Screenplay: Ken Pettus

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


Mission: Impossible (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Kessler · Reza Badiyi · Barry Crane · Paul Krasny

Cast Greg Morris · Peter Lupus · Peter Graves · Barbara Bain

Synopsis TV Series (1966-1973). 7 Seasons. 171 Episodes. An elite covert operations unit carries out highly sensitive missions subject to official denial in the event of failure, death or capture. The...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

The Wild Wild West (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Michael Garrison · Irving J. Moore · Robert Sparr · Alan Crosland Jr.

Cast Robert Conrad · Ross Martin · Dick Cangey · Red West

Synopsis TV Series (1965-1969). 4 Seasons. 104 Episodes. James West and Artemus Gordon are two agents of President Grant who take their splendidly appointed private train through the west to fight...

6.4

463 votes

6.4

463 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...

6.4

2K votes

6.4

2K votes

The High Chaparral (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction David Dortort · William F. Claxton · Leon Benson · Phil Rawlins

Cast Leif Erickson · Cameron Mitchell · Mark Slade · Linda Cristal

Synopsis The High Chaparral is a Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The series, made by Xanadu Productions in association...

6.4

172 votes

6.4

172 votes

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The Big Valley (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Louis F. Edelman · A.I. Bezzerides · Virgil W. Vogel · Bernard McEveety

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Richard Long · Lee Majors · Linda Evans

Synopsis TV Series (1965-1969). 4 Seasons. 112 Episodes. Victoria Barkley heads her adult brood on the Barkley Ranch in California's San Joaquin Valley, near Stockton, in the 1870s. Heath is the...

6.0

97 votes

6.0

97 votes

The Green Hornet

1974 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction William Beaudine · Norman Foster · E. Darrell Hallenbeck

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

Synopsis Several episodes of the 1966 TV series "The Green Hornet" edited together and released as a feature.

5.5

343 votes

5.5

343 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

The Green Hornet (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 30 min. · United States

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

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

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

5.4

410 votes

5.4

410 votes

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Incident at Phantom Hill

1966 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Earl Bellamy

Cast Robert Fuller · Jocelyn Lane · Dan Duryea · Tom Simcox

Synopsis At the end of the Civil War, a million-dollar gold shipment is hijacked and buried in the desert. One man who knows where it is hidden sets out to get...

5.2

73 votes

5.2

73 votes

Bonanza (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction David Dortort · William F. Claxton · Lewis Allen · Don McDougall

Cast Lorne Greene · Michael Landon · Dan Blocker · Pernell Roberts

Synopsis TV Series (1959-1973). 14 Seasons. 430 Episodes. Western / Nevada, in the 1860s. Ben Cartwright and his sons Adam, Hoss and Joe life in a large ranch - The Ponderosa.

5.2

6K votes

5.2

6K votes

Hangar 18

1980 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction James L. Conway

Cast Darren McGavin · Robert Vaughn · Gary Collins · Philip Abbott

Synopsis During a Space Shuttle mission a satellite is rammed by an unidentified flying object. The UFO afterwards performs an emergency landing in the deserts of Arizona. However the White House...

5.1

265 votes

5.1

265 votes

Land Raiders

1969 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Nathan Juran

Cast Telly Savalas · George Maharis · Arlene Dahl · Janet Landgard

Synopsis Ruthless Vince Carden dominates the Arizona-territory town of Forge River and buys the scalps of murdered Indians. He has driven his brother Paul from his home, and this leads to...

4.6

101 votes

4.6

101 votes

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Branded (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 30 min. · United States

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

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

Synopsis 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...

Not rated

Not rated

Temple Houston (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Leslie H. Martinson · William Conrad · Robert Totten · Irving J. Moore

Cast Jeffrey Hunter · Jack Elam · Parley Baer · John Dehner

Synopsis The adventures of frontier lawyer Temple Houston (Jeffrey Hunter), son of the legendary Texan Sam Houston.

Not rated

Not rated

State Trooper (TV Series)

1956 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Richard Irving · John English · Don McDougall · William Witney

Cast Rod Cameron · Robert Armstrong · Don Haggerty · Paul Stader

Synopsis Rod Blake, a State Trooper is an officer of the Nevada Department of Public Safety. The setting is in the 1950s American West.

Not rated

Not rated

Bring 'Em Back Alive (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Frank Cardea · George Schenck · Paul Krasny · Peter H. Hunt

Cast Bruce Boxleitner · Clyde Kusatsu · Ron O'Neal · Cindy Morgan

Synopsis Pith-helmeted Buck is a Great White Hunter who here (unlike the real one from the 1940s) works out of the Raffles Hotel bar in Singapore during the 1930s fighting all...

Not rated

Not rated

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Lancer (TV Series)

1968 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Samuel A. Peeples · Allen Reisner · Don Richardson · William Hale

Cast James Stacy · Wayne Maunder · Andrew Duggan · Elizabeth Baur

Synopsis A tyrannical owner of a vast ranch recruits his two estranged and vastly opposite sons to maintain an uneasy alliance as they fight off forces that would destroy the ranch.

Not rated

Not rated

Man with a Camera (TV Series)

1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Gerald Mayer · Paul Landres · Gilbert Kay · Gene Fowler Jr.

Cast Charles Bronson · James Flavin · Ludwig Stössel · Michael Harris

Synopsis TV Series (1958-1960). 2 Seasons. 29 Episodes. Former combat cameraman Mike Kovac is now a freelance photographer in New York City, specializing in difficult and dangerous assignments where he can...

Not rated

Not rated

Search for the Gods (TV)

1975 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Jud Taylor

Cast Kurt Russell · Stephen McHattie · Victoria Racimo · Raymond St. Jacques

Synopsis Two young people search for a valuable medallion, which they believe will prove that aliens from outer space visited Earth in prehistoric times.

Not rated

Not rated

Coronado 9 (TV Series)

1960 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Dann Cahn · Henry S. Kesler · William Witney · Frank Arrigo

Cast Rod Cameron · Vaughn Taylor · Walter Reed · Sue Ane Langdon

Synopsis A former Naval intelligence officer works as a private detective in San Diego, California.

Not rated

Not rated

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