Scripted series · ABC
Automan
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Desi Arnaz Jr.
Walter Nebicher
13 eps
Chuck Wagner
Automan
13 eps
Heather McNair
Roxanne Caldwell
13 eps
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Cpt. E.G. Boyd
13 eps
Robert Lansing
Lt. Jack Curtis
13 eps
Tom Everett
1 eps
Branscombe Richmond
Johnson
1 eps
Hari Rhodes
1 eps
Michael Gregory
1 eps
Bart Braverman
1 eps
Angela Aames
Bartender
1 eps
Terry Kiser
1 eps
Rick Lenz
1 eps
Anne Lockhart
1 eps
Brett Halsey
1 eps
Gina Gallego
1 eps
Robert F. Lyons
Jason
1 eps
Richard Derr
Robinson
1 eps
Kristen Meadows
1 eps
Dennis Cole
1 eps
David Sheiner
Norman
1 eps
Cesare Danova
Captain Romano
1 eps
James Morrison
1 eps
Ola Ray
1 eps
Patrick Macnee
Lydell Hamilton
1 eps
Tim Rossovich
1 eps
Jeff Pomerantz
1 eps
Eric Server
1 eps
Clu Gulager
Rudolph Brock
1 eps
Frank Aletter
James Dowling
1 eps
Edward Mallory
1 eps
Felton Perry
1 eps
Laura Branigan
1 eps
Mary Crosby
Elle Fowler
1 eps
Richard Lynch
1 eps
Peter Marshall
1 eps
John Vernon
1 eps
Delta Burke
Rachel Innis
1 eps
France Nuyen
Liang Lu
1 eps
James T. Callahan
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Automan actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Automan reads strongest on Character Depth, Spectacle and Bingeability.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Automan is an American science fiction superhero television series produced by Glen A. Larson. It aired for only 12 episodes on ABC between 1983 and 1984.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Donald KushnerProducer
- Peter LockeProducer
- Glen A. LarsonProducer
Writing
- Sam EganWriter
- David GarberWriter
- Bruce KalishWriter
- Glen A. LarsonWriter
- Larry BrodyWriter
- Kim WeiskopfWriter
Direction
- Allen BaronDirector
- Winrich KolbeDirector
- Lee H. KatzinDirector
- Kim MannersDirector
- Allan BurnsDirector
- Bruce Seth GreenDirector
Where to watch
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