Albert Ruben (Writer)

Kojak

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.

Release Date1973-10-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count130

The Defenders

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

Release Date1961-09-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count10

The Buccaneers

The adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.

Release Date1956-09-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

The Connection

An out-of-work newspaperman in need of money becomes the go-between for a jewel thief and an insurance company that wants to settle.

Release Date1973-02-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Neighborhood

A neighborhood in Brooklyn reacts to the first black families moving into the community.

Release Date1982-04-25

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count1

Visit to a Chief's Son

An American anthropologist and his son benefit from their experiences with an East African tribe.

Release Date1974-03-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

River of Mystery

A couple of freelance explosives experts find jungle adventure while being stalked by a revolutionary leader and a diamond hunter.

Release Date1971-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Reunion at Fairborough

World War II vets travel to England for a reunion at their old base. Stars Judi Trott, Barry Morse, Red Buttons, Deborah Kerr, Shane Rimmer, Robert Mitchum

Release Date1985-05-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

Foster & Laurie

The story of two New York City police officers, one white and one black, their ambush and murder by black revolutionaries and the efforts to hunt down and capture their killers.

Release Date1975-11-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

The Seven-Ups

A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money.

Release Date1973-12-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count122

Countdown to Looking Glass

A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. The narrative of the film details the events that lead up to the initial exchange of nuclear weapons from the perspective of an on-going news broadcast.

Release Date1984-10-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count15

Shannon

Shannon is an hour-long 9-episode CBS crime drama starring Kevin Dobson. Jack Shannon is a recently widowed detective who moves from New York to San Francisco to live and work, intending to be closer to his wife's parents. In New York, Shannon operated in a single mode—always moving forward. However, he discovers that in San Francisco, the approach is more relaxed; they also take time to pause. He faces considerable resistance from the laid-back San Francisco police officers, who are not impressed by his intensity or his methods. When he requests his coffee to be served "regular," they smirk at him. Additionally, when he is dissatisfied with a crime arrest that he feels is questionable, they merely blink in response.

Release Date1981-04-14

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JobCreator

A Step Out of Line

Three financially down-and-out buddies plot to pull a bank robbery to cure their financial woes.

Release Date1971-02-26

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count1

City in Fear

A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publisher who wants him to turn the killer into Page One news.

Release Date1980-03-30

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count8

Kojak The Belarus File

Lt. Theo Kojak uncovers a Nazi conspiracy.

Release Date1985-02-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2

Kojak: The Price of Justice

When the bodies of two young boys are discovered in the Harlem River, their mother is the obvious suspect, particularly with her scandalous past. But what appears to be an open-and-shut case soon becomes something much more sinister.

Release Date1987-02-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

The Blue Knight

In this pilot film that preceded the short-lived series, a street cop in his last week on the force before his retirement investigates the murder of his partner.

Release Date1975-05-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer

A New York detective and a victim's colleague hunt a killer who preys on single women.

Release Date1983-10-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Incident at Dark River

When Tim McFall's young daughter dies as the result of toxic waste dumped in the local river, he tries to shut down the company and everybody turns against him. In his fight he is joined by a beautiful student activist, and soon his obsession with revenge threatens his marriage as well as his career.

Release Date1989-12-04

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

The Secret Life of John Chapman

The true story of John Chapman, a college president who took a sabbatical and went out and got a job as a general laborer, to try to experience life outside his well-ordered but insulated college environment.

Release Date1976-12-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count3

Journey Through Rosebud

A young draft dodger helps militant Native Americans in their protest against the government at Wounded Knee.

Release Date1972-03-02

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay