Glen A. Larson

1937-01-03 Long Beach, California, USA 35 Credits

Biography

Glen Albert Larson (January 3, 1937 – November 14, 2014) was an American television producer, writer, and composer. He created many series, including Alias Smith and Jones, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, Quincy, M.E., The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, B. J. and the Bear, The Fall Guy, Magnum, P.I., and Knight Rider. Active on television until the early 2010s, he was also a member of the folk revival/satire group The Four Preps.

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The Fall Guy

The Fall Guy

2024

Original Series Creator

7.0

Fresh off an almost career-ending accident, stuntman Colt Seavers has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the l...

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan

2009

Producer

6.8
Producing

When the initial Cylon attack against the Twelve Colonies fails to achieve complete extermination of human life as planned, twin Number Ones (Cavils) ...

Knight Rider

Knight Rider

2008

Characters

6.4

When a group of ruthless mercenaries kill a reclusive scientist, his creation, a new model of artificially intelligent supercar, escapes to find his d...

Battlestar Galactica: Razor

Battlestar Galactica: Razor

2007

Producer

7.1
Producing

The history and adventures of the Battlestar Pegasus, from shortly before the Cylon invasion to shortly after Lee Adama is made commander. The story i...

The Darwin Conspiracy

The Darwin Conspiracy

1999

Writer

4.4
Writing

The frozen body of a prehistoric, but super-advanced, human leads scientists to start covert DNA experiments for the development of a new race of supe...

Nightman

Nightman

1997

Writer

6.2
Writing

After lightning strikes saxophonist Johnny Domino, he finds he is telepathically tuned to the frequency of evil. This gives him an edge for finding th...

Staying Afloat

Staying Afloat

1993

Writer

Writing

In this comedy thriller, a prospective series pilot, Larry Hagman plays a disinherited socialite and high roller who, with the aid of a comely con art...

Knight Rider 2000

Knight Rider 2000

1991

Characters

5.3

In the future, guns are banned and criminals are frozen for the duration of their sentences. A recent spate of killings involving handguns brings Mich...

Chameleons

Chameleons

1989

Writer, Associate Producer, Director

Writing Producing Directing

Shelley, a slightly-crazy heiress, discovers that her eccentric millionaire uncle Jason Carr was rather more eccentric than even she had thought--he w...

The Road Raiders

The Road Raiders

1989

Screenstory, Teleplay, Executive Producer

4.3
Writing Producing

Filled with anachronisms and rip offs from "The 'A' Team" and "The Dirty Dozen" - It's 1942 in Manila and an American saloon owner organizes a misfit ...

In Like Flynn

In Like Flynn

1985

Writer

Writing

Life is one cliff-hanger after another for a bright and beautiful woman and the reluctant young man who joins her in defying death as they investigate...

Half Nelson

Half Nelson

1985

Writer

Writing

Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to Hollywood decides to try his luck out as an actor...

Cover Up

Cover Up

1984

Writer

2.0
Writing

In this feature-length pilot, Dani Reynolds thinks that she has the perfect life, a perfect job, she's a renowned fashion photographer, and has a lovi...

Manimal

Manimal

1983

Writer

4.5
Writing

Jonathan Chase is a British college professor at New York University who has the unusual ability to transform into any kind of animal he wants.

Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix

Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix

1982

Writer, Executive Producer

5.5
Writing Producing

After Detective Michael Long is shot and left for dead, he is saved by the eccentric billionaire Wilton Knight. He is given a new face by plastic surg...

Rooster

Rooster

1982

Writer, Executive Producer

2.0
Writing Producing

A physically small police psychologist and a physically large insurance detective team up on an arson case.

Terror at Alcatraz

Terror at Alcatraz

1982

Writer, Executive Producer

Writing Producing

Tom and Dick Smothers play Bones Howard and Ryan Fitzgerald, a TV cameraman and intrepid reporter, respectively, involved in the race to find the buri...

The Fall Guy

The Fall Guy

1981

Executive Producer

Producing

Hollywood stuntman Colt Seavers hatches an elaborate plan to nab a corrupt sheriff, and he runs into trouble trying to protect an old friend.

Conquest of the Earth

Conquest of the Earth

1980

Writer, Executive Producer

6.5
Writing Producing

A compilation of Battlestar Galactica episodes 1–3 and 7–9, with alternate footage. The Galactica and its ragtag fleet of ships finally arrive on Eart...

Nightside

Nightside

1980

Teleplay, Executive Producer

Producing

Danny Dandoy is a good-humored, streetwise cop working the dusk-to-dawn shift in Los Angeles with his somewhat naive new partner, Macey, in this propo...

The Murder That Wouldn't Die

The Murder That Wouldn't Die

1980

Writer, Executive Producer

2.0
Writing Producing

William Conrad stars as a retired L.A.P.D. detective who has moved to Hawaii and taken a job as a college security chief and assistant football coach ...

Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack

Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack

1979

Writer, Story, Characters

7.0
Writing Producing

A compilation of Battlestar Galactica episodes 10–12 and 21, with alternate footage. Running low on fuel, the Battlestar Galactica receives the help o...

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

1979

Writer, Executive Producer

6.0
Writing Producing

Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war followi...

Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica

1978

Writer

6.9
Writing

A compilation of Battlestar Galactica episodes 1 and 5, with alternate footage. After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last majo...

B.J. and the Bear

B.J. and the Bear

1978

Teleplay, Executive Producer

Producing

In this pilot film, B.J. McKay, a guitar-playing independent trucker who travels with a fun-loving chimpanzee named Bear, finds himself caught up with...

The Islander

The Islander

1978

Writer, Producer

Writing Producing

A retired mainland lawyer buys a small Honolulu hotel and finds himself in a murderous situation involving a runaway grand jury witness, a ruthless mo...

Evening in Byzantium

Evening in Byzantium

1978

Teleplay, Executive Producer

Producing

While the prestigious Cannes Film Festival goes on around him, American movie producer Jesse Craig struggles to develop a pitch-worthy thriller about ...

A Double Life

A Double Life

1978

Screenplay

Writing

After the death of his parents, millionaire playboy Jack Cole is framed on charges of embezzlement. In prison, Cole learns various tricks of the crimi...

The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Meet Dracula (Parts 1 & 2)

The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Meet Dracula (Parts 1 & 2)

1977

Writer

Writing

While in Europe searching for their missing father, the Hardy Boys meet Nancy Drew and team up on a case that takes them to a rock festival in Transyl...

Benny & Barney: Las Vegas Undercover

Benny & Barney: Las Vegas Undercover

1977

Writer, Producer

Writing Producing

Two undercover cops find their avocation -- a musical act -- helpful in tapping informants on the Las Vegas Strip regarding the alleged kidnapping of ...

Switch [Pilot]

Switch [Pilot]

1975

Writer, Producer

Writing Producing

In this pilot film that led to the series, an ex-con and a retired cop, partners in a private investigation agency, try to prove that a safecracker ha...

The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War

The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War

1973

Writer

6.5
Writing

After Col. Steve Austin fails to retrieve the contents of a safe owned by arms dealer Arlen Findletter, he accepts an offer of a holiday in the Bahama...

The Day They Hanged Kid Curry

The Day They Hanged Kid Curry

1971

Teleplay

Hayes visits con-artist Silky O'Sullivan at his San Francisco mansion and discovers that Kid Curry is on trial for murder in Colorado. Heyes rushes to...

The Edsel Show

The Edsel Show

1957

as Self

Acting

Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra host a program that's wall-to-wall music.

Knight Rider

Knight Rider

N/A

Screenplay

Writing

Based on the 1982 series of the same name, a lone crime fighter battles the forces of evil with the help of his indestructible and artificially intell...