Gary Nelson

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.

Release Date: 2014-10-06

Character: Self - Director, Allan Quatermain

Vote Count: 158

Melanie Darrow

A flamboyant female defense attorney takes on a seemingly airtight case, defending an apparently gold-digging husband against the charge of murdering his older, wealthy wife.

Release Date: 1997-08-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Early Edition

Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today giving him a disconcerting look into the future. What will he do with tomorrow's news?

Release Date: 1996-09-28

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 17

Vote Count: 148

Fast Company

A homicide detective is assigned to solve a murder case. The trouble is that his wife, a reporter, has been assigned by her employer to cover the same case. Complications ensue.

Release Date: 1995-08-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder

Ray investigates the murder of a judge.

Release Date: 1995-03-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice

Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.

Release Date: 1994-05-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert

A lady private eye on her first job working a routine divorce case teams up with a cynical, heavy-drinking police detective after inadvertently stumbling upon a much bigger caper involving a mysterious fugitive.

Release Date: 1993-11-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

The Return of Ironside

After forty years of good and faithful services, Robert T. Ironside, reprocessed police force of San Francisco, is finally on the point of tasting with the joys of a rest deserved well with Katherine, his wife, in their vineyard recently bought. However, a few days after his official departure, he is contacted by persons in charge for the police force of Denver, which offers the post of general manager temporarily to him their services, following the assassination for preceding occupying of the station in question. Initially reticent, Ironside ends up yielding and, with the agreement of his wife, agrees to take up the challenge, the more so as he has pleasure to find Susan, the girl of the one of her former assistants.

Release Date: 1993-05-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 11

The Sands of Time

Three nuns are caught up in the midst of Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.

Release Date: 1992-11-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Revolver

Nick Suster, a secret intelligence agent paralyzed by an assassin's bullet, sets out to track down his assailant and in the process, uncovers a major arms-smuggling operation that threatens international security.

Release Date: 1992-04-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Memories of Midnight

Catherine lost her memory and wound up in a convent in the care of nuns. She tries to discover the terrible events which led to her condition, not realizing that she's being watched by a wealthy and powerful man who will do anything to protect his secret - a secret that only Catherine can reveal to the world.

Release Date: 1991-11-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 3

The Hit Man

When a desperate kid tries to steal the car of a famous movie director to help his family pay their debt to a predatory lender, the director and his special effects crew decide to help the kid teach the greedy man a lesson.

Release Date: 1991-06-29

Department: Directing

Job: Director

The Lookalike

A mentally disturbed woman is further tormented after discovering a girl who closely resembles her recently deceased daughter

Release Date: 1990-12-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 3

Get Smart, Again!

KAOS has invented a weather machine so Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 are called back into action to foil this evil plan.

Release Date: 1989-02-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 27

Police Story: The Watch Commander

This is the story of policeman who has been on the job for over forty years. And one of his duties is to look out for all of the officers under him cause he is the watch commander. And it seems that a lot of them have a lot of problems including the new lieutenant. And a 15 year veteran who's feeling the stress of the job. And at the same time he is being egged by the captain to retire cause he thinks he's too old. And his wife would like him to retire also.

Release Date: 1988-11-12

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Shooter

"Shooter," aka Matt Thompson aka Gruwald is a photographer in 1967 Saigon, Vietnam. Working out of a news agency for a major magazine, Thompson gets involved in the lives of the soldiers he meets and "shoots." There's Ngoc, the Vietnamese photo lab tech; Klause, a German photographer swiping Buddhas; Rene, a French photographer who carries an AK-47; Stork, Matt's superstitious roommate who is also a photographer; Rizzo, the irascible editor; Lan, an American-educated Vietnamese reporter and Tracey an embassy worker who is Matt's former flame.

Release Date: 1988-09-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 4

Noble House

Despite its impressive history and reputation, the international trading company Struan's is in trouble. Overextended by the previous management, new tai-pan Ian Dunross has had to issue public stock to improve the company's financial standing. Even this, however, has not given him the capital he needs. As a result, he is courting a private investor, American billionaire Linc Bartlett. Bartlett decides secretly to back Dunross' arch enemy, Quillian Gornt, who will stop at nothing to destroy Struan's. When Dunross realises that Gornt is suddenly strong enough to ruin the Noble House, he must urgently forge new alliances or reshape ancient ones.

Release Date: 1988-02-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 44

Houston Knights

Houston Knights is an American crime drama set in Houston, Texas. The show ran on CBS from 1987 to 1988 and had 31 episodes. The core of the show was the partnership between two very different cops from two different cultures. Chicago cop Joey LaFiamma, played by Michael Paré, is transferred to Houston after he kills a mobster from a powerful Mafia family and a contract is put out on him. Once there, he is partnered with Levon Lundy, played by Michael Beck, the grandson of a Texas Ranger. Although as different as night and day, and after a rocky beginning they form a successful partnership and become friends. This is aided to a certain extent by an event where a hitman from Chicago who holds the contract to shoot La Fiamma arrives in Houston and is ultimately killed by Lundy. During the series, it is revealed that both La Fiamma and Lundy have their own personal demons; La Fiamma's Chicago police partner had been killed when he went ahead while La Fiamma had waited for backup to arrive. Lundy's wife had been killed by an explosion that was intended to kill him.

Release Date: 1987-03-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 3

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold

After his brother Robeson disappears without a trace while exploring Africa in search of a legendary 'white tribe', Allan Quatermain decides to follow in his footsteps to learn what became of him. Soon after arriving, he discovers the Lost City of Gold, controlled by the evil lord Agon, and mined by his legions of white slaves.

Release Date: 1986-12-17

Department: Production

Job: Finance

Vote Count: 275

Murder in Three Acts

In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.

Release Date: 1986-10-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 58

Lady Blue

Lady Blue is a crime drama starring Jamie Rose as a Chicago female homicide detective Katy Mahoney. The show was produced by MGM/UA Television and aired on ABC-TV from September 26, 1985 to January 25, 1986 for 13 episodes. It was cancelled after one season after low ratings in its Thursday night slot, but also because it was considered too violent for its time. The show later aired on Saturday nights but the show failed there as well. It ranked 72nd out of 82 programs that season, and averaged a 10.7 household rating. It was said that Katy Mahoney was the female version of Harry Callahan aka Dirty Harry, prompting television critics to refer to Mahoney's character as "Dirty Harriet".

Release Date: 1985-09-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Crazy like a Fox

Crazy Like a Fox is an American television series set in San Francisco, California, that aired on CBS from December 30, 1984 to May 3, 1986.

Release Date: 1984-12-30

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 7

The Baron and the Kid

Johnny Cash heads the cast in this sentimental drama, which follows a famed pool hustler (Cash) whose reunion with his long-lost son (Greg Webb) sets the stage for a series of adventures as they join forces to open a pool hall. Based on a hit song written by Cash, the film also stars Richard Roundtree, Tracy Pollan, June Carter Cash and Darren McGavin. The Cash family patriarch performs on the soundtrack.

Release Date: 1984-11-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

More Than Murder

Private eye Mike Hammer tries to clear his friend, Captain Chambers, who has been framed for cocaine possession.

Release Date: 1984-01-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 3

For Love and Honor

A military drama set on a Texas base focuses on the ups and downs of young paratroopers, who, while they're gearing up for possible combat assignments, often find themselves entangled in love affairs.

Release Date: 1983-09-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2

For Love and Honor

For Love and Honor is a short-lived American military drama series that aired on NBC from September 23, 1983 to December 27, 1983. The series is inspired by the hit film An Officer and a Gentleman.

Release Date: 1983-09-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Murder Me, Murder You

Private eye Mike Hammer probes his long-lost love's death while seeking their daughter.

Release Date: 1983-04-09

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 4

Murder in Coweta County

Wallace a wealthy landowner in Meriwether County, Georgia, has virtually unlimited power in the county, including having the sheriff under his control. When he murders a share cropper he thinks that he is powerful enough to get away with it. Because the act of murder took place in Coweta County, it is under the jurisdiction of the Coweta County sheriff who hunts the murderer without trepidation.

Release Date: 1983-02-15

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 9

Jimmy the Kid

Gang of bumbling crooks kidnap a bratty little kid, find out they got more than they bargained for.

Release Date: 1982-11-12

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is an American musical television series loosely based on the film, which ran on CBS from September 19, 1982 to March 23, 1983.

Release Date: 1982-09-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3

McClain's Law

McClain's Law is an American crime drama television series that aired on NBC during the 1981-1982 season. New episodes ended on March 20, and rebroadcasts continued until August 24, 1982.

Release Date: 1981-11-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 2

The Pride of Jesse Hallam

Jesse Hallum sells the family farm to see that his daughter receives the medical care she needs at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital. The big city challenges him, though, especially when his illiteracy is exposed.

Release Date: 1981-03-03

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 5

The Black Hole

The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposedly lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering near a black hole. The ship is controlled by Dr. Hans Reinhardt and his monstrous robot companion, but the initial wonderment and awe the Palomino crew feel for the ship and its resistance to the power of the black hole turn to horror as they uncover Reinhardt's plans.

Release Date: 1979-12-18

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Drone with Mask Removed (uncredited)

Vote Count: 491

A Movie Star's Daughter

A shy teen enrolls in a new school and doesn't make friends easily. Then, overnight, everyone wants to be her friend, once it is discovered that her father is a famous movie star.

Release Date: 1979-10-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2

It's a Mile from Here to Glory

A high school track star is involved in a life-threatening accident and now must learn to depend on others for his day-to-day living.

Release Date: 1978-05-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

To Kill a Cop

Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying to break up a group of black militants that are on a crime spree including the killing of a police officer. He is also trying to battle with a mayor and police commissioner that want him out of his job.

Release Date: 1978-04-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Washington: Behind Closed Doors

CIA director Bill Martin knows that an incoming president means a new direction for the country—and another set of eyes on the top secret Primula Report. Martin tries to build a rapport with his new boss, but President Richard Monckton is more interested in settling old scores and cleaning house with the help of the FBI.

Release Date: 1977-09-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 3

Hunter

Global espionage with an American agent and his sexy partner.

Release Date: 1977-02-18

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 4

Freaky Friday

School girl Annabel is hassled by her mother, and Mrs. Andrews is annoyed with her daughter, Annabel. They both think that the other has an easy life. On a normal Friday morning, both complain about each other and wish they could have the easy life of their daughter/mother for just one day and their wishes come true as a bit of magic puts Annabel in Mrs. Andrews' body and vice versa. They both have a Freaky Friday.

Release Date: 1976-12-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 266

Panache

A stylish comedy swashbuckler mixing romance, masterful swordplay, political treachery, and 20th-Century pratfalls in 17th-Century France, this film was a pilot for an unrealized series.

Release Date: 1976-05-15

Department: Directing

Job: Director

The Boy Who Talked to Badgers

A young boy gets along better with the animals he befriends around his family's Canadian farm than with the people he lives with.

Release Date: 1975-09-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6

Medical Story

A young intern goes up against three older surgeons as to whether or not a young actress should get a hysterectomy.

Release Date: 1975-09-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Medical Story

Medical Story is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from September 4, 1975, until January 8, 1976. Police Story's producers probe the medical world! Result: strong medicine!

Release Date: 1975-09-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

Archer

Archer is a short-lived American crime drama series starring Brian Keith and John P. Ryan that aired on NBC in 1975.

Release Date: 1975-01-30

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

The Girl on the Late, Late Show

A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has long since faded, then discovers that his inquiries have set off a string of murders.

Release Date: 1974-04-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 4

Kojak

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.

Release Date: 1973-10-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 119

Faraday and Company

Faraday & Company is an American crime drama series that aired in the 1973-1974 season. It starred Dan Dailey as Frank Faraday, a private investigator falsely accused of murdering his partner who returns to Los Angeles after 28 years of imprisonment, and James Naughton as Steve, his son who is also a private investigator.

Release Date: 1973-09-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Adam's Rib

Adam's Rib is an American situation comedy broadcast on ABC-TV from September 14 to December 28, 1973. It was produced by MGM Television and had 13 episodes. The series was a TV adaptation of the 1949 motion picture of the same name.

Release Date: 1973-09-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 1

Santee

Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hunter named Santee. Jody is orphaned soon after Santee catches up to the gang, and follows Santee in hopes of taking vengeance for his father's death. Instead, however, Jody discovers that Santee is a good and loving man, tormented by the death of his young son at the hands of another outlaw gang. Santee and his wife take Jody in and a father and son relationship begins to grow. Then the gang that shot Santee's son shows up. The film was produced by Edward Platt of Get Smart fame. It was one of the first motion pictures to be shot electronically on videotape and then transferred to film.

Release Date: 1973-09-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 10

Toma

Toma is an American crime drama series that ran on ABC in 1973 and 1974.

Release Date: 1973-03-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 4

Police Story

Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and represented a major step forward in the realistic depiction of police work and violence on network TV. Although it was an anthology, there were certain things that all episodes had in common; for instance, the main character in each episode was a police officer. The setting was always Los Angeles and the characters always worked for some branch of the LAPD. Notwithstanding the anthology format, there were recurring characters. Scott Brady appeared in more than a dozen episodes as "Vinnie," a former cop who, upon retirement, had opened a bar catering to police officers, and who acted as a sort of Greek chorus during the run of the series, commenting on the characters and plots.

Release Date: 1973-03-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 17

Molly and Lawless John

Molly, the shy, romance-starved wife of an arrogant frontier sheriff, finds herself drawn to a prisoner in her husband's jail. This prisoner, a handsome young man named Johnny, plays on Molly's sympathy and convinces her to help him escape. Molly then accompanies Johnny on his cross-country flight but soon learns he's simply been using her. Molly makes the best of the situation, however, and by the time the sheriff's posse catches up with them, Molly shows that she's learned how to assert herself.

Release Date: 1972-12-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 3

The Brian Keith Show

The Brian Keith Show is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 1972 to March 1974. The series stars Brian Keith and Shelley Fabares.

Release Date: 1972-09-15

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 3

McMillan & Wife

McMillan & Wife is a lighthearted American police procedural that aired on NBC from September 17, 1971 to April 24, 1977. Starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James in the title roles, the series premiered in 90-minute episodes as part of the wheel series NBC Mystery Movie, in rotation with Columbo and McCloud. Initially airing on Wednesday night, the original line-up was shifted to Sundays in the second season, where it aired for the rest of its run. This was the first element to be created specially for the Mystery Movie strand.

Release Date: 1971-09-29

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 22

The Partners

The Partners is an American sitcom that aired on September 18, 1971 through September 8, 1972 on NBC.

Release Date: 1971-09-18

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 9

Vote Count: 1

The Boy from Dead Man's Bayou

Release Date: 1971-02-09

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Arnie

Arnie is a television sitcom that ran for two seasons on the CBS network. It stars Herschel Bernardi, Sue Ane Langdon, and Roger Bowen. Bernardi played the title character, Arnie Nuvo, a longtime blue collar employee at the fictitious Continental Flange Company, who overnight was promoted to an executive position. The storylines mainly focused on this fish out of water situation, and on Arnie's sometimes-problematic relationship with his well-meaning but wealthy and eccentric boss, Hamilton Majors Jr.. Because he still held his union card, Arnie could negotiate tricky management/labor situations that no one else could. Arnie's surname was presumably a pun on nouveau riche, and possibly also on Art Nouveau. In addition to Bernardi, Bowen, and Langdon, cast members included Del Russel and Stephanie Steele as Arnie's son and daughter, Richard and Andrea; Elaine Shore as Arnie's secretary, Felicia; and Herb Voland as sour-tempered executive Neil Ogilvie. In its first season, despite being the lead-in to The Mary Tyler Moore Show on Saturday nights and winning an Emmy nomination as best comedy series, Arnie received only fair Nielsen ratings. For its second season, in order to increase its viewership, CBS made a major cast change in the show's format. Charles Nelson Reilly joined the cast as Randy Robinson, a TV chef who called himself "The Giddyap Gourmet," apparently a reference to The Galloping Gourmet.

Release Date: 1970-09-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Nanny and the Professor

Nanny and the Professor is an American fantasy situation comedy created by AJ Carothers and Thomas L. Miller for 20th Century Fox Television. During pre-production, the proposed title was Nanny Will Do.

Release Date: 1970-01-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 9

Secrets of the Pirate's Inn

A gang of kids helps a sea captain search for a pirate’s treasure that’s rumored to be hidden somewhere in the old dilapidated inn the sea captain just inherited from his dead brother. Along the way, they unravel a series of clues which lead to a variety of hidden passages and trap doors. But they are not alone in their quest for Jean Lafitte’s pirate goodies!

Release Date: 1969-11-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

Love, American Style

An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.

Release Date: 1969-09-29

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 17

Vote Count: 17

Bracken's World

Behind the scenes at the fictitious Century Studios in Hollywood, headed by the (initially) unseen John Bracken.

Release Date: 1969-09-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

The Courtship of Eddie's Father

The Courtship of Eddie's Father is an American television sitcom based on the 1963 movie of the same name, which was based on the book written by Mark Toby. It tells the story of a widower, Tom Corbett, who is a magazine publisher, and his son, Eddie, who believes his father should marry, and manipulates situations surrounding the women his father is interested in. ABC had acquired the rights to the story; the series debuted on September 17, 1969, and was last broadcast on March 1, 1972. Bixby received an Emmy nomination for the show.

Release Date: 1969-09-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 16

Room 222

Room 222 is an American comedy-drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television. The series aired on ABC for 112 episodes from September 17, 1969 until January 11, 1974. The show was broadcast on Wednesday evenings at 9:00 for its first two seasons before settling into its best-remembered time slot of Friday evenings at 9:00, following The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family, and preceding The Odd Couple and Love, American Style. In 1970, Room 222 earned Emmy Awards in three categories: Outstanding New Series, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

Release Date: 1969-09-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 18

The Doris Day Show

The Doris Day Show is an American sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 1968 until March 1973, remaining on the air for five seasons and 128 episodes. In addition to showcasing Doris Day, the show is remembered for its many abrupt format changes over the course of its five-year run. It is also remembered for Day's statement, in her autobiography Doris Day: Her Own Story, that her husband Martin Melcher had signed her to do the TV series without her knowledge, a fact she only discovered when Melcher died of heart disease on April 20, 1968. The TV show premiered on Tuesday, September 24, 1968.

Release Date: 1968-09-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 8

The Ghost & Mrs. Muir

Derived from the 1947 movie with the same name, a house is haunted by a deceased sea captain who wreaks havoc with the new tenants who were not advised of his existence.

Release Date: 1968-09-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 16

Accidental Family

Accidental Family is an American sitcom broadcast on NBC during the first part of the 1967-68 U.S. television season.

Release Date: 1967-09-15

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

Good Morning World

In this flirty '60s sitcom, the action unfolds every day at a small Los Angeles radio station where Larry and Dave work as morning show DJs. While Larry is a swinging ladies' man with his eye on every woman on the block, Dave is the bumbling married guy who is just trying to stay out of trouble with his wife.

Release Date: 1967-09-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 11

Vote Count: 3

Captain Nice

Carter Nash was a chemist in a police department who discovered a liquid which could turn him into Captain Nice, an odd sort of superhero: very shy and dominated by his mother. Captain Nice flew (he feared heights) in his tattered leotards, fighting bad guys because his mother told him to do so.

Release Date: 1967-01-09

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 3

Occasional Wife

Release Date: 1966-09-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Shane

Shane works for the Starett family, a young widow, her son, and her aging father-in-law, protecting them against the anti-sodbuster rancher Ryker and other perils plaguing the Old West.

Release Date: 1966-09-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 4

Get Smart

Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show stars Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, and Edward Platt. Henry said they created the show by request of Daniel Melnick, who was a partner, along with Leonard Stern and David Susskind, of the show's production company, Talent Associates, to capitalize on "the two biggest things in the entertainment world today"—James Bond and Inspector Clouseau. Brooks said: "It's an insane combination of James Bond and Mel Brooks comedy." This is the only Mel Brooks production to feature a laugh track. The success of the show eventually spawned the follow-up films The Nude Bomb and Get Smart, Again!, as well as a 1995 revival series and a 2008 film remake. In 2010, TV Guide ranked Get Smart's opening title sequence at No. 2 on its list of TV's Top 10 Credits Sequences, as selected by readers.

Release Date: 1965-09-18

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 24

Vote Count: 394

O.K. Crackerby

A wealthy Oklahoma widower enlists the help of an unemployed Harvard graduate to tutor his brood on becoming more refined in a stale sitcom that's notable only because it was created by Abe Burrows and Cleveland Amory.

Release Date: 1965-09-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

F Troop

F Troop is a satirical American television sitcom that originally aired for two seasons on ABC-TV. It debuted in the United States on September 14, 1965 and concluded its run on April 6, 1967 with a total of 65 episodes. The first season of 34 episodes was filmed in black-and-white, but the show switched to color for its second season.

Release Date: 1965-09-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 27

Gilligan's Island

The slapstick adventures of hapless Gilligan, long-suffering Skipper and their gang of mismatched castaways, all stranded on an uncharted desert isle after their tiny ship hit stormy weather.

Release Date: 1964-09-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 234

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. is an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964, to May 2, 1969. The series was a spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show, and the pilot was aired as the finale of the fourth season of The Andy Griffith Show on May 18, 1964. The show ran for five seasons and a total of 150 episodes. In 2006, CBS Home Entertainment began releasing the series on DVD. The final season was released in November 2008. The series was created by Aaron Ruben, who also produced the show with Sheldon Leonard and Ronald Jacobs. Filmed and set in California, it stars Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle, a naive but good-natured gas-station attendant from the town of Mayberry, North Carolina, who enlists in the United States Marine Corps. Frank Sutton plays Gomer's high-octane, short-fused Gunnery Sergeant Vince Carter, and Ronnie Schell plays Gomer's friend Gilbert "Duke" Slater. Allan Melvin played in the recurring role of Gunnery Sergeant Carter's rival, Sergeant Charley Hacker. The series never discussed nor addressed the then-current Vietnam War, instead focusing on the relationship between Gomer and Sergeant Carter. The show retained high ratings throughout its run.

Release Date: 1964-09-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 28

The Patty Duke Show

The Patty Duke Show is an American sitcom which ran on ABC from September 18, 1963 to April 27, 1966, with reruns airing through August 31, 1966. The show was created as a vehicle for rising star Patty Duke. A total of 104 episodes were produced, most written by Sidney Sheldon.

Release Date: 1963-09-18

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 14

The Andy Griffith Show

The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.

Release Date: 1960-10-03

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 147

Have Gun, Will Travel

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.

Release Date: 1957-09-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 40

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.

Release Date: 1955-09-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 101