Direction: Christian I. Nyby II

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Christian I. Nyby II. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Hill Street Blues (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Steven Bochco · Michael Kozoll · Gregory Hoblit · Christian I. Nyby II

Cast Daniel J. Travanti · Michael Conrad · Michael Warren · Bruce Weitz

Synopsis TV Series (1981-1987). 7 Seasons. 146 episodes. The lives and work of the staff of an inner city police precinct in New York. The original "ensemble drama," this is the story of an overworked, under-staffed police precinct in an anonymous...

7.2

18K votes

7.2

18K votes

Moonlighting (TV Series)

1985 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Glenn Gordon Caron · Peter Werner · Christian I. Nyby II · Allan Arkush

Cast Bruce Willis · Cybill Shepherd · Allyce Beasley · Curtis Armstrong

Synopsis TV Series (1985-1989). 5 Seasons. 66 Episodes. The top model Maddie Hayes was betrayed by her investment adviser who flew with all her money to South-America and began the hard life of a Casino owner. All the unfaithful manager has...

6.6

11K votes

6.6

11K votes

Battlestar Galactica (TV Series)

1978 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Glen A. Larson · Donald P. Bellisario · Richard A. Colla · Vince Edwards

Cast Lorne Greene · Richard Hatch · Dirk Benedict · Herbert Jefferson Jr.

Synopsis TV Series (1978-1979). 24 Episodes. In a distant galaxy, twelve planets bearing tribes of the race known as Man have been at war with an alien cyborg race, the Cylon empire, for a millenium. In the measurements used by the...

6.4

2K votes

6.4

2K votes

Ironside (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 60 min. · United States

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

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

Synopsis 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 combats crime for the San Francisco police from his mobile...

6.3

445 votes

6.3

445 votes

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Direction Stephen J. Cannell · Arnold Laven · Ivan Dixon · Rod Holcomb

Cast William Katt · Robert Culp · Connie Sellecca · Michael Paré

Synopsis TV Series (1981-1983). 3 Seasons. 44 Episodes. A pair of strangers, liberal high-school teacher Ralph Hinkley and right-wing FBI agent Bill Maxwell, have a close encounter in the Southern California desert one night with "little green men", who give our...

6.3

6K votes

6.3

6K votes

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

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

Synopsis 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 flights and finds adventure every week.

6.3

401 votes

6.3

401 votes

The A-Team (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Stephen J. Cannell · Frank Lupo · Michael O'Herlihy · Dennis Donnelly

Cast George Peppard · Mr. T · Dwight Schultz · Dirk Benedict

Synopsis TV Series (1983-1987). 5 Seasons. 98 Episodes. Four Vietnam vets, framed for a crime they didn't commit, help the innocent while on the run from the military.

6.0

29K votes

6.0

29K votes

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Direction Richard Donner · Richard Irving · Ernest Pintoff · Lionel E. Siegel

Cast Lee Majors · Richard Anderson · Lindsay Wagner · Martin E. Brooks

Synopsis Air Force Colonel Steve Austin, an astronaut who had walked on the moon, is almost fatally injured in a plane crash. Many of his damaged parts are replaced by experimental bionic limbs, including his right arm, his left eye, and...

5.5

451 votes

5.5

451 votes

Simon & Simon (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Philip DeGuere · Vincent McEveety · Sigmund Neufeld Jr. · Burt Kennedy

Cast Gerald McRaney · Jameson Parker · Mary Carver · Tim Reid

Synopsis Two brothers of disparate tastes and manners run a private detective agency.

5.5

121 votes

5.5

121 votes

Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack

1979 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Christian I. Nyby II · Vince Edwards

Cast Richard Hatch · Dirk Benedict · Lorne Greene · Herbert Jefferson Jr.

Synopsis Running low on fuel, the Battlestar Galactica receives the help of the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus which is taking the offensive with the Cylons.

5.4

24 votes

5.4

24 votes

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

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

Synopsis 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 stars in his own series. He is not as corrupt...

5.1

280 votes

5.1

280 votes

CHiPs (Chips) (TV Series)

1977 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Rick Rosner · Phil Bondelli · John Florea · Gordon Hessler

Cast Erik Estrada · Larry Wilcox · Robert Pine · Paul Linke

Synopsis 6 Seasons, 139 Episodes (1977-1983). CHiPs was a lightweight action crime drama, which included elements of comedy in every episode (several of the first season episodes play as out-and-out comedies). Over-the-top freeway pileups, which occurred in almost every episode, were...

5.0

171 votes

5.0

171 votes

Diagnosis Murder (TV Series)

1993 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Joyce Burditt · Christian I. Nyby II · Christopher Hibler · Frank Thackery

Cast Dick Van Dyke · Barry Van Dyke · Victoria Rowell · Charlie Schlatter

Synopsis TV Series (1993-2001). 8 Seasons. 178 Episodes. Mark Sloan is the chief of staff at Commmunity General Hospital. Even though his duties as a doctor keep him busy enough, he still finds time to help the police solve murders (Mark's...

5.0

3K votes

5.0

3K votes

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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.

Synopsis 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 but all over the country. He is cantankerous and gruff...

4.8

290 votes

4.8

290 votes

B.J. and the Bear (TV Series)

1979 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Christian I. Nyby II · Bruce Bilson · Charles R. Rondeau · Gil Bettman

Cast Greg Evigan · Linda McCullough · Eric Server · Candi Brough

Synopsis TV Serie (1979-1981). B.J. McCay was a good-looking young trucker who traveled around the country in his big red & white rig, with a single companion - his pet chimp, Bear. B.J. was based in rural Georgia and was confronted...

4.5

104 votes

4.5

104 votes

Martial Law (TV Series)

1998 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Carlton Cuse · Whitney Ransick · Bruce Seth Green · Oley Sassone

Cast Sammo Hung · Kelly Hu · Arsenio Hall · Louis Mandylor

Synopsis A Shanghai cop who is a master of martial arts fights crime in the Los Angeles Police Dept.

4.4

1K votes

4.4

1K votes

Walker Texas Ranger (TV Series)

1993 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Christopher Canaan · Leslie Greif · Paul Haggis · Albert S. Ruddy Production

Cast Chuck Norris · Clarence Gilyard Jr. · Sheree J. Wilson · Noble Willingham

Synopsis TV Series (1993-2001). 9 Seasons. 196 Episodes. "Walker, Texas Ranger," which stars Chuck Norris as modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker. Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in the rugged traditions of the Old West. Walker's closest friend is former...

2.9

14K votes

2.9

14K votes

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