James S. Henerson (Writer)

The Rape of Richard Beck

The tables turn for cynical police officer Richard Beck when he's viciously attacked by two homicidal crooks. Having never been empathetic toward the victims he's dealt with on a daily basis, Beck must now confront the tough system he was a part of. As he struggles to regain his status at work, he also must make sure those responsible for his attack are prosecuted.

Release Date1985-05-27

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd Mailan

Vote Count9

Intimate Agony

Anthony Geary (General Hospital) stars as a compassionate doctor who must treat an STD outbreak at an upscale vacation resort. Judith Light (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) co-stars as an afflicted resident whose heart is broken by this personal tragedy. A despicable real estate tycoon played by Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) is determined to keep the scandal from the press, thus protecting his investment.

Release Date1983-03-21

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd Bartender (as Jim Henerson)

Vote Count3

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 Date1964-09-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count11

Vote Count705

I Dream of Jeannie

While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency landing that will forever change his life. On a deserted South Pacific island, Captain Nelson happens upon a bottle containing a beautiful two-thousand-year-old female genie named Jeannie. Rescuing her from the bottle nets Tony the requisite three wishes, and then some, when Jeannie pledges total devotion to her new "master".

Release Date1965-09-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count36

Vote Count795

Inmates: A Love Story

Accountant Roy is sentenced to prison because he cooked up balances. He hopes that his companions, who profited from his cheat, will help him to a revision of his judgment. Meanwhile he has to adapt to a life in jail - which works out quite well, especially when he meets the self-conscious convicted thief Jane and falls in love. He starts to woo her. But then, while working in the prison's accounting department, he discovers that the prisoners' accounts are not properly kept. The director tries to keep him in her prison as long as possible.

Release Date1981-02-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Starman

Starman is an American science fiction television series, starring Robert Hays and Christopher Daniel Barnes and continuing the story from John Carpenter's 1984 film. The series ran on the ABC network from September 19, 1986 to May 2, 1987. The series was an adaptation and sequel to a movie of the same name produced in 1984.

Release Date1986-09-19

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count22

Vote Count20

The Tempest

An adaptation of Shakespeare's classic is set in the Mississippi bayous during the Civil War.

Release Date1998-12-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count12

Mutiny

Fact-based story about 300 predominantly black sailors who were killed on July 17, 1944 while loading munitions on a ship in San Francisco. Three weeks later, 50 survivors were court-martialed for refusing to load another shipment. The men cited the Navy's lack of care for their safety.

Release Date1999-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

Barnaby and Me

Barnaby and Me is a 1978 Australian TV movie about a girl and her talking koala who are pursued by criminals.

Release Date1977-08-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

The 500 Pound Jerk

An advertising man's dream of turning a huge hillbilly into an Olympic weightlifting champion is set back when the hillbilly falls for a Russian gymnast.

Release Date1973-01-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

A Mother's Justice

A young girl named Debbie is attacked by a bus stop one evening and is blindfolded and raped. Her mother, Lila, who is consumed with guilt is determined to catch the rapist...

Release Date1991-11-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

The Feminist and the Fuzz

A dedicated women's libber and a male chauvinist cop become roommates.

Release Date1971-01-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

To Save the Children

Teacher Jake Downey has relocated to a small town in Wyoming hoping to escape the urban problems of his last assignment. His myth of rural bliss is shattered when a former police officer comes unglued, builds a bomb and takes Jake's class hostage. The heroism of his true story unfolds as the hostage drama takes many surprising turns towards the phenomenal conclusion.

Release Date1994-04-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

The Love Letter

20th century computer games designer Scott, Civil War buff, buys an antique desk from that era and, while polishing it, he discovers a secret compartment in which sits an unmailed letter--a letter written by a young poet named Lizzie over a century earlier. Touched by her yearning for passion, he writes her back, egged on by his mystically inclined mother. Magically, his letter reaches Lizzie and they begin a correspondence that threatens Scott's impending marriage but promises to bring fulfilment to Lizzie. Spanning the Civil War to the present, the perils of Lizzie's war-torn situation threaten her safe passage into the future. Will their love endure the test of time?

Release Date1998-02-01

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count28

The Fire Next Time

In 2017, unrelenting heat waves and coastal flooding brought on by the greenhouse effect ravage the earth. While scientists and politicians argue and lay blame, ordinary citizens pay the price for a world sickened by pollution and economic disaster.

Release Date1993-04-18

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count5

Secrets

A young woman trapped in an unhappy marriage goes from affair to affair in her search for the "secret" to happiness.

Release Date1977-02-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Doctors' Private Lives

Two heart surgeons clash over personal issues and medical ethics in a big-city hospital.

Release Date1978-03-20

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Six buddies spend the summer together at a Malibu beach house after each has separated from his wife at about the same time.

Release Date1979-09-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

Getting Gotti

Though she grew up in the same neighborhood with him, the new Assistant U.S. Attorney is determined to prosecute Mafia boss John Gotti. Uncooperative FBI agents and bureaucrats will not deter the driven young prosecutor as her quest culminates in the memorable and controversial trial of the "Dapper Don."

Release Date1994-05-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count9

Someone I Touched

A woman learns that her husband has been unfaithful and that she has acquired a venereal disease. Then she learns that, after years of trying, she is finally pregnant

Release Date1975-02-26

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count6

She'll Take Romance

A TV reporter leads a search for the most romantic man in Seattle and finds one for herself.

Release Date1990-11-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Attica

Acclaimed dramatization recreating the incidents surrounding the 1971 revolt in New York's Attica State Prison that lasted for 23 days and resulted in the greatest casualty toll between Americans since the Civil War.

Release Date1980-03-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count14

For Love or Money

A man and a woman participate in a new game show where partners have to choose between love and money.

Release Date1984-11-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

And the Sea Will Tell

A wealthy couple (James Brolin and Deidre Hall) are killed on their yacht off the coast of a secluded South American island called Palmyra. The suspects are a hippyish pair (Hart Bochner and Rachel Ward) whom the rich folks had befriended. It’s fairly clear that the hippies were involved in the crime: The question is, did the man do it while the girl looked on helplessly, or was she a willing accomplice?

Release Date1991-02-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count8