US TV - ROCKY JONES SPACE RANGER to RYAN'S HOPE
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ROCKY JONES SPACE RANGER
Roland Reed / 39x30m-e / 1953 black and white
Scifi drama series. Exploits of a space adventurer and his atomic powered space craft.
With:- RICHARD CRANE / SALLY MANSFIELD
Rodney see here.
NBC/Four Star / 29x60m-e / 1964 black and white
Creator/Producer: Collier Young
Comedy drama series. Stories of a jet setting family of con artists who used London as their base.
With:- GIG YOUNG / CHARLES BOYER / DAVID NIVEN / GLADYS COOPER / ROBERT COOTE
ROLLOUT
CBS/TCF / 13x30m-e / 1973
Producers: Gene Reynolds, Larry Gelbart
Wartime sitcom. Stories of the Red Ball Express who were responsible for getting supplies to soldiers during the second world II.
With:- STU GILLIAM / BILLY HICKS / MEL STEWART / ED BEGLEY JR
THE ROOKIES
Aaron Spelling / 1x90m-e 68x60m-e / September 1972 - June 1976
Producers: Hal Sitowitz, Rick Husky
Crime drama series. Stories of a group of police rookies.
With:- Georg Stanford Brown as Off. Terry Webster / Sam Melville as Off. Mike Danko / Michael Ontkean as Off. Willie Gillis / Kate Jackson as Jill Danko, R.N./ Gerald S. O'Loughlin as Lt. Eddie Ryker
ROOM FOR ONE MORE
ABC/Warner / 26x30m-e / 1961 black and white
Comedy drama series. Stories of a couple who decide to adopt two kids even though they already have four of their own.
With:- ANDREW DUGGAN / PEGGY McCAY /
ROOM 222
ABC/TCF / 113x30m-e / 1969-72
Creator: James Brooks, Gene Reynolds / Producer: Gene Reynolds
Sitcom. Stories of a black teacher at Walt Whitman High School.
With:- LLOYD HAYNES / MICHAEL CONSTANTINE / KAREN VALENTINE / DENISE NICHOLAS
ROOTS
ABC/David L. James Lee, Max Cohen Wolper Prod. / 8x120m-e / 1977 23 - 30 January
Book: Alex Haley / Music: Quincy Jones, Gerald Fried / Producer: Stan Marguiles / Executive Producer: David L. Wolper / Directors: Marvin Chomsky, David Greene, Gilbert Moses, John Erman,
Period drama serial. In Africa in the 1700's Kunte Kinte is captured by slavers and shipped to America, the serial then followed the lives of Kunte Kintes offspring, his daughter Kizzy and his grandson Chicken George. See also the sequel Roots: The Next Generation.
With:- LEVAR BURTON as Kunte Kinte / JOHN AMOS as Kunte Kinte / BEN VEREEN as Chicken George Moore / LOUIS GOSSETT JR as Fiddler / CICELY TYSON as Binta / LESLIE UGGAMS as Kizzy / EDWARD ASNER as Capt Davies / LORNE GREENE as John Reynolds / CHUCK CONNORS as Tom Moore / LLOYD BRIDGES as Evan Brent / RICHARD ROUNDTREE as Sam Bennett / GEORG SANFORD BROWN as Tom Harvey / LYNNE MOODY as Irene Harvey / VIC MORROW as Ames / ROBERT REED as Dr William Reynolds / O.J. SIMPSON as Kadi Touray / MAYA ANGELOU as Nyo Boto / IAN McSHANE as Sir Ian Russell
ROOTS:THE NEXT GENERATION
ABC/Warner/David L. Wolper / 6x120m-e / 1979
Writer: Ernest Kinny / Executive Producer: David L. Wolper / Music: Gerald Freid / Books: Alex Haley / Director: John Erman
Period drama series. A sequel to Roots detailing more stories of Kunte Kinte's descendants beginning in the late 1880's and carrying on upto Alex Haley himself.
With:- GEORG SANFORD BROWN / OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND / HENRY FONDA / PAUL KOSLO / AVON LONG / LYNNE MOODY / GREG MORRIS / MARC SINGER / RICHARD THOMAS / FAY HAUSER / JAMES EARL JONES as Alex Haley
ABC / 26x30m-e / 1979-80
Creators: Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke
Sitcom. Spin off from Three's Company and a US version of the UK's George and Mildred. This followed Stanley and Helen Roper's move into suburbia, with them moving to 46 Peacock Drive, Chevia Hills.
Stanley Roper......................... NORMAN FELL
Helen Roper .......................... AUDRA LINDLEY
ROSEANNE
ABC/Wind Dancer Prod./ Carsey-Werner Co/Full Moon and High Tide / 218x30m-e 2x60m-e / 1988-97
Creator: Matt Williams / Idea: Roseanne Barr/Arnold
Sitcom. Day to day episodes in the working class life of the Conner family in Lanford, an American mid-western town. The family lived at 714 Delaware Street. On one occasion there was a crossover in which the characters of Patsy and Edina from the British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous appeared(played by Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley). The role of 'DJ' was played by Sal Barone in the pilot.
Roseanne Conner................... ROSEANNE BARR/ARNOLD
Dan Conner............................ JOHN GOODMAN
Darlene Conner....................... SARA GILBERT
Rebecca Conner/Healey(87-93
/95-97).................................... LECY GORANSON
Rebecca(93-95)....................... SARAH CHALKE
David Jacob 'DJ' Conner............ MICHAEL FISHMAN
Jackie Harris............................ LAURIE METCALF
David Healey(92-97).................. JOHNNY GALECKI
Bev Harris................................ ESTELLE PARSONS
Nancy Bartlett.......................... SANDRA BERNHARD
Mark Healey............................. GLENN QUINN
Arnie(89-94)............................. TOM ARNOLD
Brooker Brooks(88-89).............. GEORGE CLOONEY
THE ROSEANNE BARR SHOW
HBO / 1x55m-e / 1987 19 Sep
Writers: Roseanne Barr, Bill Pentland, Rocco Urbisci
Comedy. One off special with Roseanne Barr, a mixture of stand up and sketch and also featuring Tom Arnold, Bill Pentland, Steve Morris, Lois Bromfield, Erica Horn and Heather Hopper.
ROSETTI AND RYAN
Universal / 1x120m-e 8x60m-e / 1977
Producer: Leonard B. Stern
Crime drama series. The cases of a pair of crime solving lawyers.
With:- TOBY ROBERTS / SQUIRE FRIDELL / BILL DANA
Warner Bros/TCF/ Jason Katims Prod. / x60m-e / 1999-continuing
Executive Producers: David Nutter, Jonathan Frakes, Jason Katims / Books: Melinda Metz
Scifi drama series. High schooler Liz Parker discovers that a trio of her fellow students, Max, his sister Isabel and his best friend Michael, are in reality survivors from the Roswell, New Mexico spaceship crash, each have special powers but are determined to keep their identities secret.
With:- JASON BEHR as Max / KATHERINE HEIGL as Isabel / BRENDAN FEHR as Michael / WILLIAM SADLER
as Valenti / SHRI APPLEBY as
Liz Parker / MAJANDRA DELFINO as Maria De Luca / COLIN HANKS as Alex Whitman
/ NICK WECHSLER as Kyle Valenti / EMILIE DE RAVIN as Tess Harding
ROUGH RIDERS
United Artists / 39x30m-e / 1958 black and white
Western drama series. A pair of Unionists try to make a new start for themselves after the end of the Civil War.
With:- KENT TAYLOR / JAN MERLIN / PETER WHITNEY
THE ROUNDERS
ABC/MGM / 17x30m-e / 1966
Producer: Ed Adamson
Drama series. Stories of a pair of modern day cowboys.
With:- RON HAYES / PATRICK WAYNE / CHILL WILLS
ROUTE 66
CBS/Screen Gems/ Columbia / 116x60m-e / 1960-63 black and white
Executive Producer: Herbert B. Leonard / Theme Music: Nelson Riddle / Producers: Jerry Thomas, Sam Manners
Drama series. Two young friends travel the 2200 Route 66 Highway from Chicago - Los Angeles having adventures on the way. Some big name directors worked on the show, including Sam Peckinpah, Robert Altman and Richard Donner.
Tod Stiles............................... MARTIN MILNER
Buzz Murdoch........................ GEORGE MAHARIS
Linc Case............................... GLENN CORBETT
NBC/George Schlatter- Ed Friendly Prod/Romart / 140x60m-e / 1968-73
Creators: Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Ed Friendly, George Schlatter / Producers: Paul Keyes, Carolyn Raskin / Executive Producers: George Schlatter& Ed Friendly(1968-71), Paul Keyes(71-73)
Comedy. Very fast sketch series often bizarre and very popular. The show generated a number of catch phrases including 'Sock It To Me', 'Ver-r-r-ry Interesting.... But Stupid' and 'You Bet Your Bippy'. The series also had a huge joke wall full of windows out of which the cast would appear and tell jokes. The stars were Dick Martin and Dan Rowan and the cast also featured Goldie Hawn(68-70), Gary Owens, Ruth Buzzi, Lily Tomlin(70-73), Jeremy Lloyd(69-70), Arte Johnson(68-71), Judy Carne(68-70), Alan Sines(68-72), Jo Ann Worley(68-70), Larry Hovis(68/70-71), Charlie Brill(68-69), Chelsea Brown(68-69), Dave Madden(68-69), Pigmeat Markham(68-69), Eileen Brennan(68), Roddy Maude-Roxby(68), Johnny Brown(70-72),
THE ROY ROGERS SHOW
CBS/Roy Rogers Prod./ Frontier Prod. / 100x30m-e / 1952-57 black and white
Creator: Roy Rogers / Theme Music: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans / Producers: Roy Rogers, Jack Lacey, Bob Henry, Leslie H. Martinson
Action adventure series. Roy Rogers tackles crimes in Paradise Valley, helping him was his faithful four legged friend Trigger.
Roy......................................... ROY ROGERS
Dale......................................... DALE EVANS
Pat.......................................... PAT GRADY
THE RUGGLES
ABC / 13x30m-e / 1950 black and white
Sitcom. The domestic squabbles of a suburban couple.
With:- CHARLES RUGGLES / ERIN O'BRIEN MOORE / MARGARET KERRY
RUN BUDDY RUN
CBS/Talent / 16x30m-e / 1966-67
Producers: David Susskind, Leonard Stern, Dan Melnick, Jack Elinson
Sitcom. After overhearing the sinister plans of some gangsters, Buddy Overstreet is forced to flee for his life.
Buddy Overstreet..................... JACK SHELDON
Devere.................................... BRUCE GORDON
Junior..................................... JIM CONNELL
Wendell.................................. NICK GEORGIADE
Harry...................................... GREGG PALMER
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE
NBC/Universal/ Roy Huggins / 85x60m-e / 1965-67
Creator: Roy Huggins
Drama series. Stories of a middle-aged man who, upon given only two years to live, decides to make the most of his remaining time. Funnily for a show about a man with two years to live, the show ran for three.
With:- BEN GAZZARA
RUN OF THE HOUSE
Warner Bros / x30mins / 2003 (First Episode: Thursday 11 September
Sitcom. When a Michigan family of six is split up - Dad is sick, Mom has to move with him to the sunny shores of Arizona - the three older siblings (Joseph Lawrence included) take charge of their very sitcom-like 15-year old sister (translation: cute and potentially promiscuous). Laugh track, please.
With:- JOSEPH LAWRENCE
THE RUTLES:ALL YOU NEED IS CASH
NBC / 1x75m-e / 1978 22 March
Writer: Eric Idle / Music: Neil Innes / Director: Eric Idle, Garry Weis
Comedy. The rise to fame of pop supergroup The Rutles(a spot on pastiche of the Beatles). Guest stars included George Harrison, Mick Jagger, Michael Palin, Paul Simon, Ron Wood, John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd and Bill Murray.
Dirk McQuickly........................ ERIC IDLE
Ron Nasty............................... NEIL INNES
Stig O'Hara.............................. RIKKI FATAAR
Barry Wom.............................. JOHN HALSEY
RYAN'S FOUR see TV's Greatest Hits entry
RYAN'S HOPE
Labine-Meyer Productions / x60m-e / 1975-89
Creators: Claire Labine, Paul Avila Mayer / Theme Music: Charles Paul.
Ryan's Hope was a Daytime US soap focusing on the Irish-American Ryan family who lived in Manhattan and ran a bar called funnily enough Ryan's Bar (where much of the action took place). The show won two emmys (1977 and 1979) for best daytime drama series.
IMPORTANT CHARACTERS INCLUDE:- NANCY ADDISON as Jillian Coleridge Ryan / JOSE ALEMAN as Angel Nieves (1977-78) / DAVID BAILEY as Teddy Malcolm / CYNTHIA BELGRAVE as Mrs Williams / CORBIN BERNSEN as Ken Grahanti (Grantham) / YASMINE BLEETH as Ryan Fenelli Hyde (1985-89) / RICHARD BRIGGS as Mendenhall / FAITH CATLIN as Dr Faith Coleridge (1975-76) / JUSTIN DEAS as Dr Bucky Carter (1975-78) / CHRISTOPHER DURHAM as Dakota Smith Ryan (1985-88) / LESLIE EASTERBROOK as DEVLIN KOWALSKI / ED EVANKO as Alex McLean / TOVAH FELDSHUH as Martha McKee (1976-77) / JOHN GABRIEL as Dr Seneca Beaulac / HELEN GALLAGHER as Maeve Ryan / ROBIN GREER as Sydney Price / MALCOLM GROOME as Dr Patrick Ryan / ROSALINDA GUERRA as Ramona Gonzalez R.N. / RON HALE as Dr Roger Coleridge / MICHAEL HAWKINS as Franklin Frank Ryan / MARG HELGENBERGER as Siobhan Ryan Novak (1982-86) / CATHERINE HICKS as Dr Faith Coleridge (1976-78) / ILENE KRISTEN as Delila Reid Ryan Coleridge / MICHAEL LEVIN as Jack Fenelli / TY McCONNELL as Kenneth Castle / KENNETH McMILLAN as Charlie Shay / KATE MULGREW as Mary Ryan Fenelli / JOHN PERKINS as Father McShane / LOUISE SHAFFER as Rae Woodward / ROBERT STATTEL as Neil Mulcahy / JADRIEN STEELE as John Reid 'Little John' Ryan / DANNY TAMBERELLI as Sean Novak / FAT THOMAS as Jumbo Marino (1977-79) / JERROLD ZIMAN as Assistant D.A. Levine (1976)
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