Sidney Sheldon (Writer)
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Works
Easter Parade: On the Avenue
This documentary tells the story of the making of Irving Berlin's Easter Parade.
Release Date: 2005-03-15
Character: Self
The Tony Danza Show
The Tony Danza Show was a daytime variety talk show that premiered on September 13, 2004 in syndication and was distributed by Buena Vista Television.
Release Date: 2004-09-13
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 7
Nothing Lasts Forever
The personal lives and careers of three female doctors, from different backgrounds and walks of life, who work at a San Francisco county hospital.
Release Date: 1995-11-05
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Episode Count: 2
Nothing Lasts Forever
Story of the personal lives and careers of three female doctors, from different backgrounds and walks of life, who work at a San Francisco county hospital.
Release Date: 1995-11-04
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 1
Hart to Hart Returns
Jonathan Hart, the wealthy entrepreneur, and his charming investigative reporter wife, Jennifer, once again get caught up in a mystery, this time involving corrupt government contractors. Aided by their trusty servant Max, who is more family than employee, and their dog Freeway, the Harts try to resolve issues with an investigation into Jonathan’s business dealings with an old friend in the aerospace industry, and find themselves in the midst of a dark plot which will put Jonathan’s freedom, their home, and even their lives in jeopardy.
Release Date: 1993-11-02
Department: Writing
Job: Characters
Vote Count: 12
A Stranger in the Mirror
A naive young woman arrives in Hollywood to become a star, but after she gets drugged and raped during a shoot, she hardens quickly and catches the eye of a popular womanizing comedian who introduces her to his shady powerful agent.
Release Date: 1993-10-24
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 3
The Sands of Time
Three nuns are caught up in the midst of Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.
Release Date: 1992-11-23
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Memories of Midnight
Catherine lost her memory and wound up in a convent in the care of nuns. She tries to discover the terrible events which led to her condition, not realizing that she's being watched by a wealthy and powerful man who will do anything to protect his secret - a secret that only Catherine can reveal to the world.
Release Date: 1991-11-25
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 3
I Still Dream of Jeannie
Col. Nelson is on a long-term, top-secret space mission. Jeannie cannot bring him home (temporarily) to hear their son's important academic presentation without knowing exactly where he is in the first place. The general in charge of the mission won't reveal anything. Things are further complicated when Jeannie's sister (Jeannie II) reminds Sham-Ir, the head of the genies, that a genie on Earth cannot go more than 3 months without an earthly master. (Col. Nelson is no longer Earthly, being in space.) Sham-Ir give Jeannie I a fortnight (14 days) to either find Col. Nelson or get a new master, a single male. (Col. Healy can't help, since he's now married.)
Release Date: 1991-10-20
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 9
Sheriff's Star
1991 television film adaptation of Sidney Sheldon's 1970 novel The Naked Face.
Release Date: 1991-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Windmills of the Gods
When Mary Ashley is approached to become ambassador of the United States of America in Romania she does not take the offer because her husband does not want to give up his well-going doctor's office. Shortly afterward Dr. Edward Ashley gets killed in a car accident. After this Mary Ashley reconsiders the offer and finally accepts. Arrived in Romania she is confronted with a complex plot in which the American President's current plans to improve relations between the US and communist countries shall be sabotaged.
Release Date: 1988-02-07
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 7
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
Jennifer's life changes when Warner, now Vice President of the United States, decides to see her and her son, Joshua. At the same time, Jennifer is unaware that James Moretti, an underworld figure, holds her responsible for the death of his brother. Moretti determines to blackmail her and Warner into halting a Justice Department indictment against another underworld figure. Further complicating Jennifer's life is her mother, who abandoning her as a child, reappears with a new identity, Marchesa Allabrandi.
Release Date: 1986-11-02
Department: Writing
Job: Characters
Vote Count: 1
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
When mobster James Moretti is about to be indicted, one of his people thinks he can get to Adam J. Warner, the Vice President to stop it. So he arranges for lawyer Jennifer Parker to get a job at a prestigious law firm. He knows Parker had an affair with Warner and Warner is the father of her son. When she meets him, she has nothing but contempt for him because his brother tried to kill her. Moretti thinks that Parker owes him, so he tells her to tell Warner to stop the indictment. Parker reconnects with Warner much to the consternation of his wife.
Release Date: 1986-11-02
Department: Writing
Job: Characters
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 3
Si c'était demain
Release Date: 1986-09-20
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
If Tomorrow Comes
Tracy Whitney was in love, pregnant and engaged to marry into one of America's best family. And then, with one phone call, she lost everything. After 5 years of unjust imprisonment, Tracy emerges from prison a new woman. Cunning. Ruthless. Determined to survive. But there is one man as formidable as she is. As their paths crisscross, they eventually become daredevil partners in an adventure that climaxes their criminal careers.
Release Date: 1986-03-16
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 23
I Dream of Jeannie... Fifteen Years Later
Jeannie has been a happily married housewife for 15 years to her astronaut husband Tony Nelson and has a teenage son, T.J. When Tony is promoted to Colonel and is about to retire from the NASA space program, Jeannie decides to give him a celebration party in their backyard. However, egged on by his colleagues to retire with a dramatic flair, Tony breaks his promise to Jeannie for one more space flight (aboard the shuttle), this time with a female astronaut, Captain Nelly Hunt.
Release Date: 1985-10-19
Department: Writing
Job: Characters
Vote Count: 11
The Naked Face
Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death in the middle of the city. After repeated attempts to convince the cops of his innocence, Dr. Stevens is forced to go after the real villains himself.
Release Date: 1984-06-01
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 30
Master of the Game
Elderly Kate Blackwell looks back at her family's life beginning with her Scottish father Jamie McGregor's journey to South Africa to make his fortune in diamonds. The family history is littered with revenge, lust, betrayal, manipulation, and murder.
Release Date: 1984-02-19
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 9
Vote Count: 8
Rage of Angels
A young assistant district attorney is used by a ruthless attorney to get his client off. She is fired and almost disbarred, but fights back to become a top attorney, torn between two lovers.
Release Date: 1983-02-20
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 4
Rage of Angels
Based on Sidney Sheldon's novel. A young assistant district attorney is used by a ruthless attorney to get his client off. She is fired and almost disbarred but fights back to become a top attorney, torn between two lovers: Morell and a married lawyer with political aspirations.
Release Date: 1983-02-19
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
Hart to Hart
Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.
Release Date: 1979-09-22
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 118
Hart to Hart
In this pilot film, a friend of Jonathan Hart's is killed in a motor accident just after he has left a health farm, apparently committing suicide. There was no warning of him being troubled so the Harts go undercover to find out what happened at the farm.
Release Date: 1979-08-25
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Bloodline
A pampered heiress inherits her father's pharmaceutical empire when he dies in a suspicious accident, and soon finds herself surrounded by ruthless board members and grasping family members who will seemingly stop at nothing to profit.
Release Date: 1979-06-29
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 42
The Other Side of Midnight
When French beauty Noelle Page falls in love with American pilot Larry Douglas, she believes he'll marry her. Instead, he returns to the U.S and marries the sweet but naive Catherine. Even though Noelle has found a new lover, an affluent Greek named Constantin, and has started a great career as an actress, she vows revenge on her onetime lover. But once her plan is in motion, she and Larry fall in love and plot Catherine's death.
Release Date: 1977-06-08
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 21
Nancy
Nancy is an American sitcom that aired on NBC during the 1970-1971 television season. The series stars Renne Jarrett in the title role.
Release Date: 1970-09-17
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 17
Vote Count: 2
Shadow on the Land
Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA.
Release Date: 1968-12-04
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2
The Dick Cavett Show
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
Release Date: 1968-06-06
Character: Self - Guest
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 21
I Dream of Jeannie
While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency landing that will forever change his life. On a deserted South Pacific island, Captain Nelson happens upon a bottle containing a beautiful two-thousand-year-old female genie named Jeannie. Rescuing her from the bottle nets Tony the requisite three wishes, and then some, when Jeannie pledges total devotion to her new "master".
Release Date: 1965-09-18
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Self
Episode Count: 55
Vote Count: 778
The Patty Duke Show
The Patty Duke Show is an American sitcom which ran on ABC from September 18, 1963 to April 27, 1966, with reruns airing through August 31, 1966. The show was created as a vehicle for rising star Patty Duke. A total of 104 episodes were produced, most written by Sidney Sheldon.
Release Date: 1963-09-18
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 14
Billy Rose's Jumbo
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
Release Date: 1962-12-06
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 18
All in a Night's Work
After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating a loan from the bank, Tony gets a call from a detective surrounding his uncle's death. It turns out Colonel Ryder died in his hotel room with a smile on his face and a young woman was seen fleeing his room wearing only a towel. Suspicious of this woman and afraid the magazine's wholesome image may be tarnished and their loan denied, Tony asks the detective to stick around and find her.
Release Date: 1961-03-15
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 21
The Buster Keaton Story
An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.
Release Date: 1957-05-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 8
Pardners
Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footsteps by returning to the West to partner up with Slim Moseley Jr.,the son of his father's former partner. Wade overcomes Slim's initial reluctance to accept him by using his fortune to buy a prize cow and new car to help Slim in his job as foreman on the Kingsley family ranch, currently under siege by a gang of outlaws called "masked raiders." Wade generously tries to pay off the ranch's mortgage with $15,000 of his own money, but unfortunately neither "pardner" realizes that respected banker Dan Hollis, the son of their fathers' murderer, is the leader of the gang.
Release Date: 1956-08-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 57
The Birds and the Bees
On an ocean voyage, a card shark and her father cheat a naive man out of his money. Things take a twist when the girl falls in love with the man she's just fleeced.
Release Date: 1956-05-11
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 4
Anything Goes
Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each 'discovers' the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises the prize role to the girl they selected without informing the other until they head back across the Atlantic by liner - with each man having brought his choice along! It becomes a stormy crossing as each man has to tell his 'find' that she might not get the role after all.
Release Date: 1956-04-27
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 18
You're Never Too Young
When an aspiring barber becomes inadvertently involved in the theft of a valuable diamond, necessity forces him to masquerade as a 12 year-old child - with humorous consequences.
Release Date: 1955-08-25
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 43
Dream Wife
Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple. Unfortunately there seems to be too much business and not enough pleasure on the part of Effie. When Clemson meets Tarji, a princess trained in all the arts of pleasing men, he decides he wants an old fashioned girl. Princess Tarji's father is king of oil-rich Bukistan. Because of the oil situation and to maintain good political relations during the courtship between Clemson & Tarji, the State Department assigns a diplomat to maintain protocol until the wedding - Effie!
Release Date: 1953-06-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 24
Remains to Be Seen
A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.
Release Date: 1953-05-15
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 3
Just This Once
An heir of a vast fortune is deeply in debt because he spends faster than his very generous trust fund allows. There is a battle of wills between his selfish spendthrift was and the money manager which is is forced/tricked into appointing.
Release Date: 1952-02-27
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 4
Rich, Young and Pretty
A rancher's daughter visits Paris to meet her mother and find love.
Release Date: 1951-07-09
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 9
No Questions Asked
With the help of some seedy gangsters, young attorney Steve Keiver makes some quick cash by bending the law, and in the process, he impresses the mobsters so much that they invite him to work for them on a regular basis. But when Police Inspector Matt Duggan realizes that Steve is working as a middleman for the mob, the young lawyer finds himself in a life-threatening situation. In order to clear his name, he must betray the deadly crooks he's been working for.
Release Date: 1951-06-15
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 16
Three Guys Named Mike
A stewardess becomes romantically involved with an airline pilot, a college professor, and a successful businessman...all of whom are named Mike. When the three find out about each other, she has to decide which one she loves the most.
Release Date: 1951-03-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 16
Annie Get Your Gun
Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
Release Date: 1950-05-17
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 77
Nancy Goes to Rio
Mother and daughter compete over same singing role and, unbeknownst to each other, the same man.
Release Date: 1950-03-10
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 3
The Barkleys of Broadway
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs her in. So she decides to stretch her skills by taking a role in a serious drama, directed by another man.
Release Date: 1949-05-04
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 48
Easter Parade
On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him. To prove Nadine's not important to him, Don acquires innocent new protege Hannah Brown, vowing to make her a star in time for next year's Easter parade.
Release Date: 1948-07-08
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 143
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.
Release Date: 1947-09-01
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 127
She's in the Army
A socialite joins the Womens Ambulance Corps as both a publicity stunt and to win a bet with a newspaper columnist, who wagered $5000 that she couldn't last six weeks.
Release Date: 1942-05-15
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Fly By Night
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
Release Date: 1942-01-19
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 5
Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case
Like the first entry, this one is played mostly for laughs, with Radio's Mister District Attorney. James Ellison replacing Dennis O'Keefe as feckless assistant DA P. Cadwallader Jones. The publisher of a tony fashion magazine is murdered, requiring Jones to sift through a colorful array of suspects. He is helped along by snoopy girl reporter Terry Parker.
Release Date: 1941-12-18
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
Borrowed Hero
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
Release Date: 1941-12-05
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 3
Gambling Daughters
A couple of rich girls at a private boarding school find themselves mixed up in gambling and blackmail, and must steal from their parents to pay their gambling debts.
Release Date: 1941-08-01
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 2
South of Panama
Secret agent Roger Pryor is dispatched below the border to protect an important scientific formula. Believe it or don't, this mixture has the ability to render things invisible.
Release Date: 1941-05-02
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 1