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OCCASIONAL WIFE
NBC/Columbia/ Harry Ackerman / 30x30m-e / 1966
Creators: Fred Freeman, Lawrence J. Cohen / Producer: Robert Claver
Sitcom. An unmarried executive hires out a wife whenever he needs to attend a social function or the like.
With:- MICHAEL CALLAN / PATRICIA HARTY
ABC/Paramount / 114x30m-e / 1970-75
Creator: Neil Simon / Producers: Garry Marshall, Jerry Belson / Executive Producers: Garry Marshall, Sheldon Keller
Sitcom. Sports journalist and somewhat of a slob Oscar Madison allows his extremely neat and fussy pal Felix Unger to movie into his Park Avenue apartment after both of them go through divorces. Based on the hit Neil Simon play and film.
Felix Unger.............................. TONY RANDALL
Oscar Madison........................ JACK KLUGMAN
Murray Greshner...................... AL MOLINARO
Speed(70-74)........................... GARRY WALBERG
Vinnie...................................... LARRY GELMAN
Roger(73-74)............................ ARCHIE HAHN
Roy(70-71)............................... RYAN McDONALD
Cecily Pigeon.......................... MONICA EVANS
Gwnedolyn Pigeon................... CAROL SHELLY
OFF THE RACK
ABC/Brownstone Prod/ Mugwump Prod/Warner 8x30m-e / 1985 / 15 March - 26 April Pilot:7 December 1984
Writes: Dan Guntzelman, Steve K. Marshall, Richard Baer, Lissa A Levin, Bob Randall
Sitcom. Sam Waltman, co-owner of fashion business H&W Garments is put out when, following the death of his partner Dan, Dan's wife Kate, takes over his half of the business.
Sam Waltman......................... EDWARD ASNER
Kate Halloran.......................... EILEEN BRENNAN
Shannon Halloran.................... CLAUDIA WELLS
Timothy Halloran...................... COREY YOTHERS
Brenda Patagorski.................... PAMELA BRULL
Cletus Maxwell......................... DENNIS HAYBERT
Skip Wagner............................ SANDY SIMPSON
OF THEE I SING
CBS/David L. Wolper / 1x90m-e / 1971
Comedy musical based on the 1931 Broadway production by George and Ira Gershwin.
With:- CARROLL O'CONNOR / CLORIS LEACHMAN / TED KNIGHT
O'HARA US TREASURY
Universal/Jack Webb / 1x98m-e 52x60m-e / 1971-73
Executive Producer: Jack Webb
Crime drama series. Cases of a widowed former deputy sheriff turned customs agent.
With:- DAVID JANSSEN
OH, MADELINE
ABC/Carsey-Werner / 19x30m-e / 1983-84
Creators: Terence Brady, Charlotte Bingham / Producers: Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner
Sitcom. Bored housewife Madeline Wayne decides to pep up her humdrum marriage to romantic novelist Charlie (aka Crystal Love - his pen name). Based on the UK sitcom Pig in the Middle.
Madeline Wayne...................... MADELINE KAHN
Charlie Wayne......................... JAMES SLOYAN
Robert Leone........................... LOUIS GIAMBALVO
Doris Leone............................. JESSE WELLES
Annie McIntyre......................... FRANCINE TACKER
OH THOSE BELLS!
CBS / 13x30m-e / 1962 black and white
Sitcom. Pratfalls of the owners of a shop supplying props to Hollywood.
With:- THE WEIRE BROTHERS / HENRY MORGAN
THE O. HENRY PLAYHOUSE
Gross-Krasne / 39x30m-e / 1956 black and white
An anthology series of period dramas set in New York and based on the short stories of O. Henry. Hosted by Thomas Mitchell.
OKAVANGO
Gibraltar / x30m-e / 1992
Creator: Wayne Crawford / Executive Producers: Wayne Crawford, Joel Levine / Music: Julian Laxton
Adventure drama series. A couple from LA decide to up sticks and start a new life on an African game reserve.
With:- WAYNE CRAWFORD / STEVE KANALY / MICHELE SCARABELLI / FATS BOOKHOLANE / LANCE SCOTT / SANDOR SMIT
OK CRACKERBY
Cre:Abe Burrows, Cleveland Amory ABC/United Artists/Beresford / 17x30m-e / 1965 black and white
Sitcom. Problems of a self made millionaire determined to make sure his kids get on in society.
NBC/Universal / 9x60m-e / 1977
Writer: Peter Fischer / Novel: Anton Myrer / Producers: William Sackheim, Peter Fischer / Director: E.W. Swackhamer, Richard Michaels
Period drama serial. 30 years and two world wars in the lives of two friends.
With:- SAM ELLIOTT / CLIFF POTTS / DARLEEN CARR / GLENN FORD / CLU GALAGER / LYNDA DAY GEORGE / AMY IRVING
100 CENTRE STREET
A&E / 60m-e / 2001
Creator / Executive Producer: Sidney Lumet
Five times a week legal drama series which looks at the workings of New York City's arraignment court.
With:- Alan Arkin as Judge Joseph "Joe" Rifkind / Paula Devicq as Assistant District Attorney Cynthia Bennington
/ Manny Perez as Legal Aid Attorney Ramon Rodriguez / LaTanya Richardson as Judge Attallah "Queenie" Sims
/ Joseph Lyle Taylor as Assistant District Attorney Robert Esposito
ONE LIFE TO LIVE
ABC-Creative Horizons productions. x60m-e / 1968 -
Creator: Agnes Nixon / Music: Lee Holdridge, David Nichtern
Long running US soap detailing the lives of the residents of Llanview PA. The series centered around the Lords, The Woleks and the Riley families. One of the first US shows to feature a mixed race couple in a relationship. Many of the later plots bordered on the bizarre taking in time travel, astral travelling, spying and the like.
IMPORTANT CHARACTERS
INCLUDE:- Philip Carey as Asa Buchanan / Kale Brown as Sam Rappaport
/ JAMES DePAIVA as Max Holden / MARK DERWIN as Dr Ben Davidson /
PATRICIA ELLIOTT as Renee Divine Buchanan / DAVID FUMERO as Chris
Vega / CATHERINE HICKLAND as Lindsey Rappaport Buchanan / FLORENCE
LOZANO as Tea Delgado Mannin / ERIKA PAGE as Roseanne Delgado Vega /
NATHAN PURDEE as Hank 'the Cannon' Gannon
ONE STEP BEYOND
ABC-Collier Young / 94x30m-e / 1959-61 20 January 59 - 3 October 61 Tuesdays 10.00pm black and white
Creator: Merwin Gerard / Music: Harry Lubin / Producer: Collier Young
An anthology series of stories mainly concerning the realms of psychic phenomena, E.S.P., Reincarnation etc. Hosted by John Newland the series was also known as Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond
ON THE AIR
ABC/Lynch-Frost / 7x30m-e / 1992
Creators: David Lynch, Mick Frost / Writer/Executive Producers: David Lynch, Mick Frost, Robert Engels / Producer: Deepak Nayar / Director: Jack Fisk
Period sitcom. In 1957 Lester Guy works on his own self titled TV show for the Zoblotnick Broadcasting Corporation. This often bizarre show was cancelled after just three of its seven episodes.
Lester Guy............................... IAN BUCHANAN
Vladja Gochktch....................... DAVID L. LANDER
Ruth Trueworthy....................... NANCYE FERGUSON
Bert Schein.............................. GARY GROSSMAN
Betty Hudson........................... MARLA JEANETTE RUBINOFF
Dwight McGonigle..................... MARVIN KAPLAN
Mickey..................................... MEL JOHNSON JR
Buddy Budwaller....................... MIGUEL FERRER
'Blinky' Watts........................... TRACEY WALTER
Hurry Up Twins......................... RALIEGH&RAYMOND FRIEND
ON THE ROCKS
Metromedia/John Rich / 13x30m-e / 1976
Creators: Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais / Director: John Rich
Sitcom. A US adaption of the UK classic Porridge .
With:- JOSE PEREZ / MEL STEWART / HAL WILLIAMS / RICK HURST / BOBBY SANDLER / TOM POSTON
ONE NIGHT STAND
HBO / 55x30m-e / 1989-92
Producer: Robin Shlien, Sue Wolf
Comedy. A series of specials starring prominent stand up comedians, mostly filmed at the Vic Theatre, Chicago. The acts included Rita Rudner, Kevin Pollak, Ellen DeGeneres, Bill Hicks, Damon Wayans, Lew Schneider and Allan Harvey.
ONE DAY AT A TIME
CBS-Norman Lear-TAT / x30m-e / 1975-84
Creators: Whitney Blake, Allan Manning / Producers: Dick Pensfield, Percy Grant
Sitcom. Episodes in the lives of divorced, Indianapolis based, Ann Romano and her two teenage daughters Julie and Barbara. Ann initially worked for advertising agency Connors and Davenport before going it alone. During the shows run both daughters got married and indeed Ann ended up marrying the father of Barbara's husband Mark. Mackenzie Phillips (as Julie) twice left the show for severe personal reasons (allegedly drug related).
With:- BONNIE FRANKLIN as Romano Royer / MACKENZIE PHILLIPS as Julie Cooper Horvath (1975-80/81-83) / VALERIE BERTINELLI as Barbara Cooper Royer / PAT HARRINGTON JR as Dwayne Schneider / RICHARD MASUR as David Kane(1975-76) / MARY LOUISE WILSON as Ginny Wrobliki(1976-77) / CHARLES SIEBERT as Jerry Davenport (1976-79) / MICHAEL LAMBECK as Max Horvath(1979-84) / NANETTE FABRAY as Grandma Katherine Romano(1979-84) / RON RIFKIN as Nick Handrig(1980-81) / SHELLEY FABARES as Francine Webster(1981-84)
ONE OF THE BOYS
NBC/Toy Prod./CPT / 13x30m-e / 1982
Producers: Saul Turteltaub, Bernie Orenstein
Sitcom. Pensioner Oliver Nugent, to avoid moving into a retirement home, moves into his grandson Adam's college apartment in New Jersey.
Oliver Nugent.......................... MICKEY ROONEY
Adam Shields......................... DANA CARVEY
Mrs Green.............................. FRANCINE BEERS
Jonathan Burns....................... NATHAN LANE
Bernard Solomon..................... SCATMAN CROTHERS
Jane....................................... MEG RYAN
ONE ON ONE
UPN / x30m-e / 2001
Executive Producer: Flex Alexander / Music: Shanice
Sitcom. Baltimore sportscaster Mark "Flex" Washington finds his bachelor's paradise disrupted when his feisty 14-year-old daughter,
Breanna, comes to live with him full-time. Flex is used to the carefree life of a young single man,
complete with junk food, sports and women. Breanna is accustomed to no rules and all fun when she visits her dad for
two weeks a year. But when the demands of her mother's new job make it necessary for Breanna to move in with her father for the foreseeable future, Flex must adjust to raising a teenager on a day-to-day basis.
With:- Flex Alexander as Mark "Flex" Washington / Kyla Pratt as Breanna Washington
Fox / x30m-e / 1989-90
Sitcom. Spin off from Duet. Linda and Laura from that show are now working for a real estate company.
Linda Phillips........................... ALISON LA PLACA
Laura...................................... MARY PAGE KELLER
THE OREGON TRAIL
Universal / 1x120m-e 13x60m-e / 1975-76
Western drama series. Stories of a pioneering family in the days of the Old west. The series was pulled before all its episodes were shown.
With:- ROD TAYLOR
NBC / x60m-e / 2000
Creators/Executive Producers: Glen Morgan, James Wong, John Brancato, Michael Ferris
Scifi
Marian Kitt.............................. JULIANNE NICHOLSON
Prof Miles Ballard.................... JOHN BILLINGSLEY
Warren Day............................ KEVIN J. O'CONNOR
Mark Gabriel........................... GABRIEL MACHT
Satori..................................... MISSY CRIDER
OTHERWORLD
MCA / 8x55m-e / 1985
Producer: Les Hunter
Scifi drama series. Whilst touring the pyramids, the Californian Sterlings fall into the Otherworld, a bizarre parallel world.
Hal Sterling.............................. SAM GROOM
June Sterling............................ GRETCHEN CORBETT
Trace...................................... TONY O'DELL
Gina....................................... JONNA LEE
Smith...................................... BRANDON CRANE
Nureen Kroll............................ JONATHAN BANKS
OUR MAN HIGGINS
ABC/Columbia / 34x30m-e / 1962 black and white
Creator: Paul Harrison
Sitcom. Exploits of Higgins, an English butler working for an American family. Based on the radio show It's Higgins Sir.
With:- STANLEY HOLLOWAY as Higgins / FRANK MAXWELL / AUDREY TOTTER
OUR MISS BROOKS
Desilu / 127x30m-e / 1952-56 black and white
Sitcom. Episodes in the life of a schoolteacher.
With:- EVE ARDEN / GALE GORDON / ROBERT ROCKWELL / RICHARD CRENNA
THE OUTCASTS
ABC/Columbia / 26x60m-e / 1968
Producer: Jon Epstein
Western drama series. A pair of bounty hunters, one white, the other black team up following the end of the civil war.
With:- DON MURRAY / OTIS YOUNG
THE OUTER LIMITS
United Artists/Daystar/ Villa di Stefano / 49x50m-e / 1963-65
Creator/Executive Producer: Leslie Stevens / Producer: Joseph Stefani (Season 1), Ben Brady(Season 2)
Anthology series of science fiction based stories in much the same vein as The Twilight Zone. Narrated by Vic Perrin, see also the 1990's revival below.
THE OUTER LIMITS
Showtime/CBS/ Trilogy / 132 episode mostly 60minutes / 1994-2000
Producers: Pen Densham, Michael Cassutt, Manny Coto, Jonathan Glassner
Scifi anthology drama series. A more successful than the original revival of the 1960's show of the same name with a high quantity of sex and dark material on show.
OUTLAWS
NBC / 50x60m-e / 1960-61 black and white
Western drama series. Stories of a pair of lawmen in the wild west out to catch the bad guys.
With:- BRUCE YARNELL / DON COLLIER / BARTON MacLANE
OUT OF THIS WORLD
Syndication/NBC/ Bob Booker/MCA / 96x30m-e / 1987-91
Devisor: D.L. Wood / Creators: John Boni, Bob Booker / Producers: John Boni, Barbara Booker
Scifi sitcom. Teenager Evie Garland is shocked to discover that the father she thought dead is in fact an alien from Anterius and that she is also half alien with special powers. Her father had returned to Anterius and communicated with Evie through a crystal.
Evie Garland............................. MAUREEN FLANNIGAN
Donna Garland.......................... DONNA PESCOW
Kyle Applegate......................... DOUG McCLURE
Uncle Beano Froelich(87-90)..... JOE ALASKEY
Lindsay Selkirk......................... CHRISTINA NIGRA
Voice of Troy............................ BURT REYNOLDS
Buzz....................................... BUZZ BELMONDO
OUT OF TIME
1x100m-e / 1988
Director: Robert Butler
Scifi crime drama. A cop of the future travels back in time to solve a case with the help of his great grandfather.
With:- BRUCE ABBOT / ADAM ANT / BILL MAHER
THE OUTSIDER
CBS/Universal/ Public Arts / 1x90m-e 26x60m-e / 1967-68
Creator/Producer: Roy Huggins
Crime drama series. Cases of an LA based private detective.
With:- DARREN McGAVIN
OVERLAND TRAIL
MCA/Stagecoach/ Revue / 17x60m-e / 1960 black and white
Western drama series. Stories of a pair of stagecoach drivers.
With:- WILLIAM BENDIX / DOUG McCLURE
OZ
HBO/Rysher/ Levinson Fontana / x60m-e / 1997-
Creator: Tom Fontana / Executive Producer: Barry Levinson, Tom Fontana
Drama series. Brutal stories of life inside Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary.
With:- KIRK ACEVEDO / ERNIE HUDSON / TERRY KINNEY / RITA MORENO / HAROLD PERRINEAU / J.K. SIMMONS / LEE TERGESEN / EAMONN WALKER / DEAN WINTERS
Filmways / 24x30m-e / 1973
Sitcom. When their sons start college Ozzie and Harriet Nelson rent out their rooms to a pair of college girls. A sequel to The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Ozzie..................................... OZZIE NELSON
Harriet.................................... HARRIET NELSON
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