David Simkins
David Simkins is an American screenwriter and television producer. His first produced screenplay was for the film Adventures in Babysitting in 1987.
Works
Wu Assassins
The last in a line of Chosen Ones, a wannabe chef teams up with a homicide detective to unravel an ancient mystery and take down supernatural assassins.
Release Date: 2019-08-08
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 199
Adventures in Babysitting
Two teen rival babysitters, Jenny and Lola, team up to hunt down one of their kids who accidentally ran away into the big city without any supervision.
Release Date: 2016-06-24
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 421
Powers
Two homicide detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, are assigned to investigate cases involving people with superhuman abilities, referred to as “Powers.” Set amidst today’s paparazzi culture, Powers asks the questions, what if the world was full of superheroes who aren't actually heroic at all? What if all that power was just one more excuse for mischief, mayhem, murder, and endorsement deals?
Release Date: 2015-03-10
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 174
Graceland
In Southern California, a beachfront property was seized and turned into a residence for undercover cops. They are all top agents of the DEA, FBI, and Customs and they are living in this house unofficially known as "Graceland". Coming of a new graduating at the top of his class, FBI rookie, Mike Warren, could make the life of a legendary FBI agent Paul Briggs and the others, more complicated or it could reveal the truth. It is based upon actual events.
Release Date: 2013-06-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 125
Grimm
After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," he increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a Grimm.
Release Date: 2011-10-28
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3311
Human Target
It takes a brave, selfless man to make himself a "human target" in order to save the lives of those in danger. Based on the popular DC Comics comic book and graphic novel, Human Target is a full-throttle action drama centered on Christopher Chance, a unique private contractor/security expert/bodyguard hired to protect.
Release Date: 2010-01-15
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 153
Warehouse 13
After saving the life of the President, two secret service agents - Myka Bering and Pete Lattimer - find themselves assigned to the top secret Warehouse 13. The Warehouse is a massive, top secret facility that houses dangerous and fantastical objects. Together, Pete and Myka along with fellow agents Claudia, Steve Jinks and Warehouse caretaker Artie, must recover artifacts from around the globe before they can cause catastrophic damage.
Release Date: 2009-07-07
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 691
Alien Raiders
It's the end of yet another night at Hastings Supermarket, a grocery store in Buck Lake, Arizona. But just before closing, a group of masked and armed to the teeth militants invades the store and take everyone hostage
Release Date: 2008-09-21
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 160
The Dresden Files
A Chicago-based wizard works as a private investigator.
Release Date: 2007-01-21
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 101
Dark Angel
Super soldier Max Guevera tries to live a normal life in post-apocalyptic Seattle while eluding capture by government agents from the covert biotech facility she escaped from as a child and searching for her genetically-enhanced brothers and sisters who have dispersed after escape.
Release Date: 2000-10-03
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 454
The New Adventures of Spin and Marty: Suspect Behavior
Spin and Marty are two young children who share his adventures.
Release Date: 2000-08-13
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Vote Count: 1
Roswell
Bizarre things start happening in the little New Mexico town where UFOs were spotted in 1947. Cut to 1999, when a cute high-school student saves the life of a teenage waitress. Surrounded by cliques of clever, angst-filled classmates, the two form a bond that threatens the survival of a secret universe involving superhuman powers, a yen for hot sauce and an alien gene pool.
Release Date: 1999-10-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 450
Charmed
Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives from evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern day San Francisco.
Release Date: 1998-10-07
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 7
Vote Count: 2374
Vengeance Unlimited
Vengeance Unlimited was an American crime drama series broadcast during 1998-1999 on ABC which lasted for just one season of sixteen episodes. The show starred Michael Madsen and Kathleen York. The show originally aired Thursdays at 8:00 pm up against NBC's Top 5 hits Friends and Jesse.
Release Date: 1998-09-29
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 10
The Wonderful World of Disney
Walt Disney Productions (later The Walt Disney Company) has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC in 1954. The show was broadcast weekly on one of the Big Three television networks until 1990, a 36-year span with only a two-year hiatus in 1984-85. The series was broadcast on Sunday for 25 of those years. From 1991 until 1997, the series aired infrequently. The program resumed a regular schedule in 1997 on the ABC fall schedule, coinciding with Disney's recent purchase of the network. From 1997 until 2008, the program aired regularly on ABC. Subsequently, ABC continued the series as an occasional special presentation.
Release Date: 1997-09-28
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 26
Spy Game
Spy Game is a short-lived American action-adventure television series that aired on the ABC network for 13 episodes during the spring and summer of 1997. The series was created by screenwriter and physician Ivan Raimi, director Sam Raimi, and writer John McNamara.
Release Date: 1997-03-03
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 1
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man of Steel's early adult years in Metropolis. With the unknowing help of Lois Lane, Clark Kent created Superman there in Metropolis after finding work at the world-famous Daily Planet newspaper, where he meets fellow reporter Lois Lane.
Release Date: 1993-09-12
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 455
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
The feature-length pilot episode follows Brisco County Jr. is hired by the attorney of a group of robber barons to track down and apprehend the infamous John Bly and his gang, a job that was previously entrusted to his late father Brisco County Sr.
Release Date: 1993-08-27
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
A tough-as-rawhide cowpoke, debonair ladies' man and Harvard-educated smarty-britches roams from Frisco to Jalisco in pursuit of outlaws who killed his father...and in search of a mysterious orb possessing out-of-this world powers. Hot lead and cool anachronisms await Brisco as he and his sidekicks - including Comet, the intellectual equine who doesn't know he's a horse - fight for justice in the way, way, way-out West.
Release Date: 1993-08-27
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 83
Adventures in Babysitting
After their trip into the big city in the movie Chris once again is asked to baby sit Brad, Sara and Daryl for the night when a simple trip to the store turns into a hostage situation. Chris and the kids have themselves yet another adventure.
Release Date: 1989-07-07
Department: Writing
Job: Characters
Vote Count: 2
Adventures in Babysitting
When plans with her boyfriend fall through, high school senior Chris Parker ends up babysitting the Anderson kids, Brad and Sara. What should be a quiet night in, however, turns into a series of ridiculous exploits, starting when they leave the house to pick up Chris' friend Brenda. Soon, Brad's buddy Daryl is involved, and the group must contend with car thieves, blues musicians and much more.
Release Date: 1987-07-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Frat Boy with Playboy (uncredited)
Vote Count: 684