Michael Katleman

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael Katleman is an American director and producer. He has worked on Smallville, Tru Calling, and Gilmore Girls as well as many other programs.

Works

Cowboy Bebop

Long on style and perpetually short on cash, bounty hunters Spike, Jet and Faye trawl the solar system looking for jobs. But can they outrun Spike's past?

Release Date:2021-11-19

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:399

FBI: International

Follows the elite agents of the FBI's International Fly Team headquartered in Budapest as they travel the world with the mission of protecting Americans wherever they may be.

Release Date:2021-09-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:190

The Fix

High-profile district attorney Maya Travis fled L.A. after devastating defeat when prosecuting an A-list actor for double murder. Eight years later, the same celebrity is under suspicion for another murder, and Maya is lured back to the DA’s office for another chance at justice.

Release Date:2019-03-18

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:35

Designated Survivor

Tom Kirkman, a low-level cabinet member is suddenly appointed President of the United States after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession.

Release Date:2016-09-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:973

Zoo

Set amidst a wave of violent animal attacks sweeping across the planet, a young renegade scientist is thrust into a race to unlock the mystery behind this pandemic before time runs out for animals and humans alike.

Release Date:2015-06-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:540

How to Get Away with Murder

A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and change the course of their lives.

Release Date:2014-09-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1633

The Last Ship

Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction.

Release Date:2014-06-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:940

Star-Crossed

When Emery was 6 years old, an alien spacecraft crash-landed in her small town. Whether they came in peace or with more sinister intentions didn't matter: a fierce battle erupted as humans fought for control over their new rivals, an alien species called the Atrians. In the midst of the conflict, Roman, a 6-year-old Atrian boy, found his way to a shed behind Emery's house, where she temporarily protected him from harm, bringing him food, comfort - and friendship. Ten years later, the Atrians have been acclimated to life on Earth, but they are interned in a heavily-guarded camp known as the Sector to keep them separate from humans. Now, for the first time, a group of Atrian teens will enroll in a suburban human high school, with the goal of testing the feasibility of human/alien integration. Emery and Roman find each other again in a school and a society that distrusts everything about the Atrians. While the world around them rages with anger and prejudice, their bond becomes increasingly strong and increasingly dangerous.

Release Date:2014-02-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:132

Dallas

J.R., Bobby and Sue Ellen Ewing are all back at Southfork, with plenty of secrets, schemes and betrayals in mind. This time, they're joined by the next generation of Ewings, who take ambition and deception to a new level.

Release Date:2012-06-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:70

Scandal

Everyone has secrets and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope and her team are at the top of their game when it comes to getting the job done for their clients, but it becomes apparent that these "gladiators in suits," who specialize in fixing the lives of other people, have trouble fixing those closest at hand -- their own.

Release Date:2012-04-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:550

The River

Wildlife expert and TV personality Emmet Cole sets course around the world with his wife, Tess, and son, Lincoln, while filming what would become one of the most popular shows in television. After he goes missing deep in the Amazon, his family, friends and crew set out on a mysterious and deadly journey to find him.

Release Date:2012-02-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:264

Falling Skies

Falling Skies opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back. Each day is a test of survival as citizen soldiers work to protect the people in their care while also engaging in an insurgency campaign against the occupying alien force.

Release Date:2011-06-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1179

Rizzoli & Isles

Perhaps their strikingly different personalities make the relationship between detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles so effective. Jane, the only female cop in Boston's homicide division, is tough, relentless and rarely lets her guard down, while the impeccably dressed Maura displays a sometimes icy temperament — she is, after all, more comfortable among the dead than the living. Together, the best friends have forged a quirky and supportive relationship; they drop the protective shield in each other's company, and combine their expertise to solve Boston's most complex cases.

Release Date:2010-07-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:425

Justified

A character drama based on the 2001 Elmore Leonard short story "Fire in the Hole." Leonard's tale centers around U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of Kentucky, a quiet but strong-willed official of the law. The tale covers his high-stakes job, as well as his strained relationships with his ex-wife and father.

Release Date:2010-03-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:722

Life Unexpected

16-year-old Lux was given up for adoption at birth but never adopted. When she is put back into the custody of her estranged-since-high-school birth parents, Cate and Baze, the three form an unlikely family.

Release Date:2010-01-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:82

Eastwick

Three very different women find themselves drawn together by a mysterious man who unleashes unique powers in each of them, and this small New England town will never be the same.

Release Date:2009-09-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:46

The Vampire Diaries

The story of two vampire brothers obsessed with the same girl, who bears a striking resemblance to the beautiful but ruthless vampire they knew and loved in 1864.

Release Date:2009-09-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:9083

Life on Mars

After a car crash, police detective Sam Tyler mysteriously finds himself transported back to 1973 and still working as a detective.

Release Date:2008-10-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:91

Drive

Drive is an American action drama television series set against the backdrop of an illegal cross-country automobile road race, focusing on the willing and unwilling competitors and, as the plot develops, the unseen puppet masters who sponsor the race. Minear has described the show's thematic tone by saying "a secret, illegal, underground road race can be anything from Cannonball Run to The Game to North by Northwest to Magnolia-on-wheels. Ours is all those things."

Release Date:2007-04-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:33

Primeval

A news team is sent to Burundi to capture and bring home a legendary 25-foot crocodile. Their difficult task turns potentially deadly when a warlord targets them for death.

Release Date:2007-01-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:408

Jack & Bobby

If "greatness is thrust upon us," as Winston Churchill once said, then it stands to reason that those who are destined for greatness are rarely aware of it. Take Jack and Bobby McCallister for example: two bright young brothers growing up under the watchful eye of their eccentric single mother Grace McCallister. Grace's personality is a force of nature destined to shape both of these young men's lives and secure one a place in the history books - as President of the United States.

Release Date:2004-09-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:12

Tru Calling

A university graduate working in the city morgue is able to repeat the same day over again to prevent murders or other disasters.

Release Date:2003-10-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:243

Taken

The show takes place from 1944 to 2002 and follows the lives of three families: the Crawfords, who seek to cover up the Roswell crash and the existence of aliens; the Keys, who are subject to frequent experimentation by the aliens; and the Clarkes, who sheltered one of the surviving aliens from the crash.

Release Date:2002-12-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:372

Everwood

After the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small town of Everwood, Colorado. There he becomes a small-town doctor and learns parenting on the fly as he raises his talented but resentful 15-year-old son Ephram and his 9-year-old daughter Delia.

Release Date:2002-09-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:198

Smallville

The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s final steps toward embracing his destiny as the Man of Steel.

Release Date:2001-10-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:4135

Maybe It's Me

A teenage girl tries to deal with her idiosyncratic, Luis Buñel-esque family while putting up with the pressures of everyday life, which turns out to be more difficult than it seems.

Release Date:2001-10-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:3

Gilmore Girls

Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.

Release Date:2000-10-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:1070

Dark Angel

Super soldier Max Guevera tries to live a normal life in post-apocalyptic Seattle while eluding capture by government agents from the covert biotech facility she escaped from as a child and searching for her genetically-enhanced brothers and sisters who have dispersed after escape.

Release Date:2000-10-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:451

Jack & Jill

A lighthearted romantic comedy about post-collegiate life, love and career in New York City.

Release Date:1999-09-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:20

Cupid

Trevor Hale is an attractive, sarcastic and irreverent man who claims to be Cupid, the Roman god of love, and has descended from Mount Olympus to work on Earth.

Release Date:1998-09-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:14

Dawson's Creek

Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama that portrays the fictional lives of a close-knit group of teenagers through high school and college.

Release Date:1998-01-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:549

The Burning Zone

The Burning Zone is a television drama broadcast on the UPN network as part of its 1996–97 lineup. It ran for 19 episodes. The series was rerun on SciFi Channel in the mid-to-late 1990s. The Burning Zone featured a team of American agents who could be almost instantly dispatched almost anywhere in the world to fight biological warfare and naturally occurring biohazards. The series is believed to be cashing in on the success of the New York Times bestseller The Hot Zone, which spawned biological disaster movies like Outbreak. There was a villainous organization known as "The Dawn" that was responsible for some of the threats the team faced. The members of "The Dawn" were shadowy and never fully exposed but their goals and aims were clear: To allow disease and pestilence of a biological nature restore the Earth by rendering extinct the most virulent pestilence of all—mankind.

Release Date:1996-09-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:5

A wager between two novelists about committing the perfect crime becomes real when a murder occurs under the circumstances they had plotted in jest and either one of them might be the killer.

Release Date:1994-01-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

No Child of Mine

A woman attempts to stop her daughter signing away her down syndrome grandson for adoption. Based on a true story.

Release Date:1993-10-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

The X-Files

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

Release Date:1993-09-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3163

A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.

Release Date:1989-04-07

Department:Directing

Job:First Assistant Director

Vote Count:735

Quantum Leap

Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.

Release Date:1989-03-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:703

China Beach

Dateline: November 1967. Within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital on China Beach filled with wounded soldiers and one very lovely but damaged Army Nurse Colleen McMurphy. Many heroes, dead and alive, try to make sense of life and death in between bourbon, bullets and battles.

Release Date:1988-04-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:29

L.A. Law

L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.

Release Date:1986-09-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:71

Toughlove

The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Toughlove" program in searching for answers.

Release Date:1985-10-13

Department:Directing

Job:Second Assistant Director

Vote Count:1