Sam Simon

The Simpsons: O C'mon All Ye Faithful

The residents of Springfield search for Christmas cheer.

Release Date:2024-12-16

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:86

Unity

Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one another, the animals, and nature. UNITY is a film about why we can't seem to get along, even after thousands and thousands of years.

Release Date:2015-08-12

Character:Narrator (voice)

Vote Count:33

Anger Management

Charlie is a non-traditional therapist specializing in anger management. He has a successful private practice and he performs pro bono counseling for an inmate group at a state prison. Prior to his career as a therapist, he was a major league baseball player whose career was put on the shelf for good by his own struggle with anger issues.

Release Date:2012-06-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:232

Sam's Game

Sam's Game is a celebrity poker program currently airing on Playboy TV. It features a lineup of comedians, Playmates, and professional Texas Hold 'Em players and is hosted by Simpsons' co-developer, Sam Simon.

Release Date:2009-06-11

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:

Episode Count:6

The Simpsons Movie

After Homer accidentally pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpsons are declared fugitives.

Release Date:2007-07-25

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:8067

The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman

Two 'thirty-something' women's willful ignorance, fleeting confidence, poor judgment and self-loathing constantly get in the way of their success.

Release Date:2006-08-04

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:4

The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror

Includes the following episodes from the Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror V, Treehouse of Horror VI, Treehouse of Horror VII, and Treehouse of Horror XII.

Release Date:2003-10-31

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

The Michael Richards Show

The Michael Richards Show is a sitcom that debuted on NBC in 2000. The show starred Michael Richards as reality-challenged but successful private detective Vic Nardozza who gets the job done despite his unconventional methods.

Release Date:2000-10-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Shanghai Noon

Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.

Release Date:2000-05-26

Character:Chief's Sidekick

Vote Count:2553

The Simpsons: Too Hot For TV

A collection of episodes that was released on 1 October 1999 on VHS and on 8 September 2003 at DVD as part of the series The Simpsons Classics.

Release Date:1999-03-08

Department:Writing

Job:Scenario Writer

Vote Count:16

Men Behaving Badly

Men Behaving Badly is an American sitcom that ran on NBC from 1996 to 1997. It is based on the earlier British sitcom of the same name.

Release Date:1996-09-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:4

The Drew Carey Show

Drew is an assistant director of personnel in a Cleveland department store and he has been stuck there for ten years. Other than fighting with co-worker Mimi, his hobbies include drinking beer and not being able to get dates. To make a few extra bucks he has a micro-brewery going in his garage with his buddies.

Release Date:1995-09-13

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:157

Friends

Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life.

Release Date:1994-09-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:8222

The George Carlin Show

The George Carlin Show is an American sitcom that aired on the Fox network from January 1994 to July 1995. It was created jointly by veteran TV producer Sam Simon and the show's namesake, comedian George Carlin.

Release Date:1994-01-16

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:27

Vote Count:4

Phenom

A teenage tennis prodigy tries to balance a social life with her ambition for stardom, under constant pressure from her driven coach, but with lots of support from her mom.

Release Date:1993-09-14

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:5

The Super

Louie Kritski is a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge gives him another option -- he must live in his rat-infested hell hole until he brings it up to liveable standards.

Release Date:1991-10-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:112

Sibs

Sibs is an American sitcom broadcast by ABC from September 17, 1991 until May 6, 1992. The series chronicled the relationship of three sisters, and the support the youngest two especially needed from their eldest married sister. Sibs was created by Heide Perlman and executived produced by Perlman, James L. Brooks and Sam Simon, all of whom had been showrunners of Fox's The Tracey Ullman Show. The series was backed by Brooks' Gracie Films company and Columbia Pictures Television.

Release Date:1991-09-17

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:23

The Best of the Tracey Ullman Show

Release Date:1990-05-26

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:1

The Simpsons

Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.

Release Date:1989-12-17

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:13

Vote Count:10059

Prisoners of Gravity

Prisoners of Gravity was a Canadian public broadcasting television news magazine program that explored speculative fiction — science fiction, fantasy, horror, comic books — and its relation to various thematic and social issues. Produced by TVOntario, the show was the brainchild of former comic retail manager Mark Askwith and writer Daniel Richler, and was hosted by Rick Green. The series aired 139 episodes over 5 seasons from 1989 to 1994.

Release Date:1989-08-21

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:6

The Tracey Ullman Show

The Tracey Ullman Show is an American television variety show, hosted by British-born comedian and onetime pop singer Tracey Ullman. It debuted on April 5, 1987 as the Fox network's second primetime series after Married... with Children, and ran until May 26, 1990. The show is produced by Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television. The show blended sketch comedy shorts with many musical numbers, featuring choreography by Paula Abdul. The show also produced The Simpsons shorts before it spun off into its own show, which was also produced by Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television.

Release Date:1987-04-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:81

Vote Count:20

Shaping Up

Shaping Up is a short-lived American sitcom created by writer-producers Sam Simon and Ken Estin, which ran for five weeks on ABC.

Release Date:1984-03-20

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:1

Mighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase

Shorts from "The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle" Saturday morning cartoon show edited together into a movie. Space cat villain Harry the Heartless holds space mouse Queen Pureheart. Only Mighty Mouse can save her.

Release Date:1982-12-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:5

Cheers

The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.

Release Date:1982-09-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:593

Best of the West

An unwitting city slicker is made the marshal of a lawless town in this absurdist Western that pokes gentle but clever fun at the genre's stock plots and characters. Best of the West is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 1981 through August 1982.

Release Date:1981-09-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:4

Taxi

Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a collection of varied and strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his “cage,” they form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.

Release Date:1978-09-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:155

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:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:48