Paul Monash (Writer)

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

V

Once again, Earth is the battleground. But now the aliens whose human guise hides their true reptilian natures are wiser. They believe the secret to their survival on Earth lies in the DNA of the newly born half-human, half-spaceling Starchild. But that's something the world's Resistance Fighters cannot allow.

Release Date1984-10-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count170

Carrie

Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

Release Date1976-11-03

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count4152

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.

Release Date1958-10-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

Touch of Evil

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.

Release Date1958-03-30

DepartmentCrew

JobAdditional Writing

Vote Count1539

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.

Release Date1969-09-23

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count2372

Stalin

The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin. Through the eyes and memories of Anna Aliluyeva, Stalin’s granddaughter, the film traces the rise of the Bolshevik tyrant from Lenin’s return from exile to his brutal struggle with Trotsky, the creation of his feared secret police and the merciless inner workings of his regime. As Anna recounts her grandfather’s life, viewers gain an intimate, personal perspective on the paranoia and purges that left even his closest circles living in constant fear.

Release Date1992-11-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count35

Judd for the Defense

High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases throughout the U.S.

Release Date1967-09-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

The Lawbreakers

The story of a scheme to double-cross the syndicate and steal its money, and of a police commissioner '​s efforts to investigate homicides that take place as the scheme unfolds while also fighting corruption in the city government and police department.

Release Date1961-08-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

Studio 57

Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1956.

Release Date1954-09-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Salem's Lot

Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House. When people around the Marsten House start dying mysteriously, Mears discovers that the owner of the mansion is actually a vampire who is turning them into an army of undead slaves.

Release Date1979-11-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count2

Vote Count515

Big Trouble in Little China

Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.

Release Date1986-05-30

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count3215

The Safecracker

Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium.

Release Date1958-03-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6

Cain's Hundred

A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring 100 top criminals to justice.

Release Date1961-09-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count3

The Crimebusters

Government agents hunt America's most dangerous crooks. Based on the "Cain's Hundred" TV series.

Release Date1961-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

The Scarface Mob

Story of how a group of incorruptible federal lawmen helped put 1920s' Chicago gangster Al Capone in prison.

Release Date1959-04-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count7

Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long

A Louisiana governor becomes a controversial political kingpin during the Depression.

Release Date1995-03-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

Carrie

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and an oppressive religious fanatic mother at home. When her tormentors pull a humiliating prank at the senior prom, she unleashes a horrifying chaos on everyone, leaving nothing but destruction in her wake.

Release Date2002-11-04

DepartmentProduction

JobConsulting Producer

Vote Count536

The Rage: Carrie 2

A horrible massacre strikes up after an outcast teenage girl is taunted by a group of high school jocks, all of them unaware of her cutthroat telekinetic powers.

Release Date1999-03-12

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count442

Child Bride of Short Creek

A dramatization of the true account of a fundamentalist sect in Arizona that practices polygamy, and a returning Korean War veteran's rebellion against his father when he learns that the latter plans to increase his stable of wives by adding the 15-year-old girl with whom his son is romantically involved.

Release Date1981-12-07

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count9

Behind Closed Doors

Behind Closed Doors is an American drama series set during the Cold War hosted by and occasionally starring Bruce Gordon in the role of Commander Matson. The series, which aired on NBC from October 2, 1958, to April 9, 1959, focuses, among other themes, on how the former Soviet Union stole American missile secrets and proposes steps to prevent further espionage. Behind Closed Doors is based on the files and experiences of Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, who offers comments at the end of each segment. Behind Closed Doors, a Screen Gems production, replaced Jackie Cooper's sitcom The People's Choice, followed the NBC quiz show, Twenty-One, and preceded the The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show. Its competition was The Pat Boone Chevy Show on ABC and Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater western anthology series on CBS.

Release Date1958-10-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Sing Boy Sing

The teenage son of a rural preacher becomes a huge Elvis-like rock 'n' roll star, but he has trouble adjusting to fame and success.

Release Date1958-02-21

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count1

Operation Manhunt

Ten years after his defection from the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, Igor Gouzenko is hunted by Soviet agents. Based on a true story.

Release Date1954-10-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

All Quiet on the Western Front

At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.

Release Date1979-11-14

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count224

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.

Release Date1951-12-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count7

Slaughterhouse-Five

Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.

Release Date1972-03-15

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count241

The Asphalt Jungle

Police adventure series set in a modern American metropolis, concerning the problems of a special police group formed to fight high echelon crime. The series is a TV projection of the 1950 MGM motion picture based on the novel of the same title by W. R. Burnett.

Release Date1961-04-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

The Front Page

A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.

Release Date1974-11-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count371

George Wallace

The miniseries follows the history of its namesake, from the 1950s when Wallace was a circuit court judge in Barbour County, to his tenure as the most powerful governor in Alabama's history. It depicts his symbolic "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", where Wallace attempted to block black students from entering the University of Alabama. It details his stance on racial segregation in Alabama at the time, which proved popular with his white constituents, and also depicts Wallace's rise as a presidential hopeful. This eventually leads to his attempted assassination—and his surprise victory in several states during the 1968 presidential election.

Release Date1997-08-24

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Episode Count2

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums.

Release Date1973-06-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count196

Deadfall

Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas.

Release Date1968-09-11

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count29

George Wallace

George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor of Alabama. It was directed by John Frankenheimer, who won an Emmy award for it; Sinise and Mare Winningham also won Emmies for their performances. The film was based on the 1996 biography Wallace : The Classic Portrait of Alabama Governor George Wallace by Marshall Frady, who also co-wrote the teleplay. Frankenheimer's film was highly praised by critics: in addition to the Emmy awards, it received the Golden Globe for Best Miniseries/Motion Picture made for TV. Angelina Jolie also received a Golden Globe for her performance as Wallace's second wife, Cornelia.

Release Date1997-08-24

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count16

Peyton Place

Like the novel and film of the same name, this nighttime soap opera is set in the small New England town of Peyton Place, whose quaint charm masks a complicated web of extramarital affairs, shady business deals, scandals, even murder.

Release Date1964-09-15

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count514

Vote Count8

Nightmare at Ground Zero

After the first atom bomb test, scientists realize the bomb was more powerful than they expected - which may have terrible results.

Release Date1958-05-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.

Release Date1951-10-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count376

Vote Count4

The Gun Runners

Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled in gunrunning scheme to get money to pay off debts. Sort of a sea-going film noir with bad girl, smarmy villain, and the "innocent" drawn into wrong side of law by circumstances.

Release Date1958-08-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count18

The Day the Loving Stopped

Due to her parents' divorce, a young lady named Judy begins to doubt herself and love in general as her wedding day approaches.

Release Date1981-10-16

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

Interrupted at dinner by a street kid with a strange story, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin find themselves drawn into a strange case when their young informant is found murdered. The victim's mother soon appears with his life savings totally $4.30, Wolfe's fee for taking the case! Archie's fancy legwork brings Wolfe to a mysterious woman with golden spider earrings. And when everyone else investigating the matter hits a dead end, only the inimitable Wolfe can get to the bottom of the crime.

Release Date2000-03-05

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count8

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Couples

Two fact-based tales about citizens who risked everything, including their lives, to save Holocaust victims.

Release Date1998-05-10

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count1

The Country Husband

After a car crash and the arrival of a beautiful babysitter, a young businessman, William Wiley, considers leaving his wife for the babysitter.

Release Date1956-11-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Helen Morgan Story

Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate speakeasies to star of top rated shows and owning her own club. Also seen is her poor choices, such as her affair with a married man, her short marriage to a much younger man, a court fight over an adopted baby and her fatal descent into booze addiction.

Release Date1957-05-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Trial of Chaplain Jensen

Based on a true story, this film tells the story of Chaplain Andrew Jensen, the only U.S. navy chaplain ever court-martialed on charges of adultery.

Release Date1975-02-11

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count3

Bailout at 43,000

An Air Force major feels a volatile mixture of relief and anger when he is excused from performing a dangerous test in a new aircraft.

Release Date1957-05-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count5

Murder in Peyton Place

A former resident of the town of Peyton Place, now wealthy and powerful, secretly returns to the town and sets in motion a spate of killings designed as revenge for past wrongs.

Release Date1977-10-03

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count1

Killer Rules

Two adoptive brothers -- one a mob hit man, the other a Department of Justice investigator -- who are unaware of each other's existence until they become involved with the same woman, end up in a deadly triangle in this thriller.

Release Date1993-01-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Death of Manolete

The story of the last hours in the life of Spain's most celebrated matador.

Release Date1957-09-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter