Screenplay: Stephen Kandel

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Stephen Kandel. 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

Plot 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

6.6

70 votes

The Immortal (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Michael Caffey · Leslie H. Martinson · Don Weis · Robert Douglas

Cast Christopher George · Don Knight · David Brian · Carol Lynley

Plot (TV Series 1969–1971). Test driver Ben Richards discovers his blood contains every immunity known to man--in effect making him immortal. When an elderly billionaire named Maitland learns of Richards' condition,...

6.6

35 votes

6.6

35 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

Star Trek (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 47 min. · United States

Direction Gene Roddenberry · Marc Daniels · Joseph Pevney · Vincent McEveety

Cast William Shatner · Leonard Nimoy · DeForest Kelley · Grace Lee Whitney

Plot TV Series (1966-1969). 3 Seasons. 80 Episodes. Capt. Kirk and the crew of the Starship U.S.S. Enterprise explore space and defend the United Federation of Planets. It is the 23rd...

6.3

16K votes

6.3

16K votes

Mission: Impossible (TV Series)

1988 · Series · 47 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Geller · Colin Budds · Arch Nicholson · Don Chaffey

Cast Peter Graves · Thaao Penghlis · Antony Hamilton · Phil Morris

Plot TV series (1988-1990). 2 seasons. 35 episodes. The events of the series take place 15 years after the last season of the original Mission: Impossible TV series. After his protégé...

6.2

155 votes

6.2

155 votes

Medical Center (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Frank Glicksman · Al C. Ward · Vincent Sherman · Earl Bellamy

Cast Chad Everett · James Daly · Chris Hutson · Barbara Baldavin

Plot TV Series (1969-1976). 170 episodes. Located in the Los Angeles area, Medical Center was an otherwise unnamed hospital complex that was part of a large university campus. Dr. Paul Lochner...

6.2

94 votes

6.2

94 votes

Mannix (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Richard Levinson · William Link · Paul Krasny · Sutton Roley

Cast Mike Connors · Gail Fisher · Ward Wood · Ron Nyman

Plot Considered one of the most violent television series of its era, "Mannix" followed the adventures of L.A. private eye Joe Mannix, who first worked for a detective agency known as...

6.2

107 votes

6.2

107 votes

Sea Hunt (TV Series)

1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Leon Benson · Dick Moder · Franklin Adreon · Monroe P. Askins

Cast Lloyd Bridges · Ken Drake · Courtney Brown · Jan Harrison

Plot Mike Nelson is a Scuba Diver in the days when it was still very new. He works alone and the plot was always mostly carried through his voice over narrations....

6.0

29 votes

6.0

29 votes

Cannon (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Jimmy Sangster · E. Arthur Kean · George McCowan · Lawrence Dobkin

Cast William Conrad · Patrick Culliton · Tom Pittman · Charles Bateman

Plot The weekly adventures of Frank Cannon, an overweight, balding ex-cop with a deep voice and expensive tastes in culinary pleasures, who becomes a high-priced private investigator. Since Cannon's girth didn't...

5.9

135 votes

5.9

135 votes

MacGyver (TV Series)

1985 · Series · 45 min. · United States

Direction Lee David Zlotoff · Charles Correll · William Gereghty · Michael Vejar

Cast Richard Dean Anderson · Dana Elcar · Bruce McGill · Robin Mossley

Plot TV Series (1985-1992). 7 Seasons. 139 Episodes. Angus Macgyver is a secret agent with a difference. He is quiet, mild mannered, deeply principled and refuses to carry a gun on...

5.8

18K votes

5.8

18K votes

Chamber of Horrors

1966 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Hy Averback

Cast Patrick O'Neal · Cesare Danova · Wilfrid Hyde-White · Laura Devon

Plot A one-handed madman (he lost the hand while escaping a hanging) uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes have wronged him.

5.6

117 votes

5.6

117 votes

The Magician (TV Series)

1973 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Lansbury · Bill Bixby · Arnold Laven · Sutton Roley

Cast Bill Bixby · Keene Curtis · Joseph Sirola · Todd Crespi

Plot Anthony Blake is a very compassionate and wealthy magician, who uses his talents as an illusionist and escape artist to help people in trouble. Max Pomeroy, a friend who is...

5.3

38 votes

5.3

38 votes

Batman (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Bob Kane · Oscar Rudolph · James B. Clark · George Waggner

Cast Adam West · Burt Ward · Neil Hamilton · Alan Napier

Plot TV Series (1966-1968). 3 Seasons. 120 Episodes. Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A...

5.0

8K votes

5.0

8K votes

Man from Atlantis (TV Series)

1977 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Don Weis · Virgil W. Vogel · David Moessinger

Cast Patrick Duffy · Belinda Montgomery · Jean Marie Hon · Alan Fudge

Plot TV Series (1977-1978). The adventures of a man with amphibious abilities. Adapted to life underwater, Mark Harris is the lone survivor of the legendary sunken continent of Atlantis.

5.0

85 votes

5.0

85 votes

Bearcats! (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Herb Wallerstein · Richard Donner · Robert Totten

Cast Rod Taylor · Dennis Cole · Henry Darrow · John Anderson

Plot Two honorable men-for-hire look for adventure in the pre-World War I American southwest in their fancy Stutz Bearcat.

5.0

21 votes

5.0

21 votes

Cannon for Cordoba

1970 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Paul Wendkos

Cast George Peppard · Giovanna Ralli · Raf Vallone · Don Gordon

Plot In 1912, a Mexican rebel named Cordoba steals six cannons from the forces of General Pershing who's been sent to bring order to the Texas-Mexico border. Pershing assigns a soldier...

4.8

126 votes

4.8

126 votes

Wonder Woman (TV Series)

1975 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Alan Crosland Jr. · Dick Moder · Herb Wallerstein · Leslie H. Martinson

Cast Lynda Carter · Lyle Waggoner · Tom Kratochvil · Beatrice Colen

Plot TV Series (1975-1979). 3 Seasons. 60 episodes. The adventures of one of the greatest female superheroes. Wonder Woman, known for seasons 2 and 3 as The New Adventures of Wonder...

Max

4.5

452 votes

4.5

452 votes

Winchester 73 (TV)

1967 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Herschel Daugherty

Cast Tom Tryon · John Saxon · Dan Duryea · John Drew Barrymore

Plot Remake of the 1950 James Stewart Western movie of the same title has two brothers, one an ex-con the other a law officer, competing for possession of the famed repeating...

4.0

30 votes

4.0

30 votes

California Fever

1979 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Dan Polier Jr. · Alan Myerson · Norman Abbott · Bob Claver

Cast Lorenzo Lamas · Marc McClure · Jimmy McNichol · Michele Tobin

Plot Vince and Ross are suburban Los Angeles teenagers enjoying disco, surfing, cars, and the rest of the Southern California lifestyle. Musical Vince runs an underground radio station, and mechanical Ross...

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