Michael Fessier (Writing)

Julia

Julia is an American sitcom notable for being one of the first weekly series to depict an African American woman in a non-stereotypical role. Previous television series featured African American lead characters, but the characters were usually servants. The show stars actress and singer Diahann Carroll, and ran for 86 episodes on NBC from September 17, 1968 to March 23, 1971. The series was produced by Savannah Productions, Inc., Hanncar Productions, Inc., and 20th Century-Fox Television. During pre-production, the proposed series title was Mama's Man. The series was also unique in that it was among the few situation comedies in the late 1960s that did not use a laugh track; however, 20th Century-Fox Television added them when the series was reissued for syndication and cable rebroadcasts in the late 1980s.

Release Date: 1968-09-17

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 8

The High Chaparral

The High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The series, made by Xanadu Productions in association with NBC Productions, was created by David Dortort, who had previously created the hit Bonanza for the network. The theme song was also written and conducted by Bonanza scorer David Rose, who also scored the two-hour pilot.

Release Date: 1967-09-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 22

Lost in Space

The space family Robinson is sent on a five-year mission to find a new planet to colonise. The voyage is sabotaged time and again by an inept stowaway, Dr. Zachary Smith. The family's spaceship, Jupiter II, also carries a friendly robot who endures an endless stream of abuse from Dr. Smith, but is a trusted companion of young Will Robinson

Release Date: 1965-09-15

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 113

Gilligan's Island

The slapstick adventures of hapless Gilligan, long-suffering Skipper and their gang of mismatched castaways, all stranded on an uncharted desert isle after their tiny ship hit stormy weather.

Release Date: 1964-09-26

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 234

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is a 1964 comedy television series that appeared on ABC's schedule. The series starred Tony Franciosa as Valentine Farrow, a swinging Manhattan publishing executive, and Jack Soo, later of Barney Miller as Rocky Sin, Farrow's poker-playing con-artist valet. The show was created by Hal Kanter and lasted only one season. One noteworthy episode was produced as a tie-in to the movie Rio Conchos, in which Franciosa co-starred; he played both Valentine and his Mexican character from the feature.

Release Date: 1964-09-18

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

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: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 6

Mister Ed

Wilbur Post and his wife Carol move into a beautiful new home. When Wilbur takes a look in his new barn, he finds that the former owner left his horse behind. This horse is no ordinary horse . . . he can talk, but only to Wilbur, which leads to all sorts of misadventures for Wilbur and his trouble-making sidekick Mister Ed.

Release Date: 1961-01-05

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 45

Surfside 6

Surfside 6 was an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centered on a Miami Beach detective agency set on a houseboat and featured Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield II; Van Williams as Kenny Madison; and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne. Diane McBain co-starred as socialite Daphne Dutton, whose yacht was berthed next to their houseboat. Margarita Sierra also had a supporting role as Cha Cha O'Brien, an entertainer who worked at The Boom Boom Room, a popular Miami Beach hangout at the Fontainebleau Hotel, directly across the street from Surfside 6. Surfside 6 was in fact a real address in Miami Beach, where an unrelated houseboat was moored at the time; it can also be seen in the sweeping aerial establishing shot of the Fontainebleu in 1964's Goldfinger.

Release Date: 1960-10-06

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Mr. Lucky

Mr. Lucky is a CBS adventure/drama television series that aired from October 24, 1959, to June 18, 1960, with repeats until September 3. Blake Edwards developed the program as a retooling of his Willie Dante character from Four Star Playhouse, where the role was played by studio boss Dick Powell. In the 1960–1961 season, Howard Duff assumed the role of Willie Dante in the NBC adventure/drama series Dante. Mr. Edwards directed and co-wrote the first episode of Mr. Lucky, and the credits of the first eighteen episodes included "Entire production supervised by Blake Edwards." Jack Arnold produced the show and directed fifteen of the thirty-four episodes. Henry Mancini's smooth theme music for the show reached Number 21 in the US singles charts. He released two successful LP's based on the show, Mr. Lucky and Mr. Lucky Goes Latin.

Release Date: 1959-10-24

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 5

The Thin Man

Nick Charles was a private detective who married the wealthy Nora and decided to settle down and leave the good life. Unfortunately for the couple, Nick's past frequently caught up with him and got the couple involved in mystery after mystery. The series was based on the popular MGM series of movies of the 1930's starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk starred as the televison versions of Nick and Nora which ran on NBC for two seasons from 1957-59.

Release Date: 1957-09-20

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 6

Sugarfoot

Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Jack Elam is cast in occasional episodes as sidekick Toothy Thompson. Brewster was a correspondence-school student whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the nickname "Sugarfoot", a designation even below that of a tenderfoot.

Release Date: 1957-09-17

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 5

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: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 40

Screen Director's Playhouse

Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.

Release Date: 1955-10-05

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

Release Date: 1955-10-02

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 224

The Jane Wyman Show

The Jane Wyman Show is an American anthology drama series that ran on NBC from 1955 to 1958.

Release Date: 1955-08-30

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 4

The Boy from Oklahoma

A town despot makes a guileless patsy the sheriff, lives to regret it.

Release Date: 1954-02-27

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 8

Red Garters

A spirited cast kicks up its heels in a lively musical spoof of cowboy films crammed with spur-jangling tunes by Jay Livingstone and Ray Evans and decked out with colorfully stylized, Oscar.-nominated sets. Rosemary Clooney heads up the high-kicking, red-gartered girls of the Red Dog Saloon. They can-can. but she won't-won't unless Jason (Jack Carson) asks her to get hitched. Guy Mitchell and Gene Barry are gun-totin' polecats who think they've got a feud to settle. And Frank Faylen and Buddy Ebsen are among the folks who hope the gunslingers get itchy fingered - so they can hold a town barbecue during the funeral!

Release Date: 1954-02-09

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 9

Slave Girl

Tongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and becoming involved in middle-East tribal wars.

Release Date: 1947-07-17

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1

Lover Come Back

A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.

Release Date: 1946-06-21

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 3

Frontier Gal

Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a town and stops at a saloon owned by singer Lorena Dumont (Yvonne de Carlo). The two seem a good, albeit tempestuous match, although Johnny has no plans to marry -- Lorena has other ideas and a shotgun wedding ensues.

Release Date: 1945-12-14

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 5

That Night with You

In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a prominent producer and tells him that she is the daughter who resulted from his day-long marriage to a young woman he knew years ago. The producer is delighted and soon puts his daughter up on stage. The trouble begins when the girl's "mother" suddenly pays a call. For her own reasons, the woman decides to play along with the girl's ruse. Fortunately, by the story's end, the truth is revealed, all differences are reconciled and happiness ensues.

Release Date: 1945-09-28

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

That's the Spirit

A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated by a greedy banker.

Release Date: 1945-06-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

San Diego I Love You

A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.

Release Date: 1944-09-29

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 3

Greenwich Village

In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.

Release Date: 1944-09-27

Department: Writing

Job: Adaptation

Vote Count: 4

The Merry Monahans

The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get himself and his family blacklisted from every major vaude house in the country. Though Pete's kids Jimmy and Patsy love their dad, they're forced to break away from the act and go off on their own to survive. Eventually, the whole gang is reunited in a shamelessly lachrymose musical finale.

Release Date: 1944-09-15

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 4

Her Primitive Man

An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.

Release Date: 1944-05-29

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1

Trial by Trigger

California logger Bill Cardigan must save his stand of redwoods from being bought by unscrupulous Dan Fallon, a logging company owner from Michigan.

Release Date: 1944-05-27

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Fired Wife

A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.

Release Date: 1943-09-04

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

You Were Never Lovelier

An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

Release Date: 1942-11-19

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 50

You'll Never Get Rich

A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection.

Release Date: 1941-09-25

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 52

Knockout

Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) needs to fight one more match to have enough money to get married to Angela (Olympe Bradna) and start on his dream to run and then own a gym. However, his manager makes sure that this does not happen and eventually Johnny embraces being a fighter, but Angela becomes increasingly unhappy.

Release Date: 1941-03-29

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 6

He Stayed for Breakfast

Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.

Release Date: 1940-08-31

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

It All Came True

After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.

Release Date: 1940-04-06

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 16

Espionage Agent

When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.

Release Date: 1939-09-30

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 9

Angels Wash Their Faces

A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.

Release Date: 1939-08-26

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 8

Wings of the Navy

Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.

Release Date: 1939-02-11

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 5

Valley of the Giants

A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.

Release Date: 1938-09-17

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 5

The Women Men Marry

A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.

Release Date: 1937-09-10

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 1

Song of the City

A carefree San Francisco bachelor rediscovers life's values when he's rescued from the sea by an Italian fisherman with a wise and earthy family.

Release Date: 1937-04-02

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1

Women Are Trouble

A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.

Release Date: 1936-07-31

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 3

Speed

Terry is the chief car tester for Emery Motors and Frank is an Engineer. Jane has just been hired to work in publicity. Frank and Terry both want Jane to be their girl. Terry has designed a new carburetor that should bring him fame and money, but he cannot get it to work correctly. Terry and Gadget have tested it for over a year, but it still is not perfected. Emery Motors assigns Frank to help Terry with the carburetor, but Terry is not happy because Frank is an Engineer and is also vying for Jane. They finish the carburetor, and to test it, they enter a car in the Indianapolis 500 race. Terry is not yet satisfied with the carburetor before the big race even though it has passed all the tests.

Release Date: 1936-05-08

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 8

Exclusive Story

A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.

Release Date: 1936-01-17

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 4

Society Doctor

Two surgeons (Chester Morris, Robert Taylor) in love with a nurse (Virginia Bruce) end their rivalry in the operating room.

Release Date: 1935-01-25

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 3