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THE MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS
CBS/Martin Manulis/ TCF / 147x30m-e / 1959-63 black and white
Creator: Max Shulman / Executive Producer: Martin Manulis / Producers: Rod Amateau, Joel Kane, Guy Scarpitta
Sitcom. Good old all American teen Dobie Gillis grows up in Central City, where his parents run a grocery store. Dobie's head is full of big plans but unfortunately that's where they usually stayed. After a spell in the army and then at college, the show ended. Then on 10 May 1977 a one off special appeared called Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis? In which the now well into adulthood Dobie (married to Zelda) runs the grocery store with his Dad and also has a young teenage son of his own. Another sequel appeared on 21 Feb 1988 called Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis offering more of the same.
With:- DWAYNE HICKMAN as Dobie Gillis / FRANK FAYLEN as Herbert T. Gillis / FLORIDA FRIEBUS as Winifred 'Winnie' Gillis / SHEILA JAMES as Zelda Gilroy / BOB DNEVER as Maynard Krebs / TUESDAY WELD as Thalia Menninger(59-60) / WARREN BEATTY as Milton Armitage(59-60) / DARRYL HICKMAN as Davey Gillis(59-60) / BOBBY DIAMOND as Duncan 'Dunky' Gillis / TOMMY FARRELL as Riff Ryan / YVONNE LIME as Melissa Frome
MARBLEHEAD MANOR
Syndication/NBC/ Dames/Fraser-Grey/Nardino/Paramount / 24x30m-e / 1987-88
Creators: Bob Fraser, David Lloyd / Producers: Bob Fraser, Gary Nardino, Rob Dames,
Sitcom. Millionaire Randolph Storehill, owner of Marblehead Manor in Massachusetts, has rings run around him by his quirky staff.
Albert Dudley........................... PAYTON WHITEHEAD
Hilary Stonehill......................... LINDA THORSON
Randolph Stonehill.................... BOB FRASER
Rick........................................ MICHAEL RICHARDS
Jerry Stockton.......................... PHILIP MORRIS
Dwayne Stockton..................... RODNEY SCOTT HUDSON
Lupe Lopez.............................. DYANA ORTELLI
Elvis Lopez.............................. HUMBERTO ORTIZ
THE MARCH OF MEDICINE
ABC / x30m-e / 1958 black and white
Documentaries on the theme of public health issues, narrators were Ben Grauer and Eric Sevareid.
MARCUS WELBY MD
ABC/Universal / 172x60m-e / 1969-76
Creator/Executive Producer: David Victor / Theme Music: Leonard Rosenman
Medical drama series. Cases of GP Dr Marcus Welby in Santa Monica.
Dr Marcus Welby..................... ROBERT YOUNG
Dr Steven Kiley........................ JAMES BROLIN
Nurse Consuelo Lopez.............. ELENA VERDUGO
Nurse Kathleen Faverty............. SHARON GLESS
Janet Blake.............................. PAMELA HENSLEY
MARGIE
TCF / 26x30m-e / 1961 black and white
Period sitcom. Misadventures of a young girl at college in the 1920's.
With:- CYNTHIA PEPPER / PENNY PARKER
MARIAH CAREY AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
1x90m-e / 1995
Director: Lawrence Jordan
Variety. A mixture of concert footage and behind the scenes footage of Mariah Carey around the time of her Daydream album. Also involved were Boyz 2 Men, Wanya Morris and Shawn Stockman.
MARKHAM
Markham/Universal / 60x30m-e / 1959-60 black and white
Crime drama series. Cases of an international crime fighter.
With:- RAY MILLAND
Fox/Embassy / 245x30m-e 6x60m-e / 1987-97
Creators: Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt / Executive Producers: Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt, Katherine D. Green, Richard Gurman, Kim Weiskopf
Sitcom. Episodes in the life of the dysfunctional Bundy family; Put upon shoe salesman dad Al, his sex mad wife Peggy and their two kids, empty headed sex bomb Kelly and slightly brainy Bud. See also UK flop adaption Married For Life.
Al Bundy................................ ED O'NEILL
Peggy Bundy.......................... KATEY SAGAL
Kelly Bundy............................ CHRISTINA APPLEGATE
Bud Bundy.............................. DAVID FAUSTINO
Marcy Rhoades/D'Arcy............. AMANDA BEARSE
Steve Rhoades(87-90).............. DAVID GARRISON
Jefferson D'Arcy(90-97)............. TED McGINLEY
Luke Ventura(87)...................... RITCH SHYDNER
Steven Bundy(92-93) ............... SHANE SWEET
THE MARSHALL CHRONICLES
Cre:Richard Rosenstock ABC/Sweetums/ Viacom / 7x30m-e / 1990 4 April - 22 July
Sitcom. Episodes in the life of angst ridden 17 year old Jewish lad Marshall Brightman.
Marshall Brightman................. JOSHUA RIFKIND
Johnny Parmetko.................... GABRIEL BOLOGNA
Melissa Sandler...................... NILE LANNING
Leslie Barash.......................... MEREDITH SCOTT LYNN
Cynthia Brightman................... JENNIFER SALT
Michael Brightman................... STEVE ANDERSON
Sean Bickoff............................ BRADLEY GREGG
MARTIAL LAW
CBS/Carlton Cuse/ Ruddy Morgan/TCF / x60m-e / 1998-2000
Creator: Carlton Cuse / Executive Producers: Carlton Cuse, Andre Morgan, Stanley Tong, / Martial Arts Choreographer: Stanley Tong
Crime drama series. A bulky Shanghai cop heads West to become a member of the Los Angeles Police Department where he often finds himself called upon to use his Karate skills.
Sammo Law.......................... SAMMO HUNG
Terrell Parker......................... ARSENIO HALL
Grace Chen........................... KELLY HU
Amy Dylon(S2-)...................... GRETCHEN EGOLF
Also with:- TAMMY LAUREN(S1) / TOM WRIGHT / LOUIS MANDYLOR(S1)
THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Charles Fried. / 3x95m-e / 1980
Writer: Richard Matheson / Novels: Ray Bradbury / Producers: Andrew Donally, Milton Subotsky / Director: Michael Anderson
Scifi drama serial. In 1999 a group of astronauts embark on the first manned flight to Mars and find all manner of strangeness once they arrive.
Col. John Wilder....................... ROCK HUDSON
Ruth Wilder............................. GAYLE HUNNICUTT
Sam Parkhill............................ DARREN McGAVIN
Father Stone............................ RODDY McDOWALL
Elma Parkhill........................... JOYCE VAN PATTEN
Jeff Spender............................. BERNIE CASEY
Captain Black.......................... NICHOLAS HAMMOND
General Halstead..................... ROBERT BEATTY
Conover................................... RICHARD HEFFER
Jesus Christ............................ JON FINCH
Fr Peregrine............................. FRITZ WEAVER
Alice Hathaway........................ NYREE DAWN PORTER
Hathaway................................ BARRY MORSE
Genevieve ............................... BERNADETTE PETERS
CBS/MTM / 13x30m-e / 1985-86 11 December 85 - 8 April 86
Creator/Producers: Ken Levine, David Isaacs
Sitcom. Forty something divorcee Mary Brenner takes a job on a tabloid newspaper, the Chicago Eagle, after losing her job on a woman's magazine.
Mary Brenner........................... MARY TYLER MOORE
Frank DeMarco........................ JAMES FARENTINO
Ed LaSalle.............................. JOHN ASTIN
Jo Tucker................................ KATEY SAGAL
Vincent Tully........................... DAVID BYRD
Lester Mintz............................ JAMES TOLKAN
Susan Wilcox......................... CARLENE WATKINS
Harry Dresden......................... HAROLD SYLVESTER
Ronnie Dicker......................... DEREK McGRATH
MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN
Syndication/TAT / 325x30m-e / 1976-77
Executive Producer: Norman Lear / Producers: Lew Gallo, Eugenie Ross-Leming, Perry Krauss, Viki Knight, Brad Bucker.
Sitcom. Send up of daytime soaps, centering on housewife Mary Hartman, her friends and neighbours in the town of Fernwood, Ohio. Shown every week day, the shows characters were beset by all manner of sensational storylines. A 130 episode sequel, minus Mary Hartman, appeared called Forever Fernwood. A kind of related sequel was Fernwood 2-night, which pastiched talk shows(the title of this show later became America 2-Night).
With:- LOUISE LASSER as Mary Hartman / GREG MULLAVEY as Tom Hartman / DODY GOODMAN as Martha Shumway / PHIL BRUNS as George Shumway(1) / TAB HUNTER as George Shumway(2) / DEBRA LEE SCOTT as Cathy Shumway / MARY KAY PLACE as Loretta Haggers / ED BEGLEY JR as Steve Fletcher / DABNEY COLEMAN as Mayor Merle Jeeter / MARTIN MULL as Garth Gimble
CBS/MTM / 168x30m-e / 1970-77
Creators/Executive Producers: James L. Brooks, Allan Burns / Producers: Ed Weinberger, Stan Daniels, David Davis, Lorenzo Music
Sitcom. Exploits of girl about town Mary Richards who works in the newsroom of TV station WJM-TV. Spin offs included Rhoda, Lou Grant, Phyllis, and The Betty White Show.
Mary Richards......................... MARY TYLER MOORE
Lou Grant................................ EDWARD ASNER
Ted Baxter.............................. TED KNIGHT
Rhoda Morgenstern(70-74)..... VALERIE HARPER
Phyllis Lindstrom(70-75).......... CLORIS LEACHMAN
Bess Lindstrom(70-75)............. LISA GERRITSON
Sue Anne Nivens..................... BETTY WHITE
Georgette Franklin/Baxter ....... GEORGIA ENGEL
Murray Slaughter..................... GAVIN MacLEOD
CBS/TCF / 247x30m-e 3x60m-e 1x150m-e / 1972-83
Creators: Larry Gelbart, Gene Reynolds / Characters: Richard Hoover
Sitcom. A group of doctors and nurses have a hard time of it running a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War. See also AfterM*A*S*H, Walter and Trapper John MD.
Capt 'Hawkeye' Pierce.............. ALAN ALDA
Capt John 'Trapper' McIntyre
(72-75).................................... WAYNE ROGERS
Capt B.J. Hunnicutt(75-83)........ MIKE FARRELL
Maj Margaret 'Hotlips' Houlinhan LORETTA SWIT
Lt Col Henry Blake(72-75)......... McLEAN STEVENSON
Col Sherman T. Potter(75-83)... HENRY MORGAN
Major Frank Burns(72-77)......... LARRY LINVILLE
Major Charles Emerson Winchester
III(77-83).................................. DONALD OGDEN STIERS
Cpl Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly........ GARY BURGHOFF
Cpl Maxwell Klinger................. JAMIE FARR
Fr John Francis Mulcahy.......... WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER
THE MASK
ABC / 14x60m-e / 1954 black and white
Crime drama series. Stories of a pair of defence lawyers who happen to be brothers.
With:- GARY MERRILL / WILLIAM PRINCE
MASQUERADE
ABC / x60m-e / 1983-84 (First Episode: 15 December 1983)
Theme sung by Crystal Gayle
Spy drama series. When they run out of normal agents the National Intelligence Agency decide to recruit ordinary citizens into their ranks on a purely temporary basis, using their specific skills to deal with the case in hand - Chief of the agency was Lavender who was assisted by Casey Collins and Danny Doyle.
With:- ROD TAYLOR as Lavender / KIRSTIE ALLEY as Casey Collins / GREG EVIGAN as Danny Doyle
MATLOCK
NBC/Strathmore/ Viacom / 195x60m-e / 1986-95
Creator: Dean Hargrove / Music: Dick De Benedictus / Executive Producers: Dean Hargrove, Fred Silverman / Producer: Rich Collins
Crime drama series. Cases of Atlanta based lawyer Benjamin L. Matlock.
Benjamin L. Matlock................ ANDY GRIFFITH
Tyler Hudson........................... KENE HOLLIDAY
Charlene Matlock..................... LINDA PURL
Michelle Thomas...................... NANCY STAFFORD
Cassie Phillips......................... KARI LIZER
Conrad McMaster..................... CLARENCE GILYARD JR
MATT HELM
Columbia / 1x90m-e 13x60m-e / 1975-76
Devisor: Sam Rolfe / Music: Morton Stevens / Producers: Charles FitzSimons, Ken Pettus
Crime drama series. Cases of LA private eye and former CIA man Matt Helm. Based on the series on 1960's Dean Martin comedy spy capers.
Matt Helm.............................. TONY FRANCIOSA
MATT HOUSTON
ABC/Warner/ Spelling / 50x60m-e / 1982-85
Creator: Lawrence Gordon / Executive Producer: Aaron Spelling / Producer: Michael Fisher
Crime drama series. Texan oil millionaire Matlock 'Matt' Houston begins a new career as a private detective.
Matt Houston........................... LEE HORSLEY
C.J. Parsons............................ PAMELA HENSLEY
Lamar...................................... PAUL BRINEGAR
Bo........................................... DENNIS FIMPEL
Lt Vince Novelli........................ JOHN APREA
Roy Houston ........................... BUDDY EBSEN
MATTHEW BLACKHEART:MONSTER MASHER
Action Adventure Network/ New Line TV/Direct TV / x60m-e / 1999-
Executive Producer: Richard Donner
Action adventure series. A super hero style character, Matthew Blackheart, frozen during world war II is thawed out to fight evil.
With:- ROBERT BOUGE / KENNETH WELSH / CHRISTOPHER HEYER DAHL / KAREN ELKIN / KIM FEENEY / JAYNE HETTMEYER
MATT LINCOLN
NBC/MCA/Universal/ Vince Edwards / 16x60m-e / 1970
Drama series. Stories of psychiatrist Matt Lincoln who specialised in helping the poor.
Matt Lincoln............................. VINCE EDWARDS
CBS/Tandem / 140x30m-e / 1972-78 (12 September 72 - 29 April 78)
Producer: Norman Lear, Bud Yorkin
Sitcom. A spin off from All In The Family. Episodes in the life of (middle class and more liberal than her cousin Archie Bunker,) Maude in Tuckahoe, New York. The series, unusually for a sitcom, tackled many controversial issues over the course of its run. See also the spin off featuring servant Florida Evans called Good Times.
With:- BEATRICE ARTHUR as Maude Findlay / BILL MACY as Walter Findlay / ADRIENNE BARBEAU as Carol / BRIAN MORRISON as Phillip (1972-77) / KRAIG METZINGER as Phillip (19977-78) / CONRAD BAIN as Dr Arthur Harriman / ESTHER ROLLE as Florida Evans (1972-74) / JOHN AMOS as Henry Evans (1973-74) / FRED GRANDY as Chris (1973-74) / HERMOINE BADDELEY as Mrs Nell Naugatuck (1974-77) / J. PAT O'MALLEY as Bert Beasley (1975-77) / MARLENE WARFIELD as Victoria Butterfield (1977-78)
ABC/Warner / 124x60m-e / 1957-62 black and white
Creator/Producer: Roy Huggins / Music: David Buttolph
Western comedy drama series. Exploits of a pair of con-man brothers Bret and Bart Maverick. Following Garner's departure in 1960, a cousin called Beau was brought in.
With:- JAMES GARNER as Bret Maverick / JACK KELLY as Bart Maverick / DIANE BREWSTER as Samantha Crawford / ROGER MOORE as Beauregard Maverick / ROBERT COLBERT as Brent Maverick
MAX HEADROOM
Lorimar/Chysalis/ Lakeside / 14x60m-e / 1987
Producers: Peter Wagg, Brian Frankish, Steve Roberts
Scifi drama series. In the near future(20 minutes in fact) a reporter is transformed into Max Headroom(a computer generated figure, a star performer on Network 23.
Edison Carter/Max Headroom... MATT FREWER
Theora Jones........................... AMANDA PAYS
Ben Cheviot............................. GEORGE COE
Bryce Lynch............................ CHRIS YOUNG
Murray.................................... JEFFREY TAMBOR
Ms Formby.............................. VIRGINIA KISER
MAXIMUM BOB
ABC / 7x60m-e / 1998 4 August - 15 September
Creator: Alex Gansa
Comedy crime drama series. The cases of increasingly eccentric Judge 'Maximum' Bob Gibbs in the town of Deep Water, Florida. Gibbs got his nickname because of his penchant for doling out big sentences.
Judge Bob Gibbs..................... BEAU BRIDGES
Kathy Baker............................ LIZ VASSEY
Leanne Gibbs.......................... KEIRSTEN WARREN
Gaby Hammond....................... SAM ROBARDS
Wanda Grace........................... RAE'VEN LARRYMORE-KELLY
MAYA
NBC/MGM/King Brothers / 18x60m-e / 1967
Drama series. A young boy from America is stranded in India and embarks on a hunt for his father.
With:- JAY NORTH / SAJID KHAN
CBS/Paramount/RFD / 78x30m-e / 1968-71 23 September 68 - 6 September 71 Mondays 9.00pm
Creator: Bob Ross / Producers: Richard O. Linke, Andy Griffith
Sitcom. The stories of a small town council. Most of the action centered around widower farmer Sam Jones (who like Andy also had a young son). This was a continuation of The Andy Griffith show after Andy departed.
With:- KEN BERRY as Sam Jones / GEORGE LINDSAY as Goober Pyle / ARLENE GOLONKA as Millie Swanson / PAUL HARTMAN as Emmett Clark / JACK DODSON as Howard Sprague / FRANCES BAVIER as Aunt Bee (68-70) / ALICE GHOSTLEY as Aunt Alice (70-71) / BUDDY FOSTER as Mike Jones
MAYOR OF THE TOWN
Rawlings-Grant/Gross- Krasne / 39x30m-e / 1954 black and white
Comedy drama series. Stories of a small town Mayor.
With:- THOMAS MITCHELL
ME AND MAXX
NBC / x30m-e / 1980
Sitcom. Norman Davis (after splitting from his wife years before) has to adjust to a new way of life after his 11 year old daughter comes to live with him.
With:- JOE SANTOS as Norman Davis / MELISSA MICHAELSEN as Maxx Davis / JENNY SULLIVAN as Barbara / JIM WESTON as Mitch / DENNY EVANS as Gary
ME AND THE CHIMP
CBS/Paramount / 13x30m-e / 1972 13 January - 18 May
Creator/Executive Producer: Garry Marshall / Producer/Director: Alan Rafkin
Sitcom. A dentist and his family take in an abandoned chimp.
Mike Reynolds......................... TED BESSELL
Liz Reynolds............................ ANITA GILLETTE
Scott Reynolds........................ SCOTT HOLDEN
Kitty Reynolds......................... KAMI COTLER
Buttons .................................. JACKIE
MEDIC
NBC / 59x30m-e / 1954-55 black and white
Dramatised documentaries detailing latest techniques in Medicine and hospitals. Narrated by Richard Boone.
MEDICAL CENTER
CBS/MGM/Alfra / 170?x60m-e / 1969-76
Creator/Executive Producers: Frank Glicksman, Al C. Ward
Medical drama series. Stories both professional and personal of the doctors and nurses of the Medical Center of a university campus in Los Angeles.. The pilot was called Operation Heartbeat.
With:- CHAD EVERETT as Dr Joe Gannon / JAMES DALY as Dr Paul Lochner / CORINNE CAMACHO as Dr Jeanne Bartlett (1969-71) / JAYNE MEADOWS as Nurse Chambers (1969-72) / AUDREY TOTTER as Nurse Wilcox (1972-76) / CHRIS HUTSON as Nurse Courtland / FRED HOLLIDAY as Dr Barnes (1970-71) / BARBARA BALDAVIN as Nurse Holmby (1971-76) / JANE DULO as Nurse Murphy (1971-72) / VIRGINIA HAWKINS as Nurse Canford / ED HALL as Dr Bricker (1970-74) / EUGENE PETERSON as Dr Waller (1970-74) / LOUISE FITCH as Nurse Bascomb (1971-73) / MARTIN E. BROOKS as Lt Samuels (1971-76)
MEDICAL STORY
NBC/Columbia / 1x100m-e 13x60m-e / 1975-76
Producer: David Gerber
Medical drama series. Stories of an idealistic young doctor.
With:- BEAU BRIDGES / JOSE FERRER
MEDICINE BALL
Fox / x60m-e / 1995
Executive Producer: Marilu Henner
Medical drama series. The professional and personal problems of a group of young interns studying at Seattle's Bayview Medical Center.
With:- JENSEN DAGGETT as Dr Katie Cooper / DONAL LUGUE as DrDanny Macklin / KAI SOREMEKUN as Dr Nia James / HARRISON PRUETT as Dr Harley Spencer / VINCENT VENTRESCA as Dr Tom Powell / DARYLL FONG as Dr Max Chang / TERRI IVENS as Dr Elizabeth Vasquez / TIMOTHY OMUNDSON as Patrick Yeats / SAM McMURRAY as Dr Douglas Gill
MEEGO
Warner/Miller-Boyett- Warren / 13x30m-e / 1997
Creator: Ross Brown / Theme Music: Jesse Frederick, Bennett Salvey / Executive Producers: Ross Brown, Thomas L. Miller, Robert L. Boyett
Scifi sitcom. Meego the alien crash lands his ship on Earth and finds himself employed as a nanny with the Parker family.
Meego.................................... BRONSON PINCHOT
Dr Edward Parker..................... ED BEGLEY JR
Maggie .................................. MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG
Alex Parker............................. JONATHAN LIPNICKI
Trip......................................... WILL ESTES
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