Lowell Ganz (Writing)

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Works

Mr. Saturday Night

Billy Crystal stars—again—as Buddy Young, Jr. in this entertaining musical about an outrageous and outspoken comedian who has one last shot at reclaiming the spotlight—and his family—one hilarious step at a time. Now, some 40 years after his TV career flamed out, Buddy seeks one more shot at the spotlight, and while he’s at it, one last shot at fixing the family he fractured along the way.

Release Date: 2022-12-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

A League of Their Own

In 1943, Carson Shaw travels to Chicago to try out for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. There, she meets other women who also dream of playing pro baseball and makes connections that open up her world. Rockford local Max Chapman also comes to the tryouts but is turned away. With the support of her best friend Clance, she must forge a new path to pursue her dream.

Release Date: 2022-08-11

Department: Writing

Job: Original Film Writer

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 104

The Happy Days of Garry Marshall

In a heartfelt tribute to Hollywood legend Garry Marshall, his family and friends share their favorite memories of the creative genius behind some of the most memorable series in television history.

Release Date: 2020-05-12

Character: Self

Vote Count: 7

Reunited Apart

Josh Gad reunites the cast and crews of various classic movies, and discusses the the films in hilarious yet heartfelt conversations.

Release Date: 2020-04-27

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Tooth Fairy

When minor-league hockey player Derek Thompson -- who has a penchant for knocking out his opponents' teeth every time he plays -- disillusions a fan, he is sentenced to a stint for one week as a bona fide, tutu-clad, real-life tooth fairy. Soon, Derek is inspired to rekindle his youthful dreams.

Release Date: 2010-01-14

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 2003

The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel

Few screenwriters can concentrate for more than a few hours, let alone sustain a career in Hollywood for over 30 years. But the blockbuster comedy writing team of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel has been making television and film audiences laugh for decades. In the early '70s, Ganz was writing for The Odd Couple while Mandel was receiving his first paychecks for work on M*A*S*H and Busting Loose. In total, Ganz and Mandel have written an astonishing 18 produced feature screenplays, including City Slickers, A League of Their Own, Mr. Saturday Night, Forget Paris, Where the Heart Is, Robots, and Fever Pitch, while also maintaining a "secret career" of un-credited rewrites on studio comedies.

Release Date: 2006-10-20

Character: Himself

The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'

A look back at the impact Billy Wilder's comedy classic "Some Like It Hot" has left since it's release in 1959.

Release Date: 2006-06-25

Department: Crew

Job: Thanks

Vote Count: 2

The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'

A look back at the making of Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy classic "Some Like It Hot."

Release Date: 2006-06-25

Department: Crew

Job: Thanks

Vote Count: 1

Fever Pitch

When Ben Wrightman, a young teacher, begins dating pretty businesswoman Lindsey Meeks, the two don't seem to have a lot of the same interests, but they fall in love, regardless. Their romance goes well until baseball season begins, and Lindsey soon realizes that Ben is completely obsessed with the Boston Red Sox. Though she tries to understand Ben's passionate team loyalty, eventually it threatens to end their otherwise happy relationship.

Release Date: 2005-04-06

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 716

Robots

Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Bigweld Industries. Now, Rodney's dreams – and those of his friends – are in danger of becoming obsolete.

Release Date: 2005-03-10

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Character: Mr. Gasket (voice)

Vote Count: 4655

Making a 'Splash'

Retrospective documentary on the making of the hit comedy Splash (1984).

Release Date: 2004-03-30

Character: Self - Screenwriter

Vote Count: 5

Where the Heart Is

Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside, and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. Eventually, some eccentric but kindly strangers 'adopt' Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.

Release Date: 2000-04-27

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 698

EDtv

Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network.

Release Date: 1999-03-26

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 645

Release Date: 1994-03-04

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: TV Director

Vote Count: 264

Mr. Saturday Night

Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes that he should retire. As Buddy looks for work in show business, he realizes that the rest of the world has forgotten the golden days of Buddy Young, and that there just may not be room in the business for an old comic like himself.

Release Date: 1992-09-23

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Writer #1

Vote Count: 59

A League of Their Own

As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan on their way to fame.

Release Date: 1992-07-01

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1429

City Slickers

Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.

Release Date: 1991-06-07

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 807

Parenthood

The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.

Release Date: 1989-07-31

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Character: Stan

Vote Count: 654

Knight & Daye

Knight & Daye is an NBC television sitcom that ran for only seven episodes in the summer of 1989. The show was about Hank and Everett, two former friends that hadn't spoken to each other in years after Everett married the woman they were both interested in, but are reunited for a radio talk show. Their bickering proves to be a ratings bonanza.

Release Date: 1989-07-08

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 1

Vibes

Medium Sylvia Pickel and psychometrist Nick Deezy meet at a psychic research facility in New York. Not long after, they're contacted by Harry Buscafusco, who offers them $50,000 to find his lost son in South America, in the heart of Incan territory where they discover an ancient mystical secret, and each other.

Release Date: 1988-08-05

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 75

Take Five

Take Five is an American sitcom that aired from April 1 until April 8, 1987.

Release Date: 1987-04-01

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Gung Ho

Short-lived sitcom based on the critically acclaimed movie. Hunt Stevenson is the laid-back American employee liaison of a Japanese car company in Hadleyville, Pennsylvania. Clashes abound as Hunt and Kaz looked for ways to bridge the gap between one another with funny results. Many of the Japanese actors from the movie reprised their roles for the series.

Release Date: 1986-12-05

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 1

Gung Ho

When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.

Release Date: 1986-03-14

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 204

A high-school nerd goes to his 10-year class reunion.

Release Date: 1983-08-26

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Night Shift

A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbor complains about the loss of her pimp. His partner, upon hearing the situation, suggests that they fill that opening themselves using the morgue at night.

Release Date: 1982-07-30

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 212

Joanie Loves Chachi

Joanie Loves Chachi is an American television spin-off of the American sitcom Happy Days that was originally broadcast on ABC from March 23, 1982 to May 24, 1983. It stars Erin Moran and Scott Baio as the titular Joanie Cunningham and Chachi Arcola, respectively.

Release Date: 1982-03-23

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 18

The Further Adventures of Wally Brown

1980 TV pilot

Release Date: 1980-08-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

America 2100

Two everyday schlubs are inadvertently frozen for 120 years, awakening to a wacky future run by a robot named MAX. Pilot episode for unproduced series.

Release Date: 1979-07-24

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

The Lovebirds

The Wexelblatts and the Burleys are two newly young married couples, who were all friends from Warren Harding High School, now trying to adjust to married life and changing lifestyles.

Release Date: 1979-07-18

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Angie

Angie is an American television sitcom that was originally broadcast by the ABC network from February of 1979 to October of 1980.

Release Date: 1979-02-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 3

Makin' It

Makin' It is an American sitcom starring David Naughton as a disco dancer in the late 1970s. The series only lasted nine episodes, airing on Fridays at 8:00PM on ABC from February 1 through March 23, 1979 before being canceled. It also aired in the United Kingdom on ITV from April 25 through June 13, 1979. In 2002, TV Guide ranked it number 40 on its TV Guide's 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time list.

Release Date: 1979-02-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3

Brothers and Sisters

Brothers and Sisters is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from January to April 1979. The series attempted to capitalize on the success of the 1978 motion picture National Lampoon's Animal House. It was the second of three frat-house comedy series to air in early 1979.

Release Date: 1979-01-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Busting Loose

Busting Loose is a 1977 United States comedic television series starring Adam Arkin which centers around a young man in New York City who has moved out of his parents' house to live on his own for the first time. The show aired on CBS between January 17, 1977, and November 16, 1977

Release Date: 1977-01-17

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 2

Laverne & Shirley

Best friends, roommates, and polar opposites, Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney work together at the Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee and keep each other's spirits up at home.

Release Date: 1976-01-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 65

Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers

Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers is a 1974-1975 United States comedic television series starring Paul Sand which centers around a musician in Boston, Massachusetts, and his personal relationships. It was Sand's only starring role in a television series. The show aired from September 14, 1974, to January 4, 1975.

Release Date: 1974-09-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

Happy Days

In 1950s Milwaukee the Cunningham family must contend with Fonzie, a motorcycle riding Casanova.

Release Date: 1974-01-15

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 276

The Odd Couple

Felix and Oscar are two divorced men. Felix is neat and tidy while Oscar is sloppy and casual. They share a Manhattan apartment, and their different lifestyles inevitably lead to conflicts.

Release Date: 1970-09-24

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 12

Vote Count: 60

Hiller and Diller

Hiller and Diller is an American sitcom that aired from September 23, 1997 to March 6, 1998.

Department: Creator

Job: Creator