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Filmways was a television and film production company incorporated in 1958. They were best known for producing many of the Creator/{{CBS}} rural comedies of the 1960s.

In 1982, Filmways was acquired by Creator/OrionPictures and reorganized as Orion Pictures Corporation soon afterwards.

Filmways' subsidiary companies included:
* Heatter-Quigley Productions/Creator/MerrillHeatter Productions (1966–): producer of ''Series/TheHollywoodSquares'' and other game shows
* [[Creator/RubySpears Ruby-Spears Productions]] (1979–1981)
* Creator/AmericanInternationalPictures (1978–1980)

Television productions made by Filmways include:
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* ''Series/TheAddamsFamily''
* ''Series/{{Bearcats}}''
* ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies''
* ''Series/CagneyAndLacey'' (pilot and first season)
* ''Film/DisasterOnTheCoastliner'' a 1979 MadeForTVMovie produced with Mooonlight Productions.
* ''Series/EyeGuess'' (with Creator/BobStewart, prior to H-Q buyout)
* ''Series/GreenAcres''
* ''Series/MaryHartmanMaryHartman'' (first season)
* ''Series/MisterEd''
* ''Series/PetticoatJunction''

Films produced by Filmways Pictures include:
* ''Film/TenRillingtonPlace''
* ''Film/TheAmericanizationOfEmily''
* ''Film/BlowOut''
* ''Film/TheBurning''
* ''Film/CatchTwentyTwo''
* ''Film/TheCincinnatiKid''
* ''Film/DeathWishII''
* ''Film/DontMakeWaves''
* ''Film/DressedToKill''
* ''Film/EyeOfTheDevil''
* ''Film/TheFearlessVampireKillers''
* ''Film/TheFirstDeadlySin''
* ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' (1969)
* ''Film/HowToBeatTheHighCostOfLiving''
* ''Film/IceStationZebra''
* ''Theatre/KingLear'' (1971)
* ''Film/TheLovedOne''
* ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'' (1968)
* ''Film/{{Roar}}''
* ''Film/SummerLovers''
* ''Film/{{Topkapi}}''
* ''Film/TwoMinuteWarning''
* ''Film/WhatsTheMatterWithHelen''
* ''Film/{{Without Warning|1980}}'' (1980)
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