Direction: Allen Reisner

Direction Allen Reisner

Cast William Bendix · Martin Balsam · Darryl Hickman · Jesse White

Plot Though not the pilot episode of Rod Serling's series, "The Twilight Zone," it was Rod Serling's production that lead to "The Twilight Zone" TV series. Because TV viewers at the...

Direction Douglas Heyes · Allen Reisner

Cast Richard Jordan · Perry King · Patty Duke · Henry Fonda

Plot Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant. Joseph Armagh was a poor Irish immigrant who came to the United States in the mid-19th century, and proceeded, through struggle, heartache and hard...

Direction Walter Grauman · Stuart Rosenberg · Paul Wendkos · John Peyser

Cast Robert Stack · Nicholas Georgiade · Abel Fernandez · Paul Picerni

Plot TV Series (1959-1963). 4 Seasons. 119 Episodes. Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.

Direction Rod Serling · Jeannot Szwarc · Jeff Corey · Gene R. Kearney

Cast Rod Serling · John Astin · Geraldine Page · Vincent Price

Plot Serling appeared in an art gallery setting and introduced the macabre tales that made up each episode by unveiling paintings (by artist Tom Wright) that depicted the stories. Night Gallery...

Direction Collier Young · Don Weis · Don McDougall · Russ Mayberry

Cast Raymond Burr · Don Galloway · Don Mitchell · Barbara Anderson

Plot Ironside is confined to a wheel chair (an attempted assassination left him paralyzed). With his former assistants Brown and Whitfield (later Belding) and former delinquent (and later lawyer) Mark, he...

Direction Allen Reisner

Cast Dan Duryea · Martin Landau · Jeanne Cooper · Malcolm Atterbury

Plot In the Far West, the drunkard Al Denton is bullied by the gunman Dan Hotaling to get some booze. The mysterious Henry J. Fate observes the humiliation and Al Denton...

Direction Peter S. Fischer · Richard Levinson · William Link · Anthony Pullen Shaw

Cast Angela Lansbury · William Windom · Ron Masak · Louis Herthum

Plot TV Series (1984-1996). 12 Seasons. 264 Episodes. Former substitute English teacher and famed mystery writer Jessica Fletcher has a gift for solving mysteries. You see, it seems murder follows her...

Direction Jimmy Sangster · E. Arthur Kean · George McCowan · Lawrence Dobkin

Cast William Conrad · Patrick Culliton · Tom Pittman · Charles Bateman

Plot The weekly adventures of Frank Cannon, an overweight, balding ex-cop with a deep voice and expensive tastes in culinary pleasures, who becomes a high-priced private investigator. Since Cannon's girth didn't...

Direction Leonard Freeman · Michael O'Herlihy · Charles S. Dubin · Paul Stanley

Cast Jack Lord · James MacArthur · Kam Fong · Herman Wedemeyer

Plot TV Series (1968-1980). 12 Seasons. 284 episodes. The investigations of Hawaii Five-0, an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police answerable only to the governor and headed by stalwart Steve...

Direction Nicholas Colasanto · Harry Harris · John Llewellyn Moxey · Alexander Singer

Cast Richard Roundtree · Eddie Barth · Judie Stein · Barbara Babcock

Direction Allen Reisner · Seymour Robbie · Leslie H. Martinson · William Beaudine

Cast Van Williams · Bruce Lee · Wende Wagner · Lloyd Gough

Plot A newspaper publisher and his Asian valet/martial arts expert battle crime as the feared Green Hornet and Kato.

Direction Allen Reisner · Kim Manners · Ric Rondell · Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

Cast Gil Gerard · Nancy Stafford · Keye Luke · Ernie Reyes Jr.

Plot TV Series (1986-1987). 23 Episodes. Sgt Jake Rizzo is chosen by Sabasan as tutor of his grandson Ernie Lee the last heir of an antique clan of special martial artists....

Direction Allen Reisner · Seymour Robbie · Sigmund Neufeld Jr. · Jackie Cooper

Cast Jerry Orbach · Barbara Babcock · Juliana Donald · Shea Farrel

Plot Harry MacGraw is a private investigator who appeared three times in the television series, Murder, She Wrote. He now stars in his own series, wherein he is still a private...

Direction Allen Reisner

Cast Glynis Johns · Cameron Mitchell · Rex Thompson · Patty McCormack

Plot This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850's. They work very hard and become welcome citizens...

Direction Robert B. Sinclair · Mitchell Leisen · James Neilson · Harry Horner

Cast Shirley Temple · Agnes Moorehead · Pernell Roberts · Jonathan Harris

Plot TV Series (1958-1961). 3 Seasons.

Direction Abby Mann · Frank Perry · Allen Reisner · Bruce Bilson

Cast Karl Malden · Piper Laurie · Craig Wasson · Peter Gallagher

Plot Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forced him to stay at home and try to put his life back...

Direction Paul Nickell · Franklin J. Schaffner · Allen Reisner · Robert Mulligan

Cast Al Markim · Alexander Scourby · Arthur Storch · Casey Allen

Plot Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. A total of 466 episodes aired on CBS between 1948 and 1958. The program appeared...

Direction Don Medford · Robert Douglas · Douglas Heyes · Hy Averback

Cast Wayne Rogers · Pepper Martin · Meredith Baxter · Steve Kanaly

Plot TV Series (1976-). 13 episodes. Wayne Rogers plays a determined but unethical private detective, Jake Axminster, who looks out for himself -and somewhat less aggressively for his clients- amid the...

Direction Larry Cohen · Larry Peerce · Harry Harris · Lee H. Katzin

Cast Chuck Connors · William Bryant · John Pickard · Chuck Hamilton

Plot In the 1880s Jason McCord travels the country trying to prove he's no coward. He needs to do this because the military career of this West point graduate came to...

Direction John Frankenheimer · Allen Reisner · Buzz Kulik · Ralph Nelson

Cast William Lundigan · Harry Townes · Michael Rennie · Art Gilmore

Plot TV Series (1954-1958). 4 seasons. 166 episodes. An anthology series hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. Many of the episodes were broadcast and performed live.