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BRANDED
NBC/Goodson-Todman / 48x30m-e / 1965-66
Creator: Larry Cohen / Producers: Andrew J. Fenady, Cecil Baker /
Theme Music: A. Alch, Dominic
Frontiere
Western drama series.
In the 1880's, after being wrongly accused of
being a coward, Captain Jason McCord determines to
clear his name.
With:- CHUCK CONNORS as Jason McCord / JOHN CARRADINE as
Joshua McCord
BRAVE
EAGLE
CBS / x30m-e / 1955-56 (28
September 55 - 6 June 56)
Executive Producer Michael North
Western drama series. Stories of
an Indian tribe led by the young Brave Eagle, other characters included his
'main squeeze' Morning Star and his foster son Keena. The character "Keena"
was thought up by the executive producer Michael North who got the idea
from the 20th Century Production, Pony Soldier (1952) in which the part of
the nine year old orphan was play by Anthony Earl Numkena.
With:- KEITH LARSEN as Brave
Eagle / ANTHONY EARL NUMKENA as Keena / KIM WINONA as Morning Star / BERT WHEELER as
Smoky Joe
BRAVE NEW WORLD
NBC/Universal/Milton Sperling / 2x95m-e / 1980
Writer: Robert E. Thompson / Novel: Aldous Huxley / Producer: Jaqueline Babbin /
Director: Burt Brinckerhoff
SciFi drama serial.
600 years in the future there is no such thing as Love or
free expression and all babies are born in test tubes, the
son of the director of Central Hatcheries causes scandal
when he falls in love.
Linda Lysenko................................. JULIE COBB
Bernard Marx.................................. BUD CORT
Thomas Grahmbell.......................... KEIR DULLEA
Mustapha Mond.............................. RON O'NEAL
Lenina Disney................................. MARCIA STRASSMAN
John Savage................................... KRISTOFFER TABORI
Helmholtz Watson.......................... DICK ANTHONY WILLIAMS
THE BREAKING POINT
ABC/Bing Crosby Prod. /
52x60m-e / 1963-64 black and white
Drama series.
The heavy duty cases of a psychiatrist.
With:-
RALPH BELLAMY /
WENDELL COREY
BRENNER
CBS / x30m-e / 1959-64
black and white
Creator: Herb Brodkin
Crime drama series. Cases
of a pair of police officers of differing generations. Completely filmed
on location in New York.
With:- EDWARD BINNS as Det.Lt. Roy Brenner / JAMES BRODERICK as Officer Ernie Brenner
THE BRIAN KEITH SHOW
NBC/Warner /
48x30m-e /
1972-73
Sitcom.
The cases of a pediatrician based in Hawaii. The
series, in some regions, carried the alternate title of
The Little People.
BRIAN KEITH /
SHELLEY FABARES /
VICTORIA YOUNG /
ROGER BOWEN /
NANCY KULP
BRIDGET LOVES BERNIE
CBS/Screen Gems/ Douglas S. Cramer Co./ Thornhill / 24x30m-e /
1972-73
Creator: Anne Nichols / Executive Producer: Douglas S. Cramer / Producers:
William Frye, Don Nelson,
Arthur Alsberg
Sitcom.
Catholic girl Bridget Fitzgerald marries hard working
Jewish taxi driver Bernie Steinberg. The stars also
became a married couple in real life.
With:- MEREDITH BAXTER as
Bridget Fitzgerald / DAVID BIRNEY as
Bernie Steinberg / DAVID DOYLE as
Walt Fitzgerald / AUDRA LINDLEY as
Amy Fitzgerald / ROBERT SAMPSON as
Michael Fitzgerald / HAROLD J. STONE as
Sam Steinberg / BIBI OSTERWALD as
Sophie Steinberg / NED GLASS as
Moe Plotnic
BRIMSTONE
Warner / 13x60m-e / 1998-99
Creators: Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris / Music: Christopher Lennertz /
Theme Music: Peter Gabriel / Producers: Peter Horton, Phil Parslow
Fantasy drama series.
After he dies Policeman Ezekial Stone finds himself
in hell, the Devil agrees to let him return to Earth to
track down 113 escapee souls who are creating
havoc back on Earth.
With:- PETER HORTON as Ezekial Stone / JOHN GLOVER as Devil / TERI POLO as Detective Ash
BRINGING UP BUDDY
CBS/MCA/Kayro /
34x30m-e / 1960 black and white
Creators: Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher
Sitcom.
The exploits of bachelor Buddy who lives with
his spinster Aunts.
FRANK ALETTER as Buddy /
DORO MERANDE /
ENID MARKEY
BROADSIDE
ABC/Universal / 32x30m-e /
bw 1964
Sitcom.
The exploits of a quartet of Waves during the second
world war.
With:- KATHY NOLAN
BROKEN ARROW
ABC/TCF /
72x30m-e / 1956-57 black and white
Western drama series.
Stories of an Indian agent working with the Apaches
in an attempt to bring peace. Based on the film of
the same name.
With:- MICHAEL ANSARA as Cochise /
JOHN LUPTON
BRONCO
ABC /
68x60m-e / 1958-62 black and white
Executive Producer: William T. Orr
Western drama series.
Former Confederate Army Captain Bronco Lane
wanders the old west having adventures. The
character of Bronco was first seen in the show Cheyenne.
With:- TY HARDIN as
Bronco Lane
BRONK
MGM /
1x90m-e /
24x60m-e /
1975-76
Producer: Bruce Geller
Crime drama series.
Cases of the homicide cop of the title.
With:- JACK PALANCE as Bronk
BROTHERS
Showtime/Paramount/ Gary Nardino Prod. / 115x30m-e /
1984-89
Creator: David Lloyd / Producers: Greg Antonucci, Gary Nardino,
Stan Silver
Sitcom.
Stories of three New York brothers one of whom,
Cliff, is homosexual.
Cliff Waters........................................ PAUL REGINA
Joe Waters........................................ ROBERT WALDEN
Lou Waters....................................... BRANDON MAGGART
Donald Maltby................................... PHILIP CHARLES MacKENZIE
Penny Waters................................... HALLIE TODD
Kelly................................................ ROBIN RIKER
Samantha "Sam' Waters................... MARY ANN PASCAL
THE BROTHERS BRANNIGAN
CBS/Wilbur Stark-Brad Jacey /
39x30m-e / 1960 black and white
Produced by Wilbur Stark
and Jerry Layton
Crime drama series.
Cases of two Phoenix based private detectives.
With:-
STEVE DUNNE as Mike Brannigan /
MARK ROBERTS as Bob Brannigan
BRUTALLY
NORMAL
Warner Bros / x30m-e / 2000
Executive Producers: Greer Shephard, Michael M. Robin, Tommy Swerdlow and Michael Goldberg
Sitcom about the
idiosyncratic daily events in the lives of a group of "brutally
normal" teenage friends with their unique point-of-view of
adolescence at its most absurd.
With:- Mike Damus as Pooh
Cutler / Lea Moreno Young as Anna Pricova / Eddie Thomas as Russell Wise /
Tangie Ambrose as Dru / Bruce Dern as Dru
BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY
ABC /
39x30m-e / 1950 (15 April 50 - 30 Jan 51) black and white
Writer: Gene Wyckoff /
Producer: Babette Henry
SciFi adventure series.1919 Mining engineer Buck Rogers is left in suspended
animation by some freak Mountain Gas, he wakes in
the 25th Century(2430) and finds himself in an amazing
new world the world capital of which was Niagra. See also the late 1970's version.
With:- KEN DIBBS as Buck Rogers (1950) / ROBERT PASTENE as Buck Rogers
(1950-51) /
LOU PRENTIS as Wilma Deering /
HARRY SOTHERN as Dr Huer / HARRY KINGSTON as Black Barney /
BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25th CENTURY
Universal/Glen A. Larson / 33x60m-e
1x105m-e
1x120m-e /
1979-80
Creator/Executive Producer: Glen A. Larson / Executive Producer: John
Mantley(Season 2)
SciFi drama series.
In 1987 astronaut Buck Rogers is thrust into
suspended animation following an accident - he returns
to Earth 500 years later in the middle of the 25th
century. Twiki was a midget sized robot befriended by Buck. The series
fortunately didn't take itself too seriously.
With:- GIL GERARD as
Capt Buck Rogers / ERIN GRAY as
Col Wilma Deering / TIM O'CONNOR as
Dr Huer / FELIX SILLA as Twiki / MEL BLANC as
Voice of Twiki / THOM CHRISTOPHER as Hawk / WILFRED HYDE WHITE as
Dr Goodfellow / PAMELA HENSLEY as
Princess Ardala / MICHAEL ANSARA as Kane
BUCKSKIN
NBC/Betford/Revue /
39x30m-e / 1958 black and white
Western drama series.
Frontier tales in a small Montana town.
With:-
TOMMY NOLAN /
SALLY BROPHY
BUDDY
FARO
CBS - Spelling Television -
McNamara Paper Product in association with Warner Bros. Television /
8x60m-e / 1998
Creator: Mark Frost /
Writers: Mark Frost, E.M. Cosin, Kim Costello, Jon Hotchkiss, Barry
Pullman / Executive Producer Charles Haid
Crime drama series with a
twist in that hip 1960's private detective Buddy Faro returns to practice
again after two decades as a recluse. Buddy (in an Austin Powers kind of
way) still acted as if it was the 1960's.
With:- Dennis Farina as
Buddy Faro / Frank Whaley as Bob Jones / Allison Smith as Julie Barber /
Charlie Robinson as El Jefe
BUFFALO BILL
NBC/Stampede / 26x30m-e /
1983-84
Creator/Producer: Jay Tarses, Tom
Patchett
Sitcom.
Chat show host 'Buffalo' Bill Bittinger makes
his colleagues lives and the lives of the people around
him a misery with his arrogant and bullish ways.
Bill Bittinger...................................... DABNEY COLEMAN
Jo-Jo White...................................... JOANNA CASSIDY
Karl Stub.......................................... MAX WRIGHT
Woody............................................. JOHN FIELDER
Wendy Killian................................... GEEENA DAVIS
Newdell Spriggs............................... CHARLES ROBINSON
BUFFALO BILL JR
Flying A /
40x30m-e / 1955 black and white
Producer: Gene Autry
Western adventure series.
Stories of a young Buffalo Bill.
With:- DICK JONES as
Buffalo Bill Jr /
NANCY GILBERT
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
WB-Fox-Kusuki- Mutant Enemy Inc./
90x60m-e / 1997-2003
Creator/Executive Producer: Joss Whedon
/
Theme Music: Nerf Herder
Fantasy adventure series.
Each generation a girl is born to become the world's
only Vampire slayer, young high school student Buffy
Summers is born to that role, which she reluctantly
assumes, especially as the town where she lives, Sunningdale, is choc full of vampires.
Assigned to watch over Buffy was school librarian Giles and Buffy's friends
Willow, Xander and Cordelia were also roped into helping her. Not content with
fighting Vampires Buffy also tangled with Witches, Demons and even on one
occasion a giant praying mantis. Angel, Buffy's love interest was a centuries
old vampire turned good who after sleeping with Buffy reverted to his evil ways
(having suffered a gypsy curse). Season two saw the evil Spike and Drusilla
appear to try and torment Buffy and Co. By the start of
season four Buffy and her friends were starting college.
See also the spin off Angel.
The show was based on a
1992 film of the same name that starred Kristy
Swanson as Buffy.
With:- SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR as Buffy Summers / ANTHONY STEWART HEAD as
Rupert Giles / NICHOLAS BRENDON as
Xander Harris / ALYSON HANNIGAN as
Willow Rosenberg / CHARISMA CARPENTER as
Cordelia Chase / DAVID BOREANAZ as
Angel (Seasons 1-3) / KRISTINE SUTHERLAND as
Joyce Summers / ANDREW J. FERCHLAND as Colin, The Annointed(1997) / MARK METCALF
as The Master(1997) / ROBIN LA MORTE as Jenny Kalender(1997-98) / ARMIN
SHIMMERMAN as Principal Snyder(1997-98) / JAMES MARSTERS as Spike / JULIET LANDAU
as Drusilla(1997-98) / SETH GREEN as Oz / K. TODD FREEMAN as Mr Trick (1998-99)
/ ELIZA DUSHKU as Faith(1998-99) / ALEXIS DENISOF as Wesley Wyndham Price(Season
4-) HARRY GROENER as Mayor Richard Wilkins III(1998-99) / MARC BLUCAS as
Riley Finn (Season 4-) / MERCEDES McNAB as
Harmony (Season 4-) / LINDSAY CROUSE as
Prof Maggie Walsh (Season 4-)
THE
BUICK CIRCUS HOUR
USA / NBC / x60m-e / 1952-53
(First Episode: Tuesday 7 October 52 / 8.00pm)
Drama series broadcast live from
New York. Lead character was The Clown and singer Kim O'Neill who harboured a
passion for circus owner Bill Sothern. There were regular musical interludes and
the show was only seen once a month.
With:- JOE E. BROWN as The Clown
/ DOLORES GRAY as Kim O'Neill / JOHN RAITT as Bill Sothern / FRANK GALLOP as The
Ringmaster
BULL
TNT / x60m-e / 2000
Executive Producers: Michael Chernuchin, Ken Horton, Eric Laneuville
Drama series (TNT's first such original show in fact) concerned with the activities of
a group of young traders off of Wall Street determined to strike out on their own.
With:- Alicia Coppola as Marissa Rufo / Ian Kahn as Marty Decker / Donald Moffat as Robert "The Kaiser" Roberts
/ George Newbern as Robert "Ditto" Roberts III / Elisabeth Rohm as Alison Jeffers
/ Stanley Tucci as Hunter Lasky / Christopher Wiehl as Carson Boyd / Malik Yoba as Corey Granville
BURKE'S LAW
ABC/Four Star / 94x60m-e / 1963-65 black and white
Creator: Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts,
Ernest Kinoy / Producer: Arnold Spelling
Crime drama series.
Ultra slick Rolls Royce driving LA Police Chief
Captain Amos Burke investigates various murders.
Towards the end of the shows run Burke quit the
force to go into the world of espionage. Each episode
began with the words 'Who Killed...?'
With:- GENE BARRY as
Capt Amos Burke / GARY CONWAY as
Det Tim Tilson / REGIS TOOMEY as
DS Lester Hart / LEON LONTOL as Henry / CARL BENTON REID as
'The Man '
THE BURNS AND ALLEN SHOW
McCadden Prod./ Screen Gems / 291x30m-e / 1950-58
Writer: Harvey Helm, Keith Fowler,
Norman Paul, William Burns / Producer: Fred De Cordova
Sitcom.
Episodes in the domestic life of real life comedians
George Burns and Gracie Allen.
With:- GEORGE BURNS as George / GRACIE ALLEN as Gracie / RONNIE BURNS as Ronnie
/ HARRY VON ZELL as Harry / BEA BENADERET as
Blanche Morton / LARRY KEATING as
Harry Morton(53-58)
GEORGE BURNS
Beside his two sitcom shows(The Burns and Allen
Show(see above) & The George Burns Show
the cigar smoking comedian has starred
in various specials including:-
1.THE GEORGE BURNS ONE MAN SHOW CBS/GBF 1977 1x60m-e
2.GEORGE BURNS IN NASHVILLE??? NBC/GBF 1981 1x60m-e
3.GEORGE BURNS' EARLY, EARLY, EARLY
CHRISTMAS SHOW NBC/GBF 1981 1x60m-e
4.GEORGE BURNS CELEBRATES 80 YEARS IN
SHOWBUSINESS NBC/GBF 1983 1x90m-e
5.GEORGE BURNS AND OTHER SEX SYMBOLS NBC/GBF 1982 1x60m-e
6.GEORGE BURNS 90TH BIRTHDAY PARTY NBC/GBF 1986 1x60m-e
7.GEORGE BURNS:AN HOUR OF JOKES AND SONGS HBO/Brightside 1984 1x60m-e
BUS STOP
ABC/TCF/Roy Huggins / 25x60m-e / 1961 black and white
Producer: Robert Blees / Story Consultant: William Inge
Drama series. A kind of anthology series focusing on the lives of the people
stopping off in a bus stop cafe. Based on a 1956 Marilyn Monroe film.
With:- MARILYN MAXWELL / JOAN FREEMAN / RICHARD ANDERSON / RHODES REASON
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