Don Brinkley (Writer)
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Works
Have Gun, Will Travel
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
Release Date1957-09-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count42
The Virginian
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.
Release Date1962-09-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count34
The Fugitive
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
Release Date1963-09-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Vote Count58
Mannix
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.
Release Date1967-09-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count51
Ironside
When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.
Release Date1967-03-28
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Episode Count1
Vote Count65
Rawhide
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
Release Date1959-01-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count48
The F.B.I.
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.
Release Date1965-09-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count11
Vote Count23
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television. The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.
Release Date1958-09-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count34
Ben Casey
Release Date1961-10-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count14
Medical Center
Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced by MGM Television.
Release Date1969-09-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count13
Trapper John, M.D.
Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH, concerning a lovable doctor who became a mentor and father figure in San Francisco, California. The show ran on CBS from September 23, 1979, to September 4, 1986.
Release Date1979-09-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count12
Vote Count21
The Invaders
The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for him it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Now, David Vincent knows that the Invaders are here, that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun.
Release Date1967-01-10
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Episode Count2
Vote Count58
The Name of the Game
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
Release Date1968-09-20
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count12
Highway Patrol
Highway Patrol was a syndicated, fictional police action series produced from 1955 to 1959, concerning the activities of the highway patrol and their leader, Dan Matthews (who held no rank). Although filmed in and around the Los Angeles area, the state setting for the stories was never identified, and city and street names were fictionalized.
Release Date1955-10-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count9
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 Date1958-10-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count14
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Join the crew of the Seaview aboard their super high-tech submarine, where no mission is too dangerous and no threat is too deadly, be it enemy agents, mad scientists, deadly sea creatures, or impending nuclear disaster.
Release Date1964-09-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count124
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Release Date1963-10-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count3
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the auspices of the U.N. Their immediate superior is Mr. Waverly. Together they operate out of a secret base beneath the streets of New York City, and accesses through several cover business such as Del Floria's Tailor Shop and the Masque Club. This secret intelligence service is called U.N.C.L.E. United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.
Release Date1964-09-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count67
Lancer
Lancer is an American Western series that aired on CBS from September 1968, to May 1970. The series stars Andrew Duggan, James Stacy, and Wayne Maunder as a father with two half-brother sons, an arrangement similar to the more successful Bonanza on NBC.
Release Date1968-09-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
Felony Squad
Twenty-year veteran Detective Sergeant Sam Stone is paired with rookie Briggs in a large Western metropolis.
Release Date1966-09-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Vote Count5
Tarzan
Tarzan is a series that aired on NBC from 1966 – 1968. The series portrayed Tarzan as a well-educated character, one who, tired of civilization, had returned to the jungle where he had been raised. The show retained many of the trappings of the classic movie series, including Cheeta, while excluding other elements, such as Jane, as part of the "new look" for the fabled apeman that producer Sy Weintraub had introduced in previous motion pictures starring Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, and Mike Henry. CBS aired repeat episodes the program during the summer of 1969.
Release Date1966-09-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count23
Arrest and Trial
Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964 season on ABC, airing Sundays from 8:30-10 p.m. Eastern.
Release Date1963-09-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Target: The Corruptors!
Target: The Corruptors! is an American crime drama series starring Stephen McNally which aired on ABC from September 29, 1961 to June 8, 1962. The series was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television.
Release Date1961-09-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
The New Breed
Release Date1961-10-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Redigo
Redigo is a 15-week Western dramatic series, set on a New Mexico ranch during the early 1960s, which aired over NBC from September 24 to December 31, 1963. The series features Richard Egan as ranch owner Jim Redigo, Roger Davis as Mike the ranch hand, and Elena Verdugo as Gerry. Don Diamond appeared in four episodes, three as the character Arturo. Redigo was the truncated second half-hour season of the previous one-hour series, Empire, which aired from September 25, 1962, to May 13, 1963. Both programs were placed on the Tuesday evening schedule against CBS's The Red Skelton Show. Redigo also lost out in the ratings to the ABC military sitcom, McHale's Navy, starring Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway. In Redigo, Egan's character Jim Redigo was no longer the manager of the large Garrett Ranch but the owner of his own smaller spread nearby. The half-hour format made it hard for the program to develop complex characters as had been done in the initial one-hour version of the show.
Release Date1963-09-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
The Interns
The Interns is an American medical drama series that aired on CBS from 1970 to 1971. It was based on the 1962 film The Interns and the 1964 sequel The New Interns.
Release Date1970-09-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Boots and Saddles
Boots and Saddles is an American Western television series created by Robert A. Cinader which aired in syndication from 1957 to 1958.
Release Date1957-09-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
Michael Shayne
Release Date1960-09-30
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1