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T H E   T V   U S A   G U I D E 

P1 - Pacific Blue to The People 

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PACIFIC BLUE

USA Network/Rigel/ North Hall-Nardino/ x60m-e / 1996-

Creator: Bill Nuss / Producer: Steve Ecclestone / Executive Producers: Gary Nardino, Bill Nuss, Jay Russ,  John Laing 

Crime drama series. Cases of the cops on cycles who patrol the beaches of Santa Monica.

Officer T.C. Callaway................ JIM DAVIDSON

Officer Chris Kelly.................... DARLENE VOGEL

Victor Del Toro......................... MARCOS FERRAEL

Officer Cory McNamara............. PAULA TRICKEY

Lt Palermo............................... RICK ROSSOVICH

DAVID L. LANDER

 

PACIFIC STATION

NBC/KTMB Prod./ Touchstone / 10x30m-e / 1991-92

Creator/Executive Producers: Barry Fanaro, Mort Nathan, Kathy Speer, Terry Grossman / Producer: Rita Dillon / Director: James Burrows 

Sitcom. Detective Bob Ballard is passed over for promotion in favour of the none too bright Kenny Epstein. Ballard is further put out when he is given a new partner.

Det Bob Ballard....................... ROBERT GUILLAUME

Det Richard Capparelli.............. RICHARD LIBERTINI

Capt Kenny Epstein................. JOEL MURRAY

Det Al Burkhardt...................... RON LEIBMAN

Dep Comissioner Hank Bishop.. JOHN HANCOCK

Det Sandy Calloway.................. MEGAN GALLAGHER

 

PANIC

NBC/McCadden / 31x30m-e /  1957 black and white

Creator/Producer: Al Simon 

Anthology of dramas about ordinary people trapped in dangerous situations.

 

THE PAPER CHASE

TCF / x60m-e / 1978

Producer: Robert C. Thompson 

Drama series. Stories of a group of law students, based on the hit film of the previous year.

With:- JOHN HOUSEMAN / JAMES STEPHENS / TOM FITZSIMMONS

 

PAPER MOON

ABC/Paramount/The Directors Company / 13x30m-e / 1974-75

Executive Producer: Anthony Wilson / Novel: Addie Pray by Joe David Brown / Producer: Robert Stambler  

Sitcom. In the 1930's depressed Midwest of America a father and his young daughter ply their trade as con-artists. Based on the hit film of the same name.

Addie Pray.............................. JODIE FOSTER

Moze Pray .............................. CHRISTOPHER CONNELLY

PARADISE AKA:Guns of Paradise

CBS/Roundlay/Lorimar / 56x60m-e / 1988-91

Western drama series. In the Old West town of Paradise, gunfighter Ethan Cord becomes surrogate father to his nieces and nephews following their mother's (and his sister) death.

Ethan Allen Cord....................... LEE HORSLEY

Amelia Lawson......................... SIGRID THORNTON

Claire Carroll............................ JENNY BECK

Joseph Carroll.......................... MATTHEW NEWMARK

Ben Carroll............................... BRIAN LANDO

George Carroll.......................... MICHAEL PATRICK CARTER

Scotty McBride........................ MARK DRYDEN

Tiny........................................ JOHN BLOOM

Dakota.................................... JOHN TERESKY

Deputy Charlie......................... JAMES CRITTENDEN

 

PARENTHOOD

NBC/Imagine TV /  1x60m-e 11x30m-e / 1990  20 Aug - 10 Nov

Creators: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Ron Howard / Producers: April Smith, Sascha Schneider / Director: Allan Arkush 

Sitcom. Episodes in the lives of three generations of the Buckman family. Based on the film of the same name.

Gil Buckman........................... ED BEGLEY JR

Karen Buckman....................... JAYNE ATKINSON

Kevin Buckman....................... MAX ELLIOTT SLADE

Taylor Buckman....................... THORA BIRCH

Justin Buckman....................... ZACHARY LAVOY

Helen Buckman....................... MARYEDITH BURRELL

Garry Buckman....................... LEONARDO DICAPRIO

Julie Hawks............................. BESS MEYER

Tod Hawks.............................. DAVID ARQUETTE

Susan Merrick......................... SUSAN NORMAN

Nathan Merrick........................ KEN OBER

Patty Merrick........................... IVYANN SCHWAN

Frank Buckman........................ WILLIAM WINDOM

Marilyn Buckman...................... SHEILA MACRAE

Great Grandma Greenwell......... MARY JACKSON

 

PARIS

CBS/MTM / 13x60m-e / 1979-80

Creator/Executive Producer: Steven Bochco / Producers: Gregory Hoblit, Edward DeBlasio 

Crime drama series. Cases of Woodrow 'Woody' Paris who headed the LAPD's Metro Squad. Paris also worked as a criminology professor at UCLA.

Woodrow 'Woody' Paris............ JAMES EARL JONES

Barbara Paris........................... LEE CHAMBERLAIN

Willie Miller.............................. MIKE WARREN

Dep Chief Jerome Bench........... HANK GARRETT

Stacey Erickson....................... CECILIA HART

Ernie Villas.............................. FRANK RAMIREZ

 

PARIS PRECINCT

Etoile / 26x30m-e /  1953-55 black and white

Crime drama series. Cases of Paris based Surete detectives. 

With:- LOUIS JORDAN / CLAUDE DAUPHIN

 

PARIS 7000

ABC/Universal / 10x60m-e / 1969

Drama series. Stories of an American embassy official based in Paris, France.

With:- GEORGE HAMILTON / GENE RAYMOND / JACQUES AUBUCHON

 

PARKER LEWIS CAN'T LOSE

Columbia/Clyde Phillips Prod. / x30m-e / 1990-94

Executive Producer: Clyde Philips 

Sitcom. Stories of ultra cool High School student Parker Lewis. From 1993 the title was shortened to just Parker Lewis.

Parker Lewis........................... CORIN NEMEC

Mrs Masso.............................. MELANIE CHARTOFF

Mikey Randall......................... WILLIAM JAYNE

Jerry Steiner........................... TROY SLATTEN

Annie Sloan............................ JENNIFER GUTHRIE

 

THE PARKERS

Big Ticket/Seradipity/ x30m-e / 1999-continuing

Creators/Executive Producers: Sara V. Finney, Ralph R. Farquhar, Vida Spears Reagan John / Theme Music: Rodney Jerkins, Countess Vaughan 

Sitcom. Spin off from Moesha that saw Moeasha's friend Kim finding herself attending college with her mum who has gone back to school as a mature student.

Kim........................................ COUNTESS VAUGHN

 

PARTNERS

Jeff Fox/Jeff & Jeff Strauss Prod/Universal / 22x30m-e / 1995-96

Creator/Executive Producer: Jeff Greenstein / Producers: Jay Kleckner, Adan Belanoff 

Sitcom. Childhood friends, Bob and Owen, partners in their own architects business in San Francisco find their relationship put to the test when Owen decides to get married to Alicia.

Bob......................................... JON CRYER

Owen....................................... TATE DONOVAN

Alicia ...................................... MARIA PITILLO

Heather.................................... CATHERINE LLOYD BURNS

Lolie........................................ CORRINE BOHRER

 

THE PARTNERS

NBC/Universal/Don Lee / 20x30m-e / 1971

Creator: Don Adams 

Sitcom. The misadventures of a pair of cops, one black the other white.

With:- DON ADAMS / RUPERT CROSSE

 

PARTNERS IN CRIME

NBC-Carsons-Partners in Crime / 13x60m-e / 1984 (22 Sep - 29 Dec)

Executive Producer: Bill Driskill / Creators: Leonard B. Stern & James Stark / Supervising producer: Larry Brody / Creative consultant: Simon Muntner / Director of photography: William Cronjager, ASC

Crime drama series "Carole Stanwyck, a chic photographer and Sydney Kovak, who grew up in the streets of San Francisco and yearns to be a concert musician. She also happens to be a pretty good pickpocket. The two are as different as Nob Hill and Fisherman's Wharf. In fact, the only thing they have in common is they're both ex-wives of an ex-detective- mysteriously murdered in his office. When the girls are summoned to the reading of the will, they discover they've inherited his rundown mansion office- and a 50/50 partnership in the detective agency."

Loni Anderson as Sydney Kovack / Lynda Carter as Carole Stanwyck / Walter Olkewicz as Shain / Eileen Heckart as  Jeanine / Leo Rossi as  Lt. Vronsky

 

THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY

ABC/Screen Gems / 96x30m-e / 1970-74

Creator: Bernard Slade / Producers: Bob Claver, Paul Junger Witt 

Musical sitcom. Stories of the all singing Partridge family, a family of musicians headed by their widowed Mom Shirley. The group were a hit in the charts (in the show and in real life) and spent a lot of their time 'on the road'.

Shirley Partridge...................... SHIRLEY JONES

Keith Partridge........................ DAVID CASSIDY

Laurie Partridge ...................... SUSAN DEY

Danny Partridge....................... DANNY BONADUCE

Christiopher Partridge(70-71).... JEREMY GELBWAKS

Christopher Partridge(71-74)..... BRIAN FORSTER

Tracy Partridge........................ SUZANNE CROUGH

Reuben Kinkaid....................... DAVE MADDEN

PARTY OF FIVE

Fox/Columbia- Tristar / x60m-e / 1994-99

Creators/Executive Producers: Amy Lippman, Christopher Keyser 

Drama series. After their parents are killed the five Salinger children have to learn to manage on their own. There was a spin-off series called "Time of Your Life".

With:- MATTHEW FOX as Charlie Salinger / NEVE CAMPBELL as Julie Salinger / SCOTT WOLF as Bailey Salinger / LACEY CHABERT as Claudia Salinger / TAYLOR/BRANDON PORTER as Owen Salinger / JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT as Sarah Reeves

 

PASADENA

Fox / x60m-e / 2000

Soap style drama series about the lives of a wealthy old money publishing family called the Greeleys, from Pasadena, California.

With:- NATASHA GREGSON WAGNER / BALTHAZAR GETTY / DANA DELANEY as Catherine McAllister / MARTIN DONNOVAN

 

THE PATTY DUKE SHOW

ABC/Chrislaw / 104x30m-e / 1963-65 

Creator: Sidney Sheldon / Music: Sid Ramm, Harry Geller / Producer: William Asher

Sitcom. Misadventures of a young New York girl and her identical cousin from Europe.

With:- PATTY DUKE / WILLIAM SCHALLERT / JEAN BYRON

 

THE PAUL LYNDE SHOW

ABC/Columbia / 26x30m-e / 1972

Creators: Sam Clark, Ron Bobrick / Producers: Harry Ackerman, William Asher

Sitcom. Misadventures of a lawyer with a problematic home life. Based on the play Howie.

With:- PAUL LYNDE / ELIZABETH ALLEN / JOHN CALVIN / HERB VOLAND

 

THE PAUL SAND SHOW

CBS/MTM / 13x30m-e / 1974

Sitcom. The exploits of a bass playing member of The Boston Symphony Orchestra.

With:- PAUL SAND

 

PAYNE

CBS / x30m-e / 1999

Sitcom. Exploits of grumpy hotelier Royal Payne. Another American attempt to remake Fawlty Towers

Royal Payne........................... JOHN LARROQUETTE

Constance Payne.................... JO BETH WILLIAMS

Mohammad............................. RICK BATALLA

 

PEARL

CBS/Impact Zone/ Junger Witt/Warner Bros. / 22x30m-e / 1996-97

Creator: Don Reo / Executive Producers: Don Reo, Rhea Perlman, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas, Gary S. Levine 

Sitcom. Widow Pearl Caraldo enrolls at Swindon University, New York as a mature student in humanities where she has a love hate relationship with her tutor Professor Stephen Pynchon.

Pearl Caraldo........................... RHEA PERLMAN

Prof Stephen Pynchon.............. MALCOLM McDOWELL

Annie Carmen.......................... CAROL KANE

Frankie Spivak-Tuch................. KEVIN CORRIGAN

Joey Caraldo............................ DASH MIHOK

Amy Li.................................... LUCY ALEXIS LIU

 

PECK'S BAD GIRL

ABC / 39x30m-e /  1959 black and white

Sitcom. Exploits of a naughty schoolgirl.

With:- PATTY McCORMACK / WENDELL COREY / MARSHA HUNT

 

THE PEE WEE HERMAN SHOW

HBO / 1x60m-e / 1981

Producers: Paul Reubens, Marty Callner / Director: Marty Callner 

Comedy. A send up of 1950's Children's TV shows. See also Pee Wee's Playhouse.

Pee Wee Herman..................... PAUL REUBENS

Kap 'N' Karl.............................. PHIL HARTMAN

Miss Yvonne............................ LYNNE STEWART

Hammy................................... TITO LARRIVA

Susan..................................... NICOLE PANTER

Mailman Mike.......................... JOHN MOODY

Jambi...................................... JOHN PARAGON

Hermit Hattie............................ EDIE McCLURG

Mrs Jelly Donut........................ MONICA GANAS

Mr Jelly Donut.......................... BRIAN SEFF

 

PEE WEE'S PLAYHOUSE

CBS / 1986-91

Creator: Paul Reubens 

Comedy. A send up of Saturday morning kids TV, the show was also shown Saturday mornings. Host Pee Wee Herman(aka Paul Reubens) won the series on the back of successful film Pee Wee's Big Adventure(1985). The show was cancelled after Reubens was caught allegedly indulging in a spot of 'self love' in an adult movie house. See also The Pee Wee Herman Show.

 

THE PEOPLE

Metromedia / 1x75m-e / 1971

Writer: James A. Miller / Stories: Zenna Henderson / Director: John Korty 

Scifi drama. A young teacher moves to a new community and discovers that her pupils are paranormal and part alien.

With:- KIM DARBY / DAN O'HERLIHY

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