Leonard B. Stern (Writer)
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Works
Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger
Rock Hudson was a virile screen idol who was the epitome of clean-cut masculinity. He was one of the first Hollywood celebrities to die of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, providing the killer virus with a famous face amidst the American AIDS paranoia of 1985. 2010 is not only the 25th anniversary of his death but would also have been his 85 birthday. The film investigates the many film roles Rock Hudson played, against the more intimate and private world of Roy Fitzgerald.
Release Date: 2010-02-13
Character: Himself
Vote Count: 6
Get Smart
When members of the nefarious crime syndicate KAOS attack the U.S. spy agency Control and the identities of secret agents are compromised, the Chief has to promote hapless but eager analyst Maxwell Smart to field agent. He is partnered with veteran and capable Agent 99, the only spy whose cover remains intact. Can they work together to thwart the evil world-domination plans of KAOS and its crafty operative?
Release Date: 2008-06-19
Character: Cesna Pilot
Vote Count: 3642
Missing Pieces
As sole heir to a relative's estate, Wendel is surprised to learn that the only thing he's been left is a riddle. However, he and his musician friend, Lou, are soon thrust into a comic chase, as an assortment of unsavoury characters, underworld figures, and even private investigators, are after them for the inheritance - and they don't know what it is!
Release Date: 1992-03-28
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 9
Supermarket Sweep
An American television game show combining an ordinary team-based quiz show with the novel concept of a live, timed race through a supermarket.
Release Date: 1990-02-05
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 5
Get Smart, Again!
KAOS has invented a weather machine so Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 are called back into action to foil this evil plan.
Release Date: 1989-02-26
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 27
Target
A Texan with a secret past searches Europe with his son after the KGB kidnaps his wife.
Release Date: 1985-11-08
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 106
Partners in Crime
Partners in Crime is an American crime drama television series that aired from September 22 until December 29, 1984.
Release Date: 1984-09-27
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 5
The Nude Bomb
When KAOS develops a bomb that can dissolve all clothing, Maxwell Smart is brought in to foil the evil plot.
Release Date: 1980-05-09
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 81
Just You and Me, Kid
George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.
Release Date: 1979-07-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 15
Rosetti and Ryan: Men Who Love Women
A couple of resourceful, free-wheeling criminal attorneys with an eye for the ladies confront a no-nonsense judge while trying to clear an heiress in the slaying of her husband, although her explanation of a mysterious intruder provides them with a rather weak case.
Release Date: 1977-05-19
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Lanigan's Rabbi
Lanigan's Rabbi is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC during the first half of 1977.
Release Date: 1977-01-22
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Lanigan's Rabbi
In this pilot film, an Irish Catholic police chief and a Jewish rabbi join together to solve the murder of a housekeeper whose body was discovered by the front entrance of the rabbi's synagogue.
Release Date: 1976-06-17
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
The Snoop Sisters
Two elderly mystery novelists solve real crimes.
Release Date: 1973-12-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 5
Faraday and Company
Faraday & Company is an American crime drama series that aired in the 1973-1974 season. It starred Dan Dailey as Frank Faraday, a private investigator falsely accused of murdering his partner who returns to Los Angeles after 28 years of imprisonment, and James Naughton as Steve, his son who is also a private investigator.
Release Date: 1973-09-26
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 4
Diana
Diana is an American sitcom that aired on NBC during the 1973-1974 television season that was created by Leonard Stern, which ran from September 10, 1973 to January 7, 1974. The series was filmed in front of a live studio audience at CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles.
Release Date: 1973-09-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
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: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 2
The Snoop Sisters
A spinster and her widowed sister, both authors of murder mystery novels, try to track down the killer of a former movie star.
Release Date: 1972-12-18
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
McMillan & Wife
McMillan & Wife is a lighthearted American police procedural that aired on NBC from September 17, 1971 to April 24, 1977. Starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James in the title roles, the series premiered in 90-minute episodes as part of the wheel series NBC Mystery Movie, in rotation with Columbo and McCloud. Initially airing on Wednesday night, the original line-up was shifted to Sundays in the second season, where it aired for the rest of its run. This was the first element to be created specially for the Mystery Movie strand.
Release Date: 1971-09-29
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 39
Vote Count: 22
Once Upon a Dead Man
The wife of a San Francisco police commissioner drags him into a charity auction theft, which leads to a murder.
Release Date: 1971-09-17
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 2
The Governor & J.J.
The Governor & J.J. is a television series that ran from September 1969 to January 1971 on CBS in the United States and in Canada, where it ran on CBC Television. Selected episodes were rerun by CBS during the summer of 1972. It was produced by Talent Associates and CBS Productions. CBS Television Distribution now owns the distribution rights to the program. The series starred Dan Dailey and Julie Sommars. It focused on William Drinkwater, a governor in an unnamed Midwestern state, who, in lieu of his late wife, had a "first lady" in his twenty-something year-old daughter, Jennifer Jo. J.J., as Jennifer Jo was called, had a regular job as an assistant curator at a zoo in the capital city and had a love for animals. She was bright and opinionated and could also debate political issues with her father as well as anyone else. Despite their difference in opinions, William really loved J.J., and she proved herself to be charming and efficient in her duties being "first lady" for her widowered father. J.J. often gained support and advice from Maggie McLeod, the governor's secretary; George Callison, the Governor's press secretary, and from Sara Andrews, the housekeeper at the Governor's Mansion, who appeared in twenty-three episodes.
Release Date: 1969-09-23
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 1
The Good Guys
The Good Guys is an American sitcom which aired on CBS from September 25, 1968 to January 23, 1970. 42 color episodes were filmed in all. As with The Governor & J.J. and Get Smart, it was produced by Talent Associates and CBS Productions. CBS Television Studios also owns the rights to this program as well.
Release Date: 1968-09-25
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3
He & She
He & She is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network as part of its 1967-1968 lineup, originally sponsored by General Foods and Lever Brothers. He & She is widely considered to be ahead of its time by broadcast historians. Its sophisticated approach to comedy was viewed as opening doors to the groundbreaking MTM family of sitcoms of the 1970s, beginning with The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970. The character of Oscar was openly the pattern for the Ted Baxter character, for which creator Leonard Stern granted permission. CBS aired reruns of He & She in prime time from June 1970 to September 1970.
Release Date: 1967-09-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 3
Get Smart: A Man Called Smart
KAOS steals a secret formula that turns water into vapor and threatens the USA to dry up its entire water supply.
Release Date: 1967-04-08
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Run, Buddy, Run
Run, Buddy, Run is an American situation comedy starring Jack Sheldon, which ran on CBS from September 12, 1966, until January 2, 1967.
Release Date: 1966-09-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Hero
The Hero is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC on Thursday Night at 9:30pm from September 8, 1966 to January 5, 1967.
Release Date: 1966-09-08
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 16
Vote Count: 2
Get Smart
Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show stars Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, and Edward Platt. Henry said they created the show by request of Daniel Melnick, who was a partner, along with Leonard Stern and David Susskind, of the show's production company, Talent Associates, to capitalize on "the two biggest things in the entertainment world today"—James Bond and Inspector Clouseau. Brooks said: "It's an insane combination of James Bond and Mel Brooks comedy." This is the only Mel Brooks production to feature a laugh track. The success of the show eventually spawned the follow-up films The Nude Bomb and Get Smart, Again!, as well as a 1995 revival series and a 2008 film remake. In 2010, TV Guide ranked Get Smart's opening title sequence at No. 2 on its list of TV's Top 10 Credits Sequences, as selected by readers.
Release Date: 1965-09-18
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 138
Vote Count: 402
I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
I'm Dickens, He's Fenster is an American sitcom that ran on ABC during the 1962-63 season, and was created and produced by Leonard Stern, filmed at Desilu.
Release Date: 1962-09-28
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3
The Steve Allen Show
Release Date: 1956-06-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 163
Vote Count: 5
The Phil Silvers Show
The Phil Silvers Show, originally titled You'll Never Get Rich, was a sitcom which ran on CBS from 1955 to 1959 for 142 episodes, plus a 1959 special. The series starred Phil Silvers as Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko of the United States Army. The series was created and largely written by Nat Hiken, and won three consecutive Emmy Awards for Best Comedy Series. The show is sometimes titled Sergeant Bilko or simply Bilko in reruns, and is very often referred to by these names, both on-screen and by viewers. The show's success transformed Silvers from a journeyman comedian into a star, and writer-producer Hiken from a highly-regarded behind-the-scenes comedy writer into a publicly recognized creator.
Release Date: 1955-09-20
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 144
Vote Count: 21
Three for the Show
This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late husband's songwriting partner, Gower Champion, but the new marriage is thrown for a loop when Lemmon, her first husband, turns up very much alive and eager to see Grable.
Release Date: 1955-02-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 6
The Jazz Singer
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.
Release Date: 1953-02-14
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 6
Lost in Alaska
After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder.
Release Date: 1952-08-13
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 18
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.
Release Date: 1952-07-11
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 7
Okinawa
On the eve of their return to the states, the crew of the U.S.S. Blake is unpleasantly surprised when their new captain, Lt. Commander Hale, announces that they've been reassigned to the upcoming invasion of Okinawa. With the news turning the crew against him, Hale must rise to the occasion to keep his men inline.
Release Date: 1952-02-28
Department: Crew
Job: Additional Dialogue
Vote Count: 6
Today
Today is a daily American morning television show that airs on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and is the fifth-longest running American television series. Originally a two-hour program on weekdays, it expanded to Sundays in 1987 and Saturdays in 1992. The weekday broadcast expanded to three hours in 2000, and to four hours in 2007. Today's dominance was virtually unchallenged by the other networks until the late 1980s, when it was overtaken by ABC's Good Morning America. Today retook the Nielsen ratings lead the week of December 11, 1995, and held onto that position for 852 consecutive weeks until the week of April 9, 2012, when it was beaten by Good Morning America yet again. In 2002, Today was ranked #17 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest Television Shows of All Time.
Release Date: 1952-01-14
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 28
The Milkman
A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.
Release Date: 1950-10-17
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid.
Release Date: 1950-08-05
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 34
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs.
Release Date: 1950-04-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 10
Keep It in the Family
Keep It in the Family is an American television game show hosted by Bill Nimmo and announced by Johnny Olson which ran on ABC from October 12, 1957 to February 8, 1958. The series was created by Leonard Stern and Roger Price. The show was produced by Frank Cooper Productions, and was replaced by Dick Clark's Beechnut Show, which ran until 1960.
Department: Creator
Job: Creator