Mark Rodgers

Movies

Johnny Ryan
Writer
An honest, hard-working cop has to go up against the mob in 1949 New York City.
Police Story: Burnout
Writer
A veteran vice cop has a hard time dealing with her partner's suicide.
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
Writer
A renegade team of World War II soldiers. This time, one of the 12 is a woman and, with a Nazi spy within their midst, they're up against German wartime geniuses out to establish a Fourth Reich.
Alone in the Neon Jungle
Writer
A by-the-book female police officer is assigned to the most corrupt precinct in Pittsburgh and told to get it cleaned up.
Police Story: The Freeway Killings
Writer
Thriller/Drama about LAPD detectives tracking down two serial killers who are murdering hookers.
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
Writer
Learning of a Nazi plot to attack Washington, D.C. with a deadly nerve gas, Major Wright leads twelve convicts on a suicide mission deep into occupied France to destroy the secret factory where the poison is made.
Women of San Quentin
Screenplay
A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
Uncommon Valor
Writer
The pilot for an unsold weekly series, Uncommon Valor stresses the courage and resourceful of a team of firefighters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Headed by dauntless battalion chief Tom Riordan (Mitchell Ryam), the unit tries to drench a raging conflagration at County General Hospital (a disaster enhanced by some pretty good special effects). They also have to battle the villain of the piece, discreetly described in the original network press release as a "deranged arsonist."
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop
Writer
Detour to Terror
Teleplay
A homicidal dune-buggy trio terrorizes a busload of Las Vegas bound tourists with the intent to kidnap one of them.
Police Story: No Margin for Error
Writer
Two policemen are suspected of excessive violence and causing two deaths. The investigation brings to light, little by little, the whole truth.
Cover Girls
Producer
Two beautiful fashion models work undercover as secret agents.
Cover Girls
Writer
Two beautiful fashion models work undercover as secret agents.
The Captive: The Longest Drive 2
Writer
The Quest: The Longest Drive
Producer
To save an old friend's ranch, the Beaudine brothers round up a gang of misfits to drive a huge herd to market.
Cop on the Beat
Writer
An aging street cop goes after a gang of toughs involved in several robbery-rapes on his beat in this pilot (a spin-off from "Police Story") for the 1975-76 series. The veteran cop concept also was the basis for "The Blue Knight" series at the same time — and that, too, was based on a Joseph Wambaugh creation. Also known as "The Return of Joe Forrester."
The Girl on the Late, Late Show
Associate Producer
A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has long since faded, then discovers that his inquiries have set off a string of murders.
The Girl on the Late, Late Show
Writer
A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has long since faded, then discovers that his inquiries have set off a string of murders.
A Chant of Silence
Writer
A murdering skyjacker parachutes to safety and poses as a novice monk in an isolated New Mexico monastery.
Savage
Teleplay
A TV reporter investigates compromising photographs of a nominee to the Supreme Court.
The Forgotten Man
Teleplay
A Marine officer reported as killed in Vietnam, but who was actually a POW, returns home. Instead of being welcomed home, however, he discovers that his father has died, his wife has remarried, his daughter has been adopted, his business has been sold, and his life has completely changed.
Flareup
Writer
A Las Vegas go-go dancer moves to Los Angeles to escape the psycho who has killed her partners.
Let's Kill Uncle
Screenplay
A 12-year-old orphan who has just inherited a fortune is trapped on an island with his uncle, a former British intelligence commander who intends to kill him. A young girl is the boy's only ally against the sarcastic uncle, who uses hypnotism, a pool of sharks, fire, and poisonous mushrooms as weapons.