Robert W. Lenski (Writer)
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Works
Mannix
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.
Release Date1967-09-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count54
Cannon
Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad. He also appeared on two episodes of Barnaby Jones. Cannon is the first Quinn Martin-produced series to be aired on a network other than ABC. A "revival" television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1, 1980. In total, there were 124 episodes.
Release Date1971-09-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count40
Screen Two
Series of single made-for-television dramas.
Release Date1985-01-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
Barnaby Jones
Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles. The show ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April 3, 1980, beginning as a midseason replacement. William Conrad guest starred as Frank Cannon of Cannon on the first episode of Barnaby Jones, "Requiem for a Son" and the two series had a two-part crossover episode in 1975, "The Deadly Conspiracy".
Release Date1973-01-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Vote Count29
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 Count3
Vote Count146
Kane & Abel
Polish immigrant Abel Rosnovski and Boston banker William Lowell Kane are two men born on the same day, and whose lifelong rivalry shapes their empires and families over decades. Their contrasting paths from poverty and wealth lead to a destructive, decades-long feud for power.
Release Date1985-11-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count20
Chiefs
Three different police chiefs in three different eras become involved in a growing mystery -- who is the mass murderer behind the killing of transient youths in and around the fictional southern town of Delano over a forty year period?
Release Date1983-11-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count21
A Season in Purgatory
A wealthy, politically connected family covers up the suspicious death of a young woman, a secret that later threatens to destroy the family's rising political star.
Release Date1996-05-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
The Dain Curse
Hard-boiled private detective Hamilton Nash investigates a supposed family curse linked to stolen diamonds, which unravels into a complex mystery involving murder, drugs, and a cult.
Release Date1978-05-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count6
After the Promise
Elmer Jackson, a carpenter in a small Californian town in the 1930s, struggles to bring up his 4 young boys after the death of his wife. He is horrified when the government (citing trumped-up charges of parental neglect) places the boys into various foster homes and institutions, unaware of the abuse that boys would then be subjected to. The conditions imposed by the court and the difficulties caused by the Depression make Elmer's determined and vigorous quest to find his boys extremely difficult. His second wife helps him to regain custody.
Release Date1987-10-11
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count20
The Return of the Native
Eustacia Vye, an exquisite beauty despairing at her boring life on an English moor, sets up a fateful lovers' triangle when she uses her wiles to entice two men, a dashing suitor and a successful man who made his name abroad and returned to his home on the heath.
Release Date1994-12-04
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count19
Bridges to Cross
Bridges to Cross is an American drama television series that aired from April 24 until June 12, 1986.
Release Date1986-04-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Faraday and Company
Private investigator Frank Faraday, falsely accused of murdering his partner, escapes from a South American prison after 28 years' confinement. Returning to a Los Angeles greatly changed during his absence, Frank discovers that he has an adult son named Steve, also a private investigator. Steve is the son of Frank's girlfriend, Lou Carson, who had taken over Frank's agency. Father and son now work together to solve mysteries, while Frank tries to adjust to contemporary life.
Release Date1973-09-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Mafia Princess
Looks at the life of mafia boss Salvatore Giancana. Especially his troubled relationship with his family.
Release Date1986-01-19
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count1
Who Is the Black Dahlia?
In 1947 Los Angeles, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short.
Release Date1975-03-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count13
What the Deaf Man Heard
In 1945, a young boy arrives in a small Georgia town on a bus from which his mother was abducted and murdered. Alone he sits quietly and everyone becomes convinced that he is deaf and mute. Deciding that silence offers some power and protection, the boy decides to remain mute and just listens to all that is being said around him by people who think that he cannot hear.
Release Date1997-11-23
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count22
A Season in Purgatory
A wealthy, politically connected family covers up the suspicious death of a young woman, a secret that later threatens to destroy the family's rising political star.
Release Date1996-05-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
O Pioneers!
A young woman inherits her father's farm after he dies. Over the years, she overcomes challenges and turns it into a success, all the while yearning for her childhood love to return.
Release Date1992-02-02
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count6
Decoration Day
A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin his community when his Godchild (Skaggs) gets in trouble and a childhood friend (Cobbs), a black tenant farmer, refuses to belatedly accept a Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery in World War II.
Release Date1990-12-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count10
Saint Maybe
A lonely teen troubled by a past family tragedy is suspicious of his sister-in-law, believing she is being unfaithful. His confrontation with his brother sets off a series of tragic events.
Release Date1998-11-22
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count11
Farewell to the Planet of the Apes
When the astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are captured in a fishing village that employs human slave labor, they must prove their worth as fishermen or be sacrificed to the 'gods of the sea,' or what the men call sharks. Escaping from the forced labor camp, the trio become involved in a plot to develop a glider to drop a fragmentation bomb on the gorilla council. [The fifth of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Tomorrow's Tide" and "Up Above the World So High"]
Release Date1980-11-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count16
A Death in the Family
A young wife's religious faith is shaken when her husband dies in a car accident.
Release Date2002-03-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count4
Brinks: The Great Robbery
In this telling of the infamous 1950 robbery, James McNally is portrayed as the one gang member who maintains his silence in the face of extreme police pressure. When he is sent up to prison and sees the other gang members letting him take all the heat, he still doesn't come clean to the cops. He feels a loyalty to his best friend, who was also in on the crime. But what will his best friend choose to do?
Release Date1976-03-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
The Aliens Are Coming
A young astrophysicist searches for sinister extraterrestrials looking for sanctuary for their comrades by possessing the bodies of humans.
Release Date1980-03-02
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count8
Breathing Lessons
A married couple review their lives and renew their love for one another while driving to a friend's funeral.
Release Date1994-02-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count7
Colorado C.I.
Mark and Pete Gunnison, members of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Colorado State Police, seek to crack a multi-million dollar real estate swindle.
Release Date1978-05-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Roommates
The story of a macho straight and a well-educated gay man who have to share an apartment at a half-way house for aids-patients. Slowly they become friends.
Release Date1994-05-30
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count8
Maneaters Are Loose!
Terror stalks a small California community when a broke and depressed animal owner and trainer is forced to abandon his tigers and let them fend for themselves in the nearby wilderness.
Release Date1978-05-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
The Gift of Love
Release Date1994-12-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1