Ralph W. Hemecker is an American director, writer, and producer known for his extensive work in television. He has directed episodes for series such as Once Upon a Time, The Flash, Blue Bloods, and Numb3rs. In 2000, Hemecker founded Mythic Films, a production company specializing in feature films, TV, and commercials.
When heroes alone are not enough ... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?
Release Date: 2016-01-21
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 2326
A diverse group of recruits has arrived at the FBI Quantico Base for training. They are the best, the brightest and the most vetted, so it seems impossible that one of them is suspected of masterminding the biggest attack on New York City since 9/11.
Release Date: 2015-09-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 666
After being struck by lightning, CSI investigator Barry Allen awakens from a nine-month coma to discover he has been granted the gift of super speed. Teaming up with S.T.A.R. Labs, Barry takes on the persona of The Flash, the Fastest Man Alive, to protect his city.
Release Date: 2014-10-07
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 11208
In Victorian England, the young and beautiful Alice tells a tale of a strange new land that exists on the other side of a rabbit hole. Thinking Alice insane, her doctors aim to make her forget everything. While Alice is ready to put it all behind her, she knows this world is real. In the nick of time, the Knave of Hearts and the White Rabbit save her from a doomed fate. Together, the trio tumble down the rabbit hole to Wonderland, where nothing is impossible.
Release Date: 2013-10-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 131
NYC 22 follows six diverse NYPD rookies as they patrol the gritty streets of upper Manhattan. With unique backgrounds, personalities and reasons for being on the force, the new cops will make their share of rookie mistakes while they figure out how to relate to their boss, each other and the people they swore to protect.
Release Date: 2012-04-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 16
There is a town in Maine where every story book character you've ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell. Emma Swan is a 28-year-old bail bonds collector who has been supporting herself since she was abandoned as a baby. Things change for her when her son Henry, whom she abandoned years ago, finds her and asks for her help explaining that she is from a different world where she is Snow White's missing daughter.
Release Date: 2011-10-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 24
Vote Count: 2277
A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief.
Release Date: 2010-09-24
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 29
Vote Count: 905
Nikita will stop at nothing to expose and destroy Division, the secret U.S. agency who trained her as a spy and assassin.
Release Date: 2010-09-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 480
Tyler and his brother find an alien ship which makes Tyler appear older and gives him other abilities. This turns his high school life upside down, and may enable him to help his older brother's love life. After he is abducted by beings who intend to takeover Earth, he must depend on his inept and lovelorn brother to rescue him.
Release Date: 2009-11-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 51
A re-imagining of the 1980s miniseries about the world's first encounter with an alien race in which the aliens call themselves The Visitors, and have a seemingly friendly agenda that may or may not be a cover for something more malevolent.
Release Date: 2009-11-03
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 735
The story of two vampire brothers obsessed with the same girl, who bears a striking resemblance to the beautiful but ruthless vampire they knew and loved in 1864.
Release Date: 2009-09-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 9083
The new owner of a supposedly haunted New Orleans plantation manor uncovers a shocking secret that has been hidden for over 100 years.
Release Date: 2009-03-28
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 29
A woman starts a new life in a small Wyoming mountain town after suffering a traumatic event on the other side of the country - but one day, she witnesses a murder in the woods...
Release Date: 2007-01-26
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 24
A forty-something ex-policeman named Joe initiates an online relationship with twenty-something Tanya Sullivan. Conflicts arise after Tanya flies to Atlantic City to seduce Joe, and she reveals to him that she is married.
Release Date: 2006-04-03
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 11
A mother dealing with the death of her young son learns that her niece is in contact with his spirit.
Release Date: 2005-10-02
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 17
Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over.
Release Date: 2005-09-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1738
Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very different perspective.
Release Date: 2005-01-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 382
Sara "Pez" Pezzini searches for justice which brings her into contact with the Witchblade. An ancient, intelligent, living weapon so powerful it can battle Earth's darkest evil forces. Week in and week out, Pez employs her skills as a police detective to fight crime. Pez finds she must employ the Witchblade to combat a much greater and frighteningly organized conspiracy of evil that threatens the very soul of humanity.
Release Date: 2001-06-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 11
Vote Count: 48
NYPD Detective Sara Pezzini's main goal in life was to bring down Tommy Gallo, the hitman who killed her father, her best friend, and eventually her partner. While chasing down one of Gallo's thugs, she acquires the Witchblade, an enchanted armored glove once used by Joan of Arc that deflects bullets, extends into bladed weapons, produces visions, and neatly compacts itself into a bracelet.
Release Date: 2000-08-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 20
Murders in Seoul, Korea and in America pair two cops from each of the countries together to solve the crimes. The investigation leads to a gang war between the Mafia and the Yakuza, but one that may not be of either of their making. A shadowy assassin is killing the leaders and an Italian assassin may have his own agenda.
Release Date: 1998-10-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 16
This futuristic action-thriller is set in a world in which police officers wear heavy body armor and get around on especially designed in-line skates. The story centers on the cop's attempts to take down a murderous crime lord.
Release Date: 1998-08-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
Roar is an American television show that originally aired on the Fox network in July 1997. In the year AD 400, a young Irish man, Conor, sets out to rid his land of the invading Romans, but in order to accomplish this, he must unite the Celtic clans.
Release Date: 1997-07-14
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 18
A retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.
Release Date: 1996-10-25
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 246
An ex-military unit specializes itself in non-lethal combat methods and takedowns and offers its services
Release Date: 1996-10-16
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Two globetrotting spies with different styles team up. Posing as husband and wife, they guard their true identities at all costs from the bad guys‒and from each other.
Release Date: 1996-09-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3
In an erotic update of "Strangers on a Train", airline pilot Ted Beaumont and his lover, Erin Davenport, scheme to rid themselves of their respective spouses. Ted's wife disappears mysteriously and thinking that all is proceeding well, he plans an elaborate scheme to kill Erin's husband. However all is not as it seems.
Release Date: 1994-10-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 5
The death of a patriarch leads to a scramble for power among his family, leading to some deadly actions.
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Kindred: The Embraced is an American television series produced by John Leekley Productions and Spelling Television. Loosely based on the role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, the series premiered on Fox on April 2, 1996, and ran for eight episodes before it was canceled on May 9, 1996. The series focused on San Francisco Police Detective Frank Kohanek who discovers his city is home to numerous vampires while investigating alleged mobster, Julian Luna. Julian is the "prince" of the city, ruler of five groups of vampires in the city, collectively called "The Kindred". The vampires survive through the "masquerade", disguising themselves as humans, and Julian strictly enforces the laws that govern them to protect their anonymity. Julian and Frank form an uneasy bond as they work together to try to prevent a vampire war and Julian struggles with his romantic feelings for human reporter Caitlin Byrne. The eight episodes of the series have been released on VHS and DVD.
Release Date: 1996-04-02
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 28
Pacific Blue is an American crime drama series about a team of police officers with the Santa Monica Police Department who patrolled its beaches on bicycles. The show ran for five seasons on the USA Network, from March 2, 1996 to April 9, 2000, with a total of one hundred and one episodes. Often compared as "Baywatch on bikes," the series enjoyed a popular run among the Network's viewers, and was popular in France, Israel, Sweden, Bulgaria, Norway, Spain, Russia, Austria, Germany, Italy, South America, Canada, Denmark, Poland, and other foreign markets.
Release Date: 1996-03-02
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 84
Strange Luck is an American television series, starring D. B. Sweeney in the role of Chance Harper, a freelance photographer afflicted with a bizarre tendency to always be in the wrong place at the right time. As Chance himself says, "If I go to a restaurant, somebody chokes. If I walk into a bank, it gets robbed." Harper's strange luck began when, as a small child, he was the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed everyone else aboard, including both of his parents.
Release Date: 1995-09-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 5
Dead at 21 is a television series broadcast by MTV in 1994. The series ran for eleven thirty-minute episodes with a two-part final episode. The series was created by Jon Sherman, and written by Sherman, P.K. Simonds and Manny Coto.
Release Date: 1994-06-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 1
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
Release Date: 1993-09-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3163
Framed for murder, Detective Reno Raines becomes a fugitive bounty hunter who fights crime while trying to clear his name. His troubles began after he testified about police corruption, leading Lt. Donald Dixon to set him up.
Release Date: 1992-09-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 121
Silk Stalkings is a crime drama television series. The series portrays the daily lives of two detectives who solve sexually-based crimes of passion among the ultra-rich of Palm Beach, Florida.
Release Date: 1991-11-07
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 9
Vote Count: 37