
"This has been a Filmways presentation* ."
Filmways was a television and film production company incorporated in 1958. They were best known for producing many of the CBS rural comedies of the 1960s.
In 1982, Filmways was acquired by Orion Pictures and reorganized as Orion Pictures Corporation soon afterwards.
Filmways' subsidiary companies included:
- Heatter-Quigley Productions/Merrill Heatter Productions (1966–): producer of The Hollywood Squares and other game shows
- Ruby-Spears Productions (1979–1981)
- American International Pictures (1978–1980)
Television productions made by Filmways include:
- The Addams Family
- Bearcats!
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- Cagney & Lacey (pilot and first season)
- Disaster on the Coastliner a 1979 Made-for-TV Movie produced with Mooonlight Productions.
- Eye Guess (with Bob Stewart, prior to H-Q buyout)
- Green Acres
- Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (first season)
- Mister Ed
- Petticoat Junction
Films produced by Filmways Pictures include:
- 10 Rillington Place
- The Americanization of Emily
- Blow Out
- The Burning
- Catch-22
- The Cincinnati Kid
- Death Wish II
- Don't Make Waves
- Dressed to Kill
- Eye of the Devil
- The Fearless Vampire Killers
- The First Deadly Sin
- Hamlet (1969)
- Ice Station Zebra
- King Lear (1971)
- The Loved One
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)
- Roar
- Summer Lovers
- Topkapi
- Two-Minute Warning
- What's the Matter with Helen?
- Without Warning (1980)