Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions was an American film production company based in Beverly Hills , California . The principals, Jules V. Levy , Arthur Gardner , and Arnold Laven , met while serving in the Air Force's First Motion Picture Unit during World War II . While serving, they decided to form their own production company after the war ended. The three men formed Levy-Gardner-Laven in 1951.
2-427: Levy-Gardner-Laven's first production was the 1952 low-budget crime thriller film Without Warning! . Laven produced both films and television shows, and he directed many popular American television shows, including episodes of The A-Team , CHiPs , Mannix , The Big Valley , The Greatest American Hero and Hill Street Blues . Gardner was an actor prior to World War II, but chose to produce after
4-496: The company was formed. Along with Levy, who was a script supervisor prior to the war, Gardner wrote the story for a 1982 movie called Safari 3000 . Levy-Gardner-Laven also produced classic T.V. series for Four Star Productions such as The Rifleman , The Big Valley , and The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor , all for ABC . Levy-Gardner-Laven maintains an office in Beverly Hills, but their last production credit
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