Jerry Sackheim
Writing
Known For

This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.
The Ford Television Theatre

The wicked Alain plots an elaborate revenge against his younger brother Edmund, leading to a deadly confrontation in his dungeon deathtrap.
The Strange Door

Jimmy desires to be a pirate when one day he discovers a magic bottle on the beach. He makes a wish and suddenly finds himself aboard Blackbeard's ship. Soon he realizes that being a pirate isn't what he expected.
The Boy and the Pirates

A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
The Last Crooked Mile

The conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a promoter who is planning to defraud the town. He is reformed by the daughter of one.
The Richest Man in Town

A naive country boy goes to New York City, where he gets mixed up with real estate swindlers.
Nobody's Fool

Autry is drawn into the plot when he's given power of attorney in a property settlement involving his old pal and a gang of land swindlers. The pal then goes on an extended vacation, leaving Autry to sort things out.
Saddle Pals

Chuck Wheeler gets out of the Pen and sets up an elaborate heist of Vegas casino money travelling by armored truck. He enlists the help of shady club owner Joe Darren and his ex-cellmate's wife, Vi. Vi's husband Mike is a trigger happy and jealous hothead and will not grant her a divorce. Mike escapes from prison right before the armored truck job goes into motion and promises trouble as he tries to locate his associates and his wandering wife.
Guns Girls and Gangsters

A playboy produces an airtight alibi when he is questioned about the murder of his wealthy aunt.
The Fatal Witness

A man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.
The Black Castle

When Missouri farm boy Jesse James witnesses the lynching of his father by the Yankees, he forsakes his family's homestead to find his brother Frank, a soldier in Quantrill's Raiders, a renegade band of Confederates. Bent on revenge, Jesse begs to join the raiders.
Young Jesse James

Jimmy Easter is a jockey who gets shook up when he is responsible for the death of a fellow rider during a race. He gets back down to business, however, when the daughter of his ex-boss shows her faith in him.
Heart of Virginia

Marital comedy with a dash of murder.
The Night Before the Divorce

Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same newspaper, set out to track down the killer of a colleague, a book-reviewer who was involved with a group of rare book forgers and whose sister has been convinced her editor-fiance, Bill Monroe, killed him.
The Trespasser

A young boy is struck by lightning, and discovers afterwards that he has the power of telepathy.
The Main Street Kid
The Clown and the Kid is a 1961 film. When Moko the Clown (Don Keefer) passes away, his newly orphaned son Shawn (Michael McGreevey) takes up with mysterious wanderer Peter (John Lupton), and the two strangers become close friends and partners until a closely guarded secret rips them apart.
The Clown and the Kid

Two women private detectives arrive at a dude ranch in time to investigate the murder of their client's philandering husband.
The Undercover Woman

An ex-convict, unable to get a good job because of his prison record, gets mixed up in a phony stock scam.
I Can't Escape

A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.
A Notorious Gentleman

The police think a young lawyer (Robert Lowery) killed his partner, but he was drugged when it happened.