Plautus Productions

Plautus Productions was an American television and film production company during the 1960s. The company was founded by producer and director Herbert Brodkin.

Plautus Productions was best known as the production company for some of CBS' popular crime dramas including Brenner, The Defenders, The Nurses, and Coronet Blue.^{[citation needed]}

Plautus Productions was a television subsidiary of Paramount Pictures.^{[citation needed]}

History[]

Plautus Productions was formed in 1959 by producer Herbert Brodkin and Paramount Pictures. The main sole purpose of the company at time of its founding was to provide production and distribution services to Brodkin's new series Brenner which premiered on CBS that same year.

After finding success with Brenner, Brodkin, who served as the president of the company, used that company to produce some of his other television series.

The series was responsible for the series The Defenders, The Nurses, (later The Doctors and the Nurses), Espionage, (the only Plautus Production produced for a network other than CBS), For the People, and Coronet Blue.^{[citation needed]}

The company closed in 1967, two years after Brodkin, along with fellow producer and business associate Robert "Buzz" Berger founded Titus Productions which took most of Brodkin's attention away from Plautus.^[1]

Ownership and distribution of television properties[]

Brenner[]

The television series Brenner is now owned and distributed by CBS Television Distribution.

The Defenders[]

The Defenders, which ran on CBS from September 1961 until May 1965, is currently distributed and owned by CBS Television Distribution and has been since 2007. Before CBSTD, the series was distributed by Viacom and CBS Paramount Television.^[2]

The Nurses[]

The Nurses, also known as The Doctors and the Nurses, ran on CBS from September 1962 until May 1965. The series is now owned by the CBS Corporation.

For the People[]

Like The Defenders, For the People is also owned by CBS and, since 2007, distributed by CBS Television Distribution.

Espionage[]

Espionage ran for one season on NBC. Though distributed by the now defunct ITC Entertainment outside of the United Kingdom, the program's distribution rights are now with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which also owns the program.^{[citation needed]}

Coronet Blue[]

Coronet Blue aired on CBS in 1967. The series was distributed by Viacom until 1994. From 1994 until 2006, the program was distributed by Paramount Domestic Television and by its successor CBS Paramount Domestic Television from 2006 until 2007. Currently, and since August 2007, the series has been distributed by CBS Television Distribution.

Productions by Plautus[]

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