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SEINFELD

NBC/West-Shapiro Prod/Castle Rock / 162x30m-e 7x60m-e / 1990-99

Creators: Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld / Producers: Jerry Seinfeld, Andy Ackerman, Tim Kaiser, Suzy Mamann Greenberg 

Sitcom. The famous show about nothing, featuring episodes in the life of stand up comic Jerry Seinfeld and his friends Elaine Benes (an ex-girlfriend of Jerry's), old school friend George Costanza and Cosmo Kramer who lives in the flat opposite Seinfeld. The show is allegedly the most popular American sitcom ever.

With:- JERRY SEINFELD as Jerry Seinfeld / JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS as Elaine Benes / JASON ALEXANDER as George Costanza / MICHAEL RICHARDS as Cosmo Kramer / WAYNE KNIGHTS as Newman / LIZ SHERIDAN as Helen Seinfeld / JERRY STILLER as Frank Costanza / ESTELLE HARRIS as Estelle Costanza / LEN LESSER as Uncle Leo / JOHN O'HURLEY as J. Peterman / PHIL BRUNS as Morty Seinfeld(90) / BARNEY MARTIN as Morty(91-) 

 

SERGEANT PRESTON OF THE YUKON

CBS-Wrather / 78x30m-e / 1955-58 (29 September 55 - 25 September 58 / Thursdays 7.30pm) black and white

Creators: George W. Trendle, Fran Striker / Music: Emil Von Reznick / Producers: Tom R. Curtis, Charles E. Skinner

Period crime drama series. Cases of Royal North West Mounted Policeman Sergeant William Preston working in 1890's Canada during the gold rush era. Preston had a horse called Rex and a dog called Yukon King. Based on a 1947 radio show.

With:- RICHARD SIMPSON as Sergeant William Preston 

 

SERPICO

NBC-Paramount / 15x60m-e / 1976-77 (First Episode: 24 September 1976)

Music: Robert Dransin, Elmer Bernstein / Executive Producer: Emett G. Labery / Producer: Don Ingalls

Crime drama series. Frank Serpico is handed the task of whittling out corruption from the 22nd Police Precinct in New York, based on the 1973 hit film of the same name that starred Al Pacino. Serpico was also a real life cop with the film and series being based on his exploits.

With:- DAVID BIRNEY as Frank Serpico / TOM ATKINS as Lt Tom Sullivan

 

SEVEN DAYS

UPN / x60m-e / 1998-2001

Scifi drama series. Former CIA agent, Parker, travels back in time to prevent bad things happening but he only has seven days to complete his missions. The project he worked for was called Operation Back Step, the team having salvaged their time travel equipment from the Roswell alien space crash. Parker's code word for getting in touch with the group was Conundrum.

With:- JONATHAN LA PAGLIA as Frank Parker / DON FRANKLIN as Captain Craig Donovan / NORMAN LLOYD as Dr Isaac Mentnor / JUSTINA VAIL as Olga Vukavich / SAM WHIPPLE as Dr John Ballard / NICK SEARCY as Nate Ramsey / ALAN SCARFE as Bradley Talmadge  

704 HAUSER 

CBS-Act III Television-Castle Rock-Columbia / 6x30m-e / 1994 (11 April - 9 May / Mondays 8.30pm)

Creator/Writer/Director: Norman Lear / Producer: Patrick Fass Palmer / Executive Producers: Norman Lear, Mark E. Pollack, Roger Shulman, John Baskin

Sitcom. Black Ernest and Rose Cumberbatch, both pretty liberal are put out by the antics of their extremely straight laced son 'Goodie'. The title of the show was the Cumberbatch's address and although not exactly a spin off from All In the Family the Cumberbatchs actually lived in the same house as the famous Archie Bunker. Only five of its six episodes seen on its original run.

With:- JOHN AMOS as Ernest Cumberbatch / LYNNIE GODFREY as Rose Cumberbatch / T.E. RUSSELL as Thurgood Marshall 'Goodie' Cumberbatch / MAURA TIERNEY as Cherilyn Markowitz 

 

SEVENTH AVENUE

NBC/Universal  'Best Sellers' / 3x120m-e / 1977

Producers: Franklin Barton, Richard Irving / Writer: Lawrence Heath / Novel: Norman Bogner / Director: Richard Irving

Period drama serial. In 1930's New York a Jew sets out to make his fortune in the clothing industry.

With:- STEVEN KEATS / DORI BRENNER / KRISTOFFER TABORI / JANE SEYMOUR / ALAN KING / ANNE ARCHER / ELI WALLACH / JACK GILFORD

 

SEVENTH HEAVEN

Warner Bros-Spelling / x60m-e / 1996-

Music: Dan Foliart / Executive Producer: Brenda Hampton, Aaron Spelling, E. Duke Vincent

Drama series. Stories of minister Eric Camden and his loving wife and family in the small town of Glen Oaks in Los Angeles.

With:- STEPHEN COLLINS as Eric Camden / CATHERINE HICKS as Annie Camden / JESSICA BIEL as Mary Camden / DAVID GALLAGHER as Simon Camden / BARRY WATSON as Matt Camden Ryan Bittle / BEVERLY MITCHELL as Lucy Camden / MacKENZIE ROSMAN as Ruthie Camden / GRAHAM JARVIS as Annie's Father / ALICE HIRGON as Annie's Mother / MACKENZIE ROSMAN as Ruthie Camden / MATTHEW LINVILLE as Jimmy Moon (1996-98) / ANDREW KEEGAN as Wilson West (1997-) / DORIAN HAREWOOD as Reverand Morgan Hamilton / RICK SCORRY as Rod (1998-) / WADE CARPENTER as Jordan (1998-) / NICOLE CHERIE as Dina (1998-)  

 

79 PARK AVENUE

MCA/Universal 'Best Sellers' / 3x120m-e / 1977

Writer: Richard De Roy / Novel: Harold Robbins / Director: Paul Wendkos 

Drama serial. In New York a prostitute gets involved in a murder case.

With:- LESLEY ANN WARREN / RAYMOND BURR / POLLY BERGEN / MICHAEL CONSTANTINE / PETER MARSHALL / ALBERT SALMI / JACK WESTON

 

77 SUNSET STRIP

ABC-Warner / 205x60m-e / 1958-64

Creator: Roy Huggins / Music: Mack David, Jerry Livingston

Crime based comedy drama series. Cases of cool private investigators Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer, later joining them in the business was their one time car park attendant 'Kookie'. The title came from the fact that that was where the boys office was located.

With:- EFREM ZIMBALIST JR as Stuart Bailey / ROGER SMITH as Jeff Spencer (1958-63) / EDD BYRNES as Gerald Lloyd Kookson III (aka Kookie) (1958-63) / LOUIS QUINN as Roscoe (1958-63) / JACQUELINE BEER as Suzanne Fabray (1958-63) / BYRON KEITH as Lt Gilmore (1959-63) / RICHARD LONG as Rex Randolph (1960-61) / ROBERT LOGAN as J.R. Hale (1961-63) / JOAN STALEY as Hannah (1963-64) 

 

77th BENGAL LANCERS

Columbia/Herbert B. Leonard / 26x60m-e /  1956 black and white

Period action adventure series. Stories of a group of Bengal Lancers stationed in India circa 1900.

With:- PHIL CAREY / WARREN STEVENS 

 

SEX AND THE CITY

HBO / x30m-e / 1998-2004

Sitcom. Four female executives are not averse to using men as their sexual playthings. The series shown on cable channel HBO has attracted a certain amount of notoriety thanks to its high bad language and nudity count.

With:- SARAH JESSICA PARKER as Carrie / KRISTIN DAVIS as Charlotte / CYNTHIA NIXON as Miranda / KIM CATTRALL as Samantha

 

SHADOW CHASERS

ABC / x60m-e / 1985-86 ( 14 November 85 - 16 January 86 / Thursday 8.00pm)

Scifi action adventures series. Professor Jonathon MacKensie works out of the Georgetown Institue of Science specialising in cases involving ghosts and other things beyond our ken.

With:- TREVOR EVE as Professor Jonathon MacKensie / DENNIS DUGAN as Edgar 'Benny' Benejek / NINA FOCH as Dr Juliana Moorhouse 

 

SHAFT

CBS-MGM / 7x90m-e / 1973-74 ( 9 October 73 - 20 August 74 / Tuesdays 9.30pm)

Creator: Ernest Tudyman / Theme Music: Isaac Hayes /  Executive Producer: Allan Balter / Producer: William Reed Woodfield

Crime drama series. Cases of tough New York Private Detective Shaft. In the series Shaft's main confidant was Lt Al Rossi. A spin off of the very popular films of the early seventies.

With:- RICHARD ROUNDTREE as John Shaft / ED BARTH as Lt Al Rossi

 

SHANE

Paramount/Titus / 17x60m-e / 1966

Producer: Herb Brodkin 

Western drama series. Stories of a family living out west, based on the the 1950's Alan Ladd classic.

With:- DAVID CARRADINE

 

SHANNON

Columbia/Robert Sparks / 36x30m-e / 1961 black and white

Creator: John Hawkins / Producer: Jerry Briskin 

Crime drama series. Cases of an Insurance investigator responsible for an area ten states wide.

With:- GEORGE NADER / REGIS TOOMEY

 

SHASTA McNASTY

UPN / x30m-e / 1999-2000

Creator: Jeff Eastin / Executive Producers: Neal Moritz, Richard Gurman, Jeff Eastin

Sitcom. A trio of hip hop artists, the group Shasta McNasty of the title, determine to hit the big time on the music scene, when they get themselves a record deal the trio move into a 'pad' in Venice Beach, California.

With:- CARMINE GIOVINAZZO as Scott / JAKE BUSEY as Dennis / DALE GODBOLDO as Randy  

 

SHAZAM!

Filmation/Warner / 24x25m-e / 1974

Scifi drama series. Whenever he says the word Shazam! a mild mannered DJ is able to transform himself into super hero Captain Marvel.

With:- MICHAEL GRAY / JOHN DAVEY / LES TREMAYNE

 

SHEENA QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE

Syndicated - Nassour / 26x30m-e / 1955 black and white

Action adventure series. Adventures of the Tarzan like Sheena, self styled Queen of the Jungle in darkest Kenya.

With:- IRISH McCALLA as Sheena / CHRISTIAN DRAKE as Bob / NEIL THE CHIMP as Chim

 

SHEENA

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

Action adventure series. A revival of the above with Sheena in this series having the ability to 'Morph' into various animals a skill she uses to keep the jungle free from the injustices of modern day man.

With:- GENA LEE NOLIN as Sheena 

SHE'S THE SHERIFF

NBC-Syndicated-Lorimar / 48x30m-e / 1987-89

Writers: Mark Rothman, Mark Miller, Juliet Packer, Herry O'Brien / Producers: Mark Rothman, David Goldsmith / Executive Producer: Alan Hamel

Sitcom. Widowed mom Hildy Granger is the Sheriff of Lakes County, Nevada. Hildy has regular battles with work colleague Max Rubin who doesn't feel Hildy should be in the job. There was a pilot broadcast called Cass Malloy.

With:- SUZANNE SOMERS as Sheriff Hildy Granger / GEORGE WYNER as Deputy Max Rubin / PAT CARROLL as Gussie Holt / TALIESIN JAFFE as Kenny Granger / NICKY ROSE as Alison Granger / LOU RICHARDS as Deputy Dennis Putnam / GUICK KOOCK as Deputy Hugh Mulcahy / LEONARD LIGHTFOOT as Deputy Alvin Wiggins  

 

THE SHINING

ABC / 3x120m-e / 1997

Writer: Stephen King / Producer: Mark Carliner / Director: Mick Garris 

Horror drama serial. Struggling alcoholic novelist Jack Torrance and his wife and young son take over the maintenance of a hotel (closed for the winter). Torrance soon comes to believe the hotel is haunted  and feels he is going mad.

With:- STEVEN WEBER as Jack Torrance / REBECCA DE MORNAY as Wendy Torrance / MELVYN VAN PEEBLES as  Halloran / WILL HERNEFF / ELLIOTT GOULD / JOHN DURBIN / STANLEY ANDERSON / PAT HINGLE

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