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ALF (TV series)
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ALF is an American science fiction sitcom that aired on NBC from September 22,1986 to March 24,1990. It was the first television series to be presented in Dolby Surround, the title character is Gordon Shumway, a friendly extraterrestrial nicknamed ALF, who crash lands in the garage of the suburban middle-class Tanner family. The series stars Max Wright as father Willie Tanner, Anne Schedeen as mother Kate Tanner, ALF was performed by puppeteer/creator Paul Fusco. Produced by Alien Productions, ALF originally ran for four seasons and produced 99 episodes, the revival series will premiere on Freeform in September 2017. ALF is an alien from the planet Melmac who follows a radio signal to Earth. The Tanners are a suburban family in the San Fernando Valley area of California. The family consists of social worker Willie, his wife Kate, their teenage daughter Lynn, younger son Brian, and their cat Lucky. Unsure what to do, the Tanners take ALF into their home and hide him from the Alien Task Force and their nosy neighbors Trevor and Raquel Ochmonek and he generally hides in the kitchen. It is eventually revealed that ALFs home planet Melmac exploded because of a catastrophe involving a nuclear war, ALF was off the planet when it was destroyed because he was part of the Melmac Orbit Guard. ALF is homeless, but he is not the last survivor of his species and he becomes a permanent member of the family, although his culture shock, survivor guilt, general boredom, despair, and loneliness frequently cause difficulty for the Tanners. ALF then shows Willie exactly where Dave is on a map of the universe. Gordon Shumway is a Melmacian nicknamed ALF by Willie Tanner in the pilot episode, ALF was born on October 28,1756 on the Lower East Side of the planet Melmac. Melmac was located six parsecs past the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster, and had a sky, blue grass. The commonly-used currency is a Wernick, which is equal to 10 American dollars, ALFs body is covered with fur and he has a rippled snout, facial moles and eight stomachs. His heart is located in his right ear. He likes to burp and eat cats, and can whistle without opening his mouth and he had a best friend on his home planet named Malhar Naik. He has friends named Skip, Rick, Stella, and a girlfriend named Rhonda and he attended high school for 122 years and was captain of a Bouillabaisseball team, a game played on ice using seafood as a ball. However, if things have gone too far, he does as much as possible to make up for his mistakes, in the episode Its Not Easy Bein
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ALF: The Animated Series
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ALF Tales was a spin-off from the series that also ran on NBC on Saturdays from September 1988 to December 1989. This show is a prequel to the live action sitcom ALF, depicting ALFs life back on his planet of Melmac. Since the name ALF was a short for Alien Life Form and only given to Gordon Shumway later on Earth. ALF would always be referred to as Gordon, his name, or Gordo by his friends Rick. Much of the humor arises from the taking part in surrealistic activities while treating them as ordinary. For example, in order to prove their manhood and win their distinguished antlers, gordon/ALF from this series is one of the cartoon characters featured in Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. Augie Shumway – Gordons little sister, voiced by Tabitha St.3 Two for the Brig – Gordon and Sergeant Staff end up going to prison after mistaking their ship for a vacation cruise liner. 4 Gordon Ships Out – Gordon, Rick, and Skip decide to pool their savings for a sailing yacht, but end up marooned on an island thanks to a Pit Termite that Skip names Woody. 6 Pismo and the Orbit Gyro – The Orbit Gyro needs its regular maintenance, but it results in its main operator, a robot named Pismo, having a few screws loose. 720,000 Years in Driving School – After getting Gooped on the highway, Gordon Shumway has his drivers license revoked,8 Pride of the Shumways – Gordon plays Bouillabaseball for the Orbit Guard, and a scout offers him a chance for the big leagues. Curtis Shumway, a little league player, realizes there is a shadowy purpose for his big brothers promotion to the majors. 9 Captain Bobaroo – A bump on the head has Bob Shumway thinking he is a Captain Kangaroo-esque TV show host,10 Neep at the Races –Gordon enters his dog Neep in a race at Appliance, but Snake, the bikie, wants his cut. Neep wins the race, but they have to use the prizemoney to pay for the bikies motorbikes which were trashed in the process,11 Salad Wars –Gordons family goes to Salad Dressing Town in their mobile home, where the boss wants a salad seed monopoly. The title is a parody of the movie by George Lucas,12 Tough Shrimp Dont Dance – Gordon Shumway must rescue an alien shrimp race called the Muklukians from Larson Petty – with some unlikely help from one of their own. 13 Home Away from Home – When his parents go to Polyester city for holidays,14 Flodust Memories – After being taken for granted at home, Flo Shumway is entered for Mom of the Millennium contest by Gordon and his siblings as atonement. Flo wins, but is her popularity becoming more important than her family,15 Family Feud – After losing to the Shumways on a noted game show, the Fustermans declare war on their former friends, and Gordon and Rick end up caught in the crossfire. Gordon and his sister Augie must then journey to find the real Goomer,18 The Bone Losers – All of Melmac, including Rhonda, is smitten with palaeontologist Prof. Egovurger and his Thesaurus. Gordon discovers dinosaur bones in his yard, and constructs a Tunadacyl, Egovurger cant stand the competition and plans to steal the bones
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The Jim Henson Company
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The Jim Henson Company is an American entertainment company, a leading producer of childrens and family entertainment, and best known as the creators of the renowned Muppets characters. Founded in 1958 by puppeteer Jim Henson and performing partner and wife Jane Henson, the company has also produced many films, including The Muppet Movie, The Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth. Henson also operates Jim Hensons Creature Shop, a puppet, animatronics, and visual effects workshop, in 1989, the company entered merger negotiations with The Walt Disney Company, but the deal fell through following Jim Hensons unexpected death in 1990. Following Hensons death and the calling off of the Disney merger, the company was taken over by Hensons children, Lisa, Cheryl, Brian, John, and Heather, with Brian at the helm. In 2000 Henson was sold to EM. TV & Merchandising AG, a German media company, but by the end of year, EM. TVs stock collapsed. In 2004, Henson sold the rights to the Muppets and Bear in the Big Blue House to The Walt Disney Company, but retains the rights to the rest of its characters, program library, and assets. As of 2014, Brian, Lisa, Cheryl, and Heather Henson run the company, Brian Henson serves as chairman, while Lisa Henson serves as CEO. Since 2000, The Jim Henson Company has been headquartered at the Jim Henson Company Lot, Jim and Jane Henson officially founded Muppets, Inc. on November 20,1958, three years after Sam and Friends debuted on WRC-TV in Washington, D. C. In 1968, the company started creating characters and more than 20 short films for the childrens show Sesame Street. During this time the shows host, Jimmy Dean, turned down the opportunity to own forty percent of the company because he didnt feel that he had earned it. For many years, Jim Henson had tried to sell several different shows to the major American networks, some ideas were made as unaired pilots, and some were never produced. Then, in 1976, British media-mogul Lew Grade approached Jim Henson to produce a show based in England. The success of The Muppet Show led to movies, specials, videos. The British company ITC originally owned The Muppet Show, among other Henson productions, during the 1980s Jim Henson produced new television series such as Fraggle Rock and The Jim Henson Hour. In August 1989, Jim Henson and Disney CEO Michael Eisner announced a deal in which Henson would merge his company with The Walt Disney Company, the deal, reportedly valued at $150 million, also included a fifteen-year contract for Hensons personal creative services. On May 16,1990, while negotiating with Disney. Under the changed circumstances, the two sides could not come to an accord, negotiations officially ended in December 1990, and Henson would remain an independent company. The Henson family took over management of the company, and Brian Henson was named president, chairman, in 1995, Henson signed a deal with Capital Cities/ABC to produce primetime television series, a deal which led to Muppets Tonight and Aliens in the Family
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Dinosaurs (TV series)
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Dinosaurs is an American family sitcom comedy television series that was originally broadcast on ABC from April 26,1991 to July 20,1994. The characters were designed by Henson team member Kirk Thatcher, news stories written at the time of the shows premiere highlighted Dinosaurs connection to Jim Henson, an American puppeteer who died the year before. Jim Henson dreamed up the basic concept about three years ago, said a New York Times article in April 1991. He wanted it to be a sitcom with a pretty standard structure, with the biggest differences being that its a family of dinosaurs and their society has this strange toxic life style, said Brian Henson. But until The Simpsons took off, said Alex Rockwell, a president of the Henson organization. The television division of the Walt Disney Company began working on the series in 1990 for CBS before the series landed on ABC, Dinosaurs is initially set in 60,000,003 BC in Pangaea. The show centers on the Sinclair family, Earl Sinclair, Fran Sinclair, their three children and Frans mother, Ethyl. Earls job is to push over trees for the Wesayso Corporation with his friend, the focus of the shows plot is the Sinclair family, Earl, Fran, Robbie, Charlene, Baby, and Ethyl. Character and family throughout the series often referred to petroleum companies and/or petroleum products. For example, Sinclair, Phillips, Hess, B. P, the following characters are not in the Unisaurs category below, Outside of the recurring characters, there are a group of dinosaur characters called Unisaurs. They are customizable dinosaur characters similar to the Whatnots from The Muppet Show, some of the Unisaurs are Full-Bodied while the others are hand-puppets. In the episode I Never Ate For My Father, in lieu of carnivorism, Robbie chooses to eat vegetables, and the other characters liken this to communism, and drug abuse. In the final season, The Greatest Story Ever Sold even references religion when the Sinclair family becomes eager to learn the meaning of their existence, the Elders dictate a new system of beliefs, and the entire cast abandons science to blindly following the newly popular Potato-ism. Another religious-themed episode was The Last Temptation of Ethyl, in which Ethyl willingly allows a televangelist to exploit her near-death experience to extort money from followers. She backs out after having a second experience, where instead of heaven, she experiences a place not so nice. Several jokes in the series were at the expense of television shows in general, Earl often wants to watch TV rather than do something more practical, and several jokes accuse television of dumbing down the population and making it lazy. Captain Action Figure shows up in childrens programming that Fran mistakes for a commercial, whenever Captain Action Figure mentions a product, the screen flashes Tell Mommy I WANT THAT. Before the appearance of Georgie, Dinosaurs used a puppet highly reminiscent of Barney the Dinosaur named Blarney in two episodes, during his appearances, members of the Sinclair family commented on his annoying characteristics and failure to teach anything to children
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The Brady Bunch
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The Brady Bunch is an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that aired from September 26,1969, to March 8,1974, on ABC. The series revolves around a large blended family with six children, considered one of the last of the old-style family sitcoms, the series aired for five seasons and, after its cancellation in 1974, went into syndication in September 1975. While the series was never a critical or ratings success during its run, it has since become a popular staple in syndication, especially among children. In 1995, the series was adapted into a satirical comedy film titled The Brady Bunch Movie. A second sequel, The Brady Bunch in the White House, in 1997, Getting Davy Jones was ranked number 37 on TV Guides 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time. He set to work on a script for a series tentatively titled Mine. Schwartz then developed the script to include three children for each parent, while Mike Brady is depicted as being a widower, Schwartz originally wanted the character of Carol Brady to have been a divorcée, but the network objected to this. A compromise was reached whereby Carols marital status was never directly revealed, Schwartz shopped the series to the big three television networks of the era. ABC, CBS, and NBC all liked the script, but each network wanted changes before they would commit to filming, nonetheless, the outstanding success of the United Artists film was a factor in ABCs decision to order episodes for the series. As the sets were built on Paramount Television stage 5, adjacent to the stage where H. R, filming of the pilot began on Friday, October 4,1968, and lasted eight days. Mike Brady, an architect with three sons, Greg, Peter, and Bobby, marries Carol Martin, who herself has three daughters, Marcia, Jan, and Cindy. The wife and daughters take the Brady surname, included in the blended family are Mikes live-in housekeeper, Alice Nelson, and the boys dog, Tiger. The setting is a large, suburban, two-story house designed by Mike, in the first season, awkward adjustments, accommodations, gender rivalries, and resentments inherent in blended families dominate the stories. In an early episode, Carol tells Bobby that the steps in their household lead to the second floor. Thereafter, the focus on typical preteen and teenaged adjustments such as sibling rivalry, puppy love, self image, character building. The regular cast appeared in a title sequence in which video head shots were arranged in a three-by-three grid. In a 2010 issue of TV Guide, the opening title sequence ranked number eight on a list of TVs top-10 credits sequences. Robert Reed as Mike Brady Florence Henderson as Carol Brady Ann B and he is the owner of a local butcher shop
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The Goodies
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The Goodies are a trio of British comedians, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie. They wrote for and performed in their eponymous surreal comedy show during the 1970s and early 1980s, combining sketches, the three actors met each other as undergraduates at Cambridge University, where Brooke-Taylor was studying law, Garden was studying medicine, and Oddie was studying English. Their contemporaries included Graham Chapman, John Cleese, and Eric Idle, who became members of Monty Python. Brooke-Taylor and Cleese studied together and swapped lecture notes as they were law students, but at different colleges within the university. All three Goodies became members of the Cambridge University Footlights Club, with Brooke-Taylor becoming president in 1963, and Garden succeeding him as president in 1964. Brooke-Taylor, Garden and Oddie were cast members of the 1960s BBC radio comedy show Im Sorry, Ill Read That Again, which also featured John Cleese, David Hatch and Jo Kendall, and lasted until 1973. Im Sorry, Ill Read That Again resulted from the 1963 Cambridge University Footlights Club revue A Clump of Plinths. After having its title changed to Cambridge Circus, the revue went on to play at West End in London, England, followed by a tour of New Zealand and Broadway in New York, US. They also took part in various TV shows with other people, Brooke-Taylor also took part in Marty. In 1968 Brooke-Taylor appeared with Cleese, Michael Palin and Graham Chapman in How to Irritate People, Garden and Oddie took part in Twice a Fortnight, before Brooke-Taylor, Garden, and Oddie worked on the late 1960s TV show Broaden Your Mind. The original BBC television series ran from November 1970 to February 1980 on BBC2, with 67 half-hour episodes, the series was created by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, and originally co-written by all three, with Oddie providing the music for the show. Later episodes were co-written by Garden and Oddie and it was one of the first shows in the UK to use chroma key and one of the first to use stop-motion techniques in a live action format. Other effects include hand editing for repeated movement, mainly used to make animals talk or sing, in the series, the threesome travelled around on, and frequently fell off, a three-seater bicycle called the trandem. Their opponents were three members of the cast of The Liver Birds, Nerys Hughes, Elizabeth Estensen and Michael Angelis. They also presented the Christmas 1976 edition of Disney Time from the toy department of Selfridges store in London, however, after one half-hour Christmas special in 1981, and a six-part series in early 1982, the series was cancelled. In later interviews the cast suggest the reasons were economic. A special episode, which was based on the original 1971 Goodies Kitten Kong episode, was called Kitten Kong, Montreux 72 Edition, the Goodies won the Silver Rose in 1972 for this special episode at the Festival Rose dOr, held in Montreux, Switzerland. In the first episode of the series, The New Office
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Cavemen (TV series)
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Cavemen is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from October 2 to November 13,2007. The show was created by Joe Lawson and set in San Diego, in the series, cavemen were never really fully supplanted by modern humans, but integrated into Homo sapiens civilization as a separate species sub-group. Cavemen are a small but widespread minority group that have been present in every global civilization since the dawn of recorded history, effectively, Cavemen form another ethnic minority in the modern world, which faces several prejudices from Homo sapiens. Although these cavemen self-identify as Cro-Magnon, their appearance and physical anatomy is reminiscent of the Neanderthal. Male Cavemen are very hairy, have long beards and wear their head-hair shoulder-length. A Cavewoman that appeared on the also had a prominent brow ridge. Some Cavemen attempt to pass as Homo sapiens by shaving their body hair - other Cavemen call them shavers, the central humor of the show is that Caveman characters are not brutish primitives, but fully integrated into white-collar jobs, the central Cavemen characters are effete modern city-dwellers. They must also endure racial epithets such as Magger, a pun based on Cro-Magnon, the series focuses on three Cavemen who are roommates that share a condo, Joel, his brother Andy, and their cynical and self-absorbed roommate Nick. According to producer Joe Lawson, the show was going to be set in Newport News, Virginia. The setting then changed to Atlanta, Georgia and finally San Diego, Joel – The responsible straight-man of the group, a successful assistant-manager at a fashionable Norwegian furniture store. In the pilot episode, Joel starts dating a Homo sapiens woman named Kate, Andy – Joels weak-willed and childish, though well-meaning, brother. Andy is very timid, but ironically he is prone to outbursts of rage when he is driving. Nick – Joel and Andys roommate, is metrosexual, cynical, self-absorbed, narcissistic, Nick has no real job, though he claims to be working on my dissertation, and tends to just mooch money off Joel. Nick doesnt actually spend much time writing his dissertation, and tends to just sit around watching TV, Kate – Joels Homo sapiens girlfriend whom he starts dating in the first episode. Joel is initially worried that she is embarrassed to tell her friends that she is dating a Caveman, nonetheless, Kate and Joel seem to have developed a stable relationship. Leslie – Kates eccentric mother is not on terms with her husband. Kates mother is also the landlord of the complex that Joel, Andy. A running gag is that in a parody of stereotypes of racism and she does not try intentionally to be racist and is embarrassed that she appears to think all Cavemen look the same, but nonetheless she does
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Atlanta, Georgia
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Atlanta is the capital of and the most populous city in the U. S. state of Georgia, with an estimated 2015 population of 463,878. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5,710,795 people, Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County. In 1837, Atlanta was founded at the intersection of two lines, and the city rose from the ashes of the American Civil War to become a national center of commerce. Atlantas economy is considered diverse, with dominant sectors that include logistics, professional and business services, media operations, Atlanta has topographic features that include rolling hills and dense tree coverage. Revitalization of Atlantas neighborhoods, initially spurred by the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, has intensified in the 21st century, altering the demographics, politics. Prior to the arrival of European settlers in north Georgia, Creek Indians inhabited the area, standing Peachtree, a Creek village located where Peachtree Creek flows into the Chattahoochee River, was the closest Indian settlement to what is now Atlanta. As part of the removal of Native Americans from northern Georgia from 1802 to 1825, the Creek ceded the area in 1821. In 1836, the Georgia General Assembly voted to build the Western, the initial route was to run southward from Chattanooga to a terminus east of the Chattahoochee River, which would then be linked to Savannah. After engineers surveyed various possible locations for the terminus, the zero milepost was driven into the ground in what is now Five Points. A year later, the area around the milepost had developed into a settlement, first known as Terminus, and later as Thrasherville after a merchant who built homes. By 1842, the town had six buildings and 30 residents and was renamed Marthasville to honor the Governors daughter, later, J. Edgar Thomson, Chief Engineer of the Georgia Railroad, suggested the town be renamed Atlantica-Pacifica, which was shortened to Atlanta. The residents approved, and the town was incorporated as Atlanta on December 29,1847, by 1860, Atlantas population had grown to 9,554. During the American Civil War, the nexus of multiple railroads in Atlanta made the city a hub for the distribution of military supplies, in 1864, the Union Army moved southward following the capture of Chattanooga and began its invasion of north Georgia. On the next day, Mayor James Calhoun surrendered Atlanta to the Union Army, on November 11,1864, Sherman prepared for the Union Armys March to the Sea by ordering Atlanta to be burned to the ground, sparing only the citys churches and hospitals. After the Civil War ended in 1865, Atlanta was gradually rebuilt, due to the citys superior rail transportation network, the state capital was moved from Milledgeville to Atlanta in 1868. In the 1880 Census, Atlanta surpassed Savannah as Georgias largest city, by 1885, the founding of the Georgia School of Technology and the citys black colleges had established Atlanta as a center for higher education. In 1895, Atlanta hosted the Cotton States and International Exposition, during the first decades of the 20th century, Atlanta experienced a period of unprecedented growth. In three decades time, Atlantas population tripled as the city expanded to include nearby streetcar suburbs
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GEICO
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The Government Employees Insurance Company is an American auto insurance company headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It is the second largest auto insurer in the United States and it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway that as of 2015 provided coverage for more than 22 million motor vehicles owned by more than 14 million policy holders. GEICO writes private passenger automobile insurance in all 50 U. S. states, GEICO sells its policies through local agents, called GEICO Field Representatives, and over the phone directly to the consumer, and through their website. Its mascot is a gold dust day gecko with a Cockney accent, GEICO is well known in popular culture for its advertising, having made a large number of commercials intended to entertain viewers. GEICO was founded in 1936 by Leo Goodwin Sr. and his wife Lillian Goodwin to provide insurance directly to federal government employees. Despite the presence of the government in its name, GEICO has always been a private corporation not affiliated with any government organization. An important figure in GEICOs history is David Lloyd Kreeger, who became president of the company in 1964, in 1948, he formed a group of investors who bought into GEICO right before it went public that year. He became senior vice president and general counsel of the company, six years after becoming president of GEICO in 1964, he was named chairman and chief executive officer. He retained those titles until he retired in 1975 and he continued as chairman of the executive committee until 1979, when he was named honorary chairman. S. auto insurer. By 1975, it was clear that GEICO had expanded far too rapidly when it reported a $126.5 million loss. To prevent GEICO from collapsing, a consortium of 45 insurance companies agreed to take over a quarter of its policies and it took five years and a massive reorganization to set GEICO on the path to recovery. GEICO has also offered other types of insurance besides auto, including homeowners insurance from 1962 to 1996, a sister company, the Government Employees Life Insurance Company, offered life insurance from 1975 to 1985. In 1996, after years as a publicly traded firm. GEICO generally deals directly with consumers via telephone and internet, however, GEICO is now the second largest writer of private auto insurance in the United States. The policy, which is issued through GEICOs commercial department, has received praise from insurance experts, in 2016, J. D. Power rated the company #20 out of 24 for overall purchase experience, with a 2/5 score. Presidential candidate Donald Trump called for a boycott of the company, GEICO has many well-known ad campaigns. In 2012 GEICO spent over $1.1 billion in advertising, all are made and produced by The Martin Agency, which is based in Richmond, Virginia. GEICO ads have featured several well-known mascots, including, The GEICO Gecko is the most prevalent spokesperson mascot, Maxwell, the GEICO Piggy who shouts a long Whee and appears in more radio and TV commercials
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Cleopatra 2525
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Cleopatra 2525 is an American science fiction television series that aired in syndication for two seasons, from January 2000 to March 2001. Produced by Renaissance Pictures and distributed by Universal Television, many stations aired it as part of the Back2Back Action Hour, when complications arise during her breast augmentation surgery, 20th-century exotic dancer Cleo is put into suspended animation. Waking 525 years in the future, Cleo joins two women in their fight against the Baileys, armed flying machines who now control Earths surface. Her team leader, Hel, is commanded by a female entity called Voice. Voice controls many other teams and gives them their orders in a fashion, in effect, forming a resistance to the Baileys. Their final team member is Sarge, whose sister belongs to a cult that regards the Baileys with reverence, humanity has moved underground and built a complex of elaborate shafts and tunnels created by the shaft builders to survive the Bailey menace. Cleo wows the 26th century denizens with her philosophical sayings and his methods are massively destructive and he is the teams most frequent enemy. Hel has a stake in bringing him to justice, as hes responsible for her familys death. His unusual taste in clothing – dressing like a circus clown. He is actually Dr. George Bailey, the creator of the Baileys, hes still in love with Voice but his psyche has completely snapped. He didnt program the Baileys to betray humanity, but agrees with his creations logic, raina, A dangerous psychic and former Voice team member. Though she only appears in three episodes she is considered one of the more memorable villains and her favorite trick was to make people see friends as enemies and vice versa. The girls disarmed her powers the first time around, but this drove her to come after them again in an effort to regain her powers by having an implant chip embedded in her brain, Baileys, The Bailey units are enormous, heavily weaponized flying robots. They have taken over the surface, forcing humans underground and they will usually attack humans on sight. Their name comes from Dr. George Bailey, their creator, Baileys were created as an environmental clean up system, before they determined that humanity was the cause of the Earths problems. Cleopatra once developed a connection with a Bailey and tried to use it to the teams advantage. Betrayers, Betrayers are dangerous robotic enforcers who kidnap people, assimilate their every detail and they are emotionless, relentless and are capable of sustaining massive damage. Guns are built into their arms, their eyes fire optical blasts, they can regenerate and they also possess their human counterparts memories
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Come Back Mrs. Noah
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Come Back Mrs. Noah is a British sitcom starring Mollie Sugden that aired on BBC1 from 17 July to 14 August 1978 with a pilot broadcast on 13 December 1977. It was written by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, who had also written Are You Being Served, joke banter was recycled from other series, and outrageously strange props were used. Come Back Mrs Noah was not a success, with some regarding it as one of the worst British sitcoms ever made, in the pilot episode, the craft is accidentally sent blasting off into space with Mrs Noah and a small crew on it. The series then centres on efforts to bring Mrs Noah back to Earth, the news bulletins on Earth, read by Gorden Kaye, revealed countries like the United States and Germany had to turn to Britain, the most successful nation on Earth, for help. After a failed effort to nudge the craft into the Earths atmosphere, the series concluded with Mrs. Noah, come Back Mrs Noah was also shown in the Netherlands, starting on 30 June 1979. It was also aired in Australia and on public television stations in the United States
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Evil Con Carne
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Evil Con Carne is an American animated series/spin-off of Grim & Evil and sister show of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, created by Maxwell Atoms. The series first appeared on Cartoon Network during the show Grim & Evil, the two series later became separate programs in 2003. While The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy ran for six seasons, Evil Con Carne only ran fourteen episodes and it was also part of Cartoon Networks series, Cartoon Cartoons, and is the 15th and final cartoon of the series. An official series finale, titled Company Halt, aired on March 16,2007, on April 13,2012, the series returned to Cartoon Network in reruns on the revived block, Cartoon Planet. Hector Con Carne was a playboy crime lord and evil genius bent on taking over the world. Eventually, he was caught in an explosion initiated by his nemesis, Cod Commando, the explosion scattered most of his body across the world. He was rescued by a scientist, the curvaceous Major Dr. Ghastly and these two units were later installed into Boskov, a purple Russian circus bear, giving Con Carnes brain control over all of the bears actions and movements. Hector, Dr. Ghastly and his leader, General Skarr. Gathering an army, Con Carne resumed his quest for world domination and made a new goal, the Con Carne of the title is Spanish/Italian for with meat, as well as a pun on the expression evil incarnate and the dish Chili con carne. Hector Con Carne, the character and the antihero. He was a dynamic, evil playboy type with a soft Mexican accent, but was reduced to an anthropomorphic brain, somehow, the stomach has taken on a life of its own. He is often frustrated by the difficulty of taking over the world in its current state and it has also been revealed that in Bring Me the Face of Hector Con Carne that, before his body exploded, his face was not shown on screen. Major Dr. Ghastly, A mad scientist, Ghastly is the brains behind all Hectors plans and she does not really seem to be intent on taking over the world, she is more interested in inventing things and getting closer to Hector. General Skarr, Con Carnes paramilitary leader and he is a cold-hearted, hateful and harsh man, with a scar on his face, and one eye. He tends to be more evil than Con Carne himself, many times trying to overthrow his leader and he has made several appearances on The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, as Billys next door neighbor. He has also starred in the Billy & Mandy spin-off, Underfist and it has been stated that he quit working for Hector Con Carne after they were bought out by the cartoon industry because they didnt want the competition in world domination. Boskov, A former Russian circus bear, Boskov carries Con Carnes brain and he is sometimes difficult to control due to his animal instincts and lack of intelligence. Stomach, This former stomach of Hector Con Carne will only talk if its about food and he is an extremely talented anthropomorphic codfish secret agent/superhero in SPORK, who only speaks in gibberish
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Futurama
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Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series was envisioned by Groening in the mid-1990s while working on The Simpsons, he later brought David X. Cohen aboard to develop storylines and characters to pitch the show to Fox. In the United States, the series aired on Fox from March 28,1999, to August 10,2003, Futurama also aired in reruns on Cartoon Networks Adult Swim from 2002 to 2007, until the networks contract expired. It was revived in 2007 as four direct-to-video films, the last of which was released in early 2009, Comedy Central entered into an agreement with 20th Century Fox Television to syndicate the existing episodes and air the films as 16 new, half-hour episodes, constituting a fifth season. In June 2009, producing studio 20th Century Fox announced that Comedy Central had picked up the show for 26 new half-hour episodes, the show was renewed for a seventh season, with the first half airing in June 2012 and the second set for mid-2013. It was later revealed that the season would be the final season. The series finale aired on September 4,2013, while Groening has said he will try to get it picked up by another network, David X. Cohen stated that the episode Meanwhile would be the last episode of season 7 and also the series finale. Throughout its run, Futurama has received critical acclaim, the show has been nominated for 17 Annie Awards and 12 Emmy Awards, winning seven of the former and six of the latter. Futurama-related merchandise has also released, including a tie-in comic book series and video game, calendars. In 2013, TV Guide ranked Futurama as one of the top 60 Greatest TV Cartoons of All Time, Fox expressed a strong desire in the mid-1990s for Matt Groening to create a new series, and he began conceiving Futurama during this period. In 1996, he enlisted David X. Cohen, then a writer and producer for The Simpsons, the two spent time researching science fiction books, television shows, and films. When they pitched the series to Fox in April 1998, Groening and Cohen had composed many characters and story lines, Groening described trying to get the show on the air as by far the worst experience of my grown-up life. With The Simpsons the network has no input, Fox was particularly disturbed by the concept of suicide booths, Doctor Zoidberg, and Benders anti-social behavior. Groening explains, When they tried to give me notes on Futurama, I just said, and they said, Well, we dont do business that way anymore. And I said, Oh, well, thats the only way I do business, the episode I, Roommate was produced to address Foxs concerns, with the script written to their specifications. Fox strongly disliked the episode, but after negotiations, Groening received the same independence with Futurama, the name Futurama comes from a pavilion at the 1939 New York Worlds Fair. Designed by Norman Bel Geddes, the Futurama pavilion depicted how he imagined the world would look in 1959, many other titles were considered for the series, including Aloha, Mars. and Doomsville, which Groening notes were resoundly rejected, by everyone concerned with it. It takes approximately six to nine months to produce an episode of Futurama, the long production time results in several episodes being worked on simultaneously
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
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Garth Marenghis Darkplace is a British horror parody television series created for Channel 4 by Richard Ayoade and Matthew Holness. The show focuses on fictional horror author Garth Marenghi and his publisher Dean Learner, Darkplace is presented as a lost classic, a television series produced in the 1980s, though never broadcast at the time. The presentation features commentary from many of the original cast, where such as Marenghi. Darkplace was broadcast in a timeslot, with very little advertising. It nonetheless built up a significant internet following, leading Channel 4 to repeat the series, in 2005, it was reported that Channel 4s Film Four had asked Holness and Ayoade to write a script for a movie version of their programme. The show was later broadcast in the United States on the Sci-Fi Channel, the spoof comedy series, released in 2004, lampoons 1980s television drama, particularly horror, sci-fi, and the rampant egotism of self-appointed mastermind authors. The show presents Garth Marenghis Darkplace as though it were a real, low-budget television series, produced in the 1980s, and now getting its first screening, this hoax is the shows fictional frame. Darkplaces fictional show-within-a-show includes deliberately poor production and special effects, sub-par acting, choppy editing and this is interspersed with present-day interviews with the cast. And they did it because I knew the truth, in 2004, due to the worst artistic drought in broadcast history, Channel 4 decided to air six of the original episodes. The makers of Darkplace endeavoured to make the show seem authentic, from the retro Channel 4 logo at the start to the distortion of the analogue music track at the start of scenes, the fashion. The texture of film stock, deliberately poor continuity, cheesy lines, wooden acting and cheap special effects, it is delivered in such a perfect way you cant help. Also included are interviews, in which the character Marenghi, with co-stars Dean Learner and Todd Rivers. The recurring theme of these interviews is that Marenghi is seen as a fool who overrates his own talent and has no idea how foolish he appears. More than a few people, and media outlets alike were out by this fictional framing. The shows musical soundtrack parodies the same subjects as the writing, Matthew Holness as Garth Marenghi, author, dream weaver, visionary, plus actor, who plays Dr. Rick Dagless, M. D. Dag is a Vietnam and Falklands War veteran and former warlock. He also keeps a Magnum revolver on him at all times and his wife is played by Lydia Fox. Richard Ayoade as Dean Learner, Garths publisher, who plays Thornton Reed, Ayoade himself stated in an interview in the Scottish Metro that My acting really is that s**t. The character Dean was in the Korean war, in which he lost a testicle and he generally uses an automatic pistol
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Goodnight Sweetheart (TV series)
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Goodnight Sweetheart is a British sitcom that ran for six series on BBC1 from 1993 to 1999 and a special that aired on 2 September 2016. The show was created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, also creators of Birds of a Feather, the creators wrote the first series, while subsequent episodes were by a team of writers. Although originally made for the BBC the series has subsequently repeated on ITV3. The show has also repeated on Gold, Drama and Yesterday. For his starring role, Lyndhurst won the Most Popular Comedy Performer at the National Television Awards twice in 1998 and 1999, the original entrance to Ducketts Passage, leading to the Royal Oak, is located at Ezra Street, London, E2 7RH. The Royal Oak is near Ezra Street, at 73 Columbia Road, Gary Sparrow is a somewhat disillusioned TV repairman, in a drab marriage with his ambitious wife Yvonne, and best friends with Ron, a printer whose marriage is on the brink of breakdown. While on a TV repair call-out in East London, Gary accidentally discovers a portal which leads to war time London. There he meets Phoebe, a pretty barmaid who works in the Royal Oak pub, her father Eric who runs the Royal Oak, and Reg Deadman, a dim-witted but friendly policeman. Gary strikes up a friendship with Phoebe, and makes repeated trips through the time portal, in this life, he claims to be both a secret agent and a singer-songwriter, in fact passing off modern-day pop songs as his own, particularly songs by the Beatles. He impresses Phoebe by bringing her goods which are available in the present day, but were rationed in wartime Britain, such as chocolate, bacon and nylons. Most episodes centre on a dilemma for Gary caused by his dual life, as the series progresses, the characters are developed further. Gary and Phoebe eventually marry and they have a son, Michael, Yvonne also becomes pregnant, but suffers a miscarriage. Gary opens a shop in the present day, named Blitz and Pieces, Ron and his wife Stella separate and divorce. Gary and Phoebe move to a flat in Mayfair, where they befriend Noël Coward. Yvonne becomes a millionairess with a successful organic beauty products company, in the final episode, set on VE Day, Gary finds that the time portal has closed, trapping him in the past for good, leaving Ron to explain the truth to Yvonne. In the 2016 special, Gary is happily married to Phoebe and he returns to the past, but decides on living a double life again so that he can get to know his daughter. A total of 59 episodes were made, including a Christmas special in 1995, Marks and Gran, the creators, wrote the first series, many later episodes were written by other writers. As in Marks and Grans sitcom Get Back, most episodes of Goodnight Sweetheart — and the programme itself — were named after popular song titles
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The Hilarious House of Frightenstein
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The Hilarious House of Frightenstein is a Canadian childrens television series, which was produced by Hamilton, Ontarios independent station CHCH-TV in 1971. It was syndicated both in Canada and internationally, and occasionally appears in some television markets. In Canada, the series has not aired for several years, Van played most of the characters on the show. All 130 episodes were made in a nine-month span starting in 1971, Markowitz directed the brainstorming session while his assistant Roger John Greco made notes of everything said. CHCH had broadcast two other Markowitz shows, The Randy Dandy Show for children, starring Rafael Markowitz as Randy Dandy, and The Ed Allen Show, CHCH approved the production of Frightenstein to take advantage of the stations new ability to reach into the Toronto market for advertising money. Randy Dandys soda pop venture was later taken up by the Count when he promoted Dracola from the castle to raise money for his Brucie project, sid Biby led the station at this time. The Hilarious House of Frightenstein was one of the most ambitious shows attempted by Canadian producers during this era, Markowitz later began production of an animated cartoon version of the show with animator Al Guest that never got to air. Horror icon Vincent Price starred in introductions for the various segments. Price, who was attracted to the project because he wanted to do something for kids, on Canadian television stations, the show generally aired as a childrens show in an after-school or weekend morning time slot. In the United States, however, many stations aired it in a late night slot aimed primarily at college students, in some American markets, the show drew higher ratings than The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson among that demographic. The opening and closing credits were accompanied by a composition played entirely on a Moog synthesizer and written by Harry Breuer, Gary Carol, Jean Jacques Perrey. Its title is March of the Martians, the original recording can be found on an out-of-print Pickwick vinyl album called The Happy Moog. Count Frightenstein, the character, was the thirteenth son of Count Dracula. Count Frightenstein was also a black sheep vampire in other ways, supporting characters were played by Billy Van, except where specified. The Wolfman - A werewolf disk jockey at radio station EECH who spun rock, the Wolfmans theme song was Sly and the Family Stones I Want to Take You Higher. For licensing reasons, the numbers are no longer shown on some reruns. The Professor - A professor who provided science lessons on such things as thermal expansion, bwana Clyde Batty - A British explorer who teaches about wild animals on Zany Zoo. His name is a spoof of animal trainer Clyde Beatty, dr. Pet Vet - A veterinarian who teaches about domestic animals
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Vincent Price
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Vincent Leonard Price Jr. was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and performances in horror films. His career spanned other genres, including film noir, drama, mystery, thriller and he appeared on stage, television, radio, and more than one hundred films. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures, and one for television, born and raised in the Saint Louis, Missouri area, he has a star on the Saint Louis Walk of Fame. Price was an art collector and consultant, with a degree in art history and he lectured and wrote books on the subject. He was the founder of the Vincent Price Art Museum in California and he was also a noted gourmet cook. Price was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the youngest of the four children of Vincent Leonard Price, Sr. president of the National Candy Company and his grandfather, Vincent Clarence Price, invented Dr. Prices Baking Powder, the first cream of tartar-based baking powder, Price was of English descent and was a descendant of Peregrine White, the first white child born in Colonial Massachusetts, being born on the Mayflower while it was in the harbor of Massachusetts. Price had some Welsh ancestry as well, Price attended St. Louis Country Day School. In 1933, he graduated with a degree in art history from Yale University, after teaching for a year, he entered the University of London, intending to study for a masters degree in fine arts. Instead, he was drawn to the theater, first appearing on stage professionally in 1934 and his acting career began in London in 1935, performing with Orson Welless Mercury Theatre. In 1936, Price appeared as Prince Albert in the American production of Laurence Housmans play, Victoria Regina, Price started out in films as a character actor. He made his debut in 1938 with Service de Luxe and established himself in the film Laura, opposite Gene Tierney. His first venture into the genre, for which he became famous, was in the 1939 Boris Karloff film Tower of London. The following year Price portrayed the character in The Invisible Man Returns. In 1946, Price reunited with Tierney in two films, Dragonwyck and Leave Her to Heaven. There were also many villainous roles in film noir thrillers like The Web, The Long Night, Rogues Regiment and The Bribe, with Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner and his first starring role was as conman James Addison Reavis in the 1950 biopic The Baron of Arizona. He also did a comedic turn as the tycoon Burnbridge Waters, co-starring with Ronald Colman in Champagne for Caesar and he was active in radio, portraying the Robin Hood-inspired crime-fighter Simon Templar in The Saint, which ran from 1947-51. In the 1950s, Price moved into films, with a role in House of Wax
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Billy Van
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William Allan Van Evera, known by the stage name Billy Van, was a Canadian comedian, actor and singer. Van was born in Toronto, Ontario and dropped out of Bloor Collegiate Institute in Grade 11 to pursue a career as an entertainer, starting as a youth, he and his four brothers toured North America as a singing act called the Van Evera Brothers. The single I Miss You / The Last Sunrise by the Billy Van Four, released on the Rodeo International label, as a comedian, Van gained national attention in 1963 as a performer on CBC Televisions late-night satire programme Nightcap. He threatened to quit the show after three seasons when the CBC wouldnt give him a raise from $400 to $500 an episode. At that time, a columnist in The Globe and Mail called Van perhaps the most talented variety performer ever developed by the CBC, after the dispute became public, the CBC capitulated and Van continued on the show for one final season. Van appeared in a spinoff series, Flemingdon Park, based on a recurring Nightcap skit. Nightcap was cancelled in May 1967, through the 1970s, Van was a regular member of the home team on the CHCH-TV charades series Party Game. In 1971, he began making The Hilarious House of Frightenstein, also for CHCH in Hamilton and it is this show for which he is most well known, and it has developed a cult following. 130 episodes were produced, and Van played almost every lead character, Van also appeared in many commercials, including Colt 45 Malt Liquor commercials for 15 years, where he won a Clio Award in 1975. In 1982, he hosted TVOntarios Bits and Bytes, a devoted to the usage of early personal computers. Van narrated the animated program Eureka, which taught children about physics and chemistry. Van also appeared occasionally in the Canadian TV show Bizarre, hosted by John Byner and he had a triple heart bypass in 1998. Van supported the Canadian Comedy Awards with promotional appearances from the inception in 2000. He was diagnosed in December 2001 with esophageal cancer, of which he died at age 68 on 8 January 2003 at Torontos Sunnybrook Hospital and he was survived by his wife Susan and two daughters, Tracy and Robyn, from a previous marriage. One of Vans brothers, Jack Van Evera, also became an actor and appeared on many Canadian television series such as The Forest Rangers and its the News 1975-1976, The Bobby Vinton Show 1976, The Sonny and Cher Show 1978, Eureka.45 Malt Liquor ad
