Ian Praiser (Writing)

Style & Substance

Style & Substance was a television situation comedy that premiered on CBS July 22, 1998. The show starred Jean Smart as Chelsea Stevens, a Martha Stewart-like star of a how-to home show, and Nancy McKeon as her producer, Jane Sokol, a small-town girl new to New York City. Chelsea Stevens was an expert cook, decorator, and party planner who knew much more about thread-count than she did relationships. She was well-meaning at times, but her narcissism usually got in the way of actually understanding anyone else's problems.

Release Date:1998-01-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Mother, Mother

A Blue Ribbon winner at the American Film Festival, this hard-hitting, dramatic production is about the relationship between a young man with AIDS and his estranged mother. Unable to understand or accept each other's lives, mother and son are at a stalemate of their own making.

Release Date:1989-01-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

The Tracey Ullman Show

The Tracey Ullman Show is an American television variety show, hosted by British-born comedian and onetime pop singer Tracey Ullman. It debuted on April 5, 1987 as the Fox network's second primetime series after Married... with Children, and ran until May 26, 1990. The show is produced by Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television. The show blended sketch comedy shorts with many musical numbers, featuring choreography by Paula Abdul. The show also produced The Simpsons shorts before it spun off into its own show, which was also produced by Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television.

Release Date:1987-04-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:81

Vote Count:20

ALF

A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with a terran family after crashing into their garage.

Release Date:1986-09-22

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1116

All is Forgiven

Paula Russell is the producer of a soap opera called All is Forgiven who just married a donut executive with a teenage daughter.

Release Date:1986-03-20

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:2

Taxi

Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a collection of varied and strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his “cage,” they form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.

Release Date:1978-09-12

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:Soap Opera Actor (voice) (uncredited)

Episode Count:114

Vote Count:155

Loose Shoes

Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from Hell", "The Invasion of the Penis Snatchers", Woody Allen (pre-Mia), movie trailer come-ons, Charlie Chaplin, war movies, Billy Jack. The source of the title is presented about an hour into the film.

Release Date:1978-09-01

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:12

The First Nudie Musical

The son of famous studio owner is forced to make porno films to keep the bankrupt studio from being made into a shopping center. In an attempt to get back on the high ground he makes a nudie musical. He makes a bet with the debtors who wish to take ownership of the studio, that if they finance the musical and he can't complete it within two weeks, they can foreclose.

Release Date:1976-01-01

Character:Cameraman

Vote Count:20