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When starving mobs begin rioting in the streets of Moscow, Soviet leaders believe they have no recourse but to seize the Alaskan pipeline to force the United States to end the grain embargo that has brought turmoil to the U.S.S.R.
Release Date: 1982-01-31
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 15
A London businessman concocts an intricate plan to murder his unfaithful wife for her money.
Release Date: 1981-04-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 10
A Roman general leads the epic 1st-century siege of Masada, the mountain fortress where more than 900 Jews made a heroic stand against 5,000 Roman soldiers.
Release Date: 1981-04-05
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 54
When the Circus Came to Town chronicles the life of Mary Flynn (Montgomery), a woman nearing middle age living in a small town. When the circus comes through town, she realizes nothing will ever change unless she does something different, so she leaves her boring sheltered life to run away and join the circus. While adapting to her new life, she finds herself challenged, and in the end, happy with her new life.
Release Date: 1981-01-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II.
Release Date: 1980-11-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 12
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.
Release Date: 1979-05-03
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
Mrs. Kate Columbo, wife of the famous lieutenant, solves crimes as a reporter, while raising her little daughter.
Release Date: 1979-02-26
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 8
A lusty frontier saga about a pioneer woman and her love for her family, the man she marries, and the land on which she lives, dramatized from Conrad Richter's Pulitzer Prize-winning trilogy: 'The Trees;' 'The Fields;' and 'The Town.' The series originally aired on NBC in three installments from February 19 to February 21, 1978 and stars Elizabeth Montgomery and Hal Holbrook.
Release Date: 1978-02-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 5
A war vet finds out that a former prostitute had his baby. Doubting it's his, he gives it away, so she reports him. Twenty years later, she still wants to find her son. She meets a young man and falls in love, but the vet's prison term ends.
Release Date: 1977-11-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 5
Two ambitious vice presidents become rivals when an imminent board room vacancy arises.
Release Date: 1976-12-04
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 2
An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old nemesis, Moriarty, has kidnapped the son of the detective's long-time love, actress Irene Adler.
Release Date: 1976-10-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 30
In this pilot film, Mallory is a prominent lawyer with a tarnished reputation who defends a young man charged with committing homicide against a sexual predator in prison.
Release Date: 1976-02-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Based on the best-selling 1969 novel by Irwin Shaw, the series follows the divergent career courses of the impoverished German American Jordache brothers.
Release Date: 1976-02-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 12
Vote Count: 30
Three for the Road is an American drama television series that aired on CBS from September 14 to November 30, 1975. The series centers on Pete Karras, played by Alex Rocco, a recently widowed photojournalist travelling around the United States with two sons, John and Endy, in a recreational vehicle.
Release Date: 1975-09-04
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
A retired police captain storms angrily out of retirement when his son is shot down before his eyes and his grandson is kidnapped by a syndicate killer in this pilot for Lorne Greene's brief "Griff" series, which went off the air 18 months before this film was aired.
Release Date: 1975-06-29
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Two bargemen on the Mississippi River find themselves mixed up in a kidnapping and hijacking plot.
Release Date: 1975-03-24
Department: Directing
Job: Director
A college president becomes the president of a record company, and finds himself enmeshed in a payola scandal.
Release Date: 1975-01-07
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Reverend Holvak, a weak rural preacher from the 1940s, fights stiff-necked church deacons along with a violent, bullying sheriff whilst protecting his loved ones.
Release Date: 1974-11-04
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
When she was raped, Ellen thought it was the worst thing to ever happen to her. What was worse, was the treatment by the hospital staff, police and the court system, when she reported it, and the man was caught.
Release Date: 1974-02-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 8
A prosecutor must try his friend, a deputy district attorney, who has been charged with murdering his wife and her lover.
Release Date: 1974-01-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Two elderly mystery novelists solve real crimes.
Release Date: 1973-12-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 5
Griff is an American crime drama starring Lorne Greene and Ben Murphy, which aired on ABC from September 29, 1973, to January 4, 1974.
Release Date: 1973-09-29
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Several men hiking in the mountains discover an injured skyjacker who parachuted from a plane with $600,000. They kill him, then start fighting each other over the money.
Release Date: 1973-09-11
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 6
Madigan is an American crime drama series based on the 1968 film of the same name, starring Richard Widmark as Sgt. Dan Madigan. The show aired on NBC in 1972-73 as part of the NBC Mystery Movie umbrella series.
Release Date: 1972-09-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 5
Just before the Salem Witch Trials, an embittered old woman, who has learned witchcraft, teams up with the Devil, and brings a scarecrow to life as part of her diabolical revenge on the judge who was once her lover.
Release Date: 1972-01-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
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: Directing
Job: Director
On the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years previously is out to kill her.
Release Date: 1971-09-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 4
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: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 711
Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain - sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.
Release Date: 1971-08-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 555
The adventures of a newly married teenage couple in the Old West.
Release Date: 1971-03-31
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
Vintage documentary that briefly looks at the making of several parts of the film and showcases Heston discussing the film and philosophizes with famed anthropologist Ashley Montagu.
Release Date: 1971-01-01
Character: Self
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.
Release Date: 1970-12-16
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 97
A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. However, he finds that he is now torn between his own wife and that of his dead colleague, who was a Nazi sympathizer.
Release Date: 1970-11-24
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
San Francisco International Airport is a television drama aired in the United States The series starred Lloyd Bridges as Jim Conrad, the manager of the gigantic San Francisco International Airport. Bob Hatten was his chief of security, an important role at a time when security was beginning to emerge as a real-life major issue in air transport. June was Conrad's secretary. Airport situations drawn from real life were addressed, such as protesting demonstrators, mechanical malfunctions, and similar problems.
Release Date: 1970-10-28
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
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: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 51
An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist who is burning down movie sets.
Release Date: 1970-02-02
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
A Deputy District Attorney suspects that a nurse has been murdering her rich husbands and relatives by giving them unneeded insulin doses, but his superiors don't believe him.
Release Date: 1969-12-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three strange tales: "The Cemetery," directed by Boris Sagal; "Eyes," directed by Steven Spielberg; and "The Escape Route," directed by Barry Shear. This film also served as a backdoor pilot for the TV series of the same name, which premiered on December 16, 1970.
Release Date: 1969-11-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 18
A veteran Russian spy is brought out of retirement to be sent to the West to do an important sabotage job. However, he finds himself falling in love with an attractive British double agent.
Release Date: 1969-10-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
England, World War II. Quint Munroe, RAF officer and new leader of a Mosquito squadron, is tasked with destroying a secret Nazi base in France while trying to overcome the disappearance of a brother-in-arms.
Release Date: 1969-08-22
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 26
In 1943, Colonel Greg Brandon, stationed at an United States Army Air Forces 8th Air Force, 103rd Bomb Group base in England, repeatedly attempts to persuade superiors that massive daylight bombing will hasten the end of World War II. In spite of the mission's extreme difficulty, his plan is finally put into effect against a German aircraft factory. During preparation for the raid, Brandon alienates his men by insisting that normal bombing operations continue. His disdain for cautious Lieutenant Archer and brash RAF Wing Commander Trafton Howard further antagonizes his associates, including his girl friend, WAC Lieutenant Gabrielle Ames. When his bomber crashes the morning of the mission, Brandon boards a bomber manned by Archer and Howard. During the effective air raid, he is impressed by Archer's courage and Howard's judgment.
Release Date: 1969-07-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 7
Lawsuits fly when a widow believes a gifted surgeon allowed her husband to die so his heart could be transplanted into the doctor's ailing mentor and friend. Operation Heartbeat was the pilot movie for the TV series Medical Center.
Release Date: 1969-04-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
Release Date: 1968-09-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 12
The men from U.N.C.L.E must stop a band of would-be sorcerers from using a deadly weapon.
Release Date: 1968-05-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 14
The Danny Thomas Hour is an American anthology television series that was broadcast on NBC during the 1967-68 television season.
Release Date: 1967-09-11
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases throughout the U.S.
Release Date: 1967-09-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 7
Vote Count: 2
Cimarron Strip is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from September 1967 to March 1968. Starring Stuart Whitman as Marshal Jim Crown, the series was produced by the creators of Gunsmoke. Reruns of the original show were aired in the summer of 1971. Cimarron Strip was one of only three 90-minute weekly Western series that aired during the 1960s, and the only 90-minute series of any kind to be centered primarily around one lead character. Cimarron Strip was set in the Oklahoma Panhandle, which comprises, east to west, Beaver, Texas, and Cimarron counties in Oklahoma. The show is set in 1888, just as the continuous frontier of the West, which once ran from the Canadian to the Mexican border, was closing. In less than five years there would no longer be that "continuous frontier," only pockets of undeveloped land. This was the late "Wild West" that Marshall Jim Crown was called to defend.
Release Date: 1967-09-07
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 11
Dundee and the Culhane is an American Western television series starring John Mills and Sean Garrison that aired on the CBS television network from September 7 to December 13, 1967.
Release Date: 1967-09-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 2
When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.
Release Date: 1967-03-28
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 63
T.H.E. Cat is an American action drama that aired during the 1966-1967 television season on NBC, co-sponsored by R.J. Reynolds and Lever Brothers. The series was created by Harry Julian Fink, the creator of Dirty Harry . Robert Loggia starred as the title character, Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat. T. H. E. Cat is a forerunner of television characters such as The Equalizer, who skirt the edges of the law and bring skills from earlier careers on behalf of those needing more help than the police can offer. The series preceded the 1968-1970 ABC television series It Takes a Thief, which was also about a cat burglar who used his skills for good.
Release Date: 1966-09-16
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 3
Release Date: 1966-08-14
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
A pretty fashion buyer visiting Paris on business is courted by a famous designer. Boris Sagal's 1966 romantic comedy stars Ann-Margret, Louis Jourdan, Richard Crenna, Chad Everett, Edie Adams, John McGiver, Reta Shaw and Count Basie.
Release Date: 1966-02-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 7
A Chicago mobster hires a rock and roll singer and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Release Date: 1965-04-14
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 29
14-year-old Kurt Russell plays Jamie, an orphaned boy heading westward with a wagon train. Charles Bronson is a wagon scout Linc Murdock, who runs into difficulties when he meets old flame Maria (Susan Oliver), who is now married to corrupt lawman Rance Macklin (Jan Merlin). The jealous Macklin has Murdock arrested, but Maria frees him, permitting Murdock and Jamie to embark on a new adventure involving a "lost" gold mine.
Release Date: 1964-10-04
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 15
A young lawyer defends a drifter accused of murder that he has already confessed to. He asks a retired, legendary lawyer for help.
Release Date: 1963-11-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 7
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters is an American western television series based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Robert Lewis Taylor. The show aired on ABC in the 1963-1964 television season and was produced by MGM Television. The series introduces Dan O'Herlihy as a charming Scotsman of the frontier, Dr. Sardius McPheeters. As with many such charmers, Doc is missing something commonsense-wise. Fortunately his 12-year-old son, Jaimie (Kurt Russell), makes up for it by being as sharp as Daddy is gullible. The production is slick, authentic and brisk.
Release Date: 1963-09-29
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 3
Mr. Novak is an American dramatic series starring James Franciscus in the title role, which aired on NBC for two seasons, from 1963 to 1965.
Release Date: 1963-09-24
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 2
Five Mexican street urchins steal a dime from the church's collection box and bet it on a race-horse.
Release Date: 1963-01-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
The Eleventh Hour is an American medical drama about psychiatry starring Wendell Corey, Jack Ging, and Ralph Bellamy, which aired sixty-two new episodes plus selected rebroadcasts on NBC from October 3, 1962, to September 9, 1964.
Release Date: 1962-10-03
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 2
Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders.
Release Date: 1962-10-02
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 103
Sam Benedict is an American legal drama that aired on NBC from September 1962 to March 1963. The series was created and executive produced by E. Jack Neuman. Sam Benedict is based on real-life lawyer Jacob W. "Jake" Erlich, who served as technical consultant for the series.
Release Date: 1962-09-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 2
A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.
Release Date: 1962-04-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Based on the screenplay by Mel Dinelli, this story revolves around Helen Warren, a beautiful mute girl, who becomes the target of a mysterious killer who preys on young handicapped women.
Release Date: 1961-10-04
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
Release Date: 1961-09-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 17
A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring 100 top criminals to justice.
Release Date: 1961-09-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 3
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
Release Date: 1961-09-16
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 9
Way Out was a 1961 fantasy and science fiction television anthology series hosted by writer Roald Dahl. The macabre 25-minute shows were introduced by Dahl's dry delivery of a brief introductory monologue, sometimes explaining a method of murdering a spouse without getting caught. The taped series began because CBS suddenly needed a replacement for a Jackie Gleason talk show that network executives were about to cancel, and producer David Susskind contacted Dahl to help mount a show quickly. The series was paired by the network with the similar The Twilight Zone for Friday evening broadcasts, running from March through July 1961 at 9:30 p.m. Eastern time, under the primary sponsorship of Liggett & Myers. Writers included Philip H. Reisman, Jr. and Sumner Locke Elliott. The premiere episode, "William and Mary", adapted from a Roald Dahl short story, told of a wife getting revenge on her husband. In "Dissolve to Black", an actress cast as a murder victim at a television studio goes through a rehearsal, but the drama merges with reality as she finds herself trapped on the show's near-deserted set. Other dramas offered startling imagery: a snake slithering up a carpeted staircase inside a suburban home, a disembodied brain in a jar, a headless woman strapped to an electric chair, with a light bulb in place of her head and half of a man's face erased.
Release Date: 1961-03-31
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3
Government agents hunt America's most dangerous crooks. Based on the "Cain's Hundred" TV series.
Release Date: 1961-01-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
Hong Kong is a 26-episode adventure/drama series which aired on ABC television during the 1960–1961 season and helped to catapult Australian actor Rod Taylor into a major film star, primarily in the 1960s, beginning with his role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. The series was a production of 20th Century Fox Television, and the final credit of each episode stated: "Filmed by Twentieth Century Fox Television Inc. at its Hollywood studios and in the Crown Colony of Hong Kong".
Release Date: 1960-03-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 6
Mr. Lucky is a CBS adventure/drama television series that aired from October 24, 1959, to June 18, 1960, with repeats until September 3. Blake Edwards developed the program as a retooling of his Willie Dante character from Four Star Playhouse, where the role was played by studio boss Dick Powell. In the 1960–1961 season, Howard Duff assumed the role of Willie Dante in the NBC adventure/drama series Dante. Mr. Edwards directed and co-wrote the first episode of Mr. Lucky, and the credits of the first eighteen episodes included "Entire production supervised by Blake Edwards." Jack Arnold produced the show and directed fifteen of the thirty-four episodes. Henry Mancini's smooth theme music for the show reached Number 21 in the US singles charts. He released two successful LP's based on the show, Mr. Lucky and Mr. Lucky Goes Latin.
Release Date: 1959-10-24
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 5
Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.
Release Date: 1959-10-05
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 6
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
Release Date: 1959-10-02
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 914
Johnny Staccato is an American private detective series which ran for 27 episodes on NBC from September 10, 1959 through March 24, 1960.
Release Date: 1959-09-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 5
Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44 episodes on ABC from January 10, 1959 to May 6, 1960. The half-hour program was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television, and the original pilot was an episode of CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, with Chris Alcaide portraying the principal character, Clay Culhane. For syndicated reruns, Black Saddle was combined with three other Western series from the same company, Law of the Plainsman starring Michael Ansara, Johnny Ringo starring Don Durant and Mark Goddard, and the critically acclaimed creation of Sam Peckinpah, The Westerner with Brian Keith, under the umbrella title, The Westerners, with new hosting sequences by Keenan Wynn.
Release Date: 1959-01-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 4
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
Release Date: 1958-10-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 22
Behind Closed Doors is an American drama series set during the Cold War hosted by and occasionally starring Bruce Gordon in the role of Commander Matson. The series, which aired on NBC from October 2, 1958, to April 9, 1959, focuses, among other themes, on how the former Soviet Union stole American missile secrets and proposes steps to prevent further espionage. Behind Closed Doors is based on the files and experiences of Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, who offers comments at the end of each segment. Behind Closed Doors, a Screen Gems production, replaced Jackie Cooper's sitcom The People's Choice, followed the NBC quiz show, Twenty-One, and preceded the The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show. Its competition was The Pat Boone Chevy Show on ABC and Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater western anthology series on CBS.
Release Date: 1958-10-02
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.
Release Date: 1958-09-30
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 11
Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and featuring Henry Mancini music that could tell you the action with your eyes closed, Peter Gunn worked in style. Known as Pete to his friends and simply as Gunn to his enemies, he did his job in a calm cool way.
Release Date: 1958-09-22
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 22
Vote Count: 18
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer is the title used for two syndicated television series that followed the adventures of fictional private detective Mike Hammer. The gritty, crime fighting detective—created by American crime author Mickey Spillane—has also inspired several feature films and made-for-TV movies.
Release Date: 1958-01-07
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 5
Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate Monday nights from October 7, 1957 to September 16, 1960. The program also aired under the title Turn of Fate, with the stories depicting the difficulties faced by individuals who are suddenly thrust into unexpected and perilous dangers. Alcoa Theatre was syndicated together with Goodyear Theatre as Award Theatre. In 1955, The Alcoa Hour premiered in a one-hour format aired on Sunday nights, but it was reduced to 30 minutes, retitled Alcoa Theatre, and moved to Monday evening in 1957. The show employed an alternating rotating company of actors: David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell, Jack Lemmon and Charles Boyer. Each appeared in dramatic and light comedic roles through the first season.
Release Date: 1957-09-30
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 5
Gordon Jenkins' record album "Manhattan Tower" was a best seller for 12 years and this spectacular is based on it, with book, music and lyrics by Jenkins, produced and staged by him as well. The story is of a young man named Steven, visiting New York City and falling in love with Julie. Together they do the town, with music and dance this production is a vintage classic.
Release Date: 1956-10-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
State Trooper is an American crime drama set in the 1950s American West, starring Rod Cameron as Rod Blake, an officer of the Nevada Department of Public Safety. The series aired 104 episodes in syndication from September 25, 1956, to June 25, 1959.
Release Date: 1956-09-25
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 6
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.
Release Date: 1955-10-31
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 16
Vote Count: 5
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Release Date: 1955-10-02
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 224
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
Release Date: 1953-02-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3