Screenplay: Irv Pearlberg

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Irv Pearlberg. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Columbo: Candidate for Crime (TV)

1973 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Boris Sagal

Cast Peter Falk · Jackie Cooper · Joanne Linville · Tisha Sterling

Plot Senatorial candidate Nelson Hayward murders his domineering campaign manager, staging it to appear that Hayward himself was the intended victim of a mob hit gone wrong. Columbo hits the campaign...

6.5

289 votes

6.5

289 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

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...

6.3

445 votes

6.3

445 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

Police Woman (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Robert E. Collins · Alvin Ganzer · John Newland · Barry Shear

Cast Angie Dickinson · Earl Holliman · Charles Dierkop · Ed Bernard

Plot TV Series (1974-1978). 4 temporadas. 91 episodes. The show revolves around Sgt. Suzanne “Pepper” Anderson (Angie Dickinson), an undercover police officer working for the Los Angeles Police Department. Sgt. William...

5.8

120 votes

5.8

120 votes

Foul Play (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 60 min. · United States

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Search (TV Series)

1972 · Series · 60 min. · United States

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The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Jud Taylor · Robert E. Collins · Jeffrey Hayden · Leonard Horn

Cast David Hartman · E.G. Marshall · John Saxon · Robert Walden

Plot Dr. Benjamin Craig was an extremely successful neurosurgeon who had become so well-known and well-renowned in his field that he was able to open his own very exclusive clinic called...

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The Mississippi (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Leo Penn · Alex March · Oz Scott · Lee H. Katzin

Cast Ralph Waite · Linda Miller · Stan Shaw · Ray Spruell

Plot Ralph Waite is a successful criminal attorney who after retiring his law practice sought a more simple life on the mighty Mississippi river as a simple stern-wheel river boat captain....

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Apple's Way (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Earl Hamner Jr. · Richard Benedict · Alexander Singer · Harry Harris

Cast Ronny Cox · Frances Lee McCain · Vincent Van Patten · Eric Olson

Plot After years of experiencing the rat race of Los Angeles, George Apple, his wife Barbara and their four children move back to George's hometown of Appleton, Iowa, where adjusting to...

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