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.
[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.
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.
Espionage, which ran for one season on NBC, was co-produced by ATV, an ITV contractor in the United Kingdom.