Name Dean Hargrove | Role Television producer | |
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Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Movies and TV shows Matlock, Jake and the Fatman, Tap World, McBride, Jane Doe Similar People Fred Silverman, Kene Holliday, Dick DeBenedictis, Nancy Stafford, Roland Kibbee |
Dean Hargrove Productions/The Fred Silverman Co./Viacom Productions/Paramount Network TV
Dean Hargrove (born July 27, 1938 in Iola, Kansas) is an American television producer, writer, and director. His background includes graduating the St. John's Military School and attending the UCLA Film School as a graduate student. He specializes in creating mystery series. He frequently works with television producer Fred Silverman and television writer Joel Steiger.
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- Dean Hargrove ProductionsThe Fred Silverman CoViacom ProductionsParamount Network TV
- Dean hargrove productions the fred silverman co viacom productions paramount network television
- Early career
- The Man from UNCLE
- Columbo and Matlock
- Awards
- Producer or executive producer
- Writer
- Director
- References

Dean hargrove productions the fred silverman co viacom productions paramount network television
Early career

Hargrove received an Emmy nomination in his early 20s as a writer for a short-lived NBC series with Bob Newhart, The Bob Newhart Show, not to be confused with the 1972 CBS series of the same name.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

He became a writer for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. late in the show's first season (1964). His biggest involvement with UNCLE was in the second season when he wrote episodes that included a two-parter, "The Alexander the Greater Affair", later repackaged as the film One Spy Too Many. He did not work on the third season of UNCLE and wrote just one two-parter for the short-lived fourth season.
Columbo and Matlock

After U.N.C.L.E., he worked at Universal Studios' television section on shows like It Takes a Thief, The Name of the Game and Columbo. He scripted the second Columbo pilot, "Ransom for a Dead Man", and was producer for the second, third and fourth seasons. More recently, he has worked for Viacom Productions and Paramount Network Television, producing the shows Matlock on NBC and ABC from 1986 to 1995, Jake and the Fatman on CBS from 1987 to 1992, and Diagnosis: Murder on CBS from 1993 to 2002.
Awards

Hargrove won a Primetime Emmy Award for Columbo in 1974 and was nominated on four other occasions.
Producer or executive producer

creator/co-creator (**)