Joseph L. Scanlan
Encyclopedia

Directing Credits

  • Flatland
  • Largo Winch
    Largo Winch
    Largo Winch is a Belgian comic book series by Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme, published by Dupuis.The principal character is Largo Winch whose birth name is Largo Winczlav. Other important characters include Nerio Winch , senior Group W executives John D. Sullivan and Dwight E...

    (pilot)
  • La Femme Nikita
  • Strange World
  • Race Against Fear: A Moment of Truth Movie (1998)
  • Earth: Final Conflict
    Earth: Final Conflict
    Earth: Final Conflict is a Canadian science fiction television series based on story ideas created by Gene Roddenberry, and produced under the guidance of his widow, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry. It was not produced, filmed or broadcast until after his death...

  • Players (two episodes)
  • Dead Man's Gun
    Dead Man's Gun
    Dead Man's Gun was a western anthology series which ran on Showtime from 1997 to 1999. The series followed the travels of a gun as it passed to a new character in each episode. The gun would change the life of whomever possessed it....

    (1997) (pilot)
  • Stand Against Fear
    Stand Against Fear
    Stand Against Fear is a 1996 made for television movie. Sarah Chalke stars as a cheerleader who takes action when she faces sexual intimidation from football players at her school.-Plot:...

    (1996)
  • The Outer Limits
    The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)
    The Outer Limits is an American television series that originally aired on Showtime,the Sci Fi Channel and in syndication between 1995 and 2002...

  • Poltergeist: The Legacy
    Poltergeist: The Legacy
    Poltergeist: The Legacy is a Canadian horror television series which ran from 1996 to 1999. The series tells the story of the members of a secret society known as the Legacy, and their efforts to protect humankind from occult dangers...

  • Dangerous Minds
    Dangerous Minds (TV series)
    Dangerous Minds is an American drama television series that aired on ABC network between September 1996 and March 1997. The series is based on the motion picture film, Dangerous Minds...

    (multiple episodes)
  • Picture Perfect
    Picture Perfect (1995 film)
    Picture Perfect is a film by Feature Films for Families and was first telecast October 14, 1995 on ABC. It's about two families and Ernie Barrett , owner and CEO of Barrett's Natural Soda...

  • Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
    Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
    Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman was a live-action American television series based on the Superman comic books...

  • Spenser: A Savage Place (1995)
  • Spenser: The Judas Goat (1994)
  • Due South
    Due South
    Due South is a Canadian crime drama series with elements of comedy. The series was created by Paul Haggis, produced by Alliance Communications, and stars Paul Gross, David Marciano, and latterly Callum Keith Rennie...

  • The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (three episodes)
  • Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
    Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
    Kung Fu: The Legend Continues is a spin-off of the 1972-1975 television series Kung Fu. David Carradine and Chris Potter starred as a father and son trained in kung fu - Carradine playing a Shaolin monk, Potter a police detective. This series aired in syndication for four seasons, from January 27,...

  • North of 60
    North of 60
    North of 60 is a mid-1990s Canadian television series depicting life in the sub-Arctic northern boreal forest . It first aired on CBC Television in 1992 and was syndicated around the world. It is set in the fictional community of Lynx River, a primarily Native-run town depicted as being in the...

    (as Joseph Scanlan)
  • I Still Dream of Jeannie
    I Still Dream of Jeannie
    I Still Dream of Jeannie is a 1991 made-for-television reunion film based on the 1965-70 series I Dream of Jeannie which aired on NBC on October 20, 1991 and produced by Columbia Pictures Television....

    (1991)
  • Homefront
    Homefront (US TV series)
    Homefront is an American television drama series created and produced by Lynn Marie Latham and Bernard Lechowick in association with Warner Bros. Television for ABC. The show was set in the fictional city of River Run, Ohio in 1945, 1946, and 1947...

  • The Hidden Room
  • The World's Oldest Living Bridesmaid
  • The Young Riders
    The Young Riders
    The Young Riders is an American Western television series created by Ed Spielman that presents a fictionalized account of a group of young Pony Express riders based at the Sweetwater Station in the Nebraska Territory during the years leading up to the American Civil War...

  • Island Son
    Island Son
    Island Son was a CBS television medical drama during its 1989-90 schedule.Island Son marked the return to regular weekly series television of Richard Chamberlain, who had not so appeared since his Dr. Kildare series almost 25 years earlier...

  • Quantum Leap
  • Paradise
    Paradise (TV series)
    Paradise is an American Western family television series, broadcast by CBS from 1988 to 1991. Created by David Jacobs and Robert Porter, the series presents the adventures of fictitious gunfighter Ethan Allen Cord, whose sister left her four children in his custody when she died.-Synopsis:Paradise...

  • War of the Worlds
    War of the Worlds (TV series)
    War of the Worlds is a television program that ran for two seasons, from 1988 to 1990. The series is an extension of the original 1953 film The War of the Worlds, using the same War Machine, often incorporating aspects from the film, radio adaptation, and original novel into its mythology.Though...

  • The Return of Ben Casey (1988)
  • Nightstick (1987)
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation
    Star Trek: The Next Generation
    Star Trek: The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. Roddenberry, Rick Berman, and Michael Piller served as executive producers at different times throughout the production...

  • Adderly
    Adderly
    Adderly is a Canadian television drama series, first aired in 1986.-Cast:* Winston Rekert as V.H. Adderly* Jonathan Welsh as Melville Greenspan* Dixie Seatle as Mona Ellerby* Ken Pogue as Major Jonathan B. Clack-Plot:...

  • Spenser: For Hire
    Spenser: For Hire
    Spenser: For Hire is a mystery television series based on Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels. The series, developed for TV by John Wilder, differs from the novels, mostly in its lesser degree of detail....

  • Spring Fever
    Spring Fever (1982 film)
    ----Spring Fever is a 1982 independent film, set in the world of competitive tennis. It was produced with the participation at the Canadian Film Development Corporation and Famous Players Limited.-Plot:...

    (1982)
  • Falcon Crest
    Falcon Crest
    Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced....

  • The Starlost: Deception (1980)
  • Knots Landing
    Knots Landing
    Knots Landing is an American primetime television soap opera that aired from December 27, 1979 to May 13, 1993 on CBS. Set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles in California, the show centered on the lives of four married couples living in a cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle...

  • The Littlest Hobo
    The Littlest Hobo
    The Littlest Hobo is a Canadian television series based upon a 1958 American film of the same name directed by Charles R. Rondeau. The series first aired from 1963 to 1965 in syndication, and was revived for a popular second run on CTV from October 11, 1979 to March 7, 1985.All three productions...

  • Land of the Lost
    Land of the Lost (1974 TV series)
    Land of the Lost is a children's television series co-created and produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. During its original run, it was broadcast on the NBC television network....

  • What's Happening!!
    What's Happening!!
    What's Happening!! is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC from August 5, 1976 to April 28, 1979. The show premiered as a summer series. With good ratings and reviews, and after the failure of several other shows on the network, What's Happening!! returned in November 1976 as a weekly...

    (1 episode)
  • Our Man Flint: Dead on Target (1976)
  • The Starlost
    The Starlost
    The Starlost is a Canadian-produced science fiction television series devised by writer Harlan Ellison and broadcast in 1973 on CTV in Canada and syndicated to local stations in the United States. The show's setting is a huge generational colony spacecraft called The Ark, which has gone off-course...

  • The Secret Storm
    The Secret Storm
    The Secret Storm is a soap opera which ran on CBS from February 1, 1954 to February 8, 1974. The series was created by Roy Winsor, who also created the long-running soap operas Search for Tomorrow and Love of Life...

    (multiple episodes) (1972)
  • Another World
    Another World (TV series)
    Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It ran for a total of 35 years. It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J...

    (1971)
  • Somerset
    Somerset (TV series)
    Somerset is an American television soap opera which ran on NBC from March 30, 1970 until December 31, 1976. The show was a spinoff of another NBC serial, Another World.-Overview :...

    (1970–1973)

Awards and nominations

He was nominated for a Gemini Award
Gemini Award
The Gemini Awards are annual television broadcasting industry awards in Canada.First awarded in 1986, the Geminis celebrate the achievements of TV members of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Essentially, it presents awards for the best television productions in Canada. Awards are...

for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series (The Outer Limits) in 1995.
He directed "The Big Goodbye" (Star Trek: The Next Generation) which won a Peabody award in 1987.

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