Stephen J. Cannell

Actor / Producer / Writer.

Works

6.8

22 Jump Street

After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don't have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them.

Release Date: 2014-06-05

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 8001

6.9

21 Jump Street

When cops Schmidt and Jenko join the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover as high school students. They trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, and set out to shut down a dangerous drug ring. But, as time goes on, Schmidt and Jenko discover that high school is nothing like it was just a few years earlier -- and, what's more, they must again confront the teenage terror and anxiety they thought they had left behind.

Release Date: 2012-03-14

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 10363

6.4

The A-Team

A man who loves when a plan comes together, Col. Hannibal Smith leads a close-knit team of elite operatives and Iraq War veterans. Framed for a crime they didn't commit, Smith and his men, Capt. H.M. ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock , Sgt. Bosco ‘B.A.’ Baracus, and Lt. Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck, break out and go rogue, using their special talents to clear their names and find the perpetrator. Hot on their trail is Capt. Charissa Sosa, who was once involved with a member of Smith's team and has sworn to capture them, no matter what it takes.

Release Date: 2010-06-09

Department: Writing

Job: Characters

Vote Count: 4662

Castle
8.0

Castle

After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.

Release Date: 2009-03-09

Character: Self

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 1907

6.2

The Poker House

Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.

Release Date: 2008-06-20

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 137

4.1

Ice Spiders

When a young ski team training for the Olympics arrives at the remote and isolated Lost Mountain Ski Resort to focus on training, they're thrilled to find a retired Olympic skier is there to help them train. But their plans are halted when a scientist working at a nearby government lab arrives with the horrifying news that a top secret Government project has produced giant spiders and they have escaped, killing and eating everything in sight.

Release Date: 2007-06-09

Character: Frank Stone

Vote Count: 74

Army Wives
7.4

Army Wives

Army Wives is an American drama series that follows the lives of four army wives, one army husband, and their families.

Release Date: 2007-06-03

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 36

4.5

The Garden

A troubled young boy and his father on a road trip stumble upon a rural farm where the elderly owner has sinister plans for the both of them involving witchcraft and evil.

Release Date: 2006-01-08

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 18

5.3

It Waits

A lone female park ranger tries to track down a vicious creature killing various people and terrorizing her at a remote national park.

Release Date: 2005-11-10

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 47

4.5

Demon Hunter

After resolving a situation of exorcism, the half-breed demon hunter Jake Greyman (Sean Patrick Flanery) reports to Cardinal White (William Bassett) and they realize that the demon Asmodeus (Billy Drago) is impregnating many mortals trying to raise offspring. Cardinal White calls Sister Sarah Ryan (Colleen Porch) to assist Jake in his hunting for Asmodeus and his women.

Release Date: 2005-06-01

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 33

6.2

Hunter: Back in Force

Lieutenent Rick Hunter, now of San Diego Police Department, along with his 'new' partner Sergeant Dee Dee McCall, must track down a group of women bank robbers who appear to be behind bars when the crimes occur, while simultaneously looking for an excon he put away who has just been released and is now on a vengeful crime wave.

Release Date: 2003-04-12

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 4

4.9

Threshold

Alien seeds hitch a ride to earth in a space shuttle crew and begin to grow. When their numbers reach the Threshold amount they will be an unstoppable swarm.

Release Date: 2003-04-01

Character: Pacheco Laval

Vote Count: 32

5.1

Half Past Dead

A man goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there, he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-row inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.

Release Date: 2002-11-15

Character: Frank Hubbard

Vote Count: 355

9.1

Dead Above Ground

Jeff Lucas is already an outcast, but when he makes a horror film instead of a documentary for his class project, the ridicule his classmates inflict upon him soon turns to outright abuse.

Release Date: 2002-09-10

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Character: Carl Hadden

Vote Count: 10

3.1

The Contract

After a bad day with her boss, friend, husband, babysitter etc., Anne goes to a bar. A man offers to solve her problems. As a joke, she signs a napkin. Hours later, the boss is dead.

Release Date: 1999-10-31

Character: William Goodwin

Vote Count: 7

6.1

CHiPs '99

Ponch has returned to the police force, and is determined to help his friend Jon investigating various car thefts.

Release Date: 1998-10-27

Character: Bendix

Vote Count: 19

V.I.P.
5.2

V.I.P.

While attending a Hollywood premiere with a famous action star, a crazed fan pulls a gun—but her movie hunk turns into a coward, and it's Vallery who becomes the hero. Suddenly, she's thrown into a world of action and danger as owner of a Hollywood protection agency, Vallery Irons Protection (V.I.P.), taking risks to protect others at a price few are willing to pay.

Release Date: 1998-09-26

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 63

3.3

Them

Remake of the 1954 SciFi classic

Release Date: 1996-10-08

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 3

5.9

The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime

Laid-back private eye Jim Rockford and his brown Pontiac Firebird become embroiled in another case when he runs across an old flame, blind book editor Megan. Her no-good playboy cousin Patrick is involved with the Russian Mob, which puts everyone's life in danger. The weary Rockford must also deal with his old friend Angel, who is painting Jim's trailer to work off a debt.

Release Date: 1996-09-18

Department: Crew

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 5

E! True Hollywood Story
8.1

E! True Hollywood Story

E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and also well-known public figures. Among the topics covered on the program include salacious re-tellings of Hollywood secrets, show-biz scandals, celebrity murders and mysteries, porn-star biographies, and "where-are-they-now?" investigations of former child stars. It frequently features in-depth interviews, actual courtroom footage, and dramatic reenactments. When aired on the E! network, episodes will be updated to reflect the current life or status of the subject.

Release Date: 1996-08-21

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 76

6.5

The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play

An friend of Jim's continues to seek his help for her murdered son, but when she winds up dead not long after an altercation with the mafia man, Jim must must do what it takes to put both her soul and her son's, at rest, himself.

Release Date: 1996-04-25

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

Profit
8.0

Profit

Jim Profit is a newly promoted junior-executive at a multinational conglomerate, who uses ruthless methods to climb the corporate ladder. He is not above using blackmail, bribery, extortion, or worse to take down one rival after another.

Release Date: 1996-04-08

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Character: Self

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 21

Pacific Blue
5.4

Pacific Blue

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

Character: J. Gunnar Halloran

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 84

6.2

The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise

Angel's televangelical ministry launches a boycott against a movie entitled "Little Ezekial," and Rockford is hired to protect its star.

Release Date: 1995-05-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 6

8.8

The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A.

Lieutenant Rick Hunter's girlfriend is murdered.

Release Date: 1995-03-06

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 4

Marker
4.0

Marker

Marker is an American hour long television drama that premiered on the UPN on March 20, 1995. It is set in and was filmed in Hawaii. The series focuses on Richard DeMorra, a man given a strange inheritance from his late father: markers which were given in the past by his father to those who had helped him achieve his success. He receives these once per episode from one of those people, leading him on varied adventures as he tries to follow through on his father's legacy. Other members of the cast include Gates McFadden, who playes his father's young widow, and Andy Bumatai as a helpful local character, Danny Kahala. The show lasted for 13 episodes and was advertised with the tagline: "America's Coolest Hero."

Release Date: 1995-01-17

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 1

Jake Lassiter: Justice on the Bayou

Gerald McRaney stars as Jake Lassiter, a colorful ex-football player turned top defense attorney who is hired to defend Dr. Roger Salisbury, a surgeon charged with malpractice in the mysterious death of a wealthy patient, Phillip Corrigan.

Release Date: 1995-01-09

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Hawkeye (The First Frontier)
6.8

Hawkeye (The First Frontier)

Hawkeye is a television series, airing in syndication for one season during 1994-1995, and produced by Stephen J. Cannell. The series was filmed in North Vancouver and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Based on characters from the Leatherstocking Tales, a set of novels written by James Fenimore Cooper, the series takes place in 1755 Hudson Valley, New York during the French and Indian War. It follows the main character, Natty Bumppo, his Native American companion Chingachgook, trading post owner Elizabeth Shields and other people stationed at or living in the vicinity of Fort Bennington.

Release Date: 1994-09-18

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 22

Vote Count: 7

Greyhounds

A retired sheriff, judge, coroner and con-man team up to solve crimes. Pilot.

Release Date: 1994-06-24

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Traps

Traps

Traps is an American police drama that aired on CBS from March 31, 1994 to April 27, 1994.

Release Date: 1994-03-31

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Diagnosis: Murder
7.1

Diagnosis: Murder

Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.

Release Date: 1993-10-29

Character: Jackson Burley

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 112

Cobra
6.6

Cobra

Cobra is an American television action/adventure series starring Michael Dudikoff. It ran for just one season in syndication.

Release Date: 1993-09-16

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 19

Missing Persons
6.0

Missing Persons

Missing Persons is a short-lived American crime drama television series, set in Chicago. It followed a fictitious missing persons unit; each episode usually following the investigation into three or more cases. It ran on ABC from August 30, 1993 to February 17, 1994. It was produced by Gary Sherman Productions in association with Stephen J. Cannell Productions, and often used local Chicago-based actors, as well as occasional big-name guest stars such as Nina Foch, Eddie Bracken and Lois Smith. Semi-regulars included Ian Gomez, Irma P. Hall, Laura Cerón and Valerie Harper. Unlike most series from Cannell's company, he did not create or co-create this series.

Release Date: 1993-08-30

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 18

Vote Count: 2

5.3

Posse

A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for the men who lynched his father.

Release Date: 1993-05-14

Character: Jimmy Love

Vote Count: 76

Love & War
6.2

Love & War

A woman running a bar in New York City while trying to maintain a romance with an egotistical opinion columnist.

Release Date: 1992-09-21

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 8

Renegade
6.6

Renegade

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: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Donald 'Dutch' Dixon

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 121

The Hat Squad
6.8

The Hat Squad

The Hat Squad is a crime drama television series that ran for only one season on CBS, during the 1992–1993 season. 13 episodes were made, but only 11 of them aired.

Release Date: 1992-09-16

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 11

Vote Count: 5

Silk Stalkings
6.0

Silk Stalkings

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: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 37

Palace Guard
3.5

Palace Guard

Palace Guard is the story of a reformed jewel thief and cat burglar, Tommy Logan, who, after serving three years in prison, is released on parole and accepts an offer to become the head of security for the posh Palace Hotel chain. There were two reasons for this somewhat unusual job offer. One was that Logan had previously enjoyed great success in stealing from the high-class clientele of the Palace chain, and hence it was thought that he'd understand how to prevent others from doing so. And the other was that Tommy was the illegitimate son of the chain's owner, Arturo Taft, though Taft did not reveal this to Logan. The show centered primarily around the working relationship between Logan and his new boss, Christy Cooper, the hotel chain's Vice-President of Public Relations. In each episode, Logan and Cooper travelled to a hotel in a different city where Logan would help avert some disaster using quirky and questionable methods, leaving Cooper to sweep up the fallout.

Release Date: 1991-10-17

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 2

The Commish
7.1

The Commish

Tony Scali is a former Brooklyn cop now the Police Commissioner of a small upstate city. But for Scali, this is no desk job. He's a tough yet compassionate boss, a loving husband and father, and a hands-on law enforcer with an unorthodox style of bending the rules. From parenthood to politics, from sex crimes to murder cases, one man takes it day-to-day with offbeat humor and street- smart skill.

Release Date: 1991-09-28

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 24

1.0

The Great Pretender

A newspaper reporter, who has just won a trial against his newspaper which had fired him, suffers dangerous reprisals at his work.

Release Date: 1991-04-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Scene of the Crime
7.0

Scene of the Crime

Scene of the Crime is the title of a mystery anthology series that aired in 1991 and 1992 on CBS, as part of the Crimetime After Primetime late-night block. Rather than employing different actors each episode, the program had a regular cast who played different characters in each story. Series regulars included Stephen McHattie, and producer Stephen J. Cannell appeared onscreen to introduce each story.

Release Date: 1991-04-03

Episode Count: 23

Vote Count: 2

The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage
4.8

The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage

The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage is a television series broadcast in the United States by NBC and produced by Stephen J. Cannell Productions in association with Walt Disney Television. This show originated as a TV-movie. The program originally aired in 1991, but lasted less than one season. The series was officially titled Disney Presents The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage.

Release Date: 1991-03-31

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 4

Broken Badges
6.0

Broken Badges

Broken Badges is an American-Canadian police drama

Release Date: 1990-11-24

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 1

Booker
5.1

Booker

Booker is an American crime drama series starring Richard Grieco that aired on the Fox Network from September 24, 1989 to May 6, 1990. The series is a spin-off of 21 Jump Street and the second installment of the 21 Jump Street series. The character of Dennis Booker was originally a recurring character on that police drama during its third season. The theme song for the series, "Hot in the City", was performed by Billy Idol.

Release Date: 1989-09-24

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 22

Top of the Hill
5.0

Top of the Hill

Top of the Hill is a short-lived political drama series aired by CBS as part of its 1989 fall lineup.

Release Date: 1989-09-21

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 1

1.4

Identity Crisis

A rapper finds himself possessed by the soul of a dead fashion designer; frequently switching personalities.

Release Date: 1989-09-15

Character: The Coroner

Vote Count: 5

Unsub
7.5

Unsub

Unsub is an American television series that aired on NBC from February 3 to April 14, 1989. The series centers around an elite FBI forensic team that investigates serial murderers and other violent crimes. Unsub is an abbreviation for the unknown subject of an investigation.

Release Date: 1989-02-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Sonny Spoon
5.5

Sonny Spoon

Sonny Spoon is a detective program aired in the United States on the NBC television network in 1988. The series was created by Michael Daly, Dinah Prince, Stephen J. Cannell and Randall Wallace and produced by Stephen J. Cannell Productions.

Release Date: 1988-02-12

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 15

Vote Count: 2

J.J. Starbuck
5.0

J.J. Starbuck

J.J. Starbuck is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from September 1987 to June 1988. The series follows cornpone-spouting Jerome Jeremiah "J.J." Starbuck, a billionaire Texan who wears ten-gallon hats, cowboy boots and fancy western shirts. He drives a flashy limousine with steer horns on the hood and a horn that plays "The Eyes of Texas," and spouts a steady stream of folksy homilies.

Release Date: 1987-09-26

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 1

Wiseguy: Pilot

This was the feature-length pilot for the hit series. Vinnie Terranova, a Justice Department agent reassigned to the Organized Crime Bureau as a “wiseguy”, a specially trained deep undercover agent. To help support his cover, Vinnie has just finished serving 18 months in a New Jersey prison…

Release Date: 1987-09-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Wiseguy
6.5

Wiseguy

Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city neighborhood form the underlying dramatic base throughout the series, bringing him into conflict with his conservative mother and other family members while acting undercover as syndicate enforcer.

Release Date: 1987-09-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 31

21 Jump Street
7.1

21 Jump Street

21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers and young adults.

Release Date: 1987-04-12

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 103

Vote Count: 160

Destination: America

A patrician family's estranged, black-sheep son forsakes his blue-collar life to return home and soon finds himself wrongly accused of his father's murder, with his old childhood friend determined to convict him. Pilot to a prospective TV series.

Release Date: 1987-04-03

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

The Last Precinct
5.0

The Last Precinct

The Last Precinct is an American comedy series that aired on NBC from January to May 1986 on Friday Night at 9:00pm. The series stars Adam West as Capt. Rick Wright, leading a group of misfit police academy rejects. The pilot for the Stephen J. Cannell series debuted after Super Bowl XX in 1986, but the show was canceled within two months of its April premiere. This was the only sitcom from Stephen J. Cannell Productions.

Release Date: 1986-04-11

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 3

The Last Precinct

In this spoof of TV cop shows, which served as the pilot to the subsequent short-lived series, a bunch of bumbling misfits and rejects from the police academy, all assembled under a straitlaced but dimwitted captain, fumble their way to success cracking a drug ring run by a blind mobster.

Release Date: 1986-01-26

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

6.0

Stingray

A district attorney is kidnapped by a criminal who then has a deranged doctor do something to him that leaves him with the mind of a child. His assistant seeks out a man who is only known by the car he drives, a Stingray. He helps people who have problems and in return, they owe him a favor that he will collect later.

Release Date: 1985-07-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Stingray
7.3

Stingray

Ray is an enigmatic adventurer with no traceable past who travels from place to place fighting crime and helping people in trouble. He refuses to be paid for his services; however, those seeking his assistance must promise him a favor.

Release Date: 1985-07-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 20

Brothers-in-Law

T.K. Kenny and Mickey Gubiacci are a highway patrolman and a trucker respectively. Now the two of them don't get along and have nothing in common except for the fact that they are both married to the daughters of Winston Goodhue, and that they don't like him. When Kenny divorces his wife, Goodhue makes it difficult for him to see his son, Win, and would like to keep him away from Win. Goodhue eventually gets Kenny thrown out of the department. Mickey, who has been hauling some illegal loads for Goodhue is arrested and Goodhue convinces his daughter to dump him. And Goodhue takes away his truck. Eventually, Kenny and Mickey get together and decide to get back at Goodhue. And the best way they decide to do that is to throw a monkey wrench into his new development project.

Release Date: 1985-04-28

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Hunter
7.2

Hunter

Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.

Release Date: 1984-09-18

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 87

Riptide
6.8

Riptide

The cases of a private investigations agency run by two Vietnam War veterans and their computer geek friend from high school, armed with toughness, their own helicopter, and the third's technical ability.

Release Date: 1984-01-03

Department: Production

Job: Co-Executive Producer

Episode Count: 21

Vote Count: 52

The Rousters
3.0

The Rousters

The Rousters is a 1983 NBC television series about a group of modern-day bounty hunters who are descendants of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp. Despite advertising claims that this series would "sink The Love Boat" in the ratings, it ran for only one season of 13 episodes.

Release Date: 1983-10-01

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 2

Hardcastle and McCormick
6.4

Hardcastle and McCormick

Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action/drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell Productions, shown on ABC from 1983 through 1986. The series stars Brian Keith as Judge Milton C. Hardcastle and Daniel Hugh Kelly as ex-con and race car driver Mark "Skid" McCormick. The series premise was somewhat recycled from a previous Cannell series, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe.

Release Date: 1983-09-18

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 67

Vote Count: 37

The A-Team
7.5

The A-Team

A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."

Release Date: 1983-01-23

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 15

Vote Count: 985

The Quest

The Quest

The Quest is an American action/adventure television series that aired on ABC from October to November 1982. The series stars Perry King and Noah Beery, Jr. Produced by Stephen J. Cannell, the series was canceled after five episodes.

Release Date: 1982-10-22

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 10

The Greatest American Hero
7.2

The Greatest American Hero

The chronicles of  teacher Ralph Hinkley's adventures after a group of aliens gives him a red suit that gives him superhuman abilities. Unfortunately, Ralph, who hates wearing the suit, immediately loses its instruction booklet, and thus has to learn how to use its powers by trial and error, often with comical results.

Release Date: 1981-03-18

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 43

Vote Count: 104

6.1

Midnight Offerings

Vivian has magic powers. She doesn't hesitate to save her boyfriend David from failing in school by murdering teachers. However, David has gotten tired of her and is putting his charm on a new girl in school, Robin. Robin discovers that she also has magic powers, and before long the two girls clash violently.

Release Date: 1981-02-27

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 19

Magnum, P.I.
7.3

Magnum, P.I.

A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.

Release Date: 1980-12-11

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 390

Nightside

Danny Dandoy is a good-humored, streetwise cop working the dusk-to-dawn shift in Los Angeles with his somewhat naive new partner, Macey, in this proposed pilot for a new TV series.

Release Date: 1980-06-08

Department: Writing

Job: Teleplay

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
6.8

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe is an American detective/comedy series originally broadcast by the ABC network between January and June 1980. The series was created and executive produced by Stephen J. Cannell.

Release Date: 1980-01-27

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 14

Vote Count: 11

Stone
6.0

Stone

Stone is an American police drama that aired on NBC on Monday nights between January 14 and March 17, 1980. The series was a Stephen J. Cannell Production in association with Gerry Productions, Inc. and Universal Television and was created by Cannell, Richard Levinson and William Link.

Release Date: 1980-01-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 1

Stone

Dennis Weaver is a Joseph Wambaugh-type novelist cop and Pat Hingle is his hard-nosed superior who wants him to stick to police work or get off the force in this pilot to the short-lived series.

Release Date: 1979-08-26

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

3.5

The Night Rider

"The Mark of Zorro" was updated for this pilot for a prospective series that tells of a New Orleans gentleman who turns masked rider to fight for law and order and avenge his family's killing by four men who wanted their silver mine.

Release Date: 1979-05-11

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

The Duke
5.0

The Duke

The Duke is an American mini series that aired shown on NBC from April 5 to May 18, 1979.

Release Date: 1979-04-05

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 1

The Chinese Typewriter

Two private investigators are hired by an airline company to retrieve a stolen prototype jet. Starring Tom Selleck. Released 1979.

Release Date: 1979-03-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

The Jordan Chance

Jordan Chance was wrongfully imprisoned for ten years. Upon release, he becomes a lawyer and investigates the case of a Mexican woman convicted of murder. The local police give him every reason to believe she was railroaded to ease a tense racial status quo, and they will stop at almost nothing to prevent the case from being reopened.

Release Date: 1978-12-12

Department: Writing

Job: Story

4.0

The Gypsy Warriors

American soldiers (Tom Selleck and James Whitmore Jr.) must travel behind enemy lines to procure the formula for a deadly Nazi toxin in this World War II adventure.

Release Date: 1978-05-12

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

5.0

Dr. Scorpion

A retired spy is reluctantly lured back into action to take down a mad scientist living on a tropical island.

Release Date: 1978-02-24

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Confessions of the D.A. Man

A dangerous campus radical may go free if the District Attorney's office can't locate any witnesses for the prosecution.

Release Date: 1978-01-20

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

The November Plan

A hard-nosed private detective investigates a suspected overthrow of the U.S. government. Loosely based on The Business Plot of 1933.

Release Date: 1977-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

6.0

Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours

A young private detective takes on his first case, a young woman with amnesia who doesn't know why a gunman is trying to kill her but believes she might be involved in a murder.

Release Date: 1976-10-27

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 1

Scott Free

A professional gambler finds himself on the run from the mob, the federal government, and a band of Indians, all of whom have an interest in a piece of land he won in a poker game.

Release Date: 1976-10-13

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Baa Baa Black Sheep
7.6

Baa Baa Black Sheep

The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron.

Release Date: 1976-09-21

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 36

Vote Count: 38

City of Angels
6.0

City of Angels

City of Angels is a 1976 television series created by Stephen J. Cannell and Roy Huggins, who had previously worked together on The Rockford Files. American mystery novelist Max Allan Collins has called City of Angels "the best private eye series ever."

Release Date: 1976-02-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 2

Baretta
6.3

Baretta

Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While popular, Toma received intense criticism at the time for its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title role.

Release Date: 1975-01-17

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 36

The Rockford Files
7.5

The Rockford Files

Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.

Release Date: 1974-09-13

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 22

Vote Count: 107

The Rockford Files

The hit 1974 series pilot aired on NBC March 27, 1974, as a 90-minute made-for-television movie. In the pilot, Lindsay Wagner also starred and later made a return appearance. The pilot was titled Backlash of the Hunter for syndication.

Release Date: 1974-03-27

Department: Writing

Job: Teleplay

Chase
5.0

Chase

Chase is an American television series that aired on the NBC network from September 11, 1973 to August 28, 1974. The show was a production of Jack Webb's Mark VII Limited for Universal Television and marked the first show created by Stephen J. Cannell, who later became known for creating and/or producing his own programs, including NBC's The A-Team.

Release Date: 1973-09-11

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 1

Chase

A special police unit goes after a cop-killer in this pilot film to the short-lived series.

Release Date: 1973-03-24

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

7.5

Toma

This TV-pilot, later made into a TV-series, is about a cop in Newark, New Jersey, who defies his superiors to try to bring down the head of a Mafia numbers racket.

Release Date: 1973-03-21

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 2

Toma
7.8

Toma

Toma is an American crime drama series that ran on ABC in 1973 and 1974.

Release Date: 1973-03-21

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 4

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: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 711

Adam-12
7.1

Adam-12

Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12.

Release Date: 1968-09-21

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 15

Vote Count: 39

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