Ralph Senensky

Directing

Ralph Senensky

Born — Died

1923-04-30 — 2025-11-01

Known for

Directing

Credits

9 titles

Ralph Senensky was a prolific television director on shows such as The Waltons, Dynasty and Star Trek. He died at the age of 102.

Known for

The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek poster
7.1

In honor of the sci-fi franchise’s 55th anniversary this year and produced by The Nacelle Company, the project will feature interviews with cast, crew and experts as it explores pivotal moments in the franchise’s history, from its inception at Lucille Ball’s production company Desilu to recent film and television adaptations.

The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek

2021

Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault poster
5.8

Fifty years after the original Star Trek first arrived on television, is there anything about Gene Roddenberry's space opera that hasn't been uncovered? Plenty! On December 13, 2016 fans can experience Star Trek: The Original Series - The Roddenberry Vault, a newly produced multi-part documentary featuring footage from the cutting room floor, long preserved in film canisters by the Roddenberry Estate. The origins of the classic series are explored with new interviews featuring cast and production personnel combined with newly-found deleted scenes, alternate angles, outtakes, behind the scenes moments, and original visual effects elements to tell the definitive story on the making and enduring legacy of Gene Roddenberry's creation.

Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault

2016

Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes poster
7.3

The fugitives Burke, Virdon and Galen try to save the life of a human blacksmith and his son, whom gorilla leader Urko has threatened with death should his horse lose another race. The trio also attempt to expose a crooked gorilla by framing him in a plot to kill Urko. [The third of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "The Horse Race" and "The Tyrant"]

Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes

1980

Dan August: Once Is Never Enough poster
5.7

Lt. Dan August is a homicide detective in his hometown of Santa Luisa, California. In this reediting of two episodes of Burt Reynolds' "Dan August" TV series, August and his partner Wilentz investigate the slayings of two winos who died after drinking poisoned whiskey and the rape and murder of a young woman.

Dan August: Once Is Never Enough

1980

The New Adventures of Heidi poster
5.0

The long-familiar Heidi tale is given a contemporary (and musical) setting as the young heroine leaves her familiar Swiss mountain for the bright lights of Manhattan.

The New Adventures of Heidi

1978

Death Cruise poster
5.8

Several couples are notified that they have won an ocean cruise, but they actually have been lured onto a ship so that they can be murdered.

Death Cruise

1974

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes poster
7.3

The fugitives Burke, Virdon and Galen try to save the life of a human blacksmith and his son, whom gorilla leader Urko has threatened with death should his horse lose another race. The trio also attempt to expose a crooked gorilla by framing him in a plot to kill Urko. [The third of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "The Horse Race" and "The Tyrant"]

Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes

1980

Dan August: Once Is Never Enough poster
5.7

Lt. Dan August is a homicide detective in his hometown of Santa Luisa, California. In this reediting of two episodes of Burt Reynolds' "Dan August" TV series, August and his partner Wilentz investigate the slayings of two winos who died after drinking poisoned whiskey and the rape and murder of a young woman.

Dan August: Once Is Never Enough

1980

The New Adventures of Heidi poster
5.0

The long-familiar Heidi tale is given a contemporary (and musical) setting as the young heroine leaves her familiar Swiss mountain for the bright lights of Manhattan.

The New Adventures of Heidi

1978

Death Cruise poster
5.8

Several couples are notified that they have won an ocean cruise, but they actually have been lured onto a ship so that they can be murdered.

Death Cruise

1974

The Family Kovack poster
4.0

A tightly-knit family headed by a beleaguered Chicago widow rallies behind the eldest son when he is charged with bribing a city health department inspector in this pilot for a possible series.

The Family Kovack

1974

A Dream for Christmas poster
7.3

A Southern minister is assigned to a poor church in California where the congregation is drifting away and the church itself is scheduled for demolition.

A Dream for Christmas

1973

The Family Nobody Wanted poster
6.4

A minister and his wife take in poor and troubled children that nobody else wants and soon they find themselves with a family of a dozen kids.

The Family Nobody Wanted

1975