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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Fall Guy
2024
Original Series Creator
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
2009
Producer
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
2008
Characters
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
2007
Producer
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
1999
Writer
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
1997
Writer
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
1993
Writer
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
1991
Characters
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
1989
Writer, Associate Producer, Director
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
1989
Screenstory, Teleplay, Executive Producer
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
1985
Writer
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
1985
Writer
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
1984
Writer
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
1983
Writer
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
1982
Writer, Executive Producer
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
1982
Writer, Executive Producer
A physically small police psychologist and a physically large insurance detective team up on an arson case.

Terror at Alcatraz
1982
Writer, Executive Producer
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
1981
Executive Producer
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
1980
Writer, Executive Producer
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
1980
Teleplay, Executive Producer
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
1980
Writer, Executive Producer
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
1979
Writer, Story, Characters
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
1979
Writer, Executive Producer
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
1978
Writer
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
1978
Teleplay, Executive Producer
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
1978
Writer, Producer
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
1978
Teleplay, Executive Producer
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
1978
Screenplay
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)
1977
Writer
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
1977
Writer, Producer
Two undercover cops find their avocation -- a musical act -- helpful in tapping informants on the Las Vegas Strip regarding the alleged kidnapping of ...
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Switch [Pilot]
1975
Writer, Producer
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
1973
Writer
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
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
1957
as Self
Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra host a program that's wall-to-wall music.

Knight Rider
N/A
Screenplay
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...