Directing
Don Medford
Born — Died
1917-11-26 — 2012-12-12
Place of birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Known for
Directing
Credits
24 titles
Donald Muller (November 26, 1917, Detroit, Michigan - December 12, 2012, West Hills, California), known professionally as Don Medford, was an American television director who directed over 75 TV series between 1951 and 1989, and who also directed three movies. Medford directed the final two-part episode of the 1960s television series The Fugitive and the final episode of the 1980s television series The Colbys. He also directed the violent 1971 Western film The Hunting Party.
Known for
6.4Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered such stories as Frankenstein, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo, and many others featuring such performers as Boris Karloff, Brian Keith, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Bruce Cabot, Franchot Tone, Gene Lockhart, Walter Abel, Leslie Nielsen, and Paul Newman. The series had many similarities to the later Twilight Zone which also covered one of the same stories, "What You Need". In total it ran for eighty-five 30-minute episodes.
Tales of Tomorrow
1951
6.1A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his wife.
The Hunting Party
1971
6.3After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs for assistance.
The Organization
1971
5.9The men from U.N.C.L.E. must stop the assassination of an African head of state with the help of a simple housewife.
To Trap a Spy
1965
5.5A man tells the story of his coming to adulthood when he left home at age 18 and learned the consequences of telling a lie to impress a girl.
Sherwood Anderson's I'm A Fool
1954
NRA hood forces a doctor and his wife to remove a bullet from the hood's partner.
The Dark, Dark Hours
1954
Film credits
Series credits
Behind the camera
6.1A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his wife.
The Hunting Party
1971
6.3After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs for assistance.
The Organization
1971
5.9The men from U.N.C.L.E. must stop the assassination of an African head of state with the help of a simple housewife.
To Trap a Spy
1965
5.5A man tells the story of his coming to adulthood when he left home at age 18 and learned the consequences of telling a lie to impress a girl.
Sherwood Anderson's I'm A Fool
1954
NRA hood forces a doctor and his wife to remove a bullet from the hood's partner.
The Dark, Dark Hours
1954
6.0In order to test the validity of his experiments on cloning, a scientist makes clones of himself, but it causes problems that he didn't foresee.
The Clone Master
1978
NRA scarecrow is brought to life by a witch and made to pose as a nobleman.
Feathertop
1955
7.0A hard-nosed private detective investigates a suspected overthrow of the U.S. government. Loosely based on The Business Plot of 1933.
The November Plan
1977
5.7A man who tries to stop a mugging finds himself accused of murdering the criminal after the victim and witnesses fail to corroborate his story. A young reporter believes the man and tries to find out why the parties involved are trying to frame him.
Incident in San Francisco
1971
7.7An ex-football star, paralyzed from the waist down during Vietnam, accepts the challenge of coaching football in a juvenile reform school.
Coach of the Year
1980
NRJoe wants a different future than one as a petty hoodlum and when he attempts to rob an aspiring dancer Noli, he glimpses the possibilities. He imagines purchasing a briefcase as a start but his crime partner is reluctant to let him go.
Something For An Empty Briefcase
1953
NRIn this pilot to the short-lived "Hell Town," Robert Blake plays a scrappy, ex-convict-turned-ghetto priest in an impoverished inner-city parish.
Father of Hell Town
1985
4.5A professor and his beautiful assistant investigate a murder which occurs in a supposedly haunted house.
Ghostbreakers
1967
10.0A sultry nightclub singer, a small-town girl in the big city, sets out to avenge her boyfriend's murder after he is killed while running illegal booze for the mob.
Sizzle
1981
8.0Dr. Victor Frankenstein, working in a castle on a remote Swiss island, attempts to create a perfect man but his resultant creation turns out to be a murderous beast who must be destroyed.
Frankenstein
1952
Musician Joey Crown is down on his luck. An alcoholic, he can't find work because no one trusts him. Broke, he hocks his trumpet but then steps in front of truck which knocks him onto the sidewalk. He awakens in a strange world where no one can see him and he presumes that he has died. He eventually bumps into someone who can in fact see him, a fellow horn player who tells him that it's still within Joey's power to decide on life or death.
A Passage for Trumpet
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6.0No synopsis available yet.
Cosa Nostra, Arch Enemy of the FBI
1967
NRScientist perfects a chemical unleashing the beast within, but before he can create an antidote, his neglected wife accidentally is dosed when he has to rush a batch home to keep it refrigerated. Her mild resentment of his endless hours at the lab accelerates into a torrent, after she gobbles pie on which the potion dripped.
The Evil Within
1953
NRThis special is a wonderful retelling of the Nativity story from the point of view of the Innkeeper's wife, her husband, and their servants.
A Child is Born: A Christmas Story Presented by Ronald Reagan
1956
NRA Union law allows homes vacated by confederates to be sold at auction. A woman comes back to claim her home irregardless of the fact that it is lawfully occupied.
Rebel Range
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A cook tries everything she can think of to end a dispute between two gunmen who have sworn to kill each other.
Triggers In Leash
1955


