William Blinn (Writing)
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Works
He's Starsky, I'm Hutch
The forty-five minute documentary explores the trials and tribulations of Starsky and Hutch star David Soul while giving accounts by actors and producers on the creation of the legendary TV show.
Release Date: 2004-05-14
Character: Self
Starsky & Hutch
Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcome their differences to solve an important case with help from street informant Huggy Bear and persuasive criminal Reese Feldman.
Release Date: 2004-03-05
Department: Writing
Job: Characters
Vote Count: 2338
Brian's Song
The story of professional football players Gale Sayes and Brian Piccolo, and how their friendship on and off the field was affected when Piccolo contracted a fatal disease
Release Date: 2001-12-02
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 15
Pensacola: Wings of Gold
Pensacola: Wings of Gold is a syndicated American action/adventure drama series based at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Pensacola, Florida.
Release Date: 1997-09-15
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 12
Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
Irish immigrant Tommy Shaughnessy leaves 19th-century New York City for Kansas and becomes a small-town sheriff.
Release Date: 1996-06-20
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
The Boys Next Door
Kind-hearted social worker Jack Palmer feels guilty about not spending enough time with his wife due to the pressures of his job taking care of four developmentally disabled men: obsessive-compulsive Norman, bipolar Arnold, childlike Lucien, and schizophrenic Barry. When Jack announces his decision to leave his job, his four charges react quite unexpectedly to the news.
Release Date: 1996-02-04
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Vote Count: 10
The Boys of Twilight
The Boys of Twilight is an American televisions series that aired on CBS in 1992. The series follows the adventures of two aging lawmen who attemps to maintain order in Twilight, Utah.
Release Date: 1992-02-29
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 1
Polly: Comin' Home!
Broadway style songs are used to tell this interesting story of an ingenious orphan who gets involved in matchmaking and striving for inter-racial understanding in 1956 Alabama.
Release Date: 1990-11-18
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 7
Appearances
A drama centering on the joys, conflicts, and crises on a middle-class family and on its ex-football star father's efforts to keep it on track and intact despite the death of a child and the strain between his wife and father.
Release Date: 1990-06-17
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Polly
An musical adaptation of the book "Pollyanna" set in the 1950's in which an orphan tries to use gladness to unite the people in a small southern town.
Release Date: 1989-11-12
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Vote Count: 14
The Outside Woman
A factory worker is convinced to hijack a helicopter and help two prisoners escape from jail.
Release Date: 1989-02-12
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Davy Crockett: Rainbow in the Thunder
In a well received addition to the Disney original, Johnny Cash and Tim Dunigan play Davy Crockett. Crockett and Andrew Jackson, now old men, share their memories (and differences) about an Indian uprising they put down 25 years prior.
Release Date: 1988-11-20
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 3
Aaron's Way
Aaron's Way is a 1988 American family drama series that aired on NBC. The series stars Merlin Olsen as Aaron Miller, the husband and father of an Amish family that moves to California. The series follows the attempts of family members to adapt to California culture while retaining their personal values. Also appearing on the series were Samantha Mathis and Belinda Montgomery.
Release Date: 1988-03-09
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 1
Our House
Our House is an American television drama series that aired on NBC for two seasons from September 11, 1986 to May 8, 1988. The series centers on the Witherspoon family and the challenges they face adjusting to life with three generations living in the same house.
Release Date: 1986-09-11
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 9
Bridges to Cross
Bridges to Cross is an American drama television series that aired from April 24 until June 12, 1986.
Release Date: 1986-04-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 1
Purple Rain
A victim of his own anger, the Kid is a Minneapolis musician on the rise with his band, the Revolution, escaping a tumultuous home life through music. While trying to avoid making the same mistakes as his truculent father, the Kid navigates the club scene and a rocky relationship with a captivating singer, Apollonia. But another musician, Morris, looks to steal the Kid's spotlight -- and his girl.
Release Date: 1984-07-27
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 377
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: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 62
American Dream
Telling the story of humble beginnings and delving into each entrepreneur's journey. These ambitious individuals made their vision a reality and give hope that the dream is still possible.
Release Date: 1981-04-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 1
All God's Children
Big city judge Parke Denison is involved in a forced busing dispute at the climax of his long career. The friendship between two families -- one white, one black -- and their sons, who are buddies, provides the microcosm of this major social issue that has been argued for several decades.
Release Date: 1980-04-28
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1
The Lazarus Syndrome
Release Date: 1979-09-04
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 1
A Man Called Intrepid
During World War II, a wealthy Canadian uses his own money to help the Allies form an espionage network.
Release Date: 1979-05-07
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2
The MacKenzies of Paradise Cove
American limited-run drama series that aired from March to May 1979 on ABC. Based on the 1978 television movie "Stickin' Together" (aka "Wonderland Cove"), the series follows the adventures of the five MacKenzie orphans.
Release Date: 1979-03-27
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 6
A Question of Love
A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.
Release Date: 1978-11-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 8
Stickin' Together
A Hawaiian beach bum finds himself surrogate uncle to five orphaned children, helping them stay together, in this pilot movie for a TV series which turned up briefly in the spring of 1979 as "The Mackenzies of Paradise Cove."
Release Date: 1978-04-14
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1
The Lazarus Syndrome
An adulterous newspaper reporter, who has just experienced a heart attack, pesters a doctor into investigating the questionable medical practices taking place at the hospital where both are residing.
Release Date: 1978-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 5
Hunter
Global espionage with an American agent and his sexy partner.
Release Date: 1977-02-18
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 4
Roots
The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was first told in his 1976 bestseller Roots: The Saga of an American Family. The docu-drama covers a period of history that begins in mid-1700s Gambia, West Africa and concludes during post-Civil War United States, over 100 years later. This 1977 miniseries eventually won 9 Emmy awards, a Golden Globe award, and a Peabody award, and still stands as the most watched miniseries in U.S. history.
Release Date: 1977-01-23
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 224
Starsky & Hutch
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.
Release Date: 1975-09-10
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 176
Starsky & Hutch
A young couple in a car exactly like Starsky's is killed by hitmen and word is out on the street that there's a contract out on Starsky and Hutch. This is a TV-pilot that was an ABC Movie of the Week and later turned into the TV-series.
Release Date: 1975-05-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 12
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
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 20
The Rookies
Three new officers in a large metropolitan police department adjust to their new jobs and way of life. This is another TV-pilot that was first aired as an ABC Movie of the Week before becoming a TV-series.
Release Date: 1972-03-07
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
Brian's Song
Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.
Release Date: 1971-11-30
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 85
Cat Ballou
A pretty ranch owner hires an alcoholic gunfighter to protect her ranch and her adopted boy from an outlaw gang's depredations.
Release Date: 1971-09-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
The Interns
The Interns is an American medical drama series that aired on CBS from 1970 to 1971. It was based on the 1962 film The Interns and the 1964 sequel The New Interns.
Release Date: 1970-09-18
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 1
Here Come the Brides
Here Come the Brides is an American comedy Western series from Screen Gems that aired on the ABC television network from September 25, 1968 to April 3, 1970. The series was loosely based upon the Mercer Girls, Asa Mercer's efforts to bring civilization to old Seattle by importing marriageable women from the east coast of the United States in the 1860s, where the ravages of the American Civil War left towns short of men.
Release Date: 1968-09-25
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 9
The High Chaparral
The High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The series, made by Xanadu Productions in association with NBC Productions, was created by David Dortort, who had previously created the hit Bonanza for the network. The theme song was also written and conducted by Bonanza scorer David Rose, who also scored the two-hour pilot.
Release Date: 1967-09-10
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 22
Custer
Custer, also known as The Legend of Custer, is a 17-episode military-western television series which ran on ABC from September 6 to December 27, 1967, with Wayne Maunder in the starring role of then Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. During the American Civil War, Custer had risen to the rank of major general, the youngest in the Union Army. He was demoted after the war during force reductions to the rank of Captain, but was reinstated in 1866 as a Lieutenant Colonel in command of the Seventh Cavalry, stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas. Many of the soldiers in the regiment were derelicts, former Confederates, or even criminals. The series was cancelled before the script timeline would have reached the Little Big Horn River of southeastern Montana, where all perished on June 25, 1876, in a Sioux Indian ambush, Robert F. Simon played Custer's commanding officer, U.S. General Alfred H. Terry, who disapproved of Custer's long hair and much of his methodology of fighting Indians. Slim Pickens starred as a scout named California Joe Milner. Michael Dante appeared as Sioux Chief Crazy Horse. Peter Palmer played Sergeant James Bustard, a former Confederate soldier. Grant Woods appeared as Captain Myles Keogh. Read Morgan, formerly a cavalry officer on NBC's The Deputy, appeared in the episode "Spirit Woman" in the role of a medicine man.
Release Date: 1967-09-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 4
The Invaders
The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for him it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Now, David Vincent knows that the Invaders are here, that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun.
Release Date: 1967-01-10
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 58
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: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 4
The Big Valley
The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century California rancher. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman, and produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for Four Star Television.
Release Date: 1965-09-15
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 53
My Favorite Martian
Newspaper reporter Tim O'Hara finds a crashed alien spaceship that contains one live alien. Not wanting to be discovered by the authorities, the Martian assumes the identity of Tim's Uncle Martin and begins to repair his spaceship so that he can return to Mars.
Release Date: 1963-09-29
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 28
It's a Man's World
It's a Man's World is an American comedy-drama television series which aired on NBC from September 17, 1962, to January 28, 1963. Wes and Tom-Tom are friends going to college and with musician Vern share a houseboat. Wes also watches out for his younger brother Howie and the four of them deal with girls, jobs, and school. Occasionally the boys get serious but more often they use humor to handle situations.
Release Date: 1962-09-17
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Rawhide
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
Release Date: 1959-01-09
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 44
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: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 101
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Release Date: 1951-12-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 6