Roland Kibbee (Writer)

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Works

Angel on My Shoulder

A small-time Chicago hood, now deceased, gets a second chance at life by striking a bargain with the Devil to inhabit and attempt to corrupt a totally honest politician.

Release Date: 1980-05-11

Department: Writing

Job: Original Film Writer

Vote Count: 2

The Return of the World's Greatest Detective

A Los Angeles cop falls off his motorcycle, strikes his head and wakes up believing himself to be Sherlock Holmes. Along with the social worker who is treating him, he sets out to solve the murder of an embezzler.

Release Date: 1976-06-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Barney Miller

Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.

Release Date: 1975-01-23

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 170

Vote Count: 52

The Midnight Man

An ex-convict, and ex-cop, finds himself in the midst of drama as a murder, of a female student, is commited at the university where he works as a night watchman. He is reluctantly drawn into the criminal investigation and eventually becomes a suspect in the case. Will he be able to find the real murderer and clear his own name, or not?

Release Date: 1974-03-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 20

Brock's Last Case

A New York City cop who has retired to a small Western town is drawn into the local case of an Indian who is accused of murdering a sheriff.

Release Date: 1973-03-05

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 2

Columbo

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: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 67

Vote Count: 732

Valdez Is Coming

Old Mexican-American sheriff Bob Valdez has always been a haven of sanity in a land of madmen when it came to defending law and order. But the weapon smuggler Frank Tanner is greedy and impulsive. When Tanner provokes a shooting that causes the death of an innocent man and Valdez asks him to financially compensate the widow, Tanner refuses to do so and severely humiliates Valdez, who will do justice and avenge his honor, no matter what it takes.

Release Date: 1971-04-09

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 81

Now You See It, Now You Don't

A bumbling art expert, hired by an insurance company to protect a Rembrandt on loan from the Louvre, schemes to steal it.

Release Date: 1968-11-11

Department: Production

Job: Producer

The Scalphunters

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.

Release Date: 1968-02-29

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 107

It Takes a Thief

Convicted cat burglar Alexander Mundy gets an offer he can't refuse from the United States government: If he puts his formidable thieving skills to work for them, he'll be released from prison. Alexander's dad, Alister, sometimes comes out of retirement as a thief to help his son on special jobs.

Release Date: 1968-01-09

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 23

The Appaloosa

A man tries to recover a horse stolen from him by a Mexican bandit.

Release Date: 1966-09-15

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 67

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.

Release Date: 1965-05-26

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 12

The Playboy of the Western World

A quiet little village, and especially a pretty young woman, falls under the spell of a charming, somewhat roguish stranger who suddenly appears one day.

Release Date: 1962-12-31

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 5

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.

Release Date: 1962-09-20

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 70

The Bob Newhart Show

The Bob Newhart Show is an American comedy variety show starring comedian Bob Newhart. It originally ran from October 1961 through June 1962 on NBC, airing on Wednesday nights at 10pm Eastern time, immediately following Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall. The variety show was sponsored by Kraft Foods's Sealtest Dairy division. The show was awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Humor in 1962. It was also nominated for the Writing Achievement in Comedy Award for Roland Kibbee, Bob Newhart, Don Hinkley, Milt Rosen, Ernest Chambers, Dean Hargrove, Robert Kaufman, Norm Liebmann, Charles Sherman, Howard Snyder and Larry Siegel, but they lost to Carl Reiner for The Dick Van Dyke Show. The show also won a Peabody Award in 1961.

Release Date: 1961-10-11

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 34

Vote Count: 2

The New Bob Cummings Show

The New Bob Cummings Show is an American situation comedy which was broadcast by CBS during the 1961-62 television season. The series was originally titled The Bob Cummings Show when it first appeared on the CBS schedule on October 5, 1961; however, this led to confusion between this program and series stars Bob Cummings' earlier 1955 series, also called The Bob Cummings Show; thus, the title The New Bob Cummings Show was officially adopted beginning with the December 28 episode.

Release Date: 1961-10-05

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

The Deputy

The Deputy is an American western series that aired on NBC from September 1959, to July 1961. The series stars Henry Fonda as Chief Marshal Simon Fry of the Arizona Territory and Allen Case as Deputy Clay McCord, a storekeeper who tried to avoid using a gun.

Release Date: 1959-09-12

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 5

The Devil's Disciple

In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.

Release Date: 1959-08-20

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 34

Top Secret Affair

A publisher uses her magazine and charm to derail a general on the Washington fast track.

Release Date: 1957-01-30

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 5

Vera Cruz

After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and together they are hired by the Emperor Maximillian and the Marquis Henri de Labordere to escort the Countess Marie Duvarre to the harbor of Vera Cruz.

Release Date: 1954-12-25

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 242

Three Sailors and a Girl

A group of sailors invest in a musical revue.

Release Date: 1953-11-23

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 2

The Desert Song

Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an investigation, accompanied by his daughter, Margot. Birabeau hires Bonnard to tutor her, and she is attracted to a Legionaire captain, Claud Fontaine. While the general, Bonnard and Fontaine pay a visit to Yousseff, an American newspaper man, Benji Kidd, discovers a secret way in and out of Yousseff's palace, with the aid of Azuri, a dancing girl in love with Bonnard. The latter is forced to resume his role as the Riffs leader, and kidnap Margot until he can convince her of Yousseff's treachery. But Yousseff's men attack the Riff camp and take Margot prisoner.

Release Date: 1953-05-30

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 4

The Crimson Pirate

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.

Release Date: 1952-09-27

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 144

Dans la vie tout s'arrange

A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights.

Release Date: 1952-08-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Ten Tall Men

Sgt. Mike Kincaid of the French Foreign Legion learns, from a Riff prisoner, that an attack will soon be made by the villainous Hussin on the Legion's outpost of Tarfa. Kincaid volunteers to lead nine other Legionnaires on a mission to delay Hussin's attack till reinforcements arrive. When he discovers that Hussin plans to marry Mahla, a girl from a rival tribe, in order to build a coalition against the French, Kincaid kidnaps Mahla. Hussin forcefully takes her back, but by now his planned attack on Tarfa is crumbling and Mahla has begun to fall in love with Kincaid.

Release Date: 1951-10-26

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 16

Painting The Clouds With Sunshine

The story of three gold-digging ladies searching for millionaires. A loose remake of Gold Diggers of 1933.

Release Date: 1951-10-10

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 2

Pardon My French

Release Date: 1951-08-10

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1

Tell It to the Judge

Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her divorce makes her unfit for the job. This evolves into situations, happening in Florida, New England, Washington D.C., and the Adirondacks, such as the misunderstood husband trying to win back his wife, and the misunderstood wife trying to make her husband jealous, and one case of mistaken identity after another, after another.

Release Date: 1949-11-18

Department: Crew

Job: Additional Dialogue

Vote Count: 7

Angel on My Shoulder

The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.

Release Date: 1946-09-20

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 37

A Night in Casablanca

The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.

Release Date: 1946-05-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 146