Screenplay: Earl Pomerantz

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


Cheers (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 20 min. · United States

Direction James Burrows · Glen Charles · Andy Ackerman · John Ratzenberger

Cast Ted Danson · Rhea Perlman · John Ratzenberger · George Wendt

Synopsis TV Series (1982-1993). 11 Seasons. 276 episodes. Cheers is a bar in Boston owned by Sam Malone, a former Boston Red Sox pitcher, whose drinking problem ended his career. Helping Sam in the bar is Ernie Pantusso, whom he refers...

6.9

36K votes

6.9

36K votes

Becker (TV Series)

1998 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Dave Hackel · Andy Ackerman · Ken Levine · Darryl Bates

Cast Ted Danson · Hattie Winston · Shawnee Smith · Alex Désert

Synopsis TV Series (1998-2004). Multiple Emmy Award winner Ted Danson stars as Dr. John Becker, a dedicated and talented physician who's extremely devoted to his medical practice in the Bronx, New York. However, because Dr. Becker looks at the world around...

6.3

3K votes

6.3

3K votes

Taxi (TV Series)

1978 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction James L. Brooks · Stan Daniels · David Davis · James Burrows

Cast Danny DeVito · Judd Hirsch · Marilu Henner · Tony Danza

Synopsis TV Series (1978-1983). 115 episodes. Louie De Palma (Danny DeVito) is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a collection of varied and strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies...

6.2

569 votes

6.2

569 votes

Mary Tyler Moore (TV Series)

1970 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction James L. Brooks · Allan Burns · Jay Sandrich · Peter Baldwin

Cast Mary Tyler Moore · Ed Asner · Valerie Harper · Gavin MacLeod

Synopsis TV Series (1970-1977). 7 Seasons. 168 Episodes. Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis after a relationship goes bad. She finds work as an associate producer in a small television newsroom where the characters include Lou Grant, her gruff boss, Murray Slaughter...

6.1

410 votes

6.1

410 votes

Direction William Dear

Cast Tom Harrison · Bronson Pinchot · Brion James · Tracey Walter

Synopsis An actor (Tom Harrison) dressed as a mummy races from location-filming of a horror movie through a primeval Southern swamp to reach his wife, who is about to give birth. But the locals believe in the eerie legend of Ra...

6.1

565 votes

6.1

565 votes

The Cosby Show (TV Series)

1984 · Series · 20 min. · United States

Direction Bill Cosby · Ed Weinberger · Michael Leeson · Jay Sandrich

Cast Bill Cosby · Phylicia Rashad · Keshia Knight Pulliam · Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Synopsis TV Series (1984-1992). 8 Seasons. 197 Episodes. The Huxtable residence is a New York City brownstone where Cliff (an obstetrician) also maintained his office. He and his wife Clair (a legal aid attorney) tried to bring up the kids with...

6.0

29K votes

6.0

29K votes

Major Dad (TV Series)

1989 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Richard C. Okie · John G. Stephens · Michael Lembeck · Ellen Falcon

Cast Gerald McRaney · Shanna Reed · Nicole Dubuc · Chelsea Hertford

Synopsis Major John MacGillis is a conservative, by-the-book, die-hard Marine. Polly Cooper is a pacifistic, liberal journalist. Nonetheless, when the two meet, there's instant and intense chemistry between them. With the permission of Polly's 3 daughters, the two get married within...

4.2

191 votes

4.2

191 votes

Direction Bob Balaban

Cast Matthew Labyorteaux · Gary Riley · Jim Gatherum · Milton Berle

Synopsis Three junior-high pals build an antenna that pulls in outer-space versions of 1950s TV shows, and receive something threatening as well: a newscast revealing alien plans to land in Hollywood.

4.1

377 votes

4.1

377 votes

Cheers (TV Series)

2011 · Series · 26 min. · Spain

Direction Manuel Gómez Pereira · Ricardo A. Solla

Cast Alberto San Juan · Antonio Resines · Alexandra Jiménez · Pepón Nieto

Synopsis TV Series (2011). 1 temporadas. Spanish remake -authorized by producers Charles Burrows & NBC- with the same characters in a bar in Spain. The TV series got bad audience ratings and it was cancelled after the first season.

2.0

2K votes

2.0

2K votes

The Associates (TV Series)

1979 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction James L. Brooks · Stan Daniels · Charlie Hauck · Ed Weinberger

Cast Wilfrid Hyde-White · Martin Short · Alley Mills · Joe Regalbuto

Synopsis TV Series (1979-1980). 13 episodes. It revolves around three young law school graduates who had just joined the prestigious firm of Bass and Marshall as associates, beginning their five-to-seven-year trial period.

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Best of the West (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Earl Pomerantz · Howard Storm · Stan Daniels · James Burrows

Cast Joel Higgins · Carlene Watkins · Meeno Peluce · Valri Bromfield

Synopsis TV Series (1981-1982). 22 Episodes. The Wild West misadventures of a mild-mannered store owner turned town marshal.

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Phyllis (TV Series)

1975 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Stan Daniels · Ed Weinberger · James Burrows

Cast Cloris Leachman · Henry Jones · Jane Rose · Carmine Caridi

Synopsis Spinoff from the popular "Mary Tyler Moore" series has Mary Richards' landlady, Phyllis Lindstrom, moving back to her hometown of San Francisco with her teenage daughter Bess following the sudden death of Phyllis' (heard of, but never seen) husband, Lars,...

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The Tony Randall Show (TV Series)

1976 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Harvey Medlinsky · Tony Mordente · Michael Zinberg · Asaad Kelada

Cast Tony Randall · Barney Martin · Allyn Ann McLerie · Rachel Roberts

Synopsis Fastidious Philadelphia Judge Walter Franklin has a plummy housekeeper, a sloppy court clerk, an icy secretary, and an obnoxiously ingratiating Assistant District Attorney.

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Newhart (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Barry Kemp

Cast Bob Newhart · Mary Frann · Jennifer Holmes · Julia Duffy

Synopsis Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually becomes a local TV celebrity as host of "Vermont Today." George...

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Not rated