Edward Hume (Writing)

Television Event

An archive-based feature documentary viewing the dramatic climax of the Cold War through the lens of the ABC network, as it narrowly succeeds in producing the most watched, most controversial made-for-TV movie, THE DAY AFTER (1983). With irreverent humor and sobering apocalyptic vision, this film reveals how a commercial broadcaster seized a moment of unprecedented television viewership, made an emotional connection with an audience of over 100 million and forced an urgent conversation with the US President on how to collectively confront and resolve the most pressing issue of the time - nuclear proliferation.

Release Date: 2020-11-11

Character: Himself

Deceptions

A beautiful widow is determined to uncover the facts behind her husband's death.

Release Date: 1992-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Common Ground

Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of court ordered busing to end desegregation. The story focuses on an African-American mother determined to get her children a quality education and a white lawyer trying to deal with inner city problems.

Release Date: 1990-03-25

Department: Writing

Job: Teleplay

Vote Count: 1

Stranger on My Land

A Vietnam veteran has to fight peacefully with words once more when the Air Force wants to expropriate his ranch for the construction of an air base.

Release Date: 1988-01-17

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 10

John and Yoko: A Love Story

Details the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, from before their first meeting to their rise to stardom.

Release Date: 1985-12-02

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 3

The Day After

In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.

Release Date: 1983-11-20

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 387

The Terry Fox Story

The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research.

Release Date: 1983-05-22

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 15

21 Hours at Munich

A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.

Release Date: 1976-12-25

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 19

Two-Minute Warning

A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly and the SWAT commander, learn of the plot and rush to the scene.

Release Date: 1976-11-12

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 90

Sweet Hostage

An escaped mental patient kidnaps an illiterate teenage farm girl and takes her to his mountain hide-away, where they soon become friends and, eventually, lovers.

Release Date: 1975-10-10

Department: Writing

Job: Teleplay

Vote Count: 9

The Abduction of Saint Anne

A cynical detective and a Roman Catholic bishop team up to investigate the reported miraculous powers of a 17-year-old girl being held captive in the home of her father, an ailing syndicate kingpin.

Release Date: 1975-01-21

Department: Writing

Job: Teleplay

Vote Count: 1

Toma

This TV-pilot, later made into a TV-series, is about a cop in Newark, New Jersey, who defies his superiors to try to bring down the head of a Mafia numbers racket.

Release Date: 1973-03-21

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

Toma

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

Release Date: 1973-03-21

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 4

A Reflection of Fear

A young girl lives with her mother and grandmother. One day her estranged father returns home with a female companion he introduces as his fiance. Soon the girl finds herself in the midst of strange goings-on, which evolve into a web of crime and murder.

Release Date: 1973-02-12

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 19

Barnaby Jones

Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles. The show ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April 3, 1980, beginning as a midseason replacement. William Conrad guest starred as Frank Cannon of Cannon on the first episode of Barnaby Jones, "Requiem for a Son" and the two series had a two-part crossover episode in 1975, "The Deadly Conspiracy".

Release Date: 1973-01-28

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 27

The Streets of San Francisco

Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.

Release Date: 1972-09-23

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 90

The Streets of San Francisco

SFPD Detective Lieutenant Michael Stone (Karl Malden) is partnered with a young college-educated Inspector, Steven Keller (Michael Douglas), as they investigate a girl found dead in the water, with a lawyer she knew as the primary suspect.

Release Date: 1972-09-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

The Harness

A gentle John Steinbeck tale from 1938 about a farmer who is dominated by his ailing wife until a free-minded young woman turns up at his ranch with her eight-year-old son.

Release Date: 1971-11-12

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

The Face of Fear

A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hires a mob killer to take her life. However, she soon changes her mind, and with the help of the local police, tries to find the killer before he fulfills his part of the bargain.

Release Date: 1971-10-08

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 6

Cannon

Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad. He also appeared on two episodes of Barnaby Jones. Cannon is the first Quinn Martin-produced series to be aired on a network other than ABC. A "revival" television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1, 1980. In total, there were 124 episodes.

Release Date: 1971-09-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 34

Summertree

Jerry, not a member of the 'protest generation' but is instead, an 'All American boy,' is drafted into the Army, just as things begin to go well for him. He decision to flee to Canada sparks off conflict with his parents, ending in the film's conclusion - in Vietnam.

Release Date: 1971-06-06

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 3

Cannon

In this pilot film to the TV series, Cannon investigates the murder of a war buddy to clear the man's wife of suspicion in his death.

Release Date: 1971-03-26

Department: Writing

Job: Teleplay

Vote Count: 2

The Fugitive

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.

Release Date: 1963-09-17

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 56