Leslie Clark Stevens IV was an American producer, writer, and director. He created two television series for the ABC network, The Outer Limits (1963–1965) and Stoney Burke (1962–63), and Search (1972–73) for NBC. Stevens was the director of the horror film Incubus (1966), which stars William Shatner, and was the second film to use the Esperanto language. He wrote an early work of New Age philosophy, est: The Steersman Handbook (1970).
Kathryn, a struggling actress and unfulfilled housewife, becomes friendly with her new gardener, Ben. He gives her the attention and sensitivity she craves; however, he is not who he seems.
Release Date: 2022-05-13
Department: Writing
Job: Original Film Writer
Vote Count: 43
A talking pig named Gordy becomes involved in a quest to save his family from the slaughterhouse.
Release Date: 1995-05-12
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 32
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
Release Date: 1995-03-26
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 211
In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become tanned teenagers in love.
Release Date: 1991-08-02
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1187
Three friends persecute a gang of criminals from Harlem to the parties of the High Society of London.
Release Date: 1987-06-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
Release Date: 1985-05-18
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Sheena's parents are killed while on Safari. She is raised by the mystical witch woman of an African tribe. When her foster mother is framed for the murder of a political leader, Sheena and a newsman, Vic Casey, are forced to flee while pursued by the mercenaries hired by the real killer, who hopes to assume power. Sheena's ability to talk to the animals and knowledge of jungle lore give them a chance against the high tech weapons of the mercenaries.
Release Date: 1984-08-17
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 146
20th-century astronaut Buck Rogers awakens in the 25th century after a freak accident puts him in suspended animation for 500 years. Upon returning to Earth and discovering the planet is recovering from a nuclear war, Buck uses his combat skills and ingenuity to protect Earth and fight evil throughout the galaxy alongside starfighter pilot Colonel Wilma Deering and robot companion Twiki.
Release Date: 1979-09-20
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 110
Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war following a global holocaust, and Buck's piloting skills make him an ideal starfighter recruit for the Earth Defense Directorate, where his closest colleagues are Dr. Huer (Tim O'Connor), squadron leader Col. Wilma Deering (former model Erin Gray), the wisecracking robot Twiki (voiced by cartoon legend Mel Blanc), and a portable computer-brain named Dr. Theopolis.
Release Date: 1979-03-02
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 88
When the 12 Colonies of Man are wiped out by a cybernetic race called the Cylons, Commander Adama and the crew of the battlestar Galactica lead a ragtag fleet of human survivors in search of a "mythical planet" called Earth.
Release Date: 1978-09-17
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 242
A female private detective goes undercover as a porno actress to find a millionaire's missing daughter.
Release Date: 1977-01-16
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Sam Casey is an agent for INTERSECT, a government think-tank and operations center specializing in secret missions. While on a diving assignment, Sam was affected by the radiation from an underwater explosion. The radiation rendered him invisible, but INTERSECT devised a way to control his invisibility, by fitting him with a computerized watch that kept him visible. He could, however, shut it off, and become invisible again, for short periods of time. If he did this for more than 15 minutes in any 24 hour period he would die. This ability to become invisible made him a very effective agent.
Release Date: 1976-05-10
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 10
Agent Sam Casey is in a satellite explosion and the radiation turns him invisible. He gets a watch that keeps him visible, and he uses it to switch from visible to invisible. He is assigned to transport a chemical called Tripolydine, which is purported to be the most efficient fuel; when the cover is blown on that and he uncovers and stops the Tripolydine fraud, he must then stop a terrorist from blowing up race cars.
Release Date: 1976-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 20
Dr. Daniel Westin creates a formula to be used for matter transformation. To test the formula he uses it on himself. Before he can return to normal he discovers the government wants to use his formula for wrong, so he destroys it. Being unable to become visible again, he and his wife become agents for KLAE fighting crime.
Release Date: 1975-05-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 22
An American submarine leaves Tierra Del Fuego, and one of its crew has secretly brought aboard a container full of poisonous snakes which escape storage and bite key personnel on the submarine, causing an accident that cripples the vehicle so that it drops to the bottom of the Southern Ocean. Worse still, the snakes are still at large on the submarine and complicate the efforts of the crew to escape the sunken vessel.
Release Date: 1974-10-18
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 6
Three insurance investigators search for a mysterious billionaire. Based on the Old Time Radio show of the same name.
Release Date: 1973-02-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
Search is an American science fiction series that aired on Wednesday nights on NBC at 10 pm ET, from September 1972 to August 1973. It ran for 23 episodes, not including the two-hour pilot film originally titled Probe. When picked up for series production, the title had to be changed because Probe was the name of an existing PBS series. In the UK the series aired on BBC 1 under the title Search Control. The show was created by Leslie Stevens, and produced by Leslie Stevens, Robert Justman, John Strong and Tony Spinner. The high concept was described as "science fiction in today's world" and the episodes featured many high-tech elements which are considered common in current science fiction shows.
Release Date: 1972-09-13
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 8
That hipster ring that special agent Hugh Lockwood wears? It's a camera, transmitting image and sound of his surroundings. It's also a scanner, detecting telltale changes in pulse or other biometric readings of himself and the people around him. This ring and more electronic devices -- some embedded -- keep Lockwood linked with Probe Control, where experts and banks of computers provide instant mission-critical warnings, intel, even language translations. In this pilot film for the short-lived series "Search," Lockwood is on a quest to recover priceless diamonds stolen by the Nazis during World War II.
Release Date: 1972-02-21
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Vote Count: 4
A scientist and his team of underwater explorers search for the culprit who has stolen the world's supply of nerve gas and hidden it somewhere in the ocean.
Release Date: 1970-10-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a special investigator.
Release Date: 1970-02-17
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 51
A man and his girlfriend plan to rob the mansion of the man's eccentric but wealthy aunt. However, the aunt keeps dozens of cats in her home, and the man is deathly afraid of cats.
Release Date: 1969-06-18
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 39
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: 3
Vote Count: 12
Convicted cat burglar Alexander Mundy gets an offer he can't refuse from the United States government: If he puts his formidable thieving skills to work for them, he'll be released from prison. Alexander's dad, Alister, sometimes comes out of retirement as a thief to help his son on special jobs.
Release Date: 1968-01-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 23
A Swedish woman pretends to have a child with a man who is part of a couple of scientists.
Release Date: 1967-04-05
Department: Writing
Job: Story
On a strange island inhabited by demons and spirits, a man battles the forces of evil.
Release Date: 1966-10-26
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 47
A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal village where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke's authority in the face of the barbarians at the border and is making progress until he falls in love with one of the local women.
Release Date: 1965-11-17
Department: Writing
Job: Original Story
Vote Count: 72
An American secret agent, on the trail of a vanished scientist, must recover the scientist's revolutionary secret formula before the enemy catches up with his quarry first.
Release Date: 1964-09-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks out of every four and was pre-empted for Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall specials once monthly. Como's production company, Roncom Films, also produced Kraft Suspense Theatre. Writer, editor, critic and radio playwright Anthony Boucher served as consultant on the series. Later syndicated under the title Crisis, it was one of the few suspense series telecast in color at the time. While most of NBC's shows were in color then, all-color network line-ups did not become the norm until the 1966-67 season.
Release Date: 1963-10-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3
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: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 6
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
Character: Election Returns Commentator (voice) (uncredited)
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 146
Stoney Burke is an American western television series broadcast on ABC from October 1, 1962 until May 20, 1963. Six years before the premiere of his CBS crime drama, Hawaii Five-0, Jack Lord starred in the title role.
Release Date: 1962-10-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 18
Vote Count: 4
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.
Release Date: 1962-09-19
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 28
A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates.
Release Date: 1962-09-16
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 4
An anthropology professor and his professor wife have the perfect marriage--until a Swedish colleague's daughter comes to visit. Not only is the little girl all grown up, but she's ready to start a family--with him!
Release Date: 1961-01-06
Department: Writing
Job: Theatre Play
Vote Count: 4
A hoodlum plots to seduce a lonely housewife and turn her over to his virginal friend.
Release Date: 1960-01-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 41
When a crooked sheriff murders his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the death by killing the man responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.
Release Date: 1958-04-30
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 104
Based on a true story, Donald Bashor robs and bludgeons two women to their deaths. While committing the crimes he maintans a normal existence with his girlfriend Florry.
Release Date: 1958-02-27
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also sponsored a weekly half-hour anthology drama series hosted by June Allyson, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on contemporary dramas and more on adaptations of literary classics, including Oliver Twist, The Prince and the Pauper, Billy Budd, The Prisoner of Zenda, A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo.
Release Date: 1957-09-29
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3
In 1956, BLOOMER GIRL was presented in a live television production starring the magnificent Barbara Cook, whose star was then on the rise, with leading roles in CANDIDE and THE MUSIC MAN still in her future. A solid success when it opened on Broadway in 1944, BLOOMER GIRL boasts a glorious score by the legendary team of Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg (THE WIZARD OF OZ). The book by Fred Saidy is set at the brink of the Civil War and addresses issues of women's equality (priorities were the right to vote and to wear bloomers, a liberating alternative to hoop skirts) and racial equality.
Release Date: 1956-05-28
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Producers' Showcase is an American anthology television series that was telecast live during the 1950s in compatible color by NBC. With top talent, the 90-minute episodes, covering a wide variety of genres, aired under the title every fourth Monday at 8 p.m. ET for three seasons, beginning October 18, 1954. The final episode, the last of 37, was broadcast May 27, 1957. Showcase Productions, Inc., packaged and produced the series, which received seven Emmy Awards, including the 1956 award for Best Dramatic Series.
Release Date: 1954-10-18
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3