Philip Saltzman
Writing
Biography
Philip Saltzman (September 19, 1928 – August 14, 2009) was an American executive producer and television writer. Saltzman was best known for his work as the executive producer of the 1970s CBS detective series, Barnaby Jones. Saltzman was born in Hermosillo, Mexico, on September 19, 1928, to Jewish parents who had immigrated from Russia. He moved as a child to Los Angeles, California, with his parents. Saltzman obtained both his bachelor's degree and master's degree in English from University of California, Los Angeles. Saltzman began his career in the television industry during the 1950s as a writer for the Alcoa Theatre. He would later work as a scriptwriter for a number of other television series and films including, The Swiss Conspiracy, The Fugitive, The Third Man, Perry Mason, The Rifleman and Felony Squad. Saltzman was best known for producing the 1970s show, Barnaby Jones. Additionally, he was also a producer for The F.B.I. and Columbo, as well as a 1975 television movie Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan. From Wikipedia (us), the free encyclopedia
Known For
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.
Perry Mason
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
The Fugitive
Crazy Like a Fox is an American television series set in San Francisco, California, that aired on CBS from December 30, 1984 to May 3, 1986.
Crazy like a Fox
After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Two U.S. Secret Service agents are lured on a bizarre search for their rookie partner who has mysteriously disappeared.Two secret agents set out in search of a missing comrade.
Escapade
After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
A woman suddenly disappears after an early morning walk, and her husband is accused of murder.
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake
Miniseries along the lines of a soap opera which centers on one young woman, Tiger Hayes, as she starts up a perfume company. The usual soap plots of adultery, romance, corruption, and greed abound.
Bare Essence
J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI go after notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis and his gang.
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
A Swiss bank discovers some of its clients are becoming the victim of a brilliant blackmailer. The bank's president contacts David Christopher, a former agent with the U.S. Treasury, to help discover who the blackmailer is and to foil his plot. As Christopher delves into the mystery, he uncovers a complicated web of intrigue, car chases, and shoot-outs that takes all of his wits to unravel.
The Swiss Conspiracy
Perry is suing a gutter trash newspaper that is running a story about a love affair between him and Della. The editor also has "dirt" files on an Army General, his banker and other "clients". All of them make little-concealed verbal threats to him at a party but the person that hated him most is a female reporter who the editor had just fired from the paper for attempting to write a serious story. She threatens him and soon after the editor is found, floating in his pool, shot. The reporter is arrested for the crime and Perry, who has a personal stake in this matter, with the aid of Della and Paul set out to solve the mystery. But the other suspects just want the case over with and will go to any lengths to protect their pasts and their secrets
Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel
Perry investigates the murder of a former madam and uncovers a multimillion dollar banking fraud in the process.
Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam
Mason defends a man he had sentenced to prison when he was an appellate-court judge. Now, 18 months after the sentencing, a new witness turns up to prove the man's innocence. Mason steps in to defend the man.
Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace
A flamboyant secret agent from UNIT, a secret counterespionage group, teams with a lady spy to retrieve a stolen device capable of destroying the world from the clutches of a sinister munitions magnate. Pilot film for the television series "A Man Called Sloane" (1979).
Death Ray 2000
A young astrophysicist searches for sinister extraterrestrials looking for sanctuary for their comrades by possessing the bodies of humans.
The Aliens Are Coming
John McKennon, a former FBI agent who runs Intertect, an international investigative agency, is followed as he tackles various assignments.
Intertect
Vince Rossi is a cop who has been asked by the department to go undercover. Part of the process was being dismissed from the department and being branded a dirty cop. And his first job is to go after a mob boss.
Crossfire
A notorious Chicago lawyer leaves his successful practice and goes to Hawaii to locate his missing son who abandoned a promising law career and has become involved in drug smuggling.
The Paradise Connection
A police cover-up of the murder of two young women at a wild party is complicated by the possible faking of a story by an overzealous young reporter seeking instant newspaper stardom.
That Secret Sunday
Mark and Pete Gunnison, members of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Colorado State Police, seek to crack a multi-million dollar real estate swindle.