James at 15

James at 15
Lance Kerwin and Melissa Sue Anderson in the pilot movie James at 15
Also known as	James at 16
Genre	Drama
Created by	Dan Wakefield
Written by	Wally Dalton Bill Nuss Dan Wakefield Shelley Zellman
Directed by	Marc Daniels Joseph Hardy Peter Levin Ernest A. Losso Ernest Pintoff James Sheldon George Tyne
Starring	Lance Kerwin Linden Chiles Lynn Carlin Kim Richards David Hubbard Deirdre Berthrong
Theme music composer	John Ford Coley
Opening theme	"James" performed by Lee Montgomery
Composers	Richard Baskin Miles Goodman Jimmie Haskell Murray MacLeod J.A.C. Redford
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	1 movie / 20 episodes
Production
Executive producers	Joseph Hardy Martin Manulis
Producers	Ernest A. Losso Ronald Rubin
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	45–48 minutes
Production company	20th Century Fox Television
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	September 5, 1977 (1977-09-05)
Release	October 27, 1977 (1977-10-27) – June 29, 1978 (1978-06-29)
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James at 15 (later James at 16) is an American drama series that aired on NBC during the 1977–78 season.

The series was preceded by the 1977 TV movie James at 15, which aired on Monday September 5, 1977 and was intended as a television pilot for the series. Both were written by Dan Wakefield, a journalist and fiction writer whose novel Going All the Way, a tale of coming of age in the 1950s, had led to his being contacted by David Sontag of Twentieth Century Fox.

Sontag, the senior vice-president of creative affairs at Fox, had had a lunch meeting in New York City with Paul Klein, the head of programming at NBC. Klein said he needed a series for Sunday night. On the spot, Sontag pitched the idea for a coming-of-age series seen through the eyes of a teenage boy, including his dreams, fantasies, and hopes. Klein loved the idea and asked Sontag who would write it, with Sontag's suggesting Dan Wakefield.^[1] Despite this unsourced account of the "creation" of the series, Sontag created no characters, no plotlines, and no settings. The on-screen credit for the series reads "Created by Dan Wakefield," as it was Wakefield who worked out the specifics from Sontag's general conceptual outline.