Screenplay: Theodore Apstein

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


The Time Tunnel (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Irwin Allen · Sobey Martin · Nathan Juran · William Hale

Cast James Darren · Robert Colbert · Whit Bissell · John Zaremba

Synopsis Scientists Tony Newman and Doug Phillips are the young heads of Project Tic-Toc, a multi-billion dollar government installation buried beneath the desert. They have invented a Time Tunnel, which will allow people to visit anywhere in time and space. While...

6.6

348 votes

6.6

348 votes

Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice?

1969 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Lee H. Katzin

Cast Geraldine Page · Ruth Gordon · Michael Barbera · Peter Brandon

Synopsis Oscar winner Geraldine Page (THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL) stars as Claire Marrable, an Arizona widow with a habit of murdering her housekeepers and stealing their savings. Enter Aunt Alice (Ruth Gordon), a close friend of Claire's last victim who poses...

6.4

582 votes

6.4

582 votes

4.5

38 votes

The Eleventh Hour (TV Series)

1962 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold · Paul Nickell · Richard Donner

Cast Jack Ging · Wendell Corey · Ralph Bellamy · Maxine Stuart

Synopsis The term "eleventh hour" refers to a time of last resort in an aggrieved person's life, as he faces a potential nervous breakdown. Ging appeared in both seasons as Dr. Paul Graham, a clinical psychologist to Corey's first-season character of...

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Ben Casey (TV Series)

1961 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction James E. Moser · Leo Penn · Irving Lerner · Sydney Pollack

Cast Vince Edwards · Sam Jaffe · Jeannie Bates · Franchot Tone

Synopsis TV Series (1961-1966). 5 Seasons. 153 Episodes. Gritty realistic hospital drama featuring manly Dr. Casey against the medical establishment, at first under the watchful eye of Dr. Zorba and later under the thumb of Chief of Surgery Dr. Freeland.

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The New Breed (TV Series)

1961 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Hank Searls · Walter Grauman · Joseph Pevney · Allen H. Miner

Cast Leslie Nielsen · John Beradino · John Clarke · Greg Roman

Synopsis "The New Breed" was an American crime - drama series ,aired on ABC network from 1961 to 1962, with thirty-six episodes,starring Leslie Nielsen at age 35

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Suspicion (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Don Medford · James Neilson · Robert Stevens · John Brahm

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Clark Howat · Marian Seldes · Jack Klugman

Synopsis TV Series (1957-1958). 1 season. 41 episodes. An anthology television mystery drama series. The executive producer was film director Alfred Hitchcock.

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Blood Link

1982 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

Direction Alberto De Martino

Cast Michael Moriarty · Penelope Milford · Geraldine Fitzgerald · Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis A man who has been having psychic visions of himself killing naked women soon discovers that it's not himself he's seeing, it's his Siamese twin. (yes, they've been separated) So he travels to Hamburg, where the things he's seen start...

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Matinee Theatre (TV Series)

1955 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Lamont Johnson · Walter Grauman · Boris Sagal · Allan A. Buckhantz

Cast John Conte · Johnny Crawford · Sarah Churchill · Peggy McCay

Synopsis TV Series (1955-1958). 3 seasons. 650 episodes. A daily anthology show, featuring orginal material, as well as adaptations of literary classics.

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Direction Herschel Daugherty · Don Medford · John Brahm · James Neilson

Cast Ronald Reagan · Edgar Buchanan · Lee Marvin · Harry Townes

Synopsis TV Series (1953-1962). 10 seasons. 300 episodes. General Electric Theater featured a mix of romance, comedy, adventure, tragedy, fantasy and varitey music. Occupying the Sunday evening spot on CBS following the Toast of the Town/Ed Sullivan Show from February 1953...

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Channing (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction William Hale · Harvey Hart · Elliot Silverstein · Herschel Daugherty

Cast Henry Jones · Jason Evers · Tyler McVey · Ed Nelson

Synopsis TV Series (1963-1964). 26 Episodios. The series depicted life at fictitious Channing College.

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