Plautus Productions
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| Company type | Television subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Motion pictures, television programs |
| Founded | 1959 |
| Founder | Herbert Brodkin |
| Defunct | 1967 |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California |
| Parent | Paramount Pictures |
Plautus Productions was an American television and film production company during the 1960s. The company was founded by producer and director Herbert Brodkin.
Plautus Productions was best known as the production company for some of CBS's popular crime dramas including Brenner, The Defenders, The Nurses (also known as The Doctors and the Nurses), and Coronet Blue,[citation needed] along with NBC's Espionage, the only Plautus production produced for a network other than CBS.
Plautus Productions was a television subsidiary of Paramount Pictures.[citation needed]
Plautus Productions was formed in 1959 by producer Herbert Brodkin and Paramount Pictures. The main sole purpose of the company at time of its founding was to provide production and distribution services to Brodkin's new series Brenner which premiered on CBS that same year.
After finding success with Brenner, Brodkin, who served as the president of the company, used that company to produce some of his other television series.
The company closed in 1967, two years after Brodkin, along with fellow producer and business associate Robert "Buzz" Berger founded Titus Productions which took most of Brodkin's attention away from Plautus.[1]