David Manson (Writing)
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Works
Ozark
A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.
Release Date: 2017-07-21
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 2396
Bloodline
A dramatic thriller that explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The Rayburns are hard-working pillars of their Florida Keys community. But when the black sheep son comes home for the 45th anniversary of his parents' hotel, he threatens to expose the Rayburns' dark secrets and shameful past, pushing his siblings to the limits of family loyalty.
Release Date: 2015-03-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 352
New Amsterdam
John Amsterdam is a New York homicide detective unlike any other. He is brilliant, mysterious, reckless, and immortal. In 1642 he saved a Native Indian girl during a massacre of her indigenous tribe. In return, the girl cast an ancient spell that conferred immortality upon him. Amsterdam will not age, she told him, until he finds his one true love.
Release Date: 2008-03-04
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 75
Life
Complex, offbeat Detective Charlie Crews returns to the force after serving time in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Crews’ new lease on life has provided him with a Zen-like outlook, peace of mind and no need for vengeance, an attitude which can be challenging to maintain when someone he cares about is threatened — or when he is investigating the mystery surrounding the murder he was falsely accused of.
Release Date: 2007-09-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 232
Saved
“Saved” chronicles medical school dropout turned paramedic Wyatt Cole, who finds the breakneck pace of his 24-hour shift a welcome escape from his inner demons.
Release Date: 2006-06-12
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 3
Thief
Nick Atwater, the leader of a robbery crew, is balancing his personal life with the planning of a major heist while being targeted by a relentless cop and the Chinese mafia.
Release Date: 2006-03-28
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 14
Big Love
The story of Bill Henrickson and his life in suburban Salt Lake City, balancing the needs of his three wives -- Barb, Nicki and Margene-- their seven kids, three new houses and the opening of his newest hardware store. When disturbing news arrives about Bill's father, he is forced to reconnect with his polygamist parents who live on a fundamentalist compound in rural Utah.
Release Date: 2006-03-12
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 127
John Doe
John Doe tell the story of a man who wakes up naked on an island off the coast of Seattle, knowing everything in the world there is to know—except for who he is and how and why he ended up there.
Release Date: 2002-09-20
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 79
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
Release Date: 2001-09-30
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 346
Baby
A couple finds a baby on their doorstep with a note asking them to temporarily keep it. They take the baby in and care for it as if it were their own. But what if the baby's mom really returns to claim it?
Release Date: 2000-10-08
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
Seapower
Seapower is the fascinating saga of the development of battleships from the days of Ancient Greece to the twenty first century.
Release Date: 2000-04-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Celtic Legends: Irish Legends
This revealing program shows that the search for the Celtic Gods of Britain is an extremely difficult task. Their origins are shrouded in mystery, but they are kept alive in a series of enduring stories. This program presents many of these stories, which have been passed down from generation to generation.
Release Date: 1999-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Mind Games
A couple that seems perfect is hiding big secrets from each other. They are all revealed after they meet a psychotic psychologist.
Release Date: 1998-04-19
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 5
Nothing Sacred
Father Ray, a card-playing, cocktail-sipping, blues-loving priest, ministers to his parishioners at St. Thomas, a large urban church in an inner-city neighborhood. He grapples with his own personal failings, including occasional crises of faith. Offering support are wise older priest Father Leo, young idealist Father Eric, and feminist nun Sister Maureen. (The series was co-created by a Jesuit priest named Bill Cain and producer David Manson.)
Release Date: 1997-09-18
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 1
Mad Love
Matt falls for Casey, the new girl in school. She's fun-loving and eccentric, but there's a darkness to her whimsy that Matt can't begin to comprehend. When Casey attempts to commit suicide, her parents place her in a mental institution. Matt springs her out, and together the young lovers head on a road trip. They believe their love can "cure" Casey's problems. Matt starts to wonder, though, if are they inspired or misguided.
Release Date: 1995-05-26
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 110
Those Secrets
A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.
Release Date: 1992-03-16
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
Against the Law
Against the Law is an American dramedy television series that aired on the Fox network from September 23, 1990 to April 5, 1991. Starring Michael O'Keefe and Suzzanne Douglas, the 17 hour-long episodes centered on the brash Boston lawyer, Simon MacHeath, who left his job at a prestigious law firm to start his own defense practice.
Release Date: 1990-09-23
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 17
Vote Count: 1
Rising Son
Gus Robinson loves three things: his job, family, and country; but suddenly he's losing all three. When his factory shuts down, Gus faces unemployment. It's a time of change for his wife Martha and son Charlie as they reassess a world Gus barely recognizes. But through the nightmare, one dream they cannot take away from him; the reason he will continue to fight: his son, Charlie.
Release Date: 1990-07-23
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 6
Eye on the Sparrow
True story of a blind couple who fought the authorities to acquire the right to adopt a child.
Release Date: 1987-12-07
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 2
The King of Love
A publishing empire founder discovers that his rise to power was costly.
Release Date: 1987-11-19
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Birdy
Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull through?
Release Date: 1984-12-14
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 523
Best Kept Secrets
Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit. Forrest is denied this position on the basis of information concerning his wife. The information, which reveals a dicey extramarital affair, was culled from a department surveillance file that was supposed to have been destroyed by court order. Blaise battles through legal channels to expose the police force's illegal actions, even as she and her husband suffer the innuendoes and cold shoulders from his fellow officers.
Release Date: 1984-03-26
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 2
Sessions
High-priced call girl Lee Churchill, is examining her life via therapy "sessions". Her double life is unknown to her parents, sister and "straight" man with whom she falls in love.
Release Date: 1983-09-26
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1
A Rumor of War
Miniseries based on the 1977 autobiography by Philip Caputo about his service in the United States Marine Corps in the early years of American involvement in the Vietnam War.
Release Date: 1980-09-24
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 1
The Word
A document is discovered that appears to be an ancient eyewitness account of the life of Jesus Christ. A public relations executive is hired to publicize this document as a new version of the Bible, but he finds himself enmeshed in controversy and intrigue.
Release Date: 1978-11-12
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 3
Night Cries
A young woman whose baby died in childbirth refuses to believe it and has dreams that her child is still alive and in danger. A scientist who is conducting experiments about dreams tries to help her.
Release Date: 1978-01-29
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 2
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
One of the most moving stories in the annals of sports is presented in this true drama documenting the love affair of baseball immortal Lou Gehrig and his wife Eleanor. Their romance spans the time period from his days of glory with Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees to his unsuccessful battle with an incurable disease. As the story begins, the talented but shy Gehrig is already a popular Yankee slugger when he meets the outgoing Eleanor. Their romance begins hesitantly, but blossoms as they exchange letters while Gehrig is on the road with the team. However, Gehrig's possessive mother becomes a formidable obstacle, first to their marriage and later to their happiness. But their love for one another proves triumphant. In the midst of their happiness, when Gehrig is at the peak of his career, he learns that he is suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The courage and dignity exhibited by the Gehrigs during this crisis make this a powerful, memorable film.
Release Date: 1978-01-15
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1
Middlesex
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
The Spell
A distraught mother must cope with her embittered daughter who has the ability to cause "accidents" to happen.
Release Date: 1977-02-20
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 28