself. Madam, Brenda Allen, however has the 'whole city' on her payroll and his crusade proves difficult.
Release Date: 1988-04-22
Department: Directing
Job: Director
The Law & Harry McGraw is an American mystery crime drama television series created by Peter S. Fischer and a spin-off of Murder, She Wrote. The series stars Jerry Orbach as a Harry McGraw, a loudmouthed, uncouth, old school private detective who continually finds himself solving mysteries on behalf of the prim and proper attorney Ellie Maginnis who has an office across the hall.
Release Date: 1987-09-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lower middle class woman simply faints and suffers brain death. The beautiful womans brain is fine, so, doctors merely transplant her brain into plain Jane. Problems ensue when plain Janes husband continues to believe she is still his wife. She has no memory of him, and goes to live with the beautiful womans husband. She doesn't mix well with her new socialite friends and family. Mirrors are emotional battlefields as well.
Release Date: 1986-10-26
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 4
Blacke's Magic is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from January to May 1986. The series stars Hal Linden as magician Alexander Blacke who, with some help from his con-man father Leonard, solves mysteries that get in the way of his performances. The series aired for a total of thirteen episodes and featured crimes that tested logic against seemingly magical crimes. The stories were not so much whodunits as "how-he-do-its," for Alex Blacke often had to turn detective to solve the mysteries.
Release Date: 1986-01-05
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
After a technicality results in the release of a man being tried for the rape and murder of a young woman, her father murders the man. Admitting his guilt and refusing to use temporary insanity, the father places his attorney in a virtual no-win situation. In an extreme effort, the attorney decides to call the judge who released the murderer originally and to challenge the entire legal system that would permit such a travesty.
Release Date: 1986-01-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 8
A powerful family that controls the world's banks has made a deal with Satan to help the forces of evil take over the world. An underground group named The Judges bands together to try to stop them.
Release Date: 1985-08-05
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
Once again, Earth is the battleground. But now the aliens whose human guise hides their true reptilian natures are wiser. They believe the secret to their survival on Earth lies in the DNA of the newly born half-human, half-spaceling Starchild. But that's something the world's Resistance Fighters cannot allow.
Release Date: 1984-10-26
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 145
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
Release Date: 1984-09-30
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 52
Vote Count: 388
Cover Up is an American action/adventure television series that aired for one season on CBS from September 22, 1984 to April 6, 1985. Created by Glen A. Larson, the series stars Jennifer O'Neill, Jon-Erik Hexum, Antony Hamilton, and Richard Anderson.
Release Date: 1984-09-22
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 11
Bare Essence is an American television soap opera which aired on the NBC network during the 1982-1983 season. The series revolved around Tyger Hayes' efforts to succeed in the business world. In the first episode, her new husband Chase Marshall is killed in a racing car accident. Chase's father Hadden opposes Tyger's efforts to join the family business, Kellico, but she is encouraged by Hadden's sister Margaret to try her hand with a new line of perfumes. Ava, the widow of Hadden's other son, is concerned that any success Tyger might have will undermine her son Marcus' position in the company. Both Ava and Marcus' wife Muffin plotted to undermine Tyger's success. To this end, Ava eventually seduces and marries Hadden. Tyger's mother, Lady Bobbi Rowan, falls in love with a Greek millionaire, Niko Theopolous, who wants to exact revenge on the Marshalls.
Release Date: 1983-04-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 11
Vote Count: 2
An American fashion designer is told that her husband has been killed in an air crash near France. However, she starts to believe that everything is not as it appears.
Release Date: 1983-01-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
Updated version of the Jacqueline Susann best selling 1960's novel shows the lives of three very different women who come to New York City to achieve fame and fortune in show business and get all messed up in the process.
Release Date: 1981-10-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
Story of a professional gambler, connoisseur, gourmet and sportsman who sets out to help a Las Vegas hotel-casino owner from losing his controlling interest to a business syndicate but finds his reputation is on the line when he runs into a mystery lady who seems to operate on both sides of the law.
Release Date: 1980-10-22
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a ship torpedoed during World War II. When her father hires an investigator to look into the circumstances of the mother's death 30 years prior, it triggers a new rash of emotional turmoil for the young woman and uncovers a heinous crime.
Release Date: 1980-05-05
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
A lighthearted dramatization of the autobiography of Harold Krents, a blind Harvard Law School student trying to make his way in a sighted world.
Release Date: 1980-03-12
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 4
Michael Stone is a rising company executive who decides to chuck his career and marriage to fulfill a fantasy to be a member of the U.S. Olympic bobsled team and partake in the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid.
Release Date: 1980-02-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
An elderly, venerable priest goes over the side of the Golden Gate Bridge and everyone except his nurse, Sister Benecia, believes that it was suicide. Sister Benecia finally manages to convince the police department to assign a detective, the cynical, irascible Paul Silver, to investigate. The "Mad Nun" and the "Mad Cop" become a formidable investigative team -- and much, much more.
Release Date: 1979-10-03
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH, concerning a lovable doctor who became a mentor and father figure in San Francisco, California. The show ran on CBS from September 23, 1979, to September 4, 1986.
Release Date: 1979-09-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 20
The life of a stressed-out air controller falls apart as he battles a court case involving a mid-air collision for which an investigator is trying to hold him responsible.
Release Date: 1979-02-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
An average high school girl's life is turned upside down after she is attacked and savagely assaulted. When a mysterious person begins leaving her threatening messages and making unsettling phone calls, Gail realizes that the nightmare is only just beginning...
Release Date: 1978-09-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 26
Release Date: 1976-02-21
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Release Date: 1975-03-28
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
Adams of Eagle Lake is an American hour-long police series that aired on ABC in 1975. Andy Griffith starred as Sheriff Sam Adams and the episodes presented his attempts to maintain the law in a small resort town. Despite a strong cast, including veteran TV actress Abby Dalton, the show lasted for only two episodes.
Release Date: 1975-01-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Pilot movie for the short-lived TV series set in the 1930's about a World War I ex-marine-turned-bounty-hunter, named Dave Barrett, who goes after two Bonnie-and-Clyde style bank robbers who murdered his former girlfriend.
Release Date: 1974-02-26
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles. The show ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April 3, 1980, beginning as a midseason replacement. William Conrad guest starred as Frank Cannon of Cannon on the first episode of Barnaby Jones, "Requiem for a Son" and the two series had a two-part crossover episode in 1975, "The Deadly Conspiracy".
Release Date: 1973-01-28
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 27
Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.
Release Date: 1972-09-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 11
Vote Count: 90
SFPD Detective Lieutenant Michael Stone (Karl Malden) is partnered with a young college-educated Inspector, Steven Keller (Michael Douglas), as they investigate a girl found dead in the water, with a lawyer she knew as the primary suspect.
Release Date: 1972-09-16
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
A small-town district attorney is saddled with several major investigations, including a gambler's murder and a possible insurance scam.
Release Date: 1971-12-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 4
A photographer is chased by professional killers who have mistaken him for the person they're really after.
Release Date: 1971-12-17
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 4
A prank that starts with a group of college students creating a fictitious person so they can get a credit card develops into a plot that leaves three of them dead.
Release Date: 1971-11-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 11
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: 1
Vote Count: 711
A Marine officer reported as killed in Vietnam, but who was actually a POW, returns home. Instead of being welcomed home, however, he discovers that his father has died, his wife has remarried, his daughter has been adopted, his business has been sold, and his life has completely changed.
Release Date: 1971-09-14
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 2
A couple, Maggie and Ben Porter, inherit an old farmhouse and move in, hoping to reinvigorate their marriage. When they learn the home was occupied long ago by a woman who was executed for practicing witchcraft, Maggie begins to have nightmares about her.
Release Date: 1970-11-24
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 22
Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself, but someone is watching his every step...
Release Date: 1970-10-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 4
The Silent Force is a police crime drama series focused on three US Government undercover agents fighting against organized crime in southern California. It aired from 1970-1971 for one season.
Release Date: 1970-09-21
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
During World War II, American officer Capt. Lee Mitchell (Stuart Whitman) and a British military unit boldly infiltrate German-occupied enemy territory and attempt to kidnap brilliant Nazi scientist Dr. Von Heinken (Pinkas Braun) and bring him back in one piece. While shuttling their prized captive to safety, the Allied forces courageously assist desperate refugees and tussle with overpowering German and Russian forces.
Release Date: 1970-05-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
Professor Samuel Hale Constable is a government expert in the field of cybernetics. He and his wheelchair-bound wife Lenore became parents late in life, only to lose their daughter Mary before she reached adolescence. Now their daughter's spirit seems to be reaching out to her grief-stricken father from beyond the grave, encouraging him to give up the important project on which he's been working.
Release Date: 1969-12-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 8
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: 1
Vote Count: 5
A 10 minute demo reel for a proposed TV series based on the Tony Rome PI movies. With an original score by Jerry Goldsmith.
Release Date: 1968-01-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
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: 1
Vote Count: 2
Compilation of the show Blue Light.
Release Date: 1966-12-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 4
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
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: 7
Vote Count: 1
Grace Caldwell, a young Pennsylvania newspaper heiress living with her widowed mother, has trouble restraining herself when it comes to the amorous attentions of young men. As word starts to spread about her behavior, Grace becomes a major source of heartache for her mother and a big source of concern to her brother.
Release Date: 1965-10-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 10
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.
Release Date: 1965-09-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 23
After her father's death, Honey West takes over his high-tech private-detective firm, assisted by rugged Sam Bolt--and her pet ocelot Bruce.
Release Date: 1965-09-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 15
This series chronicles the adventures--in the air and on the ground--of the men of the 918th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. First commanded by irascible General Frank Savage--and later by Colonel Joe Gallagher, the son of a Pentagon General--the Group is stationed in England, and flies long-range bombing missions into German-held Europe.
Release Date: 1964-09-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 19
A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.
Release Date: 1964-06-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 72
When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's 633 Squadron is assigned the mission to destroy it. The plant is in a seemingly-impregnable location beneath an overhanging cliff at the end of a long, narrow fjord lined with anti-aircraft guns. The only way to destroy the plant is by collapsing the cliff on top of it.
Release Date: 1964-04-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 61
Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks out of every four and was pre-empted for Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall specials once monthly. Como's production company, Roncom Films, also produced Kraft Suspense Theatre. Writer, editor, critic and radio playwright Anthony Boucher served as consultant on the series. Later syndicated under the title Crisis, it was one of the few suspense series telecast in color at the time. While most of NBC's shows were in color then, all-color network line-ups did not become the norm until the 1966-67 season.
Release Date: 1963-10-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 3
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
Release Date: 1963-09-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 11
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: 11
Vote Count: 56
The Eleventh Hour is an American medical drama about psychiatry starring Wendell Corey, Jack Ging, and Ralph Bellamy, which aired sixty-two new episodes plus selected rebroadcasts on NBC from October 3, 1962, to September 9, 1964.
Release Date: 1962-10-03
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 2
The New Breed is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from October 3, 1961 to June 5, 1962, with thirty-six episodes.
Release Date: 1961-10-03
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 2
Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on Fridays on CBS from October 7, 1960 to March 20, 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for the first two and a half seasons, George Maharis as Buz Murdock. Maharis was ill for much of the third season, during which time Tod was shown traveling on his own. Tod met Lincoln Case, played by Glenn Corbett, late in the third season, and traveled with him until the end of the fourth and final season. Among the series more notable aspects were the featured Corvette convertible, and the program's instrumental theme song, which became a major pop hit.
Release Date: 1960-10-07
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 16
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
Release Date: 1959-10-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 118
Vote Count: 118
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: 1
Vote Count: 914
Wichita Town is a half-hour western television series starring Joel McCrea, Jody McCrea, Carlos Romero, and George Neise that aired on NBC from September 30, 1959, until April 6, 1960. Joel McCrea played Marshal Mike Dunbar, in charge of keeping the peace the booming cowtown of Wichita, Kansas. His deputies were Ben Matheson, played by McCrea's real life son, Jody, and Rico Rodriquez, portrayed by Carlos Romero. Making occasional appearances were the town doctor, Nat Wyndham, the blacksmith, Aeneas MacLinahan, and the bartender in the local saloon, Joe Kingston, played in six episodes by Robert Foulk. The model for shows such as these had already been laid out by other western programs such as Gunsmoke, Lawman, and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, so Wichita Town may not have been unique in its plotting and structure. The two most unusual features about the series were the presence of Joel McCrea, a favorite of Western movie audiences for his performance in such films as Union Pacific, Buffalo Bill, and Ramrod, and the fact that his real life son was in Wichita Town, but did not play his son. Wichita Town was produced by Mirisch Company and Joel McCrea's Production company for Four Star Television and aired for a single season.
Release Date: 1959-09-30
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3
Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.
Release Date: 1958-09-30
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 11
Make way for the reluctant detective. It's Ellery Queen, the suave, debonair and brilliant hero of the new, live, full-hour detective show. George Nader plays the stalwart writer turned investigator.
Release Date: 1958-09-26
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and featuring Henry Mancini music that could tell you the action with your eyes closed, Peter Gunn worked in style. Known as Pete to his friends and simply as Gunn to his enemies, he did his job in a calm cool way.
Release Date: 1958-09-22
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 18
Steve Canyon is a commander for the U.S. air force. His assignment is to go to various bases to troubleshoot problems
Release Date: 1958-09-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 34
Vote Count: 1
Colt .45 is an American Western series which aired on ABC between October 1957 and September 1960. Christopher Colt was apparently a gun salesman but was in fact a government agent tracking down notorious bad guys. The half-hour program is loosely based on the 1950 Warner Bros. film of the same name, starring Randolph Scott. Colt .45 was part of the William T. Orr-produced array of westerns which Warner produced for ABC in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Release Date: 1957-10-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate Monday nights from October 7, 1957 to September 16, 1960. The program also aired under the title Turn of Fate, with the stories depicting the difficulties faced by individuals who are suddenly thrust into unexpected and perilous dangers. Alcoa Theatre was syndicated together with Goodyear Theatre as Award Theatre. In 1955, The Alcoa Hour premiered in a one-hour format aired on Sunday nights, but it was reduced to 30 minutes, retitled Alcoa Theatre, and moved to Monday evening in 1957. The show employed an alternating rotating company of actors: David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell, Jack Lemmon and Charles Boyer. Each appeared in dramatic and light comedic roles through the first season.
Release Date: 1957-09-30
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 5
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
Release Date: 1957-09-21
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 123
When men on a photo safari stumble into a misanthropic doctor’s remote camp with a wounded comrade, the doctor's restless wife supplements her usual pursuit (voodoo, especially as a way to off her husband) with a new one: seduction. As men lose their hearts (sometimes literally) to the alluring voodoo priestess, she embarks on a killing spree that turns the jungle blood red.
Release Date: 1957-08-25
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 6
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.
Release Date: 1955-10-31
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 18
Vote Count: 5