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Rock Hudson
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Rock Hudson was an American actor. Hudson is generally known for his turns as a man in the 1950s and 1960s and is viewed as a prominent actor. Hudson was voted Star of the Year, Favorite Leading Man and he completed nearly 70 films and starred in several television productions during a career that spanned more than four decades. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1956, Hudson died from AIDS-related complications in 1985, becoming the first major celebrity to die from an AIDS-related illness. Hudson was born in Winnetka, Illinois, the child of telephone operator Katherine Wood and auto mechanic Roy Harold Scherer. His mother remarried and his stepfather, Wallace Wally Fitzgerald, adopted him and changed his surname to Fitzgerald. Hudsons years at New Trier High School were unremarkable, although he sang in the glee club and was remembered as a shy boy who delivered newspapers, ran errands. Although he tried out for roles in many of his plays, Hudson failed to win any because he could not remember his lines. Working as an usher in his years, he developed an interest in film. He worked as a driver for some time, longing to be an actor. After he sent talent scout Henry Willson a picture of himself in 1947, Willson took Hudson on as a client and changed his name to Rock Hudson, Hudsons name was coined by combining the Rock of Gibraltar and the Hudson River. Hudson made his debut with a small part in the 1948 Warner Bros. film Fighter Squadron. In 1953 he appeared in a Camel commercial which showed him on the set of Seminole, director Douglas Sirk gave Hudson his first leading role, in the 1954 film Magnificent Obsession, co-starring Jane Wyman. The film received positive reviews, with Modern Screen Magazine citing Hudson as the most popular actor of the year and his popularity soared with George Stevens film Giant. Hudson and his co-star James Dean were both nominated for Oscars in the Best Actor category, in the 1950s, Hudson made nine films with acclaimed director and father-figure Douglas Sirk, with Sirks own favorite being The Tarnished Angels. Following Richard Brooks acclaimed film Something of Value was a performance in Charles Vidors box office failure A Farewell to Arms. In order to make A Farewell to Arms, Hudson reportedly turned down Marlon Brandos role in Sayonara, William Holdens role in The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Charlton Hestons role in Ben-Hur. A Farewell to Arms received negative reviews, failed at the box office, Hudson sailed through the 1960s on a wave of romantic comedies
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Susan Saint James
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Susan Saint James is an American actress and activist, most widely known for her work in television during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Saint James was born in Los Angeles, California, to a Connecticut family, the daughter of Constance, a teacher, and Charles Daniel Miller, Saint James was raised in Rockford, Illinois, where she began modeling as a teenager. In her younger years she attended the Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest. She later attended the Connecticut College for Women and she moved to California at age 20, when she began her acting career. Her first screen role was in the TV movie Fame Is the Name of the Game with Tony Franciosa, among her other early television appearances were two episodes of the first season of Ironside. She also had a role in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows. In the first-season story Pineapple Rose, she was featured when her character was kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity. In 1967, Saint James had a part in the pilot episode of the Robert Wagner crime-caper series It Takes a Thief. This led to a role playing a new character, Charlene Chuck Brown, Alexander Mundys fellow thief. She was featured in four episodes of the series from 1968 to 1970 and she went on to appear in the pilot episode of the western series Alias Smith and Jones. Saint James left the show to further her career as an actress in feature films, such as co-starring with Peter Fonda in the film Outlaw Blues. She achieved significant success in the vampire comedy Love at First Bite and followed up with a role in the comedy How to Beat the High Cost of Living, co-starring Jessica Lange, between films, she made a guest appearance in the March 3,1980 episode of M*A*S*H. After other film ventures failed to establish her, she returned to television and she received three more Emmy Award nominations for this role. Saint James was a celebrity and commentator for World Wrestling Federation s WrestleMania 2 event in 1986 along with Vince McMahon, in her mid-40s, Saint James proclaimed herself retired after Kate & Allie ended. In 1998, Saint James, her sister Mercedes Dewey and friend Barrie Johnson founded Seedling and Pip and she also starred in a Warner Theatre 1999 production of The Miracle Worker. On June 11,2008, Saint James was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Saint James married aspiring writer-director Richard Neubert at age 21, but the marriage lasted only a year. She was married a second time in 1971, to Thomas Lucas and they had a daughter, Sunshine Lucas, and a son, Harmony Lucas, the marriage lasted six years. While guest-hosting Saturday Night Live in 1981, Saint James met her husband, then-SNL executive producer Dick Ebersol
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Universal Television
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Universal Television is the television production subsidiary of the NBCUniversal Television Group and, by extension, the production arm of the NBC television network. It was formerly known as Revue Studios, MCA/Universal, NBC Studios, NBC Universal Television Studio, both NBC Studios and Universal Network Television are predecessors of Universal Media Studios. Revue Productions was founded in 1943 by MCA to produce live radio shows, Revue was re-launched as MCAs television production subsidiary in 1950. The partnership of NBC and Revue extends as far back as September 6,1950, with the television broadcast of Armour Theatre, MCA bought the Universal Studios lot in 1958 and was renamed Revue Studios. Following its merger with Decca Records, the then-parent of Universal Pictures, during the early years of television, Revue was responsible for producing and/or distributing many television classics. The most noteworthy included Leave It to Beaver, which ran for one season on CBS before going to ABC from 1958 until 1963. It produced Bachelor Father, for Bachelor Productions, Edmond OBriens syndicated crime drama Johnny Midnight, another of its offerings was the 52-episode Crusader, the first Brian Keith series, which ran on CBS 1955–1956. Also McHales Navy was produced by Revue from 1962 to 1966, in December 1958 MCA/Revue purchased Universal Studioss 367 acre backlot to produce television series, then leased it back to Universal for a million dollars a year for a decade. Wagon Train was the only Revue-produced TV show ever to finish an American television season in first place, NBC Productions was founded in 1947 by RCA. In 1996, the company was renamed NBC Studios, in 2004, NBC Studios was merged with Universal Network Television to form NBC Universal Television Studio. MCA TV was founded in 1951, several years before parent MCAs purchase of the US branch of Decca Records, for more than four decades, it was one of the most active syndicators of television programming. MCA Television and Paramount Domestic Television had formed Premier Advertiser Sales, as a possible outgrowth of this sales joint venture, MCA and Paramount began plans for a new network, Premier Program Service. MCA Television Entertainment was formed in 1987 and it primarily dealt with made-for-TV movies and series like Dream On that were made for cable networks like HBO. Like MCA TV, in 1996 it was renamed Universal Television Entertainment, EMKA, Ltd. is the holding company responsible for a majority of the pre-1950 Paramount Pictures sound library. As an official part of the Universal Pictures library, they are part of the television unit. The first incarnation of Universal Television was reincorporated from Revue Productions in 1966,4 years after MCA bought Universal Pictures, uni TV also co-produced many shows with Jack Webbs Mark VII Limited such as Emergency. Adam-12 and a revival of the 1951 series Dragnet. I, which received critical acclaim and several TV movie spin-offs after their cancellations. In 1990, MCA/Uni TV began the Law & Order franchise, in 1996, MCA was reincorporated as Universal Studios
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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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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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The NBC Mystery Movie
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The NBC Mystery Movie is the umbrella title of an American television series produced by Universal Studios, that was broadcast by NBC from 1971-77. At times, it was divided into two versions that were broadcast concurrently during different nights of the week, The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie, the NBC Mystery Movie was a wheel show, or umbrella program that rotated several programs within the same time period throughout the season. For its initial 1971-72 season, it featured a rotation of three detective dramas that were broadcast on Wednesday nights for 90 minutes, from 8, 30-10,00 p. m. in the Eastern Time Zone. The origin of the format was a joint programming and creative production agreement between the NBC Television Network and Universal Studios Television and Motion Pictures dating from 1966. Also, NBC would not offer these shows subsequently as TV re-runs for international sales, the first series created under this agreement was The Name of the Game, a drama with three rotating stars. It was followed by The Bold Ones and Four in One, while it was a long and profitable collaboration, it finally succumbed to the changes of the commercial broadcast market regarding both structure and content by the end of the decade. The anthologies could not reasonably be reduced for briefer broadcast times for the re-run market and they were not designed for casual or short-term viewers, who would have little interest in the characters or the story of an individual episode. Each episode and each series were of varying quality, making package re-sale difficult. While they lasted, the best of them employed the finest actors, writers, the three original 1971-72 shows of The NBC Mystery Movie were, McCloud, starring Dennis Weaver as a New Mexico lawman reassigned to the New York Police Department. The show debuted the season as part of the hour-long NBC wheel show Four in One. Columbo, starring Peter Falk as a deceptively bumbling Los Angeles homicide detective, the series was derived from a 1968 made-for-television movie, Prescription, Murder, which starred Falk in the same role. McMillan & Wife, starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James as a husband-and-wife crime-fighting duo, hudsons character was a sophisticated San Francisco police commissioner. Saint James later left the series and it was renamed McMillan, the umbrella series was counted a great success in its first season and finished at number 14 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1971-1972 season. Columbo was nominated for eight Emmy Awards and won four categories and this success prompted NBC to move the series to the competitive 8, 30-10,00 Sunday evening time period for the second season as The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie. In addition, a show was added to the rotation. This piece of the series was produced by Jack Webb. Like Hec Ramsey, it lasted two seasons, cool Million, starring James Farentino as a former CIA agent turned private investigator and security / retrieval expert whose fee per case was one million dollars. Madigan had Richard Widmark reprising his 1968 film role as a veteran detective of the NYPD
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Columbo
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Columbo is an American television series starring Peter Falk as Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The plot revolves around how a perpetrator whose identity is known to the audience will finally be caught. Columbo is a police detective of Italian descent whose clothes are disheveled and whose trademarks include wearing a rumpled, beige raincoat over his suit. He is consistently underestimated by his suspects who, while initially reassured and distracted by his circumstantial speech, despite his unassuming appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he is extremely intelligent and shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for a conviction. His formidable eye for detail and relentlessly dedicated approach, often become clear to the only late in the story line. The episodes are all movie-length, between 73 and 100 minutes long, and have been broadcast in forty-four countries, in 2012, the program was chosen as the third-best cop or legal show on Best in TV, The Greatest TV Shows of Our Time. In 2013, TV Guide included it in its list of The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time, also in 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked it No.57 in the list of 101 Best Written TV Series. After two pilot episodes, the originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978 as one of the rotating programs of The NBC Mystery Movie. Columbo then aired less regularly on ABC beginning in 1989 under the umbrella of The ABC Mystery Movie, the last film was broadcast in 2003 as part of ABC Thursday Night at the Movies. In almost every episode the audience sees the crime unfold at the beginning and knows the identity of the culprit, once Columbo enters the story, viewers watch him solve the case by sifting through the contradictions between the truth and the version presented to him by the killer. This style of mystery is sometimes referred to as a howcatchem, episodes tend to be driven by their characters, the audience observing the criminals reaction to Columbos increasingly intrusive presence. In some cases, the arrogance and dismissive attitude allow Columbo to manipulate his suspects into self-incrimination. While details of the actions are shown to the viewer, Columbos true thoughts. Columbo generally maintains a relationship with the murderer until the end. The point at which the detective first begins to suspect the murderer is not revealed. Each case is concluded in a similar style, with Columbo dropping any pretense of uncertainty. Following the killers reaction, the episode ends with the killer confessing or quietly submitting to arrest. There are few attempts to deceive the viewer or provide a twist in the tale, other sources claim Columbos character is also influenced by Inspector Fichet from the French suspense-thriller film Les Diaboliques
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McCloud (TV series)
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McCloud is an American television police drama that aired on NBC from 1970-77. The series starred Dennis Weaver, and for six of its seven years on the air it aired as part of the NBC Mystery Movie wheel series that was produced for the network by Universal Television. The show was centered on Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of Taos, New Mexico, the first choice for the role of McCloud was Fess Parker, who turned it down. Universal hired the highly experienced Dennis Weaver and this premise of a cowboy in the big city was more or less adapted from the 1968 Don Siegel film, Coogans Bluff, starring Clint Eastwood. Herman Miller was responsible for the story of Coogans Bluff and co-wrote the screenplay with Dean Riesner, indeed, Miller is credited as the creator of McCloud. Coogans Bluff reflects Richard Thorpes 1942 film Tarzans New York Adventure, like Coogan, McCloud galloped the length and breadth of Manhattan, and the sight of McCloud on horseback riding down the middle of a busy street became one of the series most famous images. The following fall, the network commissioned a new wheel series, NBC ordered two new series, McMillan & Wife and Columbo, to fill the wheel and all three became part of the new NBC Mystery Movie series, which aired on Wednesday nights. The series became a hit, finishing at number 14 for Nielsen ratings for the 1971–1972 season, NBC then decided to try another competitive move and relocated McCloud, along with McMillan and Columbo, to Sunday nights for the following fall. The Mystery Movie series was a bigger draw on Sundays. Starting in the season in the fall of 1974, the episodes were two hours long, but were dropped again to 90 minutes for the seventh and final season starting in the fall of 1976. The 46th and last episode, McCloud Meets Dracula, was aired on April 17,1977, Weaver received Emmy nominations in 1974 and 1975 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series. The executive producer was Glen A. Larson, who wrote for the series, as did Peter Allan Fields, Lou Shaw, Jimmy Sangster. Larson won an Edgar Award for The New Mexican Connection, in 1989, Weaver reprised the role in a made-for-television movie, The Return of Sam McCloud, in which his character was now a United States Senator. It first aired on November 12,1989, Diana Muldaur returned to reprise her role as McClouds love interest, Chris Coughlin. McClouds attire, typically consisting of a coat or Western jacket, bolo tie and cowboy hat. That New Yorkers might mistake him for a naïf because of his appearance occasionally worked to his advantage and he would often allay suspicion of his motives by insisting he was in New York to observe and learn. Under his jacket or coat, he wore a khaki uniform shirt with a brown star-shaped uniform patch with gold trim on left sleeve. There was a circle in the center with the number 33
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San Francisco
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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. It is the birthplace of the United Nations, the California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856, after three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines, San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co. Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, as of 2016, San Francisco is ranked high on world liveability rankings. The earliest archaeological evidence of habitation of the territory of the city of San Francisco dates to 3000 BC. Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule, the system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. In 1835, Englishman William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, together with Alcalde Francisco de Haro, he laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena, began to attract American settlers. Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7,1846, during the Mexican–American War, montgomery arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30 of the next year, despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography. The California Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure seekers, with their sourdough bread in tow, prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia, raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849. The promise of fabulous riches was so strong that crews on arriving vessels deserted and rushed off to the gold fields, leaving behind a forest of masts in San Francisco harbor. Some of these approximately 500 abandoned ships were used at times as storeships, saloons and hotels, many were left to rot, by 1851 the harbor was extended out into the bay by wharves while buildings were erected on piles among the ships. By 1870 Yerba Buena Cove had been filled to create new land, buried ships are occasionally exposed when foundations are dug for new buildings. California was quickly granted statehood in 1850 and the U. S. military built Fort Point at the Golden Gate, silver discoveries, including the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, further drove rapid population growth. With hordes of fortune seekers streaming through the city, lawlessness was common, and the Barbary Coast section of town gained notoriety as a haven for criminals, prostitution, entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush
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John Schuck
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Conrad John Schuck, Jr. is an American actor, primarily in stage, movies and television. He is best known for his roles as police commissioner Rock Hudsons assistant, Schuck was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Mary and Conrad John Schuck, Sr. a professor at SUNY Buffalo, of English and German descent. Schucks first appearance in film was the role of Capt. Walter Kosciusko Painless Pole Waldowski in Altmans film M*A*S*H, as Painless, Schuck holds a place in Hollywood history as the first person to utter the word “fuck” in a major studio film. He went on to appear in several more Altman films, Brewster McCloud, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, in 1970 he appeared as Frank Carelli in Episode 5 of the first series of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Keep Your Guard Up. From 1971 to 1977, Schuck appeared as San Francisco Police Detective Sergeant Charles Enright in the television series McMillan & Wife and also starred as an overseer in the miniseries Roots. In 1976, he played Gregory Yo-Yo Yoyonovich in the short-lived series Holmes & Yo-Yo, stern for what is now NBCUniversal Television. He starred in ABCs 1979 TV holiday special The Halloween That Almost Wasnt, the Night Dracula Saved the World, as the Frankenstein Monster. Some installments from that series were reedited into the made-for-TV film Magic Statue. He was also a regular guest celebrity on game shows in the 1970s and 1980s, appearing as a guest on such programs as Pyramid, Hollywood Squares, Password Plus and Super Password, and The Cross-Wits. In 1980, Schuck began appearing as a replacement for a year. In 1986, Schuck took the role of Klingon ambassador Kamarag in Star Trek IV and he reprised the role in 1991 in Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country, becoming one of only five guest roles to appear in more than one Star Trek motion picture. Also in the 1980s, Schuck starred as Herman Munster in the situation comedy The Munsters Today. The Night Dracula Saved the World and he guest starred in Star Trek, Deep Space Nine as Legate Parn, Star Trek, Voyager as Chorus #3, Star Trek, Enterprise as Antaak, and Babylon 5 as Draal in The Long, Twilight Struggle. In 1994, he appeared as Ralgha nar Hhallas in Wing Commander III and he then guest-starred in several episodes of Law & Order, Special Victims Unit as the NYPD Chief of Detectives Muldrew. Under his full name of Conrad John Schuck, he opened in the role of Daddy Warbucks in the Broadway revival of Annie in December 2006 and he later appeared in the films Holy Matrimony and String of the Kite. In 2013, he appeared as Senator Max Evergreen in Nice Work If You Can Get It, Schuck married actress Susan Bay, and together they had a son named Aaron. Painless Waldowski The Moonshine War - E. J
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Nancy Walker
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Nancy Walker was an American actress and comedian of stage, screen, and television. She was also a film and television director, Walker was born in 1922 as Anna Myrtle Swoyer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the elder of two daughters of vaudevillian Dewey Barto and Myrtle. Walker and her father both stood 411 and her younger sister, Betty Lou, also had a musical career. The sisters were raised in a trunk by their father, an entertainer with George Mann in the comedic and acrobatic dance act, Barto. In 1937, as Nan Barto, Walker appeared on the NBC radio programs Coast to Coast On A Bus and she made her Broadway debut in 1941 in Best Foot Forward. The role provided Walker with her debut when she signed a contract with M-G-M to make a movie version. In 1943, she appeared with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in the second film version of Girl Crazy. Her next film, Broadway Rhythm, in which she had a musical number backed by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet. Her dry comic delivery enabled her to continue acting throughout the 1940s and 1950s, originating the roles of Hildy Eszterhazy in On the Town and Lily Malloy in Look Ma, Im Dancin. on Broadway. She was nominated for a Tony Award in 1956 for her work in the musical revue Phoenix 55, Walker also starred in the short-lived Broadway musical comedy Copper and Brass in 1957, and appeared in the 1958 New York City Center production of Wonderful Town. For the early 1970s revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, she appeared again opposite Silvers, because of her T. V. work, she was unable to transfer with the show to Broadway. Her appearances in musicals led to record releases, and Dozens of television guest appearances and recurring roles followed, providing her with steady work. Her career spanned five decades and included comedies, dramas, and television variety shows such as Faye Emersons Wonderful Town, The Garry Moore Show, in the 1960-61 television season, she appeared in two episodes of NBCs The Tab Hunter Show. In 1970, she secured a role as Emily the housekeeper on the television series Family Affair. However, after four seasons, the ratings of Family Affair had plummeted opposite NBCs popular The Flip Wilson Show, and the series was cancelled at the end of that season. That same year Walker made her first appearance playing Ida Morgenstern, the role proved to be ideal for her. Walker thereafter became an annual guest star on the show for the three years. In 1974, when the MTM spinoff series, Rhoda premiered, from 1971-76, she was a regular on the successful Rock Hudson detective series McMillan & Wife, playing the McMillans housekeeper, Mildred
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Sheree North
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Sheree North was an American film and television actress, dancer, and singer, known for being one of 20th Century-Foxs intended successors to Marilyn Monroe. North was born as Dawn Shirley Crang in Los Angeles, California, on January 17,1932, following her mothers remarriage to Edward Bethel, she was known as Dawn Shirley Bethel. She began dancing in USO shows during World War II at age ten, in 1948, she married Fred Bessire. She bore her first child at age 17 in 1949, North made her film début as an uncredited extra in Excuse My Dust. She was then spotted by a performing at the Macayo Club in Santa Monica. Around that time, she adopted the stage name Sheree North and she made her Broadway début in the musical Hazel Flagg, for which she won a Theatre World Award. She reprised her role in the version, Living It Up, starring Dean Martin. In early 1954, aged 22, she appeared in a live TV version of Cole Porters Anything Goes on The Colgate Comedy Hour, with Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, in 1954, North signed a four-year contract with 20th Century-Fox. The studio had big plans for her, hoping to groom her as a replacement for the studios leading, after her screen tests, however, North was not cast in either film. In March 1954, North had a brush with scandal when it was revealed that she had danced in a bikini in an 8 mm erotic film. Fox capitalized on the publicity as the studio previously had with Monroes nude calendar posing in 1952, in 1955, she was assigned the lead role opposite Betty Grable in How to Be Very, Very Popular, a role that Marilyn Monroe had refused to accept. Media attention surrounding Monroes suspension and Norths hiring resulted in North appearing on the cover of Life magazine with the cover line Sheree North Takes Over From Marilyn Monroe, the movie received mixed reviews from critics and was a moderate box office success. Despite this, film historians, then and now, cite Norths electrically-charged dancing to Shake, Rattle and Roll, in an attempt to promote North, Fox studio executives lobbied to cast her in films surrounded with popular stars. The studio had campaigned to cast her in a film with comedian Tom Ewell, to promote the film, North posed for several publicity shots showing her legs. When the majority of the shots were released, only her legs appeared with the tagline, Believe it or not, the film premiered with much fanfare in January 1956, and became a box office success, grossing over $4 million in the United States. Norths follow-up was The Best Things in Life Are Free, a musical in which her singing voice was dubbed by Eileen Wilson. She received fourth billing under Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey, and it was an attempt by the studio to broaden Norths audience appeal, and while it earned favorable reviews from critics, it did not become the success Fox had hoped for. In 1956, Fox signed another blonde bombshell, Broadway actress Jayne Mansfield to a contract, although Fox slowly lost interest in North, the studio continued to offer her a string of films
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Martha Raye
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Martha Raye was an American actress and singer who performed in movies, and later on television. She also acted in plays, including Broadway and she was honored in 1969 with an Academy Award as the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipient for her volunteer efforts and services to the troops. Rayes life as a singer and comedic performer began in early childhood. She was born at St. James Hospital in Butte, Montana, as Margy Reed and her father, Peter F. Reed Jr. was an Irish immigrant, while her mother, Maybelle Hazel Reed, was raised in Milwaukee and Montana. Her parents were performing in a vaudeville theatre as Reed. Two days later, her mother was performing again, Martha first appeared in their act when she was three years old. She later performed with her brother Bud, and the children became so popular that their parents act was renamed Margie, in the early 1930s, Raye was a band vocalist with the Paul Ash and Boris Morros orchestras. She made her first film appearance in 1934 in a short titled A Nite in the Nite Club. In 1936, she was signed for comic roles by Paramount Pictures and her first feature film was Rhythm on the Range with crooner Bing Crosby. From 1936–39, she was a featured cast member in 39 episodes of Al Jolsons weekly CBS radio show, The Lifebuoy Program, in addition to comedy, Martha sang both solos and duets with Jolson. Over the next century, she would appear with many of the leading comics of her day, including Joe E. Brown, Bob Hope. Fields, Abbott and Costello, Charlie Chaplin, and Jimmy Durante and she joined the USO in 1942, soon after the US entered World War II. She was known for the size of her mouth, which was large in proportion to her face, earning her the nickname The Big Mouth. She later referred to this in a series of commercials for Polident denture cleaner in the 1980s, So take it from The Big Mouth. Her large mouth would relegate her motion picture work to supporting comic parts, in the Disney cartoon Mother Goose Goes Hollywood, she is caricatured while dancing alongside Joe E. Brown, another actor known for a big mouth. In the Warner Bros. cartoon The Woods Are Full Of Cuckoos, in 1968, she was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in the form of an Oscar. On November 2,1993, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton for her service to her country. The citation reads, A talented performer whose career spans the better part of a century, Martha Raye has delighted audiences and she brought her tremendous comedic and musical skills to her work in film, stage, and television, helping to shape American entertainment
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Mildred Natwick
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Mildred Natwick was an American stage, film and television actress. In 1967, she earned an Academy Award nomination for her role in Barefoot in the Park. She was nominated for two Tony Awards in 1957 and 1972 and won a Primetime Emmy Award for her work in the miniseries The Snoop Sisters, Natwick was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Joseph and Mildred Marion Natwick. Her grandfather, Ole Natwick, was one of the earliest Norwegian immigrants to the United States and her first cousin was animator and cartoonist Myron Grim Natwick. She attended the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore and later graduated from Bennett College, Natwick began performing on the stage at age 21 with The Vagabonds, a nonprofessional theatre group in Baltimore. She soon joined the University Players on Cape Cod, Natwick made her Broadway debut in 1932 playing Mrs. Noble in Frank McGrath’s play Carry Nation, about the famous temperance crusader Carrie Nation. Throughout the 1930s she starred in a number of plays, frequently collaborating with friend, on Broadway, she played Prossy in Katharine Cornells production of Candida. She made her debut in John Fords The Long Voyage Home as a Cockney slattern. Natwick is remembered for small but memorable roles in several John Ford film classics, including 3 Godfathers, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and she played Miss Ivy Gravely, in Alfred Hitchcocks The Trouble with Harry, and a sorceress in The Court Jester. She continued to appear onstage, and made regular guest appearances in television series and she returned to film in Barefoot in the Park as the mother of the character played by Jane Fonda. The role earned Natwick her only Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting actress, one of Natwicks memorable roles was in The House Without a Christmas Tree, which starred Jason Robards and Lisa Lucas. The programs success spawned three sequels, The Thanksgiving Treasure, The Easter Promise, and Addie and The King of Hearts. In 1971, Natwick co-starred with Helen Hayes in the ABC Movie of the Week, Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate, the success of that telefilm resulted in a 1973-74 series, also called The Snoop Sisters, which was part of The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie. For her performance, Natwick won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, in 1981, Natwick joined Hayes as the first members of the Board of Advisors to the Riverside Shakespeare Company. Both attended and supported several fund raisers for that theatre company. She guest-starred on such series as McMillan & Wife, Family, Alice, The Love Boat, Hawaii Five-O, The Bob Newhart Show. She made her film appearance at the age of 83 in the 1988 historical drama Dangerous Liaisons. Natwick, who never married or had children, lived in a duplex on Park Avenue in Manhattan for the majority of her life and she was a devout Christian Scientist
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Richard Gilliland
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Richard Gilliland is an American television and movie actor. Gilliland was born in Fort Worth, Texas and he has been married to actress Jean Smart since 1987. They met while working on the set of Designing Women and they have a son, Connor Douglas and a daughter, Bonnie Kathleen. Gilliland played Captain Stan Cotter on 24 during season 5, while his wife Smart played First Lady Martha Logan in the same season and he appeared onscreen in the 1970s. Notable appearances include Thirtysomething, Party of Five, Little Women, and he played Ellis Kapp on The Unit and Captain Stan Cotter on 24
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Dennis Weaver
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William Dennis Weaver was an American actor who was best known for his work in television. Weavers two most notable roles were as Marshal Matt Dillons trusty helper Chester Goode on the CBS western Gunsmoke and he appeared in the 1971 television film Duel, the first film of director Steven Spielberg. He is also remembered for his role as the twitchy motel attendant in Orson Welless film Touch of Evil, Weaver was born in Joplin, Missouri, the son of Walter Weaver and his wife Lenna Prather. His father was of English, Irish, Scottish, Cherokee, Weaver wanted to be an actor from childhood. He lived in Shreveport, Louisiana, for years and for a short time in Manteca. During World War II he served as a pilot in the United States Navy, after the war, he married Gerry Stowell, with whom he had three children. Weaver tried out for the 1948 U. S. Olympic team in the decathlon, however, only the top three finishers were selected. Weaver later commented, I did so poorly, I decided to, stay in New York and try acting. Weavers first role on Broadway came as an understudy to Lonny Chapman as Turk Fisher in Come Back and he eventually took over the role from Chapman in the national touring company. Solidifying his choice to become an actor, Weaver enrolled in The Actors Studio, in the beginning of his acting career, he supported his family by doing odd jobs, including selling vacuum cleaners, tricycles, and womens hosiery. In 1952, Shelley Winters helped him get a contract from Universal Studios and he made his film debut that same year in the movie The Redhead from Wyoming. Over the next three years, he played in a series of movies, but still had to work odd jobs to support his family. It was while delivering flowers that he heard he had landed the role of Chester Goode and it was his big break, the show would go on to become the highest-rated and longest-running live action series in United States television history. He received an Emmy Award in 1959 for Best Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series, according to the Archive of American Television interview with Weaver, the producer had him in mind for Chester, but could not locate him, and was delighted when he showed up to audition. Never having heard the show, Weaver gave Chesters inane dialog his best Method delivery. Disappointed in his delivery, however, the producer asked for something humorous, the stiff leg came about when the producer pointed out that sidekicks almost always have some failing or weakness that makes them less-capable than the star. Weaver decided that a leg would be just the right thing. In 1960, he appeared in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents titled Insomnia, in 1961, he did an episode of The Twilight Zone called Shadow Play where he was trapped inside his own dream
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Richard Boone
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Richard Allen Boone was an American actor who starred in over 50 films and was notable for his roles in Westerns and for the TV series Have Gun – Will Travel. Boone was born in Los Angeles, California, the child of Cecile and Kirk E. Boone. His father was a descendant of Squire Boone, brother to frontiersmen Daniel Boone and his mother was Jewish, the daughter of immigrants from Russia. Richard Boone graduated from Hoover High School in Glendale, California and he attended Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where he was a member of Theta Xi fraternity. He dropped out prior to graduation and went to work in oil-rigging, bartending, painting, in his youth, Boone had attended the San Diego Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad, California, near Oceanside. There, Boone was introduced to theatre under the tutelage of Virginia Atkinson, robert Walker, another Academy graduate and member of the school’s theatre club, Masque & Wig, became a close acquaintance of Boones. After the war, Boone used the G. I, bill to study acting at the Actors Studio in New York. Serious and methodical, Boone debuted on the Broadway theatrical scene in 1947 with the play Medea and then appeared in Macbeth, elia Kazan used Boone to feed lines to an actress for a film screen-test done for director Lewis Milestone. Milestone was not impressed with the actress, but he was impressed enough with Boones voice to him to Hollywood. In 1950, Boone made his debut as a Marine officer in Milestones Halls of Montezuma. In 1953, he played Pontius Pilate in the first Cinemascope film released and he had only one scene in the film, in which he gives instructions to Richard Burton, who plays the centurion ordered to crucify Christ. When he was ordered to appear in film for Fox made at the same time as The Robe. During the filming of Halls of Montezuma he befriended Jack Webb, the writer of Dragnet was preparing a series about a doctor for NBC. From 1954 to 1956, Boone became a face in the lead role of that medical drama, titled Medic. While on Medic, he also guest-starred as the character Everett Brayer on NBCs Frontier anthology series, Boone also appeared in the 1954 Dragnet film based on Webbs series. The show had first been offered to actor Randolph Scott, who turned it down, the show ran from 1957 to 1963, with Boone receiving two more Emmy nominations, in 1959 and 1960. Boone starred in three movies with John Wayne, The Alamo as Sam Houston, Big Jake, and The Shootist, during the 1960s, Boone appeared regularly on other television programs. He was an occasional guest panelist and also a mystery guest on Whats My Line, the Sunday night CBS-TV quiz show
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Hec Ramsey
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This series was groundbreaking in that it was the first television Western set in the early 20th century when the Old West was fading. Producer Jack Webb described the series as Dragnet meets John Wayne, the scripts balanced authentic modern investigative methods of the 1900s-era Old West with action and adventure. Hec Ramsey stars Richard Boone as Hector Hec Ramsey, a former gunfighter turned lawman with a keen interest in the emerging field of forensics. He still carried a firearm, but had traded his low-slung gunfighter rig for a single-action Army-type revolver with a short barrel, Ramsey, having recently become expert with his new equipment, accepts the position of deputy police chief in the fictional town of New Prospect, Oklahoma. The year is identified as 1901 in the pilot episode The Century Turns, Hec learns that New Prospects chief of police, Oliver B. Stamp, is a young, very inexperienced lawman who needs help. Stamp is aware of his inexperience, and after some initial friction and they are frequently accompanied by a colorful local doctor, Amos Coogan. Despite good ratings, Hec Ramsey was canceled two seasons following unresolvable disagreements between Boone and Universal Studios. Douglas Benton and creator Harold Jack Bloom were the producers, Jack Webb was executive producer, guest stars in the series 10 episodes included, Claude Akins, R. G. Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows Hec Ramsey at the Internet Movie Database Hec Ramsey at TV. com
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Peter Falk
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He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, first for Murder, Inc. and again for Pocketful of Miracles. Director William Friedkin said of Falks role in his film The Brinks Job and he could break your heart or he could make you laugh. Falk was the first actor to be nominated for an Academy Award, in 1968, Falk starred with Gene Barry in a ninety-minute television movie about a highly skilled, laid-back detective. Columbo eventually became part of a series titled The NBC Mystery Movie, along with McCloud, McMillan & Wife. The detective series stayed on NBC from 1971 to 1978, took a respite, Falk was everyones favorite rumpled television detective, wrote historian David Fantle. In 1996, TV Guide ranked Falk number 21 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list. Born in New York City, Falk was the son of Michael Peter Falk, owner of a clothing and dry goods store, and his wife, Madeline, an accountant and buyer. Both of his parents were Jewish, coming from Poland and Russia on his fathers side, and from Hungary, Falks right eye was surgically removed when he was three because of a retinoblastoma, he wore an artificial eye for most of his life. The artificial eye was the cause of his trademark squint, despite this limitation, as a boy he participated in team sports, mainly baseball and basketball. In a 1997 interview in Cigar Aficionado magazine with Arthur Marx, Falk said, I got so mad I took out my glass eye, handed it to him and said, Try this. I got such a laugh you wouldnt believe, Falks first stage appearance was at the age of 12 in The Pirates of Penzance at Camp High Point in upstate New York, where one of his camp counselors was Ross Martin. Falk attended Ossining High School in Westchester County, New York, after graduating from high school in 1945, Falk briefly attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and then tried to join the armed services as World War II was drawing to a close. Rejected because of his eye, he joined the United States Merchant Marine. Falk said of the experience in 1997, There they dont care if youre blind or not, the only one on a ship who has to see is the captain. And in the case of the Titanic, he couldnt see very well, Falk recalls this period in his autobiography, A year on the water was enough for me, so I returned to college. After a year and a half in the Merchant Marine, Falk returned to Hamilton College and he transferred to the New School for Social Research in New York City, which awarded him a bachelors degree in literature and political science in 1951. He then traveled in Europe and worked on a railroad in Yugoslavia for six months, Falk obtained a Master of Public Administration degree at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University in 1953. The program was designed to civil servants for the federal government
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The CBS Late Movie
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The CBS Late Movie is a CBS television series during the 1970s and 1980s. The program ran in most American television markets from 11,30 p. m. until 2,30 a. m. or later, on weeknights. A single announcer voiced the introduction and commercial bumpers for each program, the program was launched following the cancellation of The Merv Griffin Show, CBSs late-night talk show from 1969 to 1972. The show went on to have a run in first-run syndication following CBSs cancellation. The CBS Late Movie theme music was So Old, So Young by Morton Stevens, which also served as the theme music for CBSs prime-time movies until 1978. Announcements also ran in much greater proportion than during prime time, with commercial breaks lasting longer, it was not uncommon for the portion of the show to start at 12, 05AM or 12. It was not until 1993, when the Late Show with David Letterman debuted, until 1969, CBS programming had never ventured into the late hours. However, three earlier, many of its affiliates, which were running old movies after nightly local newscasts. Thus, CBS tentatively targeted the spring of 1968 as the date for a new network late-night series. Otherwise, the financing required for such a production would prove cost-prohibitive, yet in 1969, this is just what was offered to them—in the person of Merv Griffin. But despite his success as a syndicated TV phenomenon, Griffins CBS ratings could never compete with Johnny Carsons consistently high audience numbers. And thus, in pulling the plug on Griffin in early 1972 and this move proved an effective ploy because two months after The CBS Late Movie premiered, the Nielsen ratings recorded that it had drawn better audience numbers than The Tonight Show. One CBS executive had an explanation for this sudden good fortune. First airing on February 14,1972, The CBS Late Movie initially ran titles from a new package of MGM films that had not been previously televised. CBSs new anthology also offered packages of 1950s Warner Brothers and MGM films that, up until then, had run only on local and independent stations. These included the Burt Lancaster medieval action-picture The Flame and the Arrow, the Randolph Scott western Fort Worth, as mentioned above, the first few weeks of The CBS Late Movie proved a winner with late-night television audiences. Here is the lineup of films that initially drew viewers away from Johnny Carson. Yellow indicates the premiere of a film that was previously shown for years on local
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MeTV
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MeTV is an American broadcast television network that is owned by Weigel Broadcasting and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The network is available nationwide on free-to- air C band satellite via SES-1 in the DVB-S format. MeTVs operations are based out of Weigel Broadcastings corporate headquarters on North Halsted Street in Chicago, the block – which initially aired for three hours daily from 12,00 to 3,00 p. m. Channel 23s former ethnic programming and WFBT-CA call letters were transferred to its station on UHF channel 48. On August 4,2007, WWME launched a morning block that primarily featured Spanish dubs of select classic series. Most of the programs carried as part of the Sí, on March 1,2008, Weigel expanded the MeTV format to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where it began airing on the third digital subchannel of the groups CBS affiliate in that market, WDJT-TV. The Milwaukee version of the service featured much of the programming as that aired on the Chicago outlets. MeTV continued to be carried on digital channel 58.3 until October 30,2008, the national MeTV network launched on December 15,2010. As with This TV, MGM handles distribution of the network to prospective affiliate stations, in the Chicago market, the national MeTV is carried on WCIU subchannel 26.3 and WWME-CA, the new MeToo moved to WCIU subchannel 26.4 and remained on WMEU-CA. Low-powered WBME-CD in Milwaukee carries the national feed of MeTV in its entirety on digital channel 41.2 subchannel on December 15,2010. On April 1,2013, Nielsen began to tabulate national viewership for MeTV, including the network in its prime time and total day ratings reports. In February 2016, the network began to transmit its master feed in 16,9 widescreen standard definition, with the conversion, MeTV also began to carry remastered widescreen prints of some programs and present its program promotions in the 16,9 format. Since MeTV broadcasts programs that it acquired through the syndication market, the network does not air a split-screen credit sequence or feature voiceovers promoting upcoming network programming during the closing credits. Unlike other digital multicast networks such as sister network This TV. Since its inception as a network, MeTV has also aired marathons of The Doris Day Show on Christmas Eve as well as Christmas-themed specials during the month of December. MeTV has program licensing agreements with 20th Television, CBS Television Distribution, the networks programming lineup covers a mix of sitcoms, dramas and westerns from the 1950s to the 1990s, and includes series such as Emergency. MeTV regularly carries many of its programs in organized genre-based programming blocks, MeTVs Sunday Funnies – Debuting on September 6,2015, MeTVs Sunday Funnies is a weekly afternoon block of classic comedies. Airing Sundays from 2,00 to 8,00 p. m. Eastern Time, the block is made up of Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley
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Banacek
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Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974. The series was part of the rotating NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie anthology and it alternated in its time slot with several other shows but was the only one to last beyond its first season. Peppard played Thomas Banacek, a suave, Polish-American freelance investigator based in Boston and he then collected from the insurance companies 10% of the insured value of the recovered property. Though the hippopotamus has no sting, the man would prefer to be sat upon by the bee. A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn, when a wolf is chasing your sleigh, throw him a raisin cookie, but dont stop to bake a cake. Just because the cat has her kittens in the oven doesnt make them biscuits and you can read all the books in the library my son, but the cheese will still stink after four days. No matter how warm the smile on the face of the Sun, part of the joke was that Ralph Manza as Banaceks chauffeur Jay Drury, would often ask What does it mean, Boss. Banacek also had an agreement with his chauffeur for a 10% share of Banaceks 10% if he solved the crime. Mr. Drury was never at a loss for a solution which Banacek would always manage to shoot down with his very next line. Another recurring gag was for other characters to mispronounce his name, often, particularly in the case of rivals, the name Banaczek is actually quite rare in Poland. Also featured were Murray Matheson as rare-bookstore owner and information source Felix Mulholland and Christine Belford as Carlie Kirkland, Banaceks sometime-lover, Felix was the series only character to ever call Banacek by his first name. Banaceks success as an investigator allowed him to live well and he had a mansion at 85 Mt. Vernon Street, on Beacon Hill in Boston. He had a limousine and driver and he owned and drove an antique 1941 Packard convertible. He had a radio telephone in each of his cars at a time when these devices were uncommon. Banacek was intelligent, well-educated, cultured and suave and he was an unapologetic ladies man who enjoyed the company of beautiful women, but he was street-smart and could engage in violent hand-to-hand fighting if the moment called for it. Banacek borrowed elements of both characters and plot points, in general the series was shot on the Universal Studios backlot, though location scenes were filmed around Los Angeles in areas that could pass for Boston, or rural areas near there. The episode titled If Max Is So Smart, Why Doesnt He Tell Us Where He Is. was shot on location at the California Institute of the Arts around the time the school first opened. Ten Thousand Dollars A Page was filmed at the Pasadena Art Museum, later known as the Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, a customized 1969 American Motors AMX was built by George Barris for the second regular season episode
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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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The Nancy Walker Show
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The Nancy Walker Show is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 30,1976 to December 23,1976. Walker portrayed Nancy Kitteridge, owner of the Nancy Kitteridge Talent Agency in Los Angeles, during the two months that Ken was home, he and Nancy found themselves as newlyweds madly in love. Nancy and Ken had a daughter, slow-witted hypochondriac Lorraine. Nancy never had to worry about anything more developing between them, since Terry was gay. However, all this happiness was soon marred when unexpectedly, Ken decided to come home full-time, needless to say, Nancy was aghast, and their fast repartee and squabbles were a centerpiece of the comedy. Lorraine and Glen often dropped by to help them sort their disagreements out, also seen were hot-shot network TV executive Teddy Futterman, who met with Nancy whenever one of her clients had a shot at further stardom, and Futtermans precocious young son, Michael. ABC did, indeed, drop the series after 10 episodes, and Walker was quickly hired by Garry Marshall to star in his upcoming sitcom Blanskys Beauties, a spin-off from his top-rated Happy Days. Production on the new series started so soon that Blanskys Beauties premiered on February 12,1977, Walker also had time to film a guest appearance as her new character, Nancy Blansky on an episode of Happy Days in order to validate Blanskys as a spin-off of the former. Blanskys Beauties also failed in the ratings, and was cancelled in the spring of 1977, thus, Walker is one of the few actors in television to have starred in two failed vehicles in the same season. After her infamous season at ABC, Walker returned to her role as Ida Morgenstern on Rhoda in the fall of 1977. Two cast members of The Nancy Walker Show worked with Norman Lear more than once in their careers, james Cromwell was previously seen as Stretch Cunningham, a poker buddy of Archie Bunker, in a number of episodes of All in the Family during 1974. Child actor Sparky Marcus would be cast in Lears controversial soap opera parody Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman mentions the show in episode 178, saying she wishes it was still on the air when she learned about her gay neighbours. Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows The Nancy Walker Show at the Internet Movie Database
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Bounty (brand)
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Bounty is a paper towel product manufactured by Procter & Gamble in the United States. Consequently, the product on sale as Bounty in the UK has become rebranded as Plenty, p&G retains all rights to the name Bounty and their product remains on sale under that name in the United States. Consumer Reports reported that the best paper towel was the Bounty DuraTowel, in 1998, Bounty started selling napkins
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Holmes & Yoyo
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Holmes & Yoyo is an American comedy television series that aired on ABC for 13 episodes during the 1976-1977 season. Several episodes of Holmes & Yoyo were directed by John Astin, shull starred as Detective Alexander Holmes, John Schuck starred as his partner Gregory Yoyo Yoyonovich. Their co-stars included Andrea Howard and Bruce Kirby, jay Leno appeared in the pilot as a gas station attendant. Detective Alexander Holmes is a clumsy down-on-his-luck cop who constantly injures his partners, the department gives him a new partner, Gregory Yoyonovich. Yoyo, as he likes to be called, is good-natured, if a bit clumsy, besides super-strength, Yoyos other abilities include speed reading, and the ability to analyze clues at the scene. Yoyo had a built-in Polaroid camera, each time his nose was pressed, Yoyos control panel was built into his chest, which could be opened by pulling his tie. The level of Yoyos batteries was critical, because if they ran down his memory and, effectively, in one episode his batteries came very close to running down completely, and he was charged by being pushed against an electric fence with his arms extended. Yoyo weighed 427 pounds, and his heavy build could absorb the shock of a bomb, much of the shows comedy was derived from Yoyos constant malfunctions. Some of his common problems included, Uncontrollably spinning head over heels when near a garage door that was opening or closing. Another running gag involved Yoyos ability to read a book by simply fanning its pages, his invariable comment after doing so was. Today, Holmes & Yoyo is considered one of the worst television series ever made and it ranked number 33 on TV Guides List of the 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time. The 2013 series Almost Human once again revisits the theme, Holmes & Yo-Yo at the Internet Movie Database Holmes & Yo-Yo at TV. com
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Joe DiMaggio
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Joseph Paul Joe DiMaggio, nicknamed Joltin Joe and The Yankee Clipper, was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career for the New York Yankees. He is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak, a record still stands. DiMaggio was a three-time MVP winner and an All-Star in each of his 13 seasons, during his tenure with the Yankees, the club won ten American League pennants and nine World Series championships. At the time of his retirement, he ranked fifth in home runs. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955 and his brothers Vince and Dom also were major league center fielders. DiMaggio was born on November 25,1914 in Martinez, California and he was named Paolo after his father Giuseppes favorite saint, Saint Paul. The family moved to nearby San Francisco when Joe was a year old, Giuseppe was a fisherman, as were generations of DiMaggios before him. After being processed on Ellis Island, Giuseppe worked his way across America, eventually settling near Rosalias father in Pittsburg, California, on the east side of the San Francisco Bay Area. After four years, he earned money to send to Italy for Rosalia and their daughter. Giuseppe hoped that his five sons would become fishermen, DiMaggio recalled that he would do anything to get out of cleaning his fathers boat, as the smell of dead fish nauseated him. Giuseppe called him lazy and good-for-nothing, DiMaggio did not finish his education at Galileo High School and instead worked odd jobs including hawking newspapers, stacking boxes at a warehouse and working at an orange juice plant. DiMaggio was playing semi-pro ball when older brother Vince DiMaggio, playing for the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League, Joe DiMaggio made his professional debut on October 1,1932. From May 27 to July 25,1933, he hit safely in 61 consecutive games, a PCL-record, Baseball didnt really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak, he said. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping, in 1934, DiMaggio suffered a career-threatening knee injury when he tore ligaments while stepping out of a jitney. Scout Bill Essick of the New York Yankees, convinced that the injury would heal, after DiMaggio passed a physical examination in November, the Yankees purchased his contract for $50,000 and five players. He remained with the Seals for the 1935 season and batted.398 with 154 runs batted in and 34 home runs and his team won the 1935 PCL title, and DiMaggio was named the leagues Most Valuable Player. DiMaggio made his league debut on May 3,1936. The Yankees had not been to the World Series since 1932, in total, DiMaggio led the Yankees to nine titles in 13 years
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Visual Entertainment
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Visual Entertainment Inc. is a home video/television distribution company that is based in Toronto, Ontario Canada. Around 2014, Phase 4 Films became VEIs new US distributor and our Own Private Bin Laden Arthur C. Clarkes World of Strange Powers Arthur C, clarkes Mysterious Universe In Search of. On August 19,2014, VEI released The Equalizer Complete Collection- Limited Edition, exclusively through their online store
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Alchemy (company)
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Alchemy was an American independent global film distributor based in Los Angeles, California. The company acquired and distributed films, television series and specialty programming. Its former staff includes marketing and distribution specialist Brooke Ford and Andy Gruenberg, Millennium Entertainment was 60% owned by production company Nu Image. Exclusive Media Group owned 20% and Prentice Capital owned the remaining stock, following its formation in 2010, the company marked its first noteworthy theatrical release in 2011 with Trust, starring Academy Award nominees Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, and Viola Davis. Television series released by Alchemy include The Cosby Show, Baywatch, First Look Studios originally released all eight seasons of The Cosby Show, A Different World, and other shows on DVD, but they eventually filed bankruptcy in 2010. Millennium Entertainment acquired all of First Look Studios’ assets, and continued to release them in the United States, Canada, Bermuda, in April 2013, it was announced that Millennium Entertainment would be sold, and an investment company, Salem Partners, would assist in the sale. In August 2014, the library and distribution assets had been sold to a consortium consisting of its current management. The new owners renamed the company Alchemy in January 2015, finally cutting ties to its sister company Millennium Films. In July 2015, Alchemy acquired the distribution assets of ANconnect. The transaction will result in the addition of 40 new employees to the existent 70, in December 2015, Bill Lee exited the company as CEO. In February 2016, Alchemy laid off 40 employees equaling 40% of the entire staff. The company began selling off previously acquired films including The Lobster, Free Fire, Lobster and Fire both sold to A24, while Madre was sold to Music Box Films. Alchemy filed for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy on June 30,2016, all employees were released following the bankruptcy. com, Millennium Entertainment channel
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The Snoop Sisters
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The Snoop Sisters is an American comedy-mystery television show that aired on NBC during the 1973–1974 season. The series aired on a rotation as part of the NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie, trading timeslots with Banacek, Tenafly. Of these series, only Banacek demonstrated any longevity, the show stars Hollywood film legends Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick as two elderly sisters, Ernesta Snoop and Gwendolyn Snoop Nicholson, who routinely stumbled across mysteries which they solved. They first appeared on ABC in a TV movie titled The Snoop Sisters, the series followed the 1971 ABC television movie Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate, which also starred Hayes and Natwick working together as amateur sleuths. Only four 90-minute episodes of the series were ever produced, visual Entertainment released The Snoop Sisters- The Complete Series on DVD in Canada on March 15,2011, and in the US on June 7,2011. Madman Entertainment released the series on DVD in Australia on March 16,2011. The Snoop Sisters at the Internet Movie Database The Snoop Sisters at TV. com
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Madman Entertainment
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Madman Entertainment is an Australian company that distributes Australian and foreign films as well as Japanese anime and manga in Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea. Madman is one of the entertainment companies in Australia. It employs approx 100 people and has a turnover of around A$50 million. Its headquarters is in Richmond, Victoria, Madman has secured the local release rights to popular titles including Sailor Moon, One Piece, Dragon Ball, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Akira, Steins, Gate and almost all of Studio Ghiblis catalogue. In addition to DVD sales, Madman manages the theatrical release of some of their titles, according to market research, Madman accounts for 97% of the total anime home media market in Australia. Later on in 1997, Madman started to distribute anime from ADV Films along with Siren Entertainment, in 2001 Madman Entertainment bought Sirens distribution equipment and established The AV Channel, allowing Madman to distribute their own titles. As of 2008, only some of Manga Entertainment Australias titles from the 1990s have been distributed by Madman, some of their DVD releases have been jointly mastered with Britains MVM Films or Revelation Films to save costs, and are therefore dual-region. A few DVD titles from Madman, such as the Oh My Goddess, oVAs, are all-region or multi-region DVDs in the NTSC format, imported from the US and repackaged for sale in Australia and New Zealand. Madman & Manga UK also work together on PAL DVD & Region B Blu-ray masters and video transfers, a growing selection of manga titles translated by Tokyopop in the United States and Chuang Yi in Singapore are being imported and distributed through Madman Entertainment. In February 2008, Madman announced that they would also be distributing manga titles from Viz Media, Madman currently distributes manga from Viz Media, Dark Horse Comics, Tokyopop, and recently from Yen Press with the 2012 release of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Madman launched in 1996 solely as a distribution company, but has since expanded. Madman also has a distribution arm called Madman Cinema. In addition, the company distributes original series produced by Australias Special Broadcasting Service on DVD, at the 2008 Supanova Pop Culture Expo, Madman announced plans to explore new distribution methods. The company now offers streaming of selected anime episodes, beginning with the first episode of School Rumble. Madman now has a sub-page, Madman Scereening Room, dedicated to video streaming, Madman has also begun releasing Blu-ray Disc titles, starting with The Transformers, The Movie in June 2009. On 1 June 2009, Madman Entertainment released an English adaption of Tamagotchi, The Movie, Madman also intended to dub the films sequel, Tamagotchi, Happiest Story in the Universe. But the dub was cancelled for unknown reasons, in April 2008, the company announced a collaboration with British company Warp Films. Warp and Madman plan to make at least two films together over the three years, starting with Tyrannosaur
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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TV.com
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TV. com is a website owned by CBS Interactive. The site covers television and focuses on English-language shows made or broadcast in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom. Australia and UK versions of the website are available, at au. tv. com and uk. tv. com. CNET originally acquired the name in the mid-1990s to host a website for the companys technology-related TV shows. One of these shows was titled TV. com, the program, highlighting the best of the Internet for new and casual computer users, aired in U. S. syndication. CNET then acquired TV Tome, a television database. TV. com was launched a few months after that acquisition on June 1,2005, many of the features and content from the original TV Tome site were maintained in the new TV. com site. On May 15,2008, CBS formally announced its purchase of CNET Networks, TV. com continually looked at innovating the television-viewing experience by incorporating it with technology, as seen with the creation of WatchList. This service offered personalized TV listings influenced by user actions and social media, TV Tome was an American website devoted to documenting English-language television shows and their production. It was run by volunteer editors, with the assistance of user contributions, the site was founded by John Nestoriak III. The site had over 2,500 complete television series guides, over 3,500 developing television series guides, in addition to the television series guides, TV Tome had a forum for each television series, with information regarding episodes, their interpretation, and general discussions. A spin-off site, Movie Tome, was established in August 2003, a video game tome and a music tome were originally planned as well, but such plans were abandoned with the purchase of TV Tome and Movie Tome by CNET. On April 22,2005, TV Tome officially announced its acquisition by CNET, CNET reportedly bought TV Tome for US $5 million in January 2005. CNET announced plans to relocate the site to its TV. com domain, a preliminary version of the new site launched on June 1,2005 and on June 13,2005, the site was permanently redirected to TV. com with an entirely new layout. TV. com provides show descriptions, cast and crew listings, full episodes, clip length videos, discussion forums, episode guides may include synopsis information, a recap, credits, notes, trivia, quotes, and images provided by the networks. All textual information in the guides is user-generated, after a user earns a certain number of points, s/he becomes an editor for the guide and can moderate user submissions. The site provides actor guides that include actor bios, credits, trivia, like show pages, users can become editors for these guides after earning points by providing sourced content. The sites mobile application allows users to video content, including clips and full length episodes
