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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 

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

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

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

NBC/Universal / 3x30m-e / 1975

Producers: Danny Thomas, Paul Junger Witt 

Sitcom. Misadventures of a divorcee.

With:- LEE GRANT

ABC-Quinn Martin / 236x60 minute episodes / 19 September 1965 – 8 September 1974  

Crime drama series. Allegedly based on real case files from America ’s Federal Bureau of Investigation this series told stories of Inspector Lewis Erskine who kept a very cool head whilst tracking down the bad guys. Erskine initially had a daughter (only in season one) but the producers didn’t want a family relationship getting in the way.
Some location filming was undertaken at the FBI’s real life Washington headquarters and the gang always drove the latest Ford cars because the show was sponsored by Ford. The show would also quite often close with an appeal to the audience focusing on America ’s most wanted criminals.  

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 / 26 September 1991 – 26 June 1993

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 Roosevelt .

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

With:- Keri Russell / Scott Speedman / Scott Foley / Amy Jo Johnson 

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

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

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 

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

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

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

Warner / 13x60m-e / 1977

Creator: John Sacret Young / Producer: John Cutts 

Sitcom. Exploits of a suburban Michigan family.

With:- BERT CRAMER / MARICLARE COSTELLO

NBC/TCF / 16x60m-e /  1959 black and white

Spy drama series. Cases of a US secret agent.

With:- DAVID HEDISON / LUCIANA PALUZZI

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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