Linwood Boomer

Linwood Boomer is a Canadian-American television producer, writer, and former actor. He is known for playing the role of Adam Kendall on the drama Little House on the Prairie, and for creating the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle.

Works

Malcolm in the Middle

A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.

Release Date2000-01-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Loan Shark

Episode Count5

Vote Count4575

The Love Boat

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.

Release Date1977-09-24

Charactersd Doug Bridges

Episode Count1

Vote Count185

Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".

Release Date1968-09-20

Charactersd Nick Zano

Episode Count1

Vote Count146

Suddenly, Love

Young lovers — she's a child of the ghetto, determined to escape her alcoholic, bickering parents; he's a socially prominent attorney with a long-standing health problem — attempt to defy every obstacle to their romance and ultimate marriage.

Release Date1978-12-04

Charactersd Dave Busby

Vote Count2

Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar

A biblical drama about Daniel who gains his release by interpreting a dream for King Nebuchadnezzar.

Release Date1979-01-01

Charactersd Mishael

Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)

John Flansburgh & John Linnell met in the 1970s as junior high students in Lincoln, Massachusetts. A decade later, their band—They Might Be Giants—would stand at the forefront of a burgeoning East Village NYC performance art scene as well as the college music revolution of the late 1980s. Filmed in 2001, ‘Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)’ is the acclaimed true story, tracing their independent and sometimes hilarious path through two decades in the pop music wilderness. From their legendary Dial-a-Song answering machine, to their Grammy Award-winning theme song for ‘Malcolm in the Middle’, fans and friends gather to tell the oral history of Brooklyn's finest alternative rock band.

Release Date2003-05-23

Charactersd Self

Vote Count9

Night Court

An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there.

Release Date1984-01-04

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count193

Vote Count130

Silver Spoons

Wealthy, young-at-heart business owner Edward Stratton III is stunned to discover his brief marriage several years ago produced a son, Richard Bluedhorn-Stratton, now 12 and standing in Edward's living room, wanting to live with the father he never knew. Although Edward's first impulse is to send Ricky to boarding school, he soon relents and let his son move in with him and Kate, his love-struck secretary.

Release Date1982-09-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count48

3rd Rock from the Sun

The high commander of an alien expedition lands on Earth -- what he considers to be the least-important planet -- in human form as Dick Solomon. Along for the ride are his alien compatriots Harry, Sally and Tommy -- who is the eldest of the group but is now angrily trapped in a teen's body.

Release Date1996-01-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count20

Vote Count519

Flying Blind

Flying Blind is an American sitcom that aired on Fox from September 1992, to May 1993. The series stars Corey Parker and Téa Leoni.

Release Date1992-09-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

The Boys Are Back

The Boys Are Back is an American sitcom that was aired on CBS from September 1994 to January 1995. It stars Suzanne Pleshette and Hal Linden as parents Jackie and Fred Hansen. The show was broadcast on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. Eastern time.

Release Date1994-09-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count2

Townies

Life-long friends Carrie, Shannon and Denise grew up together. Now in their mid-twenties, the threesome work together as waitresses but wish they had more to their lives than that. Together the girls make their way though life knowing no matter what, they'll always have each other.

Release Date1996-09-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Help Me Help You

A collection of eccentric individuals are in group therapy with a respected therapist—who may quite possibly have more problems than his patients.

Release Date2006-09-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair

Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair

Malcolm and his daughter are drawn into the family's chaos when Hal and Lois demand his presence for their 40th wedding anniversary party.

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count4

Little House on the Prairie

Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.

Release Date1974-09-11

Episode Count4

Vote Count921

Voyagers!

A member of a league of time travelers and a boy travel through time repairing errors in world history.

Release Date1982-10-03

Episode Count1

Vote Count83

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