Favorite Alan Smithee Film (Television Movie or Series Episode)
Alan Smithee is not a real person and he has never directed a movie! When a director feels that creative control of a film has been taken away from him, he places the name "Alan Smithee" on the film as a pseudonym (with approval of the Director's Guild).
Which of these films/episodes that the director was ashamed to claim do you think was the best? If you haven't seen any, which film actually sounds interesting enough for you to give it a watch?
Discuss here: http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000088/flat/239908125
Note: This list only contains television episodes, specials, and made-for-tv movies. Documentaries, short films, and feature length theatrical and straight to video movies will appear on other polls.
Which of these films/episodes that the director was ashamed to claim do you think was the best? If you haven't seen any, which film actually sounds interesting enough for you to give it a watch?
Discuss here: http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000088/flat/239908125
Note: This list only contains television episodes, specials, and made-for-tv movies. Documentaries, short films, and feature length theatrical and straight to video movies will appear on other polls.
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- StarsTimothy HuttonMaury ChaykinColin FoxGenius detective Nero Wolfe and his right-hand man: Archie Goodwin, solve seemingly impossible crimes, in 1950's New York.Episodes "Motherhunt (Part One and Part Two)
- DirectorJerrold FreedmanStarsBobby HoseaJessica TuckDavid RobersonDramatizes some of the more tawdry events in the relationship between O.J. Simpson and his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, up to and including his arrest for Brown's murder.
- DirectorRick RosenthalStarsBrad JohnsonChelsea FieldJames NaughtonBirds go berserk and turn against mankind.
- DirectorMichael Toshiyuki UnoStarsRicky SchroderGordon TootoosisDuncan FraserA young boy heads off to the Yukon after hearing tales about the Gold Rush, and he forms an unwavering friendship with a heroic Alsatian dog called Buck.
- CreatorMichael LeesonStarsBill CosbyPhylicia RashadMalcolm-Jamal WarnerThe goings-on in the life of a successful African-American family.Episode: "You Can't Stop the Music"
- StarsDavid DuchovnyAnthony AddabboAudie EnglandJake yearns to understand the secret life of his late fiancee. To find the answer, he solicits the most heartfelt, passionate, and intimate entries in other women's diaries. These are their stories...Episode "Accident's Happen"
- CreatorAlan SmartStarsCharlie AdlerJohn KassirTress MacNeilleThe wacky adventures of the new young hip generation of Warner Brothers Looney Tunes characters, most of them descendants of the original classic toon cast.Episode "Strange Tales of Weird Science"
- CreatorRod SerlingStarsRobin WardCharles AidmanRichard MulliganA collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but often have a wicked sense of humor and an unexpected twist.Episode: "Paladin of the Lost Hour"
- CreatorLee David ZlotoffStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarBruce McGillThe adventures of a secret Agent armed with almost infinite scientific resourcefulness.Episodes: "Pilot" and "The Heist"
- DirectorJud TaylorStarsBurt ReynoldsBarbara LodenPatricia CaseyA sophisticated Hollywood film editor, on location for a film she is working on, falls for a local cowboy who is hired to work on the film.
- StarsSteve SpitzSteve Thompson25 episodes
- StarsAyako KawasumiHiroyuki YoshinoJûrôta KosugiSakurano,who is a figure skater gets kicked out of a big skating competition. Simultaneously, a Pete a Canadian guy dies while trying an air stunt. Sakurano discovers that he has been transported to her body and he must help her get selected for the Olympics.2005 episode "Shinderera"
- DirectorKirk WongStarsIce-TErin DanielsEva MendesMartial-arts experts (Eva Mendez, Will Yun Lee) protect a famous baseball pitcher turned defector from Cuban mercenaries trying to kidnap him.
- DirectorJohn McNaughtonAlan SmitheeStarsRichard Dean AndersonLillo BrancatoMorris ChestnutA firehouse crew is attacked by an assassin and eventually must accept that the firehouse is to be consolidated with a rescue unit.
- DirectorIvan PasserStarsCybill ShepherdTim MathesonKaris Paige BryantJodie and Winn are best friends, but when Winn is suspected of abusing Jodie's young daughter, an all-out war in court begins that leaves Jodie fighting for justice.
- DirectorAlan SmitheeStarsWilliam RussCheryl PollakPaul ReginaUnsold series pilot about a TV reporter and his assistant who try to find a connection between the murder of a fellow news reporter and a prostitute.
- DirectorTom HollandStarsAdrian PaulPatricia CharbonneauBrian ThompsonAfter the violent murder of his family, a man becomes a vigilante dispensing his own kind of justice to people in need.
- CreatorLinda MarshMargie PetersStarsPatty DukeLewis SmithTeri HatcherKaren Matthew's life is great with a good job as an editor and her daughter Laura starting college. Then she meets a much younger man, caterer Lewis. Some disapprove including Laura but her best friend Claire is very supportive.Episode "Take Me Out To The Ballgame"
- StarsBen MastersElyssa DavalosPatrick BauchauA former spy gets drawn into an adventure with mercenaries, Egyptian treasure hunters.
- CreatorRobert FosterStarsCharles TaylorErin GrayChad AllenDavid Dalton, traverses the US in his camper van with his dog. He interacts with people he encounters, utilizing his combat skills to assist them in obtaining justice, becoming entangled in their personal lives along the way.Episode: "Code Of Vengeance II"
- DirectorAlan SmitheeStarsCharles TaylorEd BruceTony FrankSequel to Code of Vengeance in which Vietnam vet-turned-loner David Dalton goes off this time in pursuit of his crazy former commanding officer and his trigger-happy paramilitary group, the New Patriots, in the Florida Everglades who are planning a war against the U.S. Government which they feel let them down in Vietnam.
- DirectorAlan SmitheeStarsJoan RiversBobby BerosiniJoyce BrothersFictional character, Heidi Abromowitz, is the butt of everyone's jokes.
- CreatorLeah MarkusJennifer MillerStarsLloyd BridgesDack RamboMimi RogersThe cut-throat worlds of modeling and cosmetic. Storylines centered around acid-tongued modeling executive Racine, who held fief over the careers of young models Laurie Caswell and Taryn Blake, and cosmetics tycoon Grant Harper.Episodes 2 and 4
- DirectorJackie CooperRod HolcombStarsWilliam BassettHank BrandtJ.P. BumsteadA fast-food delivery man for a New York Chinese restaurant is recruited by a secret intelligence organization to help track down international terrorists. An unsold pilot.
- CreatorEric BercoviciStarsJames ArnessMarshall ColtGeorge DiCenzoJim McClain was a cop and after being injured and deemed unfit for duty he was retired and for the past fifteen years was working on a fishing boat. One day he and his partner sell their boat. His partner cashes the check and is walking around with the cash in his pocket and is robbed and killed. McClain feels that the police are not doing enough so he tried to get reinstated, which the current head of homicide opposes. However, McClain gets what he wants and after apprehending his partner's killer, he stays on, which doesn't make his current boss all that happy because he doesn't like McClain's way of doing things or disregard for the rules.Episode: "Requiem for a Narc"