Gene Roddenberry Filmography

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Crew: Consultant/advisor

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Walter Koenig, James Doohan

Synopsis: Kirk (William Shatner), McCoy (DeForest Kelley), and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) are enjoying a vacation in Yosemite National Park when duty calls. Vulcan cult leader Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill) and his followers have invaded a "planet of peace," where delegates from hostile races co-exist in a sort of Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Datalore

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Lt. Cmdr. Data and the rest of the crew pay a visit to Data's home planet in the Omicron Theta Star System, hoping to solve the mystery of his origin. Upon arrival, they find the planet deserted and stripped bare, save for a curious collection of body parts. Assembling these various limbs and Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Encounter At Farpoint, Part II

Crew: Screenwriter

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Hide and Q

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The troublesome "Q" (John de Lancie) returns, this time with an unexpectedly generous offer. Approaching Cmdr. Riker, Q invites him to join the Q Continuum, promising to bestow upon Riker all the special powers that this lofty position provides. The catch: Q bets Riker that he will abuse his new Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Encounter At Farpoint, Part I

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The first two episodes of the syndicated Star Trek: The Next Generation were originally telecast in tandem as a two-hour "TV movie" on September 30, 1987. After the obligatory introductions of the new crew of the Enterprise, the starship sets sail for the planet Daneb IV, for the purpose of Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation [TV Series]

Crew: Show Creator

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal

Synopsis: The works of "Puppetoon" creator and special effects wizard George Pal are perhaps best seen separately and in toto rather than lumped together in fragmentary form. The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal contains an abundance of enjoyable film clips, but most are far too short for the Read More

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Stephen Collins, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig

Synopsis: When plans to launch a second Star Trek television series in the late 1970s were scrapped by Paramount Pictures, the show's creator, Gene Roddenberry, instead transformed the aborted program's 2-hour pilot into this big budget theatrical feature. Five years after the legendary voyages of the Read More

Spectre

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Culp, Gig Young, John Hurt

Synopsis: In this pilot for a TV series. Robert Culp stars as a top criminologist and dabbler in the occult. Gig Young is a drunken doctor who is "magically" cured of his alcoholism by Culp's housekeeper. Culp and Young decide to team up as the Holmes and Watson of the exorcist set. Their first assignment Read More

Planet Earth

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Planet Earth was the second of three look-alike attempts by Star Trek maven Gene Roddenberry to launch a futuristic TV series for the 1970s (the first was 1973's Genesis II, and the third was 1975's Strange New World). John Saxon stars as Dylan Hunt, who awakens from suspended animation in the Read More

Genesis II

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Alex Cord, Mariette Hartley

Synopsis: On three occasions between 1973 and 1975, Star Trek producer Gene Roddenberry attempted to launch a new science-fiction series. All three pilot films were predicated on the premise of a modern-day scientist awakening after nearly two centuries in suspended animation. The first of these Read More

The Questor Tapes

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: This sci-fi film chronicles the exploits of an incredibly strong android that is totally devoid of emotion. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Pretty Maids All in a Row

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Telly Savalas, John Carson, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: Ocean View High is an upscale suburban school in an otherwise unidentified community. It's 1971, the point when the sexual revolution started moving into full swing and even a lot of Middle America, at least on the two coasts, admitted the existence of same revolution. It seems like the guys and Read More

Star Trek: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig

Synopsis: The third and final season of Star Trek is frequently written off as the series' nadir, if only because creator Gene Roddenberryhad relinquished a great deal of his creative control to the NBC executives and to new producer Fred Freiberger). Another reason given for the series' decline was the Read More

Star Trek: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig

Synopsis: The Starship Enterprise's five-year mission to "seek out new life forms and new civilizations" and "boldly go where no man has gone before" shifts into warp speed as Star Trek enters its second season. The biggest news this year is a fresh addition to the ensemble cast: Now taking his place Read More

Star Trek: The Return of the Archons

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock must save Lt. Sulu from a form of communal alien mind-control in this episode of the 1960s science fiction series. While undercover on a planet bearing an unusual resemblance to 20th-century Earth, Sulu falls victim to a device that brainwashes him into joining the Read More

Star Trek [TV Series]

Crew: Show Creator

Synopsis: Although it undoubtedly goes without saying at this late date, the original Star Trek is the most popular and influential science fiction series ever seen on American network televsion--and as far as many people are concerned, it remains absolutely the best TV series of any kind. The weekly Read More

Star Trek: The Menagerie, Part 2

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Spock faces the death penalty for receiving signals from planet Talos IV. With the agreement of Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Fleet Captain Pike, the trial continues in closed session and the evidence -- the forbidden transmissions -- continues to be viewed by the trial board, as Kirk Read More

Star Trek: The Menagerie, Part 1

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The starship Enterprise is diverted to Star Base 11 by a message supposedly sent by the ship's former commander, Fleet Captain Christopher Pike, and received by the ship's first officer, Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy). Upon arriving, however, Captain Kirk (William Shatner) discovers that Pike Read More

Star Trek: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols

Synopsis: As everyone on earth (to say nothing of everyone in the United Federation of Planets) must know by now, the debut episode of Star Trek's first season, "The Man Trap", was not the first episode filmed. Nor was the series' "official" pilot episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", the first one to go Read More

Star Trek: The Cage

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The pilot episode of the original Star Trek television series, "The Cage" features the familiar starship Enterprise, but under the command Captain Christopher Pike and a substantially different crew. The Enterprise answers a distress signal from the planet Talos IV, and Pike leads a landing party Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Cage at McNaab

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired to arrange a jailhouse meeting between Nora Larson (Jacqueline Scott) and her husband Brian (Brian Larson), who has been condemned to death. Unfortunately, Nora has hatched a scheme whereby her husband will escape--and Paladin will hang in his place. Lon Chaney Jr. Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Savages

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: A French art collector named Pireaux (Patric Knowles) is anxious to meet a reclusive English sculptor named Spencer (James Griffith). Paladin (Richard Boone) is called upon to escort Pireaux to Spencer's hideaway, somewhere in the far wilderness. Complicating matters is the presence of Pireaux's Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Taylor's Woman

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: For years, rancher Thad Taylor (Harry Carey Jr.) has lived in terror of his pretty bout domineering housekeeper Lydia (Kathie Browne). Now Lydia has demanded that That marry her immediately--or else. In desperation, Thad turns to Paladin (Richard Boone) to deal with the overbearing Lydia, thus Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Marshal of Sweetwater

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: David White, better known to the TV Generation as neurotic adman Larry Tate on Bewitched, is here seen in the radically different role of Tom Carey, former army scout and notorious gunslinger. Now the marshal of a small town, Carey has also become a tin-pot dictator, prompting the citizens to hire Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Trial at Tablerock

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) must once again come to the defense of a "devil incarnate"--in this case, the much-feared, much-hated gunslinger Virge Beech (Sherwood Price). The citizens of Tabelrock, who have long lived in mortal terror of Beech, are determined to get revenge by hanging the gunman on a Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: El Paso Stage

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Those familiar with Buddy Ebsen via his amiable portrayals of Jed Clampett and Barnaby Jones will be shocked by this episode, wherein Ebsen is cast as Elmo Crane, the corrupt, psychotic and thoroughly detestable marshal of El Paso. After years of being victimized and extorted by the venal Crane Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Posse

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: During a nocturnal ride in the prairie, Paladin (Richard Boone) stops at a campfire to ask directions from a convivial chap named Dobie O'Brien (Perry Cook). After exchanging several pleasantries, the twon men are interrupted by the members of a posse, who are searching for a double murderer. Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Les Girls

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired by the entrepreneurial J. Brodie (Lane Chandler) to deliver a most unusual cargo to the Oregon mining town of Bend-in-the-River. The "cargo" consists of a bevy of beautiful mail-order brides, ordered directly from Paris for matrimonial purposes by Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Golden Toad

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) rides to Arizona to investigate rumors of the existence of a valuable Indian relic known as the Golden Toad. Along the way, he finds himself in the middle of a bitter turf dispute between a male homesteader named Ben Webster (David White) and a female rancher named Doris Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Charley Red Dog

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Hired by a group of concerned businessmen, Paladin (Richard Boone) agrees to help rid the New Mexico town of Santa Maria of its outlaws. En route to his assignment, Paladin meets an eager young Native American named Charley Red Dog (Scott Marlowe), who claims to be a Federal Marshal. When it is Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Tiger

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Recently returned from hunting Tigers in India, sportsman Ellsworth (Parley Baer) declares that he has been placed under a curse. Unless he can find a way to prevent it, Ellsworth is convinced that he will be killed by a huge tiger--even though he lives in Houston! Drawing upon his own experiences Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Episode in Laredo

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In Laredo, Texas, Paladin (Richard Boone) forms a fast friendship with Sam Tuttle (Gene Lyons), a notoriously unbeatable gunfighter. Not long afterward, Paladin kills a man named Kovac (Alan Dexter), who happens to be Tuttle's host. Now, despite their fondness and respect for one another, Paladin Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Monster of Moon Ridge

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The citizens of Moon Ridge, Colorado are convinced that an unearthly monster has invaded their town. What other explanation can there be when a mentally challenged girl named Emily Bella (Natalie Norwick) suddenly disappears, and a set of strange footprints are found outside her room? Though Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Juliet

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Juliet Harper (Miranda Jones, a young girl on the verge of womanhood, is the central figure in deadly feud involving her family and the offspring of a malevolent ex-Confederate colonel named Jeremiah Pike (Earle Hodgins). Knowing full well that Pike intends to murder Juliet, Paladin offers to help Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Return of Roy Carter

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Roy Carter, the ex-convict previously played by Scott Marlowein the episode the "Hanging of Roy Carter", returns in this episode with Clu Gulager in the role. Enlisting the aid of Paladin (Richard Boone), Roy sets out to rescue former prison chaplain Robert April (formerly played by John Larch and Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Maggie O'Banion

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: En route to his next assignment, Paladin is bushwacked, beaten, and stripped of everything he owns. Upon recovering, he wanders into the ranch owned by the beautiful--and desperately lonely--Maggie O'Bannion (Marion Marshall) and talks himself into a job as all-purpose ranch hand. As the days Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Ella West

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: It's "Pygmalion" on the frontier in this episode scripted by future Star Trek maven Gene Roddenberry. Paladin (Richard Boone) is reunited with his old pal Tomahawk Carter (William Swan), flamboyant owner of a popular Wild West show. Carter has just hired a female sharpshooter named Ella West Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Hanging of Roy Carter

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Roy Carter (Scott Marlowe) will hang for murder unless Paladin (Richard Boone) can reach the prison in time with news that another man has confessed. Even so, the prison's vengeful warden refuses to enact a stay of execution. It takes the combined efforts of Paladin and prison chaplain Robert Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Road to Wickenburg

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Beaten, robbed and left unconscious, Paladin (Richard Boone) wanders dazedly into the town of Blue Bell. It soon becomes clear that Paladin will not leave the town alive if the Goodfellow family, whose siblings run the place with an iron hand, have anything to say about it. All that stands between Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Yuma Treasure

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In Arizona, Paladin (Richard Boone) crosses the path of Calvary major Wilson (Warren Stevens), who claims to have attended West Point at the same time that Paladin left that institution in disgrace. Hired to escort Wilson and his troops to locate the elusive Maricopa chief Gerada, Paladin is told Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Great Mojave Chase

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Crooked "sportsman" Billy Joe Kane (Lawrence Dobkin) is promoting a race in the Mojave desert, in which he is wagering that his posse will be able to track down any contestant before reaching the finish line. Accepting the challenge, Paladin (Richard Boone) enters the race--and, confirming his Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Helen of Abajinian

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this Award-winning episode, Paladin (Richard Boone) is extended the hospitality of Samuel Abajinian (Harold J. Stone), a prosperous Armenian winemaker. But before Paladin can partake of any vintage wine, Abarjinian asks him to track down his "helpless" daughter Helen (Lisa Gaye), who has run Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Hanging Cross

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: It may be Christmastime, but there's no good cheer in the home of Nathaniel Beecher (Edward Binns), an embittered rancher whose son was stolen by the Pawnees many years ago. Believing that he has finally tracked down the Pawnee chief responsible for the abduction, Beecher hires Paladin to track Read More