Michael Sloan

Michael Sloan is a writer and producer, known for The Equalizer (2014), The Equalizer (1985) and Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989). He has been married to Melissa Sue Anderson since March 17, 1990. They have two children.

Works

7.3

The Equalizer 3

Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.

Release Date:2023-08-30

Department:Writing

Job:Characters

Vote Count:3152

The Equalizer
7.5

The Equalizer

Robyn McCall, an enigmatic former CIA operative with a mysterious background, uses her extensive skills to help those with nowhere else to turn.

Release Date:2021-02-07

Department:Writing

Job:Original Series Creator

Episode Count:68

Vote Count:279

6.8

The Equalizer 2

Robert McCall, who serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, embarks on a relentless, globe-trotting quest for vengeance when his former partner is murdered.

Release Date:2018-07-19

Department:Writing

Job:Characters

Vote Count:5466

7.3

The Equalizer

McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.

Release Date:2014-09-24

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:9200

4.8

The Art of War II: Betrayal

Agent Neil Shaw is called out of retirement and finds himself in the midst of a plot to assassinate several leading Senators with himself set-up to take the rap for a recent killing

Release Date:2008-08-12

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:102

7.5

Her Sister's Keeper

Kate's life is turned upside down when her younger sister, Melissa, disappears. When Kate investigates, she discovers that a large amount of drug money vanished with her sister.

Release Date:2006-11-26

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:7

3.5

Max Havoc - Ring of Fire

Sports reporter Max Havoc, a former kickboxer, travels to Seattle. There he encounters orphans who are threatened by an unscrupulous broker because he wants to build a hotel on the grounds of their home. Max takes up the fight with him.

Release Date:2006-07-28

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:6

6.6

Mystery Woman: Game Time

Samantha (Kellie Martin) awaits the arrival of a famous writer who will sign copies in her bookstore when, coincidentally, an old acquaintance comes with the purpose of marketing a video game. That night, the writer is found murdered, but the police cannot point to any suspects. Soon will come out a link between the victim and the acquaintance of Samantha, who is detained at the bewilderment of all

Release Date:2005-08-21

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Vote Count:11

5.1

Mystery Woman: Vision of a Murder

Sam lands a job photographing a new spa in Southern California for their brochure and brings her best friend Cassie along to enjoy some pampering. When one of the guests staying at the upscale retreat turns up dead, Sam is once again on the trail of a murderer. As the investigation progresses, Sam uncovers a scam that the spa Dr was testing unapproved drugs on the patrons.. filler implants, etc. without the patients' informed consent.

Release Date:2005-06-05

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Vote Count:27

6.6

Mystery Woman: Snapshot

Amateur sleuth Samantha Kinsey's latest case has her trying to figure out who killed her best friend Barbara after she was left out of her family's will and every one of the family members become suspects.

Release Date:2005-01-28

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Vote Count:14

7.2

Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend

She's an avid mystery lover and bookseller, for whom crime has been comfortably confined to the pages of her favorite novels-until a real-life murder turns a weekend of fun and games into a chilling whodunit...

Release Date:2005-01-07

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Vote Count:9

6.4

Mystery Woman

A famous writer is found hanged in his office. At first, all police investigations conclude that it was suicide, but when Samantha Kinsey, owner of Seller 'Mystery Woman' starts his own investigation, he discovers that there is chance that has been committed murder. The film is the first in a long series of American TV movies called" Mystery Woman", in which Samantha Kinsey, the owner of a bookshop specializing in thrillers and suspense is involved in the resolution of real cases.

Release Date:2003-08-31

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:11

4.4

Free Fall

An NTSB investigator and her boyfriend, who works for the FAA, investigate a series of similar and suspicious plane crashes that seem to be affecting only one airline.

Release Date:1999-01-17

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:9

5.4

Earthquake in New York

A cop is after a nasty serial killer. Cop's wife and kids are somewhere in the city too. Then a disastrous earthquake hits the city.

Release Date:1998-10-11

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:25

Baywatch Nights
5.7

Baywatch Nights

Baywatch Nights is an American police and science fiction drama series that aired in syndication from 1995 to 1997. Created by Douglas Schwartz, David Hasselhoff, and Gregory J. Bonann, the series is a spin-off from the popular television series, Baywatch.

Release Date:1995-09-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:30

The Outer Limits
7.7

The Outer Limits

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:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:211

7.0

Bionic Ever After?

Days away from her wedding to Steve Austin, Jaime Sommers experiences a mysterious breakdown of her Bionic limbs. With her physical fate unknown, Jaime calls off the wedding. Her condition quickly deteriorates, and Dr. Rudy Wells races to find the cause behind the breakdown. Meanwhile, in the Bahamas, terrorist Miles Kendrick takes control of the American Embassy and threatens the launch of a nuclear missile. Steve and OSI operative Kimberly Harmon head to the Bahamas to stop Kendrick, but in the midst of the mission Steve is suddenly stricken with the same computer virus that is destroying Jaime.

Release Date:1994-11-29

Department:Writing

Job:Teleplay

Vote Count:23

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
6.5

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues

Like his legendary namesake, Kwai Chang Caine is a warrior monk, operating a Shaolin temple in Northern California. After an evil priest, Tan, destroys the temple, Caine and his young son, Peter each believe the other has perished. The two embark on very different paths -- Caine wanders the Earth, while Peter is a cop. When fate brings the two together, they work to overcome their differing philosophies to battle Tan, and then to help the innocent and bring justice to the new Wild West -- 90s urban America.

Release Date:1993-01-27

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:51

6.0

Kung Fu - A Legend Reborn

Father and son are reunited after 15 years. A old rival from the Shaolin Temple has taken over Chinatown and intends to assassinate the mayor. Peter and Caine must work together to stop him.

Release Date:1992-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:2

6.0

The Return of Sam McCloud

Ex-Marshal McCloud now is senator of New Mexico, fighting for a new environment law. His enemy is Maitland, unscrupulous owner of Chemtel, the world's most important chemical manufacturer. Shortly after McCloud gives an inspiring speech, he barely escapes an bomb in his car and a shooting in a restaurant. When he learns that his niece, medical researcher for Chemtel, was killed, he begins to suspect that the attempts on his life were not made by Arabian terrorists, but by Maitland. He pays him a visit in Britain and starts to research on his own.

Release Date:1989-11-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

6.7

Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman

The Bionic Woman and the Six-Million-Dollar Man reunite--with a few younger bionic assistants--and try to catch a bionic spy.

Release Date:1989-04-30

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:45

7.4

The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman

Ten years after his retirement from the government, Colonel Steve Austin must again team up with Jaime Sommers to stop a terrorist group. Complicating matters for Austin are his estranged son Michael, who struggles for his father's acceptance as he graduates from flight school, and Jaime, who must cope with her and Steve's past. When Michael is severely injured in a crash, Steve must make the same decision about fitting him with bionics that he had to make with Jaime years ago after her accident.

Release Date:1987-05-17

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:55

6.0

The Caller

One night, an unusual stranger in need (Malcolm McDowell) asks a woman living alone in a house in the woods if he can use her phone. It soon becomes clear that they're playing a strange mind game and that there's something very wrong about the woods.

Release Date:1987-05-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:30

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.3

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Release Date:1985-09-29

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:50

The Equalizer
7.1

The Equalizer

Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.

Release Date:1985-09-18

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:57

10.0

The Master Ninja 5

Lee Van Cleef stars as John Peter McAllister, who as a reverend master of the Ninja warrior society, deserts the order the order to search for his missing daughter in the U.S.

Release Date:1985-01-01

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:1

4.7

Master Ninja

Aging skilled master ninja, John Peter McAllister, and his young apprentice search for John's long lost daughter, all the while his old enemies try to stop him. The first two episodes of "The Master" edited into a feature length film used as a promo for the television series.

Release Date:1984-03-08

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:6

7.0

Master Ninja II

Lee Van Cleef and Timoty Van Patten are back in this "sequel" to their last "movie" about a ninja and his apprentice battling evil wherever they go. In reality, it's two episodes of failed TV show 'The Master' repackaged as a movie. Also featured in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Release Date:1984-01-20

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:5

The Master
4.9

The Master

An aging ninja master and his young pupil travel in a custom van helping people in need along the way.

Release Date:1984-01-20

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:21

5.8

The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair

When THRUSH steals a nuclear weapon and demands a ransom delivered by Napoleon Solo, UNCLE recalls him and his partner to duty.

Release Date:1983-04-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:17

2.0

The Murder That Wouldn't Die

William Conrad stars as a retired L.A.P.D. detective who has moved to Hawaii and taken a job as a college security chief and assistant football coach in this pilot to a post-"Cannon" series to have been called "Battles." With the aid of his niece, the school's star football player, a local tough-turned-college student, and the college dean, he investigates two related murders that occurred nearly 40 years apart.

Release Date:1980-03-09

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
5.1

The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo

The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo is an American action/adventure situation. Claude Akins stars in the title role in this wacky new NBC one-hour comedy series about the exploits of a rural county sheriff and his two deputies, played by Mills Watson and Brian Kerwin.

Release Date:1979-09-25

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:7

7.0

Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack

A compilation of Battlestar Galactica episodes 10–12 and 21, with alternate footage. Running low on fuel, the Battlestar Galactica receives the help of the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus which is taking the offensive with the Cylons.

Release Date:1979-08-09

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:61

Battlestar Galactica
7.1

Battlestar Galactica

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:Teleplay

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:242

Sword of Justice
5.5

Sword of Justice

Sword Of Justice is an American action-adventure television series that aired on NBC for one season during 1978 and 1979. The series was considered a mix of The Saint, It Takes a Thief, and The Rockford Files.

Release Date:1978-09-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:4

Evening in Byzantium

While the prestigious Cannes Film Festival goes on around him, American movie producer Jesse Craig struggles to develop a pitch-worthy thriller about a terrorist plot. Before long, Craig becomes concerned that a shocking act of real-life terrorism already may be underway. Meanwhile, radical actor Bret Easton works in cahoots with a group of extremists to coordinate the hijacking of a trio of passenger planes in a devastating, multi-city nuclear attack.

Release Date:1978-08-14

Department:Writing

Job:Teleplay

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
7.0

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on ABC. The series starred Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy as amateur sleuth brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, respectively, and Pamela Sue Martin as girl detective Nancy Drew. The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries was unusual in that it often dealt with the characters individually, in an almost anthological style. That is, some episodes featured only the Hardy Boys and others only Nancy Drew.

Release Date:1977-01-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:26

Switch
6.7

Switch

Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation. It was broadcast on the CBS network for three seasons between September 9, 1975 and August 20, 1978, bumping the Hawaii Five-O detective series to Friday nights.

Release Date:1975-09-09

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:9

5.4

Moments

A depressed middle-aged man, revisiting the seaside resort he often vacationed at as a child, encounters a highly optimistic and carefree young woman who attempts to reason him out of following through on his suicidal thoughts.

Release Date:1974-11-21

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:5

5.2

Assassin

When the British government orders the assassination of an Air Ministry official suspected of leaking top secret intel, their top assassin assigned to the job discovers there may be more to the hit than meets the eye.

Release Date:1973-11-01

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:6

6.0

Hunted

A man holds an estate agent hostage in an office, threatening to shoot people from the window.

Release Date:1972-02-10

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:4

The Equalizer 5

In development.

Department:Writing

Job:Characters

The Equalizer 4

In development.

Department:Writing

Job:Characters

Quincy, M.E.
7.5

Quincy, M.E.

Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.

Release Date:1976-10-03

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:108

Harry O
4.6

Harry O

After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension, Harry runs a private detective agency out of his beach house... The series starred David Janssen and was executive produced by Jerry Thorpe.

Release Date:1974-09-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:10

Columbo
8.1

Columbo

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.

Release Date:1971-09-15

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:711

McCloud
7.1

McCloud

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:4

Vote Count:51

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