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"Benson" (1979): Season 2: Episode 8 -- Benson hates air travel, even the safe kind, which doesn't help much when the governor has to take over the controls of their private jet after the pilot has a heart attack.
"Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" (2009): :  -- John Rich shows off the latest in redneck high tech.
"Hollywood 411" (2008): :  -- The American Country Music Awards rocked Vegas and Hollwood 411 was on the red carpet with stars Billy Ray Cyrus, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Kellie Pickler, Julianne Hough, Darius Rucker, Trace Adkins, John Rich and more!
"The Jeffersons" (1975): :  -- A nouveau riche, African-American family who move into a luxury apartment building develop close, if occasionally fractious, relationships with other tenants.
"Benson" (1979): Season 2: Episode 12 -- When the governor goes on the air live, a lover's quarrel erupts in the studio, and even Benson gets into the act when the cameras roll.

Overview

Trivia:
Best known as the Emmy Award winning Director of "All in the Family" and... more
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Awards:
Won 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 4 wins & 5 nominations more

Filmography

Jump to filmography as: Director, Producer, Miscellaneous Crew, Writer, Self
Director:
  1. "Payne" (2 episodes, 1999)
        - Trouble in Room 206 (1999) TV episode
        - What Ever Happened to Baby Payne? (1999) TV episode
  2. "Something So Right" (3 episodes, 1996-1997)
        - Something About Cold Storage (1997) TV episode
        - Something About Cheating (1996) TV episode
        - Something About Thanksgiving (1996) TV episode
  3. "Mr. Rhodes" (2 episodes, 1996-1997)
        - The Courtroom Show (1997) TV episode
        - The Christmas Show (1996) TV episode
  4. Pistol Pete (1996) (TV)
  5. "Hudson Street" (2 episodes, 1995)
        - Saturday Night's the Loneliest Night of the Week (1995) TV episode
        - Bells & Whistles (1995) TV episode
  6. "If Not for You" (5 episodes, 1995)
        - Who Are You? (1995) TV episode
        - Rise and Shine (1995) TV episode
        - The Day the Halo Came Off (1995) TV episode
        - Snap! (1995) TV episode
        - The Kiss (1995) TV episode
  7. "Murphy Brown" (1 episode, 1994)
        - My Movie with Louis (1994) TV episode
  8. "The Second Half" (8 episodes, 1993-1994)
        - Far and Awry (1994) TV episode
        - High Nooner (1994) TV episode
        - One Flew Over a Nest of Cuckoos (1994) TV episode
        - Ten (1994) TV episode
        - It's My Party (1993) TV episode
          (3 more)
  9. "The Good Life" (1 episode, 1994)
        - Pilot (1994) TV episode
  10. "Walter & Emily" (13 episodes, 1991-1992)
        - Sis (1992) TV episode
        - The Falcon and the Leg Man (1992) TV episode
        - Date Night (1992) TV episode
        - Labor Pains (1992) TV episode
        - Remember Me? (1992) TV episode
          (8 more)
  11. "The Man in the Family" (7 episodes, 1991-1992)
        - My Pal Joey (1992) TV episode
        - Real News (1991) TV episode
        - Once Bitten... (1991) TV episode
        - A Date with a Don (1991) TV episode
        - Honor Bound (1991) TV episode
          (2 more)
  12. "Baby Talk" (1 episode, 1991)
        - One Night with Elliot (1991) TV episode

  13. "Dear John" (5 episodes, 1989)
    ... aka "Dear John USA" (UK)
        - Friends and Lovers (1989) TV episode
        - Margo (1989) TV episode
        - Gone Camping (1989) TV episode
        - Sisters (1989) TV episode
        - The Last Dance (1989) TV episode
  14. "Nearly Departed" (6 episodes, 1989)
        - TV or Not TV (1989) TV episode
        - Altared States (1989) TV episode
        - Adventures in Babysitting (1989) TV episode
        - Grant Meets Grandpa (1989) TV episode
        - Grandpa's Date (1989) TV episode
          (1 more)
  15. "Comedy Factory" (2 episodes, 1986)
        - Chameleon (1986) TV episode
        - Moscow Bureau (1986) TV episode
  16. "Mr. Sunshine" (11 episodes, 1986)
        - Take My Ex-Wife Please! (1986) TV episode
        - Great Expectations (1986) TV episode
        - Leftwich in Love (1986) TV episode
        - Fear of Falling (1986) TV episode
        - Too Many Cooks (1986) TV episode
          (6 more)
  17. "Condo" (13 episodes, 1983)
        - Members Only (1983) TV episode
        - Nouveau Poor (1983) TV episode
        - The Affair (1983) TV episode
        - Condomania (1983) TV episode
        - The Dog (1983) TV episode
          (8 more)
  18. "Amanda's" (1 episode, 1983)
    ... aka "Amanda's by the Sea" (USA)
        - All in a Day's Work (1983) TV episode
  19. "Newhart" (1 episode, 1982)
        - In the Beginning (1982) TV episode
  20. "Benson" (43 episodes, 1980-1982)
        - Black Tuesday (1982) TV episode
        - The Lumber Mill (1982) TV episode
        - The Party's Over (1982) TV episode
        - Teed Off (1982) TV episode
        - In the Red (1982) TV episode
          (38 more)

  21. "Dorothy" (4 episodes, 1979)
        - Give My Regrets to Broadway (1979) TV episode
        - Lies and Whispers (1979) TV episode
        - Hard Hearted Hamlet (1979) TV episode
        - The Bookworm Turns (1979) TV episode
  22. "Billy" (1979) TV series (unknown episodes)
  23. Mother, Juggs & Speed (1978) (TV)
  24. Charo and the Sergeant (1976) (TV)
  25. "On the Rocks" (20 episodes, 1975-1976)
        - High Noon (1976) TV episode
        - Free and Clear (1976) TV episode
        - Testing, Testing (1976) TV episode
        - Friendly Persuasion (1976) TV episode
        - The Underground Movement (1976) TV episode
          (15 more)
  26. Grandpa Max (1975) (TV)
  27. "Barney Miller" (1 episode, 1975)
        - Stakeout (1975) TV episode
  28. "All in the Family" (81 episodes, 1971-1974)
        - The Best of All in the Family (1974) TV episode
        - Mike's Graduation (1974) TV episode
        - Pay the Twenty Dollars (1974) TV episode
        - Gloria Sings the Blues (1974) TV episode
        - Archie Eats and Runs (1974) TV episode
          (76 more)
  29. Clarence Darrow (1974) (TV)
  30. "Good Times" (1 episode, 1974)
        - Black Jesus (1974) TV episode
  31. "The New Dick Van Dyke Show" (2 episodes, 1971)
        - A House Is Not a Home, Yet (1971) TV episode
        - The Tennis Pro (1971) TV episode
  32. "That Girl" (19 episodes, 1968-1971)
        - Stag Party (1971) TV episode
        - An Uncle Herbert for All Seasons (1970) TV episode
        - That Senorita (1970) TV episode
        - That Girl's Daddy (1970) TV episode
        - Rattle of a Single Girl (1970) TV episode
          (14 more)
  33. "Make Room for Granddaddy" (1 episode, 1971)
        - Lucy Carter, Houseguest (1971) TV episode
  34. "My World and Welcome to It" (8 episodes, 1969-1970)
        - Child's Play (1970) TV episode
        - The Fourth Estate (1970) TV episode
        - Rules for a Happy Marriage (1970) TV episode
        - Dear Is a Four Letter Word (1970) TV episode
        - Darn That Dream (1970) TV episode
          (3 more)

  35. "The Brady Bunch" (7 episodes, 1969)
        - Kitty Karry-All Is Missing (1969) TV episode
        - A Clubhouse Is Not a Home (1969) TV episode
        - Katchoo (1969) TV episode
        - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1969) TV episode
        - Eenie, Meenie, Mommy, Daddy (1969) TV episode
          (2 more)
  36. "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." (19 episodes, 1967-1969)
        - Goodbye Camp Henderson, Hello Sergeant Carter (1969) TV episode
        - Proxy Poppas (1969) TV episode
        - To Save a Life (1969) TV episode
        - The Wild Bull Returns (1968) TV episode
        - Gomer, the Perfect M.P. (1968) TV episode
          (14 more)
  37. "Gunsmoke" (14 episodes, 1957-1969)
    ... aka "Gun Law" (UK)
    ... aka "Marshal Dillon" (USA: rerun title)
        - The Long Night (1969) TV episode
        - O'Quillian (1968) TV episode
        - Deadman's Law (1968) TV episode
        - Hard Luck Henry (1967) TV episode
        - The Big Con (1958) TV episode
          (9 more)
  38. "Hogan's Heroes" (2 episodes, 1968)
        - Axis Annie (1968) TV episode
        - Sticky Wicket Newkirk (1968) TV episode
  39. "Bonanza" (4 episodes, 1960-1968)
    ... aka "Ponderosa" (USA: rerun title)
        - The Burning Sky (1968) TV episode
        - Judgment at Olympus (1967) TV episode
        - The Trail Gang (1960) TV episode
        - The Mill (1960) TV episode
  40. Easy Come, Easy Go (1967)
  41. "Run for Your Life" (1 episode, 1967)
        - Flight from Tirana: Part 1 (1967) TV episode
  42. "T.H.E. Cat" (1 episode, 1966)
        - Moment of Truth (1966) TV episode
  43. "Summer Fun" (1 episode, 1966)
        - McNab's Lab (1966) TV episode
  44. "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (41 episodes, 1961-1966)
    ... aka "The Dick Van Dyke Daytime Show" (USA: rerun title)
        - The Last Chapter (1966) TV episode
        - Very Old Shoes, Very Old Rice (1963) TV episode
        - Laura's Little Lie (1963) TV episode
        - The Masterpiece (1963) TV episode
        - That's My Boy? (1963) TV episode
          (36 more)
  45. "I Spy" (1 episode, 1966)
        - There Was a Little Girl (1966) TV episode
  46. Boeing (707) Boeing (707) (1965)
    ... aka Boeing Boeing (USA: short title)
  47. "Gilligan's Island" (4 episodes, 1964)
        - Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk (1964) TV episode
        - Goodbye Island (1964) TV episode
        - Voodoo Something to Me (1964) TV episode
        - Two on a Raft (1964) TV episode
  48. Roustabout (1964)
  49. The New Interns (1964)
  50. "The Twilight Zone" (2 episodes, 1960-1963)
    ... aka "The Twilight Zone: The Original Series" (Australia)
    ... aka "Twilight Zone" (USA: new title)
        - A Kind of a Stopwatch (1963) TV episode
        - A Most Unusual Camera (1960) TV episode
  51. Wives and Lovers (1963)
  52. "McKeever & the Colonel" (1962) TV series (unknown episodes)
  53. "Mister Ed" (1 episode, 1961)
        - Pine Lake Lodge (1961) TV episode
  54. "The Americans" (1 episode, 1961)
        - The Regular (1961) TV episode
  55. "Outlaws" (1 episode, 1960)
        - The Fortune Stone (1960) TV episode
  56. "The Rifleman" (2 episodes, 1960)
        - The Pitchman (1960) TV episode
        - A Time for Singing (1960) TV episode
  57. "New Comedy Showcase" (1 episode, 1960)
        - Slezak and Son (1960) TV episode
  58. "Hotel de Paree" (1 episode, 1960)
        - Sundance and the Black Widow (1960) TV episode
  59. "Law of the Plainsman" (1 episode, 1960)
    ... aka "The Westerners" (USA: syndication title)
        - A Question of Courage (1960) TV episode
  60. "General Electric Theater" (2 episodes, 1959-1960)
    ... aka "G.E. Theater" (USA: informal short title)
    ... aka "G.E. True Theater" (USA: new title)
        - They Like Me Fine (1960) TV episode
        - The Tallest Marine (1959) TV episode
  61. "Bat Masterson" (6 episodes, 1958-1960)
        - A Picture of Death (1960) TV episode
        - Lady Luck (1959) TV episode
        - To the Manner Born (1959) TV episode
        - Deadline (1959) TV episode
        - Sharpshooter (1959) TV episode
          (1 more)

  62. "Riverboat" (2 episodes, 1959)
        - Strange Request (1959) TV episode
        - Escape to Memphis (1959) TV episode
  63. "The Rough Riders" (4 episodes, 1958-1959)
        - Forty-Five Calibre Law (1959) TV episode
        - Paradise Gap (1959) TV episode
        - The Maccabites (1958) TV episode
        - Breakout (1958) TV episode
  64. "Bold Venture" (4 episodes, 1959)
        - Kazantos (1959) TV episode
        - Oliver's Twist (1959) TV episode
        - Suddenly, No Gerson (1959) TV episode
        - The Kick in the Can (1959) TV episode
  65. "Conflict" (2 episodes, 1957)
        - Blind Drop: Warsaw (1957) TV episode
        - Girl on the Subway (1957) TV episode
  66. "The Gale Storm Show" (2 episodes, 1956)
    ... aka "Oh! Susanna"
        - Passenger Incognito (1956) TV episode
        - The Chimpanzee (1956) TV episode
  67. "Screen Directors Playhouse" (1 episode, 1956)
        - Apples on the Lilac Tree (1956) TV episode
  68. "Our Miss Brooks" (27 episodes, 1955-1956)
        - Travel Crazy (1956) TV episode
        - Principal for a Day (1956) TV episode
        - The $350,000 Question (1956) TV episode
        - White Lies (1956) TV episode
        - Geraldine (1956) TV episode
          (22 more)
  69. Dateline: Disneyland (1955) (TV)
  70. "Where's Raymond?" (30 episodes, 1954)
    ... aka "The Ray Bolger Show" (new title)
        - The Barber Takes a Bride (1954) TV episode
        - A Double Life (1954) TV episode
        - A Gift from the Sultan (1954) TV episode
        - Angel in Disguise (1954) TV episode
        - Father for a Day (1954) TV episode
          (25 more)
  71. "Colonel Humphrey Flack" (1953) TV series (unknown episodes)
    ... aka "The Fabulous Fraud"
  72. "I Married Joan" (1952) TV series (unknown episodes)
  73. "Big Town" (1 episode, 1951)
    ... aka "Byline Steve Wilson"
    ... aka "City Assignment"
    ... aka "Headline"
    ... aka "Heart of the City"
        - Episode dated 19 July 1951 (1951) TV episode
Producer:
  1. Young MacGyver (2003) (TV) (executive producer)

  2. MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday (1994) (TV) (executive producer)
  3. MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis (1994) (TV) (executive producer)
  4. "MacGyver" (executive producer) (139 episodes, 1985-1992)
        - The Mountain of Youth (1992) TV episode (executive producer)
        - The Stringer (1992) TV episode (executive producer)
        - Off the Wall (1991) TV episode (executive producer)
        - Gunz 'n Boyz (1991) TV episode (executive producer)
        - Split Decision (1991) TV episode (executive producer)
          (134 more)
  5. "Walter & Emily" (executive producer) (6 episodes, 1991-1992)
        - Sis (1992) TV episode (executive producer)
        - The Falcon and the Leg Man (1992) TV episode (executive producer)
        - Date Night (1992) TV episode (executive producer)
        - Remember Me? (1992) TV episode (executive producer)
        - Exposed (1992) TV episode (executive producer)
          (1 more)

  6. "Mr. Sunshine" (executive producer) (11 episodes, 1986)
        - Take My Ex-Wife Please! (1986) TV episode (executive producer)
        - Great Expectations (1986) TV episode (executive producer)
        - Leftwich in Love (1986) TV episode (executive producer)
        - Fear of Falling (1986) TV episode (executive producer)
        - Too Many Cooks (1986) TV episode (executive producer)
          (6 more)
  7. "Condo" (producer) (6 episodes, 1983)
        - Nouveau Poor (1983) TV episode (producer)
        - The Dog (1983) TV episode (producer)
        - The Franchise (1983) TV episode (producer)
        - The First Fight (1983) TV episode (producer)
        - The Wedding (1983) TV episode (producer)
          (1 more)

  8. "Benson" (1979) TV series (executive producer) (unknown episodes)
  9. "Billy" (executive producer) (1 episode, 1979)
        - Fathers and Sons (1979) TV episode (executive producer)
  10. Charo and the Sergeant (1976) (TV) (producer)
  11. Grandpa Max (1975) (TV) (producer)
  12. "On the Rocks" (1975) TV series (producer) (unknown episodes)
  13. "All in the Family" (producer) (44 episodes, 1972-1974) (associate producer) (2 episodes, 1973)
        - Mike's Graduation (1974) TV episode (producer)
        - Pay the Twenty Dollars (1974) TV episode (producer)
        - Lionel's Engagement (1974) TV episode (producer)
        - Gloria's Boyfriend (1974) TV episode (producer)
        - Et Tu, Archie? (1974) TV episode (producer)
          (41 more)

  14. "New Comedy Showcase" (producer) (1 episode, 1960)
        - Slezak and Son (1960) TV episode (producer)
Miscellaneous Crew:
  1. "Maude" (production consultant) (1 episode, 1973)
        - Maude and the Medical Profession (1973) TV episode (production consultant)
Writer:
  1. "General Electric Theater" (1 episode, 1958)
    ... aka "G.E. Theater" (USA: informal short title)
    ... aka "G.E. True Theater" (USA: new title)
        - Auf Wiedersehen (1958) TV episode (story and screenplay)
Self:
  1. "TV Land's Top Ten" .... Himself (2 episodes, 2006)
        - Top 10 TV Spinoffs (2006) TV episode .... Himself
        - All in the Family Episodes (2006) TV episode .... Himself
  2. "TV Land Moguls" (2004) TV mini-series .... Himself (unknown episodes)
    ... aka "TV Moguls" (Australia)
  3. "Intimate Portrait" .... Himself (interviewed) (1 episode, 2003)
        - Florence Henderson (2003) TV episode .... Himself (interviewed)
  4. Inside TV Land: 40 Greatest Theme Songs (2002) (TV) .... Himself
  5. Who Is Alan Smithee? (2002) (TV) (uncredited) .... Himself
  6. Inside TV Land: The Dick Van Dyke Show (2000) (TV) .... Himself

  7. "E! True Hollywood Story" .... Himself (1 episode, 1999)
        - The Brady Bunch (1999) TV episode .... Himself
  8. "Whatever Happened to... Clement and La Frenais?" (1997) TV series

Additional Details

Other Works:
In 1962, he directed an unsold pilot for a proposed TV comedy series called "The William Bendix Show" where Bendix played the owner of a small mountain lodge who couldn't stop himself from becoming involved with his guest problems. more
Publicity Listings:
1 Portrayal | 1 Print Biography more
Genres:
Comedy | Adventure | Action | Crime more

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