Aaron Spelling Filmography

Born:: April 22, 1923 in Dallas, TX
Occupation:: Executive Producer, Producer
Biography:: The son of an immigrant Russian tailor, Aaron Spelling grew up in the Jewish ghetto of Dallas. Traumatized by constant bullying from his WASP schoolmates, Spelling psychosomatically lost the use of his legs at age eight and was confined to bed for a year. He spent his solitude with the written...Read More

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Wanted [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gary Cole, Ryan Hurst, Rashida Jones, Benjamin Benitez, Josey Scott

2005
Summerland [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

2004
Clubhouse [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dean Cain, Jeremy Sumpter, Mare Winningham, Christopher Lloyd, Kirsten Storms

2004
10-8 [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Danny Nucci, Ernie Hudson, Scott William Winters, Christina Vidal, Mercedes Colon

Synopsis: The title of this ABC cop series referred to the patrol-car code used to indicate that said car was "in service." The central character was Rico Amonte (Danny Nucci), a former Brooklyn street punk who after relocating to Los Angeles opted to work on the right side of the law. A deputy trainee with Read More

2003
Titans [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Casper Van Dien, Yasmine Bleeth, Lourdes Benedicto

Synopsis: The dirty laundry of the wealthy and oversexed gets yet another airing in this prime-time soap opera from producer Aaron Spelling. Richard Williams (Perry King) is a tough-as-nails businessman who single-handedly built his aviation business into a powerful multinational conglomerate. Richard is Read More

2000
Satan's School for Girls

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Shannen Doherty, Kate Jackson, Julie Benz, Daniel Cosgrove, Russell Paul Batty

Synopsis: A remake of the 1973 TV movie of the same name, Satan's School for Girls is set within the grim walls of Fallbridge College for Girls. Hoping to learn the truth behind the "suicide" of her younger sister, Beth Hammersmith enrolls in Fallbridge under the assumed name of Karen Oxford. Our heroine Read More

2000
The Mod Squad

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Claire Danes, Giovanni Ribisi, Omar Epps, Dennis Farina, Josh Brolin

Synopsis: Police Capt. Adam Greer (Dennis Farina) needs some new cops who can go where other cops can't. Greer finds three young people on their way to jail: Lincoln Hayes (Omar Epps), the black one, is up for arson; Pete Cochrane (Giovanni Ribisi), the white one, is up for robbery; and Julie Barnes (Claire Danes Read More

3/26/99
Safe Harbor [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gregory Harrison, Jeremy Lelliott, Rue McClanahan

1999
Charmed: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Life was anything but dull for the Halliwell sisters during the first season of WB's Charmed. No sooner had they been reunited in their ostentatious family home in San Francisco than the three ladies -- Prue (Shannen Doherty), Phoebe (Alyssa Milano), and Piper (Holly Marie Combs) -- discovered Read More

1998
The Love Boat: The Next Wave [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Urich, Joan Severance, Corey Parker, Phil Morris, Stacey Travis

Synopsis: Loosely following the format of ABC's 1969-74 comedy anthology series Love, American Style, Aaron Spelling's first Love Boat set sail September 24, 1977 with the series' intertwining stories all taking place aboard the cruise ship Pacific Princess, captained by Gavin MacLeod. Spelling Television Read More

1998
Charmed [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano, Terry W. King

Synopsis: Three of the most gorgeous TV witches since the days of Elizabeth Montgomery were the heroines of the hour-long WB fantasy series Charmed, which first materialized on October 7, 1998. Reunited in their ancestral San Francisco mansion, the Halliwell sisters -- Prudence (aka Prue, played by Shannen Doherty Read More

1998
Buddy Faro

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dennis Farina, Frank Whale, Allison Smith, Charlie Robinson, Felicity Waterman

Synopsis: In this TV drama-comedy, Julie Barber (Allison Smith) hires detective wannabe Bob Jones (Frank Whaley) to track down the legendary private eye Buddy Faro (Dennis Farina), who was once such a name that he was portrayed by an actor (George Hamilton) in a TV series. Now nearly forgotten, Faro has Read More

1998
7th Heaven [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tyler Hoechlin, George Stults, Stephen Collins, Catherine Hicks, Barry Watson, Jessica Biel, Beverley Mitchell, David Gallagher, MacKenzie Rosman

Synopsis: One of the most atypical weekly series to emerge from the Aaron Spelling TV factory, 7th Heaven, created by Spelling and Brenda Hampton, has eschewed the sex-and-sin shenanigans of such series as Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place in favor of honest, three-dimensional family values, with Read More

1996
Love on the Run

Crew: Executive Producer

1994
And the Band Played On

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Alan Alda, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: The late journalist Randy Shilts' best-selling book on the burgeoning AIDS crisis was adapted for cable TV by Arnold Schulman. In 1981, researchers begin discerning a mysterious new disease that apparently affects only homosexual males (or so they thought at that time). Working independently, and Read More

1993
Grass Roots

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Mel Harris, Reginald VelJohnson, John Glover, Katherine Helmond

Synopsis: A made for TV, two-part series, this is the story of a Southern attorney who suddenly finds himself embroiled in politics, a particularly controversial murder trial and a public battle with a vindictive journalist -- all at the same time. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Melrose Place [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

1992
Soapdish

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Robert Downey, Jr., Cathy Moriarty, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: In the comedic farce Soapdish, the behind-the-scenes lives of several soap opera actors are just as melodramatic as those of their television counterparts. Sally Field stars as Celeste Talbert, the star of a declining TV show. To make matters worse, Talbert's career is thrown into turmoil when her Read More

5/31/91
Jailbirds

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Phylicia Rashad, Dyan Cannon

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Jailbirds is a distaff comedy variation on The Defiant Ones. Phylicia Rashad plays an important LA business executive, while Dyan Cannon portrays a trailer-trash babe from Louisiana. Both Rashad and Cannon are thrown into a dank Southern jail for crimes they didn't commit. While Read More

1991
Loose Cannons

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: David Alan Grier, Gene Hackman, Dan Aykroyd, Dom DeLuise, Ronny Cox, Nancy Travis

Synopsis: Loose Cannons may be a wacky buddy-cop comedy, but it starts with a chilling premise. It seems that a film is discovered that depicts the final moments of Adolf Hitler's life. The climax features young German officer Von Metz, who is seen putting Hitler to death. Von Metz (Robert Prosky) is now Read More

2/9/90
Day One

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Brian Dennehy, David Strathairn, Michael Tucker, Hume Cronyn, Richard Dysart

Synopsis: This WW II-set drama follows the creation of the first atomic bomb. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Satisfaction

Crew: Co-producer, Producer

Actors: Justine Bateman, Liam Neeson, Trini Alvarado, Scott Coffey, Britta Phillips

Synopsis: TV's sitcom teen (Family Ties) Justine Bateman is cast as the leader of a four-girl/one-guy rock band who's first real gig is an all-summer job playing at a resort club. The gig includes living accommodations--one room--which the entire band shares for the summer. That memorable summer, with all Read More

2/12/88
Cross My Heart

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Martin Short, Annette O'Toole, Paul Reiser, Joanna Kerns, Jessica Puscas

Synopsis: Martin Short and Annette O'Toole star in this comedy documenting a date from hell. Short is David, a sunglasses salesman, who makes a date with Kathy (Annette O'Toole) in order to celebrate his new promotion. David and Kathy have gone out a few times before, but they both think that this is the Read More

11/13/87
Three O'Clock High

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Casey Siemaszko, Anne Ryan, Stacey Glick, Jonathan Wise, Richard Tyson

Synopsis: The first feature film from director Phil Joanou (State of Grace), Three O' Clock High chronicles a high school nerd's much hyped after-school bout with the infamous class bully. When the impish Jerry Mitchell (Casey Siemaszko) is assigned to interview the new transfer student with a supposedly Read More

10/9/87
Surrender

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sally Field, Michael Caine, Steve Guttenberg, Peter Boyle, Jackie Cooper

Synopsis: Veteran television writer-director Jerry Belson concocted this sweet comedy that stars Michael Caine as Sean Stein, a best-selling mystery novelist who's been constantly hurt by women he's fallen for. Sally Field plays Daisy Morgan, an artist who has not yet hit it big. She and Stein are at a Read More

10/9/87
'Night, Mother

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sissy Spacek, Anne Bancroft, Ed Berke, Carol Robbins, Jennifer Rosendahl

Synopsis: 'Night. Mother was adapted by Marsha Norman from her own harrowing Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Outwardly normal Sissy Spacek calmly informs her mother Anne Bancroft that she's about to commit suicide. Thus the stage is set for a war of nerves between the determined Spacek and the distraught Bancroft Read More

9/12/86
Dark Mansions

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Loretta Young was originally to have starred in made-for-TV Dark Mansions, but she didn't like the script and passed up the project; her role was quickly filled by another Hollywood veteran, Joan Fontaine. Aaron Spelling and Douglas Cramer, the guys who brought you Love Boat, "go gothic" in this Read More

1986
Danielle Steel's 'Crossings'

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Lee Horsley, Christopher Plummer, Jane Seymour, Garrick Dowhen

Synopsis: A six-hour adaptation of Danielle Steel's best-selling novel, the ABC miniseries Crossings began on board a transatlantic ocean liner in 1938. In the course of a truly eventful sea voyage, a torrid romance developed between powerful American steel magnate Nick Burnham (Lee Horsley) and Liane Read More

1986
T.J. Hooker: Season 05

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: William Shatner, Heather Locklear, James Darren, Richard Herd

Synopsis: Canceled by ABC at the end of its fourth season, the weekly, hour-long cop drama T.J. Hooker was picked up by CBS for 19 additional episodes, to be telecast during the 1985-1986 season. Because the series would now be seen in the late night hours rather than in prime time, the producers were Read More

1985
The Love Boat: Season 09

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, Pat Klous, Jill Whelan, Ted McGinley

1985
International Airport

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The fact that this made-for-TV movie is derivation of the megahit Airport is obvious by the presence of novelist Arthur Hailey in the credits. Gil Gerard heads the cast as David Montgomery, manager of a huge and extremely busy airport. As David wrestles with personal problems at home and a crisis Read More

1985
Hollywood Wives

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Jackie Collins, the steamy ABC TV minseries Hollywood Wives began its three-evening run on February 17, 1985. Advertised with the teaser "If you think nothing can shock you anymore," part one got things up and running by introducing the central players, among them Elaine Read More

1985
Fantasy Island: Season 07

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Christopher Hewitt

Synopsis: With the departure of Herve Villechaize as Tattoo at the end of Fantasy Island's sixth season, enigmatic entrepreneur Mr. Roarke (Ricardo Montalban) finds himself with a brand new assistant as Season Seven gets under way: Christopher Hewitt as the veddy British, veddy proper Lawrence, who is just Read More

1984
T.J. Hooker: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: William Shatner, Adrian Zmed, Heather Locklear, James Darren, Richard Herd

Synopsis: Season four of T.J. Hooker opens with the titular police sergeant (William Shatner) and his partner-protégé Officer Vince Romano (Adrian Zmed) agonizing over the fact that their colleague, Officer Stacy Sheridan (Heather Locklear), is in a coma after being shot in the line of duty. Though some Read More

1984
Making of a Male Model

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joan Collins, Jon-Erik Hexum

Synopsis: Joan Collins tops the cast of the made-for-TV The Making of a Male Model. No, silly: Joan doesn't play the title role. Rather, she is cast as the barracudalike owner of a top modelling agency, while Jon-Erik Hexum (at the time, a real-life male model) costars as a Nevada rancher whom Joan selects Read More

1983
Shooting Stars

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, two actors who pose as detectives on a television series lose their jobs, only to take up work as real crime fighters. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1983
Mr. Mom

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Frederick Koehler, Taliesin Jaffe, Brittany White

Synopsis: Jack Butler (Michael Keaton) is a Detroit automobile engineer unjustly fired by his boss. Jack's wife Caroline (Teri Garr) is compelled to get a job to make ends meet, and is soon hired on as an advertising executive in a firm run by the shifty Ron Richardson (Martin Mull. This leaves Jack at home Read More

1983
Hart to Hart: Season 05

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander

Synopsis: The fifth and final season of Hart to Hart is something of a retrospective: "Two Harts are Better Than One finds millionaire industrialist Jonathan Hart (Robert Wagner) and his journalist wife Jennifer (Stefanie Powers) recalling the day they first met--and also recall how they were nearly killed Read More

1983
Fantasy Island: Season 06

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Herve Villechaize

Synopsis: Ricardo Montalban is as suave, poised and mysterious as ever in the role of Mr. Roarke, owner of a lush tropical resort where dreams literally come true, as Fantasy Island launches its sixth season. Also on hand is dwarf actor Herve Villechaize as Roarke's versatile assistant Tattoo--but not for Read More

1983
The Love Boat: Season 07

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, Lauren Tewes, Jill Whelan

1983
T.J. Hooker: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: William Shatner, Adrian Zmed, Heather Locklear, James Darren, Richard Herd

Synopsis: As T.J. Hooker launches its third season, the titular Hooker (William Shatner), a police sergeant, can take justifiable pride in the fact that two of his trainees, Officers Vince Romano (Adrian Zmed) and Stacy Sheridan, have both graduated to street patrol. Hooker remains partnered with Romano Read More

1983
T.J. Hooker: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: William Shatner, Adrian Zmed, Heather Locklear, Richard Herd

Synopsis: The second (and first "full") season of T.J. Hooker finds the titular police sergeant (William Shatner) taking on wider responsibilities than his "official" job as trainer at the LCPD Academy Precinct. Along with Hooker, hotheaded rookie cop Vince Romano (Adrian Zmed) is back, as is T.J.'s Read More

1983
Fantasy Island: Season 05

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Herve Villechaize

Synopsis: Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaize are still on hand as the mysterious Mr. Roarke and his sensitive dwarf assistant Tattoo, still ushering guests onto Roarke's lavish tropical resort where for $50,000 per customer dreams can literally come true, as Fantasy Island enters its fifth season. Read More

1982
T.J. Hooker: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: William Shatner, Adrian Zmed, April Clough, Lee Bryant, Richard Herd

Synopsis: The five-episode "trial run" of T.J. Hooker begins with the 90-minute pilot "The Protectors," in which former police detective T.J. Hooker (William Shatner) voluntarily accepts the lowered rank of sergeant to return to active duty -- and even campaigns to work in the city's toughest and most Read More

1982
Don't Go to Sleep

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Little Mary (Robin Ignico) is haunted by the guilty memory of her sister Jennifer, who died in an auto accident not long ago. Jennifer had always been more adored by their parents, and Mary can't help thinking that her jealousy was behind Jennifer's death. Soon, Mary begins to imagine that there's Read More

1982
Hart to Hart: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander

Synopsis: The opening episode of Hart to Hart's fourth season demonstrates that, even when doing something as benign as purchasing a new bed, millionaire industrialist Jonathan Hart (Robert Wagner) and his journalist wife Jennifer (Stefanie Powers) will eventually find themselves neck-deep in danger Read More

1982
The Love Boat: Season 06

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, Lauren Tewes, Jill Whelan

1982
Hart to Hart: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander

Synopsis: Season Three of Hart to Hart begins with the emphasis on Max (Lionel Stander), the ratchet-voiced chauffeur and general factotum of millionaire industrialist Jonathan Hart (Robert Wagner) and his globetrotting journalist wife Jennifer Hart (Stefanie Powers). An amateur horticulturalist, Max Read More

1981
Dynasty [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Dynasty was set in Denver, and concerned the trials and tribulations of the oil-rich Carrington clan. John Forsythe and Linda Evans were top-billed as Blake and Krystle Carrington, but all the juicy scenes went to the cunning, conniving Alexis Carrington Colby, portrayed with caution to the winds Read More

1981
Fantasy Island: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Herve Villechaize, Wendy Schaal

Synopsis: The lavish "wish-fulfillment" TV series Fantasy Island enters it fourth season with the mysterious Mr. Roarke (Ricardo Montalban) and his mercurial aide Tattoo (Herve Villechaize) still making dreams come true for the various and sundry visitors to Roarke's lavish island resort. New to the series Read More

1981
Sizzle

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, a singer (Loni Anderson) travels to Chicago during the 1920s to seek revenge against the gangster who killed her boyfriend. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
The Love Boat: Season 05

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, Lauren Tewes, Jill Whelan

1981
Fantasy Island: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Herve Villechaize

Synopsis: Entering its third season as America's 22nd most popular series (not bad for an hour-long semi-anthology in a year dominated by sitcoms!), Fantasy Island indulges its fondness for the bizarre and offbeat with an opening episode wherein David Doyle plays an impoverished chap whose "fantasy" is to Read More

1980
The Love Boat: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, Lauren Tewes

1980
Murder Can Hurt You

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Victor Buono, John Byner, Gavin MacLeod

Synopsis: Producer Aaron Spelling's made-for-TV Murder Can Hurt You is an unsubtle take-off of Neil Simon's theatrical feature Murder By Death. A crime is committed by the unknown, all-seeing Master Criminal. To solve the case, several top detectives are summoned, each one a takeoff of a popular TV gumshoe. Read More

1980
Hart to Hart: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander

Synopsis: Season Two of the lighthearted adventure-mystery series Hart to Hart opens with Jennifer Hart (Stefanie Powers, the glamorous journalist wife of millionaire industrialist Jonathan Hart (Robert Wagner), once more mired in peril when she comes to the rescue of a bride whose new husband has vanished Read More

1980
Casino

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gary Burghoff, Joseph Cotten, Lynda Day George, Robert Loggia, Bo Hopkins

Synopsis: Nick (Mike Conners) is the owner of a luxury liner and casino which cruises its way to action and adventure for those on board. Lackluster direction by Don Chaffey is not aided by a cast including Gary Burghoff, Joseph Cotten, Lynda Day George, Bo Hopkins and Robert Loggia, who seem to all be Read More

1980
The Power Within

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In this exciting fantasy, a stunt pilot gets into a terrible accident and awakes to find himself imbued with the power to electrocute people by touching them. The trouble begins when he is abducted by an evil villain. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
The Love Boat: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, Lauren Tewes, Jill Whelan

1979
Hart to Hart

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jill St. John, Lionel Stander, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: Originally telecast September 25, 1979, Hart to Hart was the pilot film for a series which officially debuted three days earlier. Robert Wagner and Stephanie Powers play the fabulously wealthy, blissfully happy married couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart. He's a conglomerate CEO, she's a mystery Read More

1979
Hart to Hart: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander

Synopsis: No sooner have millionaire industrialist Jonathan Hart (Robert Wagner) and his journalist wife Jennifer (Stefanie Powers) have been introduced in the feature-length pilot episode of Hart to Hart than the couple is indulging in their favorite hobby, amateur sleuthing; it's all for a good cause of Read More

1979
Beach Patrol

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robin Strand, Jonathan Frakes, Christine de Lisle, Richard Hill, Michael Gregory

Synopsis: Robin Strand stars as a female narcotics cop transferred to an all-male police squad assigned to patrol the California beaches. Strand's assignment ends almost before it begins when she is targeted for assassination by the Mob. First telecast April 30, 1979, Beach Patrol was supposed to have been Read More

1979
The French Atlantic Affair

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The third of ABC's miniseries offerings, The French Atlantic Affair was an expensive but pulpish all-star version of the same-named Ernest Lehmann novel. Chad Everett essays the nominal leading role as Robbins-esque novelist Harold Columbine, one of dozens of wealthy, well-dressed passengers on a Read More

1979
Fantasy Island: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Herve Villechaize

Synopsis: Ranking 17th in the overall ratings for its brief first season on the air, Fantasy Island was a shoe-in for renewal for a full second season on ABC. Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaize return respectively as the enigmatic Mr. Roarke and his excitable dwarf assistant Tattoo, who hold court over Read More

1979
The Return of the Mod Squad

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In this crime drama, based on the old TV series, the three terminally hip undercover cops reunite after a seven year absence to find out the identity of the person who is threatening their boss's life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All