Working Productions
by rdwoolf | created - 13 Jul 2021 | updated - 14 Jan 2023 | PublicAll the titles I remember having worked on at one point in time
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1.
Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode:
Murder in a Minor Key
(1987)
TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Jessica tells the story of her new novel about a composer accused of killing the professor who plagiarized his music.
Director: Nick Havinga | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Rene Auberjonois, Shaun Cassidy, Paul Clemens
Votes: 463
2. Student Exchange (1987 TV Movie)
88 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Carol and Neil are successful in terms of grades, but not very popular at their high school. When Carol comes to know that two foreign exchange students from France and Italy were ... See full summary »
Director: Mollie Miller | Stars: Viveka Davis, Todd Field, Mitchell Anderson, Heather Graham
Votes: 562
3.
Ohara (1987–1988)
Episode:
Terry
(1987)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Pat Morita, Kevin Conroy, Jon Polito, Madge Sinclair
4. Summer School (1987)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
Freddy the gym teacher has to teach remedial English in summer (high) school, if he wants tenure. As he can only teach gym and his students want fun, emphasis is on "field trips" - until he's fired unless all his students pass the test.
Director: Carl Reiner | Stars: Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley, Robin Thomas, Patrick Labyorteaux
Votes: 22,130 | Gross: $35.66M
5. Fame (1982–1987)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Music, Musical
The stories of the students and faculty of the New York City High School for the Performing Arts.
Stars: Carlo Imperato, Gene Anthony Ray, Debbie Allen, Albert Hague
Votes: 4,449
6. La Bamba (1987)
PG-13 | 108 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of early rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens who died at age 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper.
Director: Luis Valdez | Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, Elizabeth Peña
Votes: 36,435 | Gross: $54.22M
7. Spaceballs (1987)
PG | 96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A star-pilot for hire and his trusty sidekick must come to the rescue of a princess and save Planet Druidia from the clutches of the evil Spaceballs.
Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman
Votes: 206,502 | Gross: $38.12M
8. In the Mood (1987)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Romance
A 14-year-old nicknamed the 'Woo Woo Kid', is a teenage casanova who has affairs and runs away to marry two older women, mothers themselves, fascinating the public and the media with his romantic prowess.
Director: Phil Alden Robinson | Stars: Patrick Dempsey, Talia Balsam, Beverly D'Angelo, Michael Constantine
Votes: 1,097 | Gross: $1.00M
9. Sunset (1988)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway
Votes: 4,623 | Gross: $4.59M
10. Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
A Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion.
Director: John Hughes | Stars: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean
Votes: 160,211 | Gross: $49.53M
11. Daddy (1987 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 100 min | Drama
Two high schoolers are unprepared for the reality of parenthood when the girl becomes pregnant.
Director: John Herzfeld | Stars: Dermot Mulroney, John Karlen, Tess Harper, J.J. Cohen
Votes: 371
12.
Hill Street Blues (1981–1987)
Episode:
The Runner Falls on His Kisser
(1987)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Hill becomes a hot spot for the media when Russo arrests a football star for soliciting. LaRue persuades Buntz to enter the annual shooting competition at the Police Academy. Frank's ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Lavet | Stars: Daniel J. Travanti, Michael Warren, Bruce Weitz, Betty Thomas
Votes: 75
13. Little Nikita (1988)
PG | 98 min | Drama, Thriller
An F.B.I. Agent works to uncover an All-American family as Soviet sleeper Agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their unaware son.
Director: Richard Benjamin | Stars: Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Jenkins, Caroline Kava
Votes: 6,018 | Gross: $1.73M
14. Split Decisions (1988)
R | 95 min | Action, Drama, Sport
When a boxer is killed because he wouldn't take a dive, his brother tries to find a way to avenge him even if only symbolically.
Director: David Drury | Stars: Gene Hackman, Craig Sheffer, Jeff Fahey, John McLiam
Votes: 1,101 | Gross: $0.70M
15. The Hanoi Hilton (1987)
R | 125 min | Drama, War
Follows the suffering, torture, and brutal treatment that American prisoners of war had to deal with on a daily basis while in North Vietnam's Hoa Lo prison.
Director: Lionel Chetwynd | Stars: Michael Moriarty, Paul Le Mat, John Edwin Shaw, Ken Wright
Votes: 1,210 | Gross: $0.76M
16. Night Wars (1988)
R | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Two Vietnam Veterans have realistic nightmares about the war. So real are these nightmares that they start getting injured in them, and bringing things back that they had in the dream. They... See full summary »
Director: David A. Prior | Stars: Dan Haggerty, Brian Edward O'Connor, Cameron Smith, Steve Horton
Votes: 229
17. Hell on the Battleground (1988)
R | 92 min | Action, War
Vietnam: The battle-tested Seargents Casey and Lance have to accompany a young Lieutenant and a group of newly arrived teenage soldiers on a practice trip in the jungle. But the trip turns ... See full summary »
Director: David A. Prior | Stars: William Smith, Fritz Matthews, Ted Prior, Chet Hood
Votes: 143
18. The Allnighter (1987)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Romance
A Southern California coed parties with her roommates and flirts with a surfer next door.
Director: Tamar Simon Hoffs | Stars: Susanna Hoffs, Dedee Pfeiffer, Joan Cusack, John Terlesky
Votes: 1,483 | Gross: $2.70M
19. Death Spa (1988)
R | 88 min | Horror
Gruesome deaths begin to occur at a hip Los Angeles health club.
Director: Michael Fischa | Stars: William Bumiller, Brenda Bakke, Merritt Butrick, Robert Lipton
Votes: 3,477
20. Throw Momma from the Train (1987)
PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A bitter ex-husband wants his former spouse dead. A put-upon momma's boy wants his mother dead. Who will pull it off?
Director: Danny DeVito | Stars: Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Kim Greist, Anne Ramsey
Votes: 40,669 | Gross: $57.92M
21. The Bronx Zoo (1987–1988)
60 min | Drama
Elderly white principal of a Bronx high school that's in a rough black and Latino neighborhood tries to keep everyone's spirits up, despite having to deal with unmotivated teachers and disinterested students.
Stars: Edward Asner, David Wilson, Kathleen Beller, Nicholas Pryor
Votes: 118
22. Rented Lips (1987)
R | 82 min | Comedy
A documentary filmmaker who has spent the last 15 years making films like "Aluminum: Our Shiny Friend," is finally given the chance to make the documentary on Indian farming he has always ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Downey Sr. | Stars: Martin Mull, Dick Shawn, Jennifer Tilly, Edy Williams
Votes: 388
23. Cagney & Lacey (1981–1988)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two female police detectives cooperate with each other both in their professions and in their personal lives.
Stars: Tyne Daly, Sharon Gless, Al Waxman, Martin Kove
Votes: 5,049
24. Tapeheads (1988)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Music
A couple of creative losers accidently become big shots in the video music industry.
Director: Bill Fishman | Stars: John Cusack, Tim Robbins, Mary Crosby, Clu Gulager
Votes: 4,355 | Gross: $0.34M
25. Hunter (I) (1984–1991)
TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Rick Hunter is a renegade cop who bends the rules and takes justice into his own hands. Partnered with the equally stunning and rebellious Sgt. McCall, he sets out to crack down on L.A.'s slimiest criminals.
Stars: Fred Dryer, Stepfanie Kramer, Charles Hallahan, Perry Cook
Votes: 5,646
26.
CBS Summer Playhouse (1987–1989)
Episode:
Sawdust
(1987)
30 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A bored accountant buys a run-down circus and has a go at running it himself, much to the displeasure of his wife and children.
Director: Jeffrey Hornaday | Stars: James Eckhouse, Leslie Jordan, Elya Baskin, Bradley Gregg
Votes: 10
27. Starman (1986–1987)
60 min | Sci-Fi
An alien returns to Earth years after an earlier visit to reunite with his Earth son and together, they search for the alien's human wife.
Stars: Robert Hays, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Michael Cavanaugh, Patrick Culliton
Votes: 972
28. The Couch Trip (1988)
R | 97 min | Comedy
A burnt-out shrink needs a temp. A charming escaped convict takes over his practice and radio show.
Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, Donna Dixon
Votes: 5,593 | Gross: $11.01M
29.
Fame (1982–1987)
Episode:
Baby, Remember My Name
(1987)
TV-14 | Drama, Music, Musical
The school is trying its hands at its first video yearbook and with alumni week in session, Bruno, Coco, Doris, Montgomery, Holly, and Chris are interviewed for the video. Miss Grant ... See full summary »
Director: Debbie Allen | Stars: Debbie Allen, Olivia Barash, Jesse Borrego, Michael Cerveris
Votes: 27
30.
Fame (1982–1987)
Episode:
Reggie and Rose
(1987)
TV-14 | Drama, Music, Musical
After helping her out when she gets kicked out of her English class, Reggie's close friend and the cafeteria lady, Rose, joins the school of the arts under Reggie's suggestion but when ... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan | Stars: Debbie Allen, Olivia Barash, Jesse Borrego, Michael Cerveris
Votes: 15
31. Fresno (1986)
TV-PG | 360 min | Comedy
In Fresno, California, the once-wealthy Kensington family's raisin-growing empire has fallen on hard times. They are led by widowed matriarch Charlotte, who is locked in a deadly power struggle with rival raisin magnate Tyler Cane.
Stars: Carol Burnett, Dabney Coleman, Gregory Harrison, Teri Garr
Votes: 432
32. Teen Wolf Too (1987)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Todd Howard is a struggling college student. Nothing seems to be going very well for him, until he turns into a wolf.
Director: Christopher Leitch | Stars: Jason Bateman, Kim Darby, John Astin, Paul Sand
Votes: 12,450 | Gross: $7.89M
33. My Demon Lover (1987)
PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A homeless street musician becomes a demon when sexually aroused.
Director: Charlie Loventhal | Stars: Scott Valentine, Michele Little, Robert Trebor, Gina Gallego
Votes: 1,634 | Gross: $3.92M
34. Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
R | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate Chief Bogomil's near-fatal shooting and the series of "alphabet crimes" associated with it.
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Jürgen Prochnow, Ronny Cox
Votes: 130,379 | Gross: $153.67M
35. Police Story: The Freeway Killings (1987 TV Movie)
143 min | Crime, Drama
Detectives search for a killer loose on the roads.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Richard Crenna, Angie Dickinson, Tony Lo Bianco, Don Meredith
Votes: 165
36.
CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984–1996)
Episode:
The Drug Knot
(1986)
Unrated | 46 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
High school teen is heavily addicted to drugs such as Cocaine and can't seem to stop, until he is faced with a tragedy.
Director: Anson Williams | Stars: David Toma, Mary Ellen Trainor, Lawrence Pressman, David Faustino
Votes: 34
37. Bates Motel (1987 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A mentally disturbed man, who roomed with the late Norman Bates at the state lunatic asylum, inherits the legendary Bates Motel after the death of Norman and tries to fix it up to make it a respectable business.
Director: Richard Rothstein | Stars: Bud Cort, Lori Petty, Moses Gunn, Gregg Henry
Votes: 1,766
38.
Werewolf (1987–1988)
Episode:
Spectre of the Wolf
(1987)
30 min | Horror, Thriller
Eric seeks help from college professor Dr. Victor Degoethels who has written a book about werewolves throughout the ages. But Alamo Joe has already warned him about Eric and his crimes.
Director: Lyndon Chubbuck | Stars: John J. York, Lance LeGault, Byrne Piven, Paul Comi
Votes: 36
39. Jake's M.O. (1987)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Harry Winer | Stars: James Avery, Raye Birk, Eileen Conn, Fred Gwynne
40.
The Twilight Zone (1985–1989)
Episode:
The Convict's Piano
(1986)
TV-PG | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Ricky Frost has been wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison, but his musical talent might see him free if he continues to play a certain piano.
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Joe Penny, Norman Fell, Tom O'Brien, John Hancock
Votes: 262
41.
The Twilight Zone (1985–1989)
Episode:
Joy Ride/Shelter Skelter/Private Channel
(1987)
TV-PG | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A joy ride is disrupted by the car's dead owner. At the onset of a nuclear war, Harry Dobbs and Nick Gatlin race to a fallout shelter and soon face cabin fever. A mishap turns airline flier Keith Barnes' radio into a mind-reading device.
Directors: Gil Bettman, Martha Coolidge, Peter Medak | Stars: Robert Knepper, Brooke McCarter, Heidi Kozak Haddad, Tamara Mark
Votes: 333
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