Martin Shakar

Law & Order

Doctor

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

Unforgettable

Gordon Kemp

Former Syracuse, New York, police detective Carrie Wells has hyperthymesia, a rare medical condition that gives her the ability to visually remember everything. She reluctantly joins the New York City Police Department's Queens homicide unit after her former boyfriend and partner asks for help with solving a case. The move allows her to try to find out the one thing she has been unable to remember, which is what happened the day her sister was murdered.

The Equalizer

Frank Morrow

Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.

L.A. Law

Judge Martin Pirsig

L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.

Saturday Night Fever

Frank, Jr.

Tony spends his Saturdays at a disco where his stylish moves raise his popularity among the patrons. But his life outside the disco is not easy and things change when he gets attracted to Stephanie.

Uptown Girls

Mr. Feldman

Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny to Ray - the precocious, oft-ignored daughter of a music executive - she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child.

The Dark Secret of Harvest Home

David Adwell

A New York commercial artist and his wife and daughter move to a quiet, rustic New England village they visited during their travels, only to find themselves mixed up in ritualistic lifestyle full of foreboding secrets.

Invasion U.S.A.

CIA Agent Peter Adams

A one-man army comes to the rescue of the United States when a spy attempts an invasion.

Signs of Life

Mr. Castanho

The closing of a small shipbuilder in New England places stresses on the people involved.

Hell's Kitchen

Warden

Newly released from jail, an ex-gang member asks a former contender to teach him to box.

Over the Brooklyn Bridge

Banker

A put-upon Jewish deli owner in Brooklyn dreams of getting out from underneath the thumb of his domineering father and his haughty fashion-model girlfriend by buying his own restaurant in midtown Manhattan.

Against the Current

Boatyard Owner

Struggling with a tragic past, a man with an urgent calling enlists two friends to help him swim the length of the Hudson River.

A Price Above Rubies

Mr. Berman

About a young woman who is married to a devout Jew and the problems that trouble their marriage because of the woman wanting something more out of her life.

Kojak: The Belarus File

Assistant D.A.

Lt. Theo Kojak uncovers a Nazi conspiracy.

Blood Bath

(as Martin Shaker)

The actors for a horror movie go out to dinner one evening with their director and tell horror stories to each other.

The Children

John Freemont

A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.

Out and About

Older Man

Inside the mind of a middle-aged man as he tries to come to terms with his life over the course of an afternoon walk through his hometown.

Torn Between Two Lovers

Frank Conti

Diane is happily married. But, one day while travelling she meets a dashing architect. With some relief, she parts ways with him at the airport, her resistance to his alluring manner having been tested. She later discovers that she has his gloves, so she returns them in person, only to end up in bed with the man, and later falling in love. She now faces the toughest decision of her life.

You Can't Go Home Again

An adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's literary classic, telling of the struggles of a young writer determined to be a success in New York's literary world of the 1920s, his married lover, and the brilliant editor who sees him as a blossoming genius. The story parallels the life of Wolfe himself and his affair with stage designer Aline Bernstein.

Silent Notes

Frank

After finding out he is going deaf, Bruce is stuck at a crossroads: he needs a surgical intervention that he can’t afford. In his attempt to find a solution that will get him the money, he meets Ethan, a lonely man who needs above all someone to talk to. The unlikely pair will embark on a journey of no return, where Ethan can’t stop talking to Bruce, who is unable to hear.