Gene Levitt

Eugene Levitt was an American television writer, producer and director. Levitt attended the University of Wyoming. Following graduation he moved to Chicago where he worked as a newspaper reporter until enlisting in the United States Marine Corps. In the 1940s, Levitt wrote for radio programs, including The Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Levitt was a writer for many television series in the 1950s and 1960s, including Highway Patrol, Maverick ("Trail West to Fury"), Adventures in Paradise and Combat!. He moved to directing in the 1970s, working on series such as Alias Smith and Jones and McCloud. His most significant achievement was the creation of the television series Fantasy Island, starring Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaize. The show ran for over six years. In addition to Fantasy Island, Levitt assisted in the writing, production, and directing of Hawaii-Five-O, and Alias Smith and Jones. He died of prostate cancer in Los Angeles, California. (Taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Works

Fantasy Island

This contemporary version of the classic drama series delves into the “what if” questions that keep us awake at night. Each episode tells emotional, provocative stories about people who walk in with a desire, but end up reborn to themselves through the magical realism of Fantasy Island.

Release Date: 2021-08-10

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 70

Fantasy Island

A group of contest winners arrive at an island hotel to live out their dreams, only to find themselves trapped in nightmare scenarios.

Release Date: 2020-02-12

Department: Writing

Job: Original Series Creator

Vote Count: 2485

Fantasy Island

Mr. Roarke and his three assistants run a tropical paradise where guests come in to have their wildest dreams and fantasies come true.

Release Date: 1998-09-26

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 14

Trauma Center

Release Date: 1983-09-22

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo

The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo is an American action/adventure situation. Claude Akins stars in the title role in this wacky new NBC one-hour comedy series about the exploits of a rural county sheriff and his two deputies, played by Mills Watson and Brian Kerwin.

Release Date: 1979-09-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 7

Magee and the Lady

Release Date: 1978-12-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Project U.F.O.

Project U.F.O. is a NBC television series based loosely on the real-life Project Blue Book

Release Date: 1978-02-19

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 26

Vote Count: 3

Fantasy Island

A magical island hosted by Mr Roarke and Tattoo where weekly guests learn valuable life lessons in their pursuit of fulfilling their dreams. Not all dreams are fulfilled as expected.

Release Date: 1978-01-28

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 103

Barnaby and Me

Barnaby and Me is a 1978 Australian TV movie about a girl and her talking koala who are pursued by criminals.

Release Date: 1977-08-08

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 2

Fantasy Island

Mr. Roarke and his assistant Tattoo greet a former reporter in World War II who wants to relive a brief romance that took place in London 30 years ago, a big-game hunter who, for once, wants to be the hunted and a wealthy businesswoman who wants to be a secret and silent observer at her own funeral.

Release Date: 1977-01-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

S.W.A.T.

S.W.A.T. is an American action/crime drama series about the adventures of a Special Weapons And Tactics team operating in an unidentified California city. A spin-off of The Rookies, the series aired on ABC from February 1975 to April 1976. Like The Rookies, S.W.A.T. was produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg.

Release Date: 1975-02-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 67

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974–1975 season. It featured a fictional Chicago newspaper reporter who investigated mysterious crimes with unlikely causes, particularly those that law enforcement authorities would not follow up. These often involved the supernatural or even science fiction, including fantastic creatures.

Release Date: 1974-09-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 80

The Phantom of Hollywood

The internationally famous Worldwide Studios has hit hard times and is forced to sell its Hollywood backlot to property developers. The trouble is someone keeps killing off the site surveyors. The studio chiefs then learn of the legend of a masked man who lives on the lot and is sworn to protect it from harm.

Release Date: 1974-02-12

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 9

Cool Million

Cool Million is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC as an element in its "wheel series" The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie during its 1972-73 schedule. James Farentino is the globe-trotting adventurer who gets a million dollars per case for finding shady people who don't want to be found. A rotating series on the "NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie. "

Release Date: 1972-10-28

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

Alias Smith and Jones

Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of cousin outlaws trying to reform. The governor offers them a conditional amnesty, as he wants to keep the pact under wraps for political reasons. The condition is that they will still be wanted— until the governor can claim they have reformed and warrant clemency.

Release Date: 1971-01-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 29

Night Gallery

Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.

Release Date: 1970-12-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 97

The 48-Hour Mile

An unusual assignment for a private investigator involves two women who are in love with the same man.

Release Date: 1970-11-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

McCloud

Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a special investigator.

Release Date: 1970-02-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 51

Run a Crooked Mile

A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there's no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. Two years later he wakes up in a hospital room after a polo accident to find he's had amnesia, is now married, and living in Switzerland. Now remembering the incident he returns to England to try to solve the mystery.

Release Date: 1969-11-18

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2

Any Second Now

A photographer plans to murder his rich young wife after she catches him cheating on her and threatens to divorce him so he won't get any of her money. He arranges for her to have an auto accident. However, instead of killing her, the accident only causes her to lose her memory, and the doctors say that it could return at any moment.

Release Date: 1969-02-11

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 3

Daring Game

Survival Devices, Inc are an organisation that employ a team of adventurers known as "the Flying Fish" who are adept in sky diving, scuba diving and martial arts. They are engaged to rescue a captured scientist imprisoned on a Caribbean island by a dictator. The team parachutes off the coast of the island in a HALO jump and establishes an inflatable underwater basecamp in an "Instant Underwater Habitat" or "Igloo".

Release Date: 1968-03-19

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Combat!

Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders.

Release Date: 1962-10-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 103

Adventures in Paradise

Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.

Release Date: 1959-10-05

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 6

77 Sunset Strip

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.

Release Date: 1958-10-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 22

Bat Masterson

Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.

Release Date: 1958-10-08

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 13

Underwater Warrior

Based upon the life of Commander Francic D. Fane (USNR), UnderWater Warrior follows the evolution of the US Navy's Underwater Demolition Unit from its inception near the end of World War II through its acceptance and finally successful utilization in Korea. Landmark underwater camera work makes Underwater Warrior a milestone in cinematic history.

Release Date: 1958-02-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Sea Hunt

Sea Hunt is an American adventure television series that aired in syndication from 1958 to 1961 and was popular in syndication for decades afterwards. The series originally aired for four seasons, with 155 episodes produced. It stars Lloyd Bridges as ex-Navy frogman Mike Nelson, and was produced by Ivan Tors.

Release Date: 1958-01-04

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 16

Tombstone Territory

Tombstone Territory is an American Western series starring Pat Conway and Richard Eastham. The series' first two seasons aired on ABC from 1957 to 1959. The third and final season aired in syndication from 1959 until 1960.

Release Date: 1957-10-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 7

Maverick

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.

Release Date: 1957-09-22

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 36

The Night Runner

A mental patient with a violent past is released from the institution, against the advice of his doctors, and sent back to his old neighborhood. Was he released too soon?

Release Date: 1957-04-02

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 9

Beyond Mombasa

An American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.

Release Date: 1956-10-29

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 5

Foreign Intrigue

Millionaire Victor Danemore, living on the French Riviera, dies suddenly of a heart attack. His secretary, Dave Bishop, wants to know more about his employer's life. Surprisingly, not even his young wife knows anything about her husband's background or how he earned his fortune. Clues lead Bishop to Vienna and Stockholm, where he learns that Danemore was blackmailing people who cooperated with the Nazis during World War II.

Release Date: 1956-07-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 24

Science Fiction Theatre

Science Fiction Theatre is an American science fiction anthology series that aired in syndication from April 1955 to April 1957. It was produced by Ivan Tors and Maurice Ziv.

Release Date: 1955-04-09

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 8

Your Favorite Story

Your Favorite Story is the title of a TV comedy anthology series that aired from 1953 through 1955. It premiered in December 1954 with the title Your Favorite Playhouse. This program was adapted from the radio show Favorite Story which ran from 1946 through 1949. The program's 25 episodes starred Adolphe Menjou and featured episodes originally written by Leonard St. Clair, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Frank R. Stockton.

Release Date: 1953-01-11

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1