John Wilder

John Wilder is an American writer, actor, and director. He legally changed his name from John McGovern in 1958.

Works

Perry Mason

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

Release Date1957-09-21

Charactersd Dick Wilson

Episode Count1

Vote Count130

Wagon Train

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.

Release Date1957-09-18

Charactersd Stanley Blower

Episode Count1

Vote Count29

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.

Release Date1956-10-05

Charactersd Ben Fraser

Episode Count1

Vote Count9

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet is an American sitcom, airing on ABC from October 3, 1952 through March 26, 1966, starring the real life Nelson family. After a long run on radio, the show was brought to television where it continued its success, running on both radio and television for a few years. The series stars Ozzie Nelson and his wife, singer Harriet Nelson, and their young sons, David and Eric "Ricky" Nelson. Don DeFore had a recurring role as the Nelsons' friendly neighbor "Thorny".

Release Date1952-10-03

Charactersd Will Thornberry

Episode Count2

Vote Count13

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

Release Date1955-10-02

Charactersd Don

Episode Count1

Vote Count242

Studio 57

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

Charactersd Don Baxter

Episode Count1

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October 1954 until May 1959, 166 episodes originally aired on ABC television network. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known as Fort Apache. He and his German shepherd dog, Rin Tin Tin, helped the soldiers to establish order in the American West. Texas-born actor James Brown appeared as Lieutenant Ripley "Rip" Masters. Co-stars included veteran actor Joe Sawyer and actor Rand Brooks from Gone with the Wind fame.

Release Date1954-10-15

Charactersd Pete Benton

Episode Count1

Vote Count20

Summer Love

A neighborhood rock band gets a job playing at a summer camp.

Release Date1958-03-10

Charactersd Mike Howard

Vote Count3

West Point

The West Point Story is a dramatic anthology television series shown in the United States by Columbia Broadcasting System during the 1956-57 season and by ABC during the 1957-58 season. The West Point Story, produced with the full cooperation of the United States Department of Defense and the United States Military Academy, was said to be based on actual files documenting many of the real-life dramatic occurrences at West Point over the years. Names and dates were altered in order to protect the privacy of the real people portrayed, however. The program was at first hosted by a fictional cadet, Charles C. Thompson, but this device was discontinued prior to the end of 1956. During its second season on ABC, The West Point Story was in competition with NBC's The Californians, set in San Francisco during the gold rush of the 1850s, and with The $64,000 Question quiz series on CBS. The West Point Story was replaced on the summer schedule in 1958 by Jack Wyatt's Confession, which continued to air during the first half of the 1958-1959 season in the 10 p.m. Tuesday evening time slot. At the time that The West Point Story was broadcast, four other military dramas aired either through syndication or on the major networks: Harbor Command, Navy Log, The Silent Service, and Men of Annapolis.

Release Date1956-10-05

Charactersd Cadet Stanley Roger Jacoby

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Night Unto Night

A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by incurable illness and a beautiful woman haunted by the voice of her dead husband.

Release Date1949-06-10

Charactersd Willie Shawn

Vote Count8

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

Charactersd Stuart

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

When I Grow Up

Josh is a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, he chances across an old diary once kept by his grandfather. Leafing through the yellowed pages, Josh discovers that Grandpa went through many of the same childhood travails that he is enduring at that moment. Armed with a renewed understanding of and appreciation for his elders, Josh decides to stick around for a while and see how things develop.

Release Date1951-04-19

Charactersd Duckface Kelly

Vote Count2

Room for One More

Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.

Release Date1952-01-10

Charactersd Senior Patrol Leader (uncredited)

Vote Count49

Rock, Pretty Baby

A high school rock group enters a band contest.

Release Date1956-12-01

Charactersd 'Fingers' Porter

Vote Count3

Hold Back The Night

A Marine officer goes through Korea with the bottle of Scotch that his wife gave him in the last war.

Release Date1956-07-29

Charactersd Tinker

Vote Count3

Imitation General

An officer poses as a general after the death of his commanding officer and inspires his troops to victory.

Release Date1958-08-20

Charactersd Lt. Jeff Clayton

Vote Count3

Tumbleweed Trail

Eddie Dean's assignment is to thwart the efforts of a crooked gambler, Brad Barton, to take over the property of his half-brother Bill Ryan. In order to secure the ranch, which is believed to hold large silver deposits, the scheming relative contracts to have Ryan killed. He then presents a forged will to the court naming himself as the sole heir. Shocked by the tide of events, Ryan's two rightful heirs, his grown daughter Robin and young son "Freckles" are determined to remain on their father's property. Eddie and his sidekick, Soapy Jones, arrive on the scene in time to enter the fight on the side of Robin and "Freckles."

Release Date1946-07-19

Charactersd Freckles Ryan

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and James Brolin as the younger doctor he often worked with, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.

Release Date1969-09-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count19

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

Release Date1971-09-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count7

The Streets of San Francisco

Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.

Release Date1972-09-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count98

The Partridge Family

The Partridge Family is an American television sitcom series about a widowed mother and her five children who embark on a music career.

Release Date1970-09-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count30

Branded

Branded is an American Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966, sponsored by Procter & Gamble in its Sunday night 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time period, and starred Chuck Connors as Jason McCord, a United States Army Cavalry captain who had been drummed out of the service following an unjust accusation of cowardice.

Release Date1965-01-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count17

Lakota Moon

This movie depicts the life of a small Indian tribe, in a time shortly before the white men became a threat. In the focus of the story is the young Skywalker, who woos cute Morning Sun, but can't seem to convince her father of his qualities. When the outcast Kayowa attack the camp, he hopes for an opportunity to impress him.

Release Date1999-05-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Return to Lonesome Dove

After returning the body of Gus McCrae to Lonesome Dove, Woodrow Call takes on the challenge of driving a herd of wild mustangs 2500 miles north to the Hat Creek Ranch in Montana. But tragedy, triumph, despair and deceit will greet him before he ever gets there.

Release Date1993-11-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count28

The Devlin Connection

Years after an affair with Nicole Corsello, former intelligence agent Brian Devlin discovers he has a grown son, Nick. Devlin, now wealthy, reconnects with Nick, a struggling private investigator.

Release Date1982-10-02

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

The Bastard

Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his father's family and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved in the events leading to the American Revolution. (Episodes 1 and 2 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)

Release Date1978-05-22

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count4

Centennial

The economic and cultural growth of town of Centennial, Colorado, through the intertwining lives of the brave men and women inhabiting it. Spanning two centuries from the settling of the area in the 1700s, to the late 1970s.

Release Date1978-10-01

DepartmentCrew

JobCreator

Episode Count12

Vote Count34

Feast of All Saints

Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression.

Release Date2001-11-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count11

XXX's & OOO's

Four ex-wives become friends bonding through their shared experiences as ex-wives of country music singers.

Release Date1994-06-21

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count2

Breaking Home Ties

Inspired by a Norman Rockwell painting, this 1950s coming of age drama centers on a young man leaving home to attend college, where he will learn the lessons in becoming a man. While his family must deal with a life threatening illness.

Release Date1987-11-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

The Abduction of Saint Anne

A cynical detective and a Roman Catholic bishop team up to investigate the reported miraculous powers of a 17-year-old girl being held captive in the home of her father, an ailing syndicate kingpin.

Release Date1975-01-21

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1