Michael Gleason (Writing)

Murder 101: College Can be Murder

Criminology Professor Dr. Jonathan Maxwell does not believe that Professor Archer Coe died of a heart attack, so he hires his friend Mike Parker to investigate. The pair discover that the murdered professor had many enemies, and many secrets.

Release Date: 2007-01-29

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 7

Live from Abbey Road: Best of Season 1

Features highlights from the first season of the Channel 4 show LIVE FROM ABBEY ROAD, which saw various musical artists perform live at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. The show took the artists into the hallowed studios, and with the only audience being the TV cameras and technicians, they recorded a selection of songs later broadcast in the twelve hour-long episodes. Augmented with interviews, the shows cut through the normal visual effects and studio trickery to showcase the music itself. The 2-disc DVD brings together some of the best performances from the whole series, along with some additional goodies.

Release Date: 2006-11-25

Department: Production

Job: Producer

She Spies

She Spies is an action-adventure television show that ran from September 9, 2002 until May 17, 2004, in two seasons. The show was sold into syndication but the first four episodes premiered on the NBC network, whose syndication arm was one of the producers. Disappointing ratings during the show's second season led to its cancellation after season two ended. She Spies bore noticeable production and directive similarities with Charlie's Angels.

Release Date: 2002-07-20

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 23

Charmed

Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives from evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern day San Francisco.

Release Date: 1998-10-07

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 2337

Martial Law

Martial Law is an American/Canadian crime drama that aired on CBS from 1998 to 2000, and was created by Carlton Cuse. The title character, Sammo Law, portrayed by Sammo Hung, was a Chinese law officer and martial arts expert who came to Los Angeles in search of a colleague and remains in the US. The show was a surprise hit, making Hung the only East Asian headlining a prime-time network series in the United States. At the time, Hung was not fluent in English, and he reportedly recited some of his dialogue phonetically. In many scenes, Hung did not speak at all, making Martial Law perhaps the only US television series in history that featured so little dialogue from the lead character.

Release Date: 1998-09-26

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 96

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Two globetrotting spies with different styles team up. Posing as husband and wife, they guard their true identities at all costs from the bad guys‒and from each other.

Release Date: 1996-09-20

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3

The Burning Zone

The Burning Zone is a television drama broadcast on the UPN network as part of its 1996–97 lineup. It ran for 19 episodes. The series was rerun on SciFi Channel in the mid-to-late 1990s. The Burning Zone featured a team of American agents who could be almost instantly dispatched almost anywhere in the world to fight biological warfare and naturally occurring biohazards. The series is believed to be cashing in on the success of the New York Times bestseller The Hot Zone, which spawned biological disaster movies like Outbreak. There was a villainous organization known as "The Dawn" that was responsible for some of the threats the team faced. The members of "The Dawn" were shadowy and never fully exposed but their goals and aims were clear: To allow disease and pestilence of a biological nature restore the Earth by rendering extinct the most virulent pestilence of all—mankind.

Release Date: 1996-09-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 5

The Shamrock Conspiracy

A retired Scotland Yard detective gets involved in a serial killer investigation whilst in New York.

Release Date: 1995-12-12

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

MacShayne: Final Roll of the Dice

Reformed con man Jack MacShayne is back, this time as the head of security at the Las Vegas hotel he stayed at in MacShayne: Winner Takes All. As part of his new job, he's charged with protecting a variety of distinguished guests, from the kleptomaniac grandson of the hotel's CEO to the lounge singer whose ex-husband shows up dead. Meanwhile, a senatorial candidate is relying on MacShayne to keep him safe from a deadly hit man.

Release Date: 1994-04-29

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 1

MacShayne: Winner Takes All

MacShayne is a gambler and small time con-man. After serving a short stretch in jail, he goes to Las Vegas to see his son, but when he gets there, his ex-wife is no longer where she use to live and work and left no forwarding address. Leggett, a recently retired cop, approaches him and tells him that he will help him find his son, if he does something for him. It seems that he is planning to rob a hotel casino and he needs three guys to pull it off. Now two of the guys he recruited has agreed to it but the third is uncertain, so he sets up a poker game wherein MacShayne is suppose to clean him out thus giving Leggett some leverage on him. After doing that he discovers that Leggett is duplicitous and is going stab everybody in the back. So he decides to turn the tables on him.

Release Date: 1994-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

Diagnosis: Murder

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

Release Date: 1993-10-29

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 112

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man of Steel's early adult years in Metropolis. With the unknowing help of Lois Lane, Clark Kent created Superman there in Metropolis after finding work at the world-famous Daily Planet newspaper, where he meets fellow reporter Lois Lane.

Release Date: 1993-09-12

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 451

Rewrite for Murder

Unaired CBS television pilot from 1991 starring George Clooney and Pam Dawber was an attempt at a breezy comedy/mystery in the style of Moonlighting about a pair of mismatched writers on a television mystery program who have to solve a real-life murder.

Release Date: 1991-09-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Remington Steele

Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.

Release Date: 1982-10-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 15

Vote Count: 127

Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider

A World War I deserter competes in the first long-distance motorcycle race.

Release Date: 1979-05-01

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 9

A Double Life

After the death of his parents, millionaire playboy Jack Cole is framed on charges of embezzlement. In prison, Cole learns various tricks of the criminal trade - lockpicking, safecracking, electronic surveillance, etc. Upon his release, Cole uses his wealth and his newly learned talents to help others, leaving his calling card, a "sword of justice", at the scene.

Release Date: 1978-01-17

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail is a 14-episode NBC western television series starring Rod Taylor as the widower Evan Thorpe, who leaves his Illinois farm in 1842 to take the Oregon Trail to the Pacific Northwest. The show also starred Andrew Stevens, Tony Becker, and Gina Marie Smika as Thorpe's children. Darleen Carr starred as Margaret Devlin, one of the passengers on the wagon train, and Charles Napier portrayed Luther Sprague, a frontier scout recruited by Thorpe. The series was filmed in the Flagstaff, Arizona area.

Release Date: 1977-09-21

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Yesterday's Child

A young couple's three-year-old daughter is kidnapped and no trace is ever found of her. Fourteen years later, a young woman claiming to be that girl shows up at the parents' house.

Release Date: 1977-02-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II

Weekly series spun off from the miniseries.

Release Date: 1976-09-21

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 22

Vote Count: 8

Force Five

Release Date: 1975-03-28

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Cannon

Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad. He also appeared on two episodes of Barnaby Jones. Cannon is the first Quinn Martin-produced series to be aired on a network other than ABC. A "revival" television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1, 1980. In total, there were 124 episodes.

Release Date: 1971-09-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 34

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: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 51

The Big Valley

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century California rancher. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman, and produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for Four Star Television.

Release Date: 1965-09-15

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 53

Peyton Place

Like the novel and film of the same name, this nighttime soap opera is set in the small New England town of Peyton Place, whose quaint charm masks a complicated web of extramarital affairs, shady business deals, scandals, even murder.

Release Date: 1964-09-15

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 11

Vote Count: 7

My Favorite Martian

Newspaper reporter Tim O'Hara finds a crashed alien spaceship that contains one live alien. Not wanting to be discovered by the authorities, the Martian assumes the identity of Tim's Uncle Martin and begins to repair his spaceship so that he can return to Mars.

Release Date: 1963-09-29

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 28

It's a Man's World

It's a Man's World is an American comedy-drama television series which aired on NBC from September 17, 1962, to January 28, 1963. Wes and Tom-Tom are friends going to college and with musician Vern share a houseboat. Wes also watches out for his younger brother Howie and the four of them deal with girls, jobs, and school. Occasionally the boys get serious but more often they use humor to handle situations.

Release Date: 1962-09-17

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

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 Date: 1959-01-09

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 44