Herbert Hirschman
Herbert Hirschman (April 13, 1914 – July 3, 1985)[1] was an American television producer and director. He produced shows as Perry Mason, Espionage, The Wackiest Ship in the Army, and the fourth season of The Twilight Zone.
Works
Stir Crazy
New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they're sent to prison.
Release Date1980-12-12
Charactersd Man at Dinner Party
Vote Count488
Perry Mason
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
Release Date1957-09-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count137
The Twilight Zone
An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
Release Date1959-10-02
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count156
Vote Count1039
The Waltons
The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
Release Date1972-09-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count7
Vote Count104
Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
Release Date1968-09-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count158
Cannon
Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad. He also appeared on two episodes of Barnaby Jones. Cannon is the first Quinn Martin-produced series to be aired on a network other than ABC. A "revival" television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1, 1980. In total, there were 124 episodes.
Release Date1971-09-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count40
The Virginian
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.
Release Date1962-09-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count35
Dr. Kildare
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
Release Date1961-09-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count19
Studio One
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
Release Date1948-11-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count13
Felony Squad
Twenty-year veteran Detective Sergeant Sam Stone is paired with rookie Briggs in a large Western metropolis.
Release Date1966-09-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count6
Espionage
Pulled from actual case histories and utilizing newsreel and documented narratives, the activities of spies from various countries are depicted as far back as the American Revolution and as recent as the Cold War.
Release Date1963-10-02
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count24
Vote Count1
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors is an American medical drama that lasted for four seasons on NBC, from 1969 to 1973.
Release Date1969-09-14
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count45
Vote Count4
Nero Wolfe
Nero Wolfe enjoys a life of refined self-indulgence in his comfortable Manhattan brownstone — reading, dining, spending regular hours in his rooftop plant rooms, and only reluctantly involving himself in the detection of crime. Famously sedentary, Wolfe relies on his legman Archie Goodwin to collect the clues and the suspects in any case at hand, while he spars with his live-in chef Fritz Brenner and bickers with his resident orchid nurse Theodore Horstmann. Often assisted by freelance detective Saul Panzer, Wolfe and Archie customarily gather the suspects in Wolfe's office and present the solution to the exasperated Inspector Cramer of Manhattan Homicide.
Release Date1981-12-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count10
Planet of the Apes
Two astronauts and a sympathetic chimp friend are fugitives in a future Earth dominated by a civilization of humanoid apes. Based on the 1968 Planet of the Apes film and its sequels, which were inspired by the novel of the same name by Pierre Boulle.
Release Date1974-09-13
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count14
Vote Count106
Goodyear Television Playhouse
The Goodyear Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was telecast live on NBC from 1951 to 1957 during the "Golden Age of Television". Sponsored by Goodyear, Goodyear alternated sponsorship with Philco, and the Philco Television Playhouse was seen on alternate weeks. In 1955, the title was shortened to The Goodyear Playhouse and it aired on alternate weeks with The Alcoa Hour. The three series were essentially the same, with the only real difference being the name of the sponsor. Producer Fred Coe nurtured and encouraged a group of young, mostly unknown writers that included Robert Alan Aurthur, George Baxt, Paddy Chayefsky, Horton Foote, Howard Richardson, Tad Mosel and Gore Vidal. Notable productions included Chayefsky's Marty starring Rod Steiger, Chayefsky's The Bachelor Party, Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet, Richardson's Ark of Safety and Foote's The Trip to Bountiful. From 1957 to 1960, it became a taped, half-hour series titled Goodyear Theater, seen on Mondays at 9:30pm.
Release Date1951-10-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
Mistral's Daughter
Mistral's Daughter is a 1984 American television miniseries written by Terence Feely and Rosemary Anne Sisson, based on Judith Krantz's eponymous 1982 novel. The eight-episode serial—starring Stacy Keach, Stefanie Powers, and Lee Remick—follows the lives of women connected to tempestuous painter Julien Mistral, across several decades in France, exploring themes of art, love, and scandal.
Release Date1984-09-24
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count8
Vote Count14
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a 26-episode adventure/drama series which aired on ABC television during the 1960–1961 season and helped to catapult Australian actor Rod Taylor into a major film star, primarily in the 1960s, beginning with his role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. The series was a production of 20th Century Fox Television, and the final credit of each episode stated: "Filmed by Twentieth Century Fox Television Inc. at its Hollywood studios and in the Crown Colony of Hong Kong".
Release Date1960-03-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count27
The Zoo Gang
Six resistance fighters, known by their animal-based code names, fought during World War II. Their efforts came to a stop when one of their number, "the Wolf", betrayed them to the Gestapo. In their interrogation, one of their number, Claude Roget, the husband of Manouche was shot before her eyes. Thirty years later, Thomas Devon spots the Wolf in his shop. The surviving members of the Zoo Gang drop what they are doing and rendezvous for vengeance. The series follows the adventures of the remaining gang of four resistance fighters reunited 30 years later to scam habitual con artists and criminals in order to take their money and use it for good causes. Despite their ages, they put their skills and experience to use to raise enough money to construct a hospital in the memory of Claude. The gang is aided by the son of Manouche and Claude, an inspector in the French police.
Release Date1974-04-05
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count6
Vote Count4
Flesh & Blood
A young street-tough-turned-boxer struggles to reach the top while finding his romance with an attractive TV reporter is complicated by an incestuous relationship with his mother.
Release Date1979-10-14
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count7
The Amazing Howard Hughes
A miniseries about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich.
Release Date1977-04-13
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Flesh & Blood
A young street-tough-turned-boxer struggles to reach the top while finding his romance with an attractive TV reporter is complicated by an incestuous relationship with his mother.
Release Date1979-10-14
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count2
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
The Wackiest Ship in the Army is an American comedy series that aired for one season on NBC between September 19, 1965, and April 17, 1966. Produced by Harry Ackerman and Herbert Hirschman, the series is loosely based on the 1960 film starring Jack Lemmon and Ricky Nelson.
Release Date1965-09-19
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count29
Vote Count3
The Young Lawyers
The Young Lawyers is an American legal drama that was aired on the ABC network as part of its 1970-71 lineup.
Release Date1970-09-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count24
Vote Count2
For the People
For the People is an American Legal drama that aired from January 31 until May 9, 1965.
Release Date1965-01-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Pursuit
Pursuit is an American television anthology drama series which aired on CBS from October 1958 to January 1959.
Release Date1958-10-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter is a 1979 miniseries based on the novel of the same name that aired on WGBH from March 3, 1979 to March 24, 1979. The series is four episodes long, 60 minutes each. Part 2 won the 1979 Emmy Award for Outstanding Video Tape Editing for a Limited Series or Special for film editors Ken Denisoff, Janet McFadden, and Tucker Wiard. In 1979, when most literary programs were being produced in the United Kingdom, Boston public television station WGBH decided to produce a homegrown literary classic of its own. The result is this epic version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's enduring novel of Puritan America in search of its soul. Hester Prynne overcomes the stigma of adultery to emerge as the first great heroine in American literature. Hawthorne's themes, the nature of sin, social hypocrisy, and community repression, still reverberate through American society. Meg Foster brings a quiet strength to the role of Hester, the adulteress condemned to wear a scarlet "A" for the rest of her life. As her partner in crime, the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, John Heard writhes in private torment most convincingly. Kevin Conway completes this grim triangle as the mysterious, maleficent Roger Chillingworth. The costumes and scenery are simple, so as not to detract from the dialogue as each character grapples with the meaning of sin, forgiveness, and redemption.
Release Date1979-03-03
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count4
Vote Count8
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
A police detective's investigation of a prostitute's murder points to his best friend.
Release Date1970-07-10
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count104
Human Feelings
A pilot movie dealing with the day-to-day workings of God herself, here threatening to destroy Las Vegas if six righteous people cannot be found there in seven days, and it's all up to an eager-to-please young angel, a frustrated clerk-typist in the heavenly music department, to try to hold off the devastation while disguised as a mortal.
Release Date1978-10-16
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Halls of Anger
An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.
Release Date1970-04-29
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count7
Larry
A man who has been confined from early childhood to a dubiously run home for the mentally challenged is transferred to a state mental hospital when the home is shut down. Staff discover that, despite outward appearances, the man was wrongly confined and is of average intelligence.
Release Date1974-04-23
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count3
The Amazing Howard Hughes
The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich. The film starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, and Tovah Feldshuh.
Release Date1977-04-13
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count11
Attack on Fear
Married journalists who run a small town newspaper expose corruption and cultism at a once respected rehab center.
Release Date1984-10-10
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
Calamity Jane
An exploration of the myths surrounding the colorful Western heroine and both the legendary Wild Bill Hickock, with whom she had an unorthodox courtship, and the flamboyant Buffalo Bill Cody, between the 1870s and the turn of the century.
Release Date1984-03-06
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Farewell to the Planet of the Apes
When the astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are captured in a fishing village that employs human slave labor, they must prove their worth as fishermen or be sacrificed to the 'gods of the sea,' or what the men call sharks. Escaping from the forced labor camp, the trio become involved in a plot to develop a glider to drop a fragmentation bomb on the gorilla council. [The fifth of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Tomorrow's Tide" and "Up Above the World So High"]
Release Date1980-11-21
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count16
And Baby Makes Six
A middle-aged couple with three grown children discovers that they soon will be parents once more and faces a variety of emotional responses from friends and family.
Release Date1979-10-22
DepartmentProduction
JobSupervising Producer
Vote Count1
The Velvet Alley
Ernie Pandash has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.
Release Date1959-01-22
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count1
Things in Their Season
The son in a close-knit family of Wisconsin dairy farmers decides to get married and move out of the house, just as his mother discovers she has incurable leukemia and only a short time to live.
Release Date1974-11-27
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Back to the Planet of the Apes
Astronauts Pete Burke and Allan Virdon crash on Earth in the far future and are captured by the apes. The men befriend a chimp named Galen who helps them to escape. In the hopes of finding a way to get back to their own time, the astronauts search for a computer in an earthquake-threatened city, with which they will be able to access their flight records. [The first of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Escape from Tomorrow" and "The Trap"]
Release Date1980-11-17
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count26
The President's Mistress
A government courier is caught in a deadly cover-up after discovering that his murdered sister was not only the mistress of a U.S. president, but also a Soviet spy.
Release Date1978-02-10
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count6
Scalplock
This Western is a pilot for the series "The Iron Horse," in which a dapper frontier gambler wins a railroad line in a poker game and has his hands full holding it from the clutches of various conniving bad guys.
Release Date1966-04-10
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count3
The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes
Human astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are forced to become involved in the strange gladiatorial games of the district run by prefect Tolar. The trio escape the gorilla police and find an abandoned government research project with a computer containing a vast amount of recording information about the old human-ruled world. [The second of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "The Gladiators" and "The Legacy"]
Release Date1980-11-18
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count15
Miles To Go Before I Sleep
A lonely old man (Martin Balsam) finds his life beginning to have some meaning when he helps a teenager living in a rehab center.
Release Date1975-01-08
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count3
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
This biopic about actress Sophia Loren covers her life from childhood through international stardom, her marriage to Carlo Ponti following a romantic fling with Cary Grant, and the birth of her first child, and is tied together with actual clips from some of her movies.
Release Date1980-10-26
DepartmentProduction
JobCo-Executive Producer
Vote Count10
Tell Me Where It Hurts
A housewife, increasingly disenchanted with her homemaker role, looks for new meaning in her life and organizes a discussion group, changing the lives of her six closest friends.
Release Date1974-03-12
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer