Jack Laird was an American screenwriter, producer, director, and actor. He received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his works in Ben Casey, Night Gallery, and Kojak. The acclaimed writer/producer began his career as a child actor.
After discovering the connection between a corrupt city commissioner and Colombian killers, Kojak is framed for the murder of a call girl and is prosecuted by former police detective Crocker, now an assistant D.A.
Release Date:1990-01-31
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
The Insiders is a mid-1980s American television detective series starring Nicholas Campbell, Stoney Jackson and Gail Strickland.
Release Date:1985-09-25
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
A flamboyant criminal lawyer named Nick Hellinger takes on the case of a syndicate's accountant (actually a Justice Department agent who has infiltrated the mob) accused of murdering a local TV newscaster.
Release Date:1981-03-10
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the murder of brother Tom and the disappearance of brother Rudy by first reestablishing contact with her soldier son, and then patching things up with her sister-in-law, Kate, Tom's widow.
Release Date:1979-11-26
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:1
A New York commercial artist and his wife and daughter move to a quiet, rustic New England village they visited during their travels, only to find themselves mixed up in ritualistic lifestyle full of foreboding secrets.
Release Date:1978-01-23
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:7
Release Date:1977-05-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:1
Doctors' Hospital is an American medical drama that ran on NBC during the 1975–1976 season.
Release Date:1975-09-10
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:13
Vote Count:1
Dr Jake Goodwin is the chief neurosurgeon at a busy city hospital. As he makes his rounds, Goodwin becomes involved in a vast array of medical cases. Problems arise when a top doctor is brought in seriously injured after a car crash, and Goodwin must deal with the doctor's own personal physician who wants to avoid a scandal. At the same time Goodwin's own son is brought in with a life threatening condition. This film was the pilot for the TV series Doctor's Hospital.
Release Date:1975-05-05
Department:Production
Job:Producer
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
Release Date:1973-10-24
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:17
Vote Count:119
Charlie Chan comes out of retirement to investigate a murder case aboard the yacht of a wealthy Greek shipping tycoon.
Release Date:1973-07-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:3
A dedicated family doctor tries to help a pregnant teen-ager.
Release Date:1973-05-04
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.
Release Date:1970-12-16
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
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Episode Count:14
Vote Count:97
A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. However, he finds that he is now torn between his own wife and that of his dead colleague, who was a Nazi sympathizer.
Release Date:1970-11-24
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:3
An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist who is burning down movie sets.
Release Date:1970-02-02
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:3
A veteran Russian spy is brought out of retirement to be sent to the West to do an important sabotage job. However, he finds himself falling in love with an attractive British double agent.
Release Date:1969-10-27
Department:Production
Job:Producer
The Bold Ones: The Protectors is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from 1969 to 1970; it lasted for seven episodes. The Protectors was part of The Bold Ones, a rotating series of dramas that also included The New Doctors, The Lawyers and The Senator. This was the shortest of the four series.
Release Date:1969-09-28
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:2
A slice-of-life drama involving a young lawyer, his adoring secretary who tries to help to advance his career, and his employer, a famed lawyer burdened with an unfaithful wife.
Release Date:1969-01-18
Department:Production
Job:Producer
A corrupt sheriff knows the secrets of everyone in town and uses that information to go unchallenged. But after the arrest of an innocent teenager, the new doctor cannot keep quiet and tries to get the community to stand up for what is right.
Release Date:1968-03-05
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:3
After the Civil War ends, a rich horse rancher out West hires the Bannisters, a married Southern couple who lost everything in the war, to help run his ranch. What the Bannisters don't know is that their new boss has more on his mind than breeding horses, and his plans include the pretty Mrs. Bannister.
Release Date:1967-02-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
A man who completes compiling a dossier on a mysterious billionaire begins to get the feeling that he is becoming the victim of a conspiracy.
Release Date:1967-01-07
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:2
A man who dies on an operating table is brought back to life, but he has total amnesia. A government agent decides that he would make a perfect undercover operative.
Release Date:1967-01-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.
Release Date:1965-07-25
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:20
A gunman whose best friend has been murdered enacts a plan to blackmail the corrupt labor union leader responsible but finds he isn't the only one after his money.
Release Date:1964-11-18
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Vote Count:3
Three children are stalked by hired killers after they unknowingly take evidence pointing to the existence of a corrupt international cartel, which has just murdered their father.
Release Date:1964-10-07
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:1
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
Release Date:1963-10-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:6
Professor Joe Howe is a Korean War veteran who is hired to teach English at Channing College. The dean Fred Baker is his mentor as Howe is writing a novel about his experiences. They are frequently involved in the student's lives. Channing, a production of Revue Studios, aired during the same time frame as the first season of NBC's somewhat similar offering, Mr. Novak.
Release Date:1963-09-18
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:26
Vote Count:1
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.
Release Date:1961-10-02
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:9
Vote Count:14
A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.
Release Date:1960-09-29
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:33
Release Date:1959-10-02
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:6
World Of Giants is an American spy-fi television series that aired from September 5 until November 28, 1959.
Release Date:1959-09-05
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
Man with a Camera is an American 1950s television crime drama starring Charles Bronson. Former combat cameraman Mike Kovac (Bronson) is now a freelance photographer in New York City, specializing in difficult and dangerous assignments where he can get the kinds of pictures that other photographers can't, or won't take. He sometimes gets help, often reluctantly, from his contact in the police department, Lt. Donovan, and advice from his immigrant father Anton. Throughout the 1950s, Bronson spent most of his early acting career performing in TV shows as well as small parts in films, until he landed the lead in this ABC series. This is the only series in which he played the lead role. He would go on to have supporting roles either as a guest star or a recurring character in dozens of TV shows after this series was cancelled.
Release Date:1958-10-10
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:5
Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin.
Release Date:1958-09-23
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:6
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
Release Date:1957-09-14
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:40
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
Release Date:1955-01-19
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:3
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
Release Date:1952-10-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:3