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Phoenix Comicon
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Phoenix Comicon is a multigenre entertainment and comic book convention held annually in Phoenix, Arizona. It was founded as the Phoenix Cactus Comicon in June 2002, PCC plays host to comic related panels, programming events, art contests, and autograph signings for all ages. It is an event held during the summer at the Phoenix Convention Center in downtown Phoenix. On Thursday evening prior to the opening of the event, there is a preview for professionals, exhibitors. In 2016, the set a attendance record of 106,096. Phoenix Comicon has also begun to expand programming into the hotels, including the Hyatt Regency, Marriott Renaissance. It was re-branded as Phoenix Fan Fest and moved to October in 2016 at the Phoenix Convention Center, the first Phoenix Comicon was held in June 2002 as Phoenix Cactus Comicon. It was a convention for six hours held at a Best Western in Ahwatukee. Admission was $3 per person and there were 432 attendees, along with a few local creators and exhibitors, the following three years, the convention was held at the Glendale Civic Center. The size of the convention and the attendance were doubled from the year. The convention began to bring out some guests from out of state including Spider-Man artist Todd Nauck, the programming was increased to include Q&As with guests, how-to workshops, and film trailer presentations. In 2006, the convention was held at the Mesa Convention Center in Mesa and it also became a two-day convention, with Friday preview night, and had guests such as voice actors Johnny Young Bosche and Greg Ayres. The exhibitor room was expanded, as was the amount of programming offered. This was the first convention to expand beyond comic books into the pop culture community, including Anime, Manga, Sci-Fi, Fantasy. Attendance was over 2,600 people for the weekend, the convention was held in January from 2007 to 2009, at the Mesa Convention Center. 2007 was considered the conventions first foray into media guests, with Feedback, in 2009, the event was expanded to 3 days, with a Thursday preview night. Beginning in 2010 the convention was held on Memorial Day weekend, at the Phoenix Convention Center and this change was due to the large increase in attendance, and the availability of funds to hold the convention in a larger venue. Bigger names, such as Leonard Nimoy, George Takei, in 2014, due to a scheduling conflict, the convention was moved to the first week of June as opposed to Memorial Day weekend
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San Gabriel, California
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San Gabriel is a city in Los Angeles County, California. It is named after the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, founded by Junípero Serra, the city grew outward from the mission and in 1852 became the original township of Los Angeles County. San Gabriel was incorporated in 1913, the citys motto is A city with a Mission and it is often called the Birthplace of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. At the 2010 census, the population was 39,718, prior to the arrival of the Spanish to Alta California, the area that is now San Gabriel was inhabited by the Tongva Native Americans, whom the Spanish called the Gabrieleño. The Tongva name for the San Gabriel region has been reconstructed as Shevaa and he was appointed as Californias governor twice, serving briefly in 1832 and again from 1845 through the Mexican-American War. Later in life, he was elected as a Los Angeles City councilman, the city of Pico Rivera was named to honor him as the last governor of California to be born in Mexico. In 1853, a company of Army Engineers, who included the geologist William P. Blake, Blake observed that the once great vineyards had fallen into wild disarray. Fences were in disrepair, and animals roamed freely through the property, but, the mission bells were ringing, and the church was still in use. In the first United States census made in California in 1860,586 people lived in San Gabriel, by the time of General Law Incorporation on April 24,1913, the citys population had grown to 1,500. San Gabriel is located at 34°5′39″N 118°5′54″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.1 square miles, virtually all of it land. The city is bordered on the north by San Marino, on the east by Temple City and Rosemead, to the south by Rosemead and this region experiences warm and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, San Gabriel has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, the 2010 United States Census reported that San Gabriel had a population of 39,718. The population density was 9,581.5 people per square mile. The racial makeup of San Gabriel was 24,091 Asian,10,076 White,388 African American,220 Native American,43 Pacific Islander,3,762 from other races, Hispanic or Latino of any race were 10,189 persons. The Census reported that 39,266 people lived in households,34 lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, there were 481 unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 76 same-sex married couples or partnerships. 2,121 households were made up of individuals and 800 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 3.13. There were 9,594 families, the family size was 3.47. The median age was 40.3 years, for every 100 females there were 93.2 males
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Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles
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Laurel Canyon is a neighborhood and canyon located in the Hollywood Hills region of the Santa Monica Mountains, in the Hollywood Hills West district of Los Angeles, California. Laurel Canyon is focused on its central thoroughfare, Laurel Canyon Boulevard, however, unlike other nearby canyon neighborhoods, Laurel Canyon has houses lining one side of the main street most of the way up to Mulholland Drive. There are many roads that branch off the main canyon. Some of the side streets are Mount Olympus, Kirkwood, Wonderland Avenue, Willow Glen. The zip code for a portion of the neighborhood is 90046, Laurel Canyon Boulevard is an important North-South route between, West Hollywood, Hollywood, and Central Los Angeles, and Studio City and the eastern San Fernando Valley. The canyons division between the two regions is defined by Mulholland Drive, in early 2005, the first section of the road on the Hollywood side was partially washed away in a heavy rainstorm, and traffic was redirected to a normally quiet residential side street. The Laurel Canyon area was inhabited by the Tongva people, a tribe of the indigenous peoples of California. A spring-fed stream flowed year-round providing water, the reliable water attracted colonial Spanish ranchers who started sheep grazing on the hillsides in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. After the Mexican-American War and U. S. statehood, the area was settled by Americans interested in water rights, around the turn of the 20th century, the area was subdivided and marketed as mountain vacation properties. Travel to the subdivided lots and cabins further up the canyon was at first made on foot or by mule. As the roads were improved access was possible by automobile, around 1920, a local developer built the Lookout Mountain Inn at the summit of Lookout Mountain and Sunset Plaza roads, which burned just a few years after opening. It was once occupied by silent film star Tom Mix but spent years on the rental market, in 1968 it was rented by Frank Zappa who turned it into a recording studio and celebrity hangout. Zappa moved out after six months, and the house burned to the ground on Halloween 1981, directly across the street, at 2400 Laurel Canyon Blvd. is site of the home, long-gone, that magician Harry Houdini may have rented around 1919. It was originally the Walker estate, John Phillips of the Mamas & the Papas took inspiration from their home in Laurel Canyon in the song Twelve Thirty a. k. a. In 1968, John Mayall recorded and released Blues from Laurel Canyon based on his experiences on a vacation earlier that year, famed photographer Henry Diltz was also a resident and used the scenic Canyon backdrop for many of his historic photos of rock musicians casually socializing. Several of his photos became iconic representations of the 1960s & 1970s West Coast music scene, crosby, Stills, and Nash are reputed to have first sung together in her living room. Musician J. Tillman has said that his output under the moniker Father John Misty was partly inspired by a relocation to and personal reinvention in Laurel Canyon. The song I Went to the Store One Day, from his 2015 album I Love You, Honeybear, recounts the story of how Tillman met his wife, Emma, in the parking lot of the Laurel Canyon Country Store
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Voice acting
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Voice acting is the art of doing voice-overs or providing voices to represent a character or to provide information to an audience or user. Voice acting is also done for small handheld audio games, performers are called voice actors or actresses, voice artists, or voice talent. Their roles may also involve singing, although a voice actor is sometimes cast as the characters singing voice. Voice acting is recognised in Britain as a specialized dramatic profession, Voice artists are also used to record the individual sample fragments played back by a computer in an automated announcement. The voices for animated characters are provided by voice actors, for live action productions, voice acting often involves reading the parts of computer programs, radio dispatchers, or other characters who never actually appear on screen. With a radio drama or CD drama, there is freedom in voice acting, because there is no need to match a dub to the original actors. In the context of voice acting, narration is the use of commentary to convey a story to an audience. A narrator is a character or a non-personal voice that the creator of the story develops to deliver information to the audience. The voice actor who plays the narrator is responsible for performing the lines assigned to the narrator. In traditional literary narratives, narration is a story element, in other types of narratives, such as plays, television shows, video games. One of the most common uses for voice acting is within commercial advertising, the voice actor is hired to voice a message associated with the advertisement. This has different subgenres, television, radio, cinema, the subgenres are all different styles in their own right. Voiceover used in commercial adverts also is the area of voice acting where de-breathing is used. De-breathing means artificially removing breaths from the recorded voice and this is done to stop the audience being distracted in any way from the commercial message that is being put across. Dub localization is a type of voice-over and it is the practice of voice-over translation altering a foreign language film, art film or television series by voice actors. Voice-over translation is an audiovisual translation technique, in which, unlike in Dub localization, actor voices are recorded over the audio track. This method of translation is most often used in documentaries and news reports to translate words of foreign-language interviewees, automated dialogue replacement is the process of re-recording dialogue by the original actor after the filming process to improve audio quality or reflect dialogue changes. ADR is also used to change original lines recorded on set to clarify context, improve diction or timing, in the UK, it is also called post-synchronization or post-sync
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The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
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The Twilight Zone is an American science-fiction, fantasy, psychological-supernatural horror anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. Each story typically features a moral and a surprise ending, the series is notable for featuring both established stars and younger actors who would become more famous later on. Serling served as producer and head writer, he wrote or co-wrote 92 of the shows 156 episodes. He was also the shows host and narrator, delivering monologues at the beginning, Serlings opening and closing narrations usually summarize the episodes events encapsulating how and why the main character had entered the Twilight Zone. In 2016, it was ranked No.8 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 greatest shows of all time, in 2002, The Twilight Zone was ranked No.26 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked it as the third best-written TV series ever, by the late 1950s, Rod Serling was a regular name in television. His successful teleplays included Patterns and Requiem for a Heavyweight, but constant changes and edits made by the networks, in Requiem for a Heavyweight, the line Got a match. But according to comments in his 1957 anthology Patterns, Serling had been trying to delve into more controversial than his works of the early 1950s. Despite bad reviews, activists sent numerous letters and wires protesting the production, the script, however, was rejected and shelved for a year until Bert Granet discovered and produced it as an episode of Desilu Playhouse in 1958. The show was a success and enabled Serling to finally begin production on his anthology series. There is a dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity and it is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of mans fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination and it is an area which we call The Twilight Zone. The Twilight Zone premiered the night of October 2,1959 and its the one series that I will let interfere with other plans, said Terry Turner for the Chicago Daily News. Even as the show proved popular to televisions critics, it struggled to find an audience of television viewers. CBS was banking on a rating of at least 21 or 22, the series future was jeopardized when its third episode, Mr. Denton on Doomsday earned a 16.3 rating. With one exception, the first season featured scripts written only by Rod Serling and these three were responsible for 127 of the 156 episodes in the series. Additionally, with one exception, Serling never appeared on camera during any first-season episode, Serling did appear on screen in Twilight Zone promotional spots plugging the following weeks episode – just not in the episodes themselves
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series hosted and executive produced by Alfred Hitchcock, which aired on CBS and NBC between 1955 and 1965. It featured dramas, thrillers, and mysteries, by the time it premiered on October 2,1955, Hitchcock had been directing films for over three decades. Time magazine named it one of The 100 Best TV Shows of all time, the Writers Guild of America ranked it #79 on their list of the 101 Best-Written TV Series tying it with Monty Pythons Flying Circus, Star Trek, The Next Generation and Upstairs, Downstairs. A series of anthologies with the running title Alfred Hitchcock Presents were issued to capitalize on the success of the television series. Alfred Hitchcock Presents is well known for its title sequence, the camera fades in on a simple line-drawing caricature of Hitchcocks rotund profile. He then almost always says Good evening, the caricature drawing, which Hitchcock created, and the use of Gounods Funeral March of a Marionette as theme music have become indelibly associated with Hitchcock in popular culture. At least two versions of the opening were shot for every episode, a version intended for the American audience would often spoof a recent popular commercial or poke fun at the sponsor, leading into the commercial. An alternative version for European audiences would instead include jokes at the expense of Americans in general, for later seasons, opening remarks were also filmed with Hitchcock speaking in French and German for the shows international presentations. Hitchcock closed the show in much the way as it opened. He told TV Guide that his reassurances that the criminal had been apprehended were a necessary gesture to morality, Alfred Hitchcock Presents finished at #6 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1956–57 season, and at #12 in 1957–58, #24 in 1958–59 and #25 in 1959–60. Originally 25 minutes per episode, the series was expanded to 50 minutes in 1962, Hitchcock directed 17 of the 267 filmed episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and one of the 50-minute episodes, I Saw the Whole Thing with John Forsythe. The last new episode aired on June 26,1965, in 1985, NBC aired a new TV movie pilot based upon the series, combining four newly filmed stories with colorized footage of Hitchcock from the original series to introduce each segment. The movie was a ratings success. Alfred Hitchcock Presents revival series debuted in the fall of 1985 and retained the format as the pilot. The new series lasted one season before NBC cancelled it. Other notable directors included Robert Altman, Ida Lupino, Stuart Rosenberg, Robert Stevenson, David Swift and William Friedkin, who ended up directing what would be the last episode. Alfred Hitchcock Presents,25 minutes long, aired weekly at 9,30 on CBS on Sunday nights from 1955 to 1960, and then at 8,30 on NBC on Tuesday nights from 1960 to 1962. It was followed by The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, which lasted for three seasons, September 1962 to June 1965, adding another 93 episodes to the 268 already produced for Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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Dear Brigitte
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Dear Brigitte is a 1965 American DeLuxe Color family–comedy in CinemaScope starring James Stewart and directed by Henry Koster. Robert Leaf is an American college professor whose precocious son Erasmus is a mathematical prodigy, after using his skills for gambling at the racetrack, it is discovered that Erasmus is infatuated with model and actress Brigitte Bardot. He writes love letters to her, and she invites him to visit her in France, Leaf accompanies him on the journey. Leaf later uses his sons talent to raise funds for liberal arts scholarships and he is assisted by Peregrine Upjohn, who is secretly a con artist who plans to abscond with the funds. James Stewart as Prof. Rink Orville Sherman as Von Schlogg Maida Severn as Miss Eva, there was some talk that Disney would option the film rights and cast Bing Crosby in the lead role. However rights were bought by 20th Century Fox who assigned the project to Nunnally Johnson, Henry Koster and James Stewart and it was one of the first movies made at the recently re-opened 20th Century Fox studios. Billy Mumy was cast on the recommendation of James Stewarts wife, Gloria Stewart, although Nunnally Johnson wrote early drafts of the film, Hal Kanter was brought in to work on it and he gets sole screen credit. Kanter says it was Henry Kosters idea to introduce a captain, played by Ed Wynn, the film was the sixth straight acting role for Fabian since he quit singing. He had never been to the races before being cast so researched his role by going to the races, there was some doubt Bardot would appear in the film but she relented and her scenes were shot in three days in Paris
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James Stewart
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James Maitland Stewart, also known as Jimmy Stewart, was an American actor and military officer who is among the most honored and popular stars in film history. A major Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player, Stewart was known for his distinctive drawl and down-to-earth persona, many of the films he starred in have become enduring classics. Stewart was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition for The Philadelphia Story, in 1999, Stewart was named the third greatest male screen legend of the Golden Age of Hollywood by the American Film Institute, behind Humphrey Bogart and Cary Grant. The American Film Institute has also named five of Stewarts films to its list of the 100 best American films ever made. Stewart was born on May 20,1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, the son of Elizabeth Ruth Jackson and Alexander Maitland Stewart, Stewart was mainly of Scottish ancestry and was raised as a Presbyterian. He was descended from veterans of the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the eldest of three children, he was expected to continue his fathers business, which had been in the family for three generations. His mother was an excellent pianist but his father discouraged Stewarts request for lessons, when his father accepted a gift of an accordion from a guest, young Stewart quickly learned to play the instrument, which became a fixture offstage during his acting career. As the family grew, music continued to be an important part of family life, Stewart attended Mercersburg Academy prep school, graduating in 1928. He was active in a variety of activities and he played on the football and track teams, was art editor of the KARUX yearbook, and a member of the choir club, glee club, and John Marshall Literary Society. Over the following two summers, he took a job as an assistant with a professional magician and he made his first appearance onstage at Mercersburg, as Buquet in the play The Wolves. A shy child, Stewart spent much of his time in the basement working on model airplanes, mechanical drawing. However, he abandoned visions of being a pilot when his father insisted that instead of the United States Naval Academy he attend Princeton University, Stewart enrolled at Princeton in 1928 as a member of the class of 1932. His acting and accordion talents at Princeton led him to be invited to the University Players, the company had been organized in 1928 and would run until 1932, with Joshua Logan, Bretaigne Windust and Charles Leatherbee as directors. Stewart performed in bit parts in the Players productions in Cape Cod during the summer of 1932, the troupe had previously included Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan. Stewart and Fonda became close friends over the summer of 1932 when they shared an apartment with Joshua Logan, the New Yorker commented, Mr. James Stewarts chauffeur. Comes on for three minutes and walks off to a round of spontaneous applause, the play was a moderate success, but times were hard. Many Broadway theaters had been converted to houses and the Depression was reaching bottom. From 1932 through 1934, Stewart later recalled, Id only worked three months, every play I got into folded
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Brigitte Bardot
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Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot is a French actress, singer and fashion model, who later became an animal rights activist. She was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s and was referred to by her initials. She started her career in 1952. After appearing in 16 routine comedy films that had limited international release, Bardot caught the attention of French intellectuals. She later starred in Jean-Luc Godards 1963 film Le Mépris, for her role in Louis Malles 1965 film Viva Maria. Bardot was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress, from 1969 to 1978, Bardot was the official face of Marianne to represent the liberty of France. Bardot retired from the entertainment industry in 1973, during her career in show business, she starred in 47 films, performed in several musical shows and recorded over 60 songs. She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985 but refused to accept it, after her retirement, she established herself as an animal rights activist. During the 2000s, she generated controversy by criticizing immigration and Islam in France and has been fined five times for inciting racial hatred, Bardot was born in Paris, the daughter of Louis Bardot and Anne-Marie Toty Bardot. Louis had a degree and worked with his father, Charles Bardot. Louis and Anne-Marie married in 1933, Bardot grew up in an upper middle-class Roman Catholic observant home. When she was seven she was admitted to the Cours Hattemer and she went to school three days a week, and otherwise studied at home. This gave time for lessons at Madame Bourgets dance studio three days a week, Brigittes mother also enrolled Brigittes younger sister, Marie-Jeanne, in dance. Marie-Jeanne eventually gave up dancing lessons and did not tell her mother, in 1947, Bardot was accepted to the Conservatoire de Paris. For three years she attended classes by Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev. One of her classmates was Leslie Caron, the other ballerinas nicknamed Bardot Bichette. At the invitation of an acquaintance of her mother, she modelled in a show in 1949. In the same year, she modelled for a fashion magazine Jardin des Modes managed by journalist Hélène Lazareff, aged 15, she appeared on an 8 March 1950 cover of Elle and was noticed by a young film director, Roger Vadim, while babysitting
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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time
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Lost in Space
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Lost in Space is an American science fiction television series created and produced by Irwin Allen. The series follows the adventures of a family of space colonists who struggle to survive in a strange and often hostile universe after their ship is sabotaged. The show ran for three seasons, with 83 episodes airing between 1965 and 1968, the first season was filmed in black and white, with the second and third seasons filmed in color. Although the original concept centered on the Robinson family, many later storylines focused primarily on Dr. Zachary Smith, Smith and the Robot were both absent from the unaired pilot, as the addition of their characters was only decided upon once the series had been commissioned for production. Smith is thus the key to the story, in 1962 the first appearance of a space-faring Robinson family occurred in a comic book published by Gold Key Comics. The Space Family Robinson, who were scientists aboard Earths Space Station One, are away in a cosmic storm in the comics second issue. These Robinsons were scientist father Craig, scientist mother June, early teens Tim and Tam, along with pets Clancy, Space Station One also boasted two spacemobiles for ship-to-planet travel. The Jupiter 2 mission is sabotaged by Dr. Zachary Smith – an agent for an foreign government – who slips aboard the spaceship and reprograms the robot to destroy the ship and crew. However, when he is trapped aboard, his excess weight alters the crafts flight path, Smith manages to save himself by prematurely reviving the crew from suspended animation. The ship survives, but consequent damage caused by Smiths earlier sabotage of the robot leaves them lost in space. In the third episode the Jupiter 2 crashlands on a world, later identified by Will as Priplanus. Smith was liked by the trusting Will, and tolerated by the women, One of these colorful visitors even turned out to be Smiths own cousin, intent on swindling him out of a family inheritance with the assistance of a hostile gambling machine. A new theme tune was recorded by Warren Barker for the second season, in the third season, a major format change was introduced, to bring the series back to its roots as solid adventure, by allowing the Robinsons to travel to more planets. The Jupiter 2 was now allowed to freely travel space, visiting a new world each week, as the family attempt to return to Earth or to reach their original destination in the Alpha Centauri system. This season had a different opening credits sequence and a new theme tune – which. The stories had little realism, with, for instance, explosions happening randomly, merely to cover an aliens arrival or departure, or sometimes merely the arrival of some alien artifact. Props and monsters were regularly recycled from other Irwin Allen shows, as a matter of convenience. A sea monster outfit which had featured on Voyage would get a paint job for its Lost in Space appearance
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Sterling North
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Thomas Sterling North, who used Sterling North professionally, was an American writer. He is best known for the childrens novel Rascal, a bestseller in 1963, Norths maternal grandparents, James Hervey Nelson and Sarah Orelup Nelson, were Wisconsin pioneers. His daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Elizabeth Nelson, was Sterling Norths mother and she married David Willard North, also the product of a pioneering local family, whose brother ran the family farm. Sarah died when Sterling was eight years old, North was born on the second floor of a farmhouse on the shores of Lake Koshkonong, a few miles from Edgerton, Wisconsin, in 1906. North had three siblings, two sisters, Jessica Nelson North who was an author, poet, and editor, Theo, who was the martinet in the family, and a brother, Herschel, who survived World War I. When Sterling North was 11, several of his uncles wrote extended biographies about their parents, one of these uncles was Justus Henry Nelson, an early missionary in the Amazon Basin. This writing effort was at the time as the setting of Rascal. After attending the University of Chicago, North worked as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News, the New York World-Telegram, and the New York Sun, before becoming a full-time freelance writer. In 1940, in his position as Chicago Daily News Literary Editor, one of Norths first books, The Pedro Gorino, published in 1929, was a narrative of the life of Harry Dean, an African-American sea captain. A1934 North novel, Plowing on Sunday, featured a rare dust jacket illustration by Iowa artist Grant Wood, Norths book Midnight and Jeremiah was made into the Disney movie So Dear to My Heart in 1949. In addition, North wrote Abe Lincoln, Log Cabin to White House, The Wolfling, A Documentary Novel of the Eighteen-Seventies, Racoons are the Brightest People, Hurry Spring, in 1957, he became the general editor of Houghton Mifflins North Star Books. This firm published biographies of American heroes for young adult readers, although uncredited, Norths wife, Gladys Buchanan North, also contributed to the editing process. Norths best-selling and best-known work, Rascal, A Memoir of a Better Era, was published by E. P. Dutton in August 1963 and it is a remembrance of a year in his childhood when he raised a baby raccoon, which he named Rascal. It received a Newbery Honor in 1964, a Sequoyah Book Award in 1966, and it was made into the Disney movie of the same name in 1969. Additionally, it was made into a 52-episode Japanese anime entitled Araiguma Rasukaru, the success of the anime was responsible for the introduction of the North American raccoon into Japan. It chronicles young Sterlings loving, troubled relationship with his father, dreamer David Willard North, the boy reconnects with society through the unlikely intervention of his pet raccoon, a ringtailed wonder. In the 1990s, Norths childhood home at 409 West Rollin Street, Edgerton, Wisconsin, was restored to its 1917 appearance by the Sterling North Society and transformed into a museum. A bronze sign in front of the home, marking Norths significance in the history of this southern Wisconsin community, was dedicated in October 1984
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Rascal (film)
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Rascal is a 1969 comedy-drama film adaptation made by Walt Disney Productions based on a book, Rascal by Sterling North, about a young man and his pet raccoon set in Wisconsin. The movie is a dramatization of Sterling Norths 1963 memoir of a better era, born near Edgerton, Wisconsin, North was a former literary editor for newspapers in Chicago and New York City. The movie relates a year in the life of young Sterling North and his ringtailed wonder pet raccoon, although set in Wisconsin, circa 1917, the movie was filmed in California. The film features the song Summer Sweet, Rascal holds the distinction of being the very first print review by Gene Siskel, written in the Chicago Tribune one month before he became the papers film critic in 1969. His review of the film was favorable but received no stars by default since the paper did not use a system for films at the time
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Steve Forrest (actor)
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Steve Forrest was an American actor who was well known for his role as Lt. Hondo Harrelson in the short-lived television series S. W. A. T. Which ran from 1975 to 1976 and he was also known for his Razzie-winning performance in Mommie Dearest. He was born William Forrest Andrews in Huntsville, Texas and he was the son of Annis and Charles Forrest Andrews, a Baptist minister. Forrest was the 12th of 13 children, one of his older brothers was film star Dana Andrews. Forrest enlisted in the United States Army at age 18 and fought in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II, in 1950, he earned a bachelors degree with honors from the UCLA, majoring in theater with a minor in psychology. He worked as a stagehand at the La Jolla Playhouse outside San Diego, there Gregory Peck discovered him, cast him in La Jollas production of Goodbye Again, and then arranged for Forrests first screen test with MGM, where he was signed to a contract. Among Forrests notable films were So Big, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor, The Longest Day, North Dallas Forty, and Mommie Dearest. He had cameo roles in the comedies Spies Like Us and Amazon Women on the Moon, and the 2003 film version of S. W. A. T. Forrest was also a trained vocalist, and he made his debut on Broadway as prizefighter Bob Stanton in the 1958 production of The Body Beautiful opposite Mindy Carson, Jack Warden and Brock Peters. In 1965, Forrest and his moved to London, where he starred as John Mannering in the title role of the British crime drama The Baron. His other television credits included The DuPont Show with June Allyson, Storefront Lawyers, Hollywood Wives, and Rod Serlings hour-long Twilight Zone episode The Parallel. On a 1969 episode of Gunsmoke titled Mannon he portrayed Will Mannon, then reprised the character 18 years later for the 1987 television film Gunsmoke, in the 1986-87 season of Dallas, Steve Forrest played Wes Parmalee, a man who claimed to be Jock Ewing. Forrest married Christine Carilas on December 23,1948 and they had three sons, Michael, Forrest and Stephen. A very accomplished golfer, Forrest often played in charity tournaments, including, on the American team, Forrest died on May 18,2013 in Thousand Oaks, California, aged 87, from undisclosed causes. Steve Forrest at the Internet Movie Database Steve Forrest at the Internet Broadway Database Steve Forrest at AllMovie Obituary - Hollywood Reporter Obituary - Dignity Memorial
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Babylon 5
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The first season premiered in the US on January 26,1994, and the series ultimately ran for the intended five seasons. Set between the years 2257 and 2262, it depicts a future where Earth has sovereign states, colonies within the solar system, and beyond, make up the Earth Alliance, and contact has been made with other spacefaring species. The ensemble cast portray alien ambassadorial staff and humans assigned to the 5-mile -long Babylon 5 space station, a center for trade and diplomacy. Not appearing on American television since 2003, it continues to be shown in international markets such as Fox in the UK, the TV4-ScifFi Channel in Sweden, excepting movie rights, which are retained by Straczynski, all production rights for the franchise are owned by Warner Bros. At the beginning of the series, five dominant civilizations are presented, the Shadows and their various allies are malevolent species who appear later in the series. Several dozen less powerful species from the League of Non-Aligned Worlds appear, including the Drazi, Brakiri, Vree, Markab, the stations first three predecessors were sabotaged or accidentally destroyed before their completion. The fourth station, Babylon 4, vanished without a trace twenty-four hours after it fully operational. The television series takes its name from the Babylon 5 space station, located in the Epsilon Eridani star system, Babylon 5 is an ONeill cylinder five miles long and a half-mile to a mile in diameter. Living areas accommodate the various species, providing differing atmospheres and gravities. Human visitors to the sectors are shown using breathing equipment. The five seasons of the series each correspond to one fictional sequential year in the period 2258–2262, each season shares its name with an episode that is central to that seasons plot. As the series starts, the Babylon 5 station is welcoming ambassadors from various races in the galaxy, during 2258, Commander Jeffrey Sinclair is in charge of the station. Much of the story revolves around his gradual discovery that it was his capture by the Minbari at the Battle of the Line which ended the war against Earth. Upon capturing Sinclair, the Minbari came to believe that he was the reincarnation of Valen, meanwhile, tensions between the Centauri Republic, which is an empire in decline, and the Narn Regime, a former dominion which rebelled and gained freedom, are increasing. As part of these struggles, Mollari makes a deal with an ally to strike back at the Narn. It is gradually revealed that Ambassador Delenn is a member of the mysterious and powerful Grey Council, towards the end of 2258, she begins the transformation into a Minbari-human hybrid, ostensibly to build a bridge between the humans and Minbari. The year ends with the death of Earth Alliance president Luis Santiago, the death is officially ruled an accident, but some members of the military, including the staff of Babylon 5, believe it to be an assassination. At the beginning of 2259, Captain John Sheridan replaces Sinclair as the governor of the station after Sinclair is reassigned as ambassador to Minbar
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A&E (TV channel)
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The channel originally focused programming on biographies, documentaries, and drama series but has later expanded to include reality television programming. As of July 2015, the A&E network is available to approximately 95,968,000 pay television households in the United States, the U. S. version of the channel is shown in Canada while international versions exist for Australia, Latin America, and Europe. A&E launched on February 1,1984, initially available to 9.3 million cable television homes in the U. S. the network is a result of the 1984 merger of Hearst/ABCs Alpha Repertory Television Service and RCA-owned The Entertainment Channel. When A&E debuted, the took over the satellite transponder timeslot that ARTS occupied from its launch in 1981. Childrens television channel Nickelodeon signed off just before 9 p. m. Eastern Time, and A&E took over at 9 p. m. with a programming block. However, some cable providers continued to carry Nickelodeon and A&E on the same channel and it was not until the early 1990s that these companies found separate channels for both networks. A&E was envisioned as a counterpart to PBS, and in its early days focused on such PBS-style programming as the Leonard Bernstein Fidelio. By 1990, A&Es original programming accounted for 35 to 40 percent of the program content. The comedy series An Evening at the Improv built a young audience in the late 80s. Also, Comedy On the Road won a CableACE Award, both series were produced by Larry ODaly, A&Es signature show was Biography, a one-hour documentary series that A&E revived in 1987. In 1994, airings of Biography went from weekly broadcasts to airing five nights a week, the nightly series became A&Es top-rated show and one of cable televisions most notable successes. Biography received Primetime Emmy Awards in 1999 and 2002, in its first decade, A&E had limited advertising, with fewer commercials at the time, mostly for A&E programs and its magazine. Beginning in the mid-90s, advertising was increased substantially on the channel, in May 1995, the channels name officially changed to the A&E Network, to reflect its declining focus on arts and entertainment. By 1996, the network had branded itself as simply A&E, even the arts patron often finds arts on TV not as satisfying as it should be. And the word entertainment is too vague, therefore, much like ESPN uses its letters rather than what they stand for – Entertainment Sports Network – we decided to go to just A&E. The network created two original weekly series, Sidney Lumets 100 Centre Street and Nero Wolfe, both of which lasted from 2001 to 2002. In May 2003, A&E launched a campaign with the networks new tagline. In addition, A&E had garnered favorable notice for true-crime documentary series such as Cold Case Files, American Justice, City Confidential, Investigative Reports, the network also cut back on its broadcasts of Biography from originally twice daily to weekend mornings only
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Emmy Award
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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette
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Biography (TV series)
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Biography is a documentary television series with three separate original broadcast runs, in syndication, on network, CBS, and the current one on cable, A&E, The Biography Channel, and then FYI. Each episode was accompanied by a narration, using stock footage, on-camera interviews, and photographs of the peoples lives, the original 1961-63 version was a half-hour filmed series produced for Syndication by David Wolper and hosted by Mike Wallace. The A&E Network repeated these films prior to producing new episodes beginning in 1987, the older version featured historical figures such as Helen Keller and Mark Twain, or deceased entertainers and actors such as Will Rogers and John Barrymore. A1979 revival of Biography aired briefly on CBS covering a more recent collection of celebrities ranging from Idi Amin to Walt Disney, with this large back catalog of profiled figures, A&E, in 1998, spun off a separate network, The Biography Channel. Initially, most of the featured the life stories of historical figures or present political or social leaders. People such as William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Enrico Caruso, after a few years, however, the show began producing episodes on figures from pop culture, including Britney Spears, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, and Marilyn Manson. This move away from purely intellectual subject matter has been criticized by some, figures covered from the business and technology world include Sam Walton, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, J. C. Penney, Dave Thomas, Colonel Sanders, Bernie Marcus, Biography original was shown on TV in the early 1960s. The host was Mike Wallace until 1963, the show was produced by David L. Wolper. The series was on from 1961 to 1964 and revived in 1979, Biography became a 5 night a week series in 1994 while adding entertainment figures to the mix of persons featured. Several Biography specials were produced in 1994 and 1995, the History Channel U. K. was started on November 1,1995 as a week day three-hour block with British revamp Biography one of the three shows. A&E expanded the Biography brand into a franchise with a website in July 1996, at one point, the show aired up to six times weekly in prime time, but cut back as A&E added reality show to appeal to a younger crowd. In April 2006, A&E was telecasting the show once a week. A&E canceled Biography after August 2006, making new episodes of the show available on The Biography Channel. 64 more hours of the show was also for its first year only on the Bio Channel. The show ended its run in 2012, the original Biography host was ] who hosted the show from 1961 to 1963 when left for CBS News. The 1990 version of Biography has been hosted by Peter Graves, Jack Perkins, Bill Mumy, joan Lunden was a regular guest host. Biography is a franchise focusing on biographies owned by A&E Networks
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Adventures in Wonderland
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Adventures in Wonderland is a live-action musical television series based on Walt Disneys animated Alice in Wonderland. In the series, Alice, was portrayed as a girl who can come, the series originally ran from March 23,1992 to 1995 on The Disney Channel and on stations across the country. Afterward, shooting was moved to Los Angeles, CA, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released three VHS tapes of certain episodes. She often confides in her cat Dinah about her day, Alice has a special gift in that she is able to pass into Wonderland by walking through her mirror. Whenever she arrives, she helps her friends solve their problems, the Red Queen, The ruler of Wonderland, played by Armelia McQueen. The Red Queen or Queen of Hearts, is Wonderlands sole monarch and she is strict but fair, often citing her mother and grandmothers example in her ruling. Unfortunately, the Queen is occasionally a source for trouble, usually due to her selfish attitude, as queen, she expects to get whatever she wants right away, and often pouts when things go wrong – often to the point where she says Oh harumph. She usually ends up eating crow by the end of the episode, deep down, she cares greatly for her subjects, throwing them parties and celebrating their accomplishments. The White Rabbit, The queens chief lackey, played by Patrick Richwood, the White Rabbit is the Queens personal chef, servant, butler, event planner, shopping assistant, and every other job that she can think of at the time. He wears roller skates to get around, and occasionally loses control-with humorous results and he is also exceptionally timid, unable to stand up to the Queen when he is being treated unjustly. Rabbit is good friends with the citizens of Wonderland, and he is often a notable accomplice in their schemes. Though he occasionally complains, the White Rabbit is actually the Queens closest confidant, the Mad Hatter, Wonderlands resident oddball, played by John Robert Hoffman. The Mad Hatter lives in a house shaped like a hat and he tends to be rather careless with his dishes and cups. The Mad Hatter is Wonderlands chief inventor, often devising crazy machines and potions to get himself, however, the devices tend to get them into further trouble. He also has an affinity for disguises, such as fake beards and his catch phrase is, How true that is. The March Hare, The hare that manages to be bright and foolish at the same time, the March Hare is quite intelligent, and he often assists his best friend the Mad Hatter in inventing and scheming. Unfortunately, the Hare lacks common sense, and is duped by others. The March Hare also usually serves the role of conscience among his friends, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, A pair of rapping Fraternal twins played by Robert Barry Fleming and Harry Waters Jr
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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Television program
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It may be a single production, or more commonly, a series of related productions. A limited number of episodes of a show may be called a miniseries or a serial or limited series. Television series are without a fixed length and are divided into seasons or series. While there is no defined length, U. S. industry practice has traditionally favored longer television seasons than those of other countries, a one-time broadcast may be called a special, or particularly in the UK a special episode. A television film is a film that is initially broadcast on television rather than released in theaters or direct-to-video, a program can be either recorded, as on video tape, other various electronic media forms, played with an on-demand player or viewed on live television. Television programs may be fictional, or non-fictional and it may be topical, or historical. They could be primarily instructional or educational, or entertaining as is the case in situation comedy, a drama program usually features a set of actors playing characters in a historical or contemporary setting. The program follows their lives and adventures, except for soap opera-type serials, many shows especially before the 1980s, remained static without story arcs, and the main characters and premise changed little. If some change happened to the characters lives during the episode, because of this, the episodes could be broadcast in any order. Since the 1980s, there are series that feature progressive change to the plot. For instance, Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere were two of the first American prime time television series to have this kind of dramatic structure. While the later series, Babylon 5 is an example of such production that had a predetermined story running over its intended five-season run. In 2012, it was reported that television was growing into a component of major media companies revenues than film. Some also noted the increase in quality of television programs. When a person or company decides to create a new series, they develop the elements, consisting of the concept, the characters, the crew. Then they offer it to the networks in an attempt to find one interested enough to order a prototype first episode of the series. They want very much to get the word out on what types of shows they’re looking for, to create the pilot, the structure and team of the whole series must be put together. If the network likes the pilot, they pick up the show to air it the next season, sometimes they save it for mid-season, or request rewrites and further review
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National Velvet (TV series)
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National Velvet is an American drama series that originally aired from 1960 to 1962 on NBC. Based on the novel and film of the name, the series ran for a total of fifty-eight episodes. Velvet owned a thoroughbred stallion named King which she hoped would one day run in the Grand National Steeplechase, first aired at 8 p. m. Eastern on Sunday preceding The Tab Hunter Show and opposite CBSs The Ed Sullivan Show. National Velvet at the Internet Movie Database National Velvet at TV. com
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Psychic
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A psychic is a person who claims to use extrasensory perception to identify information hidden from the normal senses. The word psychic is used as an adjective to describe such abilities. Psychics may be theatrical performers, such as magicians, who use techniques such as prestidigitation, cold reading. Psychics appear regularly in fantasy fiction, such as in the novel The Dead Zone by Stephen King, a large industry and network exists whereby psychics provide advice and counsel to clients. Some famous psychics include Edgar Cayce, Ingo Swann, Peter Hurkos, Jose Ortiz El Samaritano, Miss Cleo, John Edward, psychic powers are asserted by psychic detectives and in practices such as psychic archaeology and even psychic surgery. Critics attribute psychic powers to intentional trickery or to self-delusion, a study attempted to repeat recently reported parapsychological experiments that appeared to support the existence of precognition. It is also used in science-fiction. The word psychic is derived from the Greek word psychikos, the Greek word also means soul. In Greek mythology, the maiden Psyche was the deification of the human soul, the word derivation of the Latin psȳchē is from the Greek psȳchḗ, literally breath, derivative of psȳ́chein, to breathe or to blow. French astronomer and spiritualist Camille Flammarion is credited as having first used the word psychic, elaborate systems of divination and fortune-telling date back to ancient times. Some fortune-tellers were said to be able to make predictions without the use of these elaborate systems and these people were known as seers or prophets, and in later times as clairvoyants and psychics. Seers formed a functionary role in civilization, often serving as advisors, priests. A number of examples are included in biblical accounts, the book of 1 Samuel illustrates one such functionary task when Samuel is asked to find the donkeys of the future king Saul. The role of prophet appeared perennially in ancient cultures, in Egypt, the priests of the sun deity Ra at Memphis acted as seers. In ancient Assyria seers were referred to as nabu, meaning to call or announce, the Delphic Oracle is one of the earliest stories in classical antiquity of prophetic abilities. The Pythia, the priestess presiding over the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, was believed to be able to deliver prophecies inspired by Apollo during rituals beginning in the 8th century BC. Other scholars believe records from the time indicate that the Pythia spoke intelligibly, the Pythia was a position served by a succession of women probably selected from amongst a guild of priestesses of the temple. The last recorded response was given in 393 AD, when the emperor Theodosius I ordered pagan temples to cease operation, recent geological investigations raise the possibility that ethylene gas caused the Pythias state of inspiration
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The Twilight Zone (2002 TV series)
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The Twilight Zone is a 2002 revival of Rod Serlings 1959-64 television series. It aired for one season on the UPN network, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serlings role as narrator, broadcast in an hour format with two half-hour stories, it was canceled after one season. Reruns continue to air in syndication, and have aired on MyNetworkTV since summer 2008, the opening theme music was provided by Jonathan Davis. The series tended to address contemporary issues head-on, i. e. terrorism, racism, gender roles, sexuality, the series also includes remakes and updates of stories presented in the original Twilight Zone television series, including the famous The Eye of the Beholder starring Molly Sims. One of the updates, The Monsters Are on Maple Street, is a version of the classic episode similarly called The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. The original show was about the surrounding a neighborhood-wide blackout. In the course of the episode, somebody suggests an alien invasion being the cause of the blackouts, the anti-alien hysteria is an allegory for the anti-communist paranoia of the time, and the 2003 remake, starring Andrew McCarthy and Titus Welliver, replaces aliens with terrorists. The show also contains Its Still a Good Life, a sequel to the events of Its a Good Life, cloris Leachman also returned as Anthonys mother. Mumy went on to serve as screenwriter for episodes in the revival. McDonald, Langham, Xander Berkeley, and Haas had all previously guest starred in the 1980s revival, the series did not enjoy the same level of critical or ratings success as the original series or the 1980s revival, and only lasted one season. The complete series was released on DVD by New Line in a six disc box set on September 7,2004, the episodes are presented in their production order, not their broadcast order. The Twilight Zone The Twilight Zone The Twilight Zone The Twilight Zone at the Internet Movie Database The Twilight Zone at TV. com Discussion of the episodes
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In Praise of Pip
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In Praise of Pip is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. This was the first episode of The Twilight Zone to be 30 minutes long since The Changing of the Guard, in South Vietnam, medics are examining Pip Phillips, a wounded soldier. The medical officer says Pips case is hopeless and it is only a matter of time before he will die, in the United States, Pips father Max, a bookie, suckers a young man into placing $300 on a bad bet. The man comes to him for help, saying that he made the bet on loaned money, Max returns the $300, but his boss notices the discrepancy in the books and summons both Max and the debtor to his office. As the young man is strong-armed into returning his bet, Max receives a telegram about Pips condition, Max vocally rues the time he spent working as a bookie instead of being a father to his son, and returns the money to the debtor. He tells him to run and threatens his boss and his underling with a knife, the underling shoots Max, but Max is still enraged by his sons fate and uses his knife to kill both men. Wounded, he stumbles outside towards an amusement park and is surprised to see Pip at age 10. The two have fun and redress Maxs near-constant absence from his sons life, with Max teaching Pip how to shoot at a shooting gallery. Pip runs off into the house of mirrors, and Max follows, when Max finds him, Pip explains that he is dying and vanishes. Max prays to God and offers to trade his own life in exchange for Pips and he collapses and dies on the midway. Some months later, the adult Pip is seen at the park, Maxs former landlady is also there with her granddaughter and recalls Maxs love for his son. Pip visits the shooting gallery, remembering the times he had as a child with his father. He proclaims that his father was best buddy as he begins to play, opening narration, Submitted for your approval, one Max Phillips. A slightly-the-worse-for-wear maker of book, whose life has been as drab, and though its very late in his day, he has an errant wish that the rest of his life might be sent out to a laundry, to come back shiny and clean. This to be a gift of love to a son named Pip, mr. Max Phillips, homo sapiens, who is soon to discover that man is not as wise as he thinks. Said lesson to be learned in the Twilight Zone, and that you can find nobility and sacrifice and love wherever you may seek it out, down the block, in the heart or in the Twilight Zone. The episode was filmed on location at the Pacific Ocean Park in Santa Monica and it is often incorrectly cited as the first American television drama to mention the growing Vietnam War, or the first to show a Vietnam veteran. However, starting in March 1963, actor Glenn Corbett had become a regular on the series Route 66, the Vietnam War and its effects on Linc were crucial plot points in several Route 66 episodes, including his debut, which was broadcast six months before this episode
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Jack Klugman
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Jacob Joachim Jack Klugman was an American stage, film, and television actor. Klugman began his career in 1950 and he later moved on to television and film work with roles in 12 Angry Men and Cry Terror. During the 1960s, he guest-starred on numerous television series, Klugman won his first Primetime Emmy Award for his guest-starring role on The Defenders, in 1964. He also made a total of four appearances on The Twilight Zone from 1960-63, in 1970, Klugman reprised his Broadway role of Oscar Madison in the television adaptation of The Odd Couple, opposite Tony Randall. The series aired from 1970 to 1975, Klugman won his second and third Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for his work on the series. From 1976-83, he starred in the role in Quincy. In 1985, he appeared in an episode of The Love Boat entitled Scandinavian Cruise parts one, Klugman was born in Philadelphia, the son of Rose, a hat maker, and Max Klugman, a house painter. His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants, Klugman served in the United States Army during World War II. He attended Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, while there, his drama teacher told him, Young man, you are not suited to be an actor. You are suited to be a truck driver, after the war, he pursued acting roles while living in New York City with fellow actor Charles Bronson. During the 1950s and 1960s, Klugman was active in stage, television. In 1950, he had a role in the Mr. Roberts road company at the Colonial Theatre in Boston. Later that same year, he made his debut in an episode of Actors Studio. In March 1952, Klugman made his Broadway debut in Golden Boy, in 1954, he played Jim Hanson on the soap opera, The Greatest Gift. The following year, he appeared in the television broadcast of Producers Showcase, in the episode The Petrified Forest with Humphrey Bogart. Klugman later said the experience was the greatest thrill of his career, Klugman went on to star in several classic films, including 12 Angry Men as juror number five. Of the 12 actors to play a juror in the film, in 1959, he returned to Broadway in the original production of Gypsy, A Musical Fable. In 1960, he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his role in the show and he remained with Gypsy until it closed in March 1961
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Long Distance Call
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Long Distance Call is episode 58 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on March 31,1961 on CBS, the narration begins a few minutes into the episode, On his 5th birthday, a boy named Billy makes a secret wish that only his grandmother knows after blowing out the candles. His grandmother is frail, but loves Billy more than anything in the world, hes given her new life, although she is honest about her prospects at living much longer, Billys parents try to convince him otherwise. Grandmas gift to Billy is a toy telephone, that play with immediately. Shortly thereafter, Grandma feels ill and needs to retire to her room and that evening, on her deathbed, Grandma becomes delirious and believes that Billy is her son, not her actual son, Chris. She tells Billy that she wishes he could go with her to a wonderful place, sometime later, Billys parents are concerned at how depressed Billy is, and Billys mother is still upset by Grandmas statement about Billy being her son. His mother hears Billy talking on his toy telephone and is alarmed when Billy claims that he is talking to Grandma and his parents become concerned when Billy spends all his time having pretend phone conversations with his deceased grandmother. He says that she tells him she is lonely and misses him, while his parents are at Grandmas funeral, Billy runs out in front of a car while Billy is being watched by a babysitter. The distressed driver, who manages to swerve out of the way. When asked, Billy denies anyone telling him to do so, Chris tries to explain that Grandma has died, and asks that he not use the telephone in front of his mother. That evening, his mother is awoken by Billy talking and laughing, grabs the phone out of his hands and accidentally drops and she is convinced that the telephone is a direct link to the dead grandmother. His father still thinks Billy is pretending, upset at the loss of his only remaining connection to his grandmother, Billy attempts to drown himself in their garden pool. An ambulance attendant informs the parents that Billys chances are not very good, desperate to save his child, Chris goes into Billys room, picks up the toy phone, and begs his mother to give Billy back and allow him to experience life. He pleads that if she loves him, she will let him live. The attendants then successfully revive Billy as his parents embrace relieved, the total number of new episodes was projected at twenty-nine, more than half of which had already been filmed by November 1960. The studios of the networks Television City, normally used for the production of variety shows and live drama, there would be fewer camera movements and no exteriors, making the episodes more akin to soap operas, with the videotaped image effectively narrowing and flattening perspective. Even with these artistic sacrifices, the total savings amounted to only $30,000. The experiment was deemed a failure and never attempted again
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John Larch
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John Larch, also known as Harry Larch, was an American radio, film, and television actor. Larch was born in Salem, Massachusetts, after his lead role in the radio serial Captain Starr of Space, he entered films in 1954. An old friend of Clint Eastwood, Larch appeared in Eastwood films, including Dirty Harry, jones, The Rifleman, The Feather and Father Gang, and possibly most famously as Anthony Fremonts father in The Twilight Zone 1961 episode Its a Good Life. He also appeared in Vegas$ Season 3, in the episode Deadly Blessing as well as two other The Twilight Zone episodes, playing a psychiatrist in Perchance to Dream and the sheriff in Dust. With his wife, Vivi Janiss, who was married to Bob Cummings, Larch appeared on October 3,1961. The two played a couple, John and Mary Clark, on November 9,1960, Larch and Janiss appeared as Ben and Sarah Harness in the episode The Cathy Eckhart Story of NBCs Wagon Train, with Susan Oliver in the starring role. The Wrecking Crew - MacDonald The Great Bank Robbery - Sheriff of Friendly Hail, - Mr. Conklin Move - Mounted Patrolman Cannon for Cordoba - Warner Play Misty for Me - Sgt. McCallum Dirty Harry - Chief Women in Chains - Barney Santee - Banner Winter Kill - Dr. Bill Hammond Bad Ronald - Sgt. Lynch Framed - Bundy The Amityville Horror - Father Nuncio Airplane II, The Sequel - Prosecuting Attorney John Larch at the Internet Movie Database John Larch at Find a Grave
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Marta Kristen
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Marta Kristen is a Norwegian-born American actress. Kristen is best known for her role as Judy Robinson, the daughter of Professor John and Maureen Robinson, Marta played the part of the space familys eldest child, a mature 20-something woman near the age group of the space pilot, played by Mark Goddard. Her mature role allowed adult form-fitting fashions and hairstyles, as shown in publicity photos of the TV series, Kristen was born Birgit Annalisa Rusanen in Oslo, Norway, to a Finnish mother and a German soldier father who was killed during World War II. She spent her first years in an orphanage in Norway, and then was adopted in 1949 by an American couple from Detroit, Michigan, Prof. and Mrs. Harold Soderquist, and was renamed Marta. She moved to Los Angeles, California, with her family in 1959 and is a graduate of Santa Monica High School and she appeared in a 1961 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, alongside Billy Mumy, who would later co-star with Kristen in Lost in Space. Her first success in acting was the role of Lorelei in the 1965 movie Beach Blanket Bingo and she would later star in Lost in Space and make numerous guest appearances on television shows. When her daughter was born in 1969 she began making television commercials and she also made the occasional film appearance in movies such as Terminal Island and the cult science fiction film Battle Beyond the Stars. In recent years she has starred in the 1998 television movie Lost in Space Forever and had a role in the 1998 movie Lost in Space. She also appeared in the A&E Biography Jonathan Harris, Never Fear Smith Is Here in 2002, kristens personal life has revolved around discovering her roots, caring for her daughter, and now caring for her granddaughter. On a trip to Finland in 1969, she located her mother, Helmi Rusanen, and an older sister whom she had never met. She met her husband, Kevin Kane, in 1974. She and her husband lived in Santa Monica, California, with a pair of rescue dogs, Kevin Kane died in May,2016 due to cancer. Lost in Space cast, Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Jonathan Harris, Angela Cartwright, Bill Mumy, Marta Kristen at the Internet Movie Database Official website <-
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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate
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Going My Way (TV series)
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Going My Way is an American comedy-drama series starring dancer and actor Gene Kelly. Based on the 1944 film of the same name starring Bing Crosby, the program was Kellys first and only attempt at a weekly television series. The series was canceled after one season of thirty episodes, Kelly stars as Father Chuck OMalley, a Roman Catholic priest who is sent to St. Dominics Parish located in a lower-class section of New York City. Leo G. Carroll co-starred as the pastor, Father Fitzgibbons. Dick York, later of Bewitched, portrayed Chucks boyhood friend, Tom Colwell, nydia Westman played Mrs. Featherstone, the housekeeper of the rectory. Episodes focus on Father OMalleys attempts to connect with the congregation, the failure of the series to enter a second season is usually attributed to its competition, particularly The Beverly Hillbillies. Going My Way was also scheduled opposite the final season of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis on CBS, aired at 8,30 p. m. Eastern time on Wednesdays, Going My Way followed the western series Wagon Train on the ABC schedule. The program itself was followed on ABC by the sitcom, Our Man Higgins, starring Stanley Holloway, Frank Maxwell, on December 6,2011, Timeless Media Group released Going My Way, The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time. Going My Way at the Internet Movie Database Going My Way at TV. com
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Gene Kelly
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Eugene Curran Gene Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director, producer and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his looks. Best known today for his performances in such as An American in Paris, Anchors Aweigh. He starred in musical films throughout the 1940s, including For Me and My Gal, Du Barry Was a Lady, Thousands Cheer, The Three Musketeers. In his later career, he starred in two films outside the genre, Inherit the Wind and What a Way to Go. Throughout his career, he directed films, most notably the 1969 film Hello. His many innovations transformed the Hollywood musical and he is credited with almost single-handedly making the ballet form commercially acceptable to film audiences, Kelly received an Academy Honorary Award in 1952 for his career achievements. He later received lifetime achievement awards in the Kennedy Center Honors, in 1999, the American Film Institute also numbered him 15th in their Greatest Male Stars of Classic Hollywood cinema list. Kelly was born in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh and he was the third son of James Patrick Joseph Kelly, a phonograph salesman, and his wife Harriet Catherine Curran. His father was born in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, to an Irish-Canadian family and his maternal grandfather was an immigrant from Derry, Ireland, and his maternal grandmother was of German ancestry. When he was eight, Kellys mother enrolled him and his brother James in dance classes and they both rebelled, as recalled by Kelly, We didnt like it much and were continually involved in fistfights with the neighborhood boys who called us sissies. I didnt dance again until I was fifteen, at one time his childhood dream was to play shortstop for the hometown Pittsburgh Pirates. By the time he decided to dance, he was an accomplished sportsman and he attended St. Raphael Elementary School in the Morningside neighborhood of Pittsburgh and graduated from Peabody High School at age sixteen. He entered Pennsylvania State College as a major, but the 1929 crash forced him to work to help his family. He created dance routines with his younger brother Fred to earn money in local talent contests. They also performed in local nightclubs, in 1931, Kelly enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh to study economics, joining the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity. He became involved in the universitys Cap and Gown Club, which staged original musical productions, after graduating in 1933, he continued to be active with the Cap and Gown Club, serving as the director from 1934 to 1938. Kelly was admitted to the University of Pittsburgh Law School and his family opened a dance studio in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh
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Cloris Leachman
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Cloris Leachman is an American actress of stage, film, and television. In a career spanning seven decades she has won eight Primetime Emmy Awards, one Daytime Emmy Award. As Miss Chicago, Leachman competed in the 20th Miss America pageant, in the 2000s, Leachman had a recurring role as grandma Ida on the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, and appeared as a roaster in the Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget in 2008. She was a contestant on the season of the ABC reality competition series Dancing with the Stars in 2008. She was 82 at the time and is the oldest contestant to have danced on the series, from 2010-14, she starred as Maw Maw on the Fox sitcom Raising Hope. Leachman was born in Des Moines, Iowa, the eldest of three sisters and she attended Theodore Roosevelt High School. Her parents were Berkeley Claiborne Buck Leachman, who worked at the family-owned Leachman Lumber Company, the youngest sister, Mary, was not in show business. Middle sister Claiborne Cary was an actress and singer and her maternal grandmother was of Bohemian descent. As a teenager, Leachman appeared in plays by local youth on weekends at Drake University in Des Moines and she began appearing on television and in films shortly after competing in Miss America in 1946. After winning a scholarship in the Miss America pageant, Leachman studied acting under Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio in New York City and she was cast as a replacement for the role of Nellie Forbush during the original run of Rodgers and Hammersteins South Pacific. Leachman appeared in live television broadcasts in the 1950s, including such programs as Suspense. She made her film debut as an extra in Carnegie Hall. Leachman was several months pregnant during the filming, and appears in one scene running down a darkened highway wearing only a trench coat, a year later, she appeared opposite Paul Newman and Lee Marvin in The Rack. She appeared with Newman again in a role as a prostitute in Butch Cassidy. She continued to work mainly in television, with appearances in Rawhide, during this period, Leachman appeared opposite John Forsythe on the popular anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents in an episode titled Premonition. She later appeared as Ruth Martin, Timmy Martins adoptive mother, jon Provost, who played Timmy, said, Cloris did not feel particularly challenged by the role. Basically, when she realized that all shed be doing was baking cookies and she was replaced by June Lockhart in 1958. That same year, she appeared in an episode of One Step Beyond titled The Dark Room, in 1960, she played Marilyn Parker, the roommate of Janice Rules character, Elena Nardos, in the Checkmate episode The Mask of Vengeance
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Steve Brodie (actor)
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Steve Brodie was an American stage, film, and television actor from El Dorado in Butler County in south central Kansas. Born John Stevenson, he took his name from Steve Brodie. Brodie appeared in more than two hundred films, mostly from the mid-1940s to the early 1950s and he worked at various studios, including MGM, RKO and Republic Pictures, appearing mostly in westerns and B-movies. He played supporting roles in the majority of his films, including the 1947 film noir classic Out of the Past, an exception was 1947s Desperate, where he had a starring role. Later appearances included roles in two Elvis Presley films, 1961s Blue Hawaii and 1964s Roustabout, beginning in the mid-1950s, he appeared mostly on television, with guest- starring roles in such series as Stories of the Century, Crossroads, Sugarfoot, Colt. Brodie made three guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of murderer and title character Ben Wallace in the 1959 episode, The Case of the Garrulous Gambler. Brodie appeared on stage in the 1950s as Maryk in a national production of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, co-starring with Paul Douglas as Queeg. Brodie was married to actress Lois Andrews from 1946 until her death in 1968 and their son Kevin Brodie was a child actor who later became a film writer and director. The senior Brodie died of cancer in West Hills, California, at the time of his death, The Los Angeles Times erroneously stated in his obituary that Brodie had been nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for 1949s Home of the Brave. In truth, Brodie was actually not among the five nominees in that category that year, Steve Brodie at the Internet Movie Database Steve Brodie at AllMovie Steve Brodie, Obituary, at Los Angeles Times
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Frank McHugh
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Francis Curray McHugh, known as Frank McHugh, was an American film and television actor. Born in Homestead, Pennsylvania, McHugh came from a theatrical family and his parents ran a stock theatre company and as a young child he performed on stage. His brother Matt and sister Kitty performed an act with him by the time he was ten years old, another brother, Ed, became a stage manager and agent in New York. McHugh debuted on Broadway in The Fall Guy, written by George Abbott, first National Pictures hired him as a contract player in January 1930. McHugh played everything from lead actor to sidekick and would often provide comedy relief and he appeared in more than 150 films and television productions and worked with almost every star at Warner Bros. He was a friend of James Cagney and appeared in more Cagney movies than any other actor. He appeared with Cagney in eleven films between 1932 and 1953 and their friendship lasted until McHughs death. From 1954-1956, he starred in the radio program Hotel For Pets, by the 1950s, his film career had begun to decline, as evinced by his smaller role in the 1959 film, Career. From 1964 to 1965, McHugh played the role of Willie Walters, a handyman in the 27-episode ABC sitcom, The Bing Crosby Show. The show also co-starred Beverly Garland, McHughs last feature film role was as a comical sea captain in the 1967 Elvis Presley caper film Easy Come, Easy Go. McHughs last television appearance was as Charlie Wingate in The Fix-It Man, an episode of CBSs Lancer western series, McHugh played a handyman in that episode as he had in the Crosby series. McHugh was married to Dorothy Spencer and he had three children and two grandchildren. His brother Matt McHugh and sister Kitty McHugh were also actors who appeared in many films
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Jack Palance
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Jack Palance was an American actor and singer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards, all for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, winning in 1992 for his role in City Slickers, Palance was born in Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, the son of Anna and Ivan Palahniuk, an anthracite coal miner. His parents were Ukrainian immigrants, his father a native of Ivane Zolote in southwestern Ukraine and his mother from the Lviv Oblast, one of six children, he worked in coal mines during his youth before becoming a professional boxer in the late 1930s. Years later he recounted, Then, I thought, you must be nuts to get your head beat in for $200, with the outbreak of World War II, Palances athletic career ended, and his military career began as a member of the United States Army Air Forces. Palances face, which took many beatings in the ring, was said to have become disfigured while bailing out of a burning B-24 Liberator bomber during a training flight over Southern Arizona. His distinctive cheekbones and deep-set eyes were said to have been the result of reconstructive surgery, one flack created the legend that I had been blown up in an air crash during the war, and my face had to be put back together by way of plastic surgery. If it is a face, why didnt they do a better job of it. Palance was honorably discharged from the Army Air Corps in 1944 and his last name was actually a derivative of his original name. In an episode of Whats My Line and he described how no one could pronounce his last name and it was suggested he be called Palanski. From that he decided to just use Palance instead, Palances acting break came as Marlon Brandos understudy in A Streetcar Named Desire, and he eventually replaced Brando on stage as Stanley Kowalski. In 1947, Palance made his Broadway debut and he debuted on television in 1949, and this was followed a year later by his screen debut in the movie Panic in the Streets. The same year he was featured in Halls of Montezuma about the United States Marines in World War II, Palance was quickly recognized for his skill as a character actor, receiving an Oscar nomination for his third film role as Lester Blaine in Sudden Fear. The following year, Palance was nominated for an Oscar for his role as the hired gunfighter Jack Wilson in Shane, several Western roles followed, but he also played varied roles such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula and Attila the Hun. I knew that Jack Palance would do the perfect Dracula, in 1957, Palance won an Emmy Award for best actor for his portrayal of Mountain McClintock in the Playhouse 90 production of Rod Serlings Requiem for a Heavyweight. Jean-Luc Godard persuaded Palance to take on the role of Hollywood producer Jeremy Prokosch in the nouvelle vague movie Le Mépris, although the main dialogue was in French, Palance spoke mostly English. Palance provided narration for the 1967 documentary, And Still Champion, later, in 1966, he appeared in the television movie Alice Through the Looking Glass, directed by Alan Handley, in which he played the Jabberwock. He had a role opposite Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster in the Western adventure The Professionals. In 1969, Palance recorded a music album in Nashville
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Circus
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The term circus also describes the performance which has followed various formats through its 250-year modern history. Philip Astley is credited with being the father of the circus when he opened the first circus in 1768 in England. Early circuses were almost exclusively demonstrations of equestrian skills with a few types of acts to link the horsemanship performances. Performances developed significantly through the next fifty years, with large scale theatrical battle reenactments becoming a significant feature, as styles of performance have changed since the time of Astley, so too have the types of venues where these circuses have performed. The earliest modern circuses were performed in open air structures with limited covered seating, from the late 18th to late 19th century custom-made circus buildings were built with various types of seating, a centre ring, and sometimes a stage. The traditional large tents, commonly known as Big Tops were introduced in the mid 19th century as touring circuses superseded static venues and these tents eventually became the most common venue and remain so to the present day. Contemporary circuses perform in a variety of venues including tents, theatres, many circus performances are still held in a ring usually 13 m in diameter. This dimension was adopted by Philip Astley in the late 18th century as the minimum diameter that enabled a horse rider to stand upright on a cantering horse to perform their tricks. In the book De Spectaculis early Christian writer Tertullian claimed that the first circus games were staged by the goddess Circe in honour of her father Helios, the modern and commonly held idea of a circus is of a Big Top with various acts providing entertainment therein. For many, circus history begins with Englishman Philip Astley, while for others its origins go back much further—to Roman times. In Ancient Rome, the circus was a building for the exhibition of horse and chariot races, equestrian shows, staged battles, gladiatorial combat, the Roman circus buildings were, however, not circular but rectangular with semi circular ends. The lower seats were reserved for persons of rank, There were also various state boxes for the giver of the games, the circus was the only public spectacle at which men and women were not separated. It was constructed during the monarchy and, at first, built completely from wood, after being rebuilt several times, the final version of the Circus Maximus could seat 250,000 people, it was built of stone and measured 400m in length and 90m in width. Next in importance were the Circus Flaminius and the Circus Neronis, a fourth circus was constructed by Maxentius, its ruins have helped archaeologists reconstruct the Roman circus. For some time after the fall of Rome, large buildings fell out of use as centres of mass entertainment. Instead, itinerant performers, animal trainers and showmen travelled between towns throughout Europe, performing at local fairs, Astley performed stunts in a 42 ft diameter ring, which is the standard size used by circuses ever since. Astley referred to the arena as a Circle and the building as an amphitheatre. Joseph Grimaldi, the first mainstream clown, had his first major role as Little Clown in the pantomime The Triumph of Mirth, or, the Royal Circus opened in London on 4 November 1782 by Charles Dibdin and his partner Charles Hughes
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The Greatest Show on Earth (TV series)
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The Greatest Show on Earth is an American drama series starring Jack Palance about the American circus, which aired on ABC from September 17,1963, to April 28,1964. NBC aired The Richard Boone Show at the same 9 p. m. Tuesday slot, the series was canceled after one season. The Greatest Show on Earth at the Internet Movie Database The Greatest Show on Earth at TV. com The Greatest Show on Earth at epguides. com
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Perry Mason (TV series)
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Perry Mason is an American legal drama series originally broadcast on CBS television from September 21,1957, to May 22,1966. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer who appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. Many episodes are based on stories written by Gardner, Hollywoods first weekly one-hour series filmed for television, Perry Mason is one of TVs longest-running and most successful legal series. During its first season, it received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination as Best Dramatic Series, Raymond Burr received two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor, and Barbara Hale received an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Masons secretary Della Street. Perry Mason and Burr were honored as Favorite Series and Favorite Male Performer in the first two TV Guide Award readers polls, in 1960, the series received the first Silver Gavel Award presented for television drama by the American Bar Association. Perry Mason has aired in syndication in the United States and internationally ever since its cancellation, a 2014 study found that Netflix users rate Raymond Burr as their favorite actor, with Barbara Hale number seven on the list. The New Perry Mason, a 1973 revival of the series with a different cast, was poorly received and ran a mere 15 episodes. In 1985, the first in a series of 30 Perry Mason television films aired on NBC. Perry Mason is a criminal defense lawyer practicing in Los Angeles. He represents clients, most of whom have been charged with murder, each episode typically follows a formula. The first half of the show introduces a prospective murder victim, the body is found, often through circumstance by Mason and private investigator Paul Drake, or with his secretary Della Street. Clues point to Masons client, who is charged with murder, in the second-half courtroom setting, Mason spars most often with his legal adversary Hamilton Burger, Los Angeles district attorney, and police homicide detective Lt. Arthur Tragg. Mason establishes his clients innocence by dramatically demonstrating the guilt of another character, the murderer often breaks down and confesses to the crime in the courtroom. In the closing scene, the characters together to discuss how the case was solved. In many episodes, the identity of the guilty party is uncovered without a trial being held. During this stage, other malefactors — such as blackmailers, frauds, and forgers — are frequently forced into confessions by Masons relentless and clever questioning, and the killer is exposed. Lieutenant Andy Anderson – another police homicide detective and lead police official on the series, lieutenant Steve Drumm – another police homicide detective and lead police official on the series, who appeared in the final season. Dr. Hoxie – autopsy surgeon Sgt and his literary agent was advertising executive Thomas Cornwell Jackson, who had, in 1947, married actress Gail Patrick
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Empire (1962 TV series)
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Empire is an hour-long Western television series set on a 1960s 500, 000-acre ranch in New Mexico, starring Richard Egan, Terry Moore, and Ryan ONeal. It ran on NBC from September 25,1962, to May 14,1963, Egan starred in the series at the age of forty-one, having previously been in the hit film A Summer Place, with the catchy theme song. Redigo was a ranch manager, having a Master of Business Administration degree. The ranch was located somewhere in the American Southwest, but the location was never pinpointed. The Garretts did have an empire, besides ranching they were involved in oil, agriculture, and mining. The series has unusually- titled episodes, Empire also featured 22-year-old Ryan ONeal, some two years before he gained greater recognition as Rodney Harrington in ABCs Peyton Place. ONeal, who began acting in 1959, played the son, Terry Moore portrayed ONeals 33-year-old sister, Connie, who had a romantic interest in Redigo. Their mother and ranch matriarch, Lucia, was played by 53-year-old Anne Seymour, another cast member, Warren Vanders, appeared in fifteen episodes as Chuck Davis. Anne Seymour and Terry Moore were dropped at mid-season, it was said that Seymours character, Lucia, had died and Moores character, Connie, had left the ranch in her grief. Charles Bronson, then forty-one, entered at mid-season in an all-male cast to portray the tough ranch hand, Paul Moreno, in the second 15-episode season, ONeal and Bronson were gone, too. Roger Davis, later of ABCs Alias Smith and Jones, was added to the cast as Redigos new ranch hand, elena Verdugo, later of Robert Youngs Marcus Welby, M. D. starred as Gerry. The pilot episode of Empire entitled This Rugged Land, with Denver Pyle and Charles Bronson, in the pilot, a ranch foreman persecutes a man whom he believes killed his daughter. Robert Vaughn guest starred as Captain Paul Terman, a friend of Redigos in need of life-saving spinal surgery. Inger Stevens also appeared as a paraplegic, Ellen Thompson, in another episode, jeremy Slate portrayed Mike Novak, a ranch hand whose competition with Tal Garrett ends in a deadly boxing match, in the 1963 episode The Loner. Harry Dean Stanton was cast as Nick Crider in the 1963 episode Nobody Dies on Saturday, john M. Pickard, formerly of Boots and Saddles and Gunslinger, was cast as a sheriff in the 1962 episode, A Place to Put a Life. Dayton Lummis appeared as Jason Simms, with Joanna Moore as Althea Dodd, Joanna Moore thereafter married Ryan ONeal and became the mother of actress Tatum ONeal. Lummis was cast again on the series as Thomas Fenton Giler in the 1963 episode Down There, in addition to the aforementioned, many other guest stars appeared on Empire, including, Empire was created by Kathleen Hite, a writer for CBSs Gunsmoke. William Sackheim and Hal Hudson, formerly with CBSs Dick Powells Zane Grey Theatre, produced the series, the program was filmed at the Eaves Movie Ranch near Santa Fe and near Storrie Lake in Las Vegas, New Mexico
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Richard Egan (actor)
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Richard Egan was an American actor. In some films he is credited as Richard Eagan, born and raised in San Francisco, California, Egan graduated from St. Ignatius College Preparatory. He served in the United States Army as an instructor during World War II. A graduate of the University of San Francisco and Stanford University, he studied and taught at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, having studied theatre, he took a bit role in the 1949 Hollywood film The Story of Molly X. This start would lead to his signing of a contract with 20th Century Fox where his talent, rugged physique, and good looks made him a favorite and respected leading man. In 1956, he starred as Elvis Presleys older brother in Presleys first film, Love Me Tender and he co-starred with Jane Russell in two of her last films, Underwater. and The Revolt of Mamie Stover. In 1960, Egan appeared with Jane Wyman and Hayley Mills in Disneys Pollyanna and he also starred as Ahasuerus in Esther and the King. Egan was Rod Serlings first choice to narrate The Twilight Zone, however, contractual issues got in the way, and Serling narrated instead, rather than select any other actor than his first choice. During the decade of the 1960s, Egan worked extensively in television, starring in the NBC western dramatic series, Empire, in the shortened second season, the program was renamed Redigo after Egans character, ranch manager Jim Redigo. After his series ended, he made guest appearances on television shows. In 1982 he joined the cast for the new daytime television political drama Capitol, Egan met his wife, the former Patricia Hardy, in 1956. The couple married in June 1958 and remained together for almost thirty years until his death and they had five children, including son Rich Egan, the founder of Vagrant Records, daughter Maureen Egan, a writer and director, as well as Patricia, Kathleen, and Colleen. Egan was respected within the community for having helped a number of young actors get their first break in the film industry. One of these actors was Ryan ONeal. He worked out at the gym as Egan, who got him credited work in four episodes of Empire. Richard Egan died in Los Angeles, California, on July 20,1987, of prostate cancer and he is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California
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The Fugitive (TV series)
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The Fugitive is an American drama series created by Roy Huggins. It was produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television and it aired on ABC from 1963 to 1967. David Janssen starred as Richard Kimble, a physician who is convicted of his wifes murder. En route to death row, Kimbles train derails over a switch, allowing him to escape and begin a search for the real killer. At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, the Fugitive aired for four seasons, and a total of 120 51-minute episodes were produced. The first three seasons were filmed in black and white, the season was in color. The Fugitive was nominated for five Emmy Awards and won the Emmy for Outstanding Dramatic Series in 1966, in 2002, it was ranked No.36 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. TV Guide named the one-armed man No.5 in their 2013 list of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time, in the series first season, the premise was summarized in the opening title sequence of the pilot episode as follows, Name, Richard Kimble. Richard Kimble has been tried and convicted for the murder of his wife, but laws are made by men, carried out by men, and men are imperfect. Proved guilty, what Richard Kimble could not prove was that moments before discovering his wifes body, a man who has not yet been found. Richard Kimble ponders his fate as he looks at the world for the last time, but in that darkness, fate moves its huge hand. This title sequence was shortened for the remainder of the first season as follows, The name, the destination, Death Row, state prison. The irony, Richard Kimble is innocent, proved guilty, what Richard Kimble could not prove was that moments before discovering his murdered wifes body, he saw a one-armed man running from the vicinity of his home. Richard Kimble ponders his fate as he looks at the world for the last time, but in that darkness, fate moves its huge hand. Falsely convicted for the murder of his wife. reprieved by fate when a train wreck freed him en route to the death house, freed him to hide in lonely desperation. Freed him to search for a man he saw leave the scene of the crime. Freed him to run before the pursuit of the police lieutenant obsessed with his capture. It was not until episode 14, The Girl from Little Egypt, a series of flashbacks reveals the fateful night of Helen Kimbles death, and for the first time offers a glimpse of the One-Armed Man
