Reza Badiyi

His credits also include developing the title sequence montages for Mission: Impossible, Hawaii Five-O, Get Smart, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

He worked with the Audio Visual Department in Tehran, (Honarhayeh Zeeba), and completed 24 documentary films, prior to leaving the country.

[5] Early in his career, he directed episodes of Get Smart, Mission: Impossible, Hawaii Five-O, The Incredible Hulk, Mannix, The Six Million Dollar Man, Starsky & Hutch, The Rockford Files and Police Squad!.

Perhaps his most famous work was crafting the briskly-edited title visualisation (i.e., the opening and closing credits with theme music) for the original Hawaii Five-O.

There were lowlights, as well, including directing the unsold pilot for Inside O.U.T., a spy-oriented comedy executive produced by Harry Ackerman and starring Bill Daily, Alan Oppenheimer, a then-up-and-coming Farrah Fawcett and a chimp for Screen Gems in 1971.

In the 1980s and 1990s, he directed episodes of Falcon Crest, Cagney & Lacey, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, La Femme Nikita, Sliders and Baywatch and Early Edition.