Lee H. Katzin

Lee H. Katzin (12 April 1935 - 30 October 2002) was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States, and became a TV director in the late 1960s, including episodes for Bonanza, Mission: Impossible and Police Story. He also directed the 1971 movie, Le Mans.

In 1972, he directed the film The Salzburg Connection, which starred Barry Newman and Anna Karina.^[1]

In 1975, he directed the launch episode "Breakaway", and other early episodes, of the Gerry Anderson live-action series Space: 1999. He was the creator of the short-lived American science fiction television series Man from Atlantis in 1977 and the following year wrote the pilot episode for a comedy, Zuma Beach with Halloween director John Carpenter, although this was never commissioned as a series. He also directed many episodes of the 1980s television series MacGyver.

He died of cancer in 2002 in Beverly Hills, California.

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Films directed by Lee H. Katzin

1960s	Heaven with a Gun (1969) What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969)

1970s	The Phynx (1970) Le Mans (1971) The Salzburg Connection (1972) The Stranger (1973) The Captive: The Longest Drive 2 (1976)

1980s	The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987) The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988) World Gone Wild (1988)

1990s	The Break (1995) Restraining Order (1999)

Space: 1999

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Vehicles

Year One Production Reception	"Breakaway" "Matter of Life and Death" "Black Sun" "Ring Around the Moon" "Earthbound" "Another Time, Another Place" "Missing Link" "Guardian of Piri" "Force of Life" "Alpha Child" "The Last Sunset" "Voyager's Return" "Collision Course" "Death's Other Dominion" "The Full Circle" "End of Eternity" "War Games" "The Last Enemy" "The Troubled Spirit" "Space Brain" "The Infernal Machine" "Mission of the Darians" "Dragon's Domain" "The Testament of Arkadia"

Year Two Production Reception	"The Metamorph" "The Exiles" "One Moment of Humanity" "All That Glisters" "Journey to Where" "The Taybor" "The Rules of Luton" "The Mark of Archanon" "Brian the Brain" "New Adam, New Eve" "Catacombs of the Moon" "The AB Chrysalis" "Seed of Destruction" "The Beta Cloud" "Space Warp" "A Matter of Balance" The Bringers of Wonder, Part One Part Two "The Lambda Factor" "The Seance Spectre" "Dorzak" "Devil's Planet" "The Immunity Syndrome" "The Dorcons"

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