Fletcher Markle
Fletcher Markle was a Canadian actor, screenwriter, television producer and director. Markle began a radio career in Canada, then worked in radio, film and television in the United States.
Works
Front Row Center
Broadway plays are presented live in condensed one hour versions.
Release Date1945-03-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Episode Count3
Vote Count1
Telescope
Telescope is a Canadian documentary series which aired on CBC Television between 1963 and 1973. The series was hosted by Fletcher Markle, which profiled notable Canadian people from celebrities to the unknown, who made a difference. Starting in September 1966, Telescope was the first regular colour broadcast in Canada. It's producer was Sam Levene. In 2008, CBC offered 10 episodes of Telescope on their Digital Archives website. The episodes are from the 1970-1971 season, and feature new host Ken Kavanagh. Among those profiled were game show host Monty Hall, publisher Mel Hurtig, journalist Pat Carney, actor John Vernon, author Farley Mowat, amusement park impresario Patty Conklin, and underwater explorer Joe MacInnis. A 1970 episode featured actor Donald Sutherland including early footage of his son Kiefer. Mentalist Uri Geller followed a week later by Ray Hyman and Jerry Andrus who explained and duplicated Geller's "paranormal" feats.
Release Date1963-07-01
Charactersd Host
Episode Count10
Vote Count1
Jigsaw
New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy is working hard on investigation about a series of murders related to an extremist group.
Release Date1949-03-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Vote Count21
Journey Together
Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
Release Date1945-10-01
Charactersd Staff Pilot, Canadian Navigation School
Vote Count6
A Talk with Hitchcock
"Master of Suspense" Alfred Hitchcock speaks candidly in this one-on-one interview with director and host Fletcher Markle, filmed in 1964 for the television documentary series "Telescope." During the discussion, Hitchcock talks about his early career as a silent-film editor, offers his take on the building blocks of his works and relates his theories on the impact of horror films on society and human behavior.
Release Date1964-02-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self - Host
Vote Count2
V. 1
Short documentary on the use of the V-1 Flying Bomb during the German bombings of London.
Release Date1944-12-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Self - Commentator
Vote Count1
The Wednesday Play
An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.
Release Date1964-09-30
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
Studio One
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
Release Date1948-11-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count12
Thriller
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.
Release Date1960-09-13
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count67
Vote Count18
Julia
Julia is an American sitcom notable for being one of the first weekly series to depict an African American woman in a non-stereotypical role. Previous television series featured African American lead characters, but the characters were usually servants. The show stars actress and singer Diahann Carroll, and ran for 86 episodes on NBC from September 17, 1968 to March 23, 1971. The series was produced by Savannah Productions, Inc., Hanncar Productions, Inc., and 20th Century-Fox Television. During pre-production, the proposed series title was Mama's Man. The series was also unique in that it was among the few situation comedies in the late 1960s that did not use a laugh track; however, 20th Century-Fox Television added them when the series was reissued for syndication and cable rebroadcasts in the late 1980s.
Release Date1968-09-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count8
Father of the Bride
Father of the Bride is an American sitcom that aired on CBS during the 1961-62 season. Produced by MGM Television, the series was based on the 1950 film of the same title. Cast members include Leon Ames as the father of the bride, Ruth Warrick as the mother, and Myrna Fahey as the bride.
Release Date1961-09-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count20
Vote Count1
Hong Kong
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 Date1960-03-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count27
Summer Playhouse
Release Date1954-07-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
The Incredible Journey
The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home?
Release Date1963-11-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count113
The Man with a Cloak
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so that he can help out the struggling French Republic. Unfortunately, the dying man's conniving housekeeper and butler, already planning murder to get the money themselves, overhear her and begin plotting her demise.
Release Date1951-11-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count19
The Defender (Studio One)
The pilot for the television series, "The Defenders." The story of Walter and Kenneth Pearson, a father-and-son legal team. Broadcast as two segments of "Studio One," the story relates how the Pearsons defend a young man accused of killing a woman during a robbery attempt.
Release Date1957-02-25
DepartmentCrew
JobCreator
Vote Count2
Little Women: Jo's Story
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
Release Date1950-12-25
DepartmentCrew
JobCreator
Night Into Morning
Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.
Release Date1951-06-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
Mark of Cain
A man is released from prison only to find a new kind of prison: society's judgment of an ex-con's continuing guilt. He now lives with his mother, his critical brother, and the story his mother told that he joined the army.
Release Date1953-02-02
DepartmentCrew
JobCreator
Little Women: Meg's Story
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
Release Date1950-12-18
DepartmentCrew
JobCreator
V1
Depicts the aftermath of German air raids on Britain with V1 rockets during World War II.
Release Date1944-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
The Great Canadian Comic Books!
Film accompanying the book of the same name by Nelvana Enterprises founders Michael Hirsh and Patrick Loubert, with partner Clive Smith as designer and illustrator. It looks at the "Canadian Whites" series of comic books made during World War II, with some focus on Nelvana of the Northern Lights, the genre's first superheroine, and Johnny Canuck. It was accompanied by a two-year travelling tour of the art, the National Gallery of Canada's "Comic Art Traditions in Canada, 1941–45". This is Nelvana Enterprises' first film.
Release Date1971-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
The Play of the Nativity of the Child Jesus
The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.
Release Date1952-12-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Panic!
Release Date1957-03-05
Episode Count1