Lawrence Hertzog (Writing)
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Works
Painkiller Jane
Painkiller Jane is an American-Canadian science fiction and action television series based on the comic book character of the same name. Airing on the Sci Fi Channel in the US starting April 13, 2007 and Global in Canada, it starred Kristanna Loken as the titular character. On August 15, 2007, it was canceled after one season of 22 episodes.
Release Date: 2007-04-13
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 47
Missing
Jess Mastriani was a normal person who only wanted to take over her parents' restaurant in Indiana. But that changed when she was hit by lightning. After that she began seeing visions of missing people. Jess decides to use her newfound ability to be a consultant to the FBI, helping locate missing individuals. Eventually, she is hired by the bureau full-time and trained to become an agent, but her by-the-book nature sometimes clashes with the personality of her partner. Jess and her colleagues work out of the FBI's Washington, D.C., office.
Release Date: 2003-08-02
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 26
24
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.
Release Date: 2001-11-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1562
La Femme Nikita
La Femme Nikita was a Canadian action/drama television series based on the French film Nikita by Luc Besson. The series was co-produced by Jay Firestone of Fireworks Entertainment and Warner Bros.. It was adapted for television by Joel Surnow. The series was first telecast in North America on the USA Network cable channel on January 13, 1997, and ran for five television seasons—until March 2001. The series was also aired in Canada on the over-the-air CTV Television Network. La Femme Nikita was the highest-rated drama on American basic cable during its first two seasons. It was also distributed in some other countries, and it continues to have a strong cult following.
Release Date: 1997-01-13
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 244
Profiler
Rachel Burke is a criminal profiler, one of the best, actually. She, along with a sophisticated team of specialists on the FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force in Atlanta, investigates crimes throughout the country. Together, they solve the toughest of cases while trying to live their lives as best they can.
Release Date: 1996-09-21
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 64
Nowhere Man
Thomas Veil is a documentary photographer who, in the course of one evening, seemingly has his whole existence erased...
Release Date: 1995-08-28
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 25
Vote Count: 29
Darkman II: The Return of Durant
Darkman and Durant return and they hate each other as much as ever. This time, Durant has plans to take over the city's drug trade using high-tech weaponry. Darkman must step in and try to stop Durant once and for all.
Release Date: 1995-07-11
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 275
Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die
The Harts find themselves in the middle of a dangerous murder plot, but it isn't clear if the plot it a famous author's fictional murder-mystery, or an actual murder plot, until Jonathan finds himself the unsuspecting target of a killer. It begins to look like the culprit behind the plot is an old friend, Frank Crane, but there may be a connection to a corporate takeover of Hart Industries as well.
Release Date: 1994-05-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 11
Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart
In their very last adventure, Jonathan and Jennifer Hart travel to The Big Apple, where a play she wrote in college is being produced on Broadway. But there's sabotage going on, and when a stagehand is murdered, everyone's a suspect - even Jonathan!
Release Date: 1994-03-25
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 10
Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is
When a mentor and friend of Jennifer's dies, she and Jonathan return to the sleepy town where Jennifer once lived and worked as a reporter. Nearly immediately, they discover that all is not right within this picturesque town. The town's economic troubles pale next to the danger the Harts find themselves in as they try to sort out whether their friend's death was murder, and what sinister secrets may lie behind the truth.
Release Date: 1994-02-18
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 10
seaQuest DSV
In the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans Organization enlists Captain Nathan Bridger and the submarine seaQuest DSV to keep the peace and explore the last frontier on Earth.
Release Date: 1993-09-12
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 131
Walker, Texas Ranger
Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in the rugged traditions of the Old West. Walker's closest friend is former Ranger, C.D. Parker, who retired after a knee injury, and now owns "C.D.'s," a Country/Western saloon/restaurant. Rookie Ranger, James "Jimmy" Trivette is an ex-football player who bases his crime-solving methods on reason and uses computers and cellular phones. Alex Cahill is the Assistant DA who shares a mutual attraction with Walker, but often disagrees with his unorthodox approach to law enforcement.
Release Date: 1993-04-21
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 495
Raven
Jonathon Raven is a ninja-trained former Special Forces agent, retired in Hawaii to search for his long-lost son. Avoiding assassins sent to kill him by his former associates in the Black Dragon Clan, he uses his skills to help those in need. He is assisted by his former military buddy turned eccentric private investigator, Herman Jablonski.
Release Date: 1992-06-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 4
Bodyguard
Former secret service agent Cameron Childes is a bodyguard for hire. In this unsold pilot, he's protecting a mobster's ex-girlfriend after she witnesses a murder.
Release Date: 1990-06-22
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Project: Tinman
A mechanical man with a moral code and soul looking for adventure and his creator after escaping the military. He attempts to discover the reasons why he was created. An action-adventure pilot for ABC, a series that never happened.
Release Date: 1990-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
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: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 1
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: 3
Vote Count: 20
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: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 12
Vote Count: 37
Final Assignment
An intrepid television journalist sent to cover the Canadian prime minister's visit to the Soviet Union has trouble sticking to her assignment when she unearths a horrific experimental drug trial involving children. Determined to prepare a video that will show the world exactly what's been going on, she dodges the long arm of the KGB and falls into bed with a Communist bureaucrat.
Release Date: 1980-10-01
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 2
Hart to Hart
Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.
Release Date: 1979-09-22
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 13
Vote Count: 116
Mrs. Columbo
Mrs. Kate Columbo, wife of the famous lieutenant, solves crimes as a reporter, while raising her little daughter.
Release Date: 1979-02-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 8
Why Shoot the Teacher?
It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not a dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid.
Release Date: 1977-06-23
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 5