US TV - THE FARMERS DAUGHTER to THE FIVE MRS BUCHANANS
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THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER
ABC/Columbia / 101x30m-e / 1963-65 black and white
Sitcom. A widowed politician employs a forthright governess. 26 episodes were in colour.
With:- INGER STEVENS / WILLIAM WINDOM / CATHLEEN NESBITT
FARSCAPE
Hallmark/Nine Network/ Jim Henson Prod. / x60m-e / 1999-2002
Creator: Rockne S. O'Bannon / Executive Producers: David Hemper, Rockne S. O'Bannon, Brian Henson, Kirk Noble, Robert Halmi Jr
Scifi drama series. During an experiment into space flight commander John Crichton and his ship are dragged into a wormhole that sees him 5,000 light years away from home and in a world of aliens and wars. He teams up with a bunch of renagade outlaws in his quest to get home.
Cmdr John Crichton......................... BEN BROWDER
Officer Aeryn Sun............................ CLAUDIA BLACK
Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan............................. VIRGINIA HEY
Ka D'Argo....................................... ANTHONY SIMCOE
Pilot.............................................. SEAN MASTERSON
Capt Craig..................................... LANI JOHN TUPU
FATHER AND SONS
USA / NBC / x30m-e / 1986 (First Episode: Sunday 6 April / 7.30pm)
Sitcom. Episodes in the lives of a group of young friends especially Lanny Landau and his father Buddy who liked to involve himself in his sons sporting activities.
With:- MERLIN OLSEN as Buddy Landau / JASON LATE as Lanny Landau / KELLY SANDERS as Ellen Landau / ANDRE GOWERS as Sean Flynn / IAN FIRED as Matty Bolen / NICHOLAS GUEST as Dr Richard Bolen / HAKEEM as Brandon Russo
FATHER DOWLING INVESTIGATES
NBC/ABC / 45x60m-e / 1987/1990-91
Creators: Ralph McInerny, Dean Hargrove, Joel Steiger / Producer: Barry Steinberg / Executive Producer: Fred Silverman, Barry Steinberg
Crime drama series. In Chicago Catholic Priest Father Frank Dowling, often assisted by nun Sister Steve, is often called upon to undertake detective work. As of 1990, when the series switched to ABC the title switched to Father Dowling Mysteries.
Father Frank Dowling........................ TOM BOSLEY
Sister 'Steve' Stephanie.................... TRACY NELSON
Father Prestwick ............................. JAMES STEPHENS
Marie.............................................. MARY WICKES
Sgt Clancy...................................... REGINA KREUGER
FATHER KNOWS BEST
CBS/NBC/Rodney- Young / 191x30m-e / 1954-62 black and white
Producers: Eugene B. Rodney, Robert Young
Sitcom. Stories of the suburban Anderson family.
Jim Anderson.................................. ROBERT YOUNG
Margaret Anderson.......................... JANE WYATT
Betty Anderson............................... ELINOR DONAHUE
Bud Anderson................................. BILLY GRAY
Kathy Anderson.............................. LAUREN CHAPLIN
FAY
NBC/Universal / 3x30m-e / 1975
Producers: Danny Thomas, Paul Junger Witt
Sitcom. Misadventures of a divorcee.
With:- LEE GRANT
THE FBI
ABC-Quinn Martin / 236x60
minute episodes /
Crime drama series.
Allegedly based on real case files from
Some location filming was undertaken at the FBI’s real life
With: - EFREM ZIMBALIST JR. as Inspector Lewis Erskine / PHILIP ABBOTT as Arthur Ward / LYNNE LORING as Barbara Erskine (1965-1966) / STEPHEN BROOKS as Special Agent Jim Rhodes (1965-1967) / WILLIAM REYNOLDS as Special Agent Tom Colby (1967-1973) / SHELLY NOVACK as Agent Chris Daniels (1973-1974).
F.B.I THE UNTOLD STORIES
ABC / x30 minute episodes
/
This docu drama series took recent files from the FBI (only going back as far as the 1970’s) and added news footage and surveillance footage to the mix. Stories tended towards the exciting with scenarios covered including extortion, assassination and organised crime. Hosted by Pernell Roberts.
F.D.R
ABC / x30 minute episodes / 1965 (8 January – 10 September)
Producer: Ben Feiner Jr / Executive Producer: Robert D. Graff
Mammoth documentary
telling the life of American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with
contributions from his closest family and colleagues, including his wife
Eleanor, who also acted as consultant to the series. Arthur Kennedy was
the narrator whilst Charlton Heston was the voice reading the selected
writings of
THE FEATHER AND FATHER GANG
Columbia/Larry White / 1x90m-e 13x60m-e / 1976
Executive Producer: Larry White
Crime drama series. A female lawyer uses her con man dad to help her on her cases.
With:- STEFANIE POWERS / HAROLD GOULD / JOHN FORSYTHE / FRANK DELFINO
FELICITY
Warner Bros / x60m-e / 1998-2002
Drama series. Shy, beautiful Felicity dumps her plans for medical school and follows her high school crush Ben to NYU and is quickly swept into a romantic triangle that brings both discovery and heartache. She went to New York to find romance but ends up finding herself.
With:- Keri Russell / Scott Speedman / Scott Foley / Amy Jo Johnson
THE FELONY SQUAD
ABC/TCF / 77x30m-e / 1966-68
Producer: Walter Grauman
Crime drama series. Cases of a trio of cops.
With:- HOWARD DUFF / BEN ALEXANDER / DENNIS COLE
FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY
NBC / 26x30m-e / 1959 black and white
Sitcom. Stories of a middle class suburbanite who can't stop lying.
With:- BOB SWEENEY / CATHY LEWIS / ADDISON RICHARDS / HAL PEARY
CBS / 1x30m-e / 1983 20 July
Creator: Bob Larbey
Comedy. Middle aged Laura Prescott strike up a hesitant relationship with Mike Selway. A failed US pilot of the UK sitcom of the same name.
Laura Prescott...................................... JULIE KAVNER
Mike Selway......................................... LEO BURMESTER
Helen................................................... KRISTIN MEADOWS
Phil .................................................... KEVIN CONROY
FIRED UP
NBC/Grammnet / 28x30m-e / 1997-98 (First Episode: 10 April 97)
Executive Producers: Kelsey Grammer, Victor Fresco
Sitcom. After being downsized from their jobs marketing executive Gwen and her personal assistant Terry decide to strike out on their own. Five episodes went unaired.
With:- SHARON LAWRENCE as Gwen / LEAH REMINI as Terry / MARK FEUERSTEIN as Danny Reynolds / JONATHAN BANKS as Guy Mann / FRANCESCA P. ROBERTS as Mrs Francis / MARK DAVIS as Ashley
FIREFLY
Fox-Mutant Enemy Inc-Kuzui-Sandollar / 13x60 minute episodes / 2002
Creator: Joss Whedon / Executive Producers: Joss Whedon, Tim Minear / Producer: Gareth Davies
Scifi drama series. Set
400 years in the future, in the wake of a universal civil war, FIREFLY
centers on the crew of Serenity, a small transport spaceship. The crew
members will take any job -- legal or not -- to stay afloat and put bread on
their table. Thrust together by necessity, these disparate men and
women are cowboys of the future. They're seeking adventure and the
good life, but facing constant challenges on the new frontier which test and
reveal their true identities. Using the galaxy as a backdrop to tell very
human stories, FIREFLY is about the characters’ unpredictable lives and
relationships, as well as their search for meaning in a very uncertain time.
With:- Nathan Fillion as Capt. Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds / Gina Torres as Zoe Washburne / Alan Tudyk as Hoban 'Wash' Washburne / Morena Baccarin as Inara Serra / Adam Baldwin as Jayne Cobb /
Jewel Staite as Kaylee Frye / Sean Maher as Dr. Simon Tam / Summer Glau as River Tam / Ron Glass as Shepherd Book
FIREHOUSE
ABC/Metromedia/ 1x90m-e 13x30m-e / 1974
Producers: Dick Berg, John Ireland, Richard Collins
Action adventure series. Exploits of a fire crew. Pilot 1973.
With:- JAMES DRURY / RICHARD JAECKEL / MICHAEL DELANO / BRAD DAVIS / BILL OVERTON
THE FIRE NEXT TIME
2x120m / 1992
Writer: James S Henerson / Director: Tom McLoughlin
Apocalyptic tale set in the near future where the people are struggling to survive due to the previous generations ecological mistakes.
With:- CRAIG T NELSON as Drew Morgan / BONNIE BEDELIA as SUZANNE MORGAN / RICHARD FARNSWORTH a Frank Morgan / JURGEN PROCHNOW as Larry Richter / JUSTIN WHALIN as Paul Morgan / ASHLEY JONES as Linnie Morgan / CHARLES HAID as Buddy Eckhard / JOHN VERNON as Boudreaux
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
CBS/Grief-Dove Co. / 8x30m-e / 1988 27 August - 1 October
Writers: Dianne Dixon, Fred Freeman, Lawrence J. Cohen, Susan Strauss / Director: Jack Shea
Sitcom. In Omaha, Nebraska, Frank Dutton copes with life as a single father after his wife leaves him to bring up their nine year old daughter Lindsay alone.
Frank Dutton.................................... BRAD GARRETT
Lindsay Dutton................................. BRANDY GOLD
Dave Poole...................................... THOM SHARP
Mrs Madison................................... RUTH KOBART
Donna Patterson............................. SARAH ABRELL
Raymond Voss............................... JAMES NOBLE
FIRST LOVE
USA / NBC / x15m-e / July 5, 1954-December 30, 1955
NBC's ex-head of daytime programming Adrian Samish produced this live serial from Philadelphia for the network.
It examined the tumultuous marriage of the Jameses, a pair of young lovers, and their relationships with others, chiefly Chris and Amy, another married couple, and Lauries family, including her parents Paul and Doris. Weak-willed Zach had difficulties at home and at work at a jet engine plant, where his nemesis was scheming Wallace Grant. Wallace eagerly seized the chance to aggravate Zach when he caught wind of an affair between the latter and Petey. This news upset Laurie, and in early 1955 she and
Zach separated.
Laurie moved from the fictional town of Harrison when she accepted a job offer from Washington, D.C. While Zach confided his sad situation to sympathetic friend and co-worker Quentin Andrews, Laurie began seeing David, an attorney, in the nation's capital, but circumstances eventually brought her back to Harrison
and her husband. Tony Morgan, a newcomer, had a fling with Petey and was planning to leave with her until she turned up murdered. Zach, who collapsed in her apartment, became investigator Bruce McKee's prime suspect. Laurie was sure of her husband's innocence, and with the help of David they searched the apartment and found proof that exonerated him, generating suspicions that Grant may have been the real killer. Meanwhile, tragedy struck Amy in late 1954 when her pilot husband Chris died in a test flight, leaving Grant to make a move on the widow. She
put the kibosh on his attempt and moved out of town briefly, then returned and married Bruce McKee before the show ended, even though he had to cope with the possibility that a recently arrived girl in Harrison named Jenny might be his biological daughter.
As for the newly reunited Laurie and Zach, she went to work at a dress shop, and he came back to the jet engine plant following Andrews's recommendation. Zach's father Matthew arrived in town and started working at the plant too while wooing Leona. Yet Matthews world was shattered dramatically in the last major story line as conniving Jack Doyle broke into the plant and wounded him fatally. Zach survived the onslaught and saw Doyle arrested, and on the show's last episode could at least be hopeful that he and
Laurie might be heading for a less eventful new year.
Cast
Peggy Allenby.... Doris Kennedy
Tod Andrews.... Zack James #1
Jay Barney.... Bruce McKee
Patricia Barry .... Laurie James
Frederic Downs.... Quentin Andrews
Val Dufour.... Zack James #2
John Dutra.... Mike Kennedy
Paul McGrath .... Matthew James
Henrietta Moore.... Peggy Gordon
Rosemary Prinz.... Amy
Melville Ruick.... Paul Kennedy
Howard Smith .... Judge Kennedy
Frankie Thomas .... Chris
THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED YEARS
CBS / x15m-e / 1950-52
The very first CBS soap was this one, shown weekdays at 2.30pm between the 4 December 1950 and 27 June 1952. It was about a newly married couple moving into a run down three story Victorian house. The couple, Chris and Connie Martin Thayer had to deal with all the usual problems, in-laws interfering, problems with their house, etc. Sponsored by Proctor and Gamble the show was based on a radio serial that ran from 1948 and also a 1950 Silver Theater anthology production. The series, which went out live, had quite a few location shots (New York-Long Island-Westchester County) inserted. Also notable was the fact that this series was the first appearance of the teleprompter/autocue, the machine which feeds actors their lines.
With:- JAMES LYDON as Chris Thayer / OLIVE STACEY as Connie Martin Thayer (1950-Jan 52) / ANNE SARGENT as Connie Martin Thayer (Jan - June 1952) / DON TOBIN as Mr Thayer / VALERIE CROSSART as Mrs Thayer / ROBERT ARMSTRONG as Mr Martin / NANA BRYANT as Mrs Martin / NANCY MALONE as Margy Martin
FIRST PERSON SINGULAR
NBC / x30m-e / 1953 black and white
Devisor: Fred Coe
An anthology series in which the camera was the star (a technique called subjective camera) showing the action from the camera's point of view.
ABC/Mimis / 35x30m-e / 1977-78
Executive Producer: Danny Arnold / Producers: Norman Barasch, Roy Kammerman, Steve Pretzker
Sitcom. Spin off from Barney Miller which saw the character of Phil Fish and his wife Bernice becoming foster parents to a group of problem kids. There had been a Fish pilot broadcast on 4 Dec 1975 called Fish and Bernice, this featured Doris Belack as Bernice.
Phil Fish.............................................. ABE VIGODA
Bernice Fish........................................ FLORENCE STANLEY
Charlie Harrison................................... BARRY GORDON
Mike................................................... LENNY BARI
Loomis............................................... TODD BRIDGES
Victor................................................ JOHN CASSISI
Jilly................................................... DENISE MILLER
Diane................................................ SARAH NATOLI
ABC/Granada/ Krushner-Locke/Sadwith / x60m-e / 1997
Creator: Jimmy McGovern / USTV Creator: James Sadwith / Theme Music: Angelo Badalmenti / Executive Producers: Scott Brazil, Jim Leonard Jr, Gub Neal, Donald Kushner,
Crime drama series. Cases of psychologist Gerry Fitzgerald working for the police, a watered down version of the UK's Cracker.
Gerry Fitzgerald............................... ROBERT PASTORELLI
Hannah Tyler................................... ANGELA FEATHERSTONE
Judith Fitzgerald.............................. CAROLYN McCORMICK
Danny Wattington............................ ROBERT WISDOM
Lt Fry.............................................. R. LEE ERMEY
THE FITZPATRICKS
Warner / 13x60m-e / 1977
Creator: John Sacret Young / Producer: John Cutts
Sitcom. Exploits of a suburban Michigan family.
With:- BERT CRAMER / MARICLARE COSTELLO
FIVE FINGERS
NBC/TCF / 16x60m-e / 1959 black and white
Spy drama series. Cases of a US secret agent.
With:- DAVID HEDISON / LUCIANA PALUZZI
THE FIVE MRS BUCHANANS
CBS/Westen & Cherry Prod./TCF / 17x30m-e / 1994-95
Executive Producers: Jamie Westen, Marc Cherry
Sitcom. The four wives of the Buchanan brothers team up to prevent the boys horrible mother making their lives a misery.
Emma Buchanan............................... EILEEN HECKART
Alex Buchanan................................. JUDITH IVEY
Delilah Buchanan.............................. BETH BRODERICK
Vivian Buchanan............................... HARRIOT SAMSOM HARRIS
Bree Buchanan................................ CHARLOTTE ROSS
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