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ABC/Glen A. Larson / 10x60m-e / 1980

Creator/Executive Producer: Glen A. Larson 

Scifi drama series. A sequel to Battlestar Galactica in which the Battlestar fleet return home to Earth hotly pursued by an alien race called the Cylons.

With:- LORNE GREENE as Cmdr Adams / KENT McCORD as Capt Troy / BARRY VAN DYKE as Lt Dillon / ROBYN DOUGLASS as Jamie Hamilton / HERB JEFFERSON JR as Col Boomer / ALAN MILLER as Col Sydell / FRED HOLLIDAY as Brooks

Roach/ITC / 25x30m-e /  1956-59 black and white

Sitcom. Stories of the social organiser on board a cruise liner. Also known as Oh Susannah!

With:- GALE STORM / ZASU PITTS / ROY ROBERTS / JAMES FAIRFAX

Warner / 26x60m-e /  1962 black and white

Wartime drama series. Exploits of a group of correspondents based in Italy during World War II.

With:- ROBERT McQUEENEY / WILLIAM REYNOLDS / 

ABC/Selmur / 26x60m-e / 1967

Wartime action adventure series. Exploits of a group of convicts, who during World War Two, are recruited into the army to take part in deadly missions.

With:- RON HARPER / CESARE DANOVA / BRENDON BOONE / CHRISTOPHER CARY

THE GEENA DAVIS SHOW

ABC-Touchstone / x30m-e / 2000

Creator: Terri Minsky / Music: Rich Ragsdale, Jonathan Wolff / Executive Producers: Terry Minsky, Nina Wass, Gene Stein, Davis Flebotte,  Geena Davis, James Vallely / Producer: Dawn DeKeyser

Sitcom. Single Teddie Cochran has to make changes in her life after falling in love with Max who has two kids.

With:- GEENA DAVIS as Teddie Cochran / PETER HORTON as Max / MIMI ROGERS as Hillary / KIM COLES as Judy / JOHN FRANCIS DALEY as Carter / MAKENZIE VEGA as Eliza / ESTHER SCOTT as Gladys / HARLAND WILLIAMS as Alan

GEMINI MAN

Universal/NBC/Harve Bennett / 1x95m-e 11x60m-e / 1976 (23 September - 28 October  / Thursday 8.00pm)

Executive Producer: Harve Bennett 

Scifi drama series. After being caught in a radiation explosion Sam Casey is left invisible. He then uses his powers working for government agency Intersect. Casey can only stay invisible for 15 minutes in any 24 hour period.

With:- BEN MURPHY as Sam Casey /  KATHERINE CRAWFORD as Dr Abigail Lawrence / RICHARD DYSART asLeonard Driscoll

Flying A / 85x30m-e /  1950-53  black and white

Western drama series. Stories of the owner of the Melody Ranch, also known as Gene Autry's Melody Ranch.

With:- GENE AUTRY / PAT BUTTRAM / GAIL DAVIS

GENERAL HOSPITAL

ABC / x30m-e (63-76) / then x45m-e(76-78) then x60m-e / 1963- First Episode: 1 April 63 shown weekdays

Creators: Doris and Frank Hursley / Producer: Gloria Monty / Associate Producers: Jerry Balrue, Dick Dunn

Long running US daytime soap detailing episodes both professional and personal in the lives of the doctors and nurses working at Port Charles General Hospital in Upper New York. Later the show moved into stranger areas with plots involving spies and the like and then again in the 1990's it switched to be a series issues type show covering AID's, Cancer etc. Much of the action nowadays is centered away from the confines of the General. There has been a recent spin off called Port Charles and the show is the longest running daytime show on ABC having on 17 April 2002 clocked up 10,000 episodes, a special clip driven edition was shown featuring cast members, both past and present.  There was also a UK show called General Hospital offering much the same as this show. 

Important cast members include:- DENISE ALEXANDER as Dr Lesley Faulkner Webber / RACHEL AMES as Audrey Hobart Hardy / RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON as Dr Jeff Webber / JERRY AYRES as David Hamilton / MICHAEL BASELEON as Dr. Tony Perelli / JOHN BERADINO as Dr. Steve Hardy / ROBERT BETZEL as P.J. Taylor / LOANNE BISHOP as Rose Kelly / LARRY BLOCK as Cal Jamison / SUSAN BROWN as Dr. Gail Adamson Baldwin / GAIL RAE CARLSON as Susan Moore / STEVE CARLSON as Dr. Gary Lansing / ANGELA CHEYNE as Dorrie Fleming / NORMA CONNELLY as Ruby Anderson / STUART DAMON as Dr. Alan Quartermaine / LIEUX DRSSSLER as Mrs. Alice Grant / JANE ELLIOT as Tracy Quartermain Williams / GENIE ANN FRANCIS as Laura Vining Faulkner  Webber Baldwin / ANTHONY GEARY as Luke Spencer / GERALD GORDON as Dr. Mark Dante / BRETT HALSEY as Dr. Adam Streeter / PETER HANSEN as Lee Baldwin / JANICE HEIDEN as Lisa/Lana Holbrook / SHELL KEPLER as Amy Vining / ERIC KROH as Alan Quartermaine, Jr. / DAVID LEWIS as Edward Quartermaine / LISA MARIE as Jennifer Smith / EMILY McLAUGHLIN as Jessie Brewer /

GENE RODDENBERRY'S ANDROMEDA

Syndicated / x60m-e / 2000 (First Episode: 2 October 2000)

Creator: Gene Roddenberry / Music: Alex Lifeson / Executive Producers: Majel Barrett, Allan Eastman, Robert Hewitt Wolfe

Scifi drama series. Dylan Hunt is the captain of the starship Commonwealth, having spent the last 300 years in suspended animation, is awakened and embarks on a mission to create a new commonwealth. Another of the series created from the ashes of ideas left behind by Star Trek creator Roddenbery.

With:- KEVIN SORBO as Captain Dylan Hunt / KEITH HAMILTON COBB as Tyr Anasazi / LISA RYDER as Beka Valentine / LEXA DOIG as Andromeda / LAURA BERTRAM as Trance Gemini / GORDON MICHAEL WOOLVETT as Seamus Harper / BRENT STAIT as Rev Bem

Paramount / 1x97m-e / 1973

Creator: Gene Roddenberry 

Scifi drama. In a devastated future most of the Survivors have reverted to primitive status.

With:- ALEX CORD / MARIETTA HARTLEY / PERCY RODRIGUES

NBC/Rod Amateau / 25x30m-e /  1958-59 black and white

Producer: Rod Amateau 

Sitcom. A continuation of The Burns and Allen Show  after Gracie Allen retired, here Burns played a wisecracking theatrical producer.

With:- GEORGE BURNS as George / BEA BENADERET as Blanche Morton / LARRY KEATING as Harry Morton

THE GEORGE GOBEL SHOW

NBC / 36x60m-e /  1957-59 black and white

Producers: Fred De Cordova, Al Lewis, Hal Kanter 

Comedy. Sketch series starring former child star George Gobel. 

GEORGE LOPEZ

ABC / x30m-e / 2002  (First Episode: Wednesday 27 March)

Executive Producer: Drew Carey

Sitcom. Stand-up comedian George Lopez plays a married assembly-line worker and the father of two who has just been promoted to manager at his firm. 

With:- George Lopez

NBC/Columbia / 13x30m-e /  1957 black and white

An anthology of crime based dramas fronted by the urbane Sanders.

ABC-David Wolper / 1x90m-e 22x60m-e / 1974-75 (11 September 74 - 18 July 75)

Crime drama series. Cases of  black female police detective Christie Love who worked undercover as part of the Special Investigations Division of the LAPD.

With:- TERESA GRAVES as Detective Christie Love / CHARLES CIOFFI as Lt Matt Reardon / JACK KELLY as Captain Arthur P. Ryan / DENNIS RUCKER as Detective Steve Belmont / SCOTT PETERS as Detective Valencia / ANDY ROMANO as Detective Joe Caruso / MICHAEL PATAKI as Sergeant Pete Gallagher 

NBC(later CBS)/Talent / 138x30m-e / 1965-70

Creators: Mel Brooks, Buck Henry, Dan Melnick / Executive Producer: Leonard Stern / Producers: Arne Sulton, Mel Brooks

Sitcom. Misadventures of inept spy Maxwell Smart working for intelligence agency CONTROL as they try to outwit the evil agents of KAOS. In 1989 ABC broadcast a TV Movie revival called Get Smart Again and in 1995 there a brief revival (see below).

Maxwell Smart Agent 86................... DON ADAMS

Agent 99......................................... BARBARA FELDON

Chief Thaddeus................................ EDWARD PLATT

Agent 13(66-67)............................... DAVE KETCHUM

Prof Carlson(66-67).......................... STACY KEACH SR

Conrad Siegfried.............................. BERNIE KOPELL

Fox / 7x30m-e / 1995

Sitcom. Belated (and short) revival of the 1960's classic. Maxwell Smart is now chief of CONTROL with Agent 99(his wife) a congresswoman, their son Zach joins CONTROL and is just as bumbling as his Dad was.

Maxwell Smart..................................... DON ADAMS

Agent 99............................................. BARBARA FELDON

Zach Smart......................................... ANDY DICK

Agent 66............................................. ELAINE HENDRIX

Columbia / 15x30m-e / 1971

Producer: Bob Claver 

Sitcom. Exploits of a pair of songwriters trying to make it in Hollywood.

With:- BOBBY SHERMAN / WES STERN / PAT CARROLL / JACK BURNS / SUSAN BEHER

ABC/TCF / 50x30m-e / 1968-70

Creator: R.A. Dick / Writer: Jean Holloway / Executive Producer: David Gerber / Producers: Howard Leeds, Stanley Rubin, Gene Reynolds

Fantasy sitcom. When widow Mrs Muir and her two children move into Gull Cottage in Schooner Bay, New England they find it haunted by the ghost of Sea Captain Daniel Gregg. A film version with Rex Harrison had appeared in 1947.

Carolyn Muir...................................... HOPE LANGE

Capt Daniel Gregg............................. EDWARD MULHARE

Candy Muir....................................... KELLIE FLANAGAN

Jonathon Muir................................... HARLEN CARRAHER

Martha Grant.................................... RETA SHAW

Claymore Gregg............................... CHARLES NELSON REILLY

Filmation / 17x30m-e / 1975

Producer/Director: Norman Abbott 

Fantasy Sitcom. Exploits of a pair of ghost busters tackling a sucession of creatures.

With:- FORREST TUCKER / LARRY STORCH / BOB BURNS

Columbia / 24x60m-e / 1972

Producer: William Castle 

An anthology series of ghost stories hosted by Sebastian Cabot, midway through the shows run the title changed to Circle of Fear.

NBC/Columbia/ David Gerber / 1x90m-e 13x60m-e / 1976

Creator: Frank D. Gilroy / Stories: John O'Hara / Producer: John Furia Jr 

Period drama series. In Gibbsville Pennsylvania in the 1940's young cub reporter Jim Malloy works under the tutelage of the ageing Ray Whitehead who had once been a bigshot reporter in the city.

With:- JOHN SAVAGE as Jim Malloy / GIG YOUNG as Ray Whitehead / BIFF McGUIRE as Dr Malloy / PEGGY McKAY as Mrs Malloy / BERT REMSEN as Pell the editor

GIDEON OLIVER

ABC / x120m-e / 1989 (First Episode: February 20)

Crime drama series. A series of feature length shows, part of the rotating ABC Mystery Movie series. Gideon Oliver was a professor of anthroplogy at Columbia University who used his skills to help the New York Police Department on their cases.

With:- LOUIS GOSSETT JR as Professor Gideon Oliver / SHARI HEADLEY as Zina Oliver

GIDEON'S CROSSING

ABC-Touchstone-Heel and Toe / x60m-e / 2000

Executive Producers: Paul Attanasio, Katie Jacobs, Scott Brazil

Medical drama series. Episodes both professional and personal in the life of Dr Ben Gideon.

With:- ANDRE BRAUGHER as Ben Gideo / RUBEN BLADES as  Dr Max Cabranes / RHONA MITRA as Dr Alejandra 'Ollie' Klein / HAMISH LINKLATER as Dr Bruce Cherry/ RAVI KAPOOR as Dr Siddhartha 'Sid' Shandar / SOPHIE KELLER as Dr Maya Stiles / RUSSELL HORNSBY as Dr Aaron Boies / ERIC DANE as Dr Wyatt Cooper / KEVIN J. O'CONNOR as Dr Michael Pirandello / JASCHA WASHINGTON as Eli Gideon / BRIAN WILTSHIRE as Charlie Gideon / BARRY MILLER as Dr Piradello 

ABC/Columbia / 32x30m-e / 1965

Sitcom. Stories of a sunny Californian teenager.

With:- SALLY FIELD / DON PORTER 

CBS/Gladasya Prod/ UA-TV / 98x30m-e / 1964-67

Creator/ Producer: Sherwood Schwartz 

Sitcom. Whilst on a pleasure cruise the passengers and crew of the SS Minnow are shipwrecked during a storm and find themselves stranded on a desert island.

With:- BOB DENVER as Gilligan / ALAN HALE JR as Jonas 'The Skipper' Grumby / JIM BACKUS as Thurston Howell III / NATALIE SCHAEFER as Lovey Howell / TINA LOUISE as Ginger Grant / RUSSELL JOHNSON as Roy 'The Professor' Hinkley / DAWN WELLS as Mary Ann Summers

GILMORE GIRLS

Warner Bros / x60m-e / 2000 (First Episode: 5 October)

Creator: Amy Sherman Palladino / Executive Producers: Amy Sherman Palladino, Gavin Polone / Producer: Jenji Kohan

Drama series. thirtysomething single mum Lorelai Gilmore works as manager of an inn whilst bringing up her 16 year old daughter Rory, when Rory gets the chance to go to an exclusive school Lorelai is forced to ask the parents she never sees for help with the fees, they agree but only on the condition of keeping in touch with their daughter and granddaughters lives. By 2004 Rory is attending Yale university and struggling to make new friends. 

With:- ALEXIS BLEDEL as Rory Gilmore / LAUREN GRAHAM as Lorelai / EDWARD HERRMANN as Richard Gilmore / KELLY BISHOP as Emily Gilmore / EMILY KURODA as Mrs Kim / KEIKO AGENA as Lane Kim / LIZ TORRES as Miss Patty / MELISSSA McCARTHY as Sookie St James / NATHAN WETHERINGTON as Dean / SCOTT PATTERSON as Luke Danes / YANIC TRUESDALE as Michel

GIMME A BREAK

NBC / x30m-e / 1981-87 (First Episode: 29 October 1981)

Sitcom. Black housekeeper Nell Harper works for Police Chief Carl Kanisky in Glen Lawn, California. Kanisky was a widower with three daughters and later following his death Nell took over the running of the house.

With:- NELL CARTER as Nellie Ruth 'Nell' Harper / DOLPH SWEET as Chief Karl Kanisky (1981-85) / KARL MICHAELSON as Katie Kanisky / LAURI HENDLER as Julie Kanisky Maxwell / LARA JILL MILLER as Samantha Kanisky / HOWARD MORTON as Oficer Ralph Simpson / JOHN HOYT as Grandpa Stanley Kanisky / JANE DULO as Grandma Mildred Kanisky / PETE SCHRUM as Uncle Ed Kanisky / JOEY LAWRENCE as Joey Donovan / TELMA HOPKINS as Addy Wilson / ROSIE O' DONNELL as Maggie O' Brien

GIRLFRIENDS

UPN / x30m-e / 2001
Executive Producer: Kelsey Grammer / Creator: Mara Brock Akil


Sitcom. A kind of black version of Sex in the City following the lives of a group of girlfriends, with much emphasis on sex and so on.

With:- Tracee Ellis Ross as Joan Clayton / Golden Brooks as Maya  / Jill Marie Jones as Toni / Persia White as Lynn / Reggie Hayes as William 
Randy J. Goodwin as Davis Hamilton / Rodney Van Johnson as Marcus Stoke

 MGM/Arena / 29x60m-e / 1966

Creator: Norman Felton / Producer: Douglas Benton 

Spy drama series. Spin off from the Man From U.N.C.L.E. Adventures of U.N.C.L.E girl April Dancer and her English partner Mark Slate. Dancer had previously appeared in the Man From U.N.C.L.E episode The Moonglow Affair played on that occasion by Mary Ann Mobley.

With:- STEFANIE POWERS as April Dancer / NOEL HARRISON as Mark Slate / LEO G. CARROLL as Alexander Waverly

NBC/Columbia/Bob Claver / 22x30m-e / 1973

Creator: Bernard Slade / Producer: Larry Rosen 

Fantasy sitcom. The exploits of a wife with paranormal powers.

With:- SALLY FIELD / JOHN DAVIDSON / ZOHRA LAMPERT / JACK SHELDON

CBS/Embassy / 1x60m-e 21x30m-e / 1982-83

Producers: Dan Guntzelman, Steve K. Marshall 

Sitcom. Spin off from All in The Family. Gloria Stivic and her eight year old son Joey starting a new life with Gloria working as a vets assistant. Episode one of this series(the 60 minuter) is actually an episode of Archie Bunker's Place(which is itself a spin off of All in the Family).

Gloria Stivic...................................... SALLY STRUTHERS

Dr Willard Adams.............................. BURGESS MEREDITH

Dr Maggie Lawrence......................... JO DE WINTER

Clark Uhley...................................... LOU RICHARDS

Joey Stivic...................................... CHRISTIAN JACOBS

CBS/Desilu / 14x30m-e /  1963 black and white

Producers: Jess Oppenheimer, Edward H. Feldman 

Sitcom. Mystery writer Glynis Granville finds herself involved in real life crime.

Glynis Granville............................... GLYNIS JOHNS

Keith Granville................................. KEITH ANDES

Chick Rogers.................................. GEORGE MATTHEWS

ABC/Revue/Kerry / 39x60m-e /  1962-63 black and white

Creator: Leo McCarey / Producers: Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher 

Comedy drama series. Young priest Chick O'Malley moves to a New York parish and soon finds himself coming into conflict with the older Father Father Fitzgibbon. Based on the 1944 Bing Crosby film of the same name.

Father Chuck O'Malley...................... GENE KELLY

Father Fitzgibbon.............................. LEO G. CARROLL

Tom Colwell..................................... DICK YORK

Mrs Featherstone............................. NYDIA WESTMANS

NBC/Touchstone/Witt- Thomas-Harris / 176x30m-e 2x60m-e / 1985-92

Creator: Susan Harris / Executive Producers: Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas, Susan Harris, Marc Sotkin 

Sitcom. In Miami Beach, Florida middle aged widow Blanche Devereaux takes in two lodgers, scatty Rose Nylund and teacher Dorothy, quickly followed by Dorothy's elderly mother Sophia. See also below for the sequel The Golden Palace. 

Dorothy Zbornak............................... BEA ARTHUR

Rose Nylund.................................... BETTY WHITE

Blanche Devereaux.......................... RUE McCLANAHAN

Sophia Petrillo................................ ESTELLE GETTY

Stan Zbornak.................................. HERBERT EDELMAN

Kate.............................................. LISA JANE PERSKY

Miles............................................. HAROLD GREEN

CBS/Touchstone/Witt- Thomas-Harris / 25x30m-e / 1992-93

Creator: Susan Harris / Producers: Jim Valley, Nina Feinberg / Executive Producers: Susan Harris, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas, Marc Sotkin 

Sitcom. A sequel to the Golden Girls in which Blanche, Rose and Sophia bought a struggling Miami Beach hotel (the Golden Palace of the title).

Rose Nylund.................................... BETTY WHITE

Blanche Devereaux........................... RUE McCLANAHAN

Sophia Petrillo.................................. ESTELLE GETTY

Chuy Castillos................................. CHEECH MARIN

Roland Wilson................................. DON CHEADLE

Oliver Webb.................................... BILLY L. SULLIVAN

GOLDEN WINDOWS

USA / NBC / x15m-e / July 5, 1954-April 1, 1955
Broadcast Mon.-Fri. 3:15-3:30 p.m.

Twenty-one-year-old Leila Martin starred in this soaper as Juliet Goodwin, a native of Capstan Island, Maine, who left her hometown to pursue a singing career in New York City. Her move appalled her foster father Charles and her boyfriend John Brandon, both of whom wanted her back on the Maine coast, but she did not care, as she found a new love interest in Tom Anderson. Unfortunately for her, Tom faced indictment for a crime, and she and her father could be charged as accomplices. As for Juliet's ex-fiancé John, he parried with his new girlfriend and later bride
Ann Summers, even having his mother Ruth throw them a bash at Ruth's residence. Gray Gables. Meanwhile, as 1955 began, Tom had been sentenced, but Juliet vowed to clear his name and, with the help of Carl Grant, found the real criminal, a man named Fred
Stanton. Tom celebrated his release from jail by behaving badly toward Juliet—he accepted a job with an oil firm which took him away from Gotham. To add to Juliets woes, Charles suddenly became ill, and Juliet had to care for him in New York. Plus, Carl Grant and his fellow conspirator Otto decided to do a little more dirty work by kidnapping Juliet! Luckily, our poor heroine had a new love interest in Dr. Anderson, who confessed his amour for her in time for her to be saved from Carl and Otto. Unfortunately for them, it was also just in time for the series to be canceled.Cast
Ralph Camargo.... Lt. Thomas
Barbara Cook.... Hazel
Eric Dressler.... Charles Goodwin
Dean Harens.... Larry
Harriet MacGibbon.... Mrs. Brandon 
Herbert Patterson.... Tom Anderson
Ethel Remey.... Mrs. Bigelow
Grant Sullivan.... John Brandon

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