Robert King
Robert King is a writer and producer, best known for the television shows "The Good Wife", "BrainDead", and "The Good Fight", all created by him and his wife Michelle King.
Works
Baa Baa Black Sheep
The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron.
Release Date1976-09-21
Charactersd Japanese Sub Captain
Episode Count1
Vote Count41
Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show
“Showrunners” is the first ever feature length documentary film to explore the fascinating world of US television showrunners and the creative forces aligned around them. These are the people responsible for creating, writing and overseeing every element of production on one of the United State’s biggest exports – television drama and comedy series. Often described as the most complex job in the entertainment business, a showrunner is the chief writer / producer on a TV series and, in most instances, the show’s creator. Battling daily between art and commerce, showrunners manage every aspect of a TV show’s development and production: creative, financial and logistical.
Release Date2014-10-17
Charactersd Self
Vote Count48
The Good Wife
Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.
Release Date2009-09-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count38
Vote Count612
Evil
Skeptical forensic psychologist Kristen Bouchard joins priest-in-training David Acosta and technology expert Ben Shakir as they investigate supposed miracles, demonic possessions, and other extraordinary occurrences to assess for a scientific explanation or if something truly supernatural is at work.
Release Date2019-09-26
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count13
Vote Count883
The Good Fight
Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell, while simultaneously wiping out her mentor and godmother Diane Lockhart's savings. Forced out of her law firm, now called "Lockhart, Deckler, Gussman, Lee, Lyman, Gilbert, Lurie, Kagan, Tannebaum & Associates", they join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago's preeminent law firms.
Release Date2017-02-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count12
Vote Count305
Elsbeth
After her successful career in Chicago, Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney, utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD.
Release Date2024-02-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count75
Your Honor
New Orleans judge Michael Desiato is forced to confront his own deepest convictions when his son is involved in a hit and run that embroils an organized crime family.
Release Date2020-12-06
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count20
Vote Count1599
Happy Face
The story of Melissa Reed, daughter of Keith Jesperson, aka the Happy Face Killer. After decades of no contact, Keith forces his way back into his daughter’s life, and Melissa must find out if an innocent man is going to be put to death for a crime her father committed. In the process, she must face a reckoning of her own identity.
Release Date2025-03-20
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count8
Vote Count41
In Justice
In Justice is an American television police procedural created by Michelle King and Robert King. The series began airing on Sunday, January 1, 2006 on ABC as a midseason replacement and assumed its regular night and time on Friday, January 6, 2006 at 9 p.m. EST. It was cancelled after its 13-episode run on March 31, 2006. The series was simulcast in Canada on CTV. In the UK In Justice was shown on UKTV Gold beginning September 17, 2006 and was later repeated on ABC1 in 2007.
Release Date2006-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count14
BrainDead
A young fresh-faced Hill staffer gets her first job in Washington, D.C. and discovering two things: 1. The government has stopped working, and 2. alien spawn have come to earth and eaten the brains of a growing number of Congressmen and Hill staffers.
Release Date2016-06-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count189
Crossroads
When her husband, a prominent figure in society, is involved in a scandal, Amira has no choice but to return to her profession to support her two children, after fifteen years she spent as a housewife.
Release Date2024-06-01
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Series Creator
Episode Count45
Vote Count2
The Trial
A housewife is forced to take full responsibility of her family after her husband is imprisoned over a corruption and sex scandal.
Release Date2023-07-14
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Episode Count8
Vote Count4
The Bite
During an unexpected, deadly second wave of the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, two neighbors, Rachel and Lily, navigate life in quarantine. While Rachel juggles her many telemedicine clients as well as a shaky, passionless marriage, Lily is upstairs just trying to convince her Wall Street clientele that her very specific skillset is still just as valuable over video as it was in person.
Release Date2021-05-21
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count25
Cutthroat Island
Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by her murderous uncle, Dawg. Her crew is skeptical of her leadership abilities, so she must complete her quest before they mutiny against her. This is made yet more difficult by the efforts of the British crown to end her pirate raids.
Release Date1995-12-22
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count575
Vertical Limit
Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base camp for help. Brother Peter hears Annie's message and assembles a team to save her and her group before they succumb to K2's unforgiving elements. But, as Annie lays injured in an icy cavern, the rescuers face several terrifying events that could end the rescue attempt -- and their lives.
Release Date2000-12-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1060
Red Corner
An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
Release Date1997-10-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count378
The Nest
Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.
Release Date1988-05-13
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count87
Bloodfist
To avenge the brutal murder of his brother, Jake Ray journeys to the Philippines, where his search for truth finds him battling both in and out of the ring. But the weapons are always the same: bare fists, bare feet. And the rules never change: last man standing wins.
Release Date1989-09-22
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count40
Speechless
In the midst of election season in New Mexico, political speechwriters Julia Mann and Kevin Vallick begin a romance, unaware they are working for candidates on opposite sides.
Release Date1994-12-16
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count101
Under the Boardwalk
It is the final weekend of summer and a group of Californian teenagers are looking forward to an upcoming surf contest. Rival gangs the 'Vals' and the 'Lowks' are confident that they will take home the trophy, but things become complicated when Reef Yorpin - leader of the Lawks - discovers his sister Allie has fallen in love with 'Val' surfer Nick after meeting at a beach party.
Release Date1989-04-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count6
Clean Slate
Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a 'blank slate'. Since he is in the middle of a hot investigation and has a developing romance, this is less than convenient.
Release Date1994-05-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count68
Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge
A young man named Eric apparently dies in a suspicious house fire after saving his girlfriend, Melody. One year later, a new mall is constructed atop where Eric's house once stood, where a shadowy, uninvited guest is preying on the mall's crooked developers.
Release Date1989-12-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count42
Principal Takes a Holiday
A rowdy high school senior risks losing a $10,000 gift his parents promise him for graduation if he can complete the year without getting in trouble by getting caught by the principal in a prank. However, when an accident befalls the current principal, the senior goes and finds a drifter to show up at the school as the new principal to get his records erased.
Release Date1998-01-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Silk 2
Silk, the smoothest, toughest, and sexiest cop in Honolulu is hot on the trail of ruthless art smugglers who are after a priceless Asian Scroll. Silk will stop at nothing to get her man, even if it means blowing up an entire building.
Release Date1990-08-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count6
Dragon Fire
Los Angeles 2050 A.D. Crime. Drugs. Violence. Rape. The City of Angels has descended into chaos. Street fighter Dominic La Banca seeks to avenge his brother's death in this lawless city. To find the killer, he must enter the deadly underworld of the Alley Fights a savage kickboxing match of the future!
Release Date1993-10-20
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count5
Angels in the Infield
Bob "Bungler" Bugler is the celestial coach called in to assist struggling pitcher Eddie Everett. Laurel finds her prayers answered when a flock of outrageous angelic teammates crash her father's roster for what may be their best season yet.
Release Date2000-04-09
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count18
Dhaam Dhoom
A brilliant medical practitioner finds himself at the centre of a murder plot after taking the daughter of a Russian Police Commissioner back to his hotel room.
Release Date2008-08-29
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count10
Judy's Got a Gun
Release Date2007-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Imaginary Friends
Ellen Pitblado is a widow who lives in recluse in 1930s Gloucestershire. When her scummy journalist nephew, Douglas, tries to force her to give him her money, she calls her mysterious lookalike gentlemen friends to her aid.
Release Date1982-11-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1