Eric Bercovici (Writing)
Little is known about Eric Bercovici, a figure with a modest footprint in Writing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
The Making of Shōgun
The set's central 13-part production documentary hails from the miniseries' previous DVD release but remains an extensive, insightful and, most importantly, candid overview of the production from start to finish, featuring a wide array of key players, chief among them author/producer James Clavell, director Jerry London, and actors Richard Chamberlain and Yoko Shimada.
Release Date:2003-09-23
Farewell Moscow
Release Date:1987-02-09
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:13
The Fifth Missile
The crew of a Polaris submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken by toxic poisoning. One of the poison's effects is to make its victims hallucinate, and the sub's captain imagines that he has been given an order to actually attack Russia. He prepares to do exactly that.
Release Date:1986-02-23
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:3
Braker
Lieutenant Harry Braker and his new partner investigate the murder of a sleazy record executive.
Release Date:1985-04-28
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Cowboy
A man from the city returns to his small home town in the countryside to live like a farmer. He finds couple of friends among the locals, but people running the town want his land.
Release Date:1983-04-30
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
One Shoe Makes it Murder
Robert Mitchum stars as a down-and-out ex-cop whose entanglement with a shady casino owner leaves him one step behind a killer.
Release Date:1982-11-06
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:2
McClain's Law
McClain's Law is an American crime drama television series that aired on NBC during the 1981-1982 season. New episodes ended on March 20, and rebroadcasts continued until August 24, 1982.
Release Date:1981-11-20
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:2
Chicago Story
A pair of cops, a pair of doctors, and a pair of lawyers examine a crime — the wounding of a ten-year-old girl by a sniper — from three different angles in this pilot to the short-lived series.
Release Date:1981-03-15
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Shōgun
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
Release Date:1980-09-15
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Character:Self
Episode Count:5
Vote Count:196
The Top of the Hill
Michael Stone is a rising company executive who decides to chuck his career and marriage to fulfill a fantasy to be a member of the U.S. Olympic bobsled team and partake in the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid.
Release Date:1980-02-06
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Flesh & Blood
A young street-tough-turned-boxer struggles to reach the top while finding his romance with an attractive TV reporter is complicated by an incestuous relationship with his mother.
Release Date:1979-10-14
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:4
The Waltzing Policemen
Two policemen dance the waltz together in an empty grand ballroom.
Release Date:1979-05-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Hunters of the Reef
A salvage boat captain is pitted against a better-equipped competitor in a race to locate a sunken wreck in shark-infested waters off the Florida coast.
Release Date:1978-05-20
Department:Sound
Job:Music
Vote Count:2
Washington: Behind Closed Doors
CIA director Bill Martin knows that an incoming president means a new direction for the country—and another set of eyes on the top secret Primula Report. Martin tries to build a rapport with his new boss, but President Richard Monckton is more interested in settling old scores and cleaning house with the help of the FBI.
Release Date:1977-09-06
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:3
Take a Hard Ride
After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to some families who live across the border in Sonora, Mexico. Honest Pike is joined on the trip through the wilderness by a dishonest gambler named Tyree.
Release Date:1975-10-29
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:38
Out of Season
Middle-aged Ann and her teenage daughter Joanna manage a failing hotel on an island off the British coast. One day, the hotel receives an unexpected guest, a man named Joe.
Release Date:1975-05-31
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:9
The Log of the Black Pearl
A young stockbroker, Christopher Sand, inherits an old ship named "Black Pearl" along with a medallion that is the key to a sunken Nazi treasure. But there are other people looking for the sunken treasure, people who will stop at nothing to gain access to the medallion.
Release Date:1975-01-04
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:1
Strange Homecoming
A small-town sheriff is surprised to see his brother show up in town, a man whom he hasn't seen in 20 years--and who has graduated from petty thievery to murder.
Release Date:1974-10-29
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Three the Hard Way
After his wife is kidnapped by a group of white supremacists, a record producer teams up with a PR man and a martial artist to get her back and put a stop to their plot to poison the water supply with a toxin that only kills Black people.
Release Date:1974-06-26
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:31
Assignment: Vienna
The story of Jake Webster, an American expatriate in Vienna who was the operator of Jake's Bar & Grill, an American-style establishment near the scenic heart of the city. In fact, the business was a cover for Jake's actual reason for being in Vienna. He was involved in tracking down various spies and international criminals at the behest of U.S. intelligence, which apparently held something against him which, if disclosed, would have resulted in his being deported from Austria and apparently then incarcerated in the United States. Jake's liaison with U.S. intelligence was a Major Caldwell.
Release Date:1972-09-28
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
Assignment: Munich
Undercover agent, using his bar as a front, battles three killers to find a stolen fortune.
Release Date:1972-04-30
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
The Culpepper Cattle Co.
Working as an assistant on a long cattle drive, the young Ben Mockridge contends between his dream of being a cowboy and the harsh truth of the Old West.
Release Date:1972-04-15
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:47
The Deadly Hunt
A young couple on a forest holiday become unwitting targets for paid killers, and a forest fire helps them escape.
Release Date:1971-10-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
The Other Man
The neglected wife of an ambitious district attorney starts an affair with an ex-convict he had sent to prison. When her lover is found murdered, she begins to suspect that her husband did it.
Release Date:1970-10-19
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Change of Habit
Dr. John Carpenter takes the job of running a health center in a low-income district. He enlists three women to help out who — unbeknownst to him — are actually nuns in street clothes. The church wants to improve the neighborhood but fears that nuns in full habit would not be well received. Unaware of her unavailability, John falls for Sister Michelle, serenading her with his guitar — which, luckily for him, effectively wears away at her religious resolve.
Release Date:1969-11-10
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:26
Hell in the Pacific
During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean.
Release Date:1968-12-19
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:164
Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
Release Date:1968-09-20
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:138
Day of the Evil Gun
Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!
Release Date:1968-03-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:25
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. In the first season, the team is led by Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill; Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, takes charge for the remaining seasons. A hallmark of the series shows Briggs or Phelps receiving his instructions on a recording that then self-destructs, followed by the theme music composed by Lalo Schifrin. The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973, then returned to television for two seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1990, retaining only Graves in the cast. It later inspired a popular series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise, beginning in 1996.
Release Date:1966-09-17
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:277
Conquered City
Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered City is an all-star World War II drama financed in Italy and filmed in Greece. An Athens hotel, full of refugees and expatriates of all nationalities, is captured by Allied troops in the closing days of the War. British Major David Niven has been ordered to prevent a cache of weapons hidden in the hotel from falling into the hands of renegade troops. He cannot allow himself to trust anyone--not even the most innocent-looking (or attractive) of guests. Originally titled La Citta Prigioniera. Conquered City was released in English-speaking countries outside the U.S. as Captive City.
Release Date:1962-12-05
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:3
Square of Violence
Set in Italy, the story takes place in this very country, during WW2, where German occupation army ruled everything, just before the allied forces came, in 1944. Crawford plays here a doctor whose son has been shot by the Germans. Of course he has no more taste in life. He continues his work as a German officers' physician. One day, he throws a bomb just in the middle of German troops. Many soldiers and officers are killed. Some time later, the lead officer of the Nazis troops suspects the doctor to be the responsible of the explosion. He lets him know that he himself knows...
Release Date:1961-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:4