Direction: Harvey S. Laidman

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Harvey S. Laidman. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Lou Grant (TV Series)

1977 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction James L. Brooks · Allan Burns · Gene Reynolds · Alexander Singer

Cast Ed Asner · Robert Walden · Linda Kelsey · Mason Adams

Plot TV Series (1977-1982). 5 Seasons. 114 Episodes. After everyone on the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" got fired, Lou Grant went to Los Angeles and became city editor of the L.A....

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

Tales of the Gold Monkey (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Donald P. Bellisario · Virgil W. Vogel · James Frawley · Harvey S. Laidman

Cast Stephen Collins · Jeff MacKay · John Calvin · Marta DuBois

Plot TV Series (1982). 22 episodes. Jake Cutter is a pilot and adventurer in Boragora, the port in the Marivella Islands in 1938. He flies his Grumman Goose amphibian on inter-island...

6.3

401 votes

6.3

401 votes

The Blue Knight (TV Series)

1975 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Harvey S. Laidman · Robert Butler · J. Lee Thompson · Ralph Senensky

Cast George Kennedy · John Steadman · Barbara Rhoades · Lee Weaver

Plot TV Series (1975-1976). 2 seasons. 25 episodes. The exploits of Los Angeles beat cop Bumper Morgan.

5.9

21 votes

5.9

21 votes

Family (TV Series)

1976 · Series · 45 min. · United States

Direction Jay Presson Allen · Richard Kinon · Edward Parone · Glenn Jordan

Cast Kristy McNichol · Meredith Baxter · Sada Thompson · James Broderick

Plot TV Series (1976-1980). 5 seasons. 86 episodes. The show featured Sada Thompson and James Broderick as Kate and Doug Lawrence, a happily married middle-class couple living in Pasadena, California. Doug...

5.8

30 votes

5.8

30 votes

Wildside (TV Series)

1985 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Tom Greene · Harvey S. Laidman · Richard C. Sarafian

Cast Howard E. Rollins Jr. · William Smith · J. Eddie Peck · John D'Aquino

Plot Short lived (6 episodes) show about a secret law enforcement group in Wildside County, California in the Old West. The five are Brodie and Sutton Hollister, Bannister Sparks, Varges De...

5.8

38 votes

5.8

38 votes

The Waltons (TV Series)

1972 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Earl Hamner Jr. · Harry Harris · Philip Leacock · Ralph Waite

Cast Jon Walmsley · Eric Scott · Kami Cotler · Earl Hamner Jr.

Plot TV Series (1971-1981). 9 seasons. 213 episodes. In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, during the Great Depression, the Walton family makes its small income from its saw mill on...

5.7

87 votes

5.7

87 votes

Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Brad Buckner · Eugenie Ross-Leming · Harvey S. Laidman · Burt Brinckerhoff

Cast Kate Jackson · Bruce Boxleitner · Beverly Garland · Mel Stewart

Plot A housewife, Mrs. King, is handed a package by a secret agent who who is being pursued by bad guys. The secret agent, Lee Stetson, then has to track down...

5.7

189 votes

5.7

189 votes

Falcon Crest (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Earl Hamner Jr. · Reza Badiyi · Harry Harris · Robert Foxworth

Cast Jane Wyman · Robert Foxworth · Susan Sullivan · Lorenzo Lamas

Plot TV Series (1981-1990). 9 Seasons. 227 Episodes. Angela Channing, whose Italian Grandfather founded the Falcon Crest Winery in the Californian Tuscany Valley many years before, now ran the most powerful...

5.5

20K votes

5.5

20K votes

Knight Rider (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Glen A. Larson · Georg Fenady · Winrich Kolbe · Sidney Hayers

Cast David Hasselhoff · Edward Mulhare · Richard Basehart · Patricia McPherson

Plot TV Series (1982-1986). 4 Seasons. 90 Episodes. Michael Long is a policeman, while investigating someone, he was shot and left for dead. But a millionaire, Wilton Knight finds him and...

5.4

23K votes

5.4

23K votes

Eight Is Enough (TV Series)

1977 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction William Blinn · Harry Harris · Irving J. Moore · Jack Bender

Cast Dick Van Patten · Diana Hyland · Betty Buckley · Grant Goodeve

Plot TV Series (1977-1981). 5 Seasons. 112 Episodes. Family Sitcom. Comedy-drama sitcom of the Bradford family. The father Tom (a columnist for a Sacramento newspaper), mother Joan and their eight children:...

5.3

3K votes

5.3

3K votes

The Dukes of Hazzard (TV Series)

1979 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Gy Waldron · Paul Baxley · Hollingsworth Morse · Denver Pyle

Cast Denver Pyle · Sorrell Booke · Catherine Bach · Ben Jones

Plot Series set in the rural community of Hazzard. The Dukes are a family who were once moonshiners but when cousins Bo and Luke were caught; they were given probation on...

5.2

325 votes

5.2

325 votes

Airwolf (TV Series)

1984 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Donald P. Bellisario · Virgil W. Vogel · Sutton Roley · Donald A. Baer

Cast Jan-Michael Vincent · Alex Cord · Ernest Borgnine · Jean Bruce Scott

Plot TV Series (1984-1986). 56 episodes. As part of a deal for with a intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot goes on missions with an advanced...

5.2

229 votes

5.2

229 votes

The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (TV Series)

1979 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Glen A. Larson · James Sheldon · Dick Harwood · Sidney Hayers

Cast Claude Akins · Brian Kerwin · Mills Watson · Leann Hunley

Plot Sheriff Lobo's the corrupt sheriff from Orly County who appeared in several episodes during the first season of "El camionero y su mono" (1979), as B.J.'s occasional nemesis. He now...

5.1

280 votes

5.1

280 votes

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Burt Kennedy · Barry Crane · John Florea · Bernard L. Kowalski

Cast Richard Dean Anderson · Roger Wilson · Peter Horton · Drake Hogestyn

Plot TV Series (1982-1983). 22 episodes. The series told the adventures of a parentless family of rowdy brothers trying to run the family ranch in northern California. Into the chaos came...

4.9

141 votes

4.9

141 votes

Matlock (TV Series)

1986 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Dean Hargrove · Christopher Hibler · Harvey S. Laidman · Leo Penn

Cast Andy Griffith · Nancy Stafford · Julie Sommars · Clarence Gilyard Jr.

Plot Ben Matlock is a Georgia bred, Harvard educated defense attorney. His fee is $100,000 but he's worth every cent of it as he defends his clients not only in Atlanta...

4.8

290 votes

4.8

290 votes

Street Hawk (TV Series)

1985 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Virgil W. Vogel · Harvey S. Laidman · Richard Compton · Daniel Haller

Cast Rex Smith · Joe Regalbuto · Richard Venture · Jeannie Wilson

Plot When Jessie Mach is crippled after an assault by an old enemy, his position as motorcycle cop seems finished. That was before a computer technician named Tuttle recruits him for...

4.7

1K votes

4.7

1K votes

7th Heaven (TV Series)

1996 · Series · 40 min. · United States

Direction Brenda Hampton · Joel J. Feigenbaum · Harry Harris · Tony Mordente

Cast Stephen Collins · Beverley Mitchell · Jessica Biel · Catherine Hicks

Plot TV Series (1996-2007). 11 Seasons. 243 Episodes. 7th Heaven is an American television series about a Protestant minister's family living in the fictional town of Glen Oak, California. It was...

4.4

3K votes

4.4

3K votes

Mortal Kombat: Conquest (TV Series)

1998 · Series · 40 min. · United States

Direction Reza Badiyi · Bruce Seth Green · Scott Paulin · Jim Johnston

Cast Paolo Montalban · Daniel Bernhardt · Kristanna Loken · Jeefrey Meek

Plot In this prequel to the movies, Kung Lao has triumphed in the Mortal Kombat tournament, defeating Shang Tsung and saving Earth Realm. Now, he must train a new generation of...

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3.2

503 votes

3.2

503 votes

Steel Cowboy (TV)

1978 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Harvey S. Laidman

Cast James Brolin · Rip Torn · Jennifer Warren · Melanie Griffith

Plot Trucker Clayton Ray Davis is on the verge of financial ruin. His truck is about to be repossesed and he sees no way out. So when Pinky Pinchus approaches him...

Not rated

Not rated

The Fisher Family (TV Series)

1952 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Eddie Dew · Harvey S. Laidman

Cast Michael Hall · Aron Kincaid · Nelson Leigh · John Bryant

Plot Long-running religious series featuring dramatizations of contemporary problems and how they were resolved using a Christian solution.

Not rated

Not rated