Richard H. Landau (Writing)
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Works
Christmas Eve
Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.S. living their own lives), with their estranged father, her son. She hires a private detective to search for them so as to try to get everyone together on Christmas Eve.
Release Date: 1986-12-22
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 5
The Black Hole
The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposedly lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering near a black hole. The ship is controlled by Dr. Hans Reinhardt and his monstrous robot companion, but the initial wonderment and awe the Palomino crew feel for the ship and its resistance to the power of the black hole turn to horror as they uncover Reinhardt's plans.
Release Date: 1979-12-18
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 491
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo is an American action/adventure situation. Claude Akins stars in the title role in this wacky new NBC one-hour comedy series about the exploits of a rural county sheriff and his two deputies, played by Mills Watson and Brian Kerwin.
Release Date: 1979-09-25
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 7
Run, Joe, Run
Run, Joe, Run was a Saturday morning television program that aired on NBC from 1974 to 1976. It centered around Joe, a German Shepherd in the military's K-9 Corp., and his master, Sergeant Will Corey. One day, during training, Joe was falsely accused of attacking his master, a crime for which the dog would be put to sleep as punishment. However, he escaped before being killed and a $200 bounty was put on his head. Sgt. Corey believed Joe was innocent and also pursued him, hoping to find Joe before the authorities did. While on the run, Joe helped people he encountered. During the show's second season, Sgt. Corey, having never found Joe, was called back to duty. Joe then teamed with a hiker, Josh McCoy, and continued to help others, all the while still on the run. The show was considered as a cross between Lassie and The Fugitive. Like The Fugitive, and later, The Incredible Hulk, it centered around a falsely accused person running from authorities and helping out people he meets along the way. The show was produced by William P. D'Angelo Productions, who also produced the NBC young adult drama, Westwind.
Release Date: 1974-09-07
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 5
The Six Million Dollar Man
Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent, employed by the OSI, under the command of Oscar Goldman and supervised by the scientist who created his cybernetics, Rudy Wells. Steve uses the superior strength and speed provided by his bionic arm and legs, and the enhanced vision provided by his artificial eye, to fight enemy agents, aliens, mad scientists, and a wide variety of other villains.
Release Date: 1974-01-18
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 399
Frankenstein
A scientist obsessed with creating life steals body parts to put together his "creation." Released as a feature on video, this was originally shown in two installments on TV as part of the Wide World of Entertainment series.
Release Date: 1973-01-16
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 14
Dan August
Dan August is a Quinn Martin crime drama series which aired on ABC from 1970-1971. The series stars Burt Reynolds as the title character. Reruns of Dan August aired in prime time on CBS from May to October 1973 and from April to June 1975.
Release Date: 1970-09-23
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 4
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors is an American medical drama that lasted for four seasons on NBC, from 1969 to 1973.
Release Date: 1969-09-14
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 3
Four Rode Out
In this western, a Mexican desperado tries to flee his partner, a determined girl friend, and a US Marshal.
Release Date: 1969-01-01
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 3
The Name of the Game
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
Release Date: 1968-09-20
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 12
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 Date: 1967-09-16
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 51
The Wild Wild West
The Wild Wild West is an American television series. Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as "James Bond on horseback." Set during the administration of President Ulysses Grant, the series followed Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon as they solved crimes, protected the President, and foiled the plans of megalomaniacal villains to take over all or part of the United States. The show also featured a number of fantasy elements, such as the technologically advanced devices used by the agents and their adversaries. The combination of the Victorian era time-frame and the use of Verne-esque style technology have inspired some to give the show credit for the origins of the steam punk subculture.
Release Date: 1965-09-17
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 104
Vote Count: 72
Fort Courageous
In this western, a cavalry sergeant is wrongly court-martialed. To reclaim his good name, he takes over a patrol that just lost its leader in an Indian attack. He leads the regiment to Fort Courageous, but is appalled to discover that the Indians attacked and massacred all but one of its inhabitants. The hardy little group must now fight the renegades on their own. The ex-sergeant plans a brilliant strategy that culminates in winning the Indian's respect. They leave the fort alone and peace is restored.
Release Date: 1965-05-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 7
The Outer Limits
The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.
Release Date: 1963-09-16
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 146
Up Periscope
Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.
Release Date: 1959-03-04
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 32
Born Reckless
Rider Kelly Cobb travels to county rodeos to win money so he can buy a patch of land he wants to call his own. One night he rescues trick rider Jackie Adams from the clutches of an amorous rodeo promoter and they form a team and hit the circuit along with sidekick Cool Man.
Release Date: 1958-11-02
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 13
Frankenstein 1970
The baron's grandson rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival of the family monster.
Release Date: 1958-07-20
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 40
Violent Road
Following the crash and explosion of a test rocket, which killed several people, six men volunteer to take explosive rocket-fuel chemical components, in three trucks, over back roads in rugged terrain to a remote missile base. Uncredited "remake" of The Wages of Fear.
Release Date: 1958-05-10
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 7
Hell Bound
After WW2, a Los Angeles crime ring uses a complex scheme, involving a freight ship, a junkie, and a corrupt health officer, to smuggle drugs into the USA.
Release Date: 1957-10-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 12
The Girl in Black Stockings
Residents at a posh Utah hotel become suspects when a girl is found murdered during a pool party. Local sheriff Jess Holmes takes charge of the investigation and must discover who among the terrified guests and staff -- including bodacious vixen Harriet Ames, the hotel's bitter, crippled proprietor, visiting lawyer David Hewson and his secretary, Beth -- is the culprit, even as murders continue to take place.
Release Date: 1957-09-24
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 30
Perry Mason
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
Release Date: 1957-09-21
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 123
Voodoo Island
A wealthy industrialist hires the renowned hoax-buster Phillip Knight to prove that an island he plans to develop isn't voodoo cursed. However, arriving on the island, Knight soon realizes that voodoo does exist when he discovers man-eating plants and a tribe of natives with bizarre powers.
Release Date: 1957-02-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 21
Pharaoh's Curse
Archaeologists in Egypt find one of their crew has been turned into a blood sucking mummy after they have unleashed a three thousand year curse.
Release Date: 1957-02-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 18
Hot Cars
Story of a salesman lured into the "hot car" racket.
Release Date: 1956-11-02
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 14
The Man Is Armed
Crime drama in which a man unknowingly helps a gang pull off a big heist. The gang discovers that the man is more trouble than he is worth and as a result, things don't go as smoothly as planned.
Release Date: 1956-10-19
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 10
Women Without Men
In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model citizen. When her employer refuses to dissolve her contract, though, they quarrel and she accidentally hits him. He presses charges, claiming she hit him deliberately, and she is convicted and sent to prison. As her fiance is at sea and out of contact, she is terrified he will think she has jilted him when she does not keep a New Year's date. A kindly old convict, Gran', notorious as a prison-breaker, agrees to engineer an escape for Angela...
Release Date: 1956-06-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
Blonde Bait
Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Scotland Yard, as his girlfriend, Angela Booth, is currently in a British prison. Angela has refused to give Nick up to the law, so the combined authorities arrange for Angela to escape, aided by stoolie Gran' Ramsey who is at the same prison. The police will then follow Angela to Nick. Gran' stages the getaway, and the two women, accompanied by a third convict, Marguerite, whose prison-born baby is about to be turned over to welfare authorities. It is up to Gran' to keep the police informed of Angela's movements without being detected by the escapees, until Angela contacts Nick. This film is a reworking of principal footage from the UK film WOMEN WITHOUT MEN (1955), q.v., which, with added new footage (including scenes with original star Beverly Michaels), significantly revises the plot and central characters from a story about a wrongly imprisoned waif to one about a gangster's moll.
Release Date: 1956-04-01
Department: Writing
Job: Original Story
Vote Count: 4
The Quatermass Xperiment
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.
Release Date: 1955-08-26
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 197
The Glass Cage
A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning!
Release Date: 1955-04-15
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 10
Mask of Dust
An idol of auto-racing fans attempts a comeback after serving in the Air Force. When his former rival lies dying in the hospital he must decide whether to continue in the Grand Prix, or make peace with his adversary. Featuring race car greats Stirling Moss, Reg Parnell, John Cooper, Alan Brown, Geoffrey Taylor and Leslie Marr.
Release Date: 1954-12-10
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 9
Blackout
When a beautiful young woman suddenly offers inebriated Casey Morrow a lot of money for a quick and easy job, he doesn't ask too many questions. But when the girl's father is found murdered the following day and Morrow's coat is soaked with blood, he must unravel the mystery to clear his name. An intriguing story of deception, greed and immorality.
Release Date: 1954-03-19
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 20
Sins of Jezebel
The aging king of Israel, Ahab, falls under the influence of a young and beautiful but scheming Pagan woman named Jezebel and, against the advice of his advisers and the prophet Elijah, marries her. Her plan to introduce her idols to Israel angers God, who wreaks vengeance on Israel.
Release Date: 1953-09-04
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2
The Great Jesse James Raid
The famed outlaw is talked into saddling up for one more bank robbery.
Release Date: 1953-07-17
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 3
Spaceways
The test launch for the first inter-planetary research station goes wrong when the satellite station is inadvertently set up instead of returning to earth. Two people attached to the secret project are missing, presumed murdered, and all suspicions fall on the cuckold husband, the scientist responsible for the lack of fuel aboard the rocket. The theory is he murdered his wife and her lover, depositing the bodies on the errant rocket. Desperate to prove his innocence he volunteers for the next mission to link up with the satellite and clear his name.
Release Date: 1953-07-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 12
Let's Ask Nostradamus
Nostradamus writes a letter to his young son, and his prophecies are compared to events of the French Revolution.
Release Date: 1953-06-06
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
The Flanagan Boy
Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter. His enormous potential to reach the top is born out of a string of spectacular successes. All of which is brought to a halt when he develops a physical relationship with his manager's wife, the beautiful but manipulative Lorna. His naive temperament is no match for her callous, dispassionate scheming and he unwittingly becomes a pawn in Lorna's ultimate plan... .to murder her husband.
Release Date: 1953-04-10
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 16
Nostradamus Says So!
The life of the French seer and some of his selected quatrains are reviewed.
Release Date: 1953-01-03
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
Stolen Face
A plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who broke his heart and left him. He marries the convict but trouble starts when his true love returns.
Release Date: 1952-05-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 26
FBI Girl
G-men grab a gangster and a governor thanks to a clerk in the fingerprints division.
Release Date: 1951-11-04
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 7
Roadblock
An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.
Release Date: 1951-09-17
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 23
Lost Continent
When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down to a small Pacific island, where it apparently has landed on the plateau of the island's steep-walled, taboo mountain...
Release Date: 1951-08-17
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 33
Johnny One-Eye
Johnny One-Eye was adapted from one of Damon Runyon's lesser-known stories. Martin Martin and Dane Cory were former partners in crime who have long since split up. When a new district attorney puts the heat on, Cory, anxious to save his own hide, accuses Martin of an unsolved murder. Holed up in abandoned house, Martin is befriended by a little girl and her dog. It so happens that the girl is the daughter of the crusading DA, and thereby hangs the rest of this tale.
Release Date: 1950-05-05
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 8
Wild Weed
A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
Release Date: 1949-07-20
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 13
The Crooked Way
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.
Release Date: 1949-04-22
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 29
The Secret of the Whistler
A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.
Release Date: 1946-11-07
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 17
Little Iodine
Little Iodine does her best to break up the marriage of her parents, ruin a romance and cost her father his job.
Release Date: 1946-10-19
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
A Gun in His Hand
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local thieves and uses his knowledge of police procedures to pursue a career of undetected crime.
Release Date: 1945-09-15
Department: Writing
Job: Original Story
Vote Count: 6
Back to Bataan
An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.
Release Date: 1945-05-30
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 62
Dark Shadows
A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a killer.
Release Date: 1944-12-16
Department: Writing
Job: Original Story
Vote Count: 13
Who's Superstitious?
This short film examines the origins of several superstitions including crossing your fingers, knocking on wood, rabbit's feet, and breaking champagne bottles to christen ships, plus the role of superstitions in the Flying Dutchman tale.
Release Date: 1943-01-02
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1