Joel Oliansky (Writer)
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Works
Quincy, M.E.
Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.
Release Date1976-10-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count113
Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.
Release Date1964-09-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count31
Kojak
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
Release Date1973-10-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count129
Cagney & Lacey
Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all time.
Release Date1982-03-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count66
The Law
An examination of the workings of a big city's legal system as seen through the eyes of people involved in a sensational murder trial.
Release Date1974-10-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
The Competition
The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her teacher, Greta, or will she condemn Paul to obscurity?
Release Date1980-12-03
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count20
A Year in the Life
Following the success of the three-part miniseries of the same name, the drama series follows the daily lives of Seattle's Gardner family. Joe Gardner is the owner of a successful plastics business and the father of four adult children. The Gardner family includes twice-divorced daughter Anne, who returns home with her two teenaged children; daughter Lindley and husband Jim, parents of a newborn baby daughter; black sheep son Jack; and conservative youngest son Sam, newly married to free-spirited Kay.
Release Date1987-09-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence
In this pilot film, Mallory is a prominent lawyer with a tarnished reputation who defends a young man charged with committing homicide against a sexual predator in prison.
Release Date1976-02-08
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Abducted: A Father's Love
A man kidnaps his little girl to protect her from an abusive mother, then becomes the first man to enter a woman's underground movement.
Release Date1996-03-30
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
Bird
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
Release Date1988-06-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count341
Shannon's Deal
Shannon's Deal is an American legal drama. The show centers on a successful Philadelphia corporate lawyer named Jack Shannon, who lost his family and his job to a compulsive gambling habit. The saga of Shannon, who leaves a prestigious law firm after years of becoming unhappy with the legal system and being forced to take his clients to court, and whom subsequently opens his own low-rent practice
Release Date1990-04-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Counterpoint
In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-liberated Belgium. While fleeing from a German counterattack, Evans and his orchestra members are captured by a Panzer division and taken to an old chateau in Luxembourg. Despite orders to execute every prisoner, General Schiller, an avid music lover, commands Evans to give a private concert for him.
Release Date1967-12-22
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count22
The Priest Killer
A police chief, confined to a wheelchair, and a former cop, who is now a priest, team up to discover who has been committing a series of murders of local priests. This TV movie was a backdoor pilot for the crime series SARGE and aired as a special-event spinoff of IRONSIDE.
Release Date1971-09-14
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Masada
Masada is a 1981 American historical drama television miniseries aired on ABC under the tentpole ABC Novel for Television. The screenplay by Joel Oliansky is based on Ernest Gann's 1971 novel The Antagonists. A dramatization of the historical siege of the Masada citadel in Roman Palestine by legions of the Roman Empire in AD 73. A siege that ended when the Roman armies entered the fortress, only to discover the mass suicide by the Jewish defenders when defeat became imminent.
Release Date1981-04-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count57
Hollywood Beat
Hollywood Beat is a mid-1980s American television police drama starring Jack Scalia, Jay Acovone, Edward Winter, and John Matuszak. The series aired Saturday night at 8:00 p.m Eastern time. A pair of undercover cops, Nick McCarren (Jack Scalia) and Jack Rado (Jay Acovone) cruise the filthy, neon-lit streets of Hollywood, looking for crime in all the right places as rock music blares in the background.
Release Date1985-09-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
The Bold Ones: The Senator
Hays Stowe is a new senator who comes to Washington DC with his wife Erin and daughter Norma. He arrives full of optimism that being on the side of justice can help him change things for the better… The characters originally appeared in the 2 hour TV-movie/pilot film A Clear and Present Danger (1970).
Release Date1970-09-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count8
Vote Count2
The Todd Killings
Based on the true story of '60s thrill-killer Charles Schmidt ("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), Skipper Todd (Robert F. Lyons) is a charismatic 23-year old who charms his way into the lives of high school kids in a small California town. Girls find him attractive and are only too willing to accompany him to a nearby desert area to be his "girl for the night." Not all of them return, however. Featuring Richard Thomas as his loyal hanger-on and a colorful assortment of familiar actors in vivid character roles including Barbara Bel Geddes, Gloria Grahame, Edward Asner, Fay Spain, James Broderick and Michael Conrad.
Release Date1971-10-20
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count11
In Defense of a Married Man
When a defense lawyer's adulterous husband becomes the prime suspect in the murder of the woman he was cheating with, his wife chooses to defend him. Can she overcome his betrayal while searching for the truth?
Release Date1990-10-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count14
The Silence at Bethany
A young man, searching for meaning and focus in his life, returns to the Mennonite farm community where he was born.
Release Date1988-01-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector