Below is a listing of dramas and comedies that have aired and are available for sale/selected broadcast. To read more on the subject of these scripts, CLICK ON THE TITLE or IMAGE

Fact-based one hour television drama about young Albert Einstein in 1905, and his wife Mileva, and a visitor after hours who made the Einstein's face themselves and each other in their most productive year.  

"Two souls exchange roles as teacher and student in various incarnations from caveman times to present times, their relationship reflecting the evolutions, and devolutions, of humanity at large".     Read more...

72 min.  Aired CTV, 1992.  
Michael Derbas co-producer, featuring Gordon Tootoosis (Legends of the Fall, North of 60).

‘Forest Gump’ meets ‘Punchline’ in a Greek-Canadian Christmas setting that reveals the REAL side of ‘My Fat Greek Wedding’.
46 min.  CND airing, 2002 (CBC).   Tripod/Long Rider Productions.           Read more....

A modern-day fairy tale about the conflict between mind and heart in the lives of scientists and animal healers that reveals the REAL story about the ‘L’ word (love, that is) which we all experience.  
Ascent Films, Inc. 46 min.  Airing, 2005, Citytv.  Funded by CHUM television, episode in ’13 Stories About Love’.  
All broadcast rights in CND reserved until 2009.

In Search of Grafittiman-  (mockumentary) (1998) Writer/Actor/Co-Producer

“This is Spinal Tap” meets “Roger and Me”
46 min. Hollywood North Productions/Long Rider Productions
Produced, 1999.  Zed tv version on line.

Donnelly Rhodes (DaVinci’s Inquest, Danger Bay) and Linda Darlow (Newhart, The Commish, Cold Squad) 
48 min. Aired, 2001 (CBC).  I See U Productions/Tripod Productions.

One hour drama about inventor Nicola Tesla, the most accomplished, brilliant, eccentric, spiritual, abused and misunderstood physicist of the 19th and 20th Century. 

Feature Length Dramas/Comedies 
(to be produced/in development)
Scripts Available Upon Request

A kind-hearted, prolific, ‘hundred years behind yet a thousand years ahead’, severely-ignored, very-male writer (Frank Johnson) who is a self-destructive marketer, fakes his own death to collect insurance money and a new identity.   He wakes up on the surgery table of the plastic surgeon (his ex-wife Jennifer) without his Johnson, or what he thought are his legally ‘inherited’ Jacksons and Benjamins. 

An ‘All Creatures Great and Small’-like veterinary drama/comedy set in the modern-day Canadian West with a multicultural theme and contemporary edge.  
Feature-length TV movie/potential series pilot
Writers: MJ Politis, Ph.D., D.V.M., SJ Hopkins / Producers:  Jiri Bakala, MJ Politis   Copyrighted, 2002

Medical-political thriller set in 1930’s Ukrane and contemporary Russia.   Serio-comedic, black but very humanistic humor. “Life is Beautiful” crossed with “Three Days of the Condor” told with a “Fiddler on the Roof” sweetness and a “Homicide: Life on the Streets” edge.
Funded by SaskFILM.

An R-rated farce in which the Planet Mediocra plans to rule the universe, which must be stopped by a down-on-himself Black dude in Harlem working with a talking cockroach who is a sexually-repressed female secret agent from another planet, refusing to tell him what her real body is, or where she comes from.

A thriller/horror Western based on the real story of Agnes McFee, operator of ‘Hundred and Eight’ Stage Station who relieved over 60 miners of their lives and money, and untold numbers of young girls of their freedom during the rough and tumble Gold Rush days of British Columbia

‘SSI, Inc.’ brings young offenders into staged crimes where said offenders become the victim in order to reveal to them the pain of being on the receiving end of cruelty.  

Metaphysical, adventure/Western. A Faustian Western set against the backdrop of the 1926 Yaqui Indian Revolt in the rugged and mystical Bacattete Mountains of Sonora, Mexico.

Fact-based story about “Old Man” Kolokotronis, the George Washington, Pancho Villa and Socrates of the Greek Revolution in the 1820s who led the revolt against the Turks, then was turned upon by his ‘upper crust’ Greek Allies in a conflict that nearly started a World War.

Psychological Thriller. Based on the real story of Professor Horstadious, pioneer embryologist in Norway who actually DID impregnate hookers for extraction of their fetuses in the 1950s.  To this day, most of what we know about human development in the womb is based on his legal, but questionably moral studies.

• DaVinci's Inquest
• Gideon's Crossing
• Outer Limits (3)
• Law and Order SVU (2)
• Cold Squad
• Homicide: Life on the Streets
• Crossing Jordan
• Education of Max Bickford
• Becker
• Hack