Kevin Hooks

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Kevin Hooks (born September 19, 1958) is an American actor, and a television and film director; he is notable from his roles in Aaron Loves Angela & Sounder, but may be best-known as Morris Thorpe from TV's The White Shadow. In 1986, he starred in the short-lived ABC sitcom He's the Mayor. He directed Wesley Snipes in Passenger 57 and also Laurence Fishburne and Stephen Baldwin in Fled. Hooks worked as a director and producer on the series Prison Break. He also directed two episodes from the first season of Lost, "White Rabbit" and "Homecoming". In 2003, Hooks revisited Sounder. He directed ABC's Wonderful World of Disney's TV remake of the film, with Paul Winfield, his co-star from the original, playing a different role. Hooks was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Yvonne, a state employee, and Robert Hooks, a director and actor who starred in many films in the 1970s. Kevin's nickname amongst his friends is "King Royal".

Works

The Good Lord Bird
7.0

The Good Lord Bird

Enslaved teenager Henry Shackleford, aka Little Onion, becomes a member in abolitionist John Brown’s motley family during the Bleeding Kansas era before the Civil War.

Release Date:2020-10-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:78

The Red Line
7.3

The Red Line

A heart-in-your-throat drama, Red Line begins with the mistaken shooting of a black doctor at the hands of a white cop and unfolds from the perspective of each of the families connected to the tragedy. It's a then-and-now meets us-and-them tale about the often-personal politics of crime.

Release Date:2019-04-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:27

The Good Cop
6.2

The Good Cop

Honest cop Tony Jr. gets advice from his unscrupulous father, retired NYPD officer Tony Sr., about everything from his job to his love life.

Release Date:2018-09-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:52

Castle Rock
7.2

Castle Rock

Based on the stories of Stephen King, the series intertwines characters and themes from the fictional town of Castle Rock.

Release Date:2018-07-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:583

9-1-1
8.2

9-1-1

Explore the high-pressure experiences of police officers, paramedics and firefighters who are thrust into the most frightening, shocking and heart-stopping situations. These emergency responders must try to balance saving those who are at their most vulnerable with solving the problems in their own lives.

Release Date:2018-01-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2564

Marvel's The Punisher
8.1

Marvel's The Punisher

A former Marine out to punish the criminals responsible for his family's murder finds himself ensnared in a military conspiracy.

Release Date:2017-11-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2672

The Orville
7.6

The Orville

Follow the crew of the not-so-functional exploratory ship in the Earth's interstellar fleet, 400 years in the future.

Release Date:2017-09-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1204

Mr. Mercedes
7.1

Mr. Mercedes

A demented serial killer taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he can strike again. Based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King.

Release Date:2017-08-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:311

Madiba
7.8

Madiba

A dramatization of Nelson Mandela's struggle to overturn apartheid in South Africa.

Release Date:2017-02-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:9

This Is Us
8.2

This Is Us

Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.

Release Date:2016-09-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:1469

Preacher
7.5

Preacher

A preacher sets out on a mission to make the almighty himself confess his sin of abandoning the world. With his best friend Cassidy, an alcoholic Irish vampire, his love Tulip, a red blooded gun towing Texan, and the power of genesis, an unholy child born from an angel and a devil, Jesse gives up everything to set the world straight with its creator.

Release Date:2016-05-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:1173

Scorpion
8.2

Scorpion

Eccentric genius Walter O’Brien and his team of brilliant misfits comprise the last line of defense against complex, high-tech threats of the modern age. As Homeland Security’s new think tank, O’Brien’s “Scorpion” team includes Toby Curtis, an expert behaviorist who can read anyone; Happy Quinn, a mechanical prodigy; and Sylvester Dodd, a statistics guru.

Release Date:2014-09-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:4011

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
7.5

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.

Release Date:2013-09-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:3548

Last Resort
6.7

Last Resort

When the crew of the U.S. ballistic missile submarine Colorado refuse to fire nuclear weapons at Pakistan without confirmation of the orders, they are fired upon and declared rogue enemies of their own country.

Release Date:2012-09-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:166

The Finder
7.1

The Finder

Walter Sherman, an Iraq War veteran, has the extraordinary ability to help people find the unfindable.

Release Date:2012-01-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:155

Intercept

Four college students get roped into solving crimes when one of them creates a high-tech communication device that intercepts conversations throughout the West Coast.

Release Date:2011-12-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Person of Interest
8.1

Person of Interest

John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a perfect match for the job that they have to complete. With the help of surveillance equipment, they work "outside the law" and get the right criminal behind bars. 

Release Date:2011-09-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1779

Alphas
6.8

Alphas

Five ordinary people with superhuman physical and mental abilities are brought together to form one extraordinary team of Alphas. Operating within the U.S. Department of Defense, the team investigates cases that point to others with Alpha abilities.

Release Date:2011-07-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:309

Necessary Roughness
6.8

Necessary Roughness

A tough, sexy Long Island divorcee, Callie Thorne, gets a job as therapist for a professional football team in order to make ends meet. Underestimated at every turn, she succeeds beyond all expectations and soon finds herself as the sought-after therapist to high-profile clients. As a newly single mom raising two teenagers, she is determined to make her new career work by striking a balance between her personal and professional worlds.

Release Date:2011-06-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:38

Detroit 1-8-7
6.5

Detroit 1-8-7

What does it take to be a detective in one of America's toughest cities? Follow one homicide unit as Detroit's finest unearth the crisis and revelation, heartbreak and heroism of these inner city cops in Detroit, Michigan.

Release Date:2010-09-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:21

Human Target
7.2

Human Target

It takes a brave, selfless man to make himself a "human target" in order to save the lives of those in danger. Based on the popular DC Comics comic book and graphic novel, Human Target is a full-throttle action drama centered on Christopher Chance, a unique private contractor/security expert/bodyguard hired to protect.

Release Date:2010-01-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:153

The Good Wife
7.6

The Good Wife

Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.

Release Date:2009-09-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:600

7.5

Prison Break: The Final Break

Takes place after Season 4 (after episode 22), on some streaming services this movie is episode 23 and 24 on season 4. Michael and Sara wed, but the happiness is short-lived when the Feds apprehend her for the murder of Michael's mother, Christina. Once a hit is ordered on Sara, the team reunite to break out the increasingly vulnerable target.

Release Date:2009-09-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:664

Drop Dead Diva
7.7

Drop Dead Diva

A shallow model suddenly dies in an accident only to find her soul resurfacing in the body of a brilliant, plus-sized attorney.

Release Date:2009-07-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:258

Castle
8.0

Castle

After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.

Release Date:2009-03-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1907

The Mentalist
8.4

The Mentalist

Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.

Release Date:2008-09-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3857

Lincoln Heights
8.7

Lincoln Heights

Eddie Sutton is a dedicated police officer, his wife Jenn, a devoted nurse, but their most important job is as parents to their three teenage children Cassie, Tay and Lizzie. They're your everyday American family living in the suburbs of Southern California, but the Suttons are thrown for a loop when Eddie decides to move his wife and three kids to the inner-city neighborhood where he grew up.

Release Date:2007-01-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:36

Ghost Whisperer
8.1

Ghost Whisperer

Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over.

Release Date:2005-09-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1738

Bones
8.2

Bones

Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.

Release Date:2005-09-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:3231

Supernatural
8.3

Supernatural

When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.

Release Date:2005-09-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:7728

Prison Break
8.1

Prison Break

Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.

Release Date:2005-08-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:15

Vote Count:5304

The Inside
7.2

The Inside

The Inside is an American crime drama television series created by Tim Minear and Howard Gordon and produced by Imagine Television. The Inside follows the work of the FBI's Los Angeles Violent Crimes Unit, a division dedicated to investigating particularly dangerous crimes. The Inside initially aired on the Fox Network from June 8 to July 13, 2005. Although thirteen episodes were produced, Fox aired only seven episodes before canceling the series. All thirteen episodes were subsequently aired on Britain's ITV4 in 2006.

Release Date:2005-06-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:20

Blind Justice
6.3

Blind Justice

Blind Justice is an American television series created by Steven Bochco about a blind New York City police detective. It was introduced mid-season in March 8, 2005 to fill the time slot left by Bochco's highly successful NYPD Blue, which had just aired its final episode after a 12-year run. The show ran for only one season, with 13 episodes broadcast.

Release Date:2005-03-08

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:13

Vote Count:9

Lost
7.9

Lost

Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.

Release Date:2004-09-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:4424

North Shore
6.1

North Shore

North Shore is an American prime-time soap opera It centered around the staff and guests of the fictional Grand Waimea Hotel and Resort on Oahu's North Shore in Hawaii.

Release Date:2004-06-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:16

Line of Fire
6.6

Line of Fire

Welcome to the war between the FBI and organized crime. One side enforces the law as the other breaks it, but brains, brawn and intimidation are often the tools of both trades. The Richmond-based Malloy Crime Syndicate is run by Jonah Malloy, a charismatic but dangerous father figure. The Richmond FBI branch has its own dynamic leader in Special Agent-In-Charge Lisa Cohen. Like any business, they must justify operations and produce results while wrangling lieutenants who are as flawed as they are hard-working.

Release Date:2003-12-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:5

Cold Case
7.8

Cold Case

The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.

Release Date:2003-09-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:398

Las Vegas
7.0

Las Vegas

Ed Deline is a strict ex-CIA officer who went from being Head of Security to becoming President of Operations of the Montecito, whose job is to run the day-to-day operations of the casino. Following his departure, former Marine Danny McCoy, Ed's former protégé, becomes the Montecito's new President of Operations.

Release Date:2003-09-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:223

L.A. Dragnet
6.7

L.A. Dragnet

Within L.A. incredibly diverse landscape, two dedicated cops are relentless when it comes to solving crime. Detective Joe Friday is a seasoned veteran who has seen it all. Through his voiceovers, viewers will gain insight into the crime investigation process, as well as hear the honest thoughts of a 21st century cop. Although a veteran of the beat, Friday still has the same passion and energy as his young partner, Frank Smith, who has recently been promoted to the robbery/homicide division from vice.

Release Date:2003-02-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:10

7.0

Sounder

This is a coming-of-age story of a boy living in the Depression era of the South. "Boy" (Daniel Lee Robertson III) learns the hard way about the realities of being black, poor and unable to read. But he also learns about the deep love of family, the long-suffering loyalty of a dog and the importance of words, faith, stories & truth.

Release Date:2003-01-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Boomtown
6.5

Boomtown

Each episode of this series, set in contemporary Los Angeles, examines one crime from many different viewpoints - uniformed cops, detectives, witnesses, the media, the fire department and rescue squad, even the criminals themselves.

Release Date:2002-09-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:17

Without a Trace
7.3

Without a Trace

The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.

Release Date:2002-09-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:257

Monk
7.9

Monk

Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.

Release Date:2002-07-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1102

24
7.8

24

Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.

Release Date:2001-11-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:1563

Alias
6.7

Alias

Sydney Bristow, an agent who has been tricked to believe she is working for the U.S. government, is actually working for a criminal organization named the Alliance of Twelve. Upon learning this, Sydney becomes a double agent for the real CIA.

Release Date:2001-09-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:639

Philly
6.7

Philly

Philly is an American television series created by Steven Bochco that focused on criminal defense attorney Kathleen Maguire. It lasted a full season and was canceled due to low ratings. The final episode was advertised heavily as the series finale, a move not commonly used in network promotion, for a series lasting only one season. The complete series is not on DVD, but is viewable on Netflix in HD and 5.1 Surround Sound. The series briefly aired in syndication on Universal HD in 2008.

Release Date:2001-09-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:3

Soul Food
7.0

Soul Food

Soul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004. Created by filmmaker George Tillman, Jr. and developed for television by Felicia D. Henderson, Soul Food is based upon Tillman's childhood experiences growing up in Wisconsin, and is a continuation of his successful 1997 film of the same name. Having aired for 74 episodes, it is the longest running drama with a predominantly black cast in the history of North American prime-time television.

Release Date:2000-06-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Ginder T. Jones

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:13

7.0

The Color of Friendship

Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.

Release Date:2000-02-05

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:61

City of Angels
9.0

City of Angels

City of Angels is an American medical drama television series which ran for two seasons on CBS during the 2000 calendar year. It was network television's first medical drama with a predominantly African American cast.

Release Date:2000-01-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Rescue 77
1.0

Rescue 77

Rescue 77 is an American television series about the professional and personal lives of paramedics in Los Angeles, California. The show aired in the spring of 1999 on Monday nights on the WB network. The creator and executive producer was Gregory Widen, a former Southern California firefighter and paramedic, and the writer of the 1991 firefighting drama Backdraft. His goal for the show was to provide a more realistic depiction of the lives of firefighters and paramedics than previous emergency medical television series such as Emergency!.

Release Date:1999-03-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

4.8

Mutiny

Fact-based story about 300 predominantly black sailors who were killed on July 17, 1944 while loading munitions on a ship in San Francisco. Three weeks later, 50 survivors were court-martialed for refusing to load another shipment. The men cited the Navy's lack of care for their safety.

Release Date:1999-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

6.4

Black Dog

An ex-con takes a job driving a truck cross country. What he doesn't know is that the truck is filled with illegal weapons and now he must fight to survive and save his family.

Release Date:1998-05-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:262

Glory & Honor

The true story about Robert Peary's forgotten African American employee Mathew Henson who proved crucial in their race to North Pole.

Release Date:1998-03-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

5.6

Fled

During a routine prison work detail, convict Piper is chained to Dodge, a cyberhacker, when gunfire breaks out. Apparently, the attack is related to stolen money that the Mafia is after, and some computer files that somebody wants desperately to bury. The pair, who don't exactly enjoy each other's company, escape and must work together if they are to reach Atlanta alive. Luckily, they meet a woman who may be willing to help them.

Release Date:1996-07-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:223

ER
7.8

ER

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.

Release Date:1994-09-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:839

8.0

To My Daughter With Love

Joey and Alice have hardly enough to keep their heads above water. Alice's wealthy parents disapproved of their daughter marrying Joey but after a while, they had to admit that, together with Emily, their 6 year old little girl, they were a happy family. After Alice's sudden death, Joey takes care of Emily the best he can but doesn't manage too well. After losing his job, he reluctantly agrees with Emily going to live with her grandparents. But Emily isn't happy. When Joey finally realizes this, he fights back.

Release Date:1994-01-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

The X-Files
8.4

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:2

Vote Count:3163

5.2

Irresistible Force

A police sergeant is hoping for a few quiet weeks before his impending retirement, but his plans are scuppered when he is joined by an over-enthusiastic rookie partner who is assigned to him after failing her field test. To make matters worse, trouble looms when a group of white supremacists hold up a local shopping centre.

Release Date:1993-05-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:13

Homicide: Life on the Street
8.0

Homicide: Life on the Street

An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.

Release Date:1993-01-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:130

6.0

Passenger 57

An infamous terrorist has evaded capture for a long time by being extremely clever and ruthless. Things get interesting when he hijacks a plane carrying famous security expert John Cutter, who isn't about to stand for this sort of thing.

Release Date:1992-11-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1017

5.6

Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story

Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story (TV) Edmund Perry appears to have things all going his way when he graduates from Phillips Exeter Academy with a scholarship to Stanford U. when an unfortunate meeting with a police officer ends his life. The focus is on the four years and the events at the Academy which ultimately led to the tragedy.

Release Date:1992-01-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:8

5.4

Strictly Business

Waymon has a great job in real estate and a promising future, but he's also trapped in a loveless longterm relationship. He meets Natalie, a beautiful club-hopping hipster, and quickly falls in love. Realizing he's just not cool enough to attract her on his own, he seeks the help of his friend Bobby, a free-spirited smooth talker who works in the mail room at Waymon's firm and utilizes the predicament as leverage to advance in the company.

Release Date:1991-11-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Married Man

Vote Count:31

I'll Fly Away
7.2

I'll Fly Away

I'll Fly Away is an American drama television series set during the late 1950s and early 1960s, in an unspecified Southern U.S. state. It aired on NBC from 1991 to 1993 and starred Regina Taylor as Lilly Harper, a black housekeeper for the family of district attorney Forrest Bedford, whose name is an ironic reference to Nathan Bedford Forrest, the founder of the Ku Klux Klan. As the show progressed, Lilly became increasingly involved in the Civil Rights Movement, with events eventually drawing in Forrest as well. I'll Fly Away won two 1992 Emmy Awards, and 23 nominations in total. It won three Humanitas Prizes, two Golden Globe Awards, two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Drama Series, and a Peabody Award. However, the series was never a ratings blockbuster, and it was canceled by NBC in 1993, despite widespread protests by critics and viewer organizations. After the program's cancellation, a two-hour movie, I'll Fly Away: Then and Now, was produced, in order to resolve dangling storylines from Season 2, and provide the series with a true finale. The movie aired on October 11, 1993 on PBS. Its major storyline closely paralleled the true story of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi. Thereafter, PBS began airing repeats of the original episodes, ceasing after one complete showing of the entire series.

Release Date:1991-10-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:4

6.2

Heat Wave

A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

Release Date:1990-08-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

Equal Justice
6.3

Equal Justice

Equal Justice was a television legal drama broadcast in the United States by ABC from March 27, 1990 to July 3, 1991. This series details on the lives of the district attorney's office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The series stars George DiCenzo, Cotter Smith, Kathleen Lloyd, Jane Kaczmarek, Sarah Jessica Parker, Barry Miller, Joe Morton, James Wilder, Jon Tenney and Debrah Farentino. Despite earning critical acclaim, the show received low ratings throughout its run and was cancelled after only two seasons.

Release Date:1990-03-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3

The Young Riders
7.3

The Young Riders

The Young Riders was an American Western television series created by Ed Spielman that presents a fictionalized account of a group of young Pony Express riders based at the Sweetwater Station in the Nebraska Territory during the years leading up to the American Civil War. The series premiered on ABC on September 20, 1989 and ran for three seasons until the final episode aired on July 23, 1992.

Release Date:1989-09-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:20

Doogie Howser, M.D.
6.6

Doogie Howser, M.D.

Doogie Howser is a doctor. He is also a 16-year-old genius who graduated college at age 10 and finished medical school at age 14. But he is still a teenager, with normal teenage friends and problems. But unlike a normal teenager, he is just learning to drive while also consulting on serious medical cases like heart transplants.

Release Date:1989-09-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:103

Alien Nation
7.0

Alien Nation

Detective Matthew Sikes, a Los Angeles police officer reluctantly works with "Newcomer" alien George Francisco. Sikes also has an 'on again off again' flirtation with a female Newcomer, Cathy Frankel.

Release Date:1989-09-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:124

Tales from the Crypt
8.0

Tales from the Crypt

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?

Release Date:1989-06-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:900

Nightingales
5.0

Nightingales

Nightingales is an American medical drama television series follows the stories of Christine Broderick, a supervisor of student nurses and her five nursing students: Sam, Bridget, Yolanda, Becky, and Allyson. Other hospital personnel include Christine's love interest, Dr. Paul Petrillo; the head nurse, Lenore Ritt; and the chief of staff, Dr. Garrett Braden.

Release Date:1989-01-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

A Fine Romance
5.0

A Fine Romance

A Fine Romance is an American comedy-drama series that aired from January 18, 1989 to March 2, 1989. The series was filmed on location at various places in Europe.

Release Date:1989-01-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1

6.8

Roots: The Gift

On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of runaway slaves as they attempt to reach freedom in the North.

Release Date:1988-12-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:12

Midnight Caller
7.4

Midnight Caller

Midnight Caller is a dramatic NBC television series created by Richard DiLello, which ran from 1988 to 1991. It was one of the first television series to address the dramatic possibilities of the then-growing phenomenon of talk radio. Except for a brief stint on Lifetime in the 1990s, the series has not been rerun or issued on DVD.

Release Date:1988-10-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:20

China Beach
7.3

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:1

Vote Count:29

Probe
7.5

Probe

Probe is a 1988 American television pilot and subsequent TV series, created by television mystery writer William Link and noted science fiction author Isaac Asimov. It aired on ABC. Michael B. Wagner, a veteran television writer, wrote the two-hour pilot, and became Executive Producer for the series. The pilot and series starred Parker Stevenson as Austin James, a misanthropic genius who solved high tech crimes, and Ashley Crow as James' new secretary Mickey Castle. The show began as a mid-season replacement and was canceled after a two-month run of the pilot and six episodes. Entire episodes have made their way on the internet through video-sharing sites such as YouTube. Some episodes of the show revolved around Serendip, a company founded by Austin that he has no interest in running. Mickey, his Serendip-appointed secretary, plays Watson to Austin's Holmes.

Release Date:1988-03-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:4

A Year in the Life
6.8

A Year in the Life

Following the success of the three-part miniseries of the same name, the drama series follows the daily lives of Seattle's Gardner family. Joe Gardner is the owner of a successful plastics business and the father of four adult children. The Gardner family includes twice-divorced daughter Anne, who returns home with her two teenaged children; daughter Lindley and husband Jim, parents of a newborn baby daughter; black sheep son Jack; and conservative youngest son Sam, newly married to free-spirited Kay.

Release Date:1987-09-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:5

6.8

Innerspace

Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract Tuck and his ship and re-enlarge them before his oxygen runs out.

Release Date:1987-07-01

Character:Duane

Vote Count:1259

21 Jump Street
7.1

21 Jump Street

21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers and young adults.

Release Date:1987-04-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:160

Mariah
5.0

Mariah

Short-lived US drama series about the prison staff at Mariah State Penitentiary, that aired mid-season 1987 on ABC.

Release Date:1987-04-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Class Act: A Teacher's Story

Rich businessman decides to return to teaching after working in the stock market. He inherits a class of under-achievers and sets out to make them winners.

Release Date:1987-03-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Teen Father

College bound 18-year-old has his life turned upside down when his 16-year-old girlfriend announce she is pregnant.

Release Date:1986-10-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Heart of the City
5.0

Heart of the City

Wes Kennedy is a cop who works long hours at night in order to spend the daytime with his two teenage kids Robin and Kevin... Heart of the City was a crime drama that aired on the ABC television network from September 1986 to January 1987.

Release Date:1986-09-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

He's the Mayor

He's the Mayor

Release Date:1986-01-10

Episode Count:13

V
6.9

V

Once again, Earth is the battleground. But now the aliens whose human guise hides their true reptilian natures are wiser. They believe the secret to their survival on Earth lies in the DNA of the newly born half-human, half-spaceling Starchild. But that's something the world's Resistance Fighters cannot allow.

Release Date:1984-10-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:145

Cutter to Houston
5.0

Cutter to Houston

Cutter to Houston is an American medical drama starring Shelley Hack, Jim Metzler, and Alec Baldwin that aired on CBS on Saturday night from October 1 to December 31, 1983 at 8 p.m Eastern time. The series was created by Sandor Stern.

Release Date:1983-10-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1

St. Elsewhere
5.5

St. Elsewhere

St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at a lightly-regarded Boston hospital who gave interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions.

Release Date:1982-10-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:86

Hotel
6.8

Hotel

Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May 5, 1988 in the timeslot following Dynasty. Based on Arthur Hailey's 1965 novel of the same name, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling and set in the elegant and fictitious St. Gregory Hotel in San Francisco. Establishing shots of the hotel were filmed in front of The Fairmont San Francisco atop the Nob Hill neighborhood. Episodes followed the activities of passing guests, as well as the personal and professional lives of the hotel staff.

Release Date:1982-08-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:24

Fame
6.8

Fame

An American television series originally produced between 1982 and 1987. The show is based on the 1980 motion picture of the same name. With a mixture of drama and music, it followed the lives of the students and faculty at the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. Although fictional, it was based heavily on the actual Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York. Most interior scenes were filmed in Hollywood, California, and in all seasons but the third, several exterior scenes were shot on location in New York City. The popularity of the series, particularly in the UK, led to several hit records and live concert tours by the cast. Despite its success, very few of the actors maintained high-profile careers after the series was cancelled. A number of the cast members were seen again briefly in Bring Back...Fame, a reunion special made for British television in 2008.

Release Date:1982-01-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:62

7.5

Friendly Fire

In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed them that their son Michael had been killed in Vietnam by "friendly fire." Their determined attempts to learn more about the circumstances of their son's death are the subject of this true account film.

Release Date:1980-11-09

Character:Polk

Vote Count:2

6.0

Can You Hear the Laughter? The Freddie Prinze Story

The true and tragic story of a very young and very talented comedian from the 70's whose sudden rise to fame had some of its benefits -- and some of its burdens.

Release Date:1979-09-11

Character:Nat Blake

Vote Count:2

3.7

Take Down

An unqualified teacher finds himself saddled with coaching duties after a small group of high school seniors form a wrestling team in a last ditch effort to end a 9-year losing streak against a rival school.

Release Date:1979-01-13

Character:Jasper MacGrudder

Vote Count:3

The White Shadow
7.0

The White Shadow

The White Shadow is an American drama television series that ran on the CBS network from November 27 1978, to March 16 1981.

Release Date:1978-11-27

Character:Morris Thorpe

Episode Count:54

Vote Count:15

5.9

A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich

A troubled boy becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother and foster father help him fight it.

Release Date:1977-12-14

Character:Tiger

Vote Count:8

The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened

Just before a championship basketball tournament, a teenage athlete learns that he has leukemia.

Release Date:1977-10-26

Character:Hoover Sissle

Just an Old Sweet Song

Upon learning that their grandmother is not long for this world, Nate and Priscilla Simmons pack up their kids and leave Detroit to head down South. Eventually, the family rediscovers its African-American roots and elects to stay in their new rural surroundings.

Release Date:1976-09-25

Character:Junior

5.0

Aaron Loves Angela

Aaron and Angela, two young adults living in the Harlem ghetto of New York City, are deeply in love with each other. The only thing standing in the way of their love is their families. Aaron is black, while Angela is Puerto Rican, and neither family wants one of their own to associate with the others. As the pair rebel against the prejudices of their families, they soon find the conflict spreading out to their friends and neighbors, until the hatred threatens to spiral out of control.

Release Date:1975-12-25

Character:Aaron

Vote Count:3

7.4

Sounder

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

Release Date:1972-09-24

Character:David Lee Morgan

Vote Count:49

The Rookies
6.8

The Rookies

The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department.

Release Date:1972-09-11

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:20

J.T.

J. T. Gamble, a shy, withdrawn Harlem youngster, shows compassion and responsibility when he takes on the care of an old, one-eyed, badly injured alley cat days before Christmas and secretly nurses it back to health.

Release Date:1969-12-13

Character:J.T. Gamble

The Mike Douglas Show
5.1

The Mike Douglas Show

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.

Release Date:1961-12-11

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:7

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