Harry Ackerman (Production)

The New Gidget

The New Gidget is an American television sitcom that aired in syndication from 1986 to 1988. The series was produced by original Gidget series producer Harry Ackerman and was launched after the television movie Gidget's Summer Reunion starring Caryn Richman as Gidget aired in 1985. Richman would go on to reprise the role of Gidget in the series.

Release Date: 1986-09-15

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 44

Vote Count: 1

Gidget's Summer Reunion

Former beach bunny/girl surfer Francine “Gidget” Lawrence is an adult and married to her long-term beau Jeff “Moondoggie” Griffin. She deals with a variety of marital spats, as well as running her own travel agency, running interferences with her teenage niece, and trying to arrange a reunion of her husband’s old surfing friends. Meanwhile, Jeff works as an architect and must fend off romantic advances from his beautiful and lascivious boss. Gidget’s niece wants to learn how to surf and gets too much when she sneaks out to see a suave, self-serving beach bum behind the back of her nerdy boyfriend.

Release Date: 1985-06-01

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 1

Temperatures Rising

Temperatures Rising is an American television sitcom that ran from September 12, 1972 to August 29, 1974 on the ABC network. The network had a good deal of faith in the low-rated series, which went through three cast changes, two different formats, and two time slots during its run.

Release Date: 1972-09-12

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 47

Vote Count: 1

Gidget Gets Married

Gidget finally gets married and rebels against the social caste system in her new husband's company.

Release Date: 1972-01-04

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 5

Cat Ballou

A pretty ranch owner hires a drunken gunslinger and his two companions to protect her ranch from outlaws and build a school for local children.

Release Date: 1971-09-05

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Inside O.U.T.

Agents from The Office of Unusual Tactics (aka O.U.T.), a secret government agency, clean up snafus created by other government organizations.

Release Date: 1971-03-22

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Gidget Grows Up

After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her beloved "Moondoggie" to try to make him jealous have had the wrong effect. Disillusioned with love, and after hearing a speech on television, she decides to make a real difference in the world by going to New York to become a youth worker at the United Nations. While there she has a proposal of marriage from an extremely wealthy Arabian sheik, but instead she falls for a handsome but older Australian diplomat.

Release Date: 1969-12-30

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 2

In Name Only

In this romantic comedy, an unwed couple who run a wedding planning business discover, to their horror, that the Justice of the Peace who had officiated their first three weddings was only an actor. Hilarity ensues as they set about trying to get these marrieds married...again.

Release Date: 1969-11-25

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Mistletoe Massacre

Marion Callevero has her guest list checked twice to host the company Christmas event, but gifts quickly turn to gore. This struggling staff has been invited to the party but no one will be returning home for the holidays.

Character: Photo

The Paul Lynde Show

The Paul Lynde Show is an American sitcom that aired on ABC. The series stars Paul Lynde and aired from September 13, 1972 to September 8, 1973.

Release Date: 1972-09-13

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 26

Vote Count: 2

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is an American sitcom television series that aired from September 26, 1969 until January 16, 1970. Based on the movie from 1936.

Release Date: 1969-09-26

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 17

Vote Count: 1

The Ugliest Girl in Town

The Ugliest Girl in Town is a short-lived American sitcom produced by Screen Gems for ABC. It ran from September 26, 1968 to January 30, 1969. Timothy Blair is a Hollywood talent agent. He falls in love with Julie Renfield, a British actress who is visiting the United States to do a movie. After that movie is finished, she returns to England. To assist his brother Gene complete a photography assignment, Timothy dresses as a hippie and poses for a photo shoot. The photos are sent to a modeling agent in England who assumes that they are of a woman. He offers "her" a job. Knowing that this would be the only chance to go to Great Britain and be with Julie, Tim accepts and dubs himself "Timmie". Tim has two weeks of vacation to spend as much time with Julie as he can, but when as he is about to leave with his brother, Gene loses £11,000 gambling. Unless he pays him back, Tim has to continue being Timmie for a while longer. In 2002, TV Guide ranked the series number 18 on its '50 Worst TV Shows of All Time' list.

Release Date: 1968-09-26

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 20

Vote Count: 2

The Flying Nun

Young Sister Bertrille uses her ability to become airborne to help others, whether they want it or not. Although her aims are always benevolent, her means are often bemoaned by Mother Superior. The other Sisters must cope with their beloved Sister's aerodynamics and antics as she flies in and out of trouble.

Release Date: 1967-09-07

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 34

The Second Hundred Years

The Second Hundred Years is an American sitcom starring Monte Markham which aired on the ABC television network for one season from September 6, 1967 to March 28, 1968.

Release Date: 1967-09-06

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 26

Vote Count: 2

Occasional Wife

Release Date: 1966-09-13

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 30

Vote Count: 2

Love on a Rooftop

Newlyweds Dave and Julie Willis struggle to survive in San Francisco on Dave's apprentice architect's salary of $85.37 a week. Matters are complicated by Julie's rich father, who doesn't approve of their less than luxurious lifestyle and often takes it upon himself to try to improve it, much to Dave's chagrin.

Release Date: 1966-09-06

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 30

Vote Count: 1

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

The Wackiest Ship in the Army is an American comedy series that aired for one season on NBC between September 19, 1965, and April 17, 1966. Produced by Harry Ackerman and Herbert Hirschman, the series is loosely based on the 1960 film starring Jack Lemmon and Ricky Nelson.

Release Date: 1965-09-19

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 29

Vote Count: 2

Gidget

Gidget is an American sitcom about a surfing, boy-crazy teenager called "Gidget" and her widowed father Russ Lawrence, a UCLA professor. Sally Field stars as Gidget with Don Porter as father Russell Lawrence. The series was first broadcast on ABC from September 15, 1965 to April 21, 1966. Gidget was among the first regularly scheduled color programs on ABC, but did poorly in the Nielsen ratings and was cancelled at the end of its first season.

Release Date: 1965-09-15

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 32

Vote Count: 13

Bewitched

Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.

Release Date: 1964-09-17

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 254

Vote Count: 692

The Farmer's Daughter

The Farmer's Daughter is an American situation comedy series that was produced by Screen Gems Television and aired on ABC from September 20, 1963 to April 22, 1966. It was sponsored by Liggett & Myers Tobacco and Clairol for whom the two leading stars often appeared at show's end promoting the products. It also enjoyed a brief run in syndication when it aired on CBN Cable in the 1980s.

Release Date: 1963-09-20

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 101

Vote Count: 1

Grindl

Grindl is an American situation comedy that began in the fall of 1963 on NBC, originally sponsored by Procter & Gamble. The show, starring Imogene Coca in the title role, lasted for one season.

Release Date: 1963-09-15

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 32

Vote Count: 2

Our Man Higgins

Our Man Higgins is an American situation comedy that aired on ABC from October 3, 1962, to May 17, 1963.

Release Date: 1962-10-03

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 31

Vote Count: 1

Hazel

Hazel is an American sitcom about a fictional live-in maid named Hazel Burke and her employers, the Baxters. The five-season, 154-episode series aired in primetime from September 28, 1961 until April 11, 1966 and was produced by Screen Gems. The show aired on NBC for its first four seasons, and then on CBS for its final season. The first season, except for one color episode was in black and white, the remainder in color. The show was based on the popular single-panel comic strip by cartoonist Ted Key, which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.

Release Date: 1961-09-28

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 155

Vote Count: 19

My Sister Eileen

My Sister Eileen is an American situation comedy based on a series of autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney originally published in The New Yorker, as well as the 1940 play and 1942 and 1955 film adaptations they inspired. The series premiered at 9:00pm ET/PT on CBS on October 15, 1960 and ran for one season of 26 episodes, the last of which was telecast on April 12, 1961. It aired opposite Hawaiian Eye on ABC and Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall on NBC.

Release Date: 1960-10-05

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 26

Dennis the Menace

This 1959-1963 television situation comedy series follows the lives of the Mitchell family, Henry, Alice, and their only child Dennis, an energetic, trouble-prone, mischievous, but well-meaning boy, who often tangles with his peace-and-quiet-loving neighbor George Wilson, a retired salesman, or, later, with George's brother John, a writer. Dennis is basically a good, well-intentioned boy who always tries to help people, but who winds up making situations worse – often at Mr. Wilson's expense.

Release Date: 1959-10-04

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 146

Vote Count: 31

Leave It to Beaver

Leave It to Beaver is an American television situation comedy about an inquisitive and often naïve boy named Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver and his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. The show also starred Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as Beaver's parents, June and Ward Cleaver, and Tony Dow as Beaver's brother Wally. The show has attained an iconic status in the US, with the Cleavers exemplifying the idealized suburban family of the mid-20th century.

Release Date: 1957-10-04

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 195

Vote Count: 73

Bachelor Father

Bachelor Father is an American sitcom starring John Forsythe, Noreen Corcoran, and Sammee Tong. The series first premiered on CBS in September 1957 before moving to NBC for the third season in 1959. The series' fifth and final season aired on ABC from 1961 to 1962. A total of 157 episodes were aired. The series was based on "A New Girl in His Life", which aired on General Electric Theater on May 26, 1957. Bachelor Father is the only primetime series ever to run in consecutive years on the three major televisions networks.

Release Date: 1957-09-15

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 157

Vote Count: 3

I Love Lucy

Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.

Release Date: 1951-10-15

Character: Network Sponsor #2 (uncredited)

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 224